Research projects
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Queen Bee: Carolyn Kizer (1923-2014) and her Cultural Orbit
Dr Marian Janssen resigned from her job as director of Radboud University’s International Office to become Carolyn Kizer’s unauthorized biographer.
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Source of Life: Water Management in the Premodern Middle East
The Source of Life project combines historical and archaeological evidence to explore the interrelationship between water installations, governance, and legal and cultural frameworks within five Middle Eastern cities (the 7th-15th centuries).
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Local governance between occupying power and citizens
This comparative study focuses on policy questions and biographies of local governments in the Netherlands at the time of World War II.
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'To protect and serve'
This project analyses how the Dutch police responded and adapted to societal and governmental pressure from the 1930s - 1980s.
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Mary of Guelders
Radboud University, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and Museum het Valkhof worked in close collaboration for four years on the restoration of the prayer book, the research and the development of an exhibition.
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Redefining the Region
Redefining the Region examines the transnational dimensions of local colour in the long nineteenth century, across five subprojects comprising a range of unique case studies.
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Rembrandt Documents Project
The goal of the Rembrandt Document Project (RemDoc) is to create a new digital infrastructure for accessing, analysing, and interpreting original written and printed documents related to the life and art of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn.
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Integrating History in Dutch Public Policy
Policy makers value history. They do not, however, systematically apply historical insights and skills in policy practice. This project studies why this is the case.
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The Teacher as Citizen-maker
This research exposes the (changing) views on and of the teacher as a 'former of citizens' in the Netherlands since 1945.
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The Medical Compendium of Henricus Spijker, Doctor and Canon in Fifteenth-Century Nijmegen
This project discloses the manuscript of Henricus Spijker to a wider audience. It further aims to trace the life of his and the role he played in the city of Nijmegen between 1470 and 1493.
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The Emperor's New Praise
This project analyses the different traditions to which Pliny the Younger (61 - ca. 113) anchors his Panegyricus and the way he exploits loci communes to do so.
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The changing burden of disease
This study tests the epidemiological transition theory with data from registers that kept track of everyone who died in Amsterdam during the period from 1854 to 1926.
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The Art of Teaching
This project focuses on this literary character of Greek ‘didactic epic’. These poems are an intersection of contemporary scientific learning, literary aesthetics, and the epic-didactic tradition, against the background of the Roman Empire.
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Room for Protest
'Room for protest' examines on a decentralised level how democracy and public order have clashed in practices of and discussions about protest since 1919.
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Writing European Regions in the Transatlantic World, 1845-1914
To develop a better understanding of the role of regionalism in the formation and marketisation of diasporic identities, this subproject considers two ways in which German and Irish regions featured in the North American literary marketplace.
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European Local Colour Fiction in Transnational Contexts, 1830-1914
The project European Local Colour Fiction in Transnational Contexts, 1830-1914 explores the trajectories of travel and translation of a selection of British, Irish, French, and Italian “regional” or “local-colour” texts.
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Local Colour Fiction, the Irish Revival and Transnationalism, 1882-1914
The literatures and cultures of the Irish region were central to nationalist ideologies, but the question arises in what respects local colour fiction of this era breaks away from this national frame to address transnational concerns and issues.
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Local Colour Fiction in Flanders and the Netherlands, 1851-1914: Transnational Perspectives
This research project approaches nineteenth-century Dutch local colour fiction from a transnational perspective, considering its circulation and reception across borders and its reflection on transnational relationships and interactions.
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The Transnational Dimensions of the Region in European Illustrated Periodicals, 1842-1900
This project examines the transnational dimensions of the region in European illustrated periodicals from 1842 until 1900. Illustrated periodicals will be treated, not just as carriers, but as active agents in processes of affect and meaning-making.
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Privacy Rules
This project combines iHub's value-driven approach to studying the societal impact of digitisation with the research group's interest in the history of post-war public, political and administrative debate on citizenship, transparency and democracy.