Research projects
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Black America and Europe
This project analyses the ways notions and images of ‘Black America’ play a role in which Europeans understand racism and Black European activism.
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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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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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Todesfuge
Cultural studies researchers, linguists and didacticians have worked with secondary school teachers to develop teaching materials which transcend subjects, based on research into the effect of Paul Celan's poem 'Todesfuge' (1945).
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Asset management after the Second World War
In the first years after the Second World War, the Nederlands Beheersinstituut (Netherlands Property Administration Institute) (NBI) managed hundreds of millions of guilders in assets on behalf of the Dutch government.
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Digital Photographic Grammar: Mapping Documentary Photographs
The cultural legacy of the European Recovery Program has not yet been grasped: a visual matrix that was designed to translate, mediate, and communicate abstract political and economic concepts as easily understandable narratives.
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Crime in wartime
During the Second World War, crime rates all over occupied Europe were on the rise. People who normally led ‘respectable’ lives now broke the law in various ways, ranging from black market dealing and prostitution to illegal activities
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Re/Presenting Europe
This project investigates the positive impact of sports on European societies, through a study of issues of belonging, in- and exclusion, identity formation, and national representation.
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The Marshall Plan at 75
Throughout the year that marks the 75 year anniversary of the arrival of the first Marshall Plan goods in the Netherlands, several popular-scientific and didactic publications will introduce the history of the Marshall Plan to a broad audience.
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The Diplomacy of Gratitude in Transatlantic Relations
By identifying the presence and significance of gratitude in the long history of transatlantic relations, this project places ordinary civilians, women, children, emotions, and material culture into the history of international relations.