Op 11 maart 2020 vindt in Antwerpen het jaarlijkse OPG seminar militaire geschiedenis plaats. Thema’s zijn onder meer de omgang met het koloniale verleden vanuit militair-historisch perspectief en het herdenken van oorlog. Provisional Program - Research Seminar Military History - Antwerp, 11 March 2020 The Research School of Political History, in cooperation with the University of Antwerp, hosts a one-day seminar on current research in military history and the relevance of military historians in Belgian and Dutch public debates on more »

Cancellation Spring Conference 2020 Beste allen, Met veel enthousiasme hebben wij de Spring Conference 2020 van de Onderzoekschool Politieke Geschiedenis onder de noemer Work in Progress: power and politics from a historical perspective georganiseerd. Wij verheugden ons zeer op twee dagen van keynotes, paper panels, poster presentations en workshops, op 23 en 24 april. Maar helaas hebben we moeten besluiten de Spring Conference af te gelasten. De huidige situatie rond de coronacrisis biedt geen enkele zekerheid dat de conferentie doorgang more »

Unfortunately, we will also have to reschedule the Seminar Rethinking repertoires. More information will follow. All best, RSPH   Rethinking repertoires: how ordinary people conducted politics in the nineteenth century. Our seminar on 19th century popular politics and the ways in which ordinary people could shape the world around them is now open for registration. Our starting point is the work of the eminent historical sociologist Charles Tilly, who put forth the idea of protest repertoires. Like street musicians, ordinary more »

The Summer School New approaches to the history of nationalism of the Research School Political History, will take place online, participants are informed. Registration is closed. Topic Nations are ‘imagined communities’ that are constructed through ‘invented traditions’. Based on the classical studies by Benedict Anderson, Eric Hobsbawm and Ernest Gellner, this still is the dominant modernist interpretation of nations and nationalism. Recently, however, various innovative studies have provided fresh interpretations of the rise and evolution of nationalism over the last more »

“Nutzen und Nachteil” revisited: what’s the use of Applied History? Webinar and debate on the opening of the new academic year of the Research School Political History with Ido de Haan, Irène Herrmann, Harm Kaal, Jelle van Lottum and Catrien Santing. 25 September 2020, 3-4.15 PM We warmly invite you for the digital opening meeting of the national Research School Political History (OPG), organized in cooperation with the Association for Political History. After the introduction of the new PhD´s and more »

Workshop in which 2nd-year PhD students reflect on the methodological choices that they have made with Carla Hoetink and Liesbeth van de Grift When: 23 October, 15:00-17:00, online We warmly invite you to the first event in the RSPH workshop series. After an introduction to this year’s programme, we will engage with the existential question ‘What exactly am I doing and how can that be justified?’ You have now entered the second year of your PhD trajectory and will have more »