Universiteit Leiden
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Annual Report
Institute for History
Matulessy, E.P., Meel, P.J.J.
2013
Doelensteeg 16, 2311 VL Leiden
Institute for History Annual Report 2013
Colophon
© Institute for History, 2014
www.hum.leiden.edu/history
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Table of contents
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Introduction
Boards and Committees
The Unification of the Mediterranean World (400 BC – 400 AD)
Collective Identities and Transnational Networks in Medieval and Early
Modern Europe, 1000-1800
Political Culture and National Identities
Colonia land Global History
Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Research Master Programme
PhD Programme
Graduate Seminars
Members
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1. Introduction
Introduction
In 2013 the Institute for History has considered the recommendations of the international peer review
committee which in 2012 evaluated the research of the members of the Institute. Furthermore, the
Institute assessed the didactical course offered to PhD candidates employed by the Institute in order to
determine whether the course still fulfills the teaching needs of the PhDs. In terms of research funding
in 2013 the Institute experienced – what can be termed – an average year, particularly compared to the
flow of subsidies that reached the Institute in the previous year.
Follow-up research evaluation
The recommendations put forward by the international peer review committee in 2012 included
advice with respect to the profile and visibility of the Leiden Institute for History, the transparency of
the programme coordination, publication strategies and the societal role of researchers. In 2013 the
Institute’s staff took a lot of effort in addressing these issues and discussing viable options as to
meaningfully strengthen the existing research policy.
Key members cooperated closely in order to identify and convincingly articulate the singular character
of the Leiden history research and to improve the thematic coherence between and within the main
research programmes. Agreement was reached with respect to the name and the core constituents of
the research profile. It was decided that under the label ‘Global questions, local sources’ emphasis
would be placed on the examination of global interactions using the broad temporal and spatial
expertise available in Leiden and looking at long term developments within their specific historical
contexts. Local (mainly primary) sources would be consulted to adequately study and properly answer
‘big’ research questions. Self-evidently this decision had consequences for the existing subdivision of
the research profile into five specializations. Some of the names of these specializations were adjusted
and the goals of all specializations were updated and more firmly directed towards the aim of the
overall programme. The current names of the five programmes are: The Unification of the
Mediterranean World (400 BC - 400 AD); Collective Identities and Transnational Networks in Europe,
1000-1800; Political Culture and National Identities; Colonial and Global History; Cities, Migration
and Global Interdependence.
During the discussion also the management of the programmes received proper attention.
A consensus was reached regarding the view that the success of the programmes would be sustained by
more targeted meetings of the committees involved in the running of the programmes with all the
scholars connected to them. A more sophisticated embedding of these meetings within the
administrative calendar of the Institute was wholeheartedly applauded. Meetings of the separate
programme committees will focus on the preparation of new research projects, the scheduling and
writing of grant applications, the production of collective and individual research publications, and the
organization of additional activities, also perceived from the perspective of societal relevance. Twice a
year the outcomes of these meetings will be discussed in the advisory board of the Institute. During
sessions of this board the management team and the chairs of the research programmes consider the
Institute’s research policy together with other senior scholars.
Didactical course for PhD students
During their doctorate programme PhDs employed by the Institute teach a number of courses in the
BA or MA programme in history. The Institute values their contributions highly, not only because they
reduce the teaching load of the permanent staff, but particularly since these assignments strengthen
their track record and extend their career opportunities following the completion of their dissertation.
After all, teaching experience is a prerequisite if one wishes to pursue an academic career.
As most of the PhDs entering the Institute have no prior experience with teaching and in order to offer
them some basic didactical training the PhDs are invited to take part in a didactical course. For a
number of years this course was provided by the ICLON. The management team of the Institute for
History has decided to explore the possibility to design an internal didactical course including a strong
practical component due to changes in the curriculum of the BA and MA programme and on request
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of successive batches of PhDs to receive a training tuned in to the specific demands of teaching classes
in history. It is expected that this course will be taught by senior teachers of the Institute and will start
in the coming academic year.
Appointments and awards
Manon van der Heijden, chair Comparative Urban History
Jan-Bart Gewald, chair South African History
Louis Sicking, special chair History of International Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Cátia Antunes, full member of the Young Academy of Europe
Research funding
The research proposals that obtained funding from outside Leiden University are listed below.
VIDI
Herman Paul
The Scholarly Self: Character, Habit, and Virtue in the Humanities, 1860-1930
€ 799,785,Akademie Colloquium
Henk te Velde
Democracy in Europe: A Conceptual History
€ 16,500,Free Competition NWO
Raymond Fagel
Facing the Enemy. The Spanish Army during the First Decade of the Dutch Revolt (1567-1577)
€ 527,794,Free Competition NWO
Rivke Jaffe (UvA) and Martijn Oosterbaan (UU)
The Popular Culture of Illegality: Criminal Authority and the Politics of Aesthetics in Latin America and
the Caribbean
€ 204,736,- (postdoctoral position José Carlos Gomez Aguiar)
Free Competition NWO
Marcel van der Linden (IISG), Karel Davids (VU), Henk den Heijer
Slaves, Commodities and Logistics: The Direct and Indirect, The Immediate and Long Term Economic
Impact of Eighteenth Century Dutch Republic Transatlantic Slave Based Activities
€ 203,532,- (PhD position Gerhard de Kok)
VENI
Damian Pargas
Newcomers in Chains: Slave Migrants in the American South, 1800-1860
€ 76,836,- (remainder of the project initially executed at Utrecht University)
Marie Curie Actions - Initial Training Networks (ITN)
Cátia Antunes
ForSeaDiscovery - Forest resources for Iberian Empires: Ecology and Globalization in the Age of Discovery
€ 236,861,Niels Stensen Fellowship
Carolien Stolte
‘The People's Bandung’: A Study of Regionalism in Indian Civil Society through the All-India Peace
Council and the Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee
€ 40,360,Total € 2,106,404
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Moreover, budget reserves allowed the management team of the Institute for History to organize a free
competition for PhD candidates by itself. Following a careful selection procedure involving applicants
from all over the world the Institute awarded two junior scholars an AIO-position.
Research output
Of the many scholarly publications which appeared this year a number of monographs stood out.
Kim Beerden
Worlds full of Signs. Ancient Greek Divination in Context (Leiden: Brill) – wide-ranging monograph
comparing Greek divination to divinatory practices in Neo-Assyrian Mesopotamia and Republican
Rome
Miko Flohr
The World of the Fullo. Work, Economy and Society in Roman Italy (Oxford: Oxford University Press) –
in-depth study on the craftsmen who dealt with high-quality garments in Roman Italy with special
attention to the social and economic worlds in which they lived and worked
Donald Haks
Vaderland en vrede 1672-1713. Publiciteit over de Nederlandse Republiek in oorlog (Hilversum: Verloren)
– inquiry into the common sense of identity in the Dutch Republic during its forty years’ war with
France as revealed in newspapers, sermons, pamphlets, songs, poems, paintings and commemorative
medals
Willem Otterspeer
De mislukkingskunstenaar. Willem Frederik Hermans. Biografie, deel I (1921-1952) (Amsterdam: Bezige
Bij) – meticulously researched first part of the biography of the well-known Dutch novelist, essayist,
poet and writer of short stories Willem Frederik Hermans
Dennie Oude Nijhuis
Labor Divided in the Postwar European Welfare State. The Netherlands and the United Kingdom
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) – reconsideration of organized labor's role in the
development of the postwar welfare state in the Netherlands and the UK based on a wealth of
untapped primary resources
Robert Ross
The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa. The Kat River Settlement, 1829–1856 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press) – detailed narrative of the Kat River Settlement in the Eastern Cape of
South Africa during the nineteenth century crucial in understanding colonial racism and the creation
of the colony's non-racial democracy
Dr P.J.J. Meel
Director of Research
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2. Board and Committees
Board Institute for History
Till September 15, 2013
Prof. Dr. L.A.C.J. Lucassen (chair)
Dr. J.A. Augusteijn (director of education)
Ms. E.P.M. Zwinkels (PhD member)MA
Femke Vermeer (BA student member)
Eline de Graaf (MA student member)
From September 15, 2013
Prof. Dr. L.A.C.J. Lucassen (chair)
Dr. J.A. Augusteijn (director of education)
Ms. Jeanette Kamp (PhD member)MA
Berend Sommers (student member BA)
Björn Gallee (student member MA)
Advisors
Dr. P.J.J. Meel (director of research)
Ms. R.J. Wensma (institute manager)
Advisory Council
Prof. Dr. J.F.J. Duindam
Prof. Dr. A. Fairclough
Prof. Dr. A.W.M. Gerrits
Prof. Dr. J.J.L. Gommans
Prof. Dr. P.C.M. Hoppenbrouwers
Prof. Dr. L. de Ligt
Dr. F.G. Naerebout
Prof. Dr. J.S. Pollmann
Prof. Dr. R.J. Ross
Prof. Dr. M.L.J.C. Schrover
Prof. Dr. P. Silva
Prof. Dr. H. te Velde
E.P.M. Zwinkels MA (PhD member)
Institute Council
The Institute Council comprises all members of the Institute
PhD Council
Ms. E.P.M. Zwinkels, MA, chair
Ms. J.M. Kamp, MA, chair
Members: all PhD students and external PhD students
Education Committee
Prof. Dr. L.A.C.J. Lucassen, chair
Dr. D. Bos /Dr. H.J. Storm (secretary)
Berend Sommers (student member BA)
Björn Gallee (student member MA)
Research Master Educational Review Committee (OLC) till September 15, 2013
Staff-members
Prof. Dr. L. de Ligt
Ms. Prof. Dr. J.S. Pollmann (chair)
Dr. P.J.J. Meel
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Student-members
Femke Vermeer (student member BA)
Eline de Graaf (student member MA)
Research Master Educational Review Committee (OLC) from September 15, 2013
Staff-members
Prof. Dr. L. de Ligt
Ms. Prof. Dr. J.S. Pollmann (chair)
Dr. P.J.J. Meel
Student-members
Berend Sommers (student member BA)
Björn Gallee (student member MA)
Bachelor and Master Educational Review Committee (OLC) 2013-2014
Dr. R. Stein (chair)
Ms. Dr. K. Beerden
Ms. Dr. A.M.C. van Dissel
Dr. R.P. Fagel
Ms. Prof. Dr. M.P.C. van der Heijden
Student-members
H.A. Elstgeest
R.C. de Gee
C.A. van der Ham
E. Rademakers
C.J. van Roode
Board of Examiners
Ms. Prof. Dr. M.L.J.C. Schrover (chair)
Dr. M.A. Ebben (secretary)
Ms. Dr. K. Beerden
Prof. Dr. P.C.M. Hoppenbrouwers
Ms. Dr. F. Rosu
Board of Admissions Research Master
Prof. Dr. J.F.J. Duindam
Prof. Dr. J.J.L. Gommans
Prof. Dr. P.C.M. Hoppenbrouwers
Prof. Dr. L. de Ligt
Prof. Dr. L.A.C.J. Lucassen
Dr. P.J.J. Meel
Prof. Dr. H. te Velde
Section chairs
Prof. Dr. P.C.M. Hoppenbrouwers
Prof. Dr. H. te Velde
Prof. Dr. L. de Ligt
Prof. Dr. J.F.J. Duindam
Prof. Dr. L.A.C.J. Lucassen
Office
R.C. de Jong
Ms. E.P. Matulessy
Ms. R.J. Wensma
Ms. M.C.E. van Wissen-van Staden
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3. The Unification of the
Mediterranean World (400 BC – 400
AD)
Description
Antiquity, stretching from the end of Prehistory up to and including the appearance of religions with
universal aspirations – such as, for instance, Christianity – was the first period in world history to
witness the development of inter-local and later inter-regional networks of interaction. This occurred
in the first instance in Mesopotamia and Egypt, and later also on the Indian subcontinent and in
China. Later still, this phenomenon became visible in the Mediterranean Region.
The Leiden section specializing in Ancient History concentrates on the study of Graeco-Roman
cultures within the latter region, which culminated in the great empires of Alexander the Great and his
successors. The appearance of these empires led to the development of an interaction network that
stretched from the Atlantic Ocean in the West to Afghanistan in the East. Shortly afterwards, these
Greek empires were incorporated into the Roman Empire, the first (and last) pan-Mediterranean
empire in world history. These processes of interaction and expansion brought along with them
numerous transformations at local and regional level. As a result, all parties involved, including the
conquerors, were forced to find a new equilibrium in the political, social, economic, ideological and
religious domains. Many of these developments have parallels in the modern world. The results of
modern globalization may well be new and unique, but the process as such can easily be compared
with the integration and homogenization processes taking place in the Greek and Roman world.
Themes such as local particularism versus uniformity, the economic effects of the appearance of ‘world
empires’ and the tensions between cultural imperialism and the resistance to it have direct
counterparts in the modern era. This does not mean that we can simply project our modern relations,
concepts and problems onto the antique world. Rather, a detailed study of the Greek monarchies and
the Roman Empire reveals a number of differences compared to later periods that are at least as
interesting as the similarities. It is undeniably true that the empires to be studied displayed a number of
‘modern’ features, such as a close network of cities, a complex social structure, a lively inter-regional
trade, an advanced legal system and, particularly in Late Antiquity, a developing bureaucracy. In
contrast to this, other features are less recognizably modern, for instance the great importance
accorded to the accumulation of money and goods using political means, patronage networks and the
high degree of freedom for local elites to appropriate for themselves primarily agrarian surpluses.
If we consider the administrative aspects of the great Mediterranean empires, we find an intriguing mix
of ambitious ideological claims and limited practical objectives. On the one hand, the rulers of ancient
empires revered the ideal of an unlimited, universal dominion. On the other hand, in these empires,
the exercise of power was based to a large extent on collaboration with local elites, who were granted a
high degree of administrative freedom. Partially due to this fact, these empires provided room for a
multitude of local laws, cultures and religions. From a modern perspective, the Roman exercise of
power can thus be termed ‘extensive’. The economic, social and cultural transformation set in motion
as a result of the interaction and integration processes mentioned earlier cannot be understood
adequately unless we take into consideration these and other essential characteristics of ancient
empires. Incidentally, the lack of a central administrative style in the great Graeco-Roman empires was
also ‘abnormal’ from the perspective of some other pre-industrial empires. For instance, the Chinese
empire of the Han dynasty, a contemporary of the Roman empire, has a much larger, centralised
bureaucratic system which left much less opportunity for any form of local or regional selfgovernment. Curiously, almost no research has so far been carried out into the origins and historical
implications of these types of contrasts. The choice in favour of the research profile sketched above
takes into consideration a number of methodological and technical assumptions which have
contributed to the recent success of the Leiden Ancient History section. One of these assumptions is
that the study of ancient societies must to a large extent be based on the comparative method.
Secondly, the Ancient History section aims to study the ‘unification of the Mediterranean Region’ by
making extensive use of inscriptions, papyri and legal texts. The Leiden expertise in this area is unique
from a national perspective, and very rare, to say the least, worldwide. A third assumption is that in the
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study of the Graeco-Roman world, unilateral approaches, either solely from the social-economic
perspective, or from the perspective of the history of mentality must be avoided. In order to make the
research programme outlined above more concrete, a number of research areas have been defined
which will play a central role in future research. First of all, research will focus on the transformation of
economic life in the Mediterranean Region – including motherland Italy – as a result of the
development and continued existence of a pan-Mediterranean Roman Empire. A clear example of this
research area is the VICI project on Peasants, citizens and soldiers: the effects of demographic growth
in Roman Republican Italy (201-88 BC) began in 2004. A second important area for research focuses
on the transformation of urban life and urban culture in the great Mediterranean empires. In line with
the previously mentioned assumptions, research in this area will focus primarily on those areas for
which a large number of documentary sources are available. A good example is the research on the
cities of Asian Minor from the conquests of Alexander the Great to the ‘Third Century Crisis’. Finally,
attention will be given to the transformation of religion, mentality and cultural identity. Research in
this field will focus on unifying tendencies within religion. A concrete example is the emergence of socalled ‘universalistic cults’ from the 4th century BC onwards. In addition, attention will clearly be paid
to the expansion of Christianity, a process which led to an unprecedented religious homogenization of
the Mediterranean Region in the course of the 4th century AD. Although the Ancient History section
aims to include a broad spectrum of social phenomena in its research, the focus on the political
unification of the Mediterranean Region and the attendant processes of change guarantees a high
degree of coherence. In addition, this ensures the creation of a research profile that is attractive on a
national and international level, as well as being specifically recognizable as a Leiden product. Finally,
this choice of research focus creates a solid basis for collaboration between the Ancient History section
and fellow historians in the Leiden History Department since much research carried out in other
sections focuses on closely related problems, such as political, economic and cultural expansion,
migration and globalization.
Staff
Ms. Dr. K. Beerden MPhil
Research
0.8 fte
Conference attendance
October 18: invited lecture: SOAS Londen: Fattening of animals in ancient Rome: dormice, snails and
thrushes
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Staff member Leidschrift
Membership of boards and committees
Examcommittee Geschiedenis
OLC Geschiedenis
OLC GLTC
OLC OCMW
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Twitter @KimBeerden
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
Beerden, K.
