Annual Report ICOG 2012 Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture ICOG ANNUAL REPORT 2012 CONTENTS 1 Introduction 3 2 ICOG in 2012 5 2.1 Director, Advisory Board, Co-ordinators 5 2.2 Staffing 5 2.3 Finances: Travel and Material costs 6 3 Research Activities 6 3.1 Conferences, Co-operation, Colloquia 6 3.2 PhD Training Program 6 3.2 Current PhD projects 6 3.3 PhD-defenses, inaugural lectures in 2012 10 3.4 Appointed full professors in 2012 12 3.5 Appointed Assistant Professors in 2012 12 Part Two Research Profile, Research Groups and Publications 13 4 Research Profile and Research Groups 14 4.1 Politics, Media and Nation-building 14 4.1.1 Historical aspects 15 4.1.2 Evolutions in the International Relations and Organisations 19 4.1.3 Socio-economic aspects 23 4.2 Cultures and Identity 26 4.2.1 Cultures and Identity: Antiquity 27 4.2.2 Cultures and Identity: Middle Ages and Early Modern Times 29 4.2.3 Cultures and Identity: Nineteenth Century (Fin de Siècle and Belle Époque) 33 4.2.4 Cultures and Identity: Second half of the Twentieth Century to the present 35 4.3 Society and the Arts 47 4.3.1 Society and the Arts: Cultures and Contexts - texts 47 4.3.1.1 Society and the Arts: Cultures and Contexts – texts: Antiquity 47 4.3.1.2 Society and the Arts: Cultures and Contexts – texts: Middle Ages to Early Modern Times 48 4.3.1.3 Society and the Arts: Cultures and Contexts – texts: Nineteenth century: Fin de Siècle/Belle Époque 52 4.3.1.4 Society and the Arts: Cultures and Contexts – texts: Twentieth century- Present 53 4.3.2 Society and the Arts: Cultures and Contexts - images 58 4.3.2.1 Society and the Arts: Cultures and Contexts – images: Middle Ages to Early Modern Times 58 4.3.2.2 Society and the Arts: Cultures and Contexts – images: Nineteenth century: Fin de Siècle/Belle Époque 60 4.3.2.3 Society and the Arts: Cultures and Contexts – images: Twentieth century- Present 61 4.3.3 Society and the Arts: Gender 65 4.3.3.1 Middle Ages to Early Modern Times 65 4.3.3.2 Nineteenth century: Fin de Siècle/Belle Époque 65 4.3.4 Society and the Arts: Culture and Knowledge 66 4.3.4.1 Middle Ages to Early Modern Times 66 4.3.4.2 Nineteenth century: Fin de Siècle/Belle Époque 68 4.3.4.3 Twentieth century-Present 68 1 ICOG ANNUAL REPORT 2012 Part Three 70 Appendix 70 Abbreviations 71 5.1.1 Organization of academic conferences. 72 5.1.2 Academic lectures 78 5.2 Membership of editorial boards 98 5.3 External funding of projects 103 5.4.1 Membership KNAW, NWO and other ‘gremia’ (national) 108 5.4.2 Membership international scientific fora 111 5.5 Membership (inter)national assessment committees 114 5.6.1 Relationship with Foreign Universities / Internationalisation / Visiting Professorships 115 5.6.2 (Inter)national awards, honours, grants 122 5.6.3 PhD-trajectories 124 5.6.4 Reviews 131 5.6.5 Interviews and Media appearances 134 2 ICOG ANNUAL REPORT 2012 1 Introduction The Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture (Instituut voor Cultuurwetenschap- pelijk Onderzoek Groningen (ICOG)) is a research institute embedded in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen. All members of the institute are affiliated with this faculty and do research in the fields of history and theory of literature, film/TV, theatre, music, visual arts and architecture, as well as journalism, political, socio-economic, cultural and intellectual history and international relations. ICOG participates in a number of Research Schools, to wit the Graduate School Humanities (GSH), the Netherlands Research School for Medieval Studies (NRSMS), the Netherlands Research School for Economic and Social History (NW Posthumus Institute) and the Dutch National Graduate School in Classical Studies (OIKOS). * * * Due to processes of globalisation and digitisation, and evidently also as a direct consequence of the on-going economic crisis, the research climate in the Netherlands has rapidly changed in the last few decades. Many knowledge positions which seemed to have a value in their own right have been given up, especially in the humanities. Fundamental research here seems to have lost its shine. The higher education policies of the Dutch government increasingly put emphasis upon the growing necessity of external funding and on the economic valorisation of research. By classifying research in six so-called spearhead-areas the Dutch government shows a preference for applied research and a subtle rejection of the more discursive and less empirical branches of the humanities. All these circumstances make it an absolute necessity that researchers learn to adapt their attitudes and skills and subsequently that research insti- tutes reorganise themselves in such a way as to facilitate this adaptation. From this point of view, by far the most important development within ICOG this year is the agreement