ALBA Thesis Award

Liesbeth Brouwer (1953 – 2006) was an active and inspirational lecturer who contributed significantly and creatively to the development of the Euroculture programme – not only at the University of Groningen, but also within the network.

Tragically, she passed away in 2006. To honour her legacy, ALBA has been established, in memory of Liesbeth’s multi- and interdisciplinary contribution to the programme.

ALBA consists of two elements:

1.The Annual Liesbeth Brouwer Address: a yearly lecture organized at the University of Groningen.

2.The Annual Liesbeth Brouwer Award: a thesis prize for students from the Euroculture network. Each year the prize (500 €) will be awarded to the author of the thesis that, according to the jury’s opinion, most effectively and elegantly represents the “Euroculture” approach, that is, dealing with current European issues from a complex perspective and approaching the related problems in an interdisciplinary manner.

Previous ALBA Thesis Award recipients:

2024
Chiara Baldin, ‘‘Being Born in the Right Place at the Right Time: The Privilege of Being White in Mexico and the Current Perception of the Mestizo Identity within Mexican Society’’

2023
The ALBA Thesis Award for 2020 was awarded Ex Aequo to the below candidates: 

Patricia Miraflores, ''Irregularity meets integration: Conceptualising the agency and positionalities of irregular Filipino migrants navigating the (in)formal rules of a post-Brexit, mid-pandemic UK''

Sophie Ehmsen, ''What's the Problem with Arms Exports? Understanding the Role of Gender Equality in EU Security, Defense and Arms Control Policies''

2022
Lea Marie Quilitz, ''Sustainability at Higher Education Institutions: Paradox or Pioneering? A Case Study on the Universities of Goettingen and Uppsala''

2021
Sophie Sievert-Kloster, ''Redressing Intersectional Discrimination in European Courts: Is there space for intersectionality in Europe’s legal architecture?''

2020
The ALBA Thesis Award for 2020 was awarded Ex Aequo to the below candidates: 

Sabina Mešić, ''Cultural Narratives of the law in Las Elegidas and The Girl  Who Played with Fire: Empowerment as the Fourth Pillar of Combating Sex Trafficking''

Sarah Zanaz, ''THE HUMAN AND THE BEAST”; Exploring the Systemic Dimension of Speciesism''

2019
Noémi Kalocsay, "Civil Society and Democratization in Hungary: The Role of Civil Organizations in the Integration of Third Country Nationals"

2018
Arnab Dutta, "The Borders and the Boundaries in the Land of the Quasi-masters: Continental Europe as seen through Bangla travel narratives, 1919-50"

2017
Jesse van Amelsvoort, "Houses of the Past: The Contemporary Gothic Novel and the Space of Citizenship"

2016
Theresa Bärwolff, “Linking Heritage, Culture and Development: The Pune Heritage Festival in Pune (India) in comparison with Heritage Open Days in Norwich (UK)"

2015
Adithya Pillai, “The problem of understanding in the study of Indian and European philosophies in the book ‘India and Europe’ by Wilhelm Halbfass”

2014
Sarah Eilingsfield, “The construction of second-generation migrant identities in contemporary literature, notably the work of Zadie Smith and Yadé Kara”

2012
Lora Markova, “The Representation of Transculturality in European Visual Media. Mapping Transcultural Identities in European Artistic Expressions and Reconceptualizing Transculturality as the Creative Practice of Sampling Cultures”

2011
Claire Greenfield, “Cultural Citizenship in the Curriculum: A Case Study on Citizenship Education in England and Austria”.

2010
Sarah Goler, “The New Edible Endangered Species. PDO, PGI and TSG Policies, Food and Cultural Pluralism in Europe”.

2009
Anna Nikolaeva, “Reimagining Potsdamer Platz: Contested Memories and Urban Visions”.

2008
Luca Mangiat, “Constitutional patriotism and Switzerland: Civic identities, exclusion and self-delusion”.