Amsterdam Diaries
Amsterdam Diaries
In 2025, Amsterdam will celebrate its 750th anniversary. In light of this upcoming celebration,
an interdisciplinary group of scholars collects and studies the diaries of ordinary people of
diverse social-cultural backgrounds across the centuries. As diaries can offer a unique insight
into how people perceive and experience the city in their daily lives, we will investigate how
they represent Amsterdam and if and how they express feelings of (non-)belonging. Taking
into account cultural differences in forms and practices of self-life writing, we will include
other types of egodocuments, such as memoirs, letters written and self-recorded stories on
cassette tape.
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Conference Announcement
In October 2025, Amsterdam will celebrate its 750th anniversary. In light of this upcoming celebration, two of the city’s institutes of higher education, the University of Amsterdam and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, are inviting academics, artists, and others to share their research and knowledge on one particular topic.