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Expand your mind and deepen your vision

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities broadens your mind and deepens your outlook

The Social Sciences and Humanities have a unique goal of growing humankind’s understanding of itself and of the fundamentals of human communities, human values and human meaning. It is a goal for which no discipline suffices in isolation but for which SSH disciplines have in common the nature of open enquiry and the habit to connect. The new faculty (as an organization) will help to create all the necessary connections that enable the people working in SSH to succeed with their contributions to our unique goal.

About the organisation

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

About the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

About the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

The Faculty Board is responsible for teaching, research and valorisation activities and for the faculty's operations. The faculty board consists of the dean, director of operations, education portfolio holder and research portfolio holder. A student-assessor is an advisory member of the faculty board.

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Calendar

PhD Defences

06 May 2026

PhD defence A. Sonkosi

Congresses & symposia

Lectures

07 May 2026

How Does Social Inequality Get Under the Skin? - LEARN! Seminar

PhD Defences

11 May 2026

PhD defence C.R. Johnson

PhD Defences

11 May 2026

PhD defence B.J. Thijs

PhD Defences

21 May 2026

PhD defence U.N. Winardi

Inaugural lectures & valedictory speeches

22 May 2026

Inaugural lecture prof.dr. R.J. Allan

Congresses & symposia

28 May 2026

Symposium of the Sector Plan ‘Cultural Heritage And Identity’

PhD Defences

01 June 2026

PhD defence Y.A. Belay

PhD Defences

02 June 2026

PhD defence N.A. Kusmallah

PhD Defences

02 June 2026

PhD defence M. Beukering

PhD Defences

03 June 2026

PhD defence M.C. Schröder

PhD Defences

04 June 2026

PhD defence A. Ciaușescu

Congresses & symposia

05 June 2026

Babylon, Mirror of the Hellenistic Near East

Inaugural lectures & valedictory speeches

05 June 2026

Inaugural lecture prof.dr. F. Colombijn

PhD Defences

18 June 2026

PhD defence D. van Huijstee

PhD Defences

22 June 2026

PhD defence G.T. Stephen

PhD Defences

24 June 2026

PhD defence A. van Schie

Inaugural lectures & valedictory speeches

25 June 2026

Valedictory speech prof. Dr. H.Y.M. Jansen

PhD Defences

26 June 2026

PhD defence F. Raichynets

PhD Defences

26 June 2026

PhD defence M.O. Mokhele

Inaugural lectures & valedictory speeches

26 June 2026

Valedictory speech prof. T.N.M. Schuyt

Open days

06 November 2026

VU Bachelor's Day - 6 & 7 November 2026

Open days

26 November 2026

Online Master's Event - 26 November 2026

Discover the stories

Discover the stories

His first choice was psychology, but he soon realised he would not feel at home in that field. The turning point came when he started making YouTube videos with a friend. “Then I thought: I’d really enjoy doing something that allows me to delve into something new all the time. And so I chose journalism.”

Open idea magazine
Pepijn Keppel

The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

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