Having Conversations in Occupied Palestine and Fortress Europe

Covid-19 and labour: Workers are set to pay the price of the pandemic

Shakespeare once wrote “the web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together”. In the book The Great Leveler, Walter Scheidel claims that violence has historically reduced economic inequality, and catastrophes are therefore somehow a historical human necessity since the Stone Age.

Crisis begets crisis? Assessing the crisis response in the EU

Crisis begets opportunity, they say. But looking at how the EU member states have responded to the economic fallouts of the Covid-19 pandemic, one might wonder whether the crisis response will beget another crisis.

Institutionalising environmental healing in times of COVID-19

The hiatus COVID-19’s preventive measures have provided us with presents a unique opportunity to reflect upon our imprint on Earth’s health. Here the medium is also the message.

Perspectives in the Time of Corona

We are certainly living in very uncertain times, but one thing seems to be clear: we will face one of the harshest economic, social, and health crises of our times.

Digital Education: Fast and Furious?

​​​​​​​A few years ago I made a MOOC - a Massive Open-Access Online Course – for Leiden University on the Coursera platform. Its called The Rooseveltian Century, re-interpreting US history in the 20th century through the lives of Theodore, Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt.

Joost Augusteijn's reflections on International Studies as former Chair of the Programme

When I became Chair of the International Studies programme in February 2016, I already knew it as a lecturer, who had taught History Europe from its inception, and as Director of Education of the Institute for History with responsibility for staffing many courses in the programme.

Managing Diversity in International Studies: An update

Taking back control of racial heritage: a response to Kaufmann