For a more extensive version of my cv, please have a look at my LinkedIn page. Here, I will provide a brief overview.
Work Experience | Teaching | Conferences and Talks | Publications
Work experience
- 2021-present: Assistant Professor of Political Theory, at the Radboud University Nijmegen, Faculty of Management Sciences, Department of Political Science.
- 2021-present: postdoctoral researcher at the Vive la Commune! project, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
- 2021-present: Member of the FOC, faculty co-determination board.
- 2015-2021: PhD candidate at the Radboud University Nijmegen, Faculty of Management Sciences, Department of Political Science.
- Apart from tasks regarding research and education, I served as member of the Examination Board and the Programme Committee of Political Science. Moreover, I am the organizer of the Political Science Lunch Sessions and I was a member of the Junior Faculty Consortium.
- 2013-present: Supervisor at the Radboud Honours Academy.
- 2018-2019: Programme Director of the Interdisciplinary Master Programme of the Radboud Honours Academy.
- 2014-2015: Trainee at the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) in The Hague.
Teaching
Political Science:
- Sociology, Philosophy and Ethics of Research, Master (2021-2022).
- Contemporary Debates in Political Theory, Master (2020-2021).
- History of Political Thought, Bachelor and Premaster (2015-2021).
- Academic Skills, Bachelor (2019-2021).
- Bachelor thesis.
- Master thesis.
- Internship (coordination and supervision).
Radboud Honours Academy:
- Instructor of the Honours Lab ‘Towards a New Democracy‘ (2022).
- Supervisor of Master Students’ Think Tank on ‘European Politics’:
- 2018-2019 on the role of the university in battling Fake News for the Rathenau Instituut.
- 2017-2018 on academic exchange with Russia for the
Netherlands Institute in St. Petersburg. - 2016-2017 on civil society and refugees for the UNHCR
- 2015-2016 on the credibility of the heritage list for the Netherlands National Commission for UNESCO.
- 2014-2015 on creative spaces for the Netherlands Institute in St. Petersburg.
- 2013-2014 on the effectiveness of Erasmus+, for the EC DG EAC.
Conferences and Talks
- 19 January 2019: Moderator at the Radboud Reflects night about Black
’47. (podcast) - 1 November 2018: Conference in Bremen: Novemberrevolution und Räterepublik 1918/19.
- Presented my paper on Radikale Theorie und politische Praxis in der Bremer Räterepublik.
- Presented my paper on Radikale Theorie und politische Praxis in der Bremer Räterepublik.
- 23 August 2018: ECPR General Conference in Hamburg, panel on History and Theory of Council Democracy.
- Presented paper on Council communism and the Bremen Council Republic.
- 24 May 2018: Conference in Exeter on The German Revolution and the Radical Democratic Imaginary.
- Presented my research on the Bremen Council Republic.
- 14 May 2018: 2nd Annual Radboud-Leibniz Political Science PhD-Workshop in Hannover.
- 9 and 11 November 2017: Moderator at InScience Film Festival.
- Interview with Evert van der Zweerde on Le Jeune Karl Marx.
- Moderator for The Testament.
- 15 September 2017: DIA Graduiertenkolleg – Kommunismus als Weltgeschichte
- Presented a paper on the Workers’ and Soldiers’ Council in Hamburg
- 20-21 June 2017: 1st Annual Radboud-Leibniz Political Science PhD-Workshop in Nijmegen.
- Presented my research.
- 1-2 June 2017: Politicologenetmaal in Leiden
- Presented a paper on council communism in a panel on Economic Democracy.
- 27-28 October 2016: Research Seminar RSPH in Münster on German-Dutch relations
- Presented a paper on the history of the concept ‘council’ in council communism.
- 25-26 August 2016: OZSW Summer Seminar ‘Coming to Terms With Power’
- 10-13 July 2016: Graduate Conference ECPR in Tartu
- Presented a draft paper on the history of the concept ‘council’ in council communism.
- Chaired a panel in the Political Theory section on Conceptual Changes.
- 2 June 2016: Alternatives to parliamentary democracy in Europe
- Presented a draft paper on the history of the council concept.
- 9-21 June 2015: Summer School CONCEPTA
Publications
Academic:
- Dissertation: G. Kets, Follow the leader? Ideas and agents in the German Revolution of 1918–1919. Radboud University (2021) Supervisor(s): prof. dr. M.L.J. Wissenburg & dr. J.G.M.M. Rosendaal.
- G. Kets & B. Ask Popp-Madsen, (2021). Workers’ Councils and Radical Democracy: Toward a Conceptual History of Council Democracy from Marx to Occupy. Polity, 53 (1). doi: 10.1086/711750
- G. Kets, Radikale Theorie und politische Praxis in der Bremer Räterepublik. , in: Novemberrevolution und Räterepublik 1918/19 Bremen und Nordwestdeutschland zwischen Kriegsende und Neuanfang (Bremen : Bremische Bürgerschaft, Staatsarchiv Bremen 2019), pp. 116-125.
- With James Muldoon: The German Revolution and Political Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
- Book review (2019): Rob Hartmans, De revolutie die niet doorging. De tragedie van Troelstra, november 1918. De Moderne Tijd, 3(2).
- With James Muldoon: ‘Rediscovering the Hamburg Workers’
and Soldiers’ Councils’, in: James Muldoon (ed.), Council Democracy. Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics (New York: Routledge, 2018), 51-70. (pre-print version). - ‘Book Review: Bas Leijssenaar, Judith Martens, Evert van der Zweerde, Futures of Democracy (Nijmegen & Eindhoven: Wilde Raven, 2014)’, Critical Studies, Vol. 2 (September 2016), 120-123 (available online).
Non-academic:
- (2017) ‘Blijvend in de schaduw van Rusland? Hoe de ‘Grootste Revolutie’ in Duitsland verdrongen raakte in de geschiedschrijving en herinneringscultuur’, Liberale Reflecties, 58 (2), 31-43 (PDF).
- ‘Communist of ambtenaar? Johan Wilman (1921-2009)’, in: Jeroen Pepers en Davied van Berlo (ed.) Ambtenaren! 200 jaar werken aan Nederland in 100 portretten (Den Haag 2015), pp. 146-147 (pre-print version (pdf, 118 kB)).
- ‘Infiltreren bij de Maagdenhuisbezetting. Peter IJzerman (1944)’, in: Jeroen Pepers en Davied van Berlo (ed.) Ambtenaren! 200 jaar werken aan Nederland in 100 portretten (Den Haag 2015), pp. 170-171 (pre-print version (pdf, 104 kB)).
- ‘Slachtoffer van terrorisme. Arie Kranenburg (1931-1977)’, in: Jeroen Pepers en Davied van Berlo (ed.) Ambtenaren! 200 jaar werken aan Nederland in 100 portretten (Den Haag 2015), pp. 186-187 (pre-print version (pdf, 111 kB)).
- ‘On the way to a new dialogue. A policy advice on the European Commission’s dialogue with religious, philosophical and non-confessional organisations’, in: Radboud Honours Academy (ed.), One European political identity? Reflections on science 2011-2012 (Nijmegen 2012) 13-33,available online.
- Gaard Kets, Parlement: Ideaal en Werkelijkheid. Parlementshervorming in Nederland en Duitsland in de jaren zestig (Jonge historici schrijven geschiedenis 56; Amsterdam 2012), available online.
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