New Podcast Series "Onder Planologen"
CUS member Jannes Willems together with Peter Pelzer (Utrecht University) have developed a new podcast series about Dutch spatial planning for first-year students that currently follow Inleiding Planologie ...
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Open Call: CUS Seed Grants (4x) and Seed Grants XL (3x)
The Centre for Urban Studies launches a new round of Seed Grants to be spent in 2022. In this round, four Seed Grants with a maximum of up to €2.500 per grant, and three Seed Grants XL with a maximum of up to €10.000 ... -
Videos of Humanities PhD candidates in Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition
Over the past few months, researchers from four different UvA faculties were invited to enter the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. Their challenge was to pitch their PhD research to a lay audience in a ... -
ACUH announces its seminar programme for 21-22
We are thrilled to announce our seminar programme for this academic year, with papers by Anneleen Arnout, Serena Ferente, Daniëlle Slootjes, Michael Goebel, Maroesjka Verhagen, Tim Verlaan, Victor Peterson II, Amy ...
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Urban Dialogue #9: Pathways towards a Wellbeing Economy in European cities
26 Oct 2021The panel session will be hosted by the Centre for Urban Studies, on the 26th of October from 16.00-17.00. We aim to bring together researchers, practitioners and policymakers from across European cities to exchange ... -
Staying Healthy in a Medieval City
10 Nov 2021How was public health organised in premodern societies, and does our knowledge about the more distant past relate to experience of pandemic and public health and environmental challenges today? Various historians ... -
New Perspectives on Mechanisms of Crowd Control in the Ancient World
18 Nov 2021Daniëlle Slootjes (University of Amsterdam) will give a paper on crowd control in cities of the ancient world. Those interested can attend in person or join us digitally via Zoom.