Rob van der Laarse is research director of the Amsterdam School for Heritage and Memory Studies (ASHMS) at the UvA's Faculty of Humanities. He studied history and anthropology at the same university, where he both graduated and obtained his PhD cum laude. His published dissertation on the crucial role of religion in the modernization and symbolic construction of competing political communities in the 19th C. Netherlands, was awarded in 1990 with a Praemium Erasmianum research prize. He held positions and visiting scholarships at different universities in theoretical, European and cultural history, media and cultural studies, and was founding director of the MA heritage studies at the UvA (2004-2010), and currently teaches at the art and cultural sciences departments of the UvA as well as VU University Amsterdam, where he holds the Westerbork chair of War and Conflict Heritage. He was fellow and theme group leader at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) in Wassenaar In 2012-2013 , and project leader of the international Terrorscapes research group, which received the Euromediterraneo Award 2013 in Rome.

Research

His research focuses on (early) modern European elite and intellectual cultures, cultural landscape, heritage and identity politics, and the cultural roots and postwar memory of the Holocaust.In close collaboration with experts of different disciplines he also co-organized a substantial number of international conferences on these topics, such as The Challenge of Heritage (Amsterdam 2002), The Dynamics of War, Heritage, Memory and Remembrance (Amsterdam 2007), The Archaeology of Terrorscapes (Helsinki 2012), Competing Memories (Amsterdam, 2013), and Restitution and Reconciliation (2015). 

Intellectual and Elite Culture 

An important part of Van der Laarse's research is born from a fascination with cultural power, narratives of representation, and the shadow of the Enlightenment. His publications include Bevoogding en Bevinding. Heren en kerkvolk 1780-1930 (Paternalism and Piety 1989); De hang naar zuiverheid: de moderne cultuur van Europa (co-edited, 1998), a volume praised by the late George Mosse as the most penetrating work on modernism's search for purity and fear of degenaration; A Nation of Notables. Class, Religion and Politics (1999); 'Masking the Other: Max Nordau's Representation of Jewishness', Historical Reflections (1999); Van goeden huize (2001); Beelden van de buitenplaats. Elitevorming en notabelencultuur in Nederland in de negentiende eeuw  (with Yme Kuiper, 2005/ rev.ed. 2014). He also edited a special issue on the architectural history and heritage of Dutch Royal Palaces of Bulletin KNOB (2010/5), and a contribution on the palaces of KIing William II and Anna Pavlova in Brussels and The Hague to the catalog Willem II. De Koning and de Kunsten (Zwolle 2014), a 2013-2014 travelling exhibition of the Dordrecht's Museum together with the Hermitage (St. Petersburg) and Villa Vauban (Luxembourg). Van der Laarse also publishes regularly on the cultural history of the nobility and country estates of the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands and the Dutch Republic from the 16th-18th century, and he is currently completing a reader Landscape and Heritage. Theoretical Perspectives, co-edited with Jan Kolen, for Amsterdam University Press.

Critical Heritage and Memory

After 2000 Van der Laarse's interest became more and more focused on European conflicted heritage, identities, and memories. He edited a bilangual handbook for critical heritage studies Bezeten van vroeger. Erfgoed, musealisering en identiteit (2005), which is widely used in Dutch academic teaching, and co-edited with Frank van Vree De dynamiek van de herinnering. Nederland en de Tweede Wereldoorlog in een internationale context (2009). The issue of the musealisation, mediatisation, staging and experiencing of war heritage is adressed in his published Reinwardt Memorial Lecture De Oorlog als beleving. Over de musealisering en enscenering van Holocaust-erfgoed (2011) and in his inaugural lecture Nooit meer Auschwitz? Erfgoed van de oorlog na Europa's eeuw van de kampen ( 2012). He also started a critical debate on the essentialist assumption of UNESCO's Intangible heritage convention with his essay 'De terugkeer van het eigene', in Boekman 88 (2011). His recent contribution 'Archaeology of Memory.  Europe's Holocaust dissonances in East and West'  to the EAC volume Heritage Reinvents Europe (2013), and a chapter 'Beyond Auschwitz. Europe's Terrorscapes in the Age of Postmemory' in Marc Silberman and Florance Vatan, eds. Memory and Postwar Memorials (2013) rethink the issue of competing memories in Europe as related to the Age of Extremes in the present Media Age. He recently co-edited Traces of Terror, Signs of Trauma as an outcome of the 'Terrorscapes in Postwar Europe' project, and is now editing a volume on 'Competing Memories'. See also the Forced Labor website of CEDIS FU Berlin for a recent video interview War, heritage and the dynamics of memory . 

