Paradoxes of De-Canonization. New Forms of Cultural Transmission in History
Upcoming Events
- On Wednesday 13 September 2006 a paper by Maria Grever, Terry Haydn (University of East Anglia), and Kees Ribbens, titled ‘Identity and School History: the Perspective of Young People from the Netherlands and England’ is presented at the European Conference on Educational Research, Geneva 2006, see also blogs.unige.ch/fapse/SSE/ecer2006/
- In October 2006, Maria Grever has been invited to give a guest lecture on the historical canon at the Free University Brussels and the Erasmushogeschool Brussels, brochure
- November 10 2006, 1.00 p.m. Utrecht, Symposium 'With or without a canon?' organized by Maria Grever, Kees Ribbens and Ed Jonker. Lectures and debate with historians (professors, teachers, didactic specialists), museum and heritage experts, about the recent report of the official Dutch canon committee, the so-called Van Oostrom committee (to be published on October 16). At the end of the symposium the book Controverses rond de canon (Assen 2006) will be presented. See also programme.
- April 2007, intended month of book publication National Identity in context. A common past in the Netherlands? written by Maria Grever and Kees Ribbens on request of the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR).
Past Events
- In June 2006, Siep Stuurman will teach a four-week class on 'the making of modern equality in Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment Europe' at the University of Xiamen (China).
- May 31, Maria Grever has been invited to deliver a lecture on 'Historical consciousness and national identity. The boundaries of a canonised past in modern society', at the History Department, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany).
- 19-20 May 2006, international conference 'Technologies of Memory in the Arts', Nijmegen. In a session devoted to 'Personal Memories in Digital Environments', Kees Ribbens presented a paper 'Historical canon versus the plural histories of internet?'He also chaired one of the Parallel Sessions.
- 12 May 2006, meeting of the NWO Expert Group Paradoxes of De-Canonisation. Speakers are dr. Jannet van Drie on her dissertation Learning about the past with new technologies (Utrecht 2005) and dr. Hilda Amsing on her dissertation on Dutch history education Bakens verzetten in het voortgezet onderwijs, 1863-1920 (Groningen 2002).
- 25 March 2006, European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Amsterdam. In the session on 'Relationship with the Past among Youngsters', Kees Ribbens will present a paper on 'A historical canon for whom?'. Other participants in the session are Lies Klerkx, Keith Barton, Alan W.McCully and chair Ed Jonker.
- 21 March 2006, Maria Grever will give a lecture on 'Clashes between memory cultures and the erosion of the nation-state' at the Erasmus Academy, Rotterdam (Higher Education for Senior Citizens).
- 17 March 2006, Colloquium on Historiography and Theory, Utrecht University. Siep Stuurman will give a lecture on 'Herodotus and Sima Qian. History, Ethnography and Common Humanity in Ancient Greece and Han China'. (abstract)
- 8 February 2006, Conference for Flemish history teachers 'Beyond school history', Catholic University Leuven, Belgium. Kees Ribbens will give a lecture 'Historical interest among youngsters of various backgrounds in the Netherlands'.
- Panel 'Gender, Collective Memory, and (De-)Canonization', 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences, 3-9 July 2005 Sydney, Australia. Chair prof.dr. Mary O'Dowd (UK). Papers: prof.dr. M. Grever (EUR, The Netherlands), prof. dr. Susanne Maurer (Germany), dr. Karen Offen (USA), prof. dr. Sylvia Schraut (Germany) and dr. Kees Ribbens (EUR, The Netherlands).
- International conference 'Beyond the Canon. History in the Twenty-First Century', 16-17 June 2005, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Organized with support from NWO, KNAW, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication of the Erasmus University Rotterdam and Vereniging Trustfonds Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam.
- 4 April 2005 Conference History Didactics for all Dutch postgraduate teacher training students, organized by IVLOS, Utrecht University. Maria Grever will give a lecture 'The historical canon: to be or not to be' ('De historische canon: to be or not to be')
- 8 March 2005: debate History in many colours Debate in 'De Unie', Rotterdam entitled History in many colours ('Geschiedenis in vele kleuren') with Ibrahim Spalburg, prof. Paul van der Laar, and Kees Ribbens. > More information
- 14-15 February 2005: Conference History in British Education
Kees Ribbens will attend the national conference 'History in British Education' at the Institute of Historical Research, London. > More information - Gendering Memory, January 2005
Maria Grever and Kees Ribbens will attend the international workshop on 'Gendering Memory' at the University of Mannheim, Germany, 20-21 January 2005. Maria Grever will present a paper here on 'The new historical culture and the re-vitalisation of the national canon'. > More information
Abstract of the paper - 11 January 2005: debate The Historical Canon
Debate in 'De Unie', Rotterdam entitled The historical canon. More profound or more superficial? ('De historische canon: versoaping of verdieping?') with prof. Hans Blom, prof. Willem Frijhoff, Hans Verhage and Maria Grever. > More information - Lecture by Maria Grever, ‘What should we do with the canon?’('Wat moeten we met de canon?'), Symposium on the occasion of the presentation of the new Dutch handbook on history didactics, 10 December 2004, Netherlands Institute for Didactics of History at the Amsterdam Faculty of Education/University of Amsterdam.
- George L. Mosse Prize for prof. Stuurman
Siep Stuurman has been awarded the George L. Mosse Prize by the American Historical Association for his book 'François Poulain de la Barre and the Invention of Modern Equality' (Harvard University Press 2004). The Mosse Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding major work of extraordinary scholarly distinction, creativity, and originality in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since the Renaissance. It was established in 2000 by former students, colleagues, and friends of Professor Mosse, eminent scholar of European history. > More information
