Netherlands Visiting Professor

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."

"EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRACY" 2009-10

Fall 2009

Henco Bekkering is a professor and chair of Urban Compositions at the Delft University of Technology. He specializes in city form and morphology, the relation between architecture and urban design (in large urban projects), multiple use of space, exterior and interior public space, the integration of infrastructure in cities, pedestrian use of city centers,  and the meaning of tradition. He is especially interested in comparative research as to the different systems of urban public transportation in the metropolises of the world and their effects on the organization and development of cities with their newly developing (sub)centers; the striking differences between the urban history and the present (or recent) situation in Detroit and Chicago, as well as the renovation and revitalization of declining housing areas, with an emphasis on - the meaning of - public space. While in residence at the University of Michigan Professor Bekkering will be teaching one course at the Taubman College for Architecture and Urban Planning, Urban Planning 519: Theories of Urban Design, with Assistant Professor Larissa Larsen. The purpose of this class is to critically evaluate the concepts, theories, and practices that underlie urban design. He will also give a lecture in the “Conversations on Europe” series titled: “Urbanism around the Turn of the Twenty First Century: Paradigm Changes.”

 

Winter 2010

Linda Senden received her undergraduate degree from the Université d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Fra­nce, and LL.B , LL.M  and PhD from  University of Amsterdam. Since 2004 she is a professor and chair in European Union Law at the European and International Public Law Department, at Tilburg University. From 1993 to 1997 she was an assistant-coordinator of the network of national experts on the implementation of the European Commission sex equality directives. She was a visiting research fellow at the Europa Institute of University of Edinburgh, Scotland, the National University of Singapore, University of Connecticut, Koç University (Istanbul, Turkey), University of Rijeka (Croatia), and University of Vilnius (Lithuania). She has participated in many international research projects, among them, the European Association of Councils of State and Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions, and acted as an expert for the European Economic and Social Committee and the European Committee for Securities Regulators. Currently, she supervises four PhD projects and is also a member of various editorial boards, including the Dutch Journal for European Law (Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Europees recht). Her research interest is on European institutional law and issues of governance, with focus on: regulation and judicial construction in the EU; the role and characteristics of the different actors, processes and instruments involved; their impact for the (democratic) foundations of the European legal system; and their effect on the national legal orders. In the summer of 2009 she will start  new international research project with the European University Institute in Florence and the University College Dublin on private transnational regulation, its constitutional foundations and governance design. She is also developing a research interest in the development and functioning of regional cooperation and integration processes.

While in residence at U-M's Law School, Professor Senden will teach "European Legal Order,"  which is an introduction to the institutional and legal architecture of the European Union and provides an overview of basic free movement and citizenship rights, and give seminar on a comparative governance topic and "Conversations on Europe" lecture.

"EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRACY" 2010-11

Fall 2010

Madeleine Hosli is a professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science, Leiden University. Her major research interests are in international political economy, international organization, institutions and European integration.  She will be in residence at the U-M's Political Science Department.

PAST NETHERLANDS VISITING PROFESSORS

"THE NEW EUROPE" 2007-08

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.