Past events Centre for Historical Studies.
Past events in the Research Centre for Historical Studies
1932: The Arab World’s Fair of Music
When:We 21-01-2026 15:30 - 17:00Where:1312.0013
40 years of abortion legislation in the Netherlands
When:Fr 01-11-2024 13:00 - 18:00Where:House of Connections, Grote Markt 21, Groningen
Archiving Loss After a Catastrophe: Digital Memory Maps and Minority Witnessing in Post-Earthquake Antakya
When:We 15-04-2026 15:30 - 17:00Where:Harmony building 1313. 0316
Booktalk with Daniel Franken
When:Mo 14-04-2025 12:00 - 14:00Where:T08 (Turftorenstraat, room 8)
Building Peace: Transitional Justice in the Early Modern World
From:Th 03-04-2025Until:Sa 05-04-2025Where:Het Oude Raadhuis, Oude Boteringestraat 19
CHS guest lecture - Harriët Bergman: Privilege on a Burning Planet
When:We 20-11-2024 15:00 - 17:00Where:t.b.a.
CHS Intersecting inequalities Research Group: Annual Economic, Social, Demographic, and Health (ESDH) Histories meeting
When:We 27-05-2026 13:00 - 16:00Where:Marie Loke Zaal (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 16:00 - 17:00Where: 1313.0127 Collaboratorie E
CHS Intersecting inequalities Research Group: Wealth, Office and Rank in Roman Italy
When:Mo 13-04-2026 16:00 - 18:00Where:Courtroom (Oude Boteringestraat 36)
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 15:00 - 16:30Where:Room 1312. 0025 (Harmony building ground floor)
Conference - Oekraïne en Nederland: Onontdekte beeldvorming en relaties
When:Th 07-11-2024Where:Harmoniegebouw, Groningen
Conference - Ukraine, Russia and Europe: Long term perspectives
When:Fr 08-11-2024Where:Doopsgezinde Kerk, Groningen
Data Management policies and practices in the Centre for Historical Studies
When:Th 27-11-2025 13:00 - 14:00Where:TBA
Documentary screening of ‘The Return - Old Hatreds in New Times'
When:Tu 28-10-2025 19:00 - 21:30Where:Marie Loke Room, Harmonie Building
EHN Talk: Food before waste in premodern cities - Willem Flinterman
When:We 19-11-2025 15:00 - 16:30Where:House of Connections, Red Room
GLTC guest lecture - Andrew Riggsby (Lucy Shoe Meritt Professor in Classics at the University of Texas), 'Reading Roman Minds'
When:Mo 16-12-2024 16:15 - 17:15Where:Room 1315.0048, Harmonie building
HOMH seminar - Manon Matthias (University of Glasgow): Visions of Health in Zola
When:We 04-12-2024 12:00 - 13:00Where:Online
HOMH seminar - Semester Surgery
When:We 06-11-2024 12:00 - 13:00Where:Online
Inaugural lecture Prof M.G. (Megan) Leitch: Medieval Romance and its Knowledge Economy: From Sorceresses to Scholars
When:Fr 20-02-2026 16:15 - 17:00Where:Aula Academy Building, Broerstraat 5, Groningen
Interview and book presentation: 'Medusa in de spiegel'
When:Th 05-06-2025 19:30 - 21:30Where:Sociëteit de Harmonie, Kreupelstraat 10
Joint CHS and REPS Seminar: Alexander Kirshner (Duke University): The Future of “Un”Democratic Theory
When:We 17-12-2025 16:00 - 18:00Where:Room A7, Academy building
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
Past play as political mobilization: towards a typology of historical game configurations vulnerable to rightwing extremist recruitment
When:We 16-04-2025 15:00 - 16:00Where:1313. 0316 (Harmonie building)
Petrus Camper, kolonialisme en de spagaat van het verlichtingsdenken
When:We 15-01-2025 15:30 - 17:00Where:Jantina Tammeszaal, University Library
PhD Ceremony A.G. A.G. Wiersma (CHS), Hartstochtelijk, partijloos, feministe
When:Th 18-09-2025 14:30 - 15:30Where:Academy building
PhD Ceremony E.W. Boers (CHS), Whose security are we here for?
When:Th 05-12-2024 14:30 - 15:30Where:Academy building
PhD Ceremony L. van Beek (CHS), Leven met Maria
When:Th 12-02-2026 12:45 - 13:45Where:Academy building
Picturing La Vecchia: Time, gender, and ageing in the early modern imagination.
When:We 04-06-2025 16:00 - 17:30Where:A7, Academy Building
Postponed: Communicative Reason in the Global South: Dussel’s critique of Habermas
When:Tu 16-12-2025 13:00 - 17:00Link:https://meet.google.com/pje-pcsu-ben?authuser=0&hs=122&ijlm=1764670938195
ReCreative ARTs: Adaptation, Retelling, Reframing, Reconstruction, Translation
From:Tu 03-06-2025Until:We 04-06-2025Where:3 June: Marie Loke Zaal, Harmoniegebouw | 4 June: Zernike zaal, Academiegebouw and collaboratories
Religious Temporalities and the Ancient City - international workshop
From:Th 15-05-2025Until:Fr 16-05-2025Where:Doopsgezindekerk, Groningen
Research group "Stories they lived by": Fichte’s philosophy of world history
When:Tu 10-06-2025 12:00 - 13:00Where:1313. 0316, Harmoniegebouw
Sektarianisme ontrafeld' Zem Zem (Dutch and Flemmisch Journal of Middle Eastern Studies) & short concert
When:Th 22-01-2026 13:30 - 15:30Where: Tantunio, Steentilstraat 36, 9711 GN Groningen
Settler Colonial Paradigms Conference
From:Th 21-05-2026Until:Sa 23-05-2026Where:De Plek, Het Oude Raadhuis Oude Boteringestraat 19 9712 GC Groningen
Symposium Verbeeldingen van de Wadden
When:Fr 27-03-2026 10:00 - 17:00Where: Werelderfgoedcentrum (WEC, Lauwersoog)
The Anthropocene as a consequence of modernity: rethinking sustainability
When:Tu 15-04-2025 13:00 - 16:00Where:0.1 in OBS24 Calmershuis
Under the Same Sky: Everyday Life and Conflict in the Syrian Borderlands
When:Th 16-04-2026 16:00 - 17:00Where: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
Unpacking the Conflict in Eastern DR Congo
When:Th 03-04-2025 20:30 - 22:00Where:Usva Munnekeholm
‘Partition, othering and coexistence’- Cyprus in context With the documentary Overcoming (2024), Besire Paralik
When:Tu 20-05-2025 20:00 - 21:30Where:Marie Loke Zaal, Harmonie 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 16:00 - 17:00Where:28 January, 16.00-17.00 Location: Collaboratories