Lezing, Ancient History Research Seminar

African oral literatures, new media and technologies: challenges for research and documentation

The Department of Historical Studies at Central European University (Vienna, Austria) is pleased to announce its call for applications for the 2025/2026 academic year. The deadline is February 1, 2025.

Het is een van de aangrijpendste literaire genres: ‘dodekindliteratuur’. De Leidse letterkundigen Rick Honings, Olga van Marion en Tim Vergeer stelden het eerste overzichtswerk samen over dit thema in de Nederlandstalige literatuur. De schuldvraag en de rol van God komen vaak terug. ‘Is God een krok…

Investigating the intercultural connections that shaped practices of knowledge production in colonial Dutch Brazil.

CEU's Department of Historical Studies is organizing two online info sessions for anyone interested in applying to their MA and PhD programs on Friday 6 and 13 December and Friday 10 and 17 January.

Indigenous Latin American artifacts have attracted the interest of Europeans since the earliest moment of contact between Europeans and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. The ERC-funded BECACO project uses an innovative multidisciplinary framework to investigate the provenance of ethnographic and…

Sinds 2009 behaalden 95 kandidaten hun doctoraat in Creative en Performing Arts. Op deze pagina een overzicht van ACPA's alumni.

Wie door vroegnegentiende-eeuws Leiden wil zwerven en alles over de panden van toen en hun eigenaars wil weten, kan de sleutelstad nu vinden op www.hisgis.nl. Het oudste kadaster van de binnenstad van Leiden, stammend uit 1832, is vandaag ontsloten als eerste stad in het project HisGIS Nederlandse s…

The Faculty of Humanities is looking for a historical musicologist with a strong, international reputation and interdisciplinary outlook. Deadline: 10 September 2022.

PhD Position in ERC-funded Project on Historical Future Expectations in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period (University of Antwerp) (deadline for submission: 26 April 2020).

The main aim of this project is to reveal and unravel the invisible histories of the UN, transcending the dominant Western perspective to recover the historical agency of Global South actors. The research will investigate how the UN has both facilitated and limited their role in shaping global order…

Applicants are encouraged to apply for this doctoral position, conducting research on the transmission of taste c. 1200-c.1400. The doctorate focuses on medieval English recipes in their social, historical, and intellectual context, with comparison to neighbouring food cultures in France and Germany.…

Tien historici, onder leiding van Thijs Brocades Zaalberg en Bart Luttikhuis, vergelijken hierin de dekolonisatieoorlog in Indonesië (1945-1949) met oorlogen in onder andere Algerije, Vietnam, Kenia en Maleisië. Het doel hiervan is niet relativeren, maar juist beter begrijpen waarom in al deze oorlogen…

Afgelopen week werd bekend dat Juliëtte Roding (LUCAS) en Odile Parsis (Université de Lille, Institut de recherches historiques du Septentrion) van de Frans-Nederlandse Academie een Van Gogh-grant hebben ontvangen voor het multidisciplinaire onderzoek: 'North(s) in Memory: Heritage, Museum dynamics…

Op 27 mei was de stomme film Her Tartüff te zien in Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ met de muziekscore samengesteld door Jed Wentz en Olga Pasjtsjenko op piano.

The School of Celtic Studies (DIAS) is organizing a conference on medieval multilingual manuscripts. The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars working on medieval bilingual or multilingual sources from a variety of linguistic backgrounds, geographical areas, and literary genres. It will…

The concepts of good and evil are expressed, from a lexical point of view, in different ways in different Germanic languages and at the same time they are declined in different forms depending on linguistic and literary traditions. Moving from theoretical backgrounds, we encourage…

Ghent University's Department of History is hiring 1 PhD researcher (m/f/x) for an FWO Senior Research project on the pragmatic, socio-economic and legal historical context in which the oldest borough charters in the Low Countries and northern France were negotiated and codified (late 11th-early 13th…

On Thursday the 8th of June and Friday the 9th of June, the University of Groningen will be organising an interdisciplinary conference called ‘Facets of Feeling’. Through relevant historical case studies, we will analyse the universality of emotions and test the proposed theory. Additionally, we will…

Claudio Monteverdi (1567- 1643) is de vader van de opera. Johannes Boer schreef als onderdeel van zijn Leidse promotieonderzoek een opera over een turbulent jaar in het leven van de Italiaanse componist.

The universities of Granada and Genova are organizing an international congress on 29-30 September 2022. The purpose is to think about the saliency of place-based forms of identity in the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire, and to build new theoretical and methodological frameworks…

On May 30 and 31, a workshop will take place at the Dutch Art Historical Institute in Florence (NIKI). This workshop aims to further our understanding of how late medieval societies reconciled the partially contradictory ideals and expectations of Ecclesia and Iustitia at a collective and individual…

Candidates are invited to submit their ‘own proposals for doctoral projects, which can come from the following eleven subjects: Ancient History, Old Testament, Ancient Oriental Studies, Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History, Greek Studies, Historical-Comparative Linguistics, Classical Archaeology,…

Medewerkers van het Instituut voor Geschiedenis zijn erin geslaagd in 2009 een bedrag van bijna € 3 miljoen aan onderzoekssubsidies binnen te halen. Het is nog niet eerder voorgekomen dat het Instituut zo ruim met externe onderzoeksmiddelen werd bedeeld.

Het grootste internationale congres over Engelse historische taalkunde komt naar Leiden. Van 7 tot en met 11 juni 2021 organiseert het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) de International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-21). Vanwege de coronamaatregelen vindt het congres…

MINESCAPES invites PhD students from various disciplines to apply for participation in their 2024 summer school, taking place from May 31 to June 10, 2024. The Summer School will bring together students and scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences to study mining landscapes…

New PhD opportunity at University of Amsterdam in 'Intercultural Contact and Identity Formation in Premodern Frontier Zones'. Deadline for application: 15 April 2025

Onderzoekers stellen in ‘Science’ dat het Proto-Indo-Europees ongeveer 8.120 jaar geleden ontstond in een gebied ten zuiden van de Kaukasus. Universitair docent Guus Kroonen vindt dat onwaarschijnlijk, zo stelt hij in NRC.

On 30-31 October 2025, the University of Coimbra will host the workshop 'Small Communities Facing Danger. Strategies of Solidarity and Resilience Before the Modernity'. Deadline for submission of papers on 31 May.