FASoS News and events

During the 47th Dies Natalis in January 2023 Marie Labussière received the 2022 Dissertation prize for her thesis called 'Native-born but not yet citizen: Citizenship and educational outcomes of children of immigrants in the Netherlands’. 

Eliza Steinbock has, together with a transnational group of colleagues, been awarded a competitive European Joint Programming Initiative Cultural Heritage grant for the project _Perverse Collections: Building Europe’s Queer and Trans Archives_ (PERCOL). The project will run for 24 months between June 2023-2025.

The editor and co-editors of the Journal of Contemporary Asia have awarded Adam Dixon the prize for the best paper published in 2022

Tullio Viola has been granted a Research Mobility Award 2022 by the Young European Universities Research Network (YERUN). The award will be used to finance a one-week stay at the Centre for Culture and Evolution at Brunel University London in January 2023, where Viola will build interdisciplinary collaboration around his project on cultural transmission in digital media.

Imogen Liu has been granted a Research Mobility Award 2022 by the Young European Universities Research Network (YERUN). The funding will support a one-week stay in the Department of Political Science at the University of Antwerp next year where she will develop her next research project on Chinese financial infrastructures in Europe.

Giuseppe Zaccaria has received an offer for a fellowship at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. From 1 September 2022 until 23 December 2022, Giuseppe will be a PhD research fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the EUI.

Mariëlle Wijermars has been awarded a CORE Fellowship from the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies for the 2022/2023 academic year. As a fellow at the Collegium, Mariëlle will conduct a research project on ‘The Platformisation of Authoritarian Control in Russia’.

The EU has awarded a Horizon grant to 14 research institutions, including Maastricht University. Associate professor Giselle Bosse will lead a work-package on “Democratisation and Economic Modernisation in Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes”.

Together with The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, associate professor Eliza Steinbock has won an NWO ‘Museum Grant’, which facilitates scientific research in the museum sector and is awarded to museum employees who carry out research related to the collection.

Nantke Pecht has been nominated for the AVT/Anéla Dissertation prize. This prize is awarded each year to the best dissertation in the field of linguistics. In cooperation with the UM video team, Nantke Pecht has made a video about her dissertation.

Assistant professors Costas Papadopoulos (Literature & Art) and Katleen Gabriels (Philosophy) have been appointed at the Maastricht Young Academy (MYA). Their membership will begin on the day of the Dies Natalis on 28 January 2022 and will run until the Dies Natalis in 2026.
 

Maud Oostindie has been nominated by Maastricht University for the Interstedelijke Studenten Overleg (ISO) Teacher of the Year Award.

Harro van Lente has been reappointed as member of the Health Council of the Netherlands (Gezondheidsraad) for another 4 years (2022-2025). The Health Council of the Netherlands is an independent scientific advisory body whose legal task it is to advise the Dutch ministers and Parliament in the field of public health and health/healthcare research. Harro van Lente works for the Committee on the Identification of Environmental and Health Issues.

Félix Streicher has been awarded the Annual History Prize of the German Historical Institute Paris for the best master’s thesis submitted to a French or a German university in 2020. The thesis examined German-Luxembourgish encounters and social interactions in the city of Bitburg under Luxembourgish occupation rule (1945–1955).

Camilo Erlichman, together with Christopher Knowles (King’s College London), has launched a new interdisciplinary research network which aims to promote the exchange of ideas and act as a hub for the global community of scholars who are working on military occupation as a form of rule.

The members of the Executive Committee (EC) will represent the GYA worldwide engaging, for example, with presidents of universities and science academies, government ministers as well as with funding bodies and foundations like the Global Research Council, the Wellcome Trust or the Volkswagen Foundation.

Emilie Sitzia has been awarded the Fellowship for her project ‘Senses-based learning’. The aim of the Comenius programme is to stimulate educational innovation in higher education.

Bernike Pasveer has been invited by the director of The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) for a fellowship at NIAS in Amsterdam. She will be part of a theme-group on the topic of Refuge & Belonging.

Bilisuma Dito has received a grant of €50,000 from the NWO WOTRO Impact and Innovation grant scheme for the project ‘Only Time will Tell: How the Well-being of Stay-behind Migrants’ Children Develops Over time’.

Angélique Janssens, endowed professor in Historical Demography at FASoS, has been awarded a royal honour: she has been appointed Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau!

In order to draw attention to the structural underfunding of universities in the Netherlands, students, teachers and other stakeholders have sounded the alarm on 6 April. Lies Wesseling and Harro van Lente were the organisers.