Public remembrance of the Second World War occupies a prominent place in Dutch society, and never is this more apparent than each year on 4 May, Remembrance Day. Established as ...read more
Collective decisions are pervasive in every aspect of our society. As shown by Brexit and other recent episodes in European national politics, the way we shape our collective decisions can ...read more
From the late 1940s, cities in Spain began to grow rapidly. The mass migration of rural inhabitants resulted in the emergence of slums and shantytowns in the outskirts of the ...read more
The project "Networks of resistance: Ágora Literaty Circle in the Spanish Post-War (1955-1973)" deals with an anti-Fascist Spanish literary circle and attempts to identify the international network of writers with ...read more
In recent years several forms of collaboration between journalists, scientific experts, scientific institutions (and their PR staff) and citizen groups have become more frequent (Houston, 2010; Spangenberg & Heise, 2016). ...read more
Thorikos’ theatre is the most renowned, conspicuous and controversial monument of the site. Materially and visually imposing with its peculiar, ellipsoid shape (sometimes called primitive, archaic or simply irregular), it ...read more
In a joint project started in 2018, Ghent and Utrecht Universities investigate the fortifications of Thorikos, mentioned in ancient and early modern sources. In his account of the Peloponnesian War, ...read more
This project focuses on one of the most common and iconic structures in World War I archaeology: the trenches. Although the surface traces were erased in the post-war years and ...read more
Many early modern European works of art are not singular images but a combination of images with figurative marginalia, borders or frames. In general, art historical research addressing marginal imagery ...read more