‘Should I be doing business by sea?’ Ancient new economies (Perspectives 2 (2013) 24-25: Rotterdam
harbor)
Publications
Beerden, K.
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‘Worlds full of signs: ancient Greek divination in context’. Leiden: Brill
Beerden, K.
February 14, 2013 dissertation: Worlds full of signs: ancient Greek divination in context. Supervisor: Prof
Dr. L. de Ligt
Beerden, K.
[Review of: Friese W. (2013) Die Kunst vom Wahn- und Wahrsagen. Orakelheiligtümer in der antiken
Welt.] Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Beerden, K.
Ancient new economies, Perspectives: a magazine issued by Port of Rotterdam (2): 24-25
Other activities
Respondent to presentations on ‘Disabilities among slaves’ by Laurien Zurhake and ‘The introduction
of the cult of Asclepius in Athens’ by Roy van Wijk (OIKOS ReMA meeting May 31, 2013)
Ms. L.M.G.F.E. Claes
Research
1.0 fte
Dr. M. Flohr
Research
1.0 fte
Publications
Flohr, M.
‘The textile economy of Pompeii’, Volume 26, Journal of Roman Archaeology 26: 53-78
Flohr, M.
‘Ulula, quinquatrus and the occupational identity of fullones in early imperial Italy’. In: Gleba M.,
Pasztokai-Szeöke J. (Eds.) Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman Times: People, Places, Identities.
Oxford: Oxbow. 192-207
Flohr, M.
‘The World of the Fullo’, Volume 103. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Flohr, M.
‘Roman Movement’, [Review of: Laurence R., Newsome M. (2011) Rome, Ostia, Pompeii. Movement
and Space] The Classical Review 63(1): 187-189
Flohr, M.
[Review of: Mayer E. (2012) 'The Ancient Middle Classes. Urban Life and Aesthetics in the Roman
Empire 100 BCE - 250 CE] Journal of Roman Studies 103: 308-309
Dr. M.S. Hobson
Research
1.0 fte
Dr. J.H.M. de Jong
Research
1.0 fte
Conference attendance
June 8 : Symposium ‘Épigraphie et discours impérial : mettre en scène les mots pour le dire’, organised
by SFER (Société française d’études épigraphiques sur Rome et le monde romain), Paris, France. Title
of the presented paper: ‘More than words: imperial discourse in Greek papyri’
July 29: XVIIth International Congress of Papyrology, Warsaw, Poland. Title of the presented paper:
‘Onomastica Arabica: Arab personal names in Egyptian papyri from the Ptolemaic to the early Islamic
period’, with Marie Legendre
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July 31: XVIIth International Congress of Papyrology, Warsaw, Poland. Title of the presented paper:
‘The last century of Greek papyri’
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Peer reviewer for an article submitted for Ancient Society (Peeters: Leuven)
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Membership PhD committee
M. Legendre (University Leiden, LIAS). Title of dissertation: ‘Pouvoir et territoire. L’administration
islamique en Moyenne-Égypte pré-tūlūnide (642-868)’. Date of defence: 12 December 2013
Member of readers’ committee and opponent at the defence of J. Bruning (University Leiden, LIAS).
Title of dissertation: ‘The Rise of a Capital. On the Development of al-Fusṭāṭ’s Relationship with its
Hinterland, 18/639-132/750’. Date of defence: 2 April 2014
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
Several guided tours for high school students in Leids Papyrologisch Instituut (26 September (2) and
18 December 2013 (2))
Public lecture for Nederlands Klassiek Verbond (NKV): ‘Transformatie van een Grieks-Romeinse
provincie: Egypte in de vroeg-Islamitische periode’
NKV department Apeldoorn (31 Januari 2013)
NKV department Utrecht (16 April 2013)
Publications
Jong, J.H.M. de
Kelly, B. 2011. Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt. Oxford, Oxford University
Press. In: Mnemosyne 66. 4-5 (2013) 889-892, Volume 66 (4-5)
Other activities
Academic teaching:
Werkcollege Oude geschiedenis (4 groups, BA first year, first semester)
Themacollege I ‘Augustus’ (1 group, BA first year, first semester)
Themacollege II ‘Augustus and the foundation of the Roman Emperorship’ (1 group, BA first year,
first semester)
Coördination and participation in the course ‘Grieks, Romeins en Byzantijns Egypte (Egyptische
Cultuurgeschiedenis II)’
Supervision of BA thesis of J. Heringa (History)
Mentoring of BA students of History: group 9 (2013-2014) and group 3 (since 1 February 2014)
Ms. Dr. D.E. Kretschmann
Research
1.0 fte
Prof. Dr. L. de Ligt
Research
0.3 fte
Conference attendance
May 28: ‘Colonisation after the Second Punic War’, Université de Grenoble
September 3: ‘Roman law and the Roman economy, 2’, Università di Pavia, Italy
Publications
Ligt, de L.
‘Population and Migration’, in: P. Clark (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History
(Oxford 2013), 147-163
Ligt, de L.
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‘The tile from Mendolito and the Porta Urbica inscription: further evidence for Celtic speakers in
Sicily?’, La Parola del Passato 67 (2012) [2013], 121-133
Ligt, de L.
‘Migration to Rome’, in: I. Ness (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration (Malden-Oxford
2013), vol. IV, 2205-2208
Ligt, de L.
‘Colonization’, in: I. Ness (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration (Malden-Oxford 2013),
vol. V, 2620-2626
Ligt, de L.
‘Twee antieke kredietcrises,’ Leidschrift 28.2 (2013), 37-54
Dr. F.G. Naerebout
Research
0.3 fte
Conference attendance
January 14: Symposium ‘Beeldvorming in de historische film’. Title of the presented paper: ‘De
verbeelding van de oudheid in films’, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden
July 23-24: Workshop ‘Ancient Religions and Cognition’, participated in exploratory discussions,
Senate House, London
September 19: Colloquium ‘Performing epic to 1800’. Title of the presented paper: ‘Epic on Stage in
the Dutch Republic’, Archive for the Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, Oxford
October 24: Symposium ‘LIVED RELIGION’, annual Conference of the NGG. Title of the presented
paper: ‘Can these dry bones live again? Some thoughts on lived ancient religions’, Leiden University
Conference organization
January 14: Symposium ‘Beeldvorming in de historische film’. Title of the presented paper: ‘De
verbeelding van de oudheid in films’, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden. Role: co-organizer and
chair
Research leave, home and abroad
September: stay at Oxford (St. Hilda’s), London and Liverpool during sabbatical; mainly for the
purposes of visiting several main research libraries
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Editor of the Series Religions in the Greco-Roman World, Brill
Member of the editorial board of the journal Talanta
Publications
Naerebout, F.G. & Singor, H.W.
‘Antiquity: Greeks and Romans in Context provides a chronological introduction to the history of
ancient Mediterranean civilizations within the larger context of its contemporary Eurasian world’.
John Wiley & Sons publishers
Naerebout, F.G
Review of T.J. Smith, ‘Komast dancers’ [Review of: Tyler Jo Smith (2010) ‘Komast dancers in archaic
Greek art’, Oxford Monographs in Classical Archaeology] BaBesch 88: 280-282
Naerebout, F.G. & Penders, S.
‘Riviergoden. Een casestudie naar Romeins natuurbesef, Groniek’. Historisch Tijdschrift 45(196): 243258
Naerebout, F.G. & Singor, H.W.
‘De Oudheid. Griek en Romeinen in de context van de wereldgeschiedenis’, 17de duk. Amsterdam:
Ambo
Naerebout, F.G. & Singor, H.W.
‘De Oudheid. Grieken en Romeinen in de context van de wereldgeschiedenis’. Amsterdam: Ambo
Naerebout F.G.
[Review of: Bricault L., Veymiers R. (2011) Biblioteca Isiaca II] Classical Review 63: 167-169
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Naerebout, F.G.
‘Convergence and divergence: one empire, many cultures’. In: Kleijn P. de, Benoist S. (Eds.)
Integration in Rome and the Roman World. Leiden: Brill. 263-281
Naerebout, F.G.
'De barbaar' bestaat niet. De Grote Volksverhuizing is een achterhaald paradigma, Kleio (jaargang 54,
juli): 12-17
Naerebout, F.G.
‘De populariteit van Ben-Hur ontleed’, Lampas: Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse classici 46(4): 340-352
Naerebout, F.G.
‘Music and dance, Hellenistic and Roman period’. In: Master D.M. (Ed.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of
the Bible and Archaeology. New York: Oxford University Press. 147-155
Naerebout, F.G.
Review [Review of: Blömer M., Winter E. (2012) Iuppiter Dolichenus: vom Lokalkult zur
Reichsreligion. Orientalische Religionen in der Antike] Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013.03.47
Naerebout, F.G.
Review of Les hommes et les dieux dans l'ancien roman, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013.10.65
[Review of: Bost-Pouderon C., Pouderon B. (eds.) (2011) Les hommes et les dieux dans l'ancien
roman: actes du colloque de Tours, 22-24 October
Naerebout, F.G. & Penders, S.
‘Riviergoden. Een casestudie naar Romeins natuurbesef, Groniek’. Historisch Tijdschrift 45(196): 243258
Dr. L.E. Tacoma
Research
0.75 fte
Conference attendance
May 30-June 1: Workshop ‘Work, labour, professions in the Roman world’, Ghent, Belgium. Title of
presented paper: ‘The value of labour: Diocletian’s Prices Edict’ (with M. Groen-Vallinga)
Research leave, home and abroad
September 2013 till August 2014: Fellow Royal Dutch Institute Rome
Publications
Tacoma, L.E.
‘Overlappende identiteiten in het Romeinse Rijk’ [Bespreking van: Boatwright M.T. (2012) Peoples of
the Roman World] Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 126(1): 119-120
Dr. R.A. Tybout
Research
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Publications
Tybout, R.A.
‘Sale of an orchard and its donation to the priests of Zeus’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
185: 161-170
Chaniotis A., Corsten T., Papazarkadas N. & Tybout R.A.
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum nr. LIX. Leiden-Boston: Brill
Dr. R.Willet
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Publications
Poblome J., Braekmans D.J.G., Waelkens M., Firat N., Vanhaverbeke H., Martens F., Kaptijn E.,
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Vyncke K., Willet R. & Degryse P.
‘How did Sagalassos come to be? A ceramological survey’ . In: Tekocak M. (Red.) Studies in Honour of
K. Levent Zoroğlu. Antalya: Suna & Inan Kiraç Research Institute on Mediterranean Civilizations. 527540
PhD Candidates
D. Donev MA
Research
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Ms. M. Groen-Vallinga MPhil
Research
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Conference attendance
May 30-June 1: Workshop ‘Work, labour, professions in the Roman world’, Ghent, Belgium. Title of
presented paper (with L.E. Tacoma): ‘The value of labour: Diocletian’s Prices Edict’
Publications
Groen-Vallinga, M.J.
‘Desperate housewives? The adaptive family economy and female participation in the Roman urban
labour market’. In: Hemelrijk, E.A., Woolf, G. (Eds.) Women and the Roman City in the Latin West.
Leiden: Brill. 295-312
P.H.A. Houten MA
Research
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P. Kloeg MA
Research
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Ms. K. Pazmany MA
Research
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Ms. F. Pellegrino MA
Research
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Ms. C. Tzanetea MA
Research
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PhD Defences
Kim Beerden, dissertation: Worlds full of signs: ancient Greek divination in context. Supervisor: Prof .
Dr. L. de Ligt. Date of defence: February 14, 2013
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External PhD Candidates
Ms. Drs. M. Jorna
Z. Wang
S. Wen
Research Master students
Lotte Groot
Alexander de Haan
Max Koedijk
Stijn Vennik
Externally funded programmes
Moving Romans. Urbanisation, migration and labour in the Roman Principate
Luuk de Ligt and Rens Tacoma
The aim of the Moving Romans project is to study the relationship between urbanisation, migration
and labour opportunities in Roman Italy in the first two centuries A.D. The central question is to what
extent labour-induced migration was important to the functioning of the towns and cities of Roman
Italy. The project starts from the working hypothesis that the dominance of slavery in some sectors of
the urban economy, especially in the domestic sector, reduced labour opportunities for free women. If
this basic idea is correct, most free migrants must have been men, and cities must have been
characterised by a very skewed sex ratio. Since this would have made it impossible for urban
populations to reproduce themselves, it would follow that large-scale migration was a vital prerequisite
for the continued existence of the Roman cities, even more so than in the case of the towns and cities
of later European history, where high levels of urban mortality are commonly identified as the main
reason why urban populations depended for their survival on a continuous influx of free migrants. By
testing this hypothesis against the ancient evidence the project aims to call attention to the crucial
importance of the balance between free and unfree labour as a factor which determined the scale and
nature of migration flows in pre-industrial societies.
While forced migration of unfree labourers has always been important in studies of agricultural
slavery, it has received little attention in studies of migration to towns, for the obvious reason that
most of the existing literature on this topic deals with early-modern and modern Europe where almost
all migrants were free.
In the case of the Roman world, there can be no doubt that the relationships between urbanisation,
migration and labour were complex. During the first two centuries AD the cities of the empire
blossomed and had flourishing populations. It is often argued that cities could only maintain their
populations thanks to an influx of outsiders. However, who these migrants were and how they were
absorbed by the urban labour market are questions which have hardly been studied.
The proposed project aims to fill several gaps simultaneously. The interrelationships between
urbanisation, labour opportunities and migration in the Roman world have never been systematically
investigated. Moreover, each of these three subjects is in its own right fundamental to the
understanding of Roman society. One of the central assumptions is that each of the three constituent
elements cannot be studied in the absence of the other two; but also that the interrelationship between
the three is in urgent need of conceptualisation.
Participants
Prof. Dr. L. de Ligt, urban networks in Roman Italy
Dr. L.E. Tacoma, migration to and from Rome
M.J. Groen-Vallinga, MPhil, the labour market of Roman Italy
Dr. R. Tybout, epigraphical assistant
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Building Tabernae
Miko Flohr
Building Tabernae is an NWO Veni Project based at the University of Leiden (2013-2017) carried out
by dr. Miko Flohr. The project focuses on urban commercial space in Roman Italy and deals with the
impact of economic growth on urban communities in the late Republic and the Imperial period (200
BCE – 300 CE). It will investigate how favourable economic circumstances under the Roman Empire
fostered the emergence of new and more ambitious forms of investment in commercial space, and it
aims to understand how this transformed the physical and social fabric of the cities of the Italian
peninsula.
The project will use archaeological and textual evidence and belongs to the field of ancient history as
much as it belongs to that of classical archaeology. Thematically, it operates on the interface of social
and economic history and explores to which degree economic developments fostered social change. It
specifically attempts to connect two highly vibrant debates: the debate about Roman urbanism and
that about Roman economic life.
Roman Urbanism
Both debates have seen significant development over the last decades. Discourse on Roman urbanism
has moved away from the traditional emphasis on (monumental) architecture and urban planning
towards studying urban landscapes in a more integrated manner (seminal is Laurence 1994). Discourse
on Roman economic life has developed beyond the consumer city debate that dominated the field in
the 1990s (e.g. Mattingly 1997; Erdkamp 2001), now focusing more and more on the social and spatial
contexts of economic processes (Mouritsen 2001; Robinson 2005; Flohr 2007).
Yet, while these debates play a central role in Roman scholarship and thematically increasingly overlap,
they interact only to a limited degree. Consequently, the relation between economic developments and
developments in urbanism is not well-understood. This significantly impedes our understanding of
Roman history. This project will contribute to filling this gap.
An empire of 2000 cities: urban networks and economic integration in the Roman Empire
John Bintliff and Luuk de Ligt
The central aims of this project are to establish the shapes of the various urban hierarchies existing in
the provinces of the Roman Empire and (especially) to use the quantitative properties of these
hierarchies to shed new light on levels of economic integration. Should we conceptualize the urban
system of the Roman world as a collection of cellular modules which were only loosely connected by
the imposition of a rudimentary administrative superstructure and by resource flows of limited
significance? Or did the creation of an overarching empire favour the emergence of an economically
well-integrated urban network or at least the growth of certain nodal points which helped to tie the
empire together by mediating resource flows between regions? Key topics to be explored include the
physical size of cities, the overall shape of regional urban hierarchies, the role of harbour cities in
connecting various parts of the empire, and the economic implications of the emergence and existence
of large provincial capitals and other primate cities.
Building on spatial and economic theories from various disciplines, the project starts from the working
hypothesis that the urban system of the Roman empire possessed a number of unique features which
set it apart from that of the various urban system existing in the same geographical area during the
early-modern period. While some of these features (such as the size of Rome) can plausibly be
attributed to the fact that the Roman empire was much larger than the empires and emerging nation
states of early-modern times, the project aims to demonstrate that the specific configuration of
regional urban hierarchies in the Roman world also reflects levels of economic integration which fell
dramatically short of those achieved in various parts of early-modern Europe.
