Events

10:00 - 12:30 | Event

He is the first Mexican-American elected to the City Council in New York City and the first openly gay office holder in Brooklyn. Carlos Menchaca shares his personal experiences in serving and representing this very ...

17:00 - 19:00 | Event

New times, new standards, new media. If ever someone had to deal with these phenomena in recent political history, it was Gijs van Hall, the man who was warmly welcomed as the new social-democratic (PvdA) mayor of ...

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We Make The City is the largest city festival in Europe, taking place from 17 to 23 June 2019, celebrating urban living whilst addressing important urban issues in the metropolitan region of Amsterdam. How can we ...

11:00 | Event

'Place-making' in een centraal district in Istanbul

15:00 - 16:30 | Event

What is a European city? What makes a city ‘European’? What gives a city its European ‘feel’? These questions are intimately tied with defining the borders – and influence – of Europe. Yet, Europe has never been a ...

17:00 - 19:00 | Event

On June 3, Dominique Reill will give a lecture on the legacy of Fiorello La Guardia, mayor of New York City between 1934 and 1945. Reill specializes in modern European history with particular emphases on dynamics of ...

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In close collaboration with Butler University, the ACUH organizes a ten-day summer school on Amsterdam's reputation as a progressive and liberal city. Participants will focus on the city's colonial past, ...

17:00 - 19:00 | Event

As a grande finale to the bachelor survey course 'Samen leven in de grote stad', the ACUH will organize a screening of the Dutch docudrama 'De strijd om de stad' (1978, 63 min). More documentary than drama, the film ...

Workshop

This workshop, jointly organised by the Amsterdam Centre for Urban History and the Centre for Urban Studies, aims to develop a long-term perspective on urban displacement, social transformation and resistance.

20:00 | Event

Luciano Balestra (23), one of the best freerunners of the Netherlands, takes us to the beautiful Diamond neighbourhood in Amsterdam. Luciano uses the city as his playground. Playing with natural obstacles he moves ...

15:00 - 17:00 | Event

On April 25th Franz-Josef Arlinghaus (Universität Bielefeld) will share his ideas on the dynamics of social change in premodern cities. The event is co-hosted by the ACUH and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance ...

20:00 | Event

An exploration of the impacts of the 'Omgevingswet' on the collaboration between citizens, businesses and governments.

20:00 | Event

An evening in Pakhuis de Zwijger on the proliferation of amenities and middle-class cultural consumption, and their interrelationship with identities, life styles and the urban commons.

15:00 - 16:30 | Event

The rebuilding of bombed-out cities in Western Europe after the end of World War II has predominantly been narrated as an unprecedented instance of modernist town planning and architecture. Historiography tends to ...

09:00 - 17:00 | Workshop

On how the proliferation of urban amenities affects the cultural consumption of the new middle classes, and how those processes relate to urban identities, life styles and the urban commons.

12:00 - 13:30 | Event

On the 21st of March, ACUH member Sanne Klaver will defend her PhD thesis titled 'Women in Roman Syria: The cases of Dura-Europos, Palmyra, and Seleucia on the Euphrates' at the University of Amsterdam's ...

10:00 - 13:00 | Event

Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz and Bram Mellink will host a seminar on the concept of conflict in the work of Georg Simmel, one of the first and foremost German sociologists. Master students and PhD candidates are encouraged ...

15:00 - 16:30 | Event

Doreen Müller's research addresses the interaction of images and text in the narrative scroll tradition and in printed media in early modern Japan. She investigates how traditional forms of representation were ...

13:00 - 14:30 | Event

Danielle van den Heuvel will give a paper on her current research project during Cambridge University's Early Modern World History seminar series.

15:00 - 16:30 | Event

As the first country on the European continent to industrialize, Belgium was an important centre for the flowering of modernism. It was also the first country in Europe to move out of the city into suburban villas, ...