Events

18:30 - 22:00 | Event

ACUH members Claartje Rasterhoff and Tim Verlaan will host a screening of 'Beats', a feature film about two teenage boys in Scotland who risk everything to attend an illegal rave, hoping for the best night of their ...

10:30 - 16:30 | Event

This workshop aims to bring together scholars working on gender and work to compare different regions of Europe and various labour types, spanning both the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. In doing so, the ...

19:30 - 21:00 | Event

ACUH member Tim Verlaan and Peter van Dam will host a discussion with architect Frans Hooykaas, who is one of the spiritual fathers of the infamous Plan Pampus, a modernist expansion scheme for 350,000 residents that ...

15:00 - 17:00 | Event

This salon puts the spotlight on new approaches in social history that have been greatly facilitated by the digital turn. Two research projects focusing on the long-term history of everyday life explain how they use ...

12:00 - 12:30 | Event

ACUH member Bob van Pierik will give a talk entitled 'Gender and mobility, women and men in the streets of early modern Amsterdam' as part of the society’s annual congress. This year, the theme is ‘Perspectives on ...

12:00 - 13:30 | Event

On the 22nd of October, ACUH member Tymen Peverelli will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'The town as fatherland: The past of Bruges, Leeuwarden and Maastricht in the age of the nation-state, 1815-1914'. During the ...

15:30 - 17:00 | Event

On the 18th of October, the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA) will organise a seminar with professor Bert Hoffmann of the GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies, who will give a paper on ...

15:30 - 17:00 | Event

Based on extensive research in women’s archives in Amsterdam, Berlin and London, this work in progress tells the history of the first shelters for women and children fleeing domestic violence in western Europe.

09:30 - 17:30 | Conference

During this seminar, the European City in the early 21st Century is interrogated, using the ‘comparative gesture’ at various scales. During this day, European urban academics from the disciplines of geography, ...

20:00 - 22:00 | Event

In the wake of both post-colonial critiques of urban studies and the emerging propositions of “planetary urbanization” there is a need to revisit theories of urban politics. During this evening, Jennifer Robinson ...

00:00 | Workshop

This interdisciplinary playshop, funded by a joint ACHI-CUS seed grant, aims to bring together UvA scholars from different faculties and disciplines, working on different regions, and offers an opportunity to share ...

16:45 - 23:00 | Event

ACUH members Petra Brouwer and Tim Verlaan will both introduce documentaries during the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR), which takes place from 9 to 13 October at Rotterdam's Lantaren/De Venster cinema.

09:30 - 17:00 | Workshop

In this workshop, we will discuss how organized crime is affecting urbanization by investigating the influential role of organized crime in urban planning and organization.

20:00 - 22:00 | Event

During this public event at Pakhuis de Zwijger, professor Diane Davis will historicize the illicit side of urbanization in Latin America and demonstrate how modernist planning efforts have been complicit in the ...

20:00 - 22:00 | Event

More than ever, alternative urban futures are needed for an urban world that is socially just, environmentally sustainable, and capable of caring for the diversity of urban life. How can policy makers, activists, ...

13:00 - 17:00 | Workshop

Doing the urban differently. Double book-launch and discussion with academics, activists, planners, and politicians.

Event

ACUH member Marleen Termeer organizes a ten-day workshop on coins as a historical source, hosted by the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome from 20 to 30 September 2019. Deadline for applications is 1 July.

15:30 | Event

Why did death and the dead matter so much to urban communities? Focusing on the city of Venice, this paper evaluates the entanglement of death with religious and social change.

14:00 - 15:30 | Event

On the 18th of September, ACUH member Martje aan de Kerk will defend her PhD thesis entitled ‘Madness and the city: Interactions between the mad, their families and urban society in the Dutch Republic, 1600-1795’.

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 ...