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CHC Newsletter, No. 18, December 2015 Dear colleagues, We can look back on a very productive year. Prof.dr. Hester Dibbits expressed her inaugural address for her endowed chair Historical Culture and Education. Dr. RobbertJan Adriaansen presented his book about the German youth movement to em.prof.dr. Peter Raedts. We had a very vivid kickoff symposium about the research excellence program War! Popular Uses of War Heritage. In this 18th edition of our digital newsletter you will find more information upcoming events, about our activities in the last months, and news from other organizations. Once again, I would like to thank many colleagues abroad and in the Netherlands for their intellectual and practical support. I wish you a very happy holiday and all the best for 2016! On behalf of the CHC staff, Kind regards, Maria Grever Director Center for Historical Culture For more information on our Center, its activities and its research, please visit our regularly updated website www.eshcc.eur.nl/chc. CONTENTS
News from the CHC Upcoming events 2016 Recent publications Contributions to the public debate and media performances Recent activities and papers NEWS FROM THE CHC
Hester Dibbits Endowed professor Historical Culture and Education On October 16, Hester Dibbits presented her inaugural oration Sharing the Past. Heritage and Education in the 21st century ("Erfgoed: maken, bewaken of kraken?"). The professorate is supported by the LKCA, the National Institute for Cultural Education and Amateur Arts. A large number of people attended this ceremony. 4 March 2016: National History Education Conference On 4 March 2016, the VGN (Dutch history teachers' association) organizes the second National History Education Conference at Erasmus University in cooperation with the history department of the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication. The theme of the conference is
History Education in 2032. This topic is chosen in response to the nationwide discussion on the future of education, initiated by the Dutch government. It is an important discussion, which can have great consequences for the contents and existence of history as an independent subject in secondary education. At the conference, VGN will present its vision on the future of history education. Keynote speakers will be prof.dr. Paul Schnabel (chairman Platform Education 2032 and prof.dr. Maria Grever. The afternoon consists of various workshops for history teachers. Susan Hogervorst postdoc researcher at REI project War! On September 1, Susan Hogervorst started as a parttime postdoc researcher in the REI project 'WAR! Popular Culture and European Heritage of Major Armed Conflicts’. Under supervision of prof. dr. Franciska de Jong, she investigates the uses of digital testimonies on war and liberation in educational contexts. Susan is associate professor in historical culture and history didactics at Open Universiteit Nederland. Kickoff meeting 'War! Popular Culture and European Heritage of Major Armed Conflicts' On October 30, a kickoff meeting for the Research Excellence Initiative Project 'War! Popular Culture and European Heritage of Major Armed Conflicts' was held. This research project examines how the heritage of modern war history is represented and appropriated in contemporary popular culture, and which modifications or additions can be advised to harmonise these appropriations with the requirements and principles of democratic historical and civic education. During a well attended symposium papers were delivered by Dr. Ria Dunkley (Cardiff, UK), dr. Sławomir Piontek (Poznań, Poland), and the three EUR project researchers Siri Driessen MA, Pieter van den Heede MA and dr. Susan Hogervorst. Topics were how gamers experience modern war history through digital games. What do visitors experience on European war sites and cemeteries? How are online testimonies of war victims appropriated in educational contexts? First Athena Award for prof.dr. Maria Grever On November 19, Maria Grever was the first person to receive the new Athena Award of Erasmus University Rotterdam. The jury called Grever ‘an initiator, a woman of the initiatives, a champion and a true worldclass talent’. She played an important role in the promotion of young and experienced female talent, reflected in her efforts to acquire grants, funds and awards for female PhD candidates and employees. In addition, the jury values her public appearances as a historian which have made a positive contribution to the visibility and social appreciation of female scholars. Grever was one of seven nominees and received the Athena Award during the Dies Natalis of the university from Rector Magnificus Huib Pols and the chair of Erasmus Network of Female Professors Hanneke Takkenberg. Visiting scholar César López Rodríguez at the CHC
From November 15 27, dr. César López was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Historical Culture. Click here for his report about his stay.
