PARIS “Let us think big,” exhorted US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen in May. “Let’s build something that lasts for generations.”Such is the transformative rhetoric behind President Joe Biden’s economic-policy agenda. But what, exactly, will be built and how will America be transformed? The answer is bound to be as much political as economic, because Biden has set out
WASHINGTON, DC In March and April 2020, when COVID-19 first struck the United States, the virus that causes it, SARS-CoV-2, swept through US nursing homes. The second phase of the crisis, from summer 2020, was marked by a drawn-out struggle to open universities and schools to in-person instruction. In the third phase, from the end of 2020, the fight has focused on getting as
University of Amsterdam
Dr Serena Ferente has been appointed professor of Medieval History at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Ferente’s research focuses on Europe and the Mediterranean in the 14th to 16th centuries, particularly the history of politics and society in Italy, the history of European political discourse, and gender history. She is currently working on a book on the history of 15th century Europe and starting a project on the late medieval Black Sea as a primary border region of Eurasia.
At the UvA, Ferente will lecture on Medieval History to all first-year undergraduates, give tutorials to second- and third-year Bachelor’s students, as well as course-specific lectures within the Master’s and Research Master’s programmes.
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