Biography
Kees Ribbens (1967) is endowed professor of Popular Historical Culture of Global Conflicts and Mass Violence at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Ribbens studied Modern History at the University of Nijmegen. He obtained his PhD at Utrecht University in 2001 after defending his dissertation on popular historical consciousness in the Netherlands, 1945-2000. Ribbens worked as a researcher and lecturer at Utrecht University, Radboud University Nijmegen and Erasmus University Rotterdam. He was also managing editor of the journal Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis. Since 2006 he has been at NIOD, where he works as a senior researcher.
Popular historical culture and public history in the broadest sense of the term are among his key interests. His interest includes both the history of the Second World War and the memories and representations of war and mass violence in the twentieth and twenty-first century. He has published widely, for example Exhibiting the war. The future of World War II Museums in the Netherlands (with Esther Captain, 2011); Oorlog op vijf continenten. Nieuwe Nederlanders & de geschiedenissen van de Tweede Wereldoorlog (War on five continents. New Dutchmen & the histories of World War II) (with Joep Schenk and Martijn Eickhoff, 2008); Nationale identiteit en meervoudig verleden (National identity and plural past) (with Maria Grever, 2007) and Bewogen jaren. Zwolle in de Tweede Wereldoorlog (Stirring years. Zwolle in World War II) (1995).
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- ribbens@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Kees Ribbens (2024) - Kastelen in de herinneringscultuur van de oorlog: Versnipperde onzichtbaarheid - [link]
- C R Ribbens (2024) - Stripverhalen als oorlogsvertolking: Analyse - Onderzoek Uitgelicht, 13 (3) - [link]
- C R Ribbens (2024) - Dramatische geschiedenis - Impact Magazine, 8 (2) - [link]
- Bas Kortholt, C R Ribbens & Bertien Minco (2024) - De herinnering aan Kamp Westerbork - [link]
- C R Ribbens & Erik De Graaf (2024) - Das Unvorstelbare zeigen: Zehn Comicautoren, zehn Geschichten über den Holocaust und andere NS-Verbrechen
- C R Ribbens, Erik De Graaf, B Carrot, Wide Vercnocke, Guido van Driel, Melanie Kranenburg, Milan Hulsing, Sterric, Jennifer Daniel, Jeroen Janssen, Arezoo Moradi & Tobi Dahmen (2024) - Het onvoorstelbare verbeeld: Het Onvoorstelbare Verbeeld: Stripverhalen over de Holocaust en andere nazi-misdaden [Picturing the Unimaginable: Comics about the Holocaust and Other Nazi-crimes]
- Meta Huijsmans, Hinke Piersma & C R Ribbens (2024) - “Hierbij doe ik u toekomen…”: De opstelling van het gemeentebestuur van Zwolle inzake ontrechting en rechtsherstel van joodse oorlogsslachtoffers - [link]
- C R Ribbens & Erik De Graaf (2024) - Imaginer l'inconcevable: Dix bédéistes, dix histoires sur la Shoah et d’autres crimes nazis
- C R Ribbens & Erik De Graaf (2024) - Picturing the Unimaginable: Ten Comic Authors, Ten Stories about The Holocaust and Other Nazi Crimes
- C R Ribbens (2023) - Pluriformiteit in vrijheid - [link]
- Kees Ribbens (22 December 2004) - De canon van de vaderlandse geschiedenis in de multiculturele samenleving
- Kees Ribbens (13 September 2004) - Inflatie van herdenkingen?
- Kees Ribbens (4 May 2004) - De voortlevende herinneringen aan de Tweede Wereldoorlog
- Kees Ribbens (22 March 2004) - Oldenbarnevelt en de Dorpsstraat. Historische vereniging bloeit door zoektocht naar eigen identiteit
- Kees Ribbens (6 March 2004) - De geschiedenis, dat ben je zelf
- Kees Ribbens (12 February 2004) - Springtij
- Kees Ribbens (5 February 2004) - Kanaalstraat 64
- Kees Ribbens (2024) - Witnesses of Violence (Organiser)
Activity: Attending an event › Popular - Kees Ribbens (2024) - Conference on the Holocaust and Human Rights (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Professional - Kees Ribbens (2023) - Leven met oorlog / Living with war (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Professional - Kees Ribbens (2023) - The Unimaginable Imagined (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Professional - Kees Ribbens & Kylie Thomas (2023) - ImageLab's Behind the Star workshop (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Kees Ribbens (2023) - Liberation Route Europe Foundation Annual Conference 2023 (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Professional - Kees Ribbens (2022) - e-commemoration convention 2022 (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Popular - Betsy J. Inlow & Kees Ribbens (2022) - Workshop Comics, Museums, WWII & the Holocaust (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Kees Ribbens (2022) - LRE (Liberation Route Europe) Foundation’s Historical Advisory Board (External organisation) (Member)
Activity: Membership of board › Professional - Kees Ribbens (2018) - WO2 Onderzoek Uitgelicht (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work › Professional
- MCR (Maria) Grever & CR (Kees) Ribbens (2006) - National Identity in Context. A common past in the Netherlands?
- MCR (Maria) Grever, S (Siep) Stuurman & CR (Kees) Ribbens (2005) - International Conference "Beyond the canon. History for the Twenty-First Century"
Radboud Universiteit
- Start date approval
- October 2023
- End date approval
- December 9999
- Place
- NIJMEGEN
