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Huizinga Instituut

Netherlands Research School for Cultural History
The 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

Vacancy: Student-assistant for Vidi project Discovering Europe through Early Modern Literature

  *** For English, see below *** Voor het Vidi-project Discovering Europe in the Early Modern Period: How Literary Bestsellers Shaped a Diverse Community, 1517-1713… read more

Vacature: Promovendus ‘Een Sociale Geschiedenis van Hiv en Aids in Nederland’ (UvA)

Ben jij geïnteresseerd in de wijze waarop de aidsepidemie sinds de jaren tachtig ingreep in de levens van direct betrokkenen? Wil je betrokkenen daarover interviewen… read more

Call: KB Researcher-in-Residence (RiR) 2026

Are you an early career data scientist, social scientist, computer scientist, humanities scholar, or simply put, a researcher interested in working with our digital collections,… read more

News

PhD/RMA Writing Sessions – October/November 2025

Dear members of the Huizinga Institute, Following the successful writing groups last academic year, The PhD/RMA council will be hosting new writing sessions in October… read more

Boudien de Vries (1951-2025)

With great sadness the Huizinga Institute has received the news of the passing of our dear colleague Boudien de Vries (1951-2025). Originally trained as a… read more

Judith Pollmann Awarded Spinoza Prize

Judith Pollmann (Leiden University) has been awarded the 2025 Spinoza Prize, the highest scientific honour in the Netherlands. The Dutch Research Council (NWO) bestows this… read more

Upcoming HI Courses & Events

Lecture Marijke Huisman: ‘Engagement, Activism & Professionalism in History’

Dr Marijke Huisman, Utrecht University

Workshop ‘Trauma-informed oral history’ with Erin Jessee (University of Glasgow)

Dr Erin Jessee, University of Glasgow

RMA Thematic course: ‘To See the World in a Grain of Sand: Reading and Writing Microhistory’

Dr David van der Linden, University of Groningen

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.