Events
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Online masterclass met Çiğdem Yüksel
Hoe maak je onderbelichte verhalen uit de geschiedenis zichtbaar? En welke rol kunnen beeld en tekst daarbij spelen? In haar boek Je moest eens weten portretteerde Çiğdem 22 vrouwen van de eerste generatie migranten uit Turkije. In deze online masterclass op dinsdag 25 november vertelt ze over haar werkwijze, en over de kracht van oral history en fotografie. Ook gaan we met haar in gesprek over het belang more »
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OPG Workshop Data Management and Analysis for Historical Research in Nodegoat
Oost-Indisch Huis (Oude Hoogstraat 24, Amsterdam). Room A0.03How do you organize, structure, and preserve your sources and data? Data management has become an essential part of doing research in the humanities, whether you work with archival materials, oral histories, or born-digital sources. This workshop introduces participants to key principles of data management: how to store, connect, and analyze data in ways that more »
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Lezing en gesprek | Die blockierte Republik
Amsterdam, Spui 25Populisme, migratie, economie, oorlog – waar gaat Duitsland naartoe? In zijn nieuwe boek 'Die blockierte Republik' neemt de Duits-Britse historicus Frank Trentmann de natie onder de loep. Hoe zijn we in deze crisis terechtgekomen en hoe komen we er weer uit? Frank Trentmann vindt antwoorden door terug te kijken naar de geschiedenis en verder te more »
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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 »
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Gesprek | Verlies. Een kernprobleem van de moderniteit
Amsterdam, Spui 25Waarom 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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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Online book launch webinar of ‘The Figure of the Politician in Modern and Contemporary Europe’
You are warmly invited to join the online book launch webinar celebrating the publication of The Figure of the Politician in Modern and Contemporary Europe (Berghahn Books). About the Book Although political history has long been central to historical research, surprisingly little attention has been paid to its key concept, the politician. The authors of this more »
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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 »
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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 »
