English sessions: an overview

Several sessions in our session programme will be in English, either partially or completely. Below, you’ll find a short overview of these sessions, so you can adjust your personal itinerary based on your preferred language. Detailed information about the sessions will be available in the programme booklet (available during the event) or our Historicidagen 2024 app.

Continuous
Documentary: In the Shadow of Ashes
Ben Yau (visual artist)

Thursday 22 August, 19.30 – 20.45
Keynote Approaches to history in a changing climate
Jo Guldi – Emory University, Atlanta
Pim Huijnen – Universiteit Utrecht

Thursday 22 August, 14.00 – 15.30
The unruly animal: engaging with animals in the past
Vincent Bijman – Maastricht University
Raf de Bont – Maastricht University
Simone Schleper – Maastricht University

Digital archival literacy and historical research practices: an interactive panel discussion
Milan van Lange – NIOD
Gerben Zaagsma – University of Luxembourg

Friday 23 August, 11.15 – 12.45
Climate change, the anthropocene and Shell: how to assess the role of the oil industry in historical debates on environmentalism
Cyrus Mody – Maastricht University
Jelena Stankovic – Maastricht University
Marin Kuijt – Universiteit van Amsterdam
Tom Turnbull – Max Planck Institute
Michiel Bron – Maastricht University

Dekolonisatie & historische verbeelding (Decolonisation & historical imagination)
(partially in Dutch)
Geert Somsen – Maastricht University
Yoram Carboex – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Tullio Viola – Maastricht University

Friday 23 August, 14.00 – 15.30
Bystanders in times of atrocities: personal and collective experiences in new research on nazi Germany, the holocaust, and on the local dynamics of political violence
Laurien Vastenhout – NIOD
Lorena de Vita – Universiteit Utrecht
Catherine Aretakis – Universiteit Utrecht
Mary Fulbrook – University College London

Gedeeld verleden / Shared pasts
(partially in Dutch)
Gijs van Gaans – Universiteit van Amsterdam / Fontys Hogeschool
Pieter van Rees – Universiteit voor Humanistiek
Nina Andro – Central European University

Sound walk: History revisited: (post)industrial heritage in a time of climate crisis
ENCI-terrein Lage Kanaaldijk 115, Maastricht
Sound artists Mike Kramer & Julia Warren

Friday 23 August, 16.00 – 17.30
Undisciplining legal history: in search of synergies
Cornelis Hendrik van Rhee – Maastricht University
Agustíne Parise – Maastricht University
Pablo del Hierro – Maastricht University
Karin van Leeuwen – Maastricht University
Moritz Koenig – International Institute of Social Studies

Friday 23 August, 19.00 – 22.30
Film: Selling a colonial war met aansluitend een paneldiscussie
Location: Lumière Cinema
Aline Sierp – Maastricht University
Klaas Stutje – NIOD
Arnoud Arps – Universiteit van Amsterdam

Saturday 24, 09.00 – 10.30
Interdisciplinarity and intercultural knowledge
(partially in Dutch)
Daan Filip Smets – KU Leuven
Vera Hajto – KU Leuven
Jiaqi Liang – KU Leuven

(Hi)stories, debates and memories of the Global South. How public institutions and “unusual” sources are changing the narrative
Donna Yates – Maastricht University
Sprekers Fabiola Arellano Cruz – Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum
Diana Miryong – Universität Hamburg
Pieter du Plessis – Maastricht University
Klaas Stutje – NIOD

Historical activism in times of environmental crisis
Simone Schleper – Maastricht University
Amarins Jansma – Utrecht University
Peter van Dam – Universiteit van Amsterdam
Carla Hoetink – Radboud Universiteit
Cyrus Mody – Maastricht University