PhD Defense Jorrit Steehouder

On 14 January, Jorrit Steehouder external linkdefends his thesis titled: Constructing Europe. Blueprints for a New Monetary Order, 1919-1950. Postwar Cooperation Postwar Europe was forged on the anvil of European exile governments in London, where fear, hope, trauma and frustration fueled the new architecture of Europe. To understand these emotionally charged roots of postwar European…

Jorrit Steehouder and Marij Swinkels on Future of Europe

In May, Utrecht University launched the Future of Europe blog series, in which scholars from a wide variety of disciplines reflect on the future of Europe. Jorrit Steehouder and Marij Swinkels wrote and op-ed about adaptive leadership in the EU, how it might help overcome the moral battles that Europe’s leaders are now engaged in,…

Marij Swinkels and Jorrit Steehouder on Dutch European economic policy

In a joint effort between two disciplines (Humanities and Governance) Marij Swinkels and Jorrit Steehouder published and article on Dutch economic policy narratives at home and in Europe. Ever since the last economic crisis (2008), Dutch leaders have moralized European economic policy through narratives of good and bad economic behavior. This now impedes their leeway to…

Peter-Ben Smit and Clemens van den Berg presented papers at Protestant Political Thought conference

The Protestant Political Thought section of the Cambridge Institute on Religion and International Studies organised a conference themed ‘Nationalism, Populism, and Protestant Political Thought’ from 15-17 April 2020. Originally intended to take place in Cambridge, the conference was taken to the Zoom video conference platform due to the ongoing pandemic. Peter-Ben Smit and Clemens van…

Weronika Fay joins project team

Weronika Fay is a soon-to-be graduate of the M.A. International Relations in Historical Perspective programme at Utrecht University and is currently writing her M.A. thesis on the Polish immigration policy. Her academic interests revolve around Eastern Europe, migration policies in European states and historical politics, especially in relation to Poland and the Holocaust. As a…

Jorrit Steehouder at Radio 1 OVT

On Sunday 12 April, Jorrit Steehouder was invited at Radio 1 to discuss the measures taken by the EU to tackle the economic fallout of the Coronavirus. In recent weeks, Europe’s leaders – for example Ursula von der Leyen – have called for a new Marshall Plan. But to what extent can the current emergency…

Carla Spiegel joins project

Carla joined the Blueprints of Hope project in December 2019. She studied International Relations in Utrecht and is currently working on her PhD research on online content regulation and cybersecurity in the European Union. Carla is also research assistant of Prof. Dr. Beatrice de Graaf in the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht…

Jesse Hollestelle joins project team

Jesse Hollestelle studied History (BA) and Philosophy (BA) at Utrecht University and is currently finishing his research master History. His historical interests vary from access to political decision-making in late 18th and early 19th century, to German ideas on the Weimar Republic during the interbellum, to the philosophy of historiography. As research assistant, Jesse will…

Fleur Diepstraten joins project team

As of February 2019, Fleur Diepstraten joined the Blueprints of Hope project. Previously, Fleur studied Law and Environmental Science at the University of Utrecht (LLB, BSc). She is currently involved in the Master program European Governance at the Utrecht School of Governance. She is particularly interested in how and which national discourses in post-war Europe…

We’re hiring! Research assistant (0,2 fte – 3 months)

  Research Assistant  Blueprints of Hope. Designing Post-war Europe: ideas & emotions, negotiations & networks (1930-1957)   The early years of European integration were characterized by an initial rather “open” competition among alternative blueprints of a future European order. Analyzing different blueprints for Europe that were present in the period leading up to the institutional…