Events Archive
Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of French History
From:Tu 30-06-2026Until:Th 02-07-2026Where:University of Groningen
Language, Culture and the Politics of Knowledge: Languages & Cultures Sector Plan matchmaking event
When:We 24-06-2026 11.00 a.m. - 3.00 p.m.Where:Utrecht University
CHS Book harvest (with drinks and snacks)
When:Tu 16-06-2026 3.45 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.Where:A8, Academy building
Basics of Marxism: Historical materialism - Emeritus professor Henk Overbeek
When:Tu 16-06-2026 2.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.Where:1312.0013 (Harmoniegebouw)
Lunch session | Funding Opportunities for Valorisation
When:Mo 15-06-2026 11.45 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.Where:Linnaeusborg, (room to be announced)
Excursion to "de Oude Stadsbegraafplaats" (a local historical cemetery) in Leeuwarden
When:Fr 12-06-2026 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.Where:Oude Stadsbegraafplaats Leeuwarden (Spanjaardslaan, 8917 AV Leeuwarden)
Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Media colloquium SPECIAL EVENT: Carl Plantinga (Calvin University, USA) and Todd Berliner (University of North Carolina, USA)
When:Tu 09-06-2026 6.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.Where:Exposition room, Harmonie building
DCC Webinar: Introduction to privacy in research
When:Tu 09-06-2026 3.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.Where:Online
Differentials and transitions in historical health(care) since the 19th century: Mortality, Morbidity, and Medicine across the Atlantic
When:Mo 08-06-2026 10.00 a.m. - 2.45 p.m.Where:Academy Building (Broerstraat 5), Room TBA
Music Matters XIX: Our City's Carillons - A Discussion about bells, Groningen, and pop music!
When:Mo 01-06-2026 10.30 a.m. - 12.00 p.m.Where:Oude Boteringestraat 34 (room 002)
Holding onto Place: Three Decades of Remembering the Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Guest speaker: Sabina Tanovic)
When:Th 28-05-2026 4.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m.Where:Harmonie 1312.0024
Discussion meeting with Dr Femke Lippok on "Death and All Its Customers: Connectivity and Ritual Economy in Early Medieval Burial Practices"
When:Th 28-05-2026 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.Where:Room 1313.0309 (Harmony Building, Groningen Faculty of Arts)
CHS Intersecting inequalities Research Group: Annual Economic, Social, Demographic, and Health (ESDH) Histories meeting
When:We 27-05-2026 1.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.Where:Marie Loke Zaal (Harmonie building)
Settler Colonial Paradigms Conference
From:Th 21-05-2026Until:Sa 23-05-2026Where:De Plek, Het Oude Raadhuis Oude Boteringestraat 19 9712 GC Groningen
GenZ Conference: The Arts, Institutions, Policy and GenZ. New realities for the cultural system
From:Th 21-05-2026Until:Fr 22-05-2026Where:21 mei, 10.00 uur, Bloemsingel 10B, Groningen | 22 mei, 10 uur House of Connections, Grote Markt 21, Groningen
Music Matters XLVII: A Conversation with Iguana Death Cult
When:We 20-05-2026 3.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.Where:Vera Groningen (Oosterstraat 44)
Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Media colloquium – ALAN O'LEARY (Aarhus University): A Cyborg Erotics of Videographic Criticism
When:Tu 12-05-2026 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.Where:Exposition room, Harmonie building
HTIR-CIRR colloquium - André Saramago (Coimbra): Cosmopolitan Imaginariesand International Disorder
When:Tu 12-05-2026 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.Where:Harmonie 1315.0036
REPS Seminar - Stefan Couperus & Martijn Schoonvelde, "Memory politics in parliamentary discourse: a computational-interpretative analysis of the 'Gouden Eeuw' in Dutch parliament, 1945-2024"
