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Call for Papers: Borders, Belonging, and Moral Obligation in German History
The Platform for German History is delighted to announce its third annual conference ‘Borders, Belonging, and Moral Obligation in German History’, to be held at Radboud University Nijmegen on 27 June 2025. Deadline for applications: December 2, 2024.
(more…)13 december 2024: Oratie Peter van Dam
Op vrijdag 13 december 2024 zal OPG-bestuurslid Peter van Dam, benoemd tot Hoogleraar Nederlandse geschiedenis in de Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, het hoogleraarsambt openlijk aanvaarden door het uitspreken van een rede, getiteld: ‘Aarden in het verleden: Over het belang van Nederlandse geschiedenis in de klimaatcrisis’. Meer informatie.
Neues Centrum zur Erforschung von Imperien an der Universität Münster
Am Historischen Seminar der Universität Münster hat sich ein interdisziplinäres Centrum für postkoloniale Imperienforschung gegründet, das Centre for Empire Studies: (Post-)Colonial Histories and Global Entanglements (CES).
(more…)Training RSPH
29 November 2024: Workshop ‘Data management and analysis for historical research in Nodegoat’
In this workshop, historians (in training) will learn to work with the research environment Nodegoat in order to store, organize, connect and analyse their own data in a relational database – with a special eye on how to use these skills in a political historical research project. Nodegoat is a web-based research environment especially developed for the humanities and used by an international research community. Nodegoat allows scholars to build their own datasets based on their own data model and offers relational modes of analysis with spatial and chronological forms of contextualization. This workshop is open to PhD’s and ReMa students. Register no later than 25 November 2024 at: bureau@onderzoekschoolpolitiekegescheidenis.nl.
Announcement: Workshop International networking and working in an international academic community
This is Module 5 of the PhD Basic Training Program. Date: 31 January 2025 – 1 February 2025
Location: ZNS Centre for Dutch Studies Münster, Alter Steinweg 6/7
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Jacco Pekelder (RSPH, University of Münster)
Registration: 15 December 2024. Registration hotel accommodation: before 9 December 2024
Advanced research skills | Workshop Audiovisual media sources and digital methods
In this full-day workshop, RMA students and PhD candidates will get acquainted with the possibilities of incorporating digitised audiovisual media sources in their research. The workshop will introduce the participants to media-historical approaches in political history, by reflecting on historiographical trends and experimenting with digital methods to study primary source materials. Registration: bureau@onderzoekschoolpolitiekegeschiedenis.nl.
(more…)Impression of the excursion to Atria – 20 September 2024
The PhD Council of the RSPH organized a special and informative tour at Atria, the institute for women’s history in the center of Amsterdam, prior to the opening of the academic year on September 20. The morning began with a presentation on the history of Atria’s archives and current activities in collecting and research. Then there was the opportunity to explore some of the archival material yourself! Check out this small photo impression of an informative excursion.