Harm Kaal receives NWO Open Competition grant
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded funding to Harm Kaal, associate professor of political history. With this grant, Harm Kaal will investigate how history is (not) integrated in Dutch public policy.
Nijmegen University Library donates Surinamese collection to Anton de Kom University in Suriname
Radboud University library received a large donation of books, reports and journals on Suriname last year. The university library has decided to donate them to the Anton de Kom University in Suriname, believing they are most needed there. The collection will be shipped over this week.
From cholera to cancer: the health gap already existed in the nineteenth century
Apparently, the ‘health gap’ is not just something of our time. In the nineteenth century, people from lower social groups also died younger and from different causes than more affluent people. That is the conclusion of historian Owen Lammertink in his PhD thesis, which he defends at Radboud University on 12 May.
Reports of neighbourhood conflicts give voice to people of Sri Lanka under VOC administration
In his PhD research at Radboud University, historian Luc Bulten discovered that not only the VOC made use of the Sri Lankan registers; the registered persons also used them to their own advantage, for example in conflicts between neighbours.
CLARIAH awards Heritage Data Grant to create historical database of 19th century Paramaribo
CLARIAH has rewarded a Heritage Data Grant for the realization of a database of the Paramaribo ‘ward registers’. This source preserved for the period 1828-1847 provides a insight into the life in a colonial city during the last decades of slavery.
Minister Dijkgraaf stresses importance of open science with Slave Registers as example
On 29 March, minister Robbert Dijkgraaf stressed the relevance of open science in a letter to the House of Representatives, highlighting Coen van Galen's (Radboud Institute for Culture and History) Slave Registers project as an illustrative example.
Minister Dijkgraaf stresses importance of open science with Slave Registers
On 29 March, the Dutch minister of Education, Culture and Science, Robbert Dijkgraaf, sent a parliamentary letter stressing the importance of open science in scientific research in which he named research project Slave Registers by Coen van Galen.
Praying helped during eighteenth-century disasters (but not because God was intervening)
On Tuesday 4 April, historian Adriaan Duiveman will receive his doctorate from Radboud University. “Religion was not a sign of despair, but a form of collective resilience.”
PhD candidates Emmie Hoebens and Sofía Forchieri will receive Christine Mohrmann Stipend
PhD candidates Emmie Hoebens and Sofiía Forchieri (Faculty of Arts) will receive a Christine Mohrmann Stipend on Tuesday 28 March.
Praying helped during eighteenth-century disasters (but not because God intervened)
Praying in a packed church for a whole day, singing psalms, and hearing thunderous sermons about your sinfulness was what eighteenth-century Dutch people did during a prayer day, after a disaster. Did these rituals have any use? According to historian Adriaan Duiveman, they did.
The history of the Nederlandsche Heidemaatschappij in times of war and crisis raises the issue of executive responsibility
The Nederlandsche Heidemaatschappij (predecessor of the KNHM Foundation and Arcadis) supervised the employment of Jews from Jewish labour camps during the Second World War. This was the conclusion drawn by historian Lennert Savenije.
PhD Candidate Marte Sophie Meessen is one of the new Faces of Science
Marte Sophie Meessen, PhD candidate in art history at the Radboud Institute for Culture and History (RICH), has been selected as one of twelve new Faces of Science.
Tackling Holocaust denial with teaching materials
The basic historical knowledge of Dutch youth is substandard, recent studies show. Secondary school teachers are sounding the alarm: more attention must be paid to history education.
Vici-grants for research into fiction, trauma and malaria
Three scientists from Radboud University and Radboudumc will receive a Vici research grant from NWO. Alicia Montoya and Mirjam Broersma of Radboud University and Teun Bousema of Radboudumc will receive 1.5 million euros for their research.
Alumna Marie van Haaster receives Jan Brouwer History Thesis Award
Marie van Haaster, an alumna of the Historical Studies Research Master, has received the Jan Brouwer Thesis Award for History. This is the second time she has been awarded a prize: she also previously received the RICH Master's Thesis Award 2022.
Twelfth Edition 'Scientific breakthroughs into the classroom!' is out
Colonial systems had far-reaching consequences for children in colonised areas, which still resonate today. The research by Marit Monteiro, Maaike Derksen and Marleen Reichgelt has now been translated into teaching materials for primary education.
Announcing the winner of the first RICH master's thesis award
The first winner of the RICH Master's Thesis Award is Marie van Haaster. The award - to be presented annually from now on - consists of a certificate and a prize of 500 euros. With the award, the Radboud Institute for Culture and History (RICH)..
From Nero's full head of hair to Constantine's diadem - political change translated into statues of Roman emperors
Between approximately 50 BC and 400 AD, the Roman Empire was ruled by more than fifty emperors. Each emperor had statues and busts made of himself. Historian Sam Heijnen demonstrates that how emperors were portrayed was linked to political changes.
ERC Consolidator Grants for research on ‘politics of the periphery’ in Latin America and medieval social norms
Two Radboud University researchers are set to receive a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC): Martijn Koster is a researcher from Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies, and Sven Meeder is Assistant Professor of Medieval History.
ERC Consolidator Grant for Sven Meeder for research on medieval social norms
Assistant Professor of Medieval History Sven Meeder receives a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The two-million-euro grant will allow him to launch a new research project.
