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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

Congresses & symposia

26 August 2026

Screens and Streams in the Age of Climate Crisis

PhD Defences

02 September 2026

PhD defence G. Duran

PhD Defences

03 September 2026

PhD defence P.S. Huesmann

PhD Defences

04 September 2026

PhD defence D.E. Blanche

PhD Defences

04 September 2026

PhD defence F.Y. Holle

PhD Defences

07 September 2026

PhD defense K.D. Begna

PhD Defences

08 September 2026

PhD defense T. de Melo Novais

Inaugural lectures & valedictory speeches

11 September 2026

Valedictory speech prof.dr. A.J. Cienki

PhD Defences

14 September 2026

PhD defence Y. Shen

PhD Defences

14 September 2026

PhD defence D.C. Keane

PhD Defences

15 September 2026

PhD defence H. Wiens

PhD Defences

16 September 2026

PhD defence J. Rodenberg

PhD Defences

18 September 2026

PhD defence J.B. Kamp

PhD Defences

21 September 2026

PhD defence T.A. Bakker

PhD Defences

22 September 2026

PhD defence M.A. Buise

PhD Defences

25 September 2026

PhD defence M. Walda

Inaugural lectures & valedictory speeches

25 September 2026

Valedictory speech prof.dr. M.I. Broese Van Groenou

Debates & conversations

08 October 2026

Reading Group: End-of-Life & Religion #1

PhD Defences

11 October 2026

PhD defense T.E. Super

PhD Defences

14 October 2026

PhD defense M. Swires-Hennessy

PhD Defences

19 October 2026

PhD defense P. Wang

PhD Defences

21 October 2026

PhD defence H.M. Pretorius

PhD Defences

22 October 2026

PhD defense H.K.M. Louw

PhD Defences

26 October 2026

PhD defense L.S. Copley

PhD Defences

27 October 2026

PhD defense R.Y.T. Verhagen

PhD Defences

05 November 2026

PhD defense S. Reyes

Open days

06 November 2026

VU Bachelor's Day - 6 & 7 November 2026

Debates & conversations

12 November 2026

Reading Group: End-of-Life & Religion #2

PhD Defences

16 November 2026

PhD defense C.J. van Linden

Open days

26 November 2026

Online Master's Event - 26 November 2026

PhD Defences

27 November 2026

PhD defense V. Tesink

Debates & conversations

10 December 2026

Reading Group: End-of-Life & Religion #3

Discover the stories

Discover the stories

Danielle Braun is a born anthropologist. Even before she knew what it entailed, she was already doing fieldwork in her younger years. As one of the first corporate anthropologists in the Netherlands, she keeps things closer to home than the ‘traditional’ anthropologist: “Culture is also found in the tennis club just round the corner.”

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The faculty includes the following three Schools:

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