- Intellectual history / History of ideas
- history of historical thinking
- European nationalisms
- Orientalism in colonial history
- historiography of biblical and classical antiquity
- History of the human sciences
- the modern research university
- the rise of Middle Eastern archaeology
- history of editing manuscripts
- Royal Historical Commission of Belgium
- Religious history
- secularism and religion in the 19th century
- the Bible in the First World War
- Jewish scholars and the study of Islam
- the problems of modernity for theology (Jewish and Christian)
Students are very much welcome to write and discuss their own ideas for related topics.
Note: Tutorials will be in English, but work may be written in Dutch as well as English.