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New sessions: RMA/PHD Writing Groups online, Leiden and Utrecht – March 2025

7 February 2025 | News
Dear members of the Huizinga Institute, Following the successful writing groups last November, The PhD/ReMa council will be hosting new writing sessions in March: 6 March 2025: online writing group via Teams, 10.00-13.00 (find the link here) 12 March 2025: on-site writing group at Leiden University, 10.00-13.00 – Location: Arsenaal A1.04 20 March 2025: on-site...

Valentijn Tilder (UvA) wint elfde Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt-scriptieprijs

3 February 2025 | News
Hilversum, 1 februari – Valentijn Tilder (Universiteit van Amsterdam) heeft met zijn masterscriptie A cause to watch for dit jaar de Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt-scriptieprijs voor geschiedenis gewonnen. De prijs werd in samenwerking met EW Magazine voor de elfde maal uitgereikt. De aanmoedigingsprijs ging naar Lydia Boer (Universiteit Leiden) voor haar bachelorscriptie Het huwelijk tussen...

Book Announcement: Richard Calis, The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2025)

22 January 2025 | News
In the late sixteenth century, a Lutheran scholar named Martin Crusius (1526-1607) compiled the richest record of Greek life under Ottoman rule. Though he never left his home in the university town of Tübingen, Crusius spent decades annotating books and manuscripts, corresponding with the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, and interviewing Greek Orthodox alms-seekers. Ultimately, he gathered...

Huygens Instituut – Gebruikersonderzoek historische bronnen

18 November 2024 | News
Het Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse geschiedenis en cultuur maakt bijzonder veel historische bronnen en literaire teksten digitaal toegankelijk. In de onderzoeksprojecten van het instituut wordt gewerkt aan en met allerlei verschillende bronnen uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis: van de brieven van Johan de Witt, archieven van de VOC, de resoluties van de Staten-Generaal en registratiekaarten van...

Invitation: RMA/PHD Writing Groups in Groningen, Utrecht and Leiden

14 November 2024 | News
Dear members of the Huizinga Institute, The PhD/ReMa council will be hosting writing sessions in November, in three different locations: in Leiden, Groningen and Utrecht. We hope to organize more sessions in the future at other universities! For now, if you would like to join other Huizinga members for a morning or an afternoon of...

National protest 25 November 2024

7 November 2024 | News
Dear all, Monday next week, 25 November 2024, there will be a national protest against the extreme budget cuts that the Dutch government has set for higher education (of a billion euro). These cuts will have far-reaching consequences for all universities, and in particular for the humanities. The protests are organized by the trade unions...

New book: Hanneke Ronnes, Wouter van Elburg, ‘SLOOP: Utopie en Protest in Amsterdam van 1800 tot nu’ (Uitgeverij Panchaud: 2024)

15 October 2024 | News
Op 14 oktober verscheen het boek SLOOP: Utopie en Protest in Amsterdam van 1800 tot nu. Het boek gaat over de dynamiek van slopen, bouwen en beschermen op lange termijn. De golfbeweging begint in Amsterdam al in de late middeleeuwen, terwijl na 1800 steeds vaker discussie ontstaat over het slopen van bebouwing uit de 16e-17de...

New book: Representation: The Birth of Historical Reality from the Death of the Past

14 October 2024 | News
On behalf of one of our members, I hereby announce that the following book has been published recently: Franklin R. Ankersmit, Representation: The Birth of Historical Reality from the Death of the Past (New York: Columbia University Press,2024)

New: Huizinga Writing Groups

14 October 2024 | News
Dear PhDs and RMAs of the Huizinga Institute, We are pleased to announce that the PhD/ReMa Council is organising HUIZINGA WRITING GROUPS. The first online session will be on Tuesday the 29th of October from nine to noon. We hope it will be an opportunity for members who are currently focused on writing to join...

Looking back: Spring School 2024

17 June 2024 | News
Medieval and Early Modern Studies Spring School 2024: Landscape History & Ecology (27-31 May, Ghent) By: Estel van den Berg DAY 1: On the 27th of May we gathered at the STAM museum in Ghent for the exhibition ‘Ghent’s Lands’, on the rich history of the city of Ghent’s agricultural lands from the 12th century...