Current projects
This project examines how moral codes of conduct and tolerance towards criminal behavior (particularly theft and other crimes against property) in the Netherlands changed as a result of the German occupation in 1940-1945.
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. Transnational studies have long emphasized processes of mediation, migration, hybridization, and circulation as key elements of international and transcultural encounters and confrontations.
Drillingsberichte ist ein Projekt, in dem die Briefe (1937-1943) des jüdisch-deutschen Arztes Felix Oestreicher durch Paul Sars, Radboud Institut für Kultur und Geschichte (RICH), untersucht werden.
Drillingsberichte is a project in which the letters (1937-1943) of the Jewish-German doctor Felix Oestreicher are being investigated by Paul Sars, Radboud Institute for Culture and History (RICH).
The project Jan Kloos 'War and love through the eyes of a resistance fighter' investigates the resistance fighter Jan Kloos, based on letters he wrote to Diet Kloos.
Collaboration between three Regional History Centres and the Research Institute for Culture and History (RICH) intends to shed new light on the way in which local administrators had to navigate between citizen and occupier during the Second World War.
The project Transatlantic Routes of Identities focuses on investigating the complex ways in which Dutch discussions about racism and emancipation have evolved in relation to America since the 1900s. The major aim of the project is to map the prevalence and impact of race-related concepts that originated in the United States in a very large corpus of Dutch newspapers and magazines.
Dutch representations of Europe have not acknowledged the long presence of the super-diverse groups of non-white “others”. This lack of knowledge is intensified by ethno-racial stereotyping which has produced exclusion and social tension. NWA-Re/Presenting Europe analyses misrepresentations in Dutch sports, urban arts, and education. RU-partners focus on sports as an arena of belonging and on sports heroes as possible models of aspiration.
This project identifies the presence and significance of gratitude in the long history of transatlantic relations. It aims to offer new perspectives on European-North American relations and to place, amongst other things, ordinary civilians, women, children, emotions, and material culture more firmly into the history of international relations.
This project extends from June 5 2022 until April 26 2023, the date that marks the 75 year anniversary of the arrival of the first Marshall Plan goods in the Netherlands. Throughout that year, several popular-scientific and didactic publications will introduce the history of the Marshall Plan to a broad audience.