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 (2024) - Historische televisie à la Van Oostrom en Conscience? - Bijdragen en Mededelingen Betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 139 (1), 37-58 - doi: 10.51769/bmgn-lchr.17757 - [link]
Pieter van den Heede (2024) - Replaying Wartime Résistance?: Studying Ludic Memory-Making in the Open World Game <i>The Saboteur</i> - Games and Culture, 19 (2), 1-21 - doi: 10.1177/15554120231160904 - [link]
Pieter van den Heede (2023) - Recensie: Remco Ensel, Anne Frank on the Postwar Dutch Stage: Performance, Memory, Affect - Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden (online), 138 (2), 1-3 - doi: 10.51769/bmgn-lchr.15263
Pieter van den Heede & Sara Polak (2023) - Historical Events as ‘Magic Yarn Balls’: Towards Productive Engagements with Historical Analogies - Journal of Applied History, 5 (1), 47-74 - doi: 10.1163/25895893-bja10035 - [link]
Pieter van den Heede (2023) - "Press Escape to Skip Concentration Camp"? Player Reflections on Engagement with the Holocaust through Digital Gaming - History and Memory, 35 (1), 108-140 - doi: 10.2979/ham.2023.a885270 - [link]
Pieter Van den Heede (2023) - Videojuegos y Aprendizaje Informal de Historia: Possibilidades y Limitaciones - [link]
Pieter van den Heede (2022) - Over helden, schurken, en Emile Durkheim - [link]
Pieter van den Heede (2022) - Digital Entertainment Gaming as a Site for (Informal) Historical Learning?: A Reflection on Possibilities and Limitations - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-10743-6_9 - [link]
Eva Kingsepp & Pieter van den Heede (2022) - Immediacy / Hypermediacy - doi: 10.5040/9781350927926.112
Pieter van den Heede (2022) - Een wijzende vinger naar ‘dé verklikker’ van Anne Frank vertroebelt ons historisch inzicht - [link]

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Pieter Van den Heede (9 January 2025) - NPO Radio 1, Villa VdB - Een burgerschapsfestival om integratie te bevorderen
Pieter Van den Heede (6 January 2025) - Opiniestuk De Volkskrant: Voer een 'ontmoetingsplicht' in om de integratie te bevorderen
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

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Charlotte Bruns, Ofra Klein, Pieter Van den Heede & Jay (Ju-Sung) Lee (2024) - Visual Data in a Digital World: Exploring Innovative Methods (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic
Pieter Van den Heede (2024) - Department of History (Organisational unit) (Chair)
Activity: Membership of committee › Academic
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

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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