When:We 06-05-2026 4.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.Where:1313. 0309
HTIR-CIRR colloquium - Aaron McKiel (LSE): Cosmopolitan Imaginariesand International Disorder
When:Tu 28-04-2026 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.Where:Harmonie 1315.0036
PhD Colloquium Art History & Visual Material Culture
When:Th 23-04-2026 2.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m.Where:A8 (Academy Building, Broerstraat 5)
HTIR-CIRR colloquium - Alina Achenbach (RUG): Right to Opacity: Refusing (In-)Visibility at the Groningen Gaza Solidarity Encampment
When:Tu 21-04-2026 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.Where:Harmonie 1315.0036
Under the Same Sky: Kurdish and Syrian Borderlands
When:Th 16-04-2026 4.00 p.m. - 9.00 p.m.Where:Marie Loke Room, Harmonie Building, Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26, Groningen
Under the Same Sky: Everyday Life and Conflict in the Syrian Borderlands
When:Th 16-04-2026 4.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.Where:16 April 2026, Marie Lokezaal, University of Groningen, 16:00 – 17:00 | Book Discussion: Under the Same Sky; 17:30 – 21:30 | Film Screening & Panel: Touching Freedom
REPS Seminar - Daniel Campos Anaya, "Trust in Elections: Conditions that Make it Possible in Latin America and Europe, 2017-2022"
When:We 15-04-2026 4.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.Where:1315.0049
Archiving Loss After a Catastrophe: Digital Memory Maps and Minority Witnessing in Post-Earthquake Antakya
When:We 15-04-2026 3.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.Where:Harmony building 1313. 0316
Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Media colloquium – MOHANAD YAQUBI and ROBERT OSHCHORN (KASK School of the Arts, Ghent): Recovered Images: A Gaze of Restitution
When:Tu 14-04-2026 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.Where:Exposition room, Harmonie building
Border Formations: An Interdisciplinary Conversation on the Making of Territory, Space, and Empire in North America
When:Tu 14-04-2026 3.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.Where:Zernikezaal, Academy Building
CHS Intersecting inequalities Research Group: Wealth, Office and Rank in Roman Italy
When:Mo 13-04-2026 4.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m.Where:Courtroom (Oude Boteringestraat 36)
DCC Webinar: Introduction to privacy in research
When:Tu 07-04-2026 3.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.Where:Online
Symposium Verbeeldingen van de Wadden
When:Fr 27-03-2026 10.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.Where: Werelderfgoedcentrum (WEC, Lauwersoog)
DigiMig Webinar: Networked Mobility Divide among Older Migrants and their Fragmented Social Networks
When:Fr 20-03-2026 09.00 a.m. - 10.00 a.m.Where:Online | Please register for the webinars to receive the Zoom links: https://bit.ly/49XmvP9
ICOG Research Day 2026
When:We 18-03-2026 09.30 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.Where:Faculty of Arts
YARN Decolonial Lunch Series - GLOBAL SOUTH ARCHIVES: Learning by Doing in the Experimental Media Archeology Studio Archive at the University of Johannesburg
When:Tu 17-03-2026 12.00 p.m. - 1.00 p.m.Where: Collaboratory A (Harmonie)
CHS - Middle Eastern Studies talk: Eli Osheroff, 'Settling a State, Settling for a State: Another Look at Missed Opportunities in Israel/Palestine'
When:Th 12-03-2026 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.Where:Room 1312. 0025 (Harmony building ground floor)
Save the Date! Conference From Posts to Insights
When:Th 12-03-2026Where:University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Music & Culture Talks | Hip Hop, Place and Entrepreneurship: Creative Careers in Groningen
When:We 11-03-2026 5.00 p.m. - 6.30 p.m.Where:Oude Boteringestraat 34 room 002
Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Media colloquium – CRISTINA FORMENTI (University of Groningen): The materiality of digital animation’s believability and the quest for an eco-sustainable aesthetic
When:Tu 10-03-2026 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.Where:Exposition room, Harmonie building
CHS Intersecting inequalities Research Group: Maternal-Infant Health in Brazil: Evidence from the São Paulo Maternity Hospital, 1901-1925
When:Tu 10-03-2026 4.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.Where: 1313.0127 Collaboratorie E
Centre for Digital Humanities, Guest Lecture by Enrico Daga "Humanities Knowledge Graphs: opportunities and challenges with gen-AI"
When:We 25-02-2026Where:T06
HTIR-CIRR colloquium - Duncan Bell (Cambridge): Psychic Socialism: Telepathy, Collective Intelligenceand Individual Freedom in Interwar Britain
When:Tu 24-02-2026 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.Where:Harmonie 1312.0018
Inaugural lecture Prof M.G. (Megan) Leitch: Medieval Romance and its Knowledge Economy: From Sorceresses to Scholars
When:Fr 20-02-2026 4.15 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.Where:Aula Academy Building, Broerstraat 5, Groningen
PhD Colloquium Art History & Visual Material Culture
When:Th 19-02-2026 2.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m.Where:1313.0309 (Harmonie Building)
PhD Ceremony Y. Marusyk (CIRR), Discursive norms at the crossroads
When:Th 19-02-2026 12.45 p.m. - 1.45 p.m.Where:Academy building
PhD Ceremony K. Kosová (DemCP), Governance legitimacy in the oligarchized settings
When:Th 19-02-2026 09.00 a.m. - 10.00 a.m.Where:Academy building
Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Media colloquium – MASHA SALAZKINA (Concordia University): Cinemas of Global Solidarity: Palestinian Films on Socialist Festival Screens
When:Tu 17-02-2026 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.Where:Exposition room, Harmonie building
JUST ART LECTURE 1: Erin O’Connor "A Geoanthropology of Studio Glass"
When:Tu 17-02-2026 3.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.Where:Groninger Museum, Auditory | Free entrance upon showing this announcement
PhD Ceremony L. van Beek (CHS), Leven met Maria
When:Th 12-02-2026 12.45 p.m. - 1.45 p.m.Where:Academy building
PhD Ceremony J. Gallego Benot (DemCP), Can rhetorical invention account for the Modern Age?
When:Th 12-02-2026 11.00 a.m. - 12.00 p.m.Where:Academy building
HTIR-CIRR colloquium - Martin Coward (Queen Mary): Against the Future: Five Thesesfor a Politics of the Failure-Scene
When:Tu 10-02-2026 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.Where:Harmonie 1312.0018
CIRR Roundtable: The Failure of Biopoliticsand the Biopolitics of Failure
When:Tu 10-02-2026 10.00 a.m. - 11.30 a.m.Where:Harmonie 1314.0142
PhD Ceremony N.F. Gäckle (CIRR), Experiential biopolitics
When:Mo 09-02-2026 11.00 a.m. - 12.00 p.m.Where:Academy building
PhD Ceremony A.P. Smit (CMJS), The Digital Maze
When:Th 29-01-2026 2.30 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.Where:Academy building
“Diagnosis”, History of Medicine and Health Seminars | Embodied Performances of Forensic Expertise: Epistemic Virtues in Rape and Murder Examinations in 20th Century Britain
When:We 28-01-2026 4.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.Where:28 January, 16.00-17.00 Location: Collaboratories
Sektarianisme ontrafeld' Zem Zem (Dutch and Flemmisch Journal of Middle Eastern Studies) & short concert
When:Th 22-01-2026 1.30 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.Where: Tantunio, Steentilstraat 36, 9711 GN Groningen
1932: The Arab World’s Fair of Music
When:We 21-01-2026 3.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.Where:1312.0013
Music in Motion: a vibrant celebration of interdisciplinary collaboration between the Arts programmes.
