Netherlands Visiting Professorship

The Netherlands Visiting Professorship (NVP), at the University of Michigan was established  in 1950 on the 100th anniversary of the Dutch settlement in Michigan to further the development of scientific cooperation between U-M and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Over the years, the professorship has recruited scholars from over twelve Dutch universities and institutions of higher learning.

Scholars interested in applying for this program should contact the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences or by e-mail <afdelingen@bureau.knaw.nl>.

2008-11

For the 2008-11 three year cycle the themes are: "Religion and Multiculturalism in Europe", "European Security and Global Transformations" and "European Governance and Democracy."

"RELIGION AND MULTICULTURALISM IN EUROPE" 2008-09

Winter 2009

Oscar Salemink is professor of social anthropology and head of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Free University Amsterdam. He studied anthropology and history in Nijmegen and Amsterdam and received his doctoral degree from the University of Amsterdam in 1999 with a dissertation on Vietnam's central Highlanders. From 1996-2001, he held positions with the Ford Foundation in Thailand and Vietnam. Selected book-length publications include Colonial Subjects: Essays on the Practical History of Anthropology (co-edited with Peter Pels, 1999); and The Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders: A Historical Contextualization,1850-1990 (2003).

While in residence at U-M, Professor Salemink will teach one course in the Department of Anthropology, Topics in Cultural Anthropology: Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Asia, and give one "Conversations on Europe" lecture on demarcations of the nation through new rituals in the Netherlands.

"EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRACY" 2009-10

Winter 2010

Linda Senden is a professor of European law in Tilburg University's Faculty of Law. She specializes in European governance and regulation, European institutional law, European constitutional law, European sex equality law and European judicial protection. While in residence at U-M, Professor Senden will teach one course on European law and give one "Conversations on Europe" lecture.

PAST NETHERLANDS VISITING PROFESSORS

"THE NEW EUROPE" 2007-08

Winter 2008

Jos de Mul studied philosophy, art history, and law at Utrecht University and University of Amsterdam and received his Ph.D. from the Radbound University Nijmegen. Since 1993, he has been professor of philosophy of man and culture in the Faculty of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and scientific director of the Research Institute Philosophy of Information and Communication Technology. His books include Romantic Desire in (Post) Modern Art and Philosophy (1999) and The Tragedy of Finitude. Dilthey's Hermeneutics of Life (2004).

While in residence at the at U-M, Professor de Mul taught one course, "Cyberspace Odyssey: The Arts  in the Age of Information Technology"  at the Department of History of Art, and gave three lectures: "Echoes of a last God. Beyond the End(s) of Art," lecture at the Department of Art History; "Europe: The Tragic Continent," part of  the Conversations on Europe lecture series, and an International Institute Series on Religious Claims and Crossings; "The Rebirth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Technology."  Lecture at the Department of Philosophy, Marquette University, Milwaukee (WI). "Europe: The Tragic Continent" is also available at www.ii.umich.edu/ces-euc/events/multimedia and at http://itunes.umich.edu/ under the "International" topic.

"RELIGION" 2006-07

Bernard Arps is professor of Javanese linguistics and literature at the University of Leiden, specializing in the fields of Javanese and Indonesian anthropological and linguistic discourse. In the field of religious studies, he studies the creation of contexts, recitation and exegesis, and the ironies of missionary activity (Islamic, Christian, and Javanese). While in residence at the University of Michigan Professor Arps taught two courses in the U-M's Department of Asian Languages and Cultures: Asian Studies 480: Stories across Faiths. Transreligious Translation, Adaptation, and Interpretation of Narrative , followed by Asian Studies 480: Missionary Media and Promotional Performance. The Propagation of Faiths in Contemporary Southeast Asia.

"THE NEW EUROPE" 2005-06

Fall 2005

C.F.G. Lorenz is professor of history at the Free University in Amsterdam, specializing in the fields of historical theory, history of 19th and 20th century European historiography, comparative historiography and relationship of history and social sciences. During his residency at U-M, Lorenz continued his research in European historiography, especially on his project "Representations of the Past: Writing National History in Europe." While in residence at the University of Michigan Professor Lorenz taught HISTORY 416/417(GERMAN 401/402): Nineteenth Century German and European Intellectual History/ 19th Century German and European Intellectual Thought and gave a public lecture in the CES "Conversations on Europe" series.

Winter 2006

In February 2006, the U-M welcomed Louis Andriessen,the renowned Dutch composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, vocal, and piano works performed throughout the world. Andriessen lectured on his music, life as a composer, his film collaborations, and conducted U-M student ensembles in performances of his works. One public concert was held under the auspices of the University Musical Society. Viewed from this side of the Atlantic, Andriessen may very well be the most popular living European composer today. His lifelong embrace of American jazz, rock 'n' roll, and minimalism only served to deepen his relevancy to the U-M, where students and teachers shared his enthusiasm for engaging popular American and world music as a key source of inspiration for their art.