2 April 2025
I am a University Lecturer of Art History and Museum Studies at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Art in Society (LUCAS). I teach courses in Museum History and the Culture, Ethics and Politics of Collecting, and am co-editing a volume with Dr. Mary Bouquet...
17 February 2025
Geert Janssen will stay at KNIR as NWIB-visiting professor to work on his project ‘The invention of the refugee in early modern Europe’, which is funded through a Vici grant from NWO. More specifically, he intends to study (archival) material from several Roman...
30 April 2024
Title of the research project of Sandra Ponzanesi as NWIB Visiting Professor at the KNIR: ‘Postcolonial Rome: Intellectuals’ Interventions.’ This project aims to revisit the ideal of Rome as a Caput Mundi in the twenty-first century through postcolonial eyes in order...
21 February 2024
Prof. Joanita Vroom looks back on her stay at KNIR and her NWIB Visiting Professorship. Read here the whole article in the newspaper Leidsch Dagblad (Dutch) [behind paywall]. Title of the research project of Joanita Vroom as NWIB Visiting Professor at the KNIR:...
23 May 2023
Maartje van Gelder is associate professor in early modern history. She is interested in how early modern people and rulers navigated political and social conflict, change, and environmental disasters. She has worked on migration and commerce in Italy, the interplay...
