Rob van der Laarse studied history and anthropology at the University of Amsterdam where he graduated cum laude in humanities, and obtained his PhD cum laude in history (1989) with a published thesis on the crucial role of religion in the modernization and symbolic construction of political communities in the 19th C. Netherlands, which was awarded a Praemium Erasmianum in 1990. He held positions at different universities in history, media and cultural studies, and visiting scholarships in Florence and Salford. He teaches at UvA's cultural sciences department where he was founding director of heritage studies for several years. From 2010 he is also Westerbork professor of War Heritage and Memory at the research institute CLUE (Centre of Landscape and Urban Environment) of VU University Amsterdam for two days a week. During the 1st semester of 2012-2013 he has a leave of absence at the UvA as fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) in Wassenaar.
His publications include Bevoogding en Bevinding. Heren en kerkvolk in een Hollandse provinciestad 1780-1930 ( Paternalism and Piety 1989), De hang naar zuiverheid: de moderne cultuur van Europa (with Arnold Labrie and Willem Melching, 1998), A Nation of Notables. Class, Religionand Politics (1999),'Masking the Other:Max Nordau's Representation of Jewishness', Historical Reflections (1999), Van goeden huize (2001), Beelden van de buitenplaats. Elitevorming en notabelencultuur in Nederland in de negentiende eeuw (with Yme Kuiper, 2005), Bezeten van vroeger. Erfgoed, musealisering en identiteit (2005), De dynamiek van de herinnering. Nederland en de Tweede Wereldoorlog in een internationale context (with Frank van Vree, 2009), and his Reinwardt Memorial Lecture 2010, recently published as De Oorlog als beleving. Over de musealisering enenscenering van Holocaust-erfgoed (2011). He also attributed to media programs, such as the AVRO radio serial Dadererfgoed (perpetrator's heritage) on Radio 1 in 2008, edited a special issue on the architectural history and heritage of Dutch Royal Palaces of Bulletin KNOB (2010/5), and published a critical essay on the essentialist assumption of UNESCO's Intangible heritage convention, 'De terugkeer van het eigene', in Boekman 88 (2011). He held his inaugural lecture as Westerbork professor at VU University recently under the title Nooit meer Auschwitz? Erfgoed van de oorlog in Europa's eeuw van de kampen (24 January 2012, to be published Fall 2012) In 2011 Rob van der Laarse was one of the 'top-3 suppliers' of UvA-DARE, the academic output registration of the UvA. ( See the links and pdf publications below).
Van der Laarse's research focuses on (early) modern European elite and intellectual cultures, cultural landscape, heritage and identity politics, and the cultural roots and postwar memory of the Holocaust. In close collaboration with experts of different disciplines h e also organized a substantial number of conferences on these topics . He is c urrently writing a book on the court and elite cultures of the Dutch Republic, to be published by Bert Bakker, and preparing with colleagues an international volume on 'Terrorscapes in Postwar Europe'. He is also working on the completion of a reader Landscape and Heritage. Theoretical Perspectives , co-edited with Jan Kolen, for Amsterdam University Press. Van der Laarse is series editor of AUP's Landscape and Heritage Studies (LHS) , and member of the advisory boards of several historical and heritage journals, organizations and museums, such as Virtus. Yearbook of the History of Nobility , the Heritage of War program of the Ministry of VWS, Theme Year 2012 of the Historical Country House Foundation, Amsterdam Museum, Dutch Castle Foundation (NKS), Rijksgebouwendienst (VROM), UvA Heritage Division, Memorial Centres Camp Westerbork and Vught, and trustee of Paradox Foundation and Ydoc (lens-based documentaries and new media productions). He chairs the scientific advisory board of the Westerbork Archaeological Research Project , a cooperative project of MC Camp Westerbork, CLUE and RAAP, which will become part of a European collaboration.
