Research projects
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Feeling the Traces of the Colonial Past
The aim of this subproject is to understand how dance can be used to mobilise feelings and emotions for a better understanding of the colonial and slavery past.
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MEMORISE
MEMORISE, a project funded by the EU, aims to preserve and present Heritage related to Nazi Persecution (HNP) in the post-witness era.
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Nachbarsprache & Buurcultuur
The 'Nachbarsprache & buurcultuur' project was launched with the aim of supporting secondary schools in exchange programmes between German and Dutch schools.
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Drillingsberichte
The 'Drillingsberichte' are a collection of letters that provide insight into how the Jewish Oestreicher family fared before and during World War II.
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Visualizing Gravity
The PhD project investigates the conceptualisation of gravity in visual arts, before and after Isaac Newton’s treatise of 1687.
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Hearing Conflicts (HEARCON)
This research brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars employing creative methodologies to explore museological strategies for contending with colonial histories and “difficult knowledge.”
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Parliamentary History Series: Politics during the Lubbers cabinets (1982-1994)
In 2023, the CPG began a new research project on politics in the long 1980s and during the Lubbers cabinets (1982-1994) that will result in a new volume (volume 11) of the Parliamentary History Series.
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PASSIM project
PASSIM studies the medieval reception of the Latin sermons preached by the Early Church Fathers, using a digital network of manuscripts.
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Spain’s Años del Hambre
This subproject investigates the legacies of the Spanish Years of Hunger (1939–1952).
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Teaching Ireland’s Great Famine
This project examines past and present educational materials and practices in primary and secondary education, museums and other heritage institutes.
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Weaponising the Past
This subproject investigates developments in the narrativisation of hunger in textbooks and museum exhibitions between 1914-2020 in Germany.
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Framing Famines
Framing Famines foregrounds how memories of the past are (re)mediated from comparative perspectives, and how this influences a perception or experience of the past.
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Teaching Great Famine Legacies in North America
The research project Teaching Great Famine Legacies in North America is conducted by Prof. Marguérite Corporaal and investigates a rich corpus of Famine-related educational curricula and practices used by a host of institutions in the US and Canada.
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The 1845–1848 Famine in Flanders and the Netherlands
This project, conducted by Prof. Lotte Jensen, investigates this question, as well as how these famine legacies have been transmitted by museums, school curricula, and commemorative practices in the past and present.
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Between Conflict and Solidarity
This project is conducted by Dr Ingrid de Zwarte and analyses discourses of victim/perpetrator and solidarity in three heritage traditions centred on conflict between two nations.
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Perceptions of travel in Byzantine saints' lives
In this PhD project Irene Jacobs examines how the Byzantine authors of monastic saints’ lives engaged with travel.
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Nineteenth-century Dutch authors travelling abroad
The main focus of this research willl be the changes nineteenth-century Dutch authors observed in the countries they visisted and what happened after they had left.
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Side by Side
This project counters the separation between the post-war novels of Native American Renaissance writers and their German-speaking contemporaries.
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The ‘First Ladies’ of the Dutch Republic
By analyzing and comparing the political agency of four seventeenth-century Nassau consorts, this project will provide valuable new insights into the repertoires of power available to princely women.
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Colonialism Inside Out
This interdisciplinary project focuses on how ordinary people in Sri Lanka experienced and navigated normative institutions of taxation, legal action and religion that were set up by the Dutch East India Company (VOC).