Special CHC Research Seminar "Heritage, Education and the Nation" On November 17, the CHC organized a special research meeting with papers delivered by dr. David Ludvigsson (Sweden), "Guided walks at Swedish historical sites" and dr. César López (Spain), "Rethinking master national narratives". Financed by the Swedish National Heritage Board, Ludvigsson and his colleagues Lasse Kvarnström and Bodil Axelsson investigate the role(s) of guides in the cultural heritage sector. Central in this talk were gender aspects of walks in Norrköpings's Industrial Landscape. López focused on national narratives which still can be considered as key narratives in the domain of history. In his presentation the role of national narratives as master narratives was discussed. Lopez explained how these national narratives are developed, transmitted and consumed. He also presented some empirical studies on how Spanish college students understand these narratives and their influence on students' understanding of key historical concepts such as nation and national identity. Book Presentation The Rhythm of Eternity On October 29, dr. RobbertJan Adriaansen presented the first copy of his book The Rhythm of Eternity. The German Youth Movement and the Experience of the Past, 19001933 (New York: Berghahn Books 2015) to prof. dr. Peter Raedts in a special meeting of the CHC Research Group. The book is the edited version of the PhD thesis on which he graduated cum laude in October 2013. The book discusses the various ways in which time and history were conceived in the German youth movement of the late Wilhelmine Empire and the Weimar Republic. History Didactics Collection – Update December 2015 A quick glance at the contents: choose ‘search [and]’ and ‘subject heading’; then type ‘HD [space]‘; this code gives you access to the Collection as a whole (# 5.806); then try adding any subject heading you can imagine, in English. Example: ‘HD Deutschland’ renders no results, ‘HD Germany’ # 735. Years of publication are subject headings as well. Try ‘HD 1858’ or ‘HD 2013’. Of course you can choose any other search key the catalogue offers, ‘Author’s Name’ etc. In 2015 the Collection received many visitors again; stu dents and History researchers from all parts of the Netherlands, but also from Belgium and Germany. Some research topics: ‘The image of Germany in Dutch history school books’, ‘A reflection on Dutch military actions in Indonesia 19461950’, ‘The Anglo Boer War 18991902’. Controversial topics addressed through the texts and illustrations in history school books from various countries. At present the Collection suffers from limited access possibilities, due to building activities on our campus. We hope to restore our dedicated reading room early 2017. Jan Jüngen Hester Dibbits in Adivsory Committee of the foundation Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
As of December 2015 Hester Dibbits has been appointed as a member of the Heritage Advisory Committee of the foundation Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds. UPCOMING EVENTS 2016
January 18, 2016 The Hague
Piet Hagenaars will present and discuss his study on the value of culture and cultural education in primary school at a seminar organised by CultuurSchakel, an independent centre of knowledge for cultural education in The Hague. The seminar is intended for school leaders and teachers as well as educators from cultural institutions.
February 1113, 2016 Budapest
Piet Hagenaars is invited to contribute to the dissemination meeting about visual literacy from the 11th to the 13th of February at the Eötvös Loránd Universität in Budapest, organised by the Comenius Consortium CEFR_VL (Common European Framework of Reference on Visual Literacy).
February 18, Amsterdam
Symposium on the occasion of the retirement of prof.dr. Marjan Schwegman as director of NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The new director, prof.dr. Frank van Vree (UvA), starts in September 2016. The interim director of the NIOD will be dr. Wichert ten Have. The symposium in honor of Marjan Schwegman will take place in debate centre De Rode Hoed, Keizersgracht
102, Amsterdam.
February 24, 2016 Amsterdam
Tina van der Vlies will present her paper ‘Fights and Flashbacks. Narrating War in History Textbooks’ during the ‘Narratives of War’ conference at the University of Amsterdam.
February, 24 26, 2016, Amsterdam
Laurie Slegtenhorst will present a paper ‘Hero or bad guy? Making choices in WWII musicals’ at the Narratives of War conference of the Huizinga Institute.
March 114, 2016, Liverpool
Laurie Slegtenhorst will be on staff exchange at the research group Popular Culture of the Liverpool Hope University.
March 4, Rotterdam
National History Education Conference organized by the EUR and VGN, The Dutch History Teacher's Association. The conference is themed History Education in 2032. Speakers are prof.dr. Paul Schnabel and prof.dr. Maria Grever.
March 12, Vancouver
Prof.dr. Maria Grever is invited to present a paper at a special symposium on the occasion of the retirement of prof.dr. Peter Seixas, Coming of Age: Life/Time/History. Vancouver, University
of British Columbia (Peter Wall Institute). March 1720, Cambridge, Mass.
Stephanie Benzaquen has been selected to present a paper 'A Cambodian Eichmann? View of Khmer Rouge perpetrators in the postcoloniality' at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference at Harvard University.
March 30April 2, Valencia
Laurie Slegtenhorst MA will present a paper ‘What would you do in times of war? Musical and Education in the Dutch Popular Culture’ at the ESSHC.
April 68, 2016 Berlin
Susan Hogervorst will present a paper at the 3rd Workshop of the 'Arbeitskreis Geschichtsdidaktik theoretisch' at the Free
University Berlin, about 'Normative Fragen von Geschichte'. April 14, Rotterdam
Dr. Peter Yding Brunbech, head of the Danish HistorieLab – the National Centre of Excellence for the Dissemination of History and Cultural Heritage and seven members of its board will visit the Center for Historical Culture at Erasmus University. The aim of their visit is to exchange ideas about our current research on heritage and about ways to involve local schools in a multicultural city on using heritage in (history) education.
