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
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’
17 October 2025 | no ECTS
Dr Marijke Huisman, Utrecht University
Lecture ‘Crisis Oral History: Ethical Engagements with Narratives of Political Violence’ with Erin Jessee (University of Glasgow)
29 October 2025 | no ECTS
Dr Erin Jessee, University of Glasgow
Workshop ‘Trauma-informed oral history’ with Erin Jessee (University of Glasgow)
30 October 2025 | 2 ECTS | ReMa, PhD
Dr Erin Jessee, University of Glasgow
Workshop ‘International publications about early modern women from the Low Countries’ with Martine van Elk (California State University)
5 November 2025 | 1 ECTS | ReMa, PhD
Prof. Martine van Elk, California State University
RMA Thematic course: ‘To See the World in a Grain of Sand: Reading and Writing Microhistory’
7 November - 19 December 2025 | 5 ECTS | ReMa, PhD
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.