Public activities

Van der Laarse is member of the advisory boards of several historical and heritage journals, organizations and museums, such as Virtus. Yearbook of the History of Nobility , the Heritage of War program of the Ministry of VWS, Theme Year 2012 of the Historical Country House Foundation, Amsterdam Museum, Dutch Castle Foundation (NKS), Rijksgebouwendienst, UvA Heritage Division, the Memorial Centers Camp Westerbork, Camp Amersfoort and National Monument Vught, and trustee of Paradox Foundation and Y-Doc (lens-based documentaries and new media productions) that also collaborates in the Terrorscapes project. He chairs the Huizinga working group Heritage, Tourism and Identity, and the scientific advisory board of the Westerbork Archaeological Research Project, a cooperative project of Memorial Camp Westerbork, CLUE and RAAP which will become part of a European collaboration. He is consulted as a heritage expert by many Dutch and foreign city and memorial museums, media programs and cultural initiatives, such as the AVRO radio 1 serial Dadererfgoed (perpetrator's heritage, 2008) and the curating city's project Museumtraject Mechelen (2013). Together with Ivar Schute he took part in Caroline Sturdy Colls' awarded Furneaux and Edgar productions Unearthing Treblinka (Channel 5, 2013) and Treblinkla: Hitler's Killing Machine (Smithsonnian TV, 2014) on the discovery of the Treblinka gas chambers, and for Radio 5 he recently discussed with Schute his ground-breaking discovery of the Sobibor gas chambers (Kennis van Nu, 2014). Van der Laarse presented the ICOMOS-UK Annual Christmas Lecture 2014 in London under the title of Heritage, Conflict and the Dynamics of Memory.

Academic activities  

Together with Frank van Vree he initiated and directs since 2009 the steering committee of the NWO research line The Dynamics of Memory, he co-directs the research domains 'Heritage and Memory of Conflict' at the VUA research institute CLUE (Centre of Landscape and Urban Environment) and 'Conflict' of the UvA's  Amsterdam Centre for Heritage and Identity. With Joep Leerssen and Michael Wintle he is since 2013 theme leader European Identity and Culture of the new Centre for Contemporary European Studies ACCESS EUROPE (UvA / VU Amsterdam), and (together with Ihab Saloul) founding director of the Amsterdam School for Heritage and Memory Studies (ASHMS).

Van der Laarse and Georgi Verbeeck received a Premio Euromediterraneo 2013 for the NWO/AHRC/NIAS research project Terrorscapes (Facebook) by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian public media, and the employer's organization Confindustria, in the International Press Office in Rome. The prize was awarded in the category of best practice of transnational communication beyond the national cultural boundaries, "that will have a fundamental impact on the building of European citizenship". 

He is series editor of Landscape and Heritage Studies (LHS) and Heritage and Memory Studies (HMS) at Amsterdam University Press, and of a new series Palgrave Studies in Heritage and Conflict. 

