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Learning Dutch From a Bomb Shelter
24 August 2026
“I would absolutely love to see Kyiv become a place where scholars of Dutch come together.” These were the words of Olha Petrenko, a Dutch lecturer in Ukraine, during Nederlands Centraal, an event organised by the Taalunie (Dutch Language Union). We found her speech so moving that we wanted to p
Seeing the City Differently: (Women’s) History as Cultural Activism
20 April 2026
Oana Stan is an art historian and the founder of Women of Haarlem, a public history project that brings stories of women from the past into the present through city walks. In her opinion piece, she reflects on why making women's history visible in public space is not an ideological gesture, but a co
Dear Government, Please Make Use Of Historical Knowledge to Defeat the Pandemic
8 April 2021
Those trying to solve the current coronavirus pandemic cannot do so with a purely biomedical and technical strategy. Four Dutch historians make the case for a multidisciplinary approach, taking into account the social, cultural, economic and psychological dimensions of society. History serves as a t