Participants:
Dr. M.S. Hobson, Dr. R. Willet, D. Donev , P.H.A. Houten , P. Kloeg, B.L. Noordervliet,
K. Pazmany, F. Pellegrino and C. Tzanetea
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4. Collective Identities and
Transnational Networks inEurope,
1000-1800
Description
Recent concerns about cultural identity underline the ongoing political and social importance of the
question of how, and with whom, people identify. Changing and conflicting identities were highly
relevant for premodern Europe. Paradoxically, the more powerful states became, the more their rulers
tended to depend on good relations with their social elites. Since such elites often identified themselves
primarily with local communities, regions or other group interests, the creation of (proto)national
loyalties was problematic.
Well-advised rulers, therefore, expended considerable energy on creating loyalty through patronage
networks increasingly based on their courts. New forms were added to traditional media for delivering
political messages, such as pageants and spectacles. The wide circulation of pamphlets and newspapers
gradually changed the nature of political communication, creating new forms of religious and political
engagement.
In the centuries between 1000 and 1800, state borders certainly were not the primary focus of collective
identification. On the one hand, regions within composite states continued to compete with one
another, whereas, on the other hand, transnational networks often proved to be surprisingly resistant
to political division. Even while their rulers were at war, trade networks continued to tie together
Spanish, Flemish, and Dutch economic and financial interests. From the fifteenth-century onwards the
world of Europeans expanded to include the Americas, African and Asian coastal areas. However, at
the same time the Mediterranean continued to serve as a conduit for commercial, political and cultural
exchanges between Muslim North-Africa and West Asia with Europe.
Cultural networks transcended national borders. Until 1520, Europe shared one dominant religion.
Soon, the schism in the Roman Church would create transnational interest groups and streams of
refugees while it also reinforced new confessional alliances in international politics. Süleyman the Lawabiding watched the rise of Lutheranism with interest; Francis I of France actively sought his alliance,
an initiative soon followed by the English and the Dutch. Throughout this period, a recognizably
European intellectual culture prevailed, which played an essential role in the fast transfer of knowledge,
religious and political ideas.
In this world of constantly changing borders, strong local political traditions, profitable transnational
trade, and dense networks of international relations, ‘identity’ was never monolithic. The changing
relationship between local identities and the centres of royal or imperial power was a key issue
everywhere in Europe, from relatively unitary states such as France and England to the composite
monarchies ruled by the Habsburgs. It forms an overarching theme in the historical research of the
medievalists and early modernists at Leiden University. Currently our research focuses on three
dimensions of collective identity.
The first touches on relations between subjects and rulers. Research projects study the interdependence
between local administrations and supra local/regional elite formation; the tensions caused by attempts
at political and administrative centralization; and the intercultural comparison of dynastic empires that
rose in Europe, West South-Asia, and East-Asia. The second dimension concerns the operation of
trade networks, that increasingly were subjected to the realities and requirements of international
politics. Cultural identities and cultural transfers are the third dimension. Here, a major focus is on the
way in which Europeans engaged with the past, through historical writing, but also through other
cultural practices. A major research project on memory and identity formation examines the lasting
social, political and cultural impact of civil war on early modern identities.
Staff
Prof. Dr. J.F.J. Duindam
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Conference attendance
February 22: Opening lecture in conference : ‘Rivalry and Representation : rulers’ agency as a problem
in comparative court history’, Nederlands Instituut in Turkey, Istanbul
March 14-16: Public lecture / Abendvortrag in conference: Mixed Courts: Dynasty, Politics, and
Religion in the Early Modern World: ‘Courts, rulers, and religion: a comparative perspective’, Gotha
August 13: Public lecture Seattle Asian Art Museum on ‘Comparing Dynastic Courts of Europe and
Asia’, Seattle
August 14-16: Lecture in conference in honour of Kent Guy, University of Washington - Seattle:
‘Dynastic rule: a global comparative perspective’, Seattle
September 25-28: Keynote lecture: ‘Inner and Outer: Organizing Principles of the Early Modern
Court?’ in conference The Forbidden City, Imperial Palaces and Royal Courts: Symbols of Imperial
and Monarchical Power in the East and West Compared, Boulogne-sur-Mer
Conference organization
October 23-26: VIIth Annual convention of Austria Centres, Leiden
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Editorial board:
European History Quarterly
Hungarian Historical Review (published by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Virtus
Court Historian Newsletter
Editor:
Brill Series Rulers & Elites/rule (two volumes published in 2013)
Membership of boards and committees
Stichting Oostenrijkse Studiën; centre for Austrian Studies Leiden
Advisory and coordinating activities
Louvre/Lens: Rubens Exhibition 2013
Versailles, Centre de Recherches du Chateau de Versailles: étrangers à la cour
Deutsche Forschungs Gemeinschaft
ERC
NWO
FWO
(as of 2013: member of panel ERC advanced investigator grant)
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision of dissertations
Eurasian empires project:
Cumhur Bekar
Kim Ragetli
Co-supervision four Eurasian empires project PhD’s
External:
Sebastiaan Derks (Huygens-ING)
Bert Thissen (City archive Kleve Germany)
PhD Committees 2013
Merlijn Olnon (Erik Jan Zürcher)
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Participation in De Groene Amsterdammer issue on Geesteswetenschappen
http://blogs.groene.nl/geesteswetenschappers/?p=1093
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(see above under conferences)
August 13: Public lecture Seattle Asian Art Museum on ‘Comparing Dynastic Courts of Europe and
Asia’, Seattle
Valorisation (societal relevance and impact)
November 1: lecture at Geschiedenisdag ICLON, (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden)
Publications
Duindam, J.F.J.
‘The politics of female households: afterthoughts’, in: Nadine Akkerman, Birgit Houben, ed., The
Politics of female households. Ladies-in-waiting across early modern Europe (Leiden, Boston, 2013) 365370
Duindam, J.F.J., Harries, J., Humfress, C., Hurvitz, N.
Law and Empire: Ideas, Practices, Actors (Leiden; Boston 2013)
Duindam, J.F.J., Harries, J., Humfress, C., Hurvitz, N.
‘Introduction’, in: Law and Empire: J.F.J. Duindam
Ideas, Practices, Actors (Leiden; Boston 2013) 1-22
Duindam, J.F.J.
‘L’Europe des cours princières Entre Renaissance et premier XVIIe siècle’ In Blaise Ducos (ed.),
L'Europe de Rubens. Catalogue d'exposition (Paris 2013) 72-109
Duindam, J.F.J.
‘Adel en staat in vroegmodern Europa. De omkering van een geschiedbeeld’ Virtus : bulletin van de
Werkgroep Adelsgeschiedenis, 19 (2013) 39-48.
Duindam, J.F.J.
‘Review article: The French court in the eighteenth century: noble power and Royal obstinacy’ [review
Ambrogio A.Caiani, Louis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789-1792 & Leonhard Horowski: Die
Belagerung des Thrones. Machtstrukturen und Karrieremechanismen am Hof von Frankreich 1661-1789].
Sehepunkte. http://www.sehepunkte.de/2013/02/21971.html
Duindam, J.F.J.
Lodewijk XVI opnieuw voor het gerecht?‘ [Review of: Caiani, Ambrogio (2012) Louis XVI and the
French Revolution, 1789-1792] Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 126(4)
Duindam, J.F.J.
Een bastion van adelsmacht in het hart van de franse monarchie [Review of: Horowski, Leonhard
(2012) Die Belagerung des Thrones. Machtstrukturen und Karrieremechanismen am Hof von
Frankreich, 1661-1789] Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 126(3): 419-420
Duindam, J.F.J.
[Review of: Subrahmanyam S. (2012) Courtly Encounters. Translating Courtliness and Violence in
Early Modern Eurasia.] The Historian
Dr. M.A. Ebben
Research
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Conference attendance
September 20: lecture Contactgroep 1300-1700. Title of presented paper: ‘Volgt het lichtend pad van
de hertog van Alva’, De graaf van la Roca, Alva’s eerste biograaf, 1583-1658’, Leiden
October 22: symposium ‘La Paz de Utrecht: un Pacto para el Equilibrio Europeo’.
Title of presented paper: ‘La República de las Provincias Unidas tras la Guerra de Sucesión de España:
problemas internos y externos.’, Biblioteca Nacional Madrid Spain
November 22: book presentation: ‘Alba. General and Servant to the Crown’. Title of presented paper:
‘The Grand Duke of Alba: Protagonist of History in an International Perspective’, Madrid, Spain
Conference organization
May 14: Brown Bag Seminar ‘Mi Casa, Su Casa, the significance and perspective of popular Spanish
Labour Migration in the Netherlands’ by Dr. Steven Adolf, Leiden University
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Membership of boards and committees
Alva-project: Collection of biographical articles on Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, third duke of Alba (to
be published in 2013). Editorial board: Dr. M.A. Ebben and R.H.A.M. Baron van Hövell tot Westerflier
MCL
Member of the editorial staff of the website The Dutch Revolt (http://dutchrevolt.leidenuniv.nl/)
Advisory and coordinating activities
September - November: HOVO Leiden University: Education for 50+ students Leiden. Course: ’The
End of the Eighty Years War and the Netherlands’ in collaboration with prof. Dr. R. Buve
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision PhD
Co-promotor of dissertation:
R. Dijk, Het Hoogheemraadschap Rijnland, 1550-1650
Membership PhD committee
G. Sanders, Het present van Staat. De gouden ketens, kettingen en medailles verleend door de StatenGeneraal, 1588-1795
Date of defence: 21 March 2013 Leiden
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
September 18: : lecture cycle Rotary Noordwijk and surrounding
Title of presented paper:’ De Nederlandse Opstand, het ontzet van Leiden en het poldermodel’,
Noordwijk
October 16: lecture ‘Het einde van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog en de Nederlanden’. Title of presented
paper: ‘De ondergang van het Spaanse rijk in Europa’, Leiden
October 23: lecture ‘Het einde van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog en de Nederlanden’. Title of presented
paper: ‘De Spaanse Gouden Eeuw’, Leiden
November 25: lecture ‘Passie voor de Spaanse Gouden Eeuw’. Title of presented paper: ‘De Spaanse
Monarchie tussen crisis en herstel, 1600-1700’, Instituto Cervantes Utrecht
December 2: lecture ‘Passie voor de Spaanse Gouden Eeuw’. Title of presented paper: ‘Apocalyps en
Gouden Eeuw’, Instituto Cervantes Utrecht
Publications
Ebben, M.A., R. van Hövell tot Westerflier and M. Lacy-Bruin, eds.
Alba, General and Servant to the Crown. Protagonists of history in international perspective vol. iii
(Rotterdam 2014)
Ebben, M.A.
‘The Grand Duke of Alba (1507-1582). Admiration, Condemnation, and Fascination: The Road to
New Insights’ in: M.A. Ebben, R. van Hövell tot Westerflier and M. Lacy-Bruin, eds., Alba, General and
Servant to the Crown. Protagonists of history in international perspective vol. iii (Rotterdam 2014) 6-28
Ebben, M.A.
‘Follow the Trail Blazed with Glorious Perseverance by the Grand Duke of Alba’ Alba’s First
Biographer: Juan Antonio de Vera y Figueroa, Count of La Roca, 1583-1658 in: M.A. Ebben, R. van
Hövell tot Westerflier and M. Lacy-Bruin, eds., Alba, General and Servant to the Crown. Protagonists of
history in international perspective vol. iii (Rotterdam 2014) 348-368
Ebben, M.A.
De Informanten van Juan Gabriel Vásquez [Review of: Vasquez, Juan Gabriel (2008) De informanten]:
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Dr. R.P. Fagel
Research
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Conference attendance
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June 17-19: Huizinga Conference on War and Peace, The Hague and Utrecht
June 19: Master Class on Spanish tyranny, Utrecht
June 28: The home-land of Charles V. Was Emperor Charles V a French-speaking Belgian? A Fleming
from Ghent? A genuine ‘Nederlander’? Or was he a complete foreigner? Symposium. North(s) in Memory:
Heritage, Museum Dynamics and Identity Issues in North-Western Europe, Rijksmuseum voor
Oudheden, Leiden
September 19-20: Conference Centre d’Etudes Bourguignonnes, Leiden
October 25: Jaarcongres, Vlaams-Nederlandse Vereniging voor Nieuwe Geschiedenis, Amsterdam
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
External reviewer Leuven University Press
External reviewer Arte Nuevo, Revista de estudios áureos
Membership of boards and committees
Editorial board
Dutch Revolt website
Drie Oktoberlezing
Vereniging voor oud-studenten geschiedenis Leiden (VOGeL), president
Advisory and coordinating activities
Instituto Cervantes, Utrecht, preparing courses in Spanish culture for Cervantes and HOVO, Utrecht
as course coordinator, three-year period, 2013-2016
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Ada Peele, PhD, University Leiden, ‘Een uitzonderlijke erfgenaam. De verdeling van de nalatenschap
van Koning-Stadhouder Willem III en de consequentie daarvan: Pruisisch gezag in de heerlijkheid
Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe 1702-1754’, member readers committee. Date of defence: November 19, 2013
Externally acquired funds
‘Facing the enemy. The Spanish army during the first decade of the Dutch Revolt’, NWO, Vrije
Competitie Geesteswetenschappen, applicant
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
March 7: Lecture Hispanic society Atalaya, Deventer, on Captain Julián, the Spanish hero of the Dutch
Revolt
Publications
Fagel, R.P.
‘The Duke of Alba and the Low Countries’. In: Ebben, M., Lacy-Bruijn, M. , Hövell tot Westerflier, R.
(Red.) Alba. General and servant to the crown nr. 3. Rotterdam: Karwansaray Publishers. 256-287
Fagel, R.P.
Adriano de Utrecht y la rebelión de la Comunidad de Castilla. In: Szászdi León-Borja I, Galende Ruíz
M.J. (Red.) Imperio y tiranía. La dimensión europea de las Comunidades de Castilla Historia nr. 170.
Valladolid: Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid / Fundación Villalar, 259-275
Fagel, R.P.
Juan Martínez de Recalde Sáez de Leguiçamon. In: Diccionario Biográfico Español 42 nr. 42. Madrid:
Real Academia de la Historia, 1021
Fagel, R.P.
Johanna van Castilië. In: Kloek E. (Red.) 1001 vrouwen uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis. Nijmegen:
Vantilt, 101-103
Fagel, R.P.
Juan Martínez de Recalde Sáez de Vasoçavala. In: Diccionario Biográfico Español 42 nr. 42. Madrid: Real
Academia de la Historia, 1021-102
Other activities
November 11 and 18: Lectures within a course on Spanish passion, for HOVO Utrecht and Instituto
Cervantes, Utrecht
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Ms. Dr. M. Faverau-Doumenjou
Research
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Conference attendance
February 7-9: International congress, University of Fribourg, Regards croisés sur la cour des khans
mongols (XIIIe-XVe siècles), Panel : La cour comme plaque tournante. Connectivité globale et
communication transculturelle entre Europe, Afrique et Asie / Der Hof als Drehscheibe. Globale
Vernetzung und transkulturelle Kommunikation zwischen Europa, Afrika und Asien, 3èmes Journées
suisses d’histoire
February 22 : Symposium ‘Ceremonial Representations of the Jochid Khans through the Eyes of
Foreign Ambassadors’, International Symposium‘Emperors, Sultans, Khans. Dynastic Rulership at the
Crossroad between East and West. A Comparative Perspective’ organized by Frouke Schrijver (NIT),
Istanbul
December 5-6 : Colloquium ‘Tatar vs Tartare: quand d’un jeu de mots naît une ethnie, colloque « La
fabrique de l’ethnie dans l’Islam médiéval » organized by E. Tixier du Mesnil (Paris X), G.MartinezGros (Paris X), J.Loiseau (Montpellier 3), IISMM, Paris
Research leave, home and abroad
Research project: Eurasian Empires
January: travel to Ukraine and Russia to visit the state archives (Simferopol’ – KOGA)
December: travel to Venice, Italy to visit the state archives (Archivio di Stato)
Membership of boards and committees
Referee member at the Franco-American commission (Fulbright) – Member of the Jury for the
selection of PhDs and researchers
LUCIS Member (Leiden University Centre for the study of Islam and Society)
Publications
Favereau-Doumenjou, M.
‘De la mise en scène diplomatique au rituel dynastique : retour sur la nature des liens entre la PologneLituanie et le khanat de Crimée: à propos du livre de Dariusz Kolodziejczyk’, Turcica 44 : 335-347
Dr. D. Haks
Research
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Conference attendance
April 24-26: conference ‘Performances of peace. Utrecht 1713-2013’. Title of presented paper: ‘The
War of the Spanish Succession and its audiences. Public opinion and the closing of the war’, Utrecht
University
August 24: conference ‘De zingende Nederlanden. Congres van de Werkgroep Zeventiende Eeuw’.
Title of presented paper: ‘Zelfbeeld, Vijandbeeld, Identiteitsbesef 1672-1713’, Koninklijke Bibliotheek,
Den Haag
December 18: conference ‘Overweldigende propaganda tijdens de Frans-Nederlandse Oorlog.
Studiedag van het ERC-programma ‘Elevated Minds’. Title of presented paper: ‘Roem, gezag en orde.
Een ‘war of images’’, Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden
Publications
Haks, D.
‘Vaderland en vrede. Publiciteit over de Nederlandse Republiek in oorlog ‘(Hilversum 2013; 2e druk
2013) 352 p.
