15 April 2025
This essay was inspired mainly by Lorenzo Veracini’s The world turned inside out, and an article written by Evan Jewell on colonisation and domestic displacement. Published in 2021, Veracini’s study offers an explanation for the emergence of settler...
8 April 2025
Ever since the publication of Patrick Wolfe’s seminal paper on settler colonialism’s logic of elimination, historians have debated with new vigour what settler colonialism is, when and why it originally emerged, and how it has shaped the world we live in today....
17 March 2025
3 February 2025
A Student’s Perspective on a Workshop at the KNIR: Reception History and Colonialism (22-24 October 2024). By Caroline Murphy. Scholars convened at the KNIR in Rome for the Reception History and Colonialism workshop between October 21-25. The workshop is part of the...
19 December 2024
We wish you all a very joyous holiday season, and may the New Year inspire success and new possibilities! Please note that the Institute will remain closed for external users from 23 December. We look forward to seeing you back in the new year, starting from Tuesday,...
16 September 2024
The 2024 KNIR-Akademie van Kunsten Artist in Residence is Jonas Staal. In September, Jonas starts his residency at KNIR. He explains his plans: Through the history of my great-grandmother Jeanne, who was the nurse of the household of Dino Alfieri, Minister of...
