Research Internships of 15 ECTS are available in Medieval History at Utrecht University, from 2021-22 block 4 until 2023-24 block 3, for Research MA students.

On 18-20 November the Huizinga Institute organizes an online double Masterclass: ‘From Creation to Destruction: Shedding Light on the Lives of Medieval Manuscripts (c.1300 – 1550)’.

From 27 until 29 October 2021, the ERC project PASSIM organizes an international workshop on the future of digital manuscript studies.

The Marie Curie Doctoral Network Programme entitled from Antiquity to Community: rethinking Classical heritage through Citizen Science (https://antcom.eu/antcom/) advertises 10 PhD positions in Denmark, Italy and Spain. Deadline: April 24.

From 2 to 4 September 2024, the University of Fribourg organizes a three-day graduate course on multilingual manuscripts in the middle ages. Apply before: April 8, 2024.

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De onderzoeksgroep Business, Technology & Public Policy van de afdeling Bedrijfswetenschappen van Universiteit leiden houdt zich bezig met het onderzoeken van de dynamische wisselwerking tussen ‘nieuwe’ technologieën en de verschillende belanghebbenden die hiermee interacteren, waaronder consumenten,…

Join-in courses zijn MA-cursussen over middeleeuwse onderwerpen gegeven binnen vastgestelde MA-programma's van de zes deelnemende universiteiten van de Onderzoekschool. Op aanvraag zijn deze vakken toegankelijk voor studenten van andere (Nederlandse) universiteiten. De cursusbelasting en het aantal…

This pioneering project will answer this question by examining migrants through the eyes of the courts between 1600 and 1900. It aims to reveal patterns of continuity and change in: 1. Treatment of migrants by criminal courts; 2. Violence and conflicts between migrants and native born.

From 16 to 19 September 2021 a hybrid conference will take place on animation in the Middle Ages. This conference is a cooperation between the University of Bergen (Norway) and the A. Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw, Branch Campus in Bialystok (Poland).

From 5 to 7 June, the conference "The Senses, Cognition, and the Body in Medieval Devotional Practices" will take place at the University of Padova. The conference programme can be found below. The conference can be attended virtually through the registration link below.

On 8 July, the symposium 'The digital reconstruction of the crucifixion of the Lindau master (ca. 1425)' will take place at the auditorium of Museum Catharijnecovent, from where it will also be broadcasted online.

Viabundus welcomes 10 minute-presentations about all kinds of research that could be performed with the aid of the Viabundus data, from experienced as much as early career researchers and students. Deadline: 9 September 2022.

The programme for the conference "His verbis exprime luctum: Supports, style et usages de la poésie funéraire (IXe-XIIe siècles)" has been published. The conference takes place in Poitiers and Louvain from 26-29 November.

On 2-3 June 2023, the University of Bucharest organizes the conference 'Medieval accountability: normativity, numeracy, and rhetoric from the institutional to the domestic sphere'. Proposals of circa 300 words outlining the source material, methodology, and anticipated findings should be emailed to…

The School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, invites applications for a full professorship within the field of history. The position is permanent and is available from 1 January 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter. Deadline: 12 September 2022.

Spatial humanities are developing fast at the moment. This international expert meeting intends to bring together specialists from different disciplines in order to discuss possibilities, challenges, and next steps for spatial humanities that are concerned with late-medieval and early modern urban history…

Fondazione 1563 launched a call for the Summer School of the Turin Humanities Programme, that will take place in Torino from September 6 to September 8 2023. The theme is: Writing global medieval history: comparative and connected approaches. Deadline for applications: June 25.

In October and December 2021, Al-Babtain Visiting Professor Hugh Kennedy will teach six masterclasses at Leiden University on the idea of a “Greater Mesopotamia” and its fundamental importance in understanding the economy and geopolitics of the early Islamic world, from 650 to 1050 CE.

The University Utrecht offers research internships (15 ECTS, from 2020-2021, block 4, until 2022-2023, block 3) with the project "The Northern Low Countries in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries". For further information, please contact: Prof. dr. Marco Mostert (m.mostert@uu.nl).

De gunstige positie van Nederland in de opkomende wereldmacht Indonesië dreigt te verdwijnen.

