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Promovendus ‘Een Sociale Geschiedenis van Hiv en Aids in Nederland’
Ben jij geïnteresseerd in de wijze waarop de aidsepidemie sinds de jaren tachtig ingreep in de levens van direct betrokkenen? Wil je betrokkenen daarover interviewen en wil je je ontwikkelen tot wetenschappelijk onderzoeker? In dit promotietraject breng je de sociale geschiedenis van aids in Nederland in kaart en leg je contacten met mensen die aids van nabij hebben meegemaakt. Meer informatie. Deadline: 13 oktober 2025.
14 & 15 October: Double Book Launch
On October 14 and 15, a major double book launch will take place in Utrecht, entitled “Prussia at Crossroads: State, Society and Monarchy in Crisis.” Sir Christopher Clark (Cambridge), Susanne Bauer (BBAW), Jan Markert (Trier), and myself will present their new books on this topic. James Kennedy and Beatrice de Graaf (both Utrecht) will moderate and commentate.
(more…)Call for Panels, Papers and Posters APH Conference 2026
The APH Conference 2026 is titled “Dynamizing and Decentring Empires: A Recalibration of the History of the Political” and will be held at University of Münster, 11-13 June 2026. The Association for Political History (APH), Research School for Political History (RSPH/OPG), Utrecht University: Security History Network/History of International Relations (SHN), University of Münster: Centre for Imperial Studies (CES) and ZNS Centre for Dutch Studies are calling for submissions of papers, panels and posters. Deadline for submission: 1 December 2025.
Call for Papers International PhD Seminar in American History / American Studies
The RIAS will host its next in-person research seminar in Middelburg on 26-28 November 2025. We kindly invite applications from current doctoral candidates whose research covers any aspect of American culture, media, society, politics, or foreign relations, recent or historical. Deadline: 12 September 2025.
Training RSPH
RSPH Opening Academic Year 2025-2026 – Friday 19 September 2025
On Friday afternoon, September 19, the Research School Political History will officially open the academic year at the Allard Pierson in Amsterdam.
We are delighted to welcome historian prof. dr. Gert Oostindie as our keynote speaker. His lecture, titled ‘Colonialism & Memory Wars’, will explore the recent resurgence of interest in Dutch colonial history within Dutch society and politics. Oostindie will briefly ponder the reasons behind this renewed attention and the role historians have played in it. His primary focus, however, is to reflect on the merits, challenges and pitfalls of the present boom in critical colonial studies.
(more…)‘When people (think they) have a choice’. From articulation to mobilization‘: OPG Summer School 2025 – Report
The conviction that a situation – previously understood as given – can be altered, provides the starting point for people to come together, define a common agenda, and attempt to acquire power. But how does this process from articulation to mobilization take shape in different historical settings? From 24 to 27 June 2025, the Summer School of the Onderzoeksschool Politieke Geschiedenis, hosted at the University of Amsterdam, explored this question. Looking for politics on the streets, interviewing people, and visiting local research institutions, we developed our insights in constant dialogue with the city around us.
RSPH Training Program 2025-2026
The Training Program 2025-2026 for PhD’s and RMA students is currently being finalized. More information will be announced soon. Keep an eye on our website!
PhD defences Political History
Félix Streicher will defend his PhD thesis: The Forgotten Occupation: Politics, Everyday Life, and Gender in the Luxembourg Occupation Zone in Germany, 1945–55, on 11 September 2025, at 13:00 in the Aula of Maastricht University.
Donderdag 18 september 2025 zal Antia Wiersma om 14.30 uur aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen haar proefschrift Hartstochtelijk. partijloos, feministe. Dr. W.H. Posthumus-van der Goot (1897-1989) verdedigen.
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