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Course Programme 2025-2026

The Huizinga Institute’s curriculum aims to provide RMA students and PhD candidates with a coherent programme of courses in cultural history, divided into three strands:
  • PhDs: Core Courses in Cultural History (RMA students can join when there’s room). Focusing on methods, theories and skills particular to cultural-historical research, this 10-12 ECTS programme aims to help PhD candidates develop into professional cultural-historical researchers.
    • Core Course 1: Positioning and Designing your research During CC1, PhD candidates who have just started their PhD research are introduced to the broad field of cultural history.
    • Core Course 2: The Cultural Historian’s Toolbox CC2 focuses on concepts, sources, and methods in cultural history. It enables candidates to develop their methodological skills, based on their own research objects and interests.
    • Core Course 3: Cultural History in Action The CC3 allows PhD candidates to develop their interests and work on their professional competencies within research networks and the larger field of cultural history, benefitting RMA students as well. It consists of various activities, most notably the Huizinga PhD Conference.
  • RMA students: Thematic courses on interdisciplinary subjects (PhDs can join when there’s room). During these continuously updated modules, students can pursue their thematic interests or broaden their expertise.
  • Joint PhD/RMA programme: Summer schools, International courses, Masterclasses and Workshops. More masterclasses and workshops will be added during the course of the academic year.
  Note: prospective members who have not yet been registered by their university can already sign up for courses.
Please make sure to mention this in the registration form.

Upcoming

Huizinga Institute Academic Year Opening 2025-2026

Workshop ‘Paper Knowledge in Digital Archives’

Lecture Marijke Huisman: ‘Engagement, Activism & Professionalism in History’

Lecture ‘Crisis Oral History: Ethical Engagements with Narratives of Political Violence’ with Erin Jessee (University of Glasgow)

Workshop ‘Trauma-informed oral history’ with Erin Jessee (University of Glasgow)

Workshop ‘International publications about early modern women from the Low Countries’ with Martine van Elk (California State University)

RMA Thematic course: ‘To See the World in a Grain of Sand: Reading and Writing Microhistory’

Cultural Historian’s Toolbox (PhD Core Course 2): ‘Geschiedschrijven: verteltechniek en literaire stijl in historische teksten’

RMA Thematic course ‘Key Concepts in Cultural History’

PhD Core Course 3: Huizinga PhD Conference

Huizinga Winter School: ‘Doing digital history: Analyze and visualize your data’

PhD Core Course 1: Positioning and designing your research

RMA Thematic course: ‘Uses of History’

Cultural Historian’s Toolbox (PhD Core Course 2): Oral History and Cultural Memory

Workshop series ‘Image revolutions. Printmaking in the Low Countries from woodcut to lithography’

RMA Thematic course: ‘Writing Environmental History in the Anthropocene’

Cultural Historian’s Toolbox (PhD Core Course 2): ‘Computational Literary Studies’ – with Huygens Institute and OSL

PhD Core Course 3: Huizinga PhD Conference

Medieval & Early Modern Studies Spring School 2026: Materiality, Material Culture and Materialist Approaches

PhD Writing Retreat at Dominicanenklooster Huissen

Huizinga Institute Summer School 2026: The Cultural Historian and the Museum

Past

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