Reviews:
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‘Anuschka Tischer, Offizielle Kriegsbegründungen in der Frühen Neuzeit: Herrscherkommunikation
in Europa zwischen Souveränität und korporativen Selbstverständnis’ (Münster 2012), Bulletin
German Historical Institute, 35 (2013) 69-72
‘Coos Huijsen, Nederland en het verhaal van Oranje. Het gewicht van het niet-weegbare’ (Amsterdam
2012), Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, 126 (2013) 282-283
Femke Deen, David Onnekink, Michel Reinders eds.
‘Pamphlets and politics in the Dutch Republic’ (Leiden-Boston 2011), Michel Reinders, Gedrukte
chaos. Populisme en moord in het Rampjaar 1672 (Amsterdam 2010) and Roeland Harms, Pamfletten
en publieke opinie. Massamedia in de zeventiende eeuw (Amsterdam 2011), Bijdragen en
mededelingen betreffende de geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 127 (2012) review nr. 39
Prof. Dr. P.C.M. Hoppenbrouwers
Research
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Conference attendance
March 22: colloquium Contactgroep 1300-1700 . Title of presented paper: ‘Boerengemeenschappen in
laatmiddeleeuws Drenthe’, Leiden University
August 27: international symposium ‘Twilight Zone: Party strife, private warfare and feuding in later
medieval Europe’. Title of presented paper: ‘The Count, his Son, a Knave and a Lover: Holland’s
Twilight Zone at the End of the Fourteenth Century’, Leiden University
Conference organization
April 26: colloquium ‘Economie en Architectuur’. Role: co-organizer (with drs. J. de Putter), Leiden
university
May 7: master class (workshop)with Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard University), Amsterdam. Role: coorganizer (with Prof. Dr. G. Geltner, University of Amsterdam)
August 27-28: international symposium ‘Twilight Zone: Party strife, private warfare and feuding in
later medieval Europe’, Leiden University. Role: organizer
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Member of Editorial Board of:
Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis
Journal of Medieval History
The Medieval Countryside (Series; Brepols-Turnhout)
Member of Board of Advisors of:
Fragmenta. Journal of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome
Membership of boards and committees
Advisory committee Van den Eerenbeemtfonds (chairman)(until April 2013)
Board of trustees special chair Frisian History (chairman)
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision PhD
Justine Smithuis MA, Leiden University [until August 2013], ‘Party strife in late medieval Utrecht’;
promoter; [expected 2015]
Matthijs Gerrits MA, Leiden University [until August 2013], ‘Feuding in late medieval Friesland’,
promoter; [expected 2015]
External PhD
Jinna Smit MA, National Archives The Hague, ‘The operation of the chancery of the Counts of
Holland from the House of Hainault’; [expected 2015] [with Prof. Dr. J.W.J. Burgers]
Dr. Henny Denessen, ‘The nobility in the late medieval Duchy of Guelders’; [expected 2017] [with Dr.
A. Janse]
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Hans Koopmanschap MA, ‘Archaeology and economy of the Langstraat area in the later medieval
period’; promoter; [expected 2014] [with Prof. Dr. A.-J. Bijsterveld]
Leen Alberts BA, ‘Beer production at Amersfoort during the 15th-16th centuries’; promoter; [expected
2015] [with Prof. Dr. L. Noordegraaf])
Prof. Dr. Peter Johnstone, Austin University, Faculty of Law, ‘Benefit of clergy in late medieval
England’; promoter; [expected 2016]
Ingrid de Lange MA, ‘The Herald Beyeren’s History of Holland’; promoter; [expected 2017] [with Dr.
A. Janse]
Rachel Schats MA, Leiden University, Faculty of Archaeology, ‘Urban lifeways: Bioarchaeological
reconstructions of Dutch city life in the late Medieval period’; promoter; [expected 2015]
Alois van Doornmalen MA, ‘The Lords of Herlaar: their power and their possessions’; promoter;
[expected 2015]
Membership PhD committee
Michel Groothedde, ‘Een vorstelijke palts te Zutphen?; Leiden University, 14 February 2013
Ronald Fierst van Wijnandsbergen, ‘Ghenge ende gheve in Grave: Fondsvorming van
armeninstellingen en middeleeuwse monetaire problematiek’; Tilburg University, 25 September 2013
Taco Hermans, ‘Middeleeuwse woontorens in Nederland. De bouwhistorische benadering van een
kasteelvorm’ Leiden University, 17 October 2013
Marie Legendre, ‘L’administration islamique en Moyenne-Égypte pré-tulunide (642-868)’; Leiden
University, 12 December 2013
Otto Derk Jan Roemeling, ‘Heiligen en heren: studies over het parochiewezen in het Noorden van
Nederland vóór 1600’, Leiden University, 18 December 2013
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
November 26: ‘Over verdraagzaamheid en vrijheid in middeleeuws Europa’ [public lecture on the
occasion of the yearly commemoration of the ‘Cleveringa-address’]; Brussels
Publications
Hoppenbrouwers, P.C.M.
‘Leges nationum and ethnic personality of law in Charlemagne's Empire’. In: Jeroen Duindam, Jill
Harries, Caroline Humfress, and Nimrod Hurvitz (Eds.) Law and Empire: Ideas, Practices, Actors
Rulers & Elites. Comparative Studies in Governance no. 3. Leiden: Brill. 251-274
Hoppenbrouwers, P.C.M.
‘An Italian city-state geared for war: urban knights and the cavallata of Todi’, Journal of medieval
history 39(2): 240-253
Dr. A. Janse
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Publications
Janse A.
[Bookreview: Levelt Sjoerd (2011) Jan van Naaldwijk's Chronicles of Holland] Holland. Historisch
Tijdschrift.
Ms. Dr. H.M.E.P. Kuijpers
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Conference attendance
January 2-6: International conference ‘American Historical Association’ 127th Annual Meeting. Title
of presented paper: ‘From Personal Memory to National Myth: Narratives of Heroism during the Dutch
Revolt, 1568-1648’, New Orleans
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February 21: Seminar of the Centre of War Studies, Trinity College Dublin. Title of presented paper:
‘Coping with traumatic memories after a civil war: narratives of suffering and survival of the Dutch Revolt
1568-1648’, Dublin, Ireland
April 3-5: Colloque ‘Cultures orales, histoires et mémoires des révoltes et contestations populaires
(XVe-XVIIIe siècles)’. Title of presented paper: ‘Spanish ears on rebel hats, local memories of the Dutch
Revolt (1566-1648): The cases of Waterland (near Amsterdam) and Anchin (near Douai)’, Université de
Caen
Conference organization
January 18: symposium ‘Battlefield Emotions 1500-1900’, Amsterdam (VU). Role: (co-)organizer at
the Amsterdam Centre for Cross-Disciplinary Emotion and Sensory Studies (ACCESS)
Organizer of theSeminar ‘Cultural Industries of the Dutch Golden Age’, Utrecht, Amsterdam, Den
Haag (4 times per year)
Membership of boards and committees
Amsterdam Centre for Cross-Disciplinary Emotion and Sensory Studies (ACCESS)
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Appearance in Gouden Eeuw VPRO/NTR, January 29, episode 8
Publications
Pollmann, J.S. & Kuijpers, H.M.E.P.
‘Introduction: On the early modernity of modern memory’ in: Erika Kuijpers, Judith Pollmann,
Johannes Müller, Jasper van der Steen (eds.) Memory Before Modernity. Practices of Memory in Early
Modern Europe (Amsterdam Brill 2013)
Kuijpers, H.M.E.P.
‘Between storytelling and patriotic scripture: the memory brokers of the Dutch Revolt’ in: Erika
Kuijpers, Judith Pollmann, Johannes Müller, Jasper van der Steen (eds.) Memory Before Modernity.
Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe (Amsterdam Brill 2013)
Kuijpers, H.M.E.P.
‘The creation and development of social memories of traumatic events. The Oudewater Massacre of
1575’ in: Michael Linden and Krzysztof Rutkowski, (eds.) Hurting memories: remembering as a
pathogenic process in individuals and societies (Elsevier 2013)
Kuijpers, H.M.E.P. & Pollmann, J.S.
‘Why remember terror? Memories of violence in the Dutch Revolt’ in: Jane Ohlmeyer and Micheál Ó
Siochrú (eds), Ireland 1641: Contexts and Reactions (Manchester University Press 2013) 176-196
Kuijpers, H.M.E.P., Pollmann, J.S., Müller, J.M. & Steen, van der, J.A.
‘Memory before Modernity. Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe’, (Leiden, 2013) Brill
publishers
Prof. Dr. J.A. Mol
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Conference attendance
April 19: N.W. Posthumus Conference, Eindhoven. Title of presented paper: ‘Parcels, house numbers
and georeferencing in Amsterdam (1832-1860). Getting grip on census and voting datasets by linking
them to exactly vectorised locations.’
May 31: expertmeeting ‘Big Data & Spatial Humanities’, Meertens Institute Amsterdam
August 27: symposium ‘Twilight zone: party strife, feuding, and private warfare in the late Middle
Ages, Leiden. Title of presented paper: ‘Power, violence and prayer. A Benedictine monastery in an
escalating feud in late 15th century Friesland.’
September 28: 17th conference Ordines Militares ‘On the brethren of the military orders in their social,
religious and political networks’, Torun. Title of presented paper; ‘Knight brothers from the Low
Countries in the conflict between the Westphalians and the Rhinelanders in the Livonian branch of the
Teutonic Order.’
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October 18: symposium ‘Het belang en de betekenis van de Beneficiaalboeken van Friesland, 1543’,
Leeuwarden. Title of presented paper: ‘Het inkomen van de zielzorgers in Friesland, 1511-1543.’
November 13: symposium lancering HISGIS Amsterdam, Amsterdam. Title of presented paper:
‘HISGIS Amsterdam en HISGIS Nederland Doel, opzet en perspectieven’.
November 29: symposium ‘Fryslân en de wrâld. Ter afscheid van Reinier Salverda’, Leeuwarden. Title
of presented paper: ‘HISGIS Fryslân en Nederland en hoe nu verder?’
December 20: conference ‘Das Klevische Kataster. Eine historische Quelle von europaïschem Rang aus
dem Rheinland. Geschichte - Bedeutung – Edition’, Kleve. Title of presented paper: ‘Das
niederländische Urkataster (1832) in GIS: Sachstand und Zukunftsperspektive von HISGIS
Nederland.’
Conference organization
October 18: co-organizer symposium ‘Belang en betekenis van de Beneficiaalboeken van Friesland’,
Leeuwarden
November 13: organizer symposium ‘Lancering interactieve website HISGIS Amsterdam’, Amsterdam
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Editorial ‘The Medieval Low Countries’. An Annual Review
Editorial Board ‘Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis van de Ridderlijke Duitsche Orde, Balije van Utrecht’
Membership of boards and committees
Internationale Kommission zur Erforschung des Deutschen Ordens
Historische Commissie van de Ridderlijke Duitsche Orde, balije van Utrecht
Jury van de Professor van Winterprijs
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision PhD
M. Gerrits, Fryske Akademy Leeuwarden / Leiden University, [with Prof. Dr. P.C.M.
Hoppenbrouwers]: ‘Schieringers en Vetkopers. Partijstrijd en vetewezen in Westerlauwers Friesland’
R. Stapel, Fryske Akademy Leeuwarden / Leiden University: ‘Herfsttij in een ridderorde? De cronike
van der Duytscher Oirden’
P. Schoen, Fryske Akademy Leeuwarden: ‘Edelsmeden in Friesland in de Gouden en Zilveren eeuw’
Chr. Schrickx, Leiden: ‘Bethlehem in de Bangert. Een historische en archeologische studie naar de
verkloostering van een lekenzusterconvent in het buitengebied van Hoorn (1475-1573)’
Ing. D. Worst MA., Fryske Akademy Leeuwarden / Leiden University [with Prof. Dr. Th. Spek and
Prof. Dr. G.L. de Langen]: ‘De grootschalige veenontginningen in Zuid-Fryslân en NoordwestOverijssel tussen 1000 en 1400’
External PhD
Ing. J. Zomer MA, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen [with Prof. Dr. Th. Spek]: ‘De ontginning en
waterbeheersing van de kustvenen in de bekkens van Lauwers-Hunze-Aa en Boorne-Ges-Ee’
Member of promotion committee
A.G.M. Spiekhout MA, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen [with Prof. Dr. Th. Spek]: ‘Medieval castle
landscapes in the Oversticht territory (Northeastern Netherlands) between 1050 and 1425 AD’
M. De Smet (Universiteit Leuven/Kortrijk) [with: Prof. Dr. P. Trio]: ‘Memoriezorg en andere
‘meetbare’ devotie in het middeleeuwse Kortrijk’
J. van der Eycken (Universiteit Leuven) [with: Prof. Dr. E. Aerts]: ‘De adel in het graafschap Loon,
1300-1600’
X. Baecke (Universiteit Gent) [with: Prof. Dr. J. Deploige]: ‘The Sacralisation of Knighthood. A study
of religious knightly identity in the Southern Low Countries during the High Middle Ages’
February 14, M. Groothedde, Leiden: ‘Een vorstelijke palts te Zutphen? Macht en prestige op en rond
het plein 's-Gravenhof van de Karolingische tijd tot aan de stadsrechtverlening’
October 17, T. Hermans, Leiden: ‘Middeleeuwse woontorens in Nederland. De bouwhistorische
benadering van een kasteelvorm’
December 13: O.D.J. Roemeling, Leiden, ‘Heiligen en Heren. Studies over het parochiewezen in het
Noorden van Nederland vóór 1600’
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Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
June 23: Radio 1: OVT: Bookreview 'Dagboek van een beul' by Joel Harrington
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
(Public) lectures
April 16: Leeuwarden, Oarkonderûnte: ‘De militêre ‘weerbaarheid’ fan de Friezen neffens de
monsterlisten fan 1552. In ynlieding’
May 17: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, guestcollege Kenniscentrum Landschapsgeschiedenis: ‘De
agrarische veenontginningen in Zuid-Friesland en de Kop van Overijssel, 1000-1350’
May 24: Kalinigrad, studiereis Ridderlijke Duitsche Orde, Balije van Utrecht: ‘De Duitse Orde, Pruisen
en Koningsbergen 1250-1600’
June 19: Leiden, Institute for History (Instituutsvergadering): ‘GIS en geschiedenis. Nut en noodzaak
van een perceel gestructureerd systeem voor Nederland op basis van het oudste kadaster (1812/1832)’
June 20: Midsland, Waddenacademie Oerol-colleges: ‘Friese kloosters en de Waddeneilanden’
October 4: Ter Apel (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Kerkgeschiedenis): ‘Moderne Devoten in het
moeras’
November 15: Leeuwarden (Studiemiddag Obe Postma-Selskip): ‘’Skiedskriuwing yn Fryslân en oan de
Fryske Akademy’
December 13: Drachten (Regnerus Steensma-lezing): ‘Macht, bezit en monniken. Benedictijnen in een
escalerende vete in Zuidwest-Friesland aan het einde van de 15de eeuw’
Workshops
March 1: [with ing. J.J. Feikens], Leiden, workshop ‘GIS voor sociale en economische historici’ voor de
collegeserie van het N.W. Posthumusinstituut ‘Keys to the Treasure Trove: Sources and Methods for
Social and Economic Historians’
November 25: [with ing. J.J. Feikens], Leeuwarden, workshop ‘GIS for the humanities’ voor
Winterschool 2013 of the International Graduate and Research School UCF
Publications
Bärenfänger, R. & Mol, J.A.
‘Die ehemaligen Klosterplätze im Küstengebiet / De voormalige kloosterplaatsen in het kustgebied’. In:
J. Kegler (Ed.), Land der Entdeckungen / Land van ontdekkingen. Die Archäologie des friesischen
Küstenraums / De archeologie van het Friese kustgebied (pp. 296-309). Aurich: Ostfriesische
Landschaft
Feikens, J.J. & Mol, J.A.
Historische basiskaart Amsterdam 1832 [Dataset], Leeuwarden: Fryske Akademy
Meer, P.L.G. van der & Mol, J.A.
De Beneficiaalboeken van Friesland, 1543 (Fryske Akademy, 1069). Leeuwarden: Fryske Akademy ;
Afûk
Mol, J.A.
Nederlandse kloostergeschiedenis in stukken en beetjes [Review of: De middeleeuwse
kloostergeschiedenis van de Nederlanden. Dl. 1 Kloosterleven in Nederland & De middeleeuwse
kloostergeschiedenis van de Nederlanden. Dl. II Dagelijks leven & De middeleeuwse
kloostergeschiedenis van de Nederlanden. Dl. III Kloosters in Groningen]. Tijdschrift voor
Geschiedenis, 126(2), 264-266
Mol, J.A.
Review of: Van meenten tot marken. Een onderzoek naar de oorsprong en ontwikkeling van de Gooise
marken en de gebruiksrechten op de gemene gronden van de Gooise markegenoten (1280-1568)].
Holland: Historisch tijdschrift, 2013
Mol, J.A. & Meer, P.L.G. van der
Inleiding Beneficiaalboeken. In: P.L.G. van der Meer & J.A. Mol (Eds.), De Beneficiaalboeken van
Friesland, 1543 (Fryske Akademy, 1069) (pp. 15-71). Leeuwarden: Fryske Akademy, Afûk
Mol, J.A.
