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Boeklancering ‘Oral History’ van Marloes Hülsken en Susan Hogervorst

7 May 2026 | Agenda/Calls
Op 19 juni 2026 vindt in het Academiegebouw te Utrecht de boeklancering plaats van Oral history – Handboek voor onderzoek, onderwijs en erfgoed van de auteurs Susan Hogervorst en Marloes Hülske en uitgegeven door Amsterdam University Press. Het boek is een leidraad voor iedereen die met oral history aan de slag gaat. Het is opgebouwd volgens...

Huizinga Pub Quiz Night

6 May 2026 | Agenda/Calls
Ready to put your cultural history knowledge to the test? Join us for a lively evening of trivia, drinks, and friendly competition at our Huizinga Pub Quiz Night, organised by the Huizinga RMA/PhD Council! Date and location: 10 June 2026, 18:00, Moos Utrecht, Amsterdamsestraatweg 283, Utrecht This edition will focus on cultural history (of course!), with...

PhD/RMA Writing Sessions – May 2026

27 April 2026 | Agenda/Calls
The PhD/RMA council will be hosting new writing sessions in May of this year. Doing research can be quite isolating. Our writing sessions are open to all RMA and PhD students who want to work alongside peers in a supportive environment. You’re welcome to ask questions share ideas or simply enjoy the company of other...

Historicity and Historicality: Talk by Luke O’Sullivan

1 April 2026 | News
Friday 15 May 2026 15.00-17.00 Amsterdam (English spoken) Speakers: Luke O’Sullivan (National University of Singapore) Organised by: Chiel van den Akker (Study Group Philosophy of History), in consultation with the Huizinga Research Network Theory of History Room: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, MF-Building, room MF A307, Van der Boechorststraat 7, Amsterdam The upcoming meeting of the Study...

PhD Position ‘Food for thought. The science of blockades, 1914-1918 and 1939-1945’ (UvA) – deadline 17 April 2026

11 March 2026 | Archive Huizinga news
The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) invites applications for a fully-funded PhD position (4 years, 1.0 FTE). This position is part of the ERC Synergy-funded research project BLOCKADE, which explores the global blockades of the First and Second World Wars, and their aftermaths. A cooperation between the universities of...

CfP: Universities and Society at the End of Empire and Beyond (UniSoc) – 23-24 June 2026 (University of Birmingham)

27 February 2026 | News
Based upon an academic partnership between the Universities of Birmingham in the UK and Leiden in the Netherlands, Universities and Society at the End of Empire and Beyond (UniSoc) uses these two global seats of learning as a starting point to examine the role of universities in the transition from colonial to postcolonial and multicultural...

PhD/RMA Writing Sessions – February 2026

20 January 2026 | News
  The PhD/RMA council will be hosting new writing sessions in February. Doing research can be quite isolating. Our writing sessions are open to all RMA and PhD students who want to work alongside peers in a supportive environment. You’re welcome to ask questions share ideas or simply enjoy the company of other researchers while...

Call: Organise a Huizinga Institute activity (e.g. masterclass, workshop) on ReMa/PhD level – DL: 1 March 2026

16 December 2025 | News
The Huizinga Institute offers Research Master students and PhD candidates, as well as senior members, the opportunity to organise a masterclass, workshop, or other activity on a subject of their choosing within the field of cultural history. For examples, instructions and a checklist, see our page on organising activities. We are able to support several...

Selma Leydesdorff (1949-2025)

20 October 2025 | News
The Huizinga Institute mourns the passing of our respected colleague professor Selma Leydesdorff (1949-2025). Selma was actively involved in the development of women’s history and women’s studies from the very beginning in the 1970s, yet it was oral history with which her name is most closely associated, also outside the academic field. Her intellectual, and...

Op 6 oktober overleed Selma Leijdesdorff in de leeftijd van 75 jaar

15 October 2025 | News
Selma Leijdesdorff was feministe, dwarsdenker, activist, en historica.[1] Haar ontwikkeling als wetenschapper viel samen met de tijd waarin het persoonlijke politiek werd, en ook onderwerp van geschiedwetenschappelijk onderzoek. Sinds het interbellum, en in Nederland vooral sinds de Tweede Wereldoorlog, was het weliswaar steeds gebruikelijker om individuele getuigenissen te documenteren en te gebruiken als historische bron....