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'It was just a joke': literary scholar Ivo Nieuwenhuis' take on humour scandals
From Johan Derksen's statements to Thierry Baudet's roast, each of them gave rise to hefty media scrutiny in recent years. In his book Het was maar een grapje (It was just a joke), Ivo Nieuwenhuis shows that humour scandals are of all times.
How the Huguenots were blamed for 16th-century storms
While some people claimed that the pandemic originated in China, others attributed the cause to the mistreatment of animals. Even in the 16th century, the news media provided different explanations for major disasters, Marieke van Egeraat, who will be defending her PhD thesis at Radboud University on 13 September, has found.
RICH PhD Candidate Airin Farahmand wins Study Award
On 4 September 2023, Airin Farahmand was awarded the Study Award for writing a thesis of exceptional quality. This thesis was written as part of her Research Master's in Art and Visual Culture. Farahmand is currently a PhD Candidate at RICH.
PASSIM project wins Radboud Team Science Award
The Radboud Team Science Award 2023 was awarded to Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages (PASSIM). This team excelled on account of a special and effective team spirit and will therefore receive 10,000 euros to further boost this team spirit.
Ronald Kroeze appointed Professor of Parliamentary History
Ronald Kroeze has been appointed Professor of Parliamentary History at the Faculty of Arts with effect from 1 August.
Historical Database Suriname and the Caribbean receives NWO Open Science Fund
The grant allows members of the Historical Database Suriname and the Caribbean (HDSC) project team to start up a new project, focussing on improving automatic process of turning scans of archival records into structured data.
The Mechanics of Canon Formation and the Transmission of Knowledge from Greco-Roman Antiquity
Radboud University is a partner in a new international research and training programme - MECANO – which aims to advance our understanding of the mechanics of canon formation and knowledge transmission of ancient Greek and Latin texts.
History of slavery on Aruba and St. Eustasius online
Island communities such as Aruba and St. Eustasius were hit hard by slavery. This is apparent from the databases that have been published on the websites of Archivo Nacional Aruba (ANA) and the Dutch National Archives in The Hague.
The role of Papuan children in the Dutch colonising mission in West Papua
Why did children feature so frequently in the photos of Catholic missionaries who worked in West Papua at the beginning of the twentieth century? This is something that historian Marleen Reichgelt asked herself. “The children were much more than just the targets of civilisation.” Reichgelt will defend her PhD thesis on 20 June at Radboud University.
Funding for research on police adaptations in response to changing expectations
Laura Brinkhorst will focus on how the police in the Netherlands adapted to changing social and administrative expectations during the period from the 1930s to the 1980s.
Sharing new research findings on South Holland's historical ties to slavery
The findings of the research The Chains of Holland’s Glory will be presented by Dr. Karwan Fatah-Black (Leiden), Dr. Lauren Lauret (University College London), and Dr. Joris van den Tol to the residents of the province on June 8, 2023, in The Hague.
COST selects Radboud University's great leap network to investigate historical roots of health inequalities
The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) has chosen the Great Leap Network, an ambitious research initiative led by Radboud University, as a COST-Action.
Databases of slave registers Suriname and Curaçao gain UNESCO World Heritage status
The digital databases of the slave registers of Suriname and Curaçao have been officially recognized as World Heritage Sites and included in the Memory of the World Register (MoW Register) of UNESCO.
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.
From Romance to Racism: Exploring fan responses to anti-racist criticism of 'Gone with the Wind'
The film classic Gone with the Wind (1939) has long been criticised for its controversial content. The Radboud Institute for Culture & History examines the experiences of fans, in the context of a recent wave of anti-racist objections.
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
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.