Recent news
VU to develop “history recorder”
05-02-12The Faculty of Arts at VU University Amsterdam has received a European grant of 2.8M euro to develop a ‘history recorder’.
Call for papers: Artists and writers
03-05-12Kunstlicht invites academic reflections on works and practices that resulted from encounters between visual artists and writers. Proposals (200 – 300 words) can be sent before 23 March 2012.
Grant awarded to new eHumanities project: BiographyNed
02-24-12The Netherlands eScience Center has awarded a 500K grant to the BiographyNed project of VU and Huygens ING.
Metaphor Lab kicks off highly demanded Winter School
01-18-12PhD students and postdocs from all over the world will attend the 2012 Metaphor Lab Winter School in 'Metaphor identification and analysis', from 23 to 27 January 2012.
Dissertation prize for Tina Krennmayr
12-12-11Tina Krennmayr wins the dr. Maria Schaumayer-Stiftung prize for her dissertation “Metaphor in newspapers”
Mosaic Scholarship for Joana Ozorio de Almeida Meroz
10-12-11Joana Ozorio de Almeida Meroz (Visual Arts, Media and Architecture research MA student) has been awarded an NWO Mosaic PhD scholarship to carry out her research 'A Socio-Cultural History of Dutch Design, 1945-2010'.
Jae Emerling appointed as the first Metamatic Visiting Professor
09-20-11During his stay at the VU, Jae Emerling will teach the MA seminar "Tinguely and Transmissibility".
Visiting Professor Programme Métamatic Research Initiative and Faculty of Arts, VU.
06-14-11The Métamatic Research Initiative in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts, VU University Amsterdam is pleased to announce a Visiting Professor programme at the VU University in the period 2011-2012. The programme is aimed at stimulating and connecting research into the relationship between art and technology after World War II in general, and the work of Jean Tinguely in particular.
VU alumnus wins € 5,000,000 research award
06-10-11VU Alumnus Prof. Dr. Rolf Harald Baayen has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for his work in the field of vocabulary research and quantitative linguistics.
Faculty Thesis Awards for Faby Bierhoff and Elisha van den Bos
03-08-11The Faculty's Master Thesis Award 2010 was awarded to Faby Bierhoff and the Research Master Thesis Award 2010 to Elisha van den Bos.
New student information system
03-04-11As of March 28 2011 VU University Amsterdam will start using a new administrative system for, amongst others, study results.
Van der Spek to organise Academy Colloquium
02-04-11Bert van der Spek has received a subsidy of € 19,500 for the organization of a “Academy Colloquium” on “The efficiency of markets in pre-industrial societies: the case of Babylonia (c. 400-60 BC) in comparative perspective.”
The faculty signs exchange agreement with Universitas Gadjah Mada
01-25-11The faculty of Arts, VU University Amsterdam and the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Yogyakarta, Indonesia signed an exchange agreement.
Book publication: Stefan Berger and Chris Lorenz (eds.), Nationalizing the Past
12-07-10This volume makes a truly comparative and transnational analysis of how some of the most important national historians in Europe have handled the opposing pulls of fact and fiction and which narrative strategies have contributed to the success of national histories.
VU third Dutch university in Times Higher Education rankings
10-20-10Ten Dutch universities are placed between 100 and 200 in the rankings.
