Research projects
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The MsPhys-project uses AI to investigate how medieval manuscripts disseminated knowledge and culture through their form and content, with the Physiologus tradition as the key to understanding textual evolution and heritage.
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CONSENT
CONSENT examines the theme of sexual consent in medieval European narrative songtexts (c. 1300-1550).
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Investigating Insemination Fraud
This project investigates how this insemination fraud and other (from today’s perspective) malpractices in fertility treatments were possible in the Netherlands between 1945 and 2004.
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Parliamentary History Series: Politics during the Lubbers cabinets (1982-1994)
In 2023, the CPG began a new research project on politics in the long 1980s and during the Lubbers cabinets (1982-1994) that will result in a new volume (volume 11) of the Parliamentary History Series.
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Economies of Trust?
Who could be trusted in a deeply unequal, cosmopolitan society? This project looks beyond colonial paper realities to reconstruct bottom-up social networks in the 18th-century Cape Colony and how these were performed vis-a-vis formal institutions.
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Anchoring religious change through local place-making
This project investigates how local communities in the Roman Empire integrated new religion in the existing urban space imbued with pre-Christian monuments and meaning.
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A Democratic Turn?
This project examines how the democratization of French society during the Third Republic (1870-1940) influenced references to Graeco-Roman antiquity in daily newspapers.
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From India to Indenture
This PhD research will examine the life courses of Indian indentured labourers who migrated between 1830 and 1920 from the colony of British India to several parts of the world.
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Tolerance and Irony
This project focuses on father and son Van Limburg Brouwer, who in the nineteenth century fought for tolerance and dialogue through literature in a society divided by strife.
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Books and Readers in the Long Eighteenth Century
This subproject aims to build digital infrastructure for book history and reception research by aggregating different types of source material, leveraging digital tools to make data from different sources and national contexts interoperable.
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Ancient Weather Perspectives
This project investigates the way in which weather influenced the lives of people in Late Antiquity.
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Colonial Governmentality and Missionary Practices of Child Upbringing in Suriname, 1830-1930
This PhD project investigates policies and practices of child upbringing by missionary organisations in 19th and early 20th century colonial Suriname.
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Prefigurations of Peace
This project aims to uncover the existence of a hidden tradition, that of the poet-diplomat, in nineteenth-century English literature.
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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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Beyond Crisis Architecture
This project assesses ‘crisis’ through the lens of architectural innovation at rural settlements, moving beyond simplistic notions of ‘crisis architecture’.
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Reading for Change
This project examines readers and the books that might and might not have played a role in their political behaviour. I will focus on the governing political elite who made use of the Dutch National Library during the Revolutionary era.
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Recovering Anonymous Late-Antique Preachers in the Corpus of Pseudo-Augustinian Sermons
Using both traditional and digital methodologies, this project investigates the dynamics of anonymity versus authority in shaping the medieval reception of Patristic sermons.
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Unsetling Sources
In the 1940s and 1950s, children’s homes in Indonesia were hazardous, prompting many to seek refuge in the Netherlands. This project examines sensitive records from that time to understand their impact on the Indisch community.
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The Alongshore City: Early Modern Colombo and the Creation of a Global South Hub (1550–1820)
This project aims to investigate the socio-environmental impact of several successive waves of ecosystem-engineering regimes which established themselves in and around the port city of Colombo in the early modern period.