ASCH newsletter March 2015 - Amsterdam School for Culture and

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ASCH newsletter March 2015 - Amsterdam School for Culture and
Amsterdam School for Culture and
History
Newsletter March 2015
News
IXA morning workshops: Valorisation
March 2015
Up until the summer break, IXA will host a number of courses and workshops that assist researchers
in exploring the valorisation process and specific topics related to that. The workshops are open to
researchers at the AMC, UvA-HvA, AMC and VU&VUmc.
The first workshop ‘How to valorise successfully’ will take place on Thursday 19 March from 8.30 to
10.30 am, location: Glazen Huis, IXA office UvA-HvA.
Suze Zijlstra receives a Niels Stensen Fellowship
Feb 2015
Suze Zijlstra will carry out postdoctoral research at the Institute for Global History at Georgetown
University.
Newly discovered human remains shed light on Batavia shipwreck
Feb 2015
An international research team, including UvA archaeologist Liesbeth Smits, has uncovered the
remains of four people in a sequence of remarkable discoveries related to the famous ‘Batavia’
shipwreck, which took place of the coast of Western Australia in the 17th century.
Call for Papers: Unknown fronts
Feb 2015
On November 5/6, 2015, the University of Groningen will host a conference about the South Eastern
and Eastern European theatre of the First World War. ASCH researchers and graduate students are
invited to submit for 15-minute presentations until 10 May 2015.
The Rijksmuseum Research Fellowship Programme
Feb 2015
The Rijksmuseum operates a research fellowship programme for outstanding candidates working on
the art and history of the Low Countries whose principal concern is object-based research (deadline
15 March 2015).
Events
Lecture: Rembrandt and the Rembrandtesque: the experience of artistic process and its imitation
03 March 2015 15:30-17:00
P.C. Hoofthuis, room 1.04
ACSGA colloquium by Melanie Gifford, Research Conservator for Painting Technology in the
Scientific Research Department of the National Gallery, Washington DC.
Lecture: CMRSA lecture series
04 March 2015 16:00
University Library, Doelenzaal
Marjolein Hogenbirk (UvA), Arturs doet (ca. 1280) - Reworking the Story of King Arthur's Death in the
Low Countries.
Lecture: Pitiful Sights. Memories of War in Early Modern France
05 March 2015 17:00-18:00
Bungehuis, room 0.04
Katherine Ibbett (UCL) investigates the trope of the "pitiful spectacle" that characterizes French
writing from the religious wars of the late sixteenth century, and considers the reemergence of this
trope in the French historical novel of the late seventeenth century.
Meeting: HERA Call “Uses of the Past”
05 March 2015 15:00-16:00
PC Hoofthuis, room 4.59
The Humanities Grant team will host a meeting about the New HERA Call Uses of the Past. A former
member of the HERA Review Panel, dr. Joyce Goggin, will present some do's and don'ts. Then there
will be ample opportunity for questions. The meeting is intended for researchers who have concrete
questions about writing the proposal and drafting the budget.
Lecture: History Research Seminar
12 March 2015 15:00-17:00
PC Hoofthuis, room 1.05
Beatrice de Graaf (UU) – Securing Europe, Fighting its Enemies: The Emergence of a European
Security Culture, 1815-1914
Guest lecture: dr. Michael Squire
12 March 2015 17:00
Bungehuis, room 0.04
At the invitation of the Classics department at the UvA, dr. Michael Squire will present a paper
entitled Homer and the Ekphrasists: The Elder Philostratus’s Scamander (Imagines I.1).
Interdisciplinary conference: Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice?
13 March 2015
University Library, Doelenzaal
Professor Carmel Schrire, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, will offer
the keynote address and there will be a reception to launch the publication of her book, Historical
Archaeology in South Africa: Material Culture of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape (Left
Coast Press, 2014). More information.
Inaugural lecture: Julia Kursell, professor of Musicology
19 March 2015 16:00
Aula – Oude Lutherse Kerk
Beyond tonality; the tasks of a 21st-century musicologist.
Workshop: Text, Performance, and Production of Knowledge
23 March 2015 09:00-18:00
University Library, Belle van Zuylenzaal
A workshop by the research group Historical Theatre Research organized by Marrigje Paijmans and
Philip Westbroek.
Lecture: prof. Regina Grafe
26 March 2015 15:45-17:30
Snouck Hurgronjezaal, Rapenburg 61, Leiden
Between hard rules and soft ties: Second thoughts on the Verfasstheit of polities and merchant
groups in Early Modern Europe
Lecture: CMRSA lecture series
01 April 2015 16:00
University Library, Doelenzaal
Wendelien van Welie-Vink (UvA) – The Meaning of the Body in Medieval Art. Lecture is followed by a
drinks reception.
Lecture: De Amsterdamse historieschilderkunst
07 April 2015 15:30-17:00
P.C. Hoofthuis, room 1.04
ACSGA colloquium by Eric Jan Sluijter (ASCH, UvA)
Lecture: History Research Seminar
09 April 2015 15:00-17:00
PC Hoofthuis, room 1.05
Simon Gunn (Leicester) - The Making of the British Motor City: Birmingham 1955-1975
Lecture: CMRSA lecture series
06 May 2015 16:00
University Library, Doelenzaal
Tijana Krstic (Central European University, Budapest) - The Fashioning of a Sunni Orthodoxy and the
Entangled Histories of Confession-Building in the Ottoman Empire.
Event: Golden Age Lecture by Gary Schwartz
12 May 2015 19:30-22:00
Aula – Oude Lutherse Kerk
Lecture: History Research Seminar
21 May 2015 15:00-17:00
PC Hoofthuis, room 1.05
Michael Khodarkovsky (Chicago) – Empire of the Steppe: The Russian Empire in Comparative Eurasian
Perspective, 1500-1860s
Calls for proposals
Special request from the UvA Humanities Grant team
Continuous
If you plan on applying for external funding, you are kindly asked to inform the Grant team as early
as possible. For guidance in drawing up your budget, please report to the Grant team no later than 1
month before the submission deadline.
Application Deadlines
Continuous
An overview of funding deadlines provided by IXA (Innovation Exchange Amsterdam).
Now Open HERA Call 'Uses of the Past' 2015
09 April 2015 19:00 CET – deadline for Outline proposals
The HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) Network has announced a new HERA Joint
Research Programme on ‘Uses of the Past’. With up to €21 million available, the research
programme will fund new and exciting humanities-centred projects involving researchers from four
or more countries.
Now Open NWO Added Value through Humanities (‘Alfa Meerwaarde’)
18 June 2015 14:00 – deadline
Added Value through Humanities provides grants (€ 15.000) for experienced researchers in the field
of humanities wishing to start a collaboration with public and/or private partners or to strengthen an
already existing collaboration.