Digital historian | PhD-candidate | Mining historical texts, war, and emotions at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam | Working mainly in R

Summer School in China

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In July 2017 I attended the NJU-NIOD Summer School: ‘Practices of Remembrance beyond Memory Politics: Recalling Mass Violence and the Roads to Reconciliation in Asia and Europe’ in Nanjing, China. With a group of selected PhD students, MA students, and young researchers from the Netherlands and Japan, I travelled to China to collaborate with Chinese PhD and MA students in the scorching heat of Nanjing in July.

The Summer School took place at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences from 17 till 23 July 2017. It was funded by the China Exchange Programme (CEP) of the KNAW (travel grant included). The aim of this programme was to foster long-term research collaboration between the Netherlands and China. The thematic focus of the summer school was on investigating the ways in which societies in both Asia and Europe continue to struggle with the legacies of mass violence committed in the context of large international conflicts of the 20th Century.

More detailed information and a report can be found on the NIOD-website.

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.