 

Large research programs

Van der Laarse is currently initiator/ leader / supervisor of the following granted research lines, programs and projects:

• Oorlog, erfgoed en herinnering. Een dynamisch perspectief op de Tweede wereldoorlog (projectleader 2007-2011; 900k EUR); NWO program executed at the UvA, VU and NIOD, cosponsored by the Ministry of VWS. Three monographs published: Dr Esther Captain and Dr Guno Jones,Oorlogserfgoed overzee. De erfenis van de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Aruba, Curacao, Indonesië en Suriname (Bert Bakker 2010), Dr Dienke Hondius, Oorlogslessen. Onderwijs over de Oorlog sinds 1945 (Bert Bakker 2010), and Dr Rob van Ginkel, Rondom de Stilte. Herdenkingscultuur in Nederland (Bert Bakker 2011), and an expert report: Kees Ribbens and Esther Captain, Tonen van de Oorlog. Toekomst van het museale erfgoed van de Tweede Wereldoorlog (Amsterdam 2011).   

• Dynamics of Memory. The Netherlands and the Second World War in an international context; NWO research line, 2009-2015), PI/PL with Frank van Vree. Together with the associated project War, Heritage and Memory (2007-2014) it includes 12 funded postdoc and PhD projects at the UvA, VUA and NIOD, co-sponsored by the ministry of VWS and about ten NGO's and private funds; resulted thus far in a volume, six monographs, and tens of articles in books and journals (2,4 million EUR). The Dynamics research group, coordinated by David Duindam, also organizes monthly seminars and workshops, such as Travelling Memories of Terror and War (11 December 2012).
• Terrorscapes in Postwar Europe. Transnational Memory of Terror and Genocide, (NWO project 2010-2014, 200.000 euro; NIAS theme group 2012-2013, 200k EUR), PI, and PL with Georgi Verbeeck; co-funded by the memorial camps Westerbork and Vught, and hosted at CLUE, launched at the International Holocaust Task Force Conference Uses, Abuses and Misuses of the Holocaust Paradigm at the Peace Palace, The Hague, and a joined exploratory workshop in Wassenaar in 2011; supported by a NIAS grant for the Terrorscapes theme group (6 fellows and 6 visiting scholars) in 2012-2013, the preliminary results were presented at the workshop Transnational Memory of Totalitarian Rule, Terror and Mass Violence in Europe (2013). The latest milestones are the Amsterdam-Westerbork conference Competing Memories (2013), the Traces of Terror, Signs of Trauma (2014) volume, and the website terrorscapes.org, and Facebook page, managed by Baillie and Francesco Muzzucchelli, that will  function as a digital platform for international work in progress.
• Landscapes of War, Trauma and Occupation  (Anglo-Dutch Grand award AHRC-NWO Humanities Research Networking and Exchange Scheme, 2012-2014, 40k EUR); PI/PL with Gilly Carr (Cambridge University), hosted at VU-CLUE (2012-2014), and launched with the Cambridge Workshop Forgotten War and Occupation Heritage (organized by Carr and Britt Baillie, 25-26 August 2012), and the EAA workshop The Archaeology of Terrorscapes (co-organized with Jan Kolen and Marek Jasinski (NTNU Trondheim), Helsinki 29 Aug-1 Sept 2012); the project aims at building an international infrastructure for heritage and memory-research of 20th century European terrorscapes and other painful heritage. For 2014 the network launches Horizon 2020 meetings in Cambridge, Wassenaar, Berlin, Catania and Bologna.  

Supervised PhD projects (last 3 years)

