prof.dr. RJ (Robbert-Jan) Adriaansen

Biography

Robbert-Jan Adriaansen is associate professor at the History Department of Erasmus University Rotterdam and is the EuroClio Endowed Chair Historical Culture in Transition at Ghent University. He is co-lead of the research cluster Heritage & Identity and is executive director of the Center for Historical Culture.

He received his PhD cum laude from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2013. Adriaansen's research focuses on historical culture and historical consciousness, in the past and in the present. In 2015 he published the monograph The Rhythm of Eternity: The German Youth Movement and the Experience of the Past, 1900-1933 (Berghahn, 2015). His current research focuses on the impact of digitization on historical consciousness, historical culture, and history education.

Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication

Associate professor | Department of History

Email: adriaansen@eshcc.eur.nl

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Work

Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Digitalisering en historische cultuur: Internet memes als multimodale historische analogieën - [link]
Lise Zurné & Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Immersed in the past.: What historical re-enactment reveals about rules and boundaries - The Sociological Review Magazine - doi: 10.51428/tsr.zgaf5356
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Multimodal meaning-making: How social media shapes students’ historical understanding - Teaching History, 58 (2), 40-43 - [link]
Robbert Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Latent and explicit mnemonic communities on social media: studying digital memory formation through hashtag co-occurrence analysis - Memory, Mind and Media, 3 - doi: 10.1017/mem.2024.7 - [link]
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Pieter van Leeuwen & Tina van der Vlies (2024) - De Historisch Didactische Collectie
Kaya de Wolff & Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Digitale und globale Erinnerungskulturen als Ausgangspunkt einer selbstreflexiven Pädagogik des Zuhörens - forum erwachsenenbildung, 57 (1), 20-24 - [link]
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - From Concept to Classroom: Historical Consciousness and History Education - Passato e Presente, XLII (123), 72-90 - [link]
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Swipen door de tijd: historische representatie op sociale media - Kleio: Tijdschrift van de Vereniging van Geschiedenisleraren in Nederland, 65 (1), 28-33
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Pieter van Leeuwen & Tina van der Vlies (2024) - The history didactics collection / De historisch didactische collectie
Berrie Vugts, Matthijs Holwerda, Sam de Vries, Ronald van Raak, Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Cora Boele, Hester van de Bovenkamp, Herman Gerritsen, Rob Grim, Frea Haandrikman, Rosalba Icaza, Lucinda Jones, Roman Koot, Faye Kruithof, Pieter van Leeuwen, Paul Plaatsman, Coleta Platenkamp, Elsbeth van der Ploeg, Jolla Schelling, Hanneke Takkenberg, Tina van der Vlies & Berrie Vugts (2024) - The living library: Stories from the collections of the Erasmus University Library
Robyn Murning & Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2023) - Paradoxical legacies and unattainable futures: South Africa’s national self-narrative and the haunting of gender-based violence in the post-transitional era - Southern Journal for Contemporary History, 48 (2), 113–139 - doi: 10.38140/sjch.v48i2.7062 - [link]
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2023) - Analogías y conciencia histórica. Lecciones generadas por los usuarios en TikTok
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2023) - Historische re-enactment als simulatie van het verleden
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2023) - Historisches Reenactment als Simulation der Vergangenheit
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2022) - Dark Academia: Curating Affective History in a COVID-Era Internet Aesthetic - International Public History, 5 (2), 105-114 - doi: 10.1515/iph-2022-2047 - [link]
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2022) - Historical Analogies and Historical Consciousness: User-Generated History Lessons on TikTok - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-10743-6_3 - [link]
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2022) - Conceptualizing the Period Rush: Ludic Dimensions of Immersive History in Historical Reenactment - [link]
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2022) - Smiling in Auschwitz: Instagram Selfies and Historical Representation at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum - doi: 10.4324/9781003264460-11

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Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (12 september 2024) - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen appointed EuroClio Chair of Historical Culture in Transition at Ghent University – an interview
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (12 september 2024) - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen appointed EuroClio Chair of Historical Culture in Transition at Ghent University – an interview
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (1 juli 2023) - De la Compagnie des Indes aux supertankers: le fabuleux destin historique de Rotterdam
RJ (Robbert-Jan) Adriaansen (30 september 2021) - A party holiday and a philosophical book complement each other
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (22 juni 2018) - De Ochtendspits
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen & JR Stackhouse (1 januari 2017) - The Rhythm of Eternity

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Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2025) - Negende Nationale Geschiedenisonderwijscongres: Rampen in de Geschiedenis (Participant)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Professional
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2025) - Internet Memes as Multimodal Analogies: Analogical Reasoning and Participatory History in the Subreddit r/HistoryMemes (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2025) - Oorlog en herinnering op sociale media: Kansen en uitdagingen voor vredes- en herinneringseducatie (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Professional
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2025) - The Instrumentalization of History Education (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Tina van der Vlies & Carola Hein (2024) - Water Heritage and Identity (Organiser)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - The "Golden Age": An Introduction to Conceptual History and Labelling (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Professional
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Technologically Augmented Scholarship? Ethical Considerations for the Use of Large Language Models in Historical Research (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen & Tina van der Vlies (2024) - Heritage in Brazil (Organiser)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Achtste Nationale Geschiedenisonderwijscongres: Oorlog en Europa (Organiser)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Professional
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Het verleden op je scherm: Sociale media en het geschiedenisonderwijs (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Professional
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Journal of Slavic Military Studies (Journal) (Reviewer)
Activiteit: Publication Peer-review › Academic
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2023) - Symposium Sacred Grounds and Embodied Histories: Engaging with War Heritage through Place and Performance (Organiser)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen & Maria Grever (2023) - Controversial Monuments and the Changing of Mnemonic Regimes (Organiser)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen & Maria Grever (2023) - Ethische en professionele normen voor historisch onderzoek (Organiser)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2023) - Exploring latent mnemonic communities on social media. A hashtag co-occurrence analysis of #ThrowbackThursday (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2023) - Remembering Collectively in the Digital Age: Latent Mnemonic Communities on Social Media Platforms (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic