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Zwarte Piet maakt witheet
Wies Bakker has transformed her final essay for the course Understanding Theory into an online article. Her article argues that the debate about the appearance of Black Pete can benefit…
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Thesis: Jewish Americans and the Holocaust. The Holocaust discourse in Jewish American newspapers, 1945-2000.
by Mieke Geugies In April 2016 I began writing my master thesis. But actually, the preliminary thesis process already started in November of 2015. During the second teaching period, students…
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Joris van Eijnatten appointed as KB fellow
Cultural historian Joris van Eijnatten is appointed DH Fellow at the National Library of the Netherlands this Fall. He uses the digitized corpora of newspapers in the library to analyze…
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Thesis: Ela and Ada: Gender, Class and Performativity in Penny Romances
by Celine Frohn In my experience the hardest part of any substantial writing project is finding a place to start. In the case of the master’s thesis, the first task…
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Thesis: Empire and South Pacific ‘contributions’ to the London Missionary Society
by Stephanie Hall My thesis explored the relationship between the missions of the London Missionary Society (LMS) and empire in the South Pacific during the mid-nineteenth century. I looked…
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Thesis: The System of Animals: Imperial Hunting in British East Africa
by Alex Verbeek My thesis discussed imperial hunting in British East Africa in the period 1870-1914. By analysing hunting travelogues that were published in this period, I investigated the desire…
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Documentary short film “We are all migrants” presented to Utrecht audience
On Friday 16 September film director Virginia Heath presented her new short movie “We Are All Migrants”. The short archive and music documentary was created for the conference Imag(in)ing Europe,…
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Conference Imag(in)ing Europe
The academic year started with the conference Imag(in)ing Europe: Perspectives on a Contested Continent, 14-16 September.
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New MA programme Cultural History of Modern Europe started
On 6 September the new master’s programme the Cultural History of Modern Europe started with 40 students.
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