• Dr Tamara van Kessel, Cultural Promotion and Imperialism. The Dante Alighieri Society and the British Council: Contesting the Mediterreanean in the 1930s; Copromotor with Prof Pim den Boer (UvA PhD defense, June 2011); book to be published in AUP's Heritage and Memory Studies. 
• Dr Joris Kila, Cultural Property Protection: A Military Necessity? Copromoter with Prof Bram Kempers (Cofunding SNS Reaal Fund, UvA PhD defense, Febr 2012). Book published: Heritage under Siege (Brill: Leiden 2012)
• Dr Claartje Wesselink, Artists of the Kultuurkamer. History and Collective Memory 1922-2012. Proromoter with Prof Frank van Vree (UvA PhD defense, March 2014). Book published (in Dutch): Kunstenaars van de Cultuurkamer. Geschiedenis en Herinnering (Prometheus: Amsterdam 2014), and awarded with the Jan van Gelder prize.
• Dr Erik Somers, Musealisering van de oorlog (Musealization of the War. Occupation and Resistance in a Museological Context. Promoter with Frank van Vree; matching with Fries Museum and NIOD (UvA PhD defense, March 2014). Book published (in Dutch): De oorlog in het museum. Herinnering en verbeelding (W-Books: Zwolle 2014)         
• David Duindam, The Hollandsche Schouwburg as a Lieux de Mémoire. Promoter with Prof Frank van Vree; NWO matching with Jewish Historical Museum (UvA PhD, 2010-2014)      
• Iris van Ooijen, Heritage of Loss. Dutch WWII Memorial Camps as Contested Spaces. Promoter with Prof Jan Kolen; NWO matching with National Monument Camp Vught and the Memorial Camps Westerbork and Amersfoort (VUA PhD, 2010-2014) 
• Peter Veer, Bewogen landschap / Framing the Dutch Landscape. Copromoter with Prof Frank van Vree and Prof Bert Hogenkamp (VUA); matching project with Beeld en Geluid (UvA PhD, 2012-2016)
• Laura Boerhout, Negotiating Post-Memories. Intergenerational Transmission of Bosnia’s War Narratives Beyond National Borders. NWO grant Promotie in de GW; supervisor (promotor) with Dr Nanci Adler (NIOD) (ASHMS-UvA PhD, 2014-2018)
• Dana Dolghin, Beyond the obligation to remember: transnationalism and memory praxis in Romania (ASHMS funding; supervisor (promotor) with Dr Matthijs Lock (UvA PhD, 2014-2018) 
• Max van der Schriek, Buried Landscapes of War: The archaeology and heritage of the Second World War in The Netherlands. ARCHON grant. Co-supervised with Prof Jan Kolen (Leiden) and Prof Nico Roymans (CLUE-VUA PhD, 2014-2018) 

External PhDs:

• Peter van der Maas, Urban activism and the establishment of civil society opposition during the disintegration of Yugoslavia ; supervisor (promotor) with Dr Britt Baillies (Cambridge/ Pretoria) and Dr Francesco Mazzucchelli, Bologna (UvA-ASHMS, 2014-)
• Sarike van Slooten, Lost Empires: Exploring Contemporary Museum Representations of the Dutch and British Colonial Past; supervisor (promotor) with Dr Ihab Saloul (ASHMS-UvA PhD, 2014-)
• Manon Kolsteren, Natural Disaster and Memory-in-the-Making: Investigating Traces and Trajectories of Political Memories in the Emergence of a Socially Shared Online Memory Archive (supervisor with Prof Julia Noordegraaf (ASHMS-UvA PhD, 2014-)
• Milda Jakulyte-Vasil, Holocaust Memory in Lithuania: the Search for Jewish Collective Memory; supervisor (promotor) with Dr Carlos Reijnen (Jewish State Museum Vilnius / ASHMS-UvA 2014-)

Honorary Doctor

• Van der Laarse was honorary promotor (together with Pim den Boer) of the former chief inspector of Cultural Heritage Charlotte van Rappard at the celebration of the latest Dies Natalis of the University of Amsterdam in January 2015, honored in particular because of her contribution to international treaties on cultural heritage, illegal trade, and the restitution of stolen Nazi art.