From:We 21-01-2026Until:Th 22-01-2026Where:VERA and the Faculty of Arts
Humor, (Self-)Censorship and Freedom of Expression: A Meeting with Zehra Ömeroğlu
When:Fr 16-01-2026 1.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m.Where:Harmonie Building, 1312.0030
Eurosonic Noorderslag Talks
When:Th 15-01-2026 5.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.Where:House of Connections, Grote Markt 21, Groningen
Joint CHS and REPS Seminar: Alexander Kirshner (Duke University): The Future of “Un”Democratic Theory
When:We 17-12-2025 4.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m.Where:Room A7, Academy building
Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Media colloquium – MELANIE KREITLER (University of Giessen): Mental Illness and Narrative Complexity: An Experiential Approach to Puzzle Films and Complex Television
When:Tu 16-12-2025 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.Where:Exposition room, Harmonie building
Postponed: Communicative Reason in the Global South: Dussel’s critique of Habermas
When:Tu 16-12-2025 1.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.Link:https://meet.google.com/pje-pcsu-ben?authuser=0&hs=122&ijlm=1764670938195
CIRR Colloquium: Jana Bacevic (Durham University): Epistemic Justice at the End of Liberalism
When:Th 11-12-2025 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.Where:LE OES 25 4451.0115/ALGLink:https://meet.google.com/atz-uvza-wos
DemCP Open Research Lecture - Prof. Dr. JÖRG SCHELLER (Zurich University of the Arts): Alienation-building. Counterintuitive Art Initiatives Against Culture Wars in Contemporary Poland
When:Th 11-12-2025 10.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.Where:Heymanszaal, Academy Building
Engaging in Public Scholarship and Research Knowledge Mobilization
When:Mo 08-12-2025 09.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.Where:University of Groningen, room TBA
Communities in the Plural: Thinking Group Entanglements across the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
When:Th 04-12-2025Where:Leuven / Online
Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Media colloquium – Steffen Hven (Filmuniversity Babelsberg): Cinema’s Diaphanous Atmospheres
When:Tu 02-12-2025 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.Where:Exposition room, Harmonie building
Spot on: Theatre and AI
When:Fr 28-11-2025 5.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.Where:Grand Theatre, Grote Markt 359711 LV Groningen
Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur
When:Th 27-11-2025 5.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m.Where:Turftorenstraat, Room 1
HTIR-CIRR colloquium - Alanna O’Malley (Rotterdam): Decolonising Global Order, the Invisible Historyof the United Nations and the Global South
When:Th 27-11-2025 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.Where:OES 25 4451.0115
Data Management policies and practices in the Centre for Historical Studies
When:Th 27-11-2025 1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.Where:TBA
The History of Medicine and Health Seminars "Diagnosis" - Timo Bolt: A Gloabl Epidemic of What? The Expansive Taxonomy of Diabetes and Prediabbees
When:We 26-11-2025 4.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.Where:Collaboratories
Speaker Kate Fortmueller for a rare CMP meet
When:We 26-11-2025 3.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.Link:https://rug-nl.zoom.us/j/68499490954?pwd=NRm1L4dOZ9l8GznCHFVPkHeD22hAvn.1
Studium Generale: Alienation by Design - Maxigas
When:Mo 24-11-2025 8.00 p.m. - 9.30 p.m.Where:Academy Building Broerstraat 5 Groningen
PhD Colloquium Art History & Visual Material Culture
When:Fr 21-11-2025 2.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.Where:1312.0018
Digital Society Conference 2025: "Digital Autonomy"
When:Th 20-11-2025 09.30 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.Where:De Fabrique, Utrecht
Guest Lecture Series - History of Art, Architecture & Landscape
When:We 19-11-2025 5.00 p.m. - 10.00 a.m.Where:Zernikezaal
EHN Talk: Food before waste in premodern cities - Willem Flinterman
When:We 19-11-2025 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.Where:House of Connections, Red Room
PhD Ceremony K.S.P. Smeenk (CMJS), Reliable and relatable journalists: A digital humanities analysis of ethos in personal journalism
When:We 19-11-2025 09.00 a.m. - 10.00 a.m.Where:Academy Building
PhD Ceremony C. van Middelkoop (AiS), (Re)making design history - a plea for (artistic) research through design education
When:Mo 17-11-2025 4.15 p.m. - 5.15 p.m.Where:Academy building
Cancelled - REPS Seminar (RuG European Politics & Society). Tom Theuns (Leiden University), Book Presentation - Book presentation of Protecting Democracy in Europe.
When:Th 13-11-2025 4.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.Where:TBA
PhD Ceremony S.A. Richman (AiS), In search of meaning in a world of images: The Photographic Imaginaries of Willem Frederik Hermans, Wright Morris, and Michel Tournier
When:Th 13-11-2025 09.00 a.m. - 10.00 a.m.Where:Academy Building
RMeS Workshop: Working with web archives in Media Studies: An introduction to theory, methods, and practices.
