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PThU professor Ddr. Benno van den Toren, Professor of Intercultural Theology at the PThU in Groningen, has received been awarded a total of 175.000 Euro in grants to create a website that will make African theological voices more accessible. Read more.

In the first week of October, prof. Rick Benjamins visited the MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society in Oslo. His visit is part of the Erasmus + project.

Dr. Oleh Kindiy from the Ukrainian Catholic University will provide guest lectures at PThU in Amsterdam between 26 September and 4 October. Read more.

The first international student of the academic year 2017-2018 graduated last Friday at the PThU in Groningen. Zung Bawm (Myanmar) successfully defended his thesis on with the title "The Exorcisms of Jesus in Mark as Symbolic Actions for Political Liberation".

From 3 to 8 July 2018 the international IRTI Summer School will take place in Amsterdam on the topic 'Church and Civil Society'. About forty participants from Hungary, the Netherlands, Romania, and the US will reflect on the presence of church in society.

On Thursday 23 August we will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the World Council of Churches and the fellowship that is its heart and soul. During this day the Protestant Theological University Amsterdam will be organizing a Symposium on Hospitality: On a Pilgrim’s Way of Justice and Peace.

After many years of successful scholarly cooperation between our institutions, we will extend our collaboration to student and staff exchange thanks to a grant from the Erasmus+ program from the European Union.

The PThU has two job vacancies as of 1 October 2018 for the position of academic junior researcher in Amsterdam or Groningen.

From the end of April until halfway June 2018 dr. Carike Rix Noeth, post-doc fellow at the Faculty Theology of the Stellenbosch University, South-Africa, is visiting the PThU in Groningen as a research fellow.