Other Universities and Institutes

• My VU homepage

• My NIAS homepage

• Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork

• CLUE folder of the Heritage and Memory War and Conflict research cluster, 2011

• Interview Westerbork leerstoel_Getekend Nieuws 2011

• Interview CLUE Yearly 2010 (2011)

• UvA DARE

• NARCIS Academic Research

• Heritage and Memory of Conflict (Amsterdam Centre for Cultural Heritage and Identity (UvA)

Research Programmes and Projects

• Terrorscapes.com - our new internet platform on European Landscapes of War, Trauma and Occupation

• Not in My Back Yard (Paradox Media Prouction)

• Heritage and Memory of Conflict and War (VU-CLUE) (click mission statement / research clusters)

• Huizinga Working Group Heritage, Tourism and Identity

• NWO-VWS War, Heritage and Memory (2007-2010)

• NWO Dynamics of Memory. War, Heritage and Memory in the Netherlands 1940-2010 (2010-2015)https://profiel.medewerker.uva.nl/#

• NIAS Terrorscapes. Transnational Memory of Totalitarian Terror and Genocide in Postwar Europe (2012-2013)

• AHRC-NWO Landscapes of War, Trauma&Occupation (2012-2014)

• AHRC-NWO Grand Award British-Dutch co-operation in the humanities 2012

• Erfgoed van de OorlogVWS

• Erfgoedtermen: oorlogserfgoed (Reinwardt Academie 2011)

• Theme Year Historical Country Estates 2012

• Nooit meer Auschwitz? Erfgoed van de oorlog na Europa's eeuw van de kampen. Inaugural VU Amsterdam, January 24, 2012

• Inaugural (Oratie) Van der Laarse will be published in book edition, April 12, 2013

Press and Conferences

• UvA European Memory Research Group: Digitisation and (Trans) National Memory Workshop, March 6 2013

• Beyond the Holocaust Paradigm? Archaeology of Memory and Terrorscape Archaeology. AAC research meeting by prof. dr. Rob van der Laarse (Westerbork Chair on War Heritage), 2 April 2013

• Paul Mullins blog on our EAA session on the Archaeology ofTerrorscapes, Sept 1 2012

• Dynamiek van de herinnering_Trouw 2009

• Huizinga Dynamics of memory andTerrorscapes research groups: conferences ITF and NIAS, 27-29/11/2011

• Reinwardt Memorial Lecture_publicatie 2011

• Een beertje kan al topvondst zijn (Volkskrant 10-12-2011)

• Zimmer mit Einsicht-Jüdische Allgemeine (23-11-2008)

• Villavan de kampcommdant (Westerbork) - Trouw (2-11-2007)

• Anne Frankboom - Trouw (21-11-2007)

• Tijdmachine van ingelegd hout - NRC-H(10-10-2008)

• Amsterdams interieur als stille getuige -Trouw(9-09-2008)

• Holocaust terrorscapes_Heritage reinvents Europe, 12th EAC symposium 2011

• Spui 25: Intangible heritage debate, 27-4-2011

• ITF Conference The Holocaust and other genocides, Vredespaleis Den Haag 27-28 November 2011

• NIAS workshop Terrorscapes 29 November 2011

• VU Holocaust Memorial Day 24-01-2012

• Oratie Westerborkleerstoel VU: Nooit meer Auschwitz? January 24 2012

• Laat Auschwitz beginpuntnieuwe toekomstzijn_artikel RD 25-01-2012

• Podcast radio interview Joods op zondag, 29-1-2012

• Wat zoekt deejay Ruud de Wild in Auschwitz? FD 16-2-2012

• Archaeology and Memory. Former WWII Camps in Europe 23-3-2012

• Naar een Europese herinnering? Debat Spui 25 4-4-2012

• Herinneren gaat ook over nu (5-5-2012)

• Talking heritage with Michael Shanks (May 13, 2012)

• The Archaeology of 20th‐century Terrorscapes: How to Proceed? EAA conference Helsinki, 29 August-1 Sept 2012

• Forgotten War and Occupation Heritage, Cambridge 25-6 August 2012

• After the Violence. 45th WisconsinWorkshop, Madison Sept 20-22 2012

• Terrorscapes. Rethinking the Holocaust Paradigm_NIAS Opening Academic Year Sept. 5 2012