Kleasters en geweld yn let-midsieusk Fryslân. In: H. Brand, B. Groen, E. Hoekstra & C. van der Meer
(Eds.), De tienduizend dingen. Feestbundel voor Reinier Salverda (Fryske Akademy, 1075) (pp. 87-98)
Leeuwarden: Fryske Akademy
Mol, J.A.
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Monasteries and water management in the Frisian Coastal Plain. The reconstruction of landed
property as a trigger for new research on the chronology of embankment and drainage. In: G. Borger,
A. de Kraker, T. Soens, E. Thoen & D. Tys (Eds.), Landscapes or Seascapes? The history of the coastal
area in the North Sea Area reconsidered (Corn Publication Series. Comparative Rural History of the
North Sea Area, 13) (pp. 267-285). Turnhout: Brepols
Dr. G.A. Noordzij
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Drs. D. Pfeifer
Research
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Conference attendance
June 13-14: symposium ‘400 years Grotius‘ Ordinum Pietas(1613)’. Title of presented paper: The
legacy of Grotius’s Ordinum Pietas in the determination of an Arminian identity. Peace Palace, The
Hague
Ms. Prof. Dr. J.S. Pollmann
Research
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Conference attendance
January 18-19: ‘On the early modernity of modern memory, Memory and Community in Early
Modern Britain’ Symposium Birkbeck College, London
March 1: ‘Van de oude Brabantse snede. Over oorlog, geloof en katholieke identiteit in de Nederlanden
Opstand’ Symposium ‘Van beeldenstorm naar kapucijnen. Het ontstaan van een katholieke identiteit
in Brabant’, Vereniging De Oranjeboom, Breda
March 22-23: Conference ‘The virtues of anachronism in the Dutch Golden Age’. The uses and abuses
of time. Anachronism/Achronicity in the Premodern Era. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
April 11: ‘On Furies. The logistics of sacking in the Dutch Revolt’, History Research Seminar,
University of Amsterdam
November 7: ‘Acts of oblivion. The virtues of forgetting in early modern Europe’, Dahlem Humanities
Center Lecture, Freie Universität Berlin
Research leave, home and abroad
March 1-21: research trip to Oxford
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Editorial Board Past & Present
Editor Zeven Provinciën Reeks, Verloren
Member of advisoryboard Trajecta
Referee
December 4-5: workshop ‘Urban Identities in the Low Countries’, Academia Belgica, Rome
December 18: workshop: ‘Overweldigende propaganda tijdens de Nederlands-Franse Oorlog’ Leiden
University
Membership of boards and committees
Member BAC Middeleeuwse Chinese geschiedenis, Leiden University
Member appointment committee PhD’s and Postdocs, Institute for History
Chair advisory board Huizinga Instituut (since December 2013)
Chair werkgroep Zeventiende eeuw van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde
Chair jury IISG Volkskrant scriptieprijs voor geschiedenis 2013
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Curator Bibliotheca Thysiana
Chair Research Master OLC Geschiedenis
Onderwijscoordinatie MA specialisatie Europe, 1000-1700 (since November 2013)
Member WAR Scaliger Instituut
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision PhD
Marianne Eekhout, Community and memory. Mediating local memories of the Dutch Revolt, 1566-1700,
to submit March 2014
Johannes Müller, Exile memories and the Dutch Revolt. The narrated diaspora, 1550-1750, to be
defended 14 May 2014
Jasper van der Steen, Memory wars in the Low Countries, 1566-1700, supervisor, to be defended 24 June
2014
External PhD
Dirk Pfeifer, Arminianism in England and the Dutch Republic; started 2010Carolina Lenarduzzi, Katholieke cultuur in de Republiek; commenced at November 1, 2011
Cees Reijner, Italiaanse Geschiedschrijving over de Nederlandse Opstand , commenced at November 1,
2011
Membership PhD committee
David van der Linden, ‘Experiencing exile. Huguenot refugees in the Dutch Republic, 1680-1700’,
University Utrecht, January 11, 2013
Han Lamers, ‘Re-inventing the Ancient Greeks. The self-representation of Byzantine scholars in
Renaissance Italy’, Leiden University, June 12, 2013 (opposition only)
Michel Hoenderboom, ‘Scandal, politics, and patronage. Corruption and public values in the
Netherlands, 1650-1747’, VU Amsterdam, September 5, 2013
Lieke Stelling, ‘Religious conversion in early modern drama’ , Leiden University, November 12, 2013
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
February 12: Interview in NTR televisieserie Gouden eeuw, episode 10: ’ Veel geloven op één kussen’
January: Interview for Gouden eeuw Quest historie
September 27: ‘Mythes kwamen stad goed uit’, interview in Leidsch Dagblad
Publications
Pollmann, J.S., Kuijpers, H.M.E.P. , Müller, J.M. & Steen, J.A. van der (eds.)
‘Memory before modernity. Practices of memory in early modern Europe’ (Leiden and Boston 2013)
Articles in journals
‘Of living legends and authentic tales. How to get remembered in early modern Europe’, Transactions
of the Royal Historical Society, sixth series 23 (2013), 103-125
‘Met grootvaders bloed bezegeld. Het religieuze verleden in de zeventiende eeuw’, De zeventiende
eeuw, 29/2 (2013)Themanummer Het Vaderlands Verleden in de Zeventiende eeuw
‘Inleiding’, De zeventiende eeuw, Themanummer ‘Het Vaderlands Verleden in de Zeventiende eeuw’
29/2 (2013) with Carolina Lenarduzzi
Chapters in books:
‘Being a Catholic in early modern Europe’ in: Alexandra Bamji, Geert Janssen, Mary Laven (eds), The
Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation, (Ashgate; Farnham 2013) 165-182
‘The experience of rupture and the history of memory’ in Erika Kuijpers, Judith Pollmann, Johannes
Müller and Jasper van der Steen (eds.), Memory before modernity. Practices of memory in early
modern Europe (Leiden and Boston 2013), 315-330, with Brecht Deseure
Reformations and Revolt in the Netherlands, 1500-1621’. In: Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and
Reformation, ed. Margaret King. New York: Oxford University Press, published online through
Oxford Books Online, with Alastair Duke
‘Introduction. On the early modernity of modern memory’ in Erika Kuijpers, Judith Pollmann,
Johannes Müller and Jasper van der Steen (eds.), Memory before modernity. Practices of memory in
early modern Europe (Leiden and Boston 2013), 1-23, with Erika Kuijpers
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‘Why remember terror? Memories of violence in the Dutch Revolt’ in Jane Ohlmeyer and Micheál
O'Siochrú (eds.), Ireland 1641. Contexts and reactions (Manchester UP 2013), 176-196, with Erika
Kuijpers
‘Alba’s reputation in the early modern Low Countries’ in: M. Ebben M. Lacy-Bruijn en R. van Hövell
tot Westerflier (eds), Alba. General and Servant to the Crown (Rotterdam 2013) 309-325, with Monica
Stensland
Ms. Dr. F. Rosu
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Conference attendance
June 4-5: Symposium ‘Mission and Frontiers: perspectives on early modern missionary Catholicism’.
Title of the presented paper: ‘Helping Transylvania: Jesuit missions in late 16th-century Eastern
Europe’, National University of Ireland, Galway
December 12-13: Symposium ‘Republics and Republicanism in the Modern Period (16th-18th
centuries). Title of the presented paper: ‘Dynamics of dissent: conflict, compromise, and toleration in
Transylvania and Poland-Lithuania (16th-17th centuries)’. Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla,
Spain
Research leave, home and abroad
July 1-5: Vienna, research in Austrian archives for book manuscript on royal elections in early modern
Poland-Lithuania
Membership of boards and committees
Examencommissie
Research Master opleidingscommissie
Advisory and coordinating activities
Coordinator/organizer of the Research Master Symposium: organized two symposia in May and
December
Externally acquired funds
Single Project:
earlymoderndocuments.omeka.net / ‘Vincent De Paul, the Congregation of the Mission, and the
Papacy: Documents from the Vatican Archives’ (a digital collection of sources)
Co-Applicant (with Alison Forrestal, Dept. of History, National University of Ireland, Galway)
Funded By Depaul University, USA
Publications
Rosu, F.
'Respect, Fear, and Loathing in Early Modern Eastern Europe: Images of Poles and Hungarians in
Romanian Chronicles', Leidschrift. Historisch Tijdschrift 28(1): 85-107
Forrestal, A. & Rosu, F.
'Slavery on the Frontier: The Report of a French Missionary on Mid-Seventeenth-Century Tunis',
Reformation & Renaissance Review 14(2): 170-211
Dr. L.H.J. Sicking
Research
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Conference attendance
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June 28: Paper ‘Les XVII Provinces des Pays-Bas et l’insignifiance de l’opposition nord-sud’, studiedag
North(s) in Memory: Heritage, Museum Dynamics and Identity Issues in North-Western Europe (Van
Gogh, FRNL samenwerking), Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
September 19: Paper ‘L’expérience méditerranéenne des Néerlandais des croisades à l’époque moderne:
au-delà de la conquête hollandaise de la Méditerranée de Braudel’, workshop Quand les Nordiques
regardent la Méditerranée … Hommes du nord de l’Europe et l’expérience de la mer intérieur, XVIeXIXe s., Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier III
October 31: invited lecture. Praper ‘The axe of Saint Olaf and other Norwegian treasures in the
Netherlands, 1537-1548. A case study of new diplomatic history’. Medieval history seminar, Science
Museum, NTNU Trondheim, Norway
November 1: Paper, ‘The spritsail revolution and international shipping in the sixteenth century.
Government interference and the introduction of new technology at sea’, Seminar of the history
department, NTNU Trondheim, Norway
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Serie editor of ‘Warfare, society and culture’, van Pickering & Chatto Publishers (Londen)
Membership of boards and committees
Member of the scientific committee ‘Encuentros internacionales del medievo te Nájera’
Member of the scientific committee ‘Annales Médiévales de L'Europe Atlantique’
Associated member of ‘Revue du Nord’
Member of the editorial staff of the website The Dutch Revolt (http://dutchrevolt.leidenuniv.nl/)
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
May 30: Interview for the South-Korean television regarding the Dutch history. In 2014 to be
broadcasted in a televisionserie about history of several countries including an episode about the
Netherlands.
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
June 1: Admiraltylecture in honour of 525 year Royal Navy, ‘Veere: bakermat van de koninklijke
marine’, Grote Kerk, Veere
Involved in preparation for exhibition ‘ Vlaamse zeevisserij’, Musée de Gravelines, Gravelines, France
November 13 : Introduction during a movienight of the Historische Studentenverening Leiden
(HSVL)
Publications
Sicking, L.H.J., Nimwegen, O. van, Prud’homme van Reine, R., Vliet, A. van & Groen, P.
‘De Tachtigjarige oorlog. Van Opstand naar geregelde oorlogvoering 1568-1648. Militaire geschiedenis
van Nederland 1’ (Amsterdam 2013) (scientific monography, 496 pages)
‘Les groupes d’intérêt et la gestion des risques dans le commerce maritime et la pêche des anciens PaysBas, vers 1480-1560’, Annales de Bretagne et des pays de l’ouest jrg 120 nr. 2 (2013) 135-152 (scientific
article in a refereed journal)
‘La pêche maritime flamande. Apogée, déclin, crise et relance, 1500-1850’, in: Le hareng. Histoire d’un
poisson populaire. Musée du dessin et de l’estampe originale (Gravelines 2013) 31-51
Other activities
September 1, 2013 appointed assistant professor of History of international law Department at the
Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dr. R. Stein
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March 14-16: Conference: ‘Consensus et représentation (XIIIe siècle - milieu XVIIe siècle)
Lecture ‘Liberty, equality, fraternity’, Dijon, France
September 19-22 : Conference: ‘Culture historique. la cour, les pays, les villes dans les anciens Pays-Bas
(XIVe-XVIe siècles)’, Leiden University
September 19: Lecture: Regional chronicles in a composite monarchy, Leiden
December 5-8: Conference: ‘Urban identities in the late-medieval and early modern city. Mechelen in
the 15th and 16th centuries’. Title of the presented paper: ‘Mechelen and Brabant. Clash of identities?’
Rome, Italy
Conference organization
September 19-22 : Conference: ‘Culture historique. la cour, les pays, les villes dans les anciens Pays-Bas
(XIVe-XVIe siècles)’, Leiden University, co-organizer
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Queeste
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision PhD
Kim Ragetli, Institute for History, project Eurasion Empires, role: co-promotor
Membership PhD committee
O.D. Roemeling, ‘Heiligen en heren. Studies over het parochiewezen in het noorden van Nederland
vóór 1600’, Thesis defence December 18, 2013, Leiden University
Publications
Stein, R.
‘Regional chronicles in a composite monarchy’ (congress contribution)
Stein, R. & Lem, G.A.C. van der
‘The Waning of the Middle Ages in Leiden’
Dr. J.J. Wubs-Mrozewicz
Research
0.8 fte
Editorial and reviewer activities
Peer-review: ‘The Hanse in Medieval and Early Modern Europe’ met Stuart Jenks (Brill, 2013)
Publications
Wubs-Mrozewicz J.J. & Jenks S. (Eds.)
The Hanse in Medieval and Early Modern Europe no. 60. Leiden: Brill
Wubs-Mrozewicz J.J.
'The close 'Other'. Hollanders in medieval Hanseatic sources and in historiography, German History
3/4 (2013) 453-472
Wubs-Mrozewicz J.J.
Game Theory and the Hanse: An Epilogue. In: Wubs-Mrozewicz J.J., Jenks Stuart (Eds.) The Hanse in
Medieval and Early Modern Europe no. 60. Leiden/Boston: Brill. 283-288.
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Wubs-Mrozewicz & J.J.
Antwerpen gevallen. Antwerpen gevallen. http://goudeneeuw.ntr.nl/krant/#/overzicht/1585/2/: De
Gouden Eeuw [blog entry]
Wubs-Mrozewicz J.J.
Out of the box leren denken. http://blogs.groene.nl/geesteswetenschappers/?p=961: De Groene
Amsterdammer (Onderzoek Geesteswetenschappen) [blog entry].
Vlasblom Dirk (2013): ‘Middeleeuwse Leeuwen’
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Article in newspaper
PhD Candidates
Ms. M.F.D. Eekhout MA
Research
0.8 fte
Conference attendance
April 17-19: Conference ‘Materialities of Urban Life’. Title of the presented paper: ‘The Dutch
Revolt as part of the Urban Memory Landscape’, London, United Kingdom
October 3: Seminar Maritiem Museum Rotterdam. Title of the presented paper: ‘Materiële
herinnering: de slag op de Zuiderzee in 1573’
Publications
Eekhout, M.F.D.
‘Celebrating a Trojan Horse. Memories of the Dutch Revolt in Breda, 1590-1650’. In: Kuijpers Erika,
Pollmann Judith, Müller Johannes, Steen Jasper van der (Eds.) ‘Memory Before Modernity. Memory
cultures in Early Modern Europe’. Leiden: Brill. 129-147
M. Gerrits MA
Research
1.0 fte
J.M. Müller Mphil
Research
0.8 fte
Publications
Kuijpers, H.M.E.P., Pollmann, J.S., Müller, J.M. & Steen, J.A. van der (eds.)
‘Memory before Modernity. Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe’. Leiden: Brill
Müller, J.M.
‘Brethren in Christ. A Calvinist network in Reformation Europe [Review of: Peter Ole Grell (2011)
Müller, J.M.
Brethren in Christ. A Calvinist network in Reformation Europe] Church History and Religious Culture
92(2): 313-315
Müller’, J.M.
‘Permeable memories. Family history and the diaspora of Southern Netherlandish exiles in the
seventeenth century’. In: Erika Kuijpers, Judith Pollmann, Johannes Müller, Jasper van der Steen (Eds.)
‘Memory before Modernity. Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe’. Leiden: Brill
Müller, J.M.
[Review of: Jeroen Jansen (2011) G.A. Bredero, Proza. Published, translated and introduced by Jeroen
Jansen] Historisch Tijdschrift Holland
Müller, J.M.
‘Orthodoxie jenseits der Konfessionen? Die Diskussion religiöser Streitfragen in niederländischen
Rhetorikergesellschaften im frühen 17. Jahrhundert’
Drs. B. Noordam
Research
1.0 fte
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Publications
Noordam, B.
‘Stereotyping Military Inferiority: Portuguese Military Culture and Perceptions of the Ming Military
(abstract).’ In: Proceedings of the 1st Rombouts Graduate Conference: Globalization and
Glocalization in China, edited by Rens Krijgsman, 51-54. Leiden: Stichting Shilin, 2013
Other activities
March 1: participant, workshop Didactic Skills
Member of Cosmopolis - a research community exploring the transnational and cultural dimensions
of intra-Eurasian encounters through Dutch and other sources, University of Leiden
Member of Duzhe: Classical Chinese Reading Group, University of Leiden
Drs. R.J. Stapel
Research
0.8 fte
Conference attendance
September 26: Colloquium 6th Forum of Young Researchers of Military Orders.
