dr. PJBJ (Pieter) van den Heede

Biography

Pieter Van den Heede is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of History at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

In his research, he focuses on the study of historical culture (how people in past and present relate to the past), history didactics, public history and other forms of meta-reflection on history as a discipline. In addition, he is interested in the study of the Second World War.

In his dissertation 'Engaging with the Second World War through Digital Gaming' (2021), Pieter studied how digital entertainment games such as Call of Duty represent the war and the Holocaust, and how players reflect on playing these games. The PhD project was part of the Research Excellence Initiative (REI) ‘War! Popular Culture and European Heritage of Major Armed Conflicts’ (project leader Prof. Maria Grever) (2015-present). This interdisciplinary project was embedded at both the Center for Historical Culture (CHC) (History Department), and the Erasmus Research Center for Media, Commmunication and Culture (ERMeCC).

Pieter teaches courses on various topics, including the philosophy of history, historical culture, public history, Dutch history and digital humanities. He considers teaching to be one of his great joys in life.

Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication

Lecturer | Department of History
Email
vandenheede@eshcc.eur.nl

Work

  • Pieter Van den Heede (8 November 2023) - The Time Traveller's Almanac Podcast - Episode 4: How can we productively engage with historical analogies?
  • Pieter Van den Heede (1 August 2023) - The History Respawned Podcast - Episode 105: The Saboteur
  • Pieter van den Heede (12 March 2023) - Pro-Rusland of gewoon Russisch? De controverse omtrent een game
  • Pieter Heede (29 March 2021) - Studio Erasmus - Pieter van den heede over de relatie tussen videogames en WOII
  • Pieter Heede (15 March 2021) - WWII through Digital Gaming
  • Pieter Heede (28 February 2021) - OVT (Onvoltooid Verleden Tijd), VPRO

  • Pieter Van den Heede & Maria Grever (2024) - Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap (KNHG) - Debat: Het Verhaal van de Lage Landen (Spui25, Amsterdam) (Participant)
    Activity: Attending an event Academic
  • Pieter Van den Heede (2024) - Breach & Clear Met Muis en Toetsenbord: Een Reflectie op Gefilterde Weergaven van Oorlogsvoering via Gaming (Speaker)
    Activity: Invited talk Academic
  • Pieter Van den Heede (2023) - Game Depictions of the Past: World War II in Digital Games (Speaker)
    Activity: Invited talk Academic
  • Pieter Van den Heede (2023) - Engaging with WWII and the Holocaust via Gaming: Analytical Perspectives on Design and Reception (Speaker)
    Activity: Invited talk Academic
  • Pieter Heede (2020) - Towards Productive Moments of Historical Revelation (Speaker)
    Activity: Oral presentation Academic
  • Lise Zurne, Siri Driessen, Laurie Slegtenhorst & Pieter Heede (2019) - Users in focus: Memory consumers in academic research to popular representations of war history (Speaker)
    Activity: Oral presentation Academic
  • Pieter Heede (2018) - Games and sensitive history/histories of mass violence: towards a 'liminal' perspective? (Speaker)
    Activity: Oral presentation Academic
  • Pieter Heede (2018) - Livin' in a Nazi-infested world. Analyzing the ludic imagination of wartime occupation in the game The Saboteur (Speaker)
    Activity: Oral presentation Academic
  • Pieter Heede (2018) - The world's gotta know? Digital games and the violent legacies of the Second World War (Speaker)
    Activity: Oral presentation Academic
  • Pieter Heede (2016) - Reliving the 'greatest war ever'? De voorstelling van WOII in digitale games (Speaker)
    Activity: Oral presentation Academic

  • Pieter Van den Heede (2024) - Research Fellowship - Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen (February - June 2025)
  • Pieter Van den Heede (2022) - Nominee - Erasmus University Rotterdam Education Prize 2022
  • Pieter Van den Heede (2021) - ESHCC Incentive Grant (2022-2023)
  • P.J.B.J. van den Heede (2016) - The Dean's Award for Multidisciplinary Excellence

Doing Historical Research

Year Level
MA, MA, MA
Year
2024
Course Code
CH4018

Master Thesis

Year Level
MA, MA, MA, MA
Year
2024
Course Code
CH4050

Applied History

Year Level
BA-2, BA-2
Year
2024
Course Code
CH2228

Long Internship

Year
2024
Course Code
CH4243

Dutch History in a Globalizing World

Year Level
BA-1, BA-1
Year
2024
Course Code
CH1107

Quantitative Historical Methods

Year Level
BA-2, BA-2
Year
2024
Course Code
CH2216

The Public Role of Historians

Level
BA-3
Year Level
BA-3
Year
2024
Course Code
CH3051

Applied History MA Project

Level
MA
Year Level
MA
Year
2024
Course Code
CH4052

Short Internship

Level
MA
Year Level
MA
Year
2024
Course Code
CH4121

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