Research projects
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MIDLAB (Middeleeuws Inspiratie-Laboratorium voor Actueel Beleid)
This project consists of creating and leading an innovative Think Tank, in collaboration with Martine Veldhuizen (Utrecht University).
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Periodical Famines
Periodical famines is a thorough analysis of transatlantic Irish periodical culture during and after the Great Famine, demonstrating how periodicals' transmission of famine memories shaped global cultures.
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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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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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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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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.