Public lecture – Professor Toyin Falola (University of Texas)
10 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’.
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.
PhD Conference Autumn 2018
16 & 17 October 2018 | Hilversum
At this conference third-year PhD candidates from all over the country who are member of the Huizinga Institute got the chance to give a presentation on (a part of) their research.
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)
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.
Cursus ‘Rome lezen: de toeristische stad’
13 t/m 27 mei 2019 | Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut te Rome
Sinds de klassieke oudheid is Rome vrijwel onafgebroken bezocht, bewonderd en soms bekritiseerd door pelgrims, reizigers en toeristen. Tijdens deze cursus wordt uitgebreid ingegaan op allerhande vragen die daaromtrent gesteld kunnen worden.
Summer School 2019 – Macro versus Micro: The Challenges of Global Intellectual History
June & July 2019 | Utrecht
Worldwide, intellectual history is moving into new, exciting directions. During this Summer School, meant for RMa students and PhD candidates, diverse methods and insights of this field will be discussed and analysed comprehensively.
RMa course – Imagining the Self and the Other
Spring 2019 | Utrecht
More information to be announced soon.
Masterclass – ‘Do sales matter? Reputation and contemporary popularity in the Early Modern Book World’ with Andrew Pettegree
27 August 2018 | Amsterdam
Are the books we choose to study from previous centuries chosen because contemporaries recognised them as important or because they reflect our current preoccupations? And how can we know which books past societies particularly valued? These troubling questions – troubling not least because they are so routinely ignored – are the subject of this workshop.
Registration courses 2018-2019 is open now
/in Huizinga nieuws /by Afke BergerFind out about our 2018-2019 curriculum and sign up for courses and masterclasses.