Huizinga’s ReMA-PhD-council is looking for new members
Dear PhD and ReMA-candidates of the Huizinga Institute, We have to announce the sad fact that two of the PhD-representatives and one ReMA-representative are leaving the council. Milou van Hout, Michel van Duijnen and Aimée Plukker will leave after years of service, to make place for the next generation of PhD and ReMA representatives. We […]
Masterclass by Benjamin Schmidt: ‘Violent images, violence against images: the visual culture of violence in the in early modern period’ – 23 March 2019 (& 21 March Lecture)
Date: Masterclass: 23 March 2019 (& 21 March Lecture – time t.b.a.) Time: 10.00 – 12.30 h Venue: Brakke Grond, Vlaams Cultuurhuis Open to: ReMa-students and PhD candidates Fee (non-members): n/a Credits: 1 ECTS […]
Vijf Huizinga-promovendi op het Promovendicongres Wetenschapsgeschiedenis – 14-15 februari 2019
Op 14 en 15 februari vindt in Abdij Rolduc het tweejaarlijkse Promovendicongres Wetenschapsgeschiedenis plaats. Onder de 24 deelnemers uit Nederland en België zijn vijf leden van het Huizinga Instituut: Didi van Trijp (UL), Wouter de Vries (VUA), Sophia Hendrickx (UL), Robbert Striekwold (UL) en Mathijs Boom (UvA).
Symposium ‘Cultuurgeschiedenis in Nederland: trends en perspectieven’
Het Huizinga Instituut verhuist per 1 januari 2019 naar Utrecht, na 23 jaar in Amsterdam. Met dit symposium op woensdag 9 januari willen we deze verandering feestelijk markeren.
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?
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.
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.
Verhuisnieuws
/in Huizinga nieuws /by Afke BergerOp 1 januari 2019 is het zover: het bureau van het Huizinga Instituut verhuist van de Universiteit van Amsterdam naar de Universiteit Utrecht. Arnoud Visser wordt de nieuwe directeur. Hij wordt in die rol bijgestaan door Annelien Krul.