reached regarding the reorganisation of the ICOG-part of the Faculty of Arts. With this the most important criticisms and pieces of advice given by the Peer Reviewing Commit- tee (PRC) of 2009 are also finally addressed. The PRC, presided by prof. dr. R.A.M. Aerts, concluded in its evaluation report that the research and researchers within ICOG attained the required standards on average. However, and paradoxically, the institute as a whole did not succeed in facilitating, binding and programming their research properly. In other words, individual researchers showed little identification with the three existing umbrella groups and its subgroups. Improving the organizational structure, the commission suggested, will result in an enhancement of international visibility, especially of the more excellent research programs within the Institute, and in a greater decisiveness in acquiring external funds for innovating projects. Both are core tasks of research institutes like ICOG. As we foresaw in our Annual Report on 2010 the complex, vast and also very diffuse field of research within this part of the Faculty of Arts has meant that the reorganisation has taken quite an effort. In the memorandum Structuur, dynamiek en differentiatie. Een reactie op het rapport ‘Gro- ningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture. Assesment of Research Quality 2004- 2009 I put forward and comprehensively argued for a new structure for ICOG, which indeed has been adopted. From 2013 onwards the old umbrella groups, which have been functioning since 2004, will be discontinued. Research within ICOG will be split up in accordance with the organisa- tion of educational programs within the Faculty of Arts. Five clusters of researchers are thus projected, in which the chairs are the smallest organisational units: 1. The Department of History hosts the Center of Historical Studies 2. The Department of Arts, Media, and Society hosts the Center of Arts in Society 3. The Department of Cultures and Languages hosts a Center of Languages and Cultures* 4. The Department of Journalism hosts a Center of Media and Journalism Studies 3 ICOG ANNUAL REPORT 2012 5. The Department of International relations and international organisations hosts a Center of International Relations. These Centers will be led by coordinators functioning under the ICOG-director. At the moment of writing discussions are still being held regarding the desired thematic profiles and connections between researchers within and, of course, also outside our faculty. One of the main themes, of course, will be the university-broad spearhead-topic of sustain- able society (see http://www.rug.nl/research/sustainable-society). Since my term as a director of ICOG ends with my signing this Annual Report, I express my hope here that in the years to come the achieved, more transparent and flexible organisa- tion of ICOG will make it possible for my successor, Prof. dr. E.J. Korthals Altes, to react more adequately and quickly to the above mentioned changes and circumstances. Prof. dr. G.Th. Jensma Director of ICOG * In the meantime (between January 2013 and the moment of writing) the decision has been made not to continue the Center of Languages and Cultures. The researchers from the educational programs regarding Languages and Cultures will be placed within the Center of Arts in Society or the Center of Historical Studies. 4 ICOG ANNUAL REPORT 2012 2 ICOG in 2012 2.1 Director, Advisory Board, Co-ordinators Director of the Institute is Prof. dr. G.Th. Jensma (Frisian Language and Culture). The Advisory Board of the ICOG chose Dr. M.G. Kemperink as its chair in 2004 and she con- tinued through 2011. After her departure from the Board, Dr M. Hoogvliet, who at the time became the new representative of the postdocs in ICOG, was subsequently asked to act as Chair to the Board. The Board advises the Director on policy matters and consists of a group of researchers that represent the wide range of ICOG research. Furthermore a representative both for postdocs and for PhD students has been appointed in the Board. Members in 2012: Dr. E.M.A. van Boven (Progam Director of the GSH; Modern Dutch literature), Prof.dr. W.J. van Bekkum (Semitic Languages and Cultures), Prof. dr. M.J. Broersma (Journalism Studies), Dr. M. Hoogvliet (Chair and postdoc representative; Romance Languages and Cultures), Prof. dr. B.A.M. Ramakers (Older Dutch literature), Prof. dr. O.M. van Nijf (Ancient history), Dr. M.R. Doortmont (International Organisations/International Relations), Dr. J.F. Benders (Medieval History); PhD student representative: Rudolf A.A. Bosch, MA (Early Modern His- tory). The secretary is Ms M.R.B. Wubbolts, MA. 2.2 Staffing Financing of staff can be divided into three sources: Source 1: University funding; Source 2: National and European science agencies (e.g.