Humboldt Research Fellowship awarded to Reindert Dhondt

The German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has granted a Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers to Dr Reindert Dhondt (Languages, Literature and Communication) for his project on the representation of internally displaced and kidnapped persons in recent Colombian film and literature.

The research project

By analysing different cultural representations of violence in the nation’s margins, the project will gain insight in the mediating role of stories in the shaping of a national memory and in conflict-resolution.

The fellowship allows Dhondt to conduct research for a period of twelve months at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main and to undertake short-term research stays at the Universität Konstanz and the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut in Berlin.