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.