In the summer school 'Medieval Religion' students will be challenged by specialists in the field of medieval religion to position and develop their own research in relevant scholarly and cultural contexts. The instructors will give masterclasses from their own specialties. Deadline for registrations:…

The Huizinga Institute research network “Archives of Power/The Power of Archives” will offer an interdisciplinary summer school on the various and complex origin stories of archives. The summer school will take place at the University of Amsterdam from 18 to 20 June 2024.

The Norwegian Institute in Rome organizes an interdisciplinary conference entitled "The Longue Durée of Cultural Heritage. Curation of the Past from Antiquity to the Present Day". For more information: k.b.aavitsland@roma.uio.no. Paper proposals can be submitted to the same email address until 15 May…

Alle masterstudenten Politicologie sluiten hun studie af met een eindscriptie. Daarin tonen zij hun academische vaardigheden en persoonlijke interesse. Voor sommigen is de scriptie een ‘laatste horde’; anderen zien het eindwerkstuk al een eerste stap in hun ontwikkeling als wetenschappers. Als erkenning…

Samen met mevrouw J. Hessels en de heer C.A. Rietveld heeft dr. P.W. van der Zwan het artikel 'Self-employment and satisfaction with life, work, and leisure' in de Journal of Economic Psychology gepubliceerd.

Dr. Moritz Jesse, universitair hoofddocent Europees recht aan het Europa Instituut Leiden, deelde zijn gedachtes over de overgang van asielzoeker naar vluchteling vanuit het oogpunt van integratie.

Bioloog, kunstenaar, activist en Leids alumnus Merijn Tinga is afgelopen jaar in 28 dagen de Rijn afgepeddeld, om aandacht te vragen voor vervuiling door plastic afval. De tocht van meer dan 1000 kilometer is vastgelegd in de documentaire 'From Source to Sea', die te zien is op 4 juni om 20:50 op National…

Technology can drive peace and justice. Innovative solutions increasingly make use of new types of data, mobile technologies and social media. Big or small (data), high-tech or low-tech: the challenge is to maximise the benefits while minimising the risks that come with the so-called data revolution…

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My colleagues and I have been devastated to learn that our good colleague and friend Stefan Landsberger (born 1955) passed away unexpectedly, on 26 September 2024. Stefan had been a fixture of China Studies in the Netherlands, where he had been Associate Professor of contemporary Chinese History and…

Student organisation Teiresias organizes a lecture series on how to turn your master’s thesis into a publishable paper. In three days, experts from the world of academics and publishing will be presenting their advice on how to write your first publication. The aim is to cater specifically to the niche…

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…

CLARIN is the European research infrastructure that makes digital language resources available to scholars, researchers, students and citizen-scientists from all disciplines. It is happy to announce the CLARIN Annual Conference 2021 (27-29 September 2021) and calls for the submission of extended abstracts.…

On October 31 and November 1, the second Moving Humanities conference will be organised by the University of Groningen and Radboud University. Moving Humanities offers a podium to graduate students from all disciplines in the humanities, and aims to promote cross-disciplinary collaborations. This year,…

On Thursday the 17th of February, from 13h00-17h00, Chris Wickham (Oxford University) and Leslie Brubaker (University of Birmingham) will give two lectures at the Radboud University. This will be an in-person event, held at the Thomas van Aquinostraat 1, room 1.10.06 in Nijmegen. For those unable to…

The Moving Humanities Conference will be held at the University of Groningen on October 31st and November 1st. Organised by Radboud University and the University of Groningen, this conference brings together master’s students, PhD candidates, and scholars from various fields within the humanities.…

From 26 until 28 January 2022 an international conference will take place in Rome, entitled: "The Responsible Society in Early Modern Christianity". The conference aims to center on the question how the topic of social responsibility was dealt with in Early Modern Christianity (ca.1400-ca.1700). The…

Annemieke Verbaas en Diederik Pomstra werden geïnterviewd door het Leids Dagblad over de replica die zij maakten van een boomstamkano uit de 7e eeuw voor Christus.

From October 17 to October 20, the international conference "Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages: Collections, Mediators and the Practice of Compiling" will take place at the Dutch Royal Institute in Rome. Research Master students can obtain 2 ECTS by participating in this conference an an additional…

In het kader van zijn PhD-traject werd Esteban Szmulewicz uitgenodigd om een presentatie te geven tijdens een seminar met het thema 'Challenges of representative and participatory constitution-making: insights from the recent Chilean processes'. Het seminar werd bijgewoond door collega's verbonden aan…