June 24-27, 2025. Supervisors: Peter van Dam, Bram Mellink, Mart Rutjes (University of Amsterdam). Registration (fully booked): bureau@onderzoekschoolpolitiekegeschiedenis.nl.
What makes people realize they have a choice in politics? How do members of social movements (or policymakers) define achievable options? And how do they ensure sufficient support to put their plans into action? This year’s Summer School of the Research School for Political History focuses on politics not as a separate sphere, but as a dimension in society. Hosted by the University of Amsterdam, it engages with the processes of political articulation and mobilization, focusing on ideas, institutions and practices.

Harm Kaal, hoogleraar aan de Radboud Universiteit / Faculteit der Letteren met de leeropdracht Toegepaste geschiedenis, spreekt op vrijdag 23 mei 2025 om 15.45 uur precies een inaugurele rede uit, getiteld: ‘Hoe merk je aan mij dat ik een historicus ben?’
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A report from the symposium (28 February 2025) by Thomas van Gaalen.
From miners’ strikes to environmental demonstrations, and from cold war congresses to the writings of Anton de Kom: the term “solidarity,” which roughly denotes a relation of mutual support based on shared political interests, has held a central place in leftist political discourse from the last 150 years.