With Frank van Vree (faculty dean) he leads the ICH-UvA research program War, Heritage and Memory - a dynamic perspective on the future of World War II, At the Huizinga Research School for Cultural History he coordinates the working group Heritage, TourismandIdentity , and at CLUE-VU with Dienke Hondius (history VUA) the research group Heritage and Memory of Conflict and War . In addition to regular workshops and seminars, the cluster organizes an international conference every year, such as the recent session 'The Archaeology of Terrorscapes: How to Proceed?', organized with Jan Kolen (director CLUE) and Marek Jasinski (Trondheim) at the Helsinki EAA Annual Meeting of 2012.
Rob van der Laarse is currently project leader (PL) of the following granted large research programs :
NWO research line The Dynamics of Memory. The Netherlands and the Second World War in an international context (2007-2015 ), PL with Frank van Vree; including associated projects of War, Heritage & Memory, funded 12 postdoc and PhD projects at the UvA,VU and NIOD, co-sponsored by the ministry ofVWS and about ten private funds; resulted thus far in a volume, three monographs, and tens of articles in books and journals. (2,4 million euro)
NWO project Terrorscapes in Postwar Europe. Transnational Memory of Terror and Genocide , PL with Georgi Verbeeck; co-funded by the memorial camps Westerbork and Vught, and hosted at CLUE. This was international project was launched November 2011 at the International Holocaust Task Force (ITF) Conference Uses, Abuses and Misuses of the Holocaust Paradigm at the Peace Palace, The Hague, and a joined NIAS exploratory workshop in Wassenaar. (200.000 euro); currently supported by the granted N IAS theme group Terrorscapes (6 fellows and 6 visiting scholars) and awarded with a personal fellowship for Mediatized Memory. Transnational Crossings in Europe's Terrorscapes (with financial compensation for the UvA) during 2012-2013.
AHRC-NWO Networking Grant Landscapes of War, Trauma and Occupation (2012-2014) with Cambridge University, PL (with Gilly Carr, PI), hosted at VU-CLUE (40.000 euro), launched with the Cambridge Workshop Forgotten War Heritage (2012); the project aims at building an international infrastructure for heritage and memory-research of 20th century European terrorscapes and other painful heritage.
Prof Van der Laarse (co)supervises/d the following granted PhD and postdoctoral projects :
Cultural Promotionand Imperialism. The Dante Alighieri Society and the British Council: Contesting the Mediterreanean in the 1930s. Dr Tamar a van Kessel (icw Prof Pim den Boer, UvA PhD June 2011)
Cultural Property Protection: AMilitary Necessity? Dr Joris Kila (icw Prof Bram Kempers, UvA PhD February 2012)
Oorlog, erfgoed en herinnering. Een dynamisch perspectief op de Tweede wereldoorlog (projectleader 2007-2010); NWO programme executed at UvA, VU and NIOD, co-sponsered by the Ministry of VWS. Books published: Dr Esther Captain and Dr Guno Jones, Oorlogserfgoed overzee. De erfenis van de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Aruba, Curacao, Indonesië en Suriname (Bert Bakker 2010), Dr Dienke Hondius, Oorlogslessen.Onderwijs over de Oorlog sinds 1945 (Bert Bakker 2010), and Dr Rob van Ginkel, Rondom de Stilte. Herdenkingscultuur in Nederland (Bert Bakker 2011).
