Research projects
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Young Adult Literature: accepted and mature?
The term Young Adult literature is gaining ground in the Netherlands. This research project aims to determine the position that Young Adult literature takes within the Dutch literary polysystem.
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WordWise: Rhetoric for All!
WordWise is a pathbreaking initiative of Peitho (Radboud Centre for Rhetoric) and Radboud University’s Department of Political Science offering rhetoric as a means to educate responsible and resilient citizens.
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Calling for Timeout
This PhD project sets out to explore how and why public protest against the hosting of mega-sporting events, and in particular the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup, has emerged and transnationalised from the 1960s to the present.
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You Have a Part to Play
In collaboration with ArtEZ University of the Arts, this project aims to design and create a new, university-wide approach to Higher Education for Sustainable Development (HESD).
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‘Keep calm and carry on’?
Times of crisis are moments of great emotional upheaval. This project investigates three moments of societal crisis in twentieth-century Netherlands to find out how emotions were expressed and valued during these times.
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Quality Arts Education
This research project aims to provide insight into the implementation practice of the national Quality arts education programme.
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Dealing with Disasters
Dealing with Disasters approaches the identity formation of a nation and region from a new perspective. The formation of local and national identities will be examined in response to natural disasters in the Netherlands.
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Heritages of Hunger
European famines of the past resonate in today’s debates. This project examines how lessons on famine are being taught at schools and heritage sites and whether such practices can enhance understanding and solidarity.
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Legacies of Bondage
This project will involve the construction of a database of the Surinamese population that existed between 1830 and 1950. It will combine the individual records of both enslaved, bonded labourers from China, India and Indonesia and free citizens.