MOVING HUMANITIES 2014
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Conference venues: Gymnasion & Cultuurcafé
10.00-10.15
Registration with coffee and tea
Foyer
(Noordvleugel
Gymnasion)
10.15-10.30
Opening
GN3
10.30-11.30
Workshops by VENI grant recipients: their roads to success
GN1
GN2
GN4
Dr Lisette Mol
Dr Floris Overduin
Dr Delphine Bellis
11.30-12.45
Parallel sessions 1
Session 1.1
GN1
Chair: Dr Anneke de Graaf
Wendy Jacobs (Communication and Information Sciences)
(Tilburg University)
(Radboud University)
(Radboud University)
CLS
HLCS
PTRS
Reducing Self-Perceived Cognitive Problems after Breast Cancer Treatment: The Role of
Stereotype Vulnerability
Ferdy Hubers (Linguistics)
Emotional responses in reading groter als ‘bigger as’: An fMRI study
Annemarie Weerman (Communication and Information Sciences)
You did what?! An examination of argument quality manipulations in advertising research
Session 1.2
GN2
Chair: Dr Joost Rosendaal
Maaike Derksen (History)
Educating and civilising the Javanese: Catholic mission schools in Java 1904-1942
Koen van Zon (History)
In Search of Purpose. The European Parliament in search of alternative repertoires of
legitimacy, 1950-1960
Thomas Smits (Literary and Cultural Studies)
Doing digital humanities: readers of 19th century illustrated newspapers
Session 1.3
GN4
Chair: Prof Peter Nissen
Ruti Vardi (Theology)
The conceptualisation of emotions in Biblical Hebrew
Ezra Delahaye (Philosophy)
The power of the powerless: the Bartleby case
Jorn Ackermans (Philosophy)
Thomas Aquinas on the Embodied and the Disembodied Soul: An Inquiry into Thomas’
Accounts of the Soul’s Cognitive-Psychological Functioning in its Embodied and Disembodied
State
12.45-13.30
Foyer
(Noordvleugel
Gymnasion)
Lunch
13.30-14.45
Parallel sessions 2
Session 2.1
GN1
Chair: Prof Carla Rita Palmerino
Frank van Caspel (Open University, Philosophy)
On Proprification
Carli Coenen (Open University, Philosophy)
Merleau-Ponty’s La structure du comportement: from Cartesian dualism to Embodied
Cognition?
Gauwain van Kooten Niekerk (Religion Studies)
Forging meaning in the interaction between viewer and film
Session 2.2
GN2
Chair: Dr Stefan Frank
Lieke Verheijen (Dutch Language and Culture)
The Linguistics of Computer-Mediated Communication – A Register Analysis of Dutch
Youngsters’ Written CMC
Huib Kouwenhoven (Communication and Information Sciences)
Register variation and communication strategy use by Spanish users of English
Lisa Morano (Linguistics)
Learning reduced words in a foreign language
Session 2.3
GN4
Chair: Prof Alicia Montoya
Lieke van Deinsen (Dutch Language and Culture)
Collecting Culture and the Culture of Collecting: Forging Cultural History in EighteenthCentury Cabinets of Curiosities.
Jordy Geerlings (History)
Catholics in Leiden sociability (1750-1800)
Floris Solleveld (History)
What happened to the Republic of Letters?
14.45-15.00
Foyer
(Noordvleugel
Gymnasion)
Coffee and tea
15.00-16.15
Parallel sessions 3
Session 3.1
GN1
Chair: Dr Maarten de Pourcq
Meta Links (English Language and Culture)
Correlative Constructions in Earlier English
Isabel Kimmelfield (History)
Byzantine History and Heritage in Tophane, Istanbul: A New Approach to Studying the
Suburbs of Constantinople
Eveline Rutten (Greek Language and Culture)
A very short introduction to digital editing for Humanities
Esmée Bruggink (Greek Language and Culture)
Variation in Plato’s Quotation of Homer: an illustration
Session 3.2
GN2
Chair: Yvette Linders MA
Nienke Fortuin (Religion Studies)
Interpreting death from a cultural context
Christa van Mourik (German Language and Culture)
Poetics and catchwords
Guusje Jol (Dutch Language and Culture)
‘How do you know?’ Questions about sources of knowledge in police interviews with child
witnesses
Session 3.3
GN4
Chair: Dr Martine Veldhuizen
Christel Theunissen (Art History)
Medieval choir stalls on the move: solving an art historical puzzle
Kor Bosch (History)
Not all roads lead to Rome. Descriptions of travel by visitors to the papal court(s) in an age of
schism, 1378-1449
Bernardien van den Berg (Religious Studies)
The religious of Onze-Lieve-Vrouw in de Hage in Helmond (1462-1543): choir or converse
sisters?
16.15-17.00
GN3
Keynote lecture by Prof Wijnand Mijnhardt (Utrecht University)
17.00 onwards
Drinks and snacks
Cultuurcafé
Why Science Does Not Work as It Should, And What To Do about It