Artists of the Kultuurkamer: History and Collective Memory1922-2012. UvA PhD Claartje Wesselink (icw Prof Frank van Vree, 2007-2012)
The Future of War Heritage (supervisor, NWO-VWS-project 2009-201. Expert report Dr Kees Ribbens and Dr Esther Captain, Tonen vande Oorlog. Toekomst voor het museale erfgoed van de Tweede Wereldoorlog (NIOD 2011)
Bezetting en Verzet in een museale context / Warand Resistance in a museological context. UvA PhD Erik Somerswith Prof Frank vanVree, 2009-2012)
The Hollandsche Schouwburg as a Lieux de Mémoire. UvA PhD David Duindam (with Prof Frank van Vree, 2010-2014)
Heritage of Absence. Memorial Camps as Contested Spaces. VU PhD Iris van Ooijen (with Prof Jan Kolen, 2010-2014)
Framing the Dutch Landscape. UvA PhD Peter Veer (with Frank van Vree and Bert Hogenkamp, VU, 2012-2016
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My NIAS homepage
My VU homepage
UvA DARE
NARCIS Academic Research
UvA research domain Heritage&Memory of Conflict
CLUE research cluster Heritage&Memory of Conflict&War (click mission statement / research clusters)
Paradox - Photography and Media related Art
Huizinga Working Group Heritage, Tourism and Identity
NWO-VWS War, Heritage and Memory (2007-2010)
NWO Dynamics of Memory. War, Heritage and Memory in the Netherlands 1940-2010 (2010-2015)
NIAS Terrorscapes. Transnational Memory of Totalitarian Terror and Genocide in Postwar Europe (2012-2013)
AHRC-NWO Landscapes of War, Trauma&Occupation (2012-2014)
Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork
Interview Westerbork leerstoel_Getekend Nieuws 2011
Interview CLUE Yearly 2010 (2011)
Erfgoedtermen: oorlogserfgoed (Reinwardt Academie 2011)
Erfgoed van de OorlogVWS
Theme Year Historical Country Estates 2012
Huizinga Dynamics of memory andTerrorscapes research groups: conferences ITF and NIAS, 27-29/11/2011
CLUE folder of the Heritage and Memory War and Conflict research cluster, 2011
NWO Dynamics of memory Nieuws en kalenderberichten
AHRC-NWO Grand Award British-Dutch co-operation in the humanities 2012
Nooit meer Auschwitz? Erfgoed van de oorlog na Europa's eeuw van de kampen. Inaugural VU Amsterdam 2012
Inaugural (Oratie) Van derLaarse will be published Fall 2012
Press and Conferences
Paul Mullins blog on our EAA session on the Archaeology ofTerrorscapes, Sept 1 2012
Dynamiek van de herinnering_Trouw 2009
Reinwardt Memorial Lecture_publicatie 2011
Een beertje kan al topvondstzijn (Volkskrant 10-12-2011)
Zimmer mit Einsicht-Jüdische Allgemeine (23-11-2008)
Villavan de kampcommdant (Westerbork) - Trouw (2-11-2007)
Anne Frankboom - Trouw (21-11-2007)
Tijdmachine van ingelegd hout - NRC-H(10-10-2008)
Amsterdams interieur als stille getuige -Trouw(9-09-2008)
Holocaust terrorscapes_Heritage reinvents Europe, 12th EAC symposium 2011
Spui 25: Intangible heritage debate, 27-4-2011
ITF Conference The Holocaust and other genocides, Vredespaleis Den Haag 27-28 November 2011
NIAS workshop Terrorscapes 29 November 2011
Historie in laagjes_Interview Leeuwarder Courant 21-01-2012
VU Holocaust Memorial Day 24-01-2012
Oratie Westerborkleerstoel VU: Nooit meer Auschwitz? January 24 2012
Laat Auschwitz beginpuntnieuwe toekomstzijn_artikel RD 25-01-2012
Podcast radio interview Joods op zondag, 29-1-2012
Wat zoekt deejay Ruud de Wild in Auschwitz? FD 16-2-2012
Archaeology and Memory. Former WWII Camps in Europe 23-3-2012
Naar een Europese herinnering?Debat Spui 25 4-4-2012
Herinneren gaat ook over nu (5-5-2012)
Talking heritage with Michael Shanks (May 13, 2012)
The Archaeology of 20th‐century Terrorscapes: How to Proceed? EAA conference Helsinki, 29 August-1 Sept 2012
