Maartje van Gelder has been appointed professor of Early Modern Urban History at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. She will focus on the history of cities in the early modern period and, in ...

The University of Amsterdam (UvA), the Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA), and the Workshop on the Study of the Jews in Greece (WSJG) are pleased to announce a two-day conference on ‘Jewish Urban Landscapes in ...

Together with prof. dr. Jelle Haemers (KU Leuven), ACUH member Maartje van Gelder has been awarded an NWO Open Competition Grant (large) for a research project on the role women played in pre-modern urban protests.

The Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM) currently has a vacant fully funded PhD position as part of ‘Concrete Colonialism: Architecture and Heritage in Indonesia around Independence’, led ...