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Gerda Henkel Foundation awards grant to project ‘Economies of Trust’
The Gerda Henkel Foundation has awarded a grant of 253k euro to ‘Economies of Trust? A New Digital Infrastructure on the Urban Poor in the Cape Colony’.
This project, administered by Radboud University, is a two-year project led by Dr Dries Lyna (assistant professor at the Radboud Institute for Culture and History and member of the General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute and Principal Investigator of the ‘Economies of Trust’ project), Dr Eva Marie Lehner (postdoc researcher at the Bonn Centre for Slavery and Dependency Studies) and Dr Wouter Ryckbosch (assistant professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and also member of the General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute). The project will also involve three postdoc researchers, who will be recruited in the near future.
This historical research project aims to construct and expand a digital infrastructure to facilitate future social and economic research regarding the eighteenth-century Cape Colony. The project also comprises a large outreach-component, aiming at art projects in cooperation with local museums and galleries (e.g., Iziko South African National Gallery en A4 Arts Foundation Cape Town), knowledge videos in cooperation with Blindspot Films Stellenbosch, as well as a community mapping-project with students from South-Africa in cooperation with the iDiscover company. The project is currently in the preparatory phase and will have its formal start in 2026.
The N.W. Posthumus Institute congratulates Dries, Wouter, and Eva Marie with this grant.
