Vidi-grant for ICOG researcher

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Vidi grant up to €850,000 to nine UG researchers. With this grant, the researchers can develop their own innovative research plans and establish their own research groups.

ICOG member, Dr Julia Costa López, has been awarded a Vidi grant for her research.

Communities in Time. Bodies, Customs, and Rhythms in the Early Iberian World

Julia Costa López, Centre for International Relations Research (CIRR)

This project analyses how the ideas of what a political community is changed in the contacts between cultures in the fifteenth and sixteenth century Portuguese and Spanish empires. It looks at different social practices and how they portrayed communities as something that exists in time. Specifically, it looks at how people claimed to be following a collective custom, at how medical science thought bodies could change but also pass on traits through generations, and at how conquered communities changed their use of time. Through this, the project aims to understand how different ideas of time interact and change each other.