May 1620, 2016 Reykjavik
Hester Dibbits will be lecturing at the faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the University of Iceland. She will give the course Migration, Material Culture and Heritage in Contemporary Europe (5 ECT).
May 17, Rotterdam
Third Urban Transformation Conference (UTC) Rotterdam hosts the symposium POSTWAR CITIES. Sensitive Heritage in a Globalizing Historical Culture. Speakers are Peter Seixas (Canada, UBC), Mario Carretero (Spain, Madrid), Ria Dunkley (Cardiff UK), Angela Bermúdez Vélez (Spain, Bilbao), Malte Thiessen (Germany). Coconveners are Center for Historical Culture and REI research gr
oup Popular Culture and War. Among the funders is the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). September 22, The Hague
Laurie Slegtenhorst and Tina van der Vlies organise the symposium Rhetoric of the Past, together with The Royal Netherlands Historical Society (KNHG) and the Center for Historical Culture. The symposium focuses on the question how and why people reappropriate specific rhetoric from the past in a present context, such as ‘Wir sind das Volk’ (a wellknown slogan from 1989) during the recent Pegida demonstrations in Dresden. The keynote speaker will be Michael Rothberg, from the University of Illinois. In his latest book Multidirectional Memory, he sees memory not as competitive – in terms of inclusion or exclusion – but focuses on how memories of several events, places and persons interact.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
RobbertJan Adriaansen, The Rhythm of Eternity. The German Youth Movement and the Experience of the Past, 19001933 (Berghahn Books: New York 2015). Maarten Van Dijck, ‘Pour une étude comparée des usages sociaux du parrainage dans deux villes des anciens PaysBas. Leyde et Malines au XVIIe siècle’, in Guido Alfani, Vincent Gourdon & Isabelle Robin eds., Le parrainage en Europe et en Amérique. Pratiques de longue durée (XVIeXXIe siècle) (Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2015), 179200. Maria Grever, 'De mythe van De Oversteek', in Stefan Dudink and Liedeke Plate eds., Mythen van gender. Essays voor Willy Jansen (Nijmegen: Van Tilt, 2015) 267273. Piet Hagenaars & Marjo van Hoorn, Evaluation Report Continuous Learning in Cultural Education in The Hague (The Hague: CultuurSchakel 2015).
Kees Ribbens and Maria Grever , 'Wikipedia: een virtuele graadmeter voor de maatschappelijke rol van geschiedenis', in Leen Dorsman et al. eds., Het nut van geschiedschrijving. Historici in het publieke domein: opstellen voor Ed Jonker (Amstelveen: Econ Pers 2015) 157165. Kees Ribbens wrote a number of book reviews on the First World War for Historiek.net on request of the Coördinatiepunt WO1.nu, the Dutch remembrance center for WW1. CONTRIBUTIONS TO PUBLIC DEBATE AND MEDIA PERFORMANCES
Marc van Berkel was interviewed in the ‘Historisch Café’ in Amsterdam about the future of schooling and history education, 14 October. Marc van Berkel presented a paper on ‘The Holocaust in Images’ at the Christelijk Lyceum Delft, 10 November. Hester Dibbits chaired the jury of the Max van der Kamp thesis prize 2015. On behalf of the jury, Dibbits awarded the prize to Eva Huisman (Master Kunstbeleid en Management, Universiteit Utrecht) at the research conference on Cultural Education and Cultural Participation, organized by LKCA, Utrecht, 9 November 2015. From 1620 May, Hester Dibbits will be lecturing at the faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the University of Iceland in Reykjavik. She will give the course Migration, Material Culture and Heritage in Contemporary Europe (5 ECT). As of December 2015 Hester Dibbits has been appointed as a member of the Heritage Advisory Committee of the foundation Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds. Maria Grever was interviewed by Ben Vriesema on her work, historical interests and current research in the history teacher journal Kleio nr. 6 (2015) 810. Maria Grever and Carla van Boxtel were interviewed by Alex Bakker on their book Verlangen naar tastbaar verleden (Longing for a tangible past) on education and heritage in the Magazine of the National Committee 45 May (December 2015) 42, 3033. Piet Hagenaars was chairman of the Strategic Network on Art Education Policy, a national network that consists of representatives of trade unions for art teachers, teacher training, the Netherlands Association of Universities of Applied Sciences, and other national institutions for arts and cultural education On the 6th of November. Piet Hagenaars participates in the European Network of Visual Literacy (ENViL) until March 2016. ENViL is funded by the European Life Long Learning Programme to create a prototype of a ‘Common European Framework of Reference on Visual Literacy – CEFR_VL’. On November 24, Pieter van den Heede wrote an opinion article about World War IIthemed video games on the gaming website Gamasutra. Kees Ribbens was interviewed by Conrad Gietman for his article ‘Het stilzwijgen voorbij’ about family history & genealogy for the Dutch magazine Gen (June 2015) p.3235. RECENT ACTIVITIES AND PAPERS
