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Online conference: Making Sense of Finance

How can we learn from the past to reconnect finance with the public? That's the focus of the online conference Making Sense of Finance.

Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach Appointed Chair for Diversifying Philosophy by Special Appointment

The VU University Amsterdam (VU) appoints Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach as professor by special appointment of 'Diversifying Philosophy' as of 1 September...

Bachelor's degree programmes Geschiedenis and Literature and Society are among the best in the Netherlands

This year, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam ranks second among the broad classical universities in the 'Keuzegids Universiteiten 2021'.

In search of lost scents: new project explores the smells of old Europe

Research project ODEUROPA by VU Researchers Inger Leemans and Caro Verbeek receives €2.8 million from the EU Horizon 2020 Programme.

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