The library will be closed for external visitors the whole month of August. The academic staff will be back at the KNIR from 1 September.
12 december 2022
This ongoing project focuses on the concepts of ‘resistance’ and ‘anti-fascism’ in contemporary literature and culture. I engage with novels on the partisan war published in Italy between 2000 and 2022 by combining literary analysis with cultural and memory studies in...
9 december 2022
Following the conference The Far-Right Today: Mediating Memories of Political Violence and Resistance in Europe, Latin America and the Wider World, 1989-2019 (Amsterdam, 12-13 December 2019) and the KNIR Colloquium “Us versus Them”: Exploring Transatlantic Practices...
9 december 2022
In recent years, with the generous support of an NWO Aspasia grant and several Leiden University grants I have developed a number of Digital Humanities initiatives, based on the conviction that they are instrumental in bringing scholars and resources from different...
9 december 2022
Workshop at KNIR (23-25 June 2022) and ensuing edited volume – together with Louis Verreth and Ruben Poelstra – to be published in the Brill series Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation. With a keynote lecture by Dr. Luke Houghton:...
9 december 2022
“The Renaissance Battle for Rome” examines the rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between a wide variety of parties (individuals, groups, authorities) seeking prestige or legitimacy through the legacy of ancient Rome—a battle over the question of whose claims to...
