Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome

CfA: KNIR Colloquia 2025-2026

We are happy to draw your attention to the Call for Applications for a new Series of KNIR Colloquia. KNIR Colloquia are small, exclusive expert meetings, hosted and funded by the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. The KNIR Colloquia programme targets early and mid-career academics with a position as lecturer or assistant professor at one of our partner universities in the Netherlands. It aims to offer opportunities to those academics who do not profit from other research funding to boost their research profile. We warmly welcome new applications for a colloquium to be held in the academic year 2025-2026. Read more

Archaeological Fieldwork: Exploring Mountain Society in Guarda (Portugal) with the GAP project
This field survey campaign is part of the Guarda Archaeological Project (GAP), a collaboration between the University of Groningen, KNIR, NOVA University of Lisbon, and the Municipality of Guarda. Guarda, located in the Serra da Estrela mountains, is the highest municipality in Portugal, situated between the Mondego, Zêzere, and Côa valleys. The region is known for...

Deadline: 15 April 2025

Date: 15 June - 6 July 2025

Minor Program Florence-Rome: Italian Art & History
Florence and Rome are of fundamental importance to those working in the humanities, since most of its disciplines originate in late medieval or early modern Italy, and even postmodernism has some of its most significant roots in Italy’s intellectual debates. Therefore, Florence and Rome are ideal sites to explore the historiography of art history, history,...

Deadline: 1 May 2025

Date: 22 August - 19 December 2025

News

Knir Dialogues With Directors
Event

Roman Museum Legacies: Dialogue with Dr. Olga Melasecchi, director of the Jewish Museum in Rome

Museums in Rome are among the oldest and most famous in the world, prized for…
Date: 9 April 2025
Time: 17:00
Speakers: Dr. Olga Melasecchi
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Multidirectional Dialogue: Jewish Studies and Postcolonial Studies

This KNIR Colloquium is organized by Dr. Laura Almagor. The workshop will bring into direct…
Date: 14 April - 15 April 2025
Event

Public Lecture: Permanent Security and Disciplinary Failure: Total Moral Collapse and the End of Grand Narratives?

Tension between some proponents of Postcolonial Studies and Jewish Studies has been mounting for decades,…
Date: 14 April 2025
Time: 17:30
Speakers: Prof. Dirk Moses
Course

Course: Roma Sacra. Op Romereis met oog voor betekenisgeving en religie

We gaan natuurlijk op Romereis, met de middelbare school, vanwege de historische en culturele rijkdom…
Date: 17 April - 22 April 2025
Deadline: 22 December 2024
Teaching staff: Joep Beijst, Raphael Hunsucker, Tomas Meijs, Pax Veerbeek

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