• Objecten liegen niet! KNHG congres Voorwerpen maken geschiedenis, 2 nov 2012 (blog historici.nl)

Some publications:

Heritage, Identity and Musealisation

• Universeel museum als identiteitsfabriek(2004)

• Iconisch erfgoed (2005)

• Erfgoed en de constructie vanvroeger (2005)

• Erfgoedpolitiek - in gesprek met Van Rappard(2004)

• Bezeten van vroeger. Erfgoed, identiteit en musealisering (Complete volume, 2005)

• De Oorlog als beleving. Over de musealisering en enscenering van Holocaust-erfgoed (2011)

• De terugkeer van het eigene (a critique on UNESCO's Intangible HeritageDeclaration, Boekman2011)

• UvA Erfgoedlab: Voorbij Wilders en WikiLeaks 2011

 

Landscape and Heritage

• Panorama's op vroeger.Dynamiek van het landschap(2008)

• Gazing at places we've never been (2010)

• Beleving van de buitenplaats(2005)

• In Print! Reader Landscape&Heritage

 

Elites and Elite Cultures

• Beelden van de buitenplaats (2005)

• Burgers als buitenlui (2007)

• Ontdekking van de oudheid. Adellijke identiteitspolitiek Bourgondisch-Habsburgse Nederlanden (Virtus 2011)

• Virtus en distinctie - Ridders van de Republiek (2007)

• Twee eeuwen koninklijke paleizen -Bulletin KNOB 2010-5

• ---recensie Kasteelkatern KNOB paleizennr

 

European Culture and Conflict Heritage

• Inleiding - De hang naar zuiverheid. Inleiding (1998)

• Masking the Other- Max Nordau's representation of hidden Jewishness (HR 1999)

• Dehang naar zuiverheid. De cultuur van het moderne Europa (Google)

• Dadererfgoed - Kunst, kampen en landschappen (2009)

• Westerbork: Erfgoed vanhet verlies (2010)

• De terugkeer van het eigene (Boekman 2011, extensive web version)

• Laat Auschwitz geen nulpunt maar eindpunt zijn (2012)

 

Dutch Political Culture and History

• An Élitist Route to Democracy (2000)

• A Nation of Notables. Class, Politics and Religionin the Netherlands (1999)

• De Deugd enhet Kwaad. Conservatisme, liberalisme en Verlichting (2000)

• Paternalism and Pietism (Englisch summary Bevoogding and Bevinding, 1989)

• Cappuccinno 27-10-12

Politics of disremembering, Radio 2 (2012)

Interview Rob van der Laarse with radio presenter Jurgen van den Berg on the decision of UCI president Pat McQuaid to disremember Lance Armstrong from sport history. Did such a policy of forgetting ever succeed in history? Van der Laarse speaks of a classic case of damnatio memoriae going back to Roman antiquity, and mentions other casesfrom Hugo de Groot in the Netherlands to the German WWII policy of spatial and ethnic cleansing in West Poland (Warthegau) where complete populations and landscapes are faded out of history, and post 1989 renamings of heroes and street signs. Yet, with few exceptions, such policies of silencing are never succesfull, except some cases of complete totalitarian control of mass media.

NCRV Cappuccinno 27 July 2012 (skip the intro of 2,5 min !)

Digging in Westerbork, Radio 1 (2011)

Op het terrein van Kamp Westerbork wordt deze weken archeologisch onderzoek verricht. Ook het huis waar kampcommandant Gemmecker woonde wordt onderzocht. Wat betekentdit huis voor het Herinneringscentrum Westerbork? In de studio is te gast Rob van derLaarse , hoogleraar Erfgoed van de oorlog. Hij leidt het onderzoeksprogramma Terrorscapes en het Westerbork Archaeological Research Project , waarin Europese oorlogsonderzoekers en herinneringscentra samenwerken. 

