Author Archives: Lotte van Hasselt

20 March 2026: 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 deadline: 6 March 2026, via bureau@onderzoekschoolpolitiekegeschiedenis.nl. Deadline assignment: 13 March 2026, via Solange.Ploeg@ru.nl

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Call for Papers: 2026 LSE/GWU/UCSB Cold War Studies International History Graduate Student Conference

Event Date: Thursday, May 7, 2026 to Saturday, May 9, 2026, Event Location: London School of Economics and Political Science, Event Contacts: Conference Convener –  Prof. Piers Ludlow, Administrative Assistant – Dr. Jeff Hawn. Deadline for Submission: Friday, February 27, 2026. More information about the conference.

Online book launch and discussion: Depoliticisation before Neoliberalism: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political in Modern Europe

We kindly invite you to the online book launch of the volume Depoliticisation before Neoliberalism: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political in Modern Europe. Edited by Adriejan van Veen (Radboud University Nijmegen) and Theo Jung (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) and part of Palgrave’s Studies in Political History. Friday, February 20, 2026. Online (12-13 CET).

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