Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome

Call for Applications: NWIB Visiting Professors Programme 2025/2026

The NWIB Visiting Professors Program offers assistant professors, associate professors and full professors at participating universities (see below) a unique opportunity to work… Read more
Deadline: 15 March 2025

Public Lecture: The Past as Stepping Stone for the Future – EU Heritage and Memory Policies
In her lecture Aline Sierp traces the development of the increasing involvement of the European Union in heritage and memory politics starting with the development of a felt need for a European founding myth and ending with the EU’s active formulation of policies dealing with heritage and memory issues. It highlights the role the memory...

Date: 22 January 2025

Time: 17:00

Workshop: Roman Law in Early Modern Colonialism and the Dutch Empire
This workshop, organized as part of the Settler Colonial Paradigms (SECOPS) research program of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, explores the role of Roman law in the history of European colonialism, with a specific focus on the early modern Dutch Empire. As arguably the most important institutional legacy of antiquity, Roman law was widely...

Date: 16 January - 17 January 2025

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Course: Symbols of Power

Rome is the birthplace of European ideas on law and state. Roman jurists like Cicero…
Date: 21 January - 31 January 2025
Deadline: 1 October 2024
Teaching staff: Prof. dr. Marc de Wilde, Mr. dr. Niels Graaf, Mr. dr. Lukas van den Berge
Square Knir Colloquium The Making And Unmaking Of Heritage
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The Making and Unmaking of Heritage. Between Contestation, Collaboration, and Reappropriation

This KNIR Colloquium is organized by Dr. Mayada Madbouly and Dr. Shanade Barnabas. Aim of…
Date: 22 January - 24 January 2025
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Public Lecture: The Past as Stepping Stone for the Future – EU Heritage and Memory Policies

In her lecture Aline Sierp traces the development of the increasing involvement of the European…
Date: 22 January 2025
Time: 17:00
Speakers: Dr. Aline Sierp
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Winter School: Roma Caput Mundi

Rome, caput mundi, is the city of cities. No other place in the world has…
Date: 31 January - 14 February 2025
Deadline: 15 October 2024
Teaching staff: Prof. Dr. Tesse Stek, Dr. Susanna de Beer, Dr. Laura Overpelt, Dr. Maria Bonaria Urban

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