Master Class Pasi Ihalainen: Reflections on the Comparative and Transnational History of Political Concepts and Discourse
Universiteit Leiden, Huizingagebouw, Doelensteeg 16, kr. 023c.University of Leiden, 15 February 2019, 14.00-17.00 Huizingagebouw, Doelensteeg 16, kr. 023c. Are you interested in political history from the point of view of the use of language, concepts and discourse? Would you like to proceed beyond one nation state or one forum of political debate in your research? Are you looking for methodological approaches more »
Seminar New Horizons in Military History Research
Amsterdam University Library, Singel 425, Doelenzaal.Date: Wednesday 27 February 2019, 9.30 – 18.00 hrs. Location: Amsterdam University Library, Singel 425, Doelenzaal. Over the past decades, military history has developed into a field covering a wide variety of topics, theories and methodologies. Moving beyond ‘traditional’ operational military history, successive waves of social and cultural historians have focused on the impact of more »
Lecture by Giovanni Orsina (LUISS Roma)
Leiden, Doelensteeg 16, Huizinga building, Conference RoomBerlusconi and Italian Populism The History Institute of Leiden University and the Research School Political History organize lecture with prof. Giovanni Orsina on Berlusconi and Italian Populism. Prof. Henk te Velde (Leiden University) will introduce Giovanni Orsina. Giovanni Orsina is Professor of Contemporary History and Director of the School of Government at Luiss-Guido Carli University, more »
Criptic Identities. Historicizing the identity formation of persons with disabilities across the globe
Leiden UniversityPlease see for more information: ethinkingdisability.net Call for abstracts: no later than 1 November 2018.
Kossmann Lezing: Gareth Stedman Jones
On behalf of the Kossmann Institute we cordially invite you to the Kossmann Lecture 2019. The lecture is dedicated to the 200th birthday of Karl Marx in 2018 and will be delivered by his biographer Gareth Stedman Jones. Jones published the definitive biography of Marx, Karl Marx. Greatness and Illusion in 2016, which received worldwide acclaim. Kossmann Lezing 24 April 2019: Gareth Stedman Jones: Marx's more »
Strijd! 100 Jaar vrouwenkiesrecht
Groninger MuseumZie ook: 100jaarvrouwenkiesrechtgroningen.nl/
Master class Maartje Abbenhuis (University of Auckland)
Utrecht, Drift 23, room 2.07Diplomacy at war and peace: Workshopping approaches to the history of international politics after 1815’ Beginning with a review of Maartje Abbenhuis’ own work on neutrality, internationalism and The Hague conferences, this masterclass investigates the ways in which historians construct the history of international politics, the sources they use, the lenses of interpretation they prioritise more »
KNAW-workshop: Vijf eeuwen rampen en risico’s
Huize Blijendaal, Radboud Universiteit, NijmegenDonderdag 23 mei 2019, Huize Blijendaal, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen Watersnoden en andere natuurrampen zijn een terugkerend verschijnsel. Maar wie draagt de last van dijkenbouw en wederopbouw? En denken we daar nu anders over dan onze voorouders? Lees verder Wie draagt de kosten van maatregelen (preventieve adaptatie en wederopbouw/compensatie) tegen de gevolgen van natuurrampen en natuurgeweld? more »
Workshop: Identities beyond the nation
Bushuis Kloveniersburgwal Amsterdam, room E 1.01Eby Dominique Reill (University of Miami) Recent scholarship on processes of identification and belonging in Europe's past and present undergoes an ongoing paradigm shift that gives rise to a more multidimensional understanding of relations between nationalism, sovereignty, self-determination and democracy (Nimni 2009). This tendency has increasingly highlighted the importance of questions of regionalism, peripheries, (urban) more »
Karaktermoord! Media en moddergooien van Caligula tot Koning Gorilla
Hortus AmsterdamGeorganiseerd door Edwina Hagen (Research Institute CLUE+ VU) en Martijn Icks (Amsterdam School of Historical Studies UvA) Colloquium over karaktermoord in historisch perspectief Van “Crooked Hillary” tot “Hans Brusselmans”, karaktermoord is alom aanwezig in de hedendaagse politiek. Toch is het zeker geen nieuw verschijnsel. Wat tegenwoordig gebeurt met tweets en campagnespotjes, gebeurde vroeger met toespraken, more »