Labyrint radio (NTS/VPRO): zondagavond 11 dec 2011 20:00-21:00 uur op Radio 1.

• Wetenschap24_Graven in Westerbork

Utoya - What about the afterlife of terrorsites? Radio 1 (2011)

Rob van der Laarse interviewed a week afterBreiviks killing of 68 young social democrats on Utoya island, about what might happen at the sites of terror after the catastrophe.  NCRC Lunch! 29 July 2011.      

• Wat gebeurter met rampplekken na de ramp? (29-6-2011)

Dadererfgoed / Perpetrator's heritage, series Radio 1 (2008)

Rob van der Laarse visits in the summer of 2008 with reporter Sandra van Duijn voor AVRO radio 1 some still 'forgotten' sites of WWII Perpetrator's Heritage in the Netherlands: the villa of the SS camp commander Gemmeker in the Jewish transit camp Westerbork (with director Dirk Mulder), Henri van der Velde's just retrieved 'NSB' painting De Nieuwe Mensch (The New Man) in depot of the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum (with curator Kees Zandvliet); the Nazi Luftwaffe bunker Diogenes in Schaarsbergen (with Edwin Hagedoorn, RGD Arnhem); and the Hague office and neoclassical desk of the WWII Dutch Nazi leader Anton Mussert, now the Queen's Office (with Corjan van de Peet, RGD The Hague).  AVRO series Dadererfgoed (June-September 2008)

• Villa van de Kampcommandant (Westerbork 23-6-2008)

• De Nieuwe Mensch (Rijksmuseum 24-6-2008)

• Bunker Diogenes (Schaarsbergen, RGD 4-7-2008)

• Het bureau van Mussert (Den Haag, RGD 31-7-2008)

Sources, Stories, Icons

Research reports of master students of UvA Heritage Studies, searching for sources, presenting stories, creating icons:

1. Erfgoedstudies Oostwaarts . A bilangual E-volume of essays on World Heritage Sites in East Germany and Poland, UvA 2008

2. 't Bekoorlyk Groeneveld . Report on the historical sources of Groeneveld Castle in Baarn to be used as icons for a new country house museum, in co-operation with Groeneveld and Heemst Consultancy (Amsterdam-Baarn 2009)

3. Het verlangen naar buiten . Report on material and visual objects and stories to be used as icons for a new presentation of Amsterdam and 'its' countryside, in co-operation with curators Kees Zandvliet and Bert Vreeken, and Marcel Oel (Staatsbosbeheer) (UvA-AM-SB, 2010)

• Report Groeneveld

• Report Amsterdam Museum

• Erfgoedstudies Oostwaarts

Lake District (2009)

Anyone who thinks he just goeson holliday for the beautiful weather or the fine food, is mistaken. As with our clothes and musical taste our vacation destinations show to others who we are. The story of a tourist hotspot is therefore also a cultural storyofsymbolic representation and identification. Thisis shown by the making and consumption ofthe English Lake District, one of Europe's iconicpicturesque landscapes.  

• Vakantiebestemmingen worden gemaakt. Kennislink.nl

Sites of Signification

Thoughts on spatial processes of meaningand signification, musealization and medialization, heritage and memory, digital access and tourist experience, at Significant Sights / Sites of Signification (2010)

• If then is now. Locatie + beleving lab

Onderwijsmodulen

Prof. dr. R. van der Laarse

Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
Oude Turfmarkt 141
1012 GC Amsterdam
tel. 5257278
R.vanderLaarse@uva.nl

is docent bij:

Artefact (BA ACW)