RobbertJan Adriaansen, ‘Beyond History. Wandervogel, Bündische Jugend and the Question of Historical Change’, paper presented at the Kolloquium ‘Sozialstrukturen und soziale Bewegungen’, Institut für soziale Bewegungen, Bochum (Germany) 2 November 2015. RobbertJan Adriaansen, ‘Filtering the Past: The Experience of History on Instagram’, paper presented at the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain), Madrid 56 October 2015. Stephanie Benzaquen, 'Images of Khmer Rouge perpetrators', paper presented at the first
international workshop Teaching about Perpetrators: Documents, Media, Representations, Utrecht University, 1012 September 2015. Marc van Berkel coorganized a project called Grenzgänger: Mauerfall und Deutsche Wiedervereinigung im Dreiländereck Belgien – Deutschland Niederlande (together with RWTH Aachen). The first conference was held in Aachen, November 2224. The entire project will last until June 2016, involving students from the three countries. Marc van Berkel presented a paper on ‘War Education in Germany and the Netherlands’ at a conference Bommen op Rotterdam; Twee Perspectieven, Eén Verhaal, organized by the Museum Rotterdam and the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 Mei, October 13, Rotterdam. Marc van Berkel represented the Netherlands at the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Plenary Meeting in Debrecen, Hungary (16 November). Marlous Willemsen and Hester Dibbits gave an introduction at the symposium Clashing and Sharing: Emotions in Intangible Heritage, the final edition of the series ‘Intangible Heritage with Pop: 20132015’ , with a.o. Emma Waterton (Western Sydney University) and Wayne Modest (Dutch Museum of World Cultures) at Imagine IC in Amsterdam, 10 November 2015. Intangible Heritage with Pop was a series of events initiated by Marlous Willemsen and Hester Dibbits, organized in 20132015 by Imagine IC in collaboration with the Reinwardt Academy (Amsterdam University of the Arts), cofinanced by the Mondrian Fund.
CHC research group 11 June 2015 Siri Driessen, 'Visiting war sites and cemeteries', paper presented at the kickoff symposium War! Popular Culture and European heritage of Major Armed Conflicts. Rotterdam, October 30. Maria Grever and James Scharink presented a paper "Leren voor het vaderland? De slag bij Waterloo in Nederlandse geschiedenismethoden" (The battle of Waterloo in Dutch history textbooks) on the conference Waterloo 200. De slag om de herinnering (The battle for the memory). Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (11 September 2015). Maria Grever, Introduction to the research program War! Popular Culture and European heritage of Major Armed Conflicts at the kickoff meeting of the program. Rotterdam, October 30. Pieter van den Heede, 'Games set in wardevastated urban landscapes, 1939present', paper presented at the kickoff symposium War! Popular Culture and European heritage of Major Armed Conflicts. Rotterdam, October 30. On December 11 and 12, Pieter Van den Heede attended the Winter Workshop ‘Challenging Methods for Games Research’, organised by the Digital Games Research Section of ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association) in Ghent, Belgium. He gave a presentation entitled ‘Recounting alternate histories. Towards a method for studying the After Action Reports in Hearts of Iron III’, during which he talked about online discussion forums of historical strategy games, and the opportunities they offer to study how gamers think about the
past. Susan Hogervorst, 'Museums and online testimonies on war and liberation', paper presented at the kickoff symposium War! Popular Culture and European heritage of Major Armed Conflicts. Rotterdam, October 30. Kees Ribbens coorganized the symposium Remembering bombed cities. Competing narratives and transnational perspectives at the NIOD, Amsterdam 10 September 2015 where he contributed the conclusions and closing remarks. Kees Ribbens gave a keynote 'Archiving comics preserving heritage or broadening the perspectives of comics studies?', at the 7th IMRC Conference, Kyoto International Manga Museum/ International Manga Research Center, Kyoto Seika University, September 2527, 2015. Kees Ribbens cooperated in a paper presentation in Poznan: Daan Odijk, Cristina Gârbacea, Thomas Schoegje, Laura Hollink, Victor de Boer, Kees Ribbens and Jacco van Ossenbruggen, ‘Supporting Exploration of Historical Perspectives across Collections’, The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL), Poznań, Poland, September 1418, 2015. Laurie Slegtenhorst presented a paper ‘Remediating Soldier of Orange’ at the PhD student’s symposium of the Huizinga Institute, October 1314 2015, Hilversum.
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