Title of presented paper: ‘Die jüngere Hochmeisterchronik. Geschichtsschreibung, Kultur- und
Wissenstransfer zwischen Preußen, Livland und die Balleien’, Toruń, Poland
September 27-29: Colloquium : 17th Ordines Militares. Colloquia Torunensia Historica. The Military
Orders in the social, political and religious Networks in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time,
Toruń, Poland
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Editor for Contactgroep Signum (www.contactgroepsignum.eu)
Publications
Stapel, R.J.
‘Die jüngere Hochmeisterchronik. Geschichtsschreibung, Kultur- und Wissenstransfer zwischen
Preußen, Livland und die Balleien’ (Lecture)
Stapel, R.J.
‘Layer on layer’. 'Computational archaeology' in 15th century Middle Dutch historiography, Literary
and Linguistic Computing 28(2): 344-358
Stapel, R.J.
‘Priests in the military orders. A prosopographical survey of the priest-brethren in the Utrecht
bailiwick of the Teutonic Order (1350-1600)’
Drs. J.A. van der Steen MA
Research
0.8 fte
Jasper van der Steen, ‘Memory wars in the Low Countries, 1566-1700’, supervisor, to be defended 24
June 2014
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
September 22: ‘De kinderen van Willem van Oranje. Opgroeien tijdens de Opstand’, invited lecture at
the association Prometheus, Delft
September 22: ‘De vrouwen van Willem van Oranje. Huwelijkspolitiek in een tijd van politieke onrust’,
invited lecture at the association Prometheus, Delft
Publications
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Kuijpers, H.M.E. P., Pollmann, J.S., Müller, J. M. and Steen, J. A. van der, eds.
‘Memory before Modernity: Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe.’ Leiden: Brill, 2013
Steen, J.A. van der
‘The Trap of History. The States Party and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1650-1660’, De Zeventiende
Eeuw 29 (2013), pp. 189-205
Steen, J.A. van der
‘A Contested Past: Memory Wars during the Twelve Years’ Truce, 1609-1621, in: Erika Kuijpers et al.,
eds., Memory before Modernity: Practices of Memory in Early Modern Europe. Leiden: Brill, 2013
External PhD Candidates
L. Alberts
H. Denessen
S. Derks
A. van Doornmalen
P. Johnstone
H.J.L.C. Koopmanschap
C. Lenarduzzi
A. Peele
D. Pfeifer
C. Reijner
O.D.J. Roemeling
R. Schats
J. Smit
A.P.W. van den Steen
B. Thissen
J. Zomer
Research Master Students
Amber Bakkeren
Erica Boersma
Alec Ewing
Ferry Gouwens
Peter van den Hooff
Wouter Kreuze
Joey Spijkers
Quinten Somsen
Matthijs Timmermans
Christiaan Veldman
Jenine de Vries
Externally funded programmes
VICI project: Tales of the Revolt, Memory, Oblivion and Identity in the Low
Countries, 1566-1700
Judith Pollmann
This research project, that started in September 2008, aims to explore how personal and public
memories of the Dutch Revolt in the seventeenth century evolved and interacted to create new political
and cultural identities for the societies that eventually were to become the kingdoms of the
Netherlands and Belgium. While on both sides of the new border there emerged a body of ‘canonic’
knowledge about the Revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs, this simultaneously involved the conscious
eradication of other aspects of the past, meaning that two radically different versions of the same past
came to prop up two distinctive ‘national’ identities.
The first aim of this project is to investigate how these versions of the past came into being, to what
extent they were assimilated by individual Netherlanders, and how they contributed to identity
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formation. The project builds on the surge of scholarly interest in the phenomenon of ‘collective’ or
‘social’ memory – the way in which societies remember and deploy the past. Research on the twentieth
century has shown that individual memories will evolve in response to those of other people, or those
that are promulgated in the public domain – thus contributing to the formation of group identity. Few
scholars have so far tried to map the interaction between personal and public memory before 1800.
The second aim of this project is to show that this is both possible and worthwhile. By exploring
storytelling about the Revolt in memoirs, chronicles and many other sources, we will gauge the impact
of different ‘memory policies’ on early modern populations that shared the same past but that became
politically and confessionally divided. This situation was not unique to the Netherlands, and the
project aims to offer insights that can be applied to other parts of Europe, as well as a better
understanding of the differences between early modern and modern memory.
Individual memory. Narrating the Revolt (post doc project)
Erika Kuijpers
This project asks how individuals and society in the first generations after the Revolt dealt with
personal memories of the wars, asking how they narrated, explained, understood, and came to terms
with what had happened. Among students of the history of memory it is widely assumed that history is
a social act. Narrating the past is closely connected to the construction of identity. What people
remember, what they will tell about it, is largely determined by the normative frameworks and
narrative schemes with which they grew up.
Those frameworks and schemes will come to the fore when individual tales are compared with tales
that have become popular in the public domain. The similarities in themes, style, form, interpretation
etc reveals how much personal tales are fused with those from oral traditions, and what people have
learned from other media. The way in which people were dealing with past experiences in the
seventeenth century should have some elements in common with how people do this today. In
historical literature, however, it is the differences that are often emphasised: the absence or rarity of
introspection and self-reflection, for instance, the supposedly less developed sense of individuality and
the strong collective consciousness of groups and communities. It is also often alleged that a very
different meaning was attached to suffering, and that there was less appreciation for individual
characteristics and authenticity. This project aims to test these assumptions. The following questions
are central to this project: 1. When and why did people narrate or write about their personal memories
of episodes or experiences during the war? 2. How and to what extent did the medial context, social
identity, self-reflection and contemporary notions of truth determine the content of narrated memory?
3. Do early modern war memories differ in content, meaning and function from today’s war
memories? If so, what exactly are the differences and how can we explain for them? 4. Why did some
personal stories reach a wider public and become part of the historical canon while others had a
limited reach or remained private?
Commemoration and Community. Mediating local memories of the Dutch
Revolt in the Low Countries, 1566-1700 (PhD project)
Marianne Eekhout
The subproject Commemoration and Community focuses on local memories of the Dutch Revolt in
the Dutch Republic and the Southern Netherlands. Memory cultures varied considerably from town to
town. After the Revolt, some towns drew attention to their role as victims of the cruel Dutch or
Spanish soldiers whereas others presented themselves as victors, or tried to cover up their part in the
Revolt. This project seeks to chart both why and how such memory cultures came into existence,
however, and under what conditions they could continue to survive and be deployed to support local
identity or local political positions and reputations. There have been claims that local magistrates
pursued an active memory policy and engaged in memory ‘management’, but whether they were the
most important players is still unclear. Various other actors such as religious groups, families or guilds
also had the ability and power to influence the decisions of which memories should be forgotten and
which ought to be remembered. These uncertainties provoke other questions related to memory
studies and especially to the way in which memories took shape in the seventeenth century. How does
a memory culture develop? Is it the result of a contest between factions and individuals? To what
extent could versions of the past coexist?
Did the population know which groups advocated which memories? Could certain memories be
adapted when new stories turned up? All these questions will play an important role in this project. In
addition, this project seeks to explore local memory cultures as a multimedia phenomenon. It will be
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based on literary sources and archival material, but also on commemorative objects including
paintings, prints and a wide range of material and immaterial objects – gable stones, tapestries,
windows, ceramics, or ‘relics’ of the Revolt years, as well as local rituals, place names and lieux de
mémoire. All these media have their own messages and audiences, they will be studied both
individually and collectively in order to understand their position and meaning in the memory process.
Exile memories and the reinvention of the Netherlands (PhD project)
Johannes M. Müller
This research project examines the role of memories of war and exile among Netherlandish refugees
and their descendants in the Netherlands, Germany and England from the beginning of the Dutch
Revolt until 1700. The main objective is to explain how and in which forms images of the past lived on
in the Dutch exile communities and how memories about the war and the lost homeland contributed
to the formation of new social identities in the Low Countries and abroad. To meet this objective, this
study will focus on a) the social structures and institutions, through which memories were shaped and
preserved, b) an analysis of the ‘semantics’ of exile, i.e. the social meanings that were attributed to this
phenomenon, and c) the changing topical and intertextual traditions in which exile memories were
modelled and articulated. Leaving behind their hometowns and local social networks which were held
together by mechanisms of trust and reputation, exiles were forced to redefine themselves and to
fashion identities that were acceptable and recognizable in the new society. Especially Southerners, who
had fled to the Republic were immensely active in publishing pamphlets and other literature, in which
they presented themselves as compatriots of their hosts, ‘Netherlanders’, who sought refuge for the
sake of their faith.
Whereas the inhabitants of the Low Countries had previously defined themselves by referring to local
rather than to national identities, exiles began to appeal to ‘the common fatherland’ of all
Netherlanders or to the unity of trans-local religious confessions. So far, the role exile memories played
in the formation of new confessional and ‘proto-national’ constructions of Netherlandish identity has
scarcely been examined. This study will do so, in the belief that this can offer valuable insights into the
development of two distinct Netherlandish states and identities as well as the emergence of new
confessional self-images.
The politics of memory in the Low Countries (PhD project)
Jasper van der Steen
The Dutch Revolt tore apart the seventeen Netherlands and led to the formation of two states that were
at war until the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. Long before 1648, however, it had already become evident
that the division between North and South was likely to be permanent. Due to the rift between the two
Netherlands, diametrically opposed views on the origin of the Revolt developed. Although there is an
extensive literature on the political fissure between North and South, the process by which views on a
shared history diverged and led to different interpretations of a common past has received less
attention. Comparative studies that include both the Northern and Southern Netherlands are also
lacking.
This subproject offers a political and transnational perspective on the development and uses of public
memories of the Revolt in the seventeenth century. It will supplement the local and individual
perspectives studied by other members of the team, and will show how different memory
environments influenced identity formation in the Northern and Southern Netherlands. By offering a
comparison of public memory formation in a decentralised, Republican polity and a monarchical
political system, it should also be able to contribute to a better understanding of the way in which
political systems affected early modern memory formation in general. Accordingly, this project seeks to
explore how and why different Netherlandish canons of the history of the Revolt came into being, how
the contents and (political) uses of these narratives developed in the course of the seventeenth century;
and the extent to which these narratives influenced the formation of new and irreconcilable self-images
in the northern and southern provinces. How did memory and identity mutually influence one
another in this process?
Towards a new history of (early) modern memory
Judith Pollmann
Most scholars who study memory believe that people in different cultures have different ways of
remembering. This implies that it should be possible to write a history of memory. Outlines of such a
history can be found in various modern theories of memory, which often contain a macro-historical
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component. They usually posit an evolution of memory and memory practices away from the organic,
local, traditional and collective towards the synthetic, novel and individual. The timeframe in which
this development is placed is usually quite unspecific, but broadly ‘premodern’. While the theories can
and do refer to what is now really a mountain of evidence on memory practices post 1800, they have
considered hardly any evidence for pre modern memory. Yet so far as current macro historical
theories are supported with early modern evidence at all, this is usually derived from studies on early
modern concepts of memory, and the evidence that has been collected to support other generic
narratives of the coming of modernity; the discovery of the self, the rise of the public sphere, the nation
and historical theory. What they do not consider is evidence for actual early modern memory practices.
In recent years early modernists have been doing quite a lot of interesting work on actual remembering
as it was done by early modern people. Modern scholars have transformed the world of custom,
community and tradition that Nora so confidently identified as the settings of ‘milieux de mémoire’,
into a much more complex and dynamic phenomenon. They have emphasised how early modern
culture integrated and domesticated change on the one hand, while at the same time innovating much
more radically than itself was willing to admit. This project will attempt to bridge the gap between the
macro-historical narratives of the memory theorists, and the evidence for early modern memory
practices. The aims are both to improve and rethink the macro-historical narratives, and because it
might help early modernists themselves to think more systematically about continuity and change in
the shape and uses of memory in this period. To achieve this aim, this project will pursue two routes.
The first is a comparison over time, through a study of modern and early modern memory practices,
with a focus on those related to civil wars. The second focuses on identifying and explaining changes in
memory by departing from the early modern period. The idea here is to exploring a number distinctive
features of the ways in which early modern people engaged with the past, and the impact of these on
memory practices, before examining the extent to which, and the reasons why, these transformed over
time.
Project: Twilight zone: party strife, factionalism, and feuding in the Northern
Low Countries.
Peter Hoppenbrouwers
During the final centuries of the Middle Ages the Low Countries were ridden by violent clashes
between what contemporary sources called partes (Middle Dutch: partien/pertien), a word that may be
translated as parties or factions, dependent on the extent of their goals, recruitment and activities.
Exactly this ambiguous setting, in a twilight zone between the supra-local and the local, as well as
between a ‘public’/political and a ‘private’/familial field of action, makes party strife and factionalism
attractive subjects of innovative historical research, that can contribute to a better understanding of the
often neglected counterweights that were build-up against the slow but relentless rise of the modern
state in Western Europe during the late medieval and early modern periods. This project’s aim is to
increase our knowledge of party strife and factionalism substantially along two tracks: by extending
existing knowledge geographically and thematically, and by looking for completely new angles that join
in with international research. In this particular case the theme of party strife and faction quarrels will
be linked to four phenomena that are generally considered to have been typical for dealing with
political tension in later medieval society: feuding, bastard feudalism, the creation of bargaining
networks, and popular revolts. The project consists of three subprojects, in which three quite different
variations on the theme of party strife and factionalism are developed for the last three territories in the
Northern Low Countries to be formally incorporated into the Burgundian-Habsburg empire: (prince
less) Friesland West of the Lauwers, the Prince-bishopric of Utrecht, and the Duchy of Guelders.
Eurasian empires: integration processes and identity formations. A comparative program
Jeroen Duindam
What holds people together, what makes them willing to fit within larger political structures? Our
program looks at answers provided by the practices of dynastic rulership in Eurasian empires ca. 13001800. These loose structures accommodated numerous groups under their rule and some showed
remarkable resilience over time. We study patterns of compliance and resistance, mostly from the
perspective of the dynastic centre. In the process, we reassess age-old images of Asia and Europe. While
we focus on the key question of integration and identity, our project also takes into account the global
connections and conjunctures increasingly manifest from the thirteenth century onwards.
The Eurasian Empires program, endorsed by NWO in 2009 in the first round of its G or Horizon
program, started in June 2011 and will continue until the summer of 2016. It brings together a team of
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senior researchers based in three Dutch universities: Leiden University (with the principal applicant J.
Duindam and J. Gommans, Leiden coordinates the program), Universiteit van Amsterdam (M. van
Berkel) and the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (P. Rietbergen). Together these supervisors coach six
PhD-researchers and two postdocs. The program´s budget totals ca. two million Euros.
Each of these eight researchers focuses on a specific project within the program’s overall
scope, covering Europe, West-, South- and East Asia (see http://hum.leiden.edu/history/eurasia/).
While the projects take shape on the basis of specific language expertise and the study of primary
sources, researchers define joint themes and produce joint papers. In this way the program as a whole
seeks to bridge the gap between approaches of global history distant from sources and languages and
the specialized studies of regional experts.
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5. Political Culture and National
Identities
Description
Leiden has its own tradition in the field of political and national history. More than at other Dutch
universities, research is conducted into the national, often political history of individual countries in
Europe and beyond. Such a focus on national history is no longer common practice within the field.
However, if this focus is problematised, it still remains a fruitful basis for a study of the past. The
construction of national identities is not least a question of political action in the broadest sense of the
word, and it therefore makes sense to study these matters in their relation to one another. This step
seems all the more obvious if, in thinking of politics, we think primarily of political culture: on the one
hand, the cultural aspects of the political realm itself, and on the other hand the broad social-cultural
and cultural-intellectual embedding of politics. In both respects, political culture has to a large extent
developed in national contexts and, conversely, ‘national identity’ is often simply another word for
traditions in the field of political culture.
Problematising ideas concerning national identity is also closely related to problematising the accepted
assumptions about established politics. Leiden, more than any other university, offers an ideal
environment for the study of this complex, due to the presence among its historians of so many
country specialists and specialists in the history of the European Union. The parallel presence of these
specialisations does not automatically lead to collaboration. Among historians, it has long been a habit
to concentrate on one country and to study this country in its unique characteristics (The German
Sonderweg, Great-Britain versus the Continent, l’exception française, The Netherlands as an exception
to the general human pattern, American exceptionalism, etc.), while the study of the history of Europe
and European unification was effected in a separate area of research.
In recent decades, an increasing amount of criticism has been voiced concerning the nationallyoriented historical tradition, and calls have been made for more comparative research. In practice,
however, it proves to be far from easy for a historian (as opposed to, for instance, a sociologist) to
study history from a comparative perspective. Comparative history begins with placing a number of
national cases side by side, but it is, of course, far more than that. Expertise in the field of national
history will probably reach its full potential if, rather than concentrating on separate juxtaposed
national cases, historians focus instead on the connections between them. To this end, the German and
French history of ideas tradition has developed the concept of ‘culture transfer’, i.e. the
adoption of foreign examples and the inspiration which they engender.
