Huizinga Instituut
Netherlands Research School for Cultural HistoryThe Huizinga Institute is the Dutch National Research School for Cultural History. We provide interuniversity education for PhD candidates and RMA students, and serve as a national forum for the discipline.
Cultural History Agenda & Calls
Call Summer School Re/Making: Ecologies of Care in Art and Cultural Heritage, RUG, 7-12 July 2024 – DL: 20 April 2024
Re/Making focuses on sustainable approaches to production, handling and exhibition of artworks and cultural artifacts. The summer school examines the comprehensive integration of ecological considerations… read more
Public lecture Kathryn Smith (Stellenbosch University): ‘How art and technology helped bring faces of enslaved people to life’ – 23 April 2024
Professor of Visual Arts Kathryn Smith (Stellenbosch University) will discuss her critically fabulated work for ‘Fugitive’ and the Sutherland Reburial project, and afterwards offer attendants… read more
Vacancy: PhD Candidate ‘Multilingual Books as Cultural Brokers in the Sixteenth Century’ at Utrecht University – DL: 26 April 2024
Find the whole vacancy text here. As part of an interdisciplinary PhD programme, the Institute for Cultural Inquiry external link (ICON) is hiring a PhD Candidate… read more
News
In memoriam Willem Frijhoff (1942-2024)
Op 5 april overleed de bekende historicus Willem Frijhoff op 81-jarige leeftijd. Zijn invloed op de beoefening van de cultuurgeschiedenis in Nederland was groot en… read more
Willem Frijhoff (1942-2024)
It is with great sadness that the Huizinga Institute has learned of the passing of our esteemed colleague Professor Willem Frijhoff (1942-2024). Willem Frijhoff played… read more
Save the date: Huizinga Institute PhD conference – 8-9 April 2024
On 8 and 9 April 2024, nine PhD candidates will present part of their research at the Huizinga Institute PhD conference (Academiegebouw, Utrecht). All are… read more
Upcoming HI Courses & Events
Masterclass Kathryn Smith (Stellenbosch University): ‘From Colonial Archive to Story: Critical Fabulation as (Art) Historical Method’
23 April 2024 | 2 ECTS | ReMa, PhD
Dr Kathryn Smith, Stellenbosch University
RMA Thematic course: ‘Cultures of Reading’
26 April - 7 June 2024 | 5 ECTS | ReMa, PhD
Prof. Arnoud Visser, Utrecht University
Medieval and Early Modern Studies Spring School 2024: Landscape History & Ecology
27 May - 31 May 2024 | 5 ECTS | ReMa, PhD
RNW Archives of Power/The Power of Archives Masterclass with Francesca Trivellato (IAS)
7 June 2024 | 2 ECTS upon request | ReMa, PhD
Propose an activity
Each year, the curriculum of the Huizinga Institute is enriched with several masterclasses and workshops. The Huizinga Institute relies on the input of its members – senior members, RMA students and PhD candidates – for designing and organising these events. We always welcome proposals and have funding available for selected plans. Proposed activities may take on different forms, such as a research seminar with (international) experts or a more practice-oriented workshop in the (work)field, and may be aimed at any subdiscipline in the broad cultural historical field.