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  • Lecture Johan van Merriënboer: ‘Chancellor Kohl cannot be allowed to drive NATO.’

    The Dutch Centre for Parliamentary History (CPG), in collaboration with the Cold War Research Network, warmly invites you to a lecture by dr. Johan van Merriënboer on Wednesday 3 December 2025 at Radboud University Nijmegen. (R)MA-students, PhD-students and early career scholars are particularly welcome to attend. Please send an e-mail to Laurien Crump (Laurien.Crump@ru.nl) if more »

  • Gesprek | Verlies. Een kernprobleem van de moderniteit

    Amsterdam, Spui 25

    Waarom voelen we ons in een tijd van overvloed toch zo kwetsbaar en ontheemd? In zijn nieuwe boek Verlies beschrijft Andreas Reckwitz de paradoxen van de moderne tijd, waarin individualisering en globalisering nieuwe mogelijkheden brachten, maar ook diepe gevoelens van vervreemding en nostalgie oproepen. Op 4 december gaat de invloedrijke Duitse socioloog in gesprek met historicus Beatrice more »

  • Module 4. Research Design: Sources in Political History

    This fourth module focuses on the increasing use of digital techniques for researching both analogue and digital texts, which requires a new research methodology in which traditional historical knowledge is closely interwoven with digital skills. Together with an interdisciplinary team of political historians and information scientists from the Huygens Institute, you will engage with this more »

  • Module 6. International Networking

    This two-day workshop, held at Antwerp University, focuses on developing the skills, insights, and confidence needed to participate fully in international academic life, whether through publishing, conferencing, or building professional networks. Throughout the programme, established scholars will share best practices and common pitfalls in international collaboration. Together with fellow RSPH PhD candidates and colleagues from more »

  • Workshop: Histories of taxation, (in)equality, and redistribution

    rMA and PhD workshop OPG / DIA, 13 February, 14.00 – 17.00 hours. With Marc Buggeln (Flensburg), Marjolein ’t Hart (VU/Huygens) and Maarten Manse (Linnaeus University). This workshop is explicitly open to research master students and PhD candidates. Free admission, but please register by sending an email to: bureau@onderzoekschoolpolitiekegeschiedenis.nl before 6 February 2026. Please include in your registration a one-page statement reflecting on how the history more »

  • Global Political Thought Seminar and Amsterdam Medieval Seminar: Free Speech in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam

    Tuesday 17 February 2026, 16:00 -18:00, Bushuis Room  BH E1.02 Kevin Pham (UvA) (https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/h/k.d.pham/k.d.pham.html) In 1954, the government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) defeated the French military at Dien Bien Phu, thereby ending French colonialism in Vietnam (1858-1954). But soon after achieving national liberation, the same government became a new source of oppression more »

  • 19 februari 2026: Utrecht Lecture in Political History by Moritz Mihatsch

    Shifting sovereignties — Manifestations of sovereignty from a global historical perspective Sovereignty is once again at the forefront of international debate, especially thanks to the re-election of Donald Trump. However, as a concept it is badly understood and often invoked as an empty signifier. Traditional conceptions of sovereignty are both ahistorical and impractical. Starting with more »

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

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    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, the book analyses processes of depoliticisation in modern Europe from more »

  • Valedictory lecture prof.dr. Susan Legêne

    Aula VU, Amsterdam

    The Rector Magnificus of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities cordially invite you to attend the public session of the College of Deans, at which prof.dr. S. Legêne on the occasion of retirement as professor of Political History, will give a lecture entitled '(No) Peace with the more »