Theme Groups

2011/12

• The HUGO Fellowship Programme
• Free Speech, Rumors, Gossip, Satire, Oaths: on Communication and Decision-Making in Large Groups 
• The Real and the Imagined in the Contemporary Balkans

2010/11

• Nucleus: Inventing Europe. A Transnational History of European Integration
• Nucleus: Terrorists on Trial. The Court Room as a Stage in the Struggle for Publicity, Public Support and Legitimacy

2009/10

• The Reception of Netherlandish Art in the Indian Ocean Region and East Asia, and its Impact on Asian Cultures

2008/09

• The Modern and Postmodern Reception of Augustine from 1600 to 2000
• Discourses of meditation and self-reflection in art and literature, 1300-1600

2007/08

• Flavius Josephus - Author, Editor or Historian?
• Coming to Terms with a Shattered World: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Violence in Africa

2006/07

• Games, Action and Social Software

2005/06

• Restricted Linguistic Systems as Windows on Language Genesis
• Rulers, History and Exegesis in the Early Middle Ages: The Formation of Carolingian Political Identity.

2004/05

• The Grotian Concept of Rights

2003/04

• A New View on Survey Research
• Environmental History of Southeast Asia, 1500 - 2000

2002/03

• Old adults' life strategies in preparing for the future

2001/02

• The Danger of Community Failure: Conditions for Solidary Behaviour in Modern Market Societies

2000/01

• Network Analysis
• Rethinking the History of Medicine: 'Rationality' and 'Magic' in Babylonia and the Graeco-Roman World

1999/2000

• The East - West Encounter
• A Comparative History of the Literatures of East Central Europe

1998/99

• East Asian and Latin American Developments Compared
• Flexibility and Strategy in Resource Allocation
• National Systems of Innovation and the Idea - Innovation Chain

1997/98

• Tatian's Diatessaron
• Historical Developmental Psychology
• Translation Techniques in Armenian and Syriac

1996/97

• An Encyclopaedia of Syntactic Case Studies
• Stratification in Eastern and Western Europe in the 1990s

1995/96

• Pacific Asia and Europe: Developing Interfaces
• Bilingualism
• Political Parties and the Quality of Democracy
• Human Syntactic Processing

1994/95

• The History of Dutch Concepts
• Magic and Religion in the Ancient Near East
• Understanding Social Dilemmas
• Theatre Iconography (working group)
• Forensic Expertise and the Law of Evidence in Europe (working group)

1993/94

• Europe and the Dutch Republic: Evolution, Elaboration and Diffusion of Toleration in the 17th and 18th Centuries
• Informatization in Public Administration

1992/93

• The History of the Netherlands in a Comparative Perspective, c. 1580 - 1850
• Urban Change and Urban Policy
• In Memoriam Van Leur: On the 18th Century as a Category in Asian History

1991/92

• Orality and Literacy
• The Reception of American Mass Cultural Forms in Europe
• Europe on the Move

1990/91

• The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition
• Law and Psychology
• Comparing Labour Market Contracts and Institutions

1989/90

• Fallacies as Violations of Rules for Argumentative Discourse
• Human Movement
• Organization Studies and Technological Change

1988/89

• Approaching Eastern Europe
• Life Histories and Generations
• Parties and Voters
• Agrarian/Economic Processes of Development in South - East Asia in Historical Perspective

1987/88

• Reading, Word Recognition and Dyslexia
• Comparative Study of Ritual

1986/87

• Bildungsideale/Cultural Values and Higher Education
• Netherlandish Art of the 15^th - 17^th centuries
• Comparative Studies in Sociology of Law
• Information Theory in Psychology