When:We 12-11-2025 09.30 a.m. - 5.15 p.m.Where:Room TBA
Film and Audiovisual Media colloquium – Brian Price (University of Toronto): Contradiction or Difference? Assayas and Political Seriousness
When:Tu 11-11-2025 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.Where:Exposition room, Harmonie building
REPS Seminar - Qinfeng Zhu, "“The Many Facets of Affective Polarization: How Media and Political Systems Shape Emotional Divides in Multiparty Democracies.”
When:Tu 04-11-2025 4.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.Where:TBC
Cinema / Activism / Education
From:Th 30-10-2025Until:Fr 31-10-2025Where:University of Groningen
CMJS lunch lecture - Josephine Lehaff: Studying Palestine: Contested identity in a complicated situation
When:We 29-10-2025 12.00 p.m. - 1.00 p.m.Where:Collaboratory E
Documentary screening of ‘The Return - Old Hatreds in New Times'
When:Tu 28-10-2025 7.00 p.m. - 9.30 p.m.Where:Marie Loke Room, Harmonie Building
HTIR-CIRR colloquium - Carmen Chas (Comillas): Georg Schwarzenberger vs Hersch Lauterpacht: Power, Politics and International Law
When:Mo 20-10-2025 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.Where:OES 25 4451.0115
HTIR-CIRR colloquium - Jason Ralph (Leeds): On Global Learning: Constructivism, International Practice and the Challenge of Global Governance
When:Th 16-10-2025 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.Where:1313.0338
Prof. dr. Regine Paul "Beyond the hype: a global political economy view of AI transformation(s)"
When:Th 09-10-2025 12.30 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.Where:TBA
Mapping the economy: A survey of economic data and a vision of the future
When:We 08-10-2025 2.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.Where:TBA
Film and Audiovisual Media colloquium – Louis Bayman (University of Southampton, UK): Varieties of time in Uncut Gems (2019) and Tár (2022)
When:Tu 07-10-2025 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.Where:Exposition room, Harmonie building
Guest Lecture Mari Hatavara: Experiential Narrativity in Political Talk
When:Tu 07-10-2025 4.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m.Where:Zaal 1.3 van het Calmershuis (Oude Boteringestraat 24)
Climate change communication to advance conversations, engagement and action: media portrayal and comedy experimentation
When:Tu 07-10-2025 12.00 p.m. - 1.00 p.m.Where:Academy Building, Room A8
Internal seminar on Digital Heritage - A Roadmap to Faculty Data
When:Fr 03-10-2025 1.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.Where:Jantina Tammeszaal, 4th floor of the University Library.
CMJS lunch lecture Dr. Pieter van den Heede (EUR): Let’s Play - White Nationalism: A Content Analysis of Extremist Historical Game Livestreams on YouTube
When:We 01-10-2025 12.00 p.m. - 1.00 p.m.Where:Collaboratory E
HTIR-CIRR colloquium - Carine Zaayman (Wereldmuseum): Anarchives of the Relegated
When:Fr 26-09-2025 09.30 a.m. - 11.30 a.m.Where:House of Connections
HTIR-CIRR colloquium - Patricia Owens (Oxford): Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men
When:Th 18-09-2025 3.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.Where:1313.0338
PhD Ceremony A.G. A.G. Wiersma (CHS), Hartstochtelijk, partijloos, feministe
When:Th 18-09-2025 2.30 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.Where:Academy building
Reading and Incarceration, reflections on theory and practice
When:We 17-09-2025 5.15 p.m. - 6.30 p.m.Where:1312.0030
Film and Audiovisual Media colloquium – Christopher Holliday (King’s College London): Imitation of Life: Likeness and ‘Smartness’ in the Digital Replication of Celebrity
When:Tu 16-09-2025 6.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.Where:Exposition room, Harmonie building
PhD Ceremony M.E. Deckers (AiS), Gunta Stölzl (1897-1983): Werkstatt from Germany to Switzerland
When:Mo 15-09-2025 2.30 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.Where:Academy building
PhD Ceremony J.D.R. Hutchinson (CMJS), Online extremist ecosystems
When:Th 11-09-2025 09.00 a.m. - 10.00 a.m.Where:Academy building
De Kleuren van het Wad (exhibition)
From:Th 04-09-2025Until:Su 01-02-2026Where:Kunstcentrum De Ploeg