Bijeenkomst Projectgroep Egodocumenten
1 maart 2019, Amsterdam
Met Alle de Jonge, Peter Buijs en Wim Denslagen.
PhD Defense Wouter Klein (Utrecht University)
12 December 2018, Nijmegen
PhD Defense entitled ‘New Drugs for the Dutch Republic: The Commodification of Fever Remedies in the Netherlands (c. 1650-1800)’.
Inaugural lecture Monika Baár (Leiden University) – ‘Disabling the Iron Curtain’
14 December 2018, Leiden
Huizinga member Monika Baár will argue in her inaugural lecture that time has come to go beyond Cold War binaries and biases. By taking as its vantage point the history of an understudies group – persons with disabilities – it will propose an alternative way for studying postwar European history.
Bijeenkomst projectgroep Egodocumenten met Dirk Schoon en Annette Faber
9 November 2018, Amsterdam
Met lezingen van Dirk Schoon en Annette Faber.
Masterclass – New Trends in the History of Reading
13 December 2018, Antwerp
The masterclass New Trends in the History of Reading aims at presenting and discussing with ReMa and PhD students the newest development in the study and reconstruction of reading activities in premodern Europe.
Masterclass – Professor Yasmin Haskell
9 November 2018 | Amsterdam
Participants in this masterclass are invited to explore the emotions in the early modern classroom, academy, and Republic of Letters. How were the emotions (/passions) harnessed in education and science in the early modern period and which emotions or temperaments were especially associated with scholars and scientists?
Workshop – Cultural Associations in the Long 19th Century: Agents of Transnational (Ex)change
21 November 2018 | Amsterdam
In this workshop particular attention will be paid to issues such as the dynamics among regional, national and transnational identities, the relevance of societies for the formation of collective identities, and the problem of archiving the collections of such societies in a digital age.
Workshop – Professor Clive Webb (University of Sussex)
8 November 2018 | Amsterdam
This workshop focuses on hidden and forgotten stories at historical crossroads, with a special focus on the African diaspora and discourses on race.
Masterclass – Professor Toyin Falola (University of Texas)
10 December 2018 | Amsterdam
The aim of this workshop is to revisit the state of the art on theories of decolonisation of mind and knowledge.
Cursus Cultuurhistorisch Onderzoek (CCO) | Research into Cultural History Course 2019
January-May 2019 | Utrecht & Amsterdam
Course for first-year PhD students, affiliated with the Huizinga Institute.
Course Oral History and Life Stories
January 2019 | Amsterdam
Historians and others who interview about the past often talk about memory and how they are informed by memory, while they know memory is a difficult and problematic source of historical knowledge. During this course we shall concentrate on the use of memory in historical research.
RMa Course – Heritage & Memory Theory Seminar
May 2019 | University of Amsterdam
The intellectual engagement with heritage and memory concepts and the ideas they develop is both necessary and often, quite problematic. In this 5-day seminar the collective effort to deal with this issue is as important as the acquisition of knowledge.
CCO II – Anxiety with Sources
Spring 2019 | University of Amsterdam
Workshop about the tension between the usage of sources on the one hand, and a researcher’s will to present a completely original research on the other hand.
Atelier Wetenschappelijk Recenseren – Prof. Ieme van der Poel (UvA)
14 maart 2019 | Universiteit van Amsterdam
Waar moet een wetenschappelijke recensie idealiter aan voldoen? Aan de hand van voorbeelden en zelfgeschreven werk gaan studenten samen met Ieme van der Poel in dit atelier op zoek naar een antwoord op deze vraag.
Public lecture – Professor Toyin Falola (University of Texas)
/in Huizinga nieuws /by Afke Berger10 December 2018 | Amsterdam
This public lecture will reflect on the state of the (historical) academy regarding the ‘Idea of Decolonisation’ and raise the question what it means to attempt a ‘Decolonisation of Knowledge’.