Historicidagen 2024 – What defines our (un)disciplined research?

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Historicidagen 2024 in Maastricht brought together a wide range of scholars, heritage professionals, and educators under the theme of (un)disciplined history. Our interactive, often experimental, programme aimed to explore what it means to work across disciplinary boundaries, to challenge entrenched historiographical traditions, and to question how history is produced, represented, and made accessible today. Recurring themes in panels and informal exchanges Among the recurring themes of Historicidagen 2024 were dekolonisatie (decolonisation) and historische verbeelding (historical imagination). Central to many discussions were questions about epistemic authority — who creates knowledge, [Read more...]

OSC-NL Knowledge Exchange 2024

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On July 5th, the annual Knowledge Exchange organised by the Open Science Community Netherlands (OSC-NL) brought together coordinators and ambassadors from various Open Science Communities (OSCs) across the country. I participated as FASoS Open Science ambassador alongside Dennie Hebels (UB Maastricht, Open Science Ambassador FHML) and Rianne Fijten (co-founder of the OSC Maastricht). The Knowledge Exchange was hosted in the SURF offices near the Utrecht central train station and offered discussions, workshops, and planning for future initiatives. Current Status of the Dutch OSCs Before the event, many participants provided updates on the status of their respective OSCs. This input is [Read more...]

Re-imagining academic exchanges: creating unconferencing formats for the 2024 Historicidagen

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In December 2023, our “unconferencing” committee brainstormed on opportunities to redefine academic discourse and collaboration during the 2024 Historicidagen in Maastricht. In this post, we would like to share our ideas and invite fellow researchers, educators, and heritage professionals to suggest their own pioneering formats. At the beginning of our meeting, we briefly defined what the theme of the 2024 Historicidagen, “Undisciplined History”, means to us and what the notion of “undisciplined” research has to do with transcending traditional conference formats. What excited us about undisciplining was that it looks like an invitation to do things differently. Different by reaching out [Read more...]