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Why do we look down on having fun?

13 november 2025 - 09:10

Why do we look down on having fun?

The new book by Linda Duits (48) – a social scientist at the University of Amsterdam – is a plea for fun. But how does “fun” actually work? In Leuk! the author sets out seven basic principles. “Fun is not a scarce resource.”

UvA law lecturer writes biography of an Amsterdam Hip-Hop legend

29 oktober 2025 - 08:00

Niels Graaf.

During their many walks together through Oosterpark and their conversations in the studio or backstage after performances, UvA law lecturer Niels Graaf was drawn into rapper Sjaak’s world. Now there is the biography Sjaakmat (Dutch only) that Graaf wrote about the Amsterdam artist. “He used to...

Medicinal garden returns to the Allard Pierson courtyard garden

28 oktober 2025 - 13:01

The courtyard garden of the Allard Pierson.

The Allard Pierson is currently running a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for the redesign of the heritage institution’s historic courtyard garden. The aim is to restore it to its 17th-century state as a Hortus Medicus.

Music | PhD candidate rescues music by persecuted composers from oblivion

24 oktober 2025 - 12:00

Drawing by Bob Hanf, depicting a violinist during a house concert at the home of Alexander Schmuller.

For decades, the music of Dutch Jewish composers lay gathering dust in attics, sheds, and forgotten orange crates. Music historian and UvA PhD candidate Carine Alders investigated why this music was forgotten for so long. “It is a misconception that good music will automatically rise to the to...

Review | Scientific caretaking at the professor’s home

20 juni 2025 - 08:00

J.J. Viottastraat 13 in the Concertgebouw neighbourhood.

How long has it been since students could take exams at their professor’s home or a student assistant was a personal assistant at the lecturer’s or professor’s home? Sociologist and writer Ad van Iterson looks back in a book on the time when he was the home assistant of the venerable sociologi...

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