Image: Presentation session for undergraduate course, The Politics of Violence, designed and taught by Visiting Professor Luuk Slooter (Spring 2024).
Recent Visiting Scholars
Luuk Slooter
- Visiting Professor of Utrecht University
- UCLA Dutch Studies Program, Spring 2024
During Dr. Luuk Slooter's professorship at UCLA, he taught two undergraduate courses in the Department of Political Science, entitled, "The Politics of Violence" and "Urban Violence in the 21st Century". On June 5, 2024, Dr. Slooter gave a lecture entitled Violence in the suburbs of France: a tragic cycle of déjà vus. In this lecture, cosponsored by the The Center for European and Russian Studies and the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, Dr. Slooter brought his audience to the disadvantaged suburbs (banlieues) of France and disaggregated the three act drama of police brutality and collective violence. Drawing on ethnographic research, Slooter showed how the cycle of car burning protests and police brutality is rooted in the structural violence of a socially and spatially divided society. Listen to his talk here.
Jack McMartin
- Visiting Professor of KU Leuven
- UCLA Dutch Studies Program, Spring 2023
During Dr. Jack McMartin's professorship at UCLA, he taught a course in the Department of Comparative Literature.On May 24, 2023, he gave a lecture at The Center for European and Russian Studies cosponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, entitled Prizing European Values: The Case of the European Union Prize for Literature. His talk examined the organizational make-up and consecratory practices of the EU Prize for Literature (EUPL) in order to better understand its role in promoting emerging European writers and projecting European values such as multilingualism, cultural heritage and diversity. By analyzing the dynamics of prizing and translation, he showed how the EUPL actively shapes the borders of European cultural identity and acts as an instrument of soft power.
Margreet van Es
- Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Utrecht University
- UCLA Dutch Studies Program, Spring 2023
During Dr. Margreet van Es' professorship at UCLA, she taught an undergraduate course in the Department of Sociology entitled "Contesting Diversity in the Netherlands". On May 16, 2023, she gave a lecture entitled "Halal Dining in Rotterdam: “Lived” Religious Diversity and the Importance of the Private Sector" with respondent Aomar Boum, Professor and Maurice Amado Endowed Chair in Sephardic Studies at UCLA Anthropology. Her lecture analyzed the emergence of trendy, alcohol-free halal restaurants in Rotterdam through the lens of cosmopolitanism and the politics of belonging.
Uğur Ümit Üngör
- Visiting Professor of Utrecht University
- UCLA Dutch Studies Program, Fall 2019
Tom Verschaffel
- Visiting Professor of University of Leuven
- UCLA Dutch Studies Program, Spring 2019