Research trip to Japan
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In the summer of 2017 Ralf Futselaar and I visited prof. dr. Yasuto Nakano at the Kwansei Gakuin University for collaborative work on quantitative text analysis, emotion mining, and statistics.
Negotiating Displacement: New Perspectives and Connections in War, Migration and Refugee Studies
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This conference was organised by my colleagues and me from the NIOD War and Society research program, IMIS (University of Osnabrück) and Movies that Matter. It was aimed at connecting scholars working on war, mass violence and genocide with researchers working in the field of migration studies in order to deepen the dialogue between two disciplines that often look at similar phenomena but from different perspectives.
Flying University of Transnational Humanities in South Korea
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In the summer of 2019 I attended the 9th Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH) at the Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea. I presented a paper-in-progress on references to World War II in Dutch parliamentary debates on the Indonesian war of independence (1945-1949).
Research Fellowship in Luxembourg
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For three months, I worked as a PhD Research Fellow at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH). During this fellowship I was part of the Impresso project team at C²DH. The NIOD blog published a miniseries of three blogs about my experiences and more about the Impresso research pilot can be found here.
Workshop Text Mining in Luxembourg
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Gerben Zaagsma (C2DH, University of Luxembourg) invited Ralf Futselaar and me to organise a workshop ‘Introduction to Text Mining in R and RStudio’ at the University of Luxembourg.