Supervisor: prof. dr. Ido de Haan (Utrecht University) In this tutorial, we will discuss the very general, yet at the same time crucial question ‘what is political history?’ The discipline of political history has changed quite dramatically in the last couple of decades. From a well-established, yet also rather stuffy history of national political institutions, more »

Supervisor: prof.dr. Dirk Jan Wolffram (Groningen University) and dr. Adriejan van Veen (Radboud University Nijmegen) NB: This seminar takes place in Utrecht This seminar is dedicated to the science outreach and communication – vis-à-vis both academia and the public at large – of the individual PhD projects of the participants. Invited speakers from academia, publishing, more »

Supervisors: dr. Peter van Dam and dr. Jeroen van Zanten (both University of Amsterdam) What is political history? Among historians and social scientists definitions of and approaches to political history have diverged immensely. In this course, students explore approaches relevant to the history of politics and discuss the conceptualization of political history and the use more »

Supervisors: dr. Iva Pesa (University of Groningen) and dr. Lorena de Vita (Utrecht University) This Workshop looks beyond the limits of the discipline of political history. How do/can other scientific disciplines inspire and inform political history research? Which debates outside the confines of political history are of interest, and to which debates can your PhD more »

Supervisors: prof.dr. Annelien De Dijn (Utrecht University) and dr. Karin van Leeuwen (Maastricht University) Despite their crucial importance for defining a subject, concepts often receive only little attention in historical research projects. While the lessons on conceptual change learnt from scholars such as Koselleck and Skinner have resulted in the establishment of an entire subfield more »