Site Analyse (MA Erfgoedstudies)
Biografiepracticum (MA Erfgoedstudies)
Biografie van stad en land (MA Erfgoedstudies, UvA/VUA)
Praktijkperiode Erfgoedstudies (MA Erfgoedstudies, 25 ects)
Erfgoedpracticum buitenlandexcursie (MA ES)
Masterscriptie erfgoedstudies (20 ects)
Erfgoedtheorie (MA Erfgoedstudies)
Erfgoedbeleid & -ethiek (MA Erfgoedstudies)

Digital Heritage(English, MA Mediastudies)

Terrorscapes (English, MA International Heritage Studies, VUA)

In verband met een onderzoekssabbatical (NIAS fellowship) verzorgt Van der Laarse in het collegejaar 2012/2013 geen cursussen bij UvA Erfgoedstudies.Wel begeleid hij stages en scripties, en verzorgt hij onderwijs bij de VU op het terrein van oorlogserfgoed (Terrorscapes) en gastcolleges binnen andere modulen, zoals Artefact, Biografie van stad en Land en Digital Heritage.

Ook begeleid hij scripties en stages op het terrein van cultureel erfgoed (musea, monumentaal, nationaal en Europees beleid), landschap, adel en buitenplaatsen, oorlogserfgoed, plaatsen van terreur, en Holocaust herinnering.

• my VU courses: Terrorscapes in Postwar Europe (International Heritage Master /Comparative arts and media studies)

• UvA Heritage Studies

• Interview with Prof. Dr. Rob van der Laarse (in English) War, Heritage and the Dynamics of Memory - Forced Labor 1939-1945, Memory at History, CEDIS-FU Berlin, September 2014

• Oorlogsgeschiedenis blootgelegd (interview with Ivar Schute on the discovery of the Sobibor gas chambers, in Dutch), Kennis van Nu, NPO Wetenschap, 26-9-2014

• Labyrint: Graven in Westerbork (Radio 1, 11-12-2011)

• Beeld en Geluid: radio interviews

• Rob van der Laarse joins CLUE (English text)

• Visies op een stadsmuseum: Yves Desmet (Hoofdredacteur De Morgen), Bruno De Wever (Prof. Dr. Geschiedenis UGent), Rob van der Laarse (Prof.Dr.Geschiedenis-Antropologie UV Amsterdam), Chris Dercon (Directeur Tate Modern Leuven), Dirk De Wachter (Psychiater-Psychotherapeut). Youtube @ Museumtraject Mechelen 2013

• De toekomst van WO 2. Radio Swammerdam, 19-5-2013

• Verdeelde Holocaust herinneringen (Kennislink 4-2-2014)

• Fout Erfgoed in Nederland (Radio 1 - EenVandaag 3-2-2014)

• Verzet bij executies (Holocaust killing fields) (Wetenschap 24 VPRO/NTR 22-12-2013)

• Video interviews (English) with Rob van der Laarse, Robert Jan van Pelt and others on the making and meaning of Auschwitz-Birkenau as Europe's iconic Terrorscape (Paradox production, Thomas Vroege and Zhenia Sveshinsky, NIAS January 2013)

• Interview (English text) with Rob van der Laarse (2010) on the concept of 'terrorscapes', CLUE website

• Buitenplaats, parel van duurzaamheid. Double Interview of Kester Freriks with Rob van der Laarse and Carolien Gehrels’, GRNVLD Magazine voor de verbinding van stad en land (24 August 2012)

• Eenheid Oorlogsgetroffenen herinnering
  lid toetsingscommissie erfgoed van de oorlog
• Virtus tijdschrift voor adelsgeschiedeni
  adviesraad
• Vor derhaarse Heritage consult
  eigenaar/ directeur eenmanszaak
• Stichting paradox
  commissaris raad van bestuur
• Projectbureau Belvedere
  onderzoeks- en onderwijsnetwerk erfgoed en ruimte
• Amsterdam University Press
  Editorial board landscape & Heritage Studies
• NWO Stuurgroep Dynamiek
  Algehele coordinatie onderzoekslijn culturele dynamiek
• Amsterdams historisch museum
  lid adviescommissie