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Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm. Photo: Marieke Balk

Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm. Photo: Marieke Balk

Attend Nelleke IJssennagger's inaugural lecture via video link

Event

History and heritage

General

Prof. Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm FSA, director of the Fryske Akademy – of which the Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning is a part – has also been professor by special appointment at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen since 2025. She will deliver her inaugural lecture on 6 February.

IJssennagger-van der Pluijm's teaching assignment is Cultural History of the Southern North Sea Region in the Early Middle Ages and Viking Age. Her inaugural lecture is therefore entitled “Connecting Marginal Matters” ["Randzaken verbinden'].

Her argument focuses on the value of peripheral areas and seemingly peripheral themes in the study of cultural history, as well as the structural connection between them. She focuses specifically on the southern North Sea region (Frisia) during the early Middle Ages and the Viking Age (ca. 600–1100 AD).

Livestream

IJssennagger's inaugural lecture will take place on Friday 6 February 2026 at 4.15 p.m. The lecture will be broadcast live via a video link on the university's website.

After the lecture, the full text of the inaugural address will be published online. The text will then be available as open access via doi.org/10.21827/68ef4e29d8e77. Please note: this link will become available on the day of the lecture.

 

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