Forgotten War and Occupation Heritage, Cambridge 25-6 August 2012
After the Violence. 45th WisconsinWorkshop, Madison Sept 20-22 2012
Terrorscapes. Rethinking the Holocaust Paradigm_NIAS Opening Academic Year Sept. 5 2012
Objecten liegen niet! KNHG congres Voorwerpen maken geschiedenis, 2 nov 2012 (blog historici.nl)
Some publications:
Heritage, Identity and Musealisation
Universeel museum als identiteitsfabriek(2004)
Iconisch erfgoed (2005)
Erfgoed en de constructie vanvroeger (2005)
Erfgoedpolitiek - in gesprek met Van Rappard(2004)
Bezeten van vroeger. Erfgoed, identiteit en musealisering (Complete volume, 2005)
De Oorlog als beleving. Over de musealisering en enscenering van Holocaust-erfgoed (2011)
De terugkeer van het eigene (a critique on UNESCO's Intangible HeritageDeclaration, Boekman2011)
UvA Erfgoedlab: Voorbij Wilders en WikiLeaks 2011
Landscape and Heritage
Panorama's op vroeger.Dynamiek van het landschap(2008)
Gazing at places we've never been (2010)
Beleving van de buitenplaats(2005)
In Print! Reader Landscape&Heritage
Elites and Elite Cultures
Beelden van de buitenplaats (2005)
Burgers als buitenlui (2007)
Ontdekking van de oudheid. Adellijke identiteitspolitiek Bourgondisch-Habsburgse Nederlanden (Virtus 2011)
Virtus en distinctie - Ridders van de Republiek (2007)
Twee eeuwen koninklijke paleizen -Bulletin KNOB 2010-5
---recensie Kasteelkatern KNOB paleizennr
European Culture and Conflict Heritage
Inleiding - De hang naar zuiverheid. Inleiding (1998)
Masking the Other- Max Nordau's representation of hidden Jewishness (HR 1999)
Dehang naar zuiverheid. De cultuur van het moderne Europa (Google)
Dadererfgoed - Kunst, kampen en landschappen (2009)
Westerbork-Erfgoed vanhet verlies (2010)
De terugkeer van het eigene (Boekman 2011, extensive web version)
Laat Auschwitz geen nulpunt maar eindpunt zijn (2012)
Dutch Political Culture and History
An Élitist Route to Democracy (2000)
A Nation of Notables. Class, Politics and Religionin the Netherlands (1999)
De Deugd enhet Kwaad. Conservatisme, liberalisme en Verlichting (2000)
Paternalism and Pietism (Englisch summary Bevoogding and Bevinding, 1989)
Politics of disremembering, Radio 2 (2012)
Interview Rob van der Laarse with radio presenter Jurgen van den Berg on the decision of UCI president Pat McQuaid to disremember Lance Armstrong from sport history. Did such a policy of forgetting ever succeed in history? Van der Laarse speaks of a classic case of damnatio memoriae going back to Roman antiquity, and mentions other casesfrom Hugo de Groot in the Netherlands to the German WWII policy of spatial and ethnic cleansing in West Poland (Warthegau) where complete populations and landscapes are faded out of history, and post 1989 renamings of heroes and street signs. Yet, with few exceptions, such policies of silencing are never succesfull, except some cases of complete totalitarian control of mass media.
NCRV Cappuccinno 27 July 2012 (skip the intro of 2,5 min !)
http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/organisatie/medewerkers/content/l/a/r.vanderlaarse/r.van-der-laarse.html
La question qui est posée: a-t-on oublié l'Historien catholique, le Dr. W.J.F.Nuyens (1823-1894)?
Pour approfondir le sujet:
Katholieke identiteit en historisch bewustzijn
W.J.F. Nuyens (1823-1894) en zijn "nationale"geschiedschrijving
Door Albert van der Zeijden, Hilversum Verloren, 2002.
Je pense que l'Histoire ne s'oublie pas. Un jour ou l'autre, elle nous est reservie et se rappelle à nous...
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