UvA EDI Research and Initiatives

Founded ten years ago, the ARC-GS provides an interdisciplinary forum for scholars and students of gender and sexuality in the social sciences. The center functions as a hub where new questions and collaborations are generated. It benefits from a vibrant PhD community and hosts visiting scholars for stimulating debates and exchanges. There are also organized various kinds of activities, including monthly lectures with internationally renowned scholars as well as seminars, public debates, roundtables, conferences and workshops. The ARC-GS is committed to fostering intersectional approaches to gender and sexuality and seeks to address questions of material inequalities and social class on the one hand as well as questions of race and (institutional) racism on the other.

The Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies is a multidisciplinary research centre focusing on international migration and the integration of immigrants and their descendants as key processes of social inequality. It integrates existing research efforts, initiates new projects and provides training at the graduate and post-graduate level. IMES seeks to contribute to the debate around mobility as the new paradigmatic perspective in the social sciences by fostering a dialogue across academic disciplines and promoting intellectual reflexivity. Activities organized by the IMES include seminars, a PhD lab, or else an annual conference. Current relevant themes investigated at the IMES are transnationalism, political mobilization, radicalization, labor and entrepreneurship, urban public space and social mobility and generational changes.

The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) is one of the institutes of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and the first of its kind in Europe. It is an independent research institute driven by curiosity and cross-discipline collaboration to advance social sciences. It is both a physical and intellectual space for independent researchers to exchange knowledge and bring ground-breaking academic work to fruition. To do that, the NIAS offers different types of fellowships for individuals and groups of scholars to reach their research goals. The institute supervises a wide variety of projects and organizes public lectures and workshops to showcase their work in progress.

Located at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) is a research community devoted to the comparative and interdisciplinary study of culture from a broad humanities perspective. It is home to more than 110 scholars and 120 PhD candidates active in film and media studies, literature, philosophy, visual culture, musicology, religious studies, theatre and performance studies. ASCA members share a commitment to working within an interdisciplinary framework and to maintaining a close connection with contemporary cultural and political debates. Within ASCA, they collaborate to provide an innovative and stimulating research environment for scholars, professionals, and graduate students from the Netherlands and abroad.

Located at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) is a research community devoted to the comparative and interdisciplinary study of culture from a broad humanities perspective. It is home to more than 110 scholars and 120 PhD candidates active in film and media studies, literature, philosophy, visual culture, musicology, religious studies, theatre and performance studies. ASCA members share a commitment to working within an interdisciplinary framework and to maintaining a close connection with contemporary cultural and political debates. Within ASCA, they collaborate to provide an innovative and stimulating research environment for scholars, professionals, and graduate students from the Netherlands and abroad.