This concept can easily be transferred to the political domain, for instance with regard to social
movement, parties and parliaments, and the use of symbols and material objects. In the attempt to
escape the pressure of the national template in research (whereby national phenomena are
automatically understood and explained in terms of national developments), the concept of political
transfer is an important heuristic tool. In addition, Europe and international or supra-national
organisations, such as those involved in post-War European unification, can then be studied as
platforms of political transfer.
Staff
Dr. J.C.G. Aguiar
Research
0.3 fte
Conference attendance
March 21-31: Spring Meeting Society of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Mérida,
Mexico. Symposium ‘Pirate CDs Retail and Traders Associations in Latin America’
May 24: Annual Meeting Association of Anthropologists, University of Amsterdam.
May 29-June 1: Symposium ‘Making Sense of Borders: Global Circulations and Traders Associations in
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the Iguazú Triangle’, XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association,
Washington
June 3-4: Symposium ‘Global Circulations and Commodity Chains: CDs and Digital Piracy in Latin
America, Research Conference ‚Informality, International Trade and Customs’, World Customs
Organization, Brussels
November 20-24: Symposium ‘(De)Constructing Piracy: Authenticity, Reproduction and Hegemony
in Cultural Circulations Across Latin America’, Panel: The Vital Disguise: Counterfeiting in Latin
America, Chicago
Conference organization
April 25: Mexican Studies Conference 2013: Mexican Academia in Perspective. Keynote speech by
Prof. Claudio Lomnitz (Columbia University), ‘Reflection on Contemporary Mexican History and
Anthropology’, Leiden University. Role: organizer
Research leave, home and abroad
June-July: Research fellow, Irmgard Coninx Foundation, Berlin
July: Visiting Fellow, Latin American Institute, Free University of Berlin
Editorial and reviewer activities
Member of the editorial board book series ‘Seguridad Ciudadana. Retos, perspectivas y temas selectos’,
Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
Reviewer for Critique of Anthropology
Reviewer for Cultural Anthropology
Reviewer for American Ethnologist
Reviewer for Revista Cuadernos de Geografía
Reviewer for Journal of Latin American Studies
Reviewer for European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Membership of boards and committees
Member of the Faculty Council, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University
Councilor, Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, American Anthropological
Association
Secretary of the Examination Board, Latin American Studies, Leiden University
Reviewer, Sistema Nacional de Evaluación Científica y Tecnológica (National System for Scientific and
Technological Evaluation), Consejo Nacional para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (National Council for
Science and Technology), Mexico
Evaluation Committee Sabbaticals, Institute for History, Leiden University
Advisory and coordinating activities
Prince Claus Fund, advisor for Latin America, in particular Mexico
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision PhD
J.C. Narváez Gutiérrez, Leiden University. Title dissertation: ‘Latin-Yorks: inserción, identidad e
imaginario transnacional de jóvenes dominicanos y mexicanos en la ciudad de Nueva York’. Role: copromoter. Defense in 2014 (anticipated)
Membership PhD committee
Alonso Domínguez Rascón.’Estado, frontera y ciudadanía. El septentrión entre el Antiguo Regimen y
la formación de la nación mexicana’, PhD dissertation, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University,
September 19, 2013. Role: member of readers committee
Jorge Balderas Domínguez, ‘Discursos y narrativas sobre violencia, miedo e inseguridad en México: el
caso de Ciudad Juárez’, PhD dissertation, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University, September 27.
Role: member of readers committee
María de Jesús Ávila Sánchez, ‘El efecto del capital económico, social y humano en el proceso de
tránsito que realizan los migrantes guatemaltecos, en busca del sueño americano’, PhD dissertation,
Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University, November 29, 2013. Role: member of readers committee
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Externally acquired funds
NWO Open Competitie, ’The Popular Culture of Illegality: Criminal Authority and the Politics of
Aesthetics in Latin America and the Caribbean’ (project number 360-45-030). Research period:
December 2013 till February 2018. Role: postdoc researcher
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Use of tweeter: @jcgaguiar
Professional website and blog: http://www.josecarlosgaguiar.com
Valorisation (societal relevance and impact)
October 23: Masterclass: ‘Beyond Globalization? Food, Cooperatives and WalMart in Mexico’,
Noticias, October , Leiden
October 10: Interview: ‘De heilige voor outsiders’, Mare, Leiden University
Awards
National Researcher, level 1, Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (National Register of Researchers),
Consejo Nacional para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (National Council for Science and Technology),
Mexico.
Publications
Aguiar, J.C. G.
‘La ley de sacoleiros: Gobernabilidad, Contrabando y Estado de Derecho en el Comercio
Transfronterizo del Triángulo del Iguazú’, in: Silva y Rojas (comps.), Gobernabilidad y Convivencia
Democrática en América Latina: Las dimensiones regionales, nacionales y locales, FLACSO, San José,
2013. (Part of book or chapter of book)
Aguiar, J. C. G.
‘Smugglers, Fayuqueros, Piratas: Transitory Commodities and Illegality in the Trade of Pirated CDs in
Mexico’, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 36(2). (Article)
Other activities
Member of the Advisory Board, Niños de Guatemala Foundation, Leiden
October: Organization visit to Mexico for the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
September: Research trip to Hong Kong and Guangzhou (China)
Dr. J. Augusteijn
Research
0.3 fte
Conference attendance
May 16-18: Spring school ‘Europe in a Global World’. Title of presented paper: ‘Nation States of a
Union?’, Oxford, United Kingdom
June 7-8: Conference of Irish Historians, Dublin, Ireland
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Perspectives on Terrorism
Referee for EURIAS
Membership of boards and committees
Editorial Board of Perspectives on Terrorism
Advisory and coordinating activities
University College Cork
Referee on promotions board 2013
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Appearance in radio and/or television programs
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OVT January 13, 2013
KRO December 11, 2013
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
Public lectures (including Studium Generale):
Sending a message through the courtsystem. The performative power of trials of IRA-members in the
1970s, Trinity College Dublin, 30 October 2013
Publications
Augusteijn, J.
[Review of: Gerard MacAtasney (2013) Tom Clarke: Life, Liberty, Revolution] Irish Historical Studies
XXXVIII(152): 732-734
Augusteijn, J.
[Review of: McCormack W.J. (2012) Dublin 1916: The French Connection] Irish Historical Studies
XXXVIII(152): 732-735
Augusteijn, J.
[Review of: D.M. Leeson (2011) The Black and Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of
Independence, 1920-1921] Journal of Modern History 85(4): 938-940
Augusteijn, J.
[Review of: Leeson D.M. (2011) The Black & Tans. British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of
Independence]
Augusteijn, J.
Nationalism as a Poltical Religion: The Sacralization of the Irish Nation. In: Dassen Patrick, Janse
Maartje, Augusteijn Joost (Eds.) Political Religion beyond Totalitarianism. The Sacralization of Politics in
the Age of Democracy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 137-160
Augusteijn, J., Dassen, P.G.C. & Janse, M.J.
Political Religion beyond Totalitarianism: The Sacralizalisation of Politics in the Age of Democracy.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Augusteijn, J., Dassen, P.G.C. & Janse, M.J.
Concluding Remarks. In: Augusteijn Joost, Dassen Patrick, Janse Maartje (Eds.) Political Religion
beyond Totalitarianism: The Sacralizalisation of Politics in the Age of Democracy. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan. 255-260
Augusteijn, J., Dassen, P.G.C. & Janse, M.J.
Introduction: Religion and Politics. In: Augusteijn Joost, Dassen Patrick, Janse Maartje (Eds.) Political
Religion beyond Totalitarianism: The Sacralizalisation of Politics in the Age of Democracy. Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan. 1-11
Dr. M. Bader
Research
1,0 fte
Conference attendance
January 23-24: workshop ‘Political Legitimacy and the Paradox of Regulation’. Title of presented
paper: ‘Democracy Promotion and Authoritarian Diffusion: The Foreign Origins of Post-Soviet
Election Laws’, Leiden University
Conference organization
January 23-24: workshop ‘Political Legitimacy and the Paradox of Regulation’, Leiden University.
Role: co-organizer
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Referee for Democratization (journal)
Advisory and coordinating activities
Co-coordination of a research consortium of the study of Eurasian integration consisting of Leiden
University, Oxford University, and Bremen University
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Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision PhD
Mykola Makhortykh, University of Amsterdam
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Several radio interviews, public lectures, and participation in panel discussions
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
Several public lectures
Several radio interviews
Acculturation course for Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Publications
Bader, M. and Schmeets, H.
‘The Problem of Selection Bias in OSCE Election Observation Methodology’, Security and Human
Rights 24: 1
Bader, M. and Meleshevych, A.
‘UDAR – Charakterisierung einer neuen politischen Kraft’, Ukraine-Analysen No. 117 (2013)
http://www.laender-analysen.de/ukraine/pdf/UkraineAnalysen117.pdf
Bader, M.
‘Crowdsourcing election monitoring in the 2011-2012 Russian elections’, East European Politics 29(3)
Bader, M. and Schmeets, H.
‘Does International Election Observation Deter and Detect Fraud? Evidence from Russia’,
Representation 49(4)
Bader, M.
‘Do new voting technologies prevent fraud? Evidence from Russia’, Journal of Election Technology
and Systems 2 (1)
Dr. E.F. van de Bilt
Research
0.15 fte
Conference attendance
April 17: Reves Center, William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA, ‘Democratic Legitimacy and Distrust:
The Case of Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion’
May 17: Spui 25, Amsterdam, Symposium ‘De Laakbare Samenleving,’ ‘’Aan het Volk van Nederland’:
Argwaan, Adams, en van der Capellen’
November 7: Middelburg en Gent, conferentie ‘Weapons of Mass Seduction,’ ‘’One of Us’: The
Rhetoric of Narcissism in American Presidential Elections’
Conference organization
November 13: lecture ’Italian Immigrants in the United States’, by B. Gursel (Turkey), Leiden
University. Role: organizer
Research leave, home and abroad
January- May: Semester William & Mary
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Referee essay for Scandinavian American Studies
Publications
Bilt, E.F. van de
‘De-sanctifying Affairs of State: The Politics of Religion in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(1852),’ in Political Religion Beyond Totalitarianism: The Sacralization of Politics in the Age of
Democracy, 77-99
Bilt, E.F. van de
‘Scheuren in de Amerikaanse Droom,’ Actuele Onderwerpen 2993, 4-25
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Dr. B.E. van der Boom
Research
0.3 fte
Conference attendance
November 1: Symposium ’Gewusst of nicht gewusst?’. Lecture: ‘Knowing, suspecting, acting. Ordinary
Dutchmen and the Holocaust’, Duitsland Instituut, University of Amsterdam
Valorisation (societal relevance and impact)
Public lectures
January 28: Studium Generale Universiteit Maastricht
February 2: Genootschap Joodse Wetenschap
March 11: Varias Vias, Zwolle
March 19: Boekhandel Stevens, Hoofddorp
March 26: Doperscafé, Amsterdam
April 17: Merlijn, Leiden
May 23: Verzetsmuseum, Gouda
June 4: Humanity in Action, Anne Frankhuis Amsterdam
December 8: Buch Dag OBA Amsterdam
Articles in newspapers and magazines
May 11: ‘Nederlanders wisten niet van de Holocaust’, NRC/Handelsblad
June 14: Reply to Corjo Jansen, Nederlands Juristenblad, afl. 24, 1576-1578
September 1: Repliek op Evelien Gans en Remco Ensel’, De Groene Amsterdammer
Website
February 6: ‘Een antwoord aan mijn critici’, Website Groene Amsterdammer,
http://www.groene.nl/artikel/143693
Interviews
June 13: TV: Holland Doc, 13-6
July 1: Newspaper: NRC/Handelsblad
July 25: Radio: Casa Luna, Radio I, 25-1, 00.00-2.00, Radio 5, 25-7
Blogs
Blog: http://www.wijwetennietsvanhunlot.blogspot.nl/
Publications
Boom, B.E. van der
‘Een opvallend gebrek aan argumentatie. De kritiek van Evelien Gans en Remco Ensel op ‘Wij weten
niets van hun lot.’ Gewone Nederlanders en de Holocaust', Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 126(4): 564570
Boom, B.E. van der
Repliek op Corjo Jansen, Nederlands Juristenblad 2013(24): 1576-1578
Boom, B.E. van der
‘Een antwoord aan mijn critici’, De Groene Amsterdammer (website)
Boom, B.E. van der
‘Nieuw licht op Mussert’ [Review of: Pollmann Tessel (2012) Mussert en Co., de NSB-leider en zijn
vertrouwelingen] Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 125(3): 455-456
Dr. D. Bos
Research
0.3 fte
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Tijdschrift voor Biografie
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Advisory and coordinating activities
Historical advisor for a series of ten television documentaries on the history of the socialist labour
movement in the Netherlands, to be broadcasted by the VARA in 2015
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Membership PhD committee
Diederick Klein Kranenburg, ‘Samen voor ons eigen’ De geschiedenis van een Nederlandse volksbuurt,
de Haagse Schilderswijk 1920-1985), 26 November 2013
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
October 17: contribution to symposium IISH/Persmuseum on ‘Oranje en het volk’, Amsterdam
Dr. P.G.C. Dassen
Research
0.3 fte
Conference attendance
October 23-27: Conference: Annual Convention of the Austrian Centers, Leiden University
Conference organization
October 23-27: Conference: Annual Convention of the Austrian Centers, Leiden University .
Role: (co-)organizer and discussant. This was a conference with approximately fifty participants from
the world wide ‘Austria Centers’ (Universities of Jerusalem, Budapest, Edmonton, Minneapolis, New
Orleans, Vienna, Olmütz and Leiden)
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Together with J. Augusteijn and M. Janse editor of the (peer-reviewed) volume ‘Political Religion
beyond Totalitarianism. The Sacralization of Politics in the Age of Democracy’ (Palgrave Macmillan,
January 2013)
Membership of boards and committees
Oostenrijk-Studiën Foundation, secretary since sprin 2010
Visiting professorship of Central and Eastern European History at Leiden University, organization
(together with Prof. Dr. J. Duindam)
Advisory and coordinating activities
Advice on the final examination for the ‘Centraal Schriftelijk Eindexamen’( CSE) at level Havo-VWO
History from 2015 onwards. Theme: ‘Historical Context: Germany 1871-1945’. Contact person: drs.
Jan-Maarten de Wit, president of the commission History 2015
Together with 12 students from Leiden University visiting prof. Dr. Timothy Snyder in Vienna (at the
Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen), 17-21 June, in the context of prof. Snyder’s Cleveringa
Chair at Leiden University, 2012-2013, In Vienna we discussed his work and in Leiden Dassen gave
some preparing seminars
Publications
Augusteijn, J., Dassen, P.G.C. & Janse, M.J.
Concluding Remarks. In: Augusteijn Joost, Dassen Patrick, Janse Maartje (Eds.) Political Religion
beyond Totalitarianism: The Sacralizalisation of Politics in the Age of Democracy. Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan. 255-260
Augusteijn, J., Dassen, P.G.C. & Janse, M.J.
Introduction: Religion and Politics. In: Augusteijn Joost, Dassen Patrick, Janse Maartje (Eds.) Political
Religion beyond Totalitarianism: The Sacralizalisation of Politics in the Age of Democracy.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 1-11
Augusteijn, J., Dassen, P.G.C. & Janse, M.J.
Political Religion beyond Totalitarianism: The Sacralizalisation of Politics in the Age of Democracy.
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Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Dassen P.G.C.
’The German Nation as a Secular Religion in the First World War? About the Problem of Unity in
Modern German History’, Dassen, P.G.C. In: Political Religion beyond Totalitarianism (2013) 161-187
Prof. Dr. H.W. van den Doel
Research
0.1 fte
Prof. Dr. A. Fairclough
Research
0.1 fte
Research leave, home and abroad
Research leave, January-December 2013, Washington D.C., in connection with NWO project
‘Democratization and political terrorism: The formation and destruction of a two-party system in the
Red River Valley of Louisiana, 1865-1878.’
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision PhD
Laura Visser-Maessen
‘A lot of leaders? Robert Parris Moses, SNCC, and the production of social change in the American
civil rights movement.’ Defence thesis: October 10, 2013
Promoter
Sabrina Otterloo
‘The organization and triumph of the Democratic Part in the Red River Valley of Louisiana, 1865-78’
Mark de Vries
Political violence and law enforcement in the Red River Valley,’ part of NWO project,
Democratization and political terrorism: The formation and destruction of a two-party system in the
Red River Valley of Louisiana, 1865-1878, promoter to be defended in 2014
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
May 9: ‘Raford Blunt and the Struggle for Emancipation in Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1865-1878.’
Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, public lecture
November 14: ‘The Patriotic Turn in American History: McPherson and Foner on the Civil War and
Reconstruction,’ George Washington University, open lecture
Publications
Fairclough, A.
‘History or Civil Religion? The Uses of Lincoln’s ‘Last Best Hope of Earth,’’ in: J. Augusteijn, P.
Dassen and M. Jaanse, eds., Political Religion Beyond Totalitarianism: The Sacralization of Politics in
the Age of Democracy (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 188-211
Fairclough, A.
‘Racial Repression in World War Two: The New Iberia Incident,’ in Janet Allured and Michael S.
Martin, eds., Louisiana Legacies: Readings in the History of the Pelican State (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013):
259-69
Fairclough, A.
‘Foreword,’ The Domestication of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Clarence Jones, Right-Wings Conservatism,
and the Manipulation of the King Legacy, ed. Lewis V. Baldwin and Rufus Burrow, Jr., (Eugene,
Oregon: Cascade Books, 2013): xiii-xvi
Dr. M.J. Frear
Research
0.1 fte
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Conference attendance
August 31: American Political Science 2013 Annual Meeting. Title of the presented paper: ‘Evading
Democratisation: Neopatrimonial Tendencies in Belarus’, Chicago, Illinois, USA
October 10: Centenary Conference of Slavic Studies . Title of the presented paper: ‘Russian Identity
and Foreign Policy in the Slavic Triangle’, Leiden University
November 28: Masterclass - The ‘New Authoritarianism’: Russia and China in Comparative
Perspective. Title of the presented paper: ‘Post-Soviet Authoritarianism: The Putinization of Belarus or
the Lukashenization of Russia?’, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW),
Amsterdam
Conference organization
October 10: Centenary Conference of Slavic Studies, Leiden University. Role: Chair/moderator for
sections on The Linkage of Political and National Identities in Russia
November 28: Colloquium - The ‘New Authoritarianism’: Russia and China in Comparative
Perspective, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam. Role:
Chair/moderator for section on State and Society
Publications
Frear, M. J.
Belarus: Player and Pawn in the Integration Game. In: Dragneva R., Wolczuk K. (Eds.) Eurasian
Economic Integration: Law, Policy and Politics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 119-138
Prof. Dr. A.W.M. Gerrits
Research
0.3 fte
Conference attendance
May 22: ‘Solidarity within the European Union’, Foundation for European Progressive Studies,
Leipzig, Germany. Title of presented paper: ‘Solidarity and the European Union’
December 15-17: OSIPP-Leiden University Joint Symposium Japan-Europe Cooperation on Human
Security, Osaka. Title of presented paper: ‘The Euro-zone Crisis and the International Position of the
European Union’
Conference organization
October 10: Centenary Conference Russian Studies, Leiden. Co-organizer, Chair, Discussant ‘Russia –
Flawed democratization and the absence of nationalist conflict’
November 28: ‘New Authoritarianism: A Comparison between Russia and China’, KNAW. Coorganizer, Chair, Discussant
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Acta Politica
Membership of boards and committees
Netherlands Helsinki Committee, committee member
Nederlands Genootschap voor Internationale Zaken, section Amsterdam: chair of the board
Foundation for Progressive Politics: Member Scientific Council
Algemene redactie Internationale Spectator: member
Advisory and coordinating activities
Member of the Raad van Advies Nederland-Rusland jaar 2013
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision PhD
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Honorata Mazepus, Political legitimacy in Russia, ‘Legitimacy in Russian Federation’, promoter,
to be defended in 2016
Membership PhD committee
Marek Neuman, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
‘Keeping the European Union’s Foreign Policy in Czech: A study of the Czech Republic’s influence on
the European Union’s foreign policy vis-à-vis Russia and the larger post-Soviet space. Groningen,
March 4, 2013
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Multiple radio and tv programmes including Radio 1, BNR, EénVandaag, Nieuwsuur
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
March 6: Revolutie in Oost-Europa, 1989-1991’, ‘Vrijheid, blijheid!’ Symposium Instituut voor
Geschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht
March 15: ‘The current crisis of the European Union, and what it means for Europe’s external
relations’, ‘European Youth Forum’, Kazan Federal University
April 7: ‘Political change and repression in Russia’, AMS / Amnesty International, Amsterdam
June 17: ‘Rusland en de betrekkingen met Nederland’, NGIZ, Den Haag
October 9-11: ‘Russia – Flawed democratization and the absence of nationalist conflict’, Centenary
Conference of Slavic Studies, Leiden University, Leiden
November 27-29: Academy Colloquium and Masterclass: The ‘New Authoritarianism’: Russia and
China in Comparative Perspective’, Amsterdam, KNAW
Publications
Gerrits, A.W.M.
‘The Netherlands, Russia and the European Union’, Adriaan Schout en Jan Rood (eds.), The
Netherlands as an EU Member: Awkward or Loyal Partner? The Hague: Eleven International
Publishing, 95-109
Gerrits, A.W.M.
‘Russia’, in: Jan Rood and Rosa Dinnissen (eds.), Een wereld in onzekerheid. Clingendael Strategische
Monitor 2013. The Hague: Clingendael (49-77, parts)
Other activities
Chair selection committee tutors BAIS (May-June)
Chair selection committee Ass. Prof. MAIS (Spring)
Chair selection committee Ass. Prof. MAEUS History (Spring)
Chair selection committee Ass. Prof. MAEUS (Fall)
Information Dossier for the Initial Accreditation of the BA International Studies
Formation Central Asia Consortium with Cambridge University and Universität Bremen (2014-15)
Chair Curatorium Bijzondere Leerstoel ‘Europese integratie in een mondiaal perspectief’ (since 2012)
Peer reviews:
Acta Politica
Prof. Dr. B.A. de Graaf
Research
0.3 fte
Publications
Graaf , B.A. de
‘Taming the future?‘ Een historisch perspectief op de omgang met nieuwe risico’s en onzekerheid. In:
Graaf, B.A. de, Brenninkmeijer, A.F.M., Roeser, S., Passchier W.F. (Eds.) Omgaan met
omgevingsrisico’s en onzekerheden. Hoe doen we dat samen? Essaybundel. Den Haag: Ministerie van
Infrastructuur en Milieu, 20-47
Graaf , B.A. de
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The Black International as security dispositive in the Netherlands, 1880-1900, Historische
Sozialforschung / Historical Social Research 38(1): 142-165
Graaf , B.A. de
Het temmen van de toekomst. Van een veiligheids- naar een risicocultuur, Tijdschrift over Cultuur &
Criminaliteit 3(2): 155-172
Graaf, B.A. de
‘Het archief als tijdbom. Gevaar en geheimhouding in de staatsarchieven’. (Lecture), Den Haag
Graaf , B.A. de & Goede , M.
Sentencing Risk. Temporality and Precaution in Terrorism Trials., International Political Sociology
7(3): 313-331
Graaf, B.A. de, Roeser, S., Brenninkmeijer, A.F.M. & Passchier, W.F.
Omgaan met omgevingsrisico’s en onzekerheden. Hoe doen we dat samen? Essaybundel. Den Haag:
Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Milieu
Graaf , B.A. de & Zwierlein, C.
Member of editorial staff Historische Sozialforschung / Historical Social Research 38(1)
Graaf , B.A. de & Zwierlein, C.
Historicizing Security. Entering the Conspiracy Dispositive, Historische Sozialforschung / Historical
Social Research 38(1): 46-64
Dr. M.J. Janse
Research
0.8 fte
Conference attendance
July 18-21: Invited panelist, ‘Borrowed from Britain? Innovation and radicalization of the American
reform repertoire, 1820-1840’, Annual Meeting Society for Historians of the Early American Republic,
St. Louis, USA
November 21-24: Invited panelist, ‘The transfer of Anti-Societies: Europe and the United States, 18201900, Annual Meeting Social Science History Association, Chicago, USA
December 13: Invited lecture, ‘‘Instrumental vs Expressive Politics?’ International Symposium Animal
Politics: Theory and Practice, Istanbul, Turkey
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Editor De Negentiende Eeuw
Membership of boards and committees
Advisory Committee Huygens ING
Chair Werkgroep Verenigingsgeschiedenis Huizinga Institute for Cultural History
Advisory and coordinating activities
Coordinating NWO Klein Programma The Promise of Organization: Political associations, 1820-1900:
Debate and Practice (with Henk te Velde)
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
NWO funded project: The Promise of Organization
Anne Heyer: ‘The Birth of Political Mass Parties’
Geerten Waling : ‘Political Associations, 1820-1890, Debate and Practice’
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
https://twitter.com/MaartjeJanse
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
Contributed an article to the website slavernijenjij.nl (http://www.slavernijenjij.nl/deafschaffing/nederlands-protest-tegen-slavernij/), specifically geared towards children and adolescents.
Invited lecture, ‘‘Instrumental vs Expressive Politics?’ International Symposium Animal Politics:
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Theory and Practice, 13 December 2013, Istanbul, Turkey – Organized by Partij voor de Dieren, partly
funded by the Ministry of the Interior
Publications
Janse, M.J.
‘Representing distant victims. The emergence of an ethical movement in Dutch colonial politics, 18401880’, ‘Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden 128(1): 53-80’
Janse, M.J.
‘A dangerous type of politics? Politics and religion in early mass organisations: The Anglo-American
world, c. 1830’
Augusteijn, J., Dassen, P.G.C. & Janse, M.J.
Introduction: Religion and Politics. In: Augusteijn Joost, Dassen Patrick, Janse Maartje (Red.) Political
Religion beyond Totalitarianism: The Sacralizalisation of Politics in the Age of Democracy.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 1-11
Augusteijn, J., Dassen, P.G.C. & Janse, M.J.
Concluding Remarks. In: Augusteijn,Joost, Dassen, Patrick, Janse, Maartje (Red.) Political Religion
beyond Totalitarianism: The Sacralizalisation of Politics in the Age of Democracy. Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan. 255-260
Janse M.J.
‘A dangerous type of politics? Politics and religion in early mass organisations: The Anglo-American
world, c. 1830’. In: Janse, M.J., Augusteijn, J., Dassen, P. (Red.) Political Religion beyond
Totalitarianism: The Sacralizalisation of Politics in the Age of Democracy. Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan
Augusteijn, J., Dassen, P.G.C. & Janse, M.J.
Political Religion beyond Totalitarianism: The Sacralizalisation of Politics in the Age of Democracy.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Janse, M.J.
‘Het Twentsche Paradijs. Oorsprong van de Anti-Paradijs-Vereeniging’. In: Jongstra A. (Red.) Paden
naar het Paradijs. Tentoonstellingscatalogus Rijksmuseum Twenthe. Enschede: Rijksmuseum Twenthe.
58-59
Dr. J.H.C. Kern
Research
0.1 fte
Conference organization
October 9-11: International Centenary Conference of Slavic Studies in Leiden, ‘The language of power
and the power of language’, Oude Sterrewacht, Leiden University. Role: co-organizer and workshop
coordinator
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
January 15 : Excursion with guided tour in Eindhoven for Van Abbemuseum on ‘El Lissitzky en Ilja
Kabakov’
January 29: Lecture in Heerlen for SCHUNK* on ‘communisme, perestrojka en transitie’
April 4: Lecture ‘Van Stalin naar Chroesjtsjov’ for studievereniging Gomaris, Leiden
April 23: Participation in forum debate in Amsterdam for Hermitage aan de Amstel on ‘De betekenis
van Peter de Grote’
May 18: Lecture in Amsterdam for Hermitage aan de Amstel on ‘Peter de Grote en het leger’
August 26: Lecture in Leiden on August 26 for HOVO on ‘Peter de Grote en het nieuwe Rusland’
September 4: Lecture in Voorburg for Novum Gymnasium on ‘De last van het Russische verleden’
November 8: Participation in debate forum in Amsterdam on ‘5000 Roebel en positie van
homoseksuelen in Rusland’
Awards
Onderwijsprijs Faculty of Humanities, academic year 2012-2013
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Publications
Kern, J.H.C.
‘Revolutionary mystique: religious undertones in the Russian Revolution of 1917’ in: J. Augusteijn, P.
Dassen and Maartje Janse (eds.), Political religion beyond totalitarianism. The sacralization of politics
in the age of democracy (Palgrave Macmillan; Hampshire 2013) 215-230
Dr. J.H. de Kort
Research
0.15 fte
Ms. Dr. A. M. O’ Malley
Research
1.0 fte
Conference attendance
September 5-7: Colloquium British International History Group Annual Conference. Title of
presented paper: ‘A stage upon which…to avert bloodshed by substituting ritual for real conflict.’ USUN relations in the early stage of the Congo crisis, 1960-1961. University of the West of England,
Bristol
Conference organization
June 19-21: Colloquium Society for Historians of American Foreign Policy Annual Meeting,
Lexington, Kentucky, USA. Role: Co-Organized Panel: The United States and the United Nations;
Reframing International Cooperation during the Postwar Decades
Publications
O’Malley, A.M.
Alessandro Iandolo in Cold War History, Vol. 12, Issue 4 (Routledge, London, November 2012) for
http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/reviews/PDF/AR404.pdf (13 June 2013)
O’Malley, A.M.
‘Anglo-American Relations; Contemporary Perspectives,’ Alan Dobson, Steve Marsh (eds.) for
http://www.e-ir. (5 June 2013) http://www.e-ir.info/2013/06/05/review-anglo-american-relations/
O’Malley, A.M.
‘Who Killed Hammarskjöld?’ Susan Williams, Cold War History, Vol. 12, Issue 3 (Routledge, London,
September 2012)
O’Malley, A.M.
‘The UN is Blighted by the Misconception of Failure in the Congo,’ London School of Economics
Africa Blog, 30 May 2013 (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2013/05/30/the-un-is-blighted-by-themisconception-of-failure-in-the-congo/ )
Prof. Dr. W. Otterspeer
Research
0.1 fte
Dr. H.J. Paul
Research
0.25 fte
Conference attendance
January 25: ‘De geest van meester Kollewijn: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis van 1886 naar 2013’,
symposium Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, VU University Amsterdam
March 1: ‘Hunting for Sources: Dreams and Realities of Nineteenth-Century Archival Travel’,
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international conference ‘Durch (W)Orte: Travel and Writing in Dutch- and German-Speaking
Regions of Europe between 1800 and 1950’, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
March 28: ‘Als het verleden trekt: kernthema’s in de geschiedfilosofie’, colloquium of the Center for
Historical Culture, Erasmus University Rotterdam
June 25: ‘A Tapestry of Contrasts: Huizinga’s Hermeneutics of Historical Inquiry’, 20th International
Conference of Europeanists, Amsterdam
July 12: ‘What Makes a Good Historian? The Scholarly Self at a Crossroad’, international conference
‘The Future of the Theory and Philosophy of History’, Ghent University
December 13: ‘Waarheidsliefde: een negentiende-eeuwse constellatie van geloof en wetenschap,’
symposium ‘Universiteit, wetenschap en religie in Nederland’, Utrecht University
Conference organization
May 13: Co-organizer of workshop ‘Historisme en cultuurkritiek. Historisch denken en politiek
engagement in het interbellum’, University of Antwerp
July 12: Organizer of panel ‘Epistemic Virtues: What Problems Do They Solve?’, international
conference ‘The Future of the Theory and Philosophy of History’, Ghent University
August 28-30: Co-organizer of international conference ‘Benjamin’s Figures: Dialogues on the
Vocation of the Humanities’, Leiden University
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Referee for KU Leuven, FWO, Journal of the Philosophy of History, Low Countries Historical Review,
Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis and De Negentiende Eeuw
Editor of Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis and Leidschrift
Membership of boards and committees
Member of the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision PhD
Promotor Reinbert Krol, ‘Het geweten van Duitsland: Friedrich Meinecke als pleitbezorger van het
Duitse historisme,’ University of Groningen, June 6, 2013
Membership PhD committee
Pieter Huistra, ‘Bouwmeesters, zedenmeesters: geschiedbeoefening in Nederland tussen 1830 en 1870,’
KU Leuven, May 30, 2013
Christophe de Voogd, ‘Le miroir de la France: Johan Huizinga et les historiens français,’ Leiden
University, September 12, 2013
Externally acquired funds
Applicant, VIDI grant (EUR 800.000), ‘The Scholarly Self: Character, Habit, and Virtue in the
Humanities, 1860-1930,’ Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Radio interviews with
Hoe?Zo! radio (October 31, 2013)
OBALive (June 26, 2013)
Hoe?Zo! radio (February 21, 2013)
Andries Radio (January 12, 2013)
YouTube videos:
Video The Young Academy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OAystrrp3w (2013)
Talk The Young Academy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmaqpSSG3co (2013)
Summary inaugural address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf8HXiBWEBY (2013)
Awards
Member of The Young Academy (KNAW) (2013)
NWO VIDI grant (2013)
Publications
Paul, H.J.
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‘Religion and Politics: In Search of Resemblances’. In: Augusteijn J., Dassen P.G.C., Janse M.J. (Eds.)
Political Religion Beyond Totalitarianism: The Sacralization of Politics in the Age of Democracy.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 15-32
Paul, H.J.
‘Wetenschap is mensenwerk’. De Academische Boekengids 97: 11-13
Paul, H.J.
‘Historisme op een procrustesbed’ [Review of: Beiser F.C. The German Historicist Tradition]
Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 126: 134-136
Paul, H.J.
‘Werken zoo lang het dag is: sjablonen van een negentiende-eeuws geleerdenleven. In: Dorsman L.J.,
Knegtmans P.J. (Eds.) De menselijke maat in de wetenschap: de geleerden(auto)biografie als bron voor
de wetenschaps- en universiteitsgeschiedenis. Hilversum: Verloren. 53-73
Paul, H.J.
‘The Heroic Study of Records: The Contested Persona of the Archival Historian, History of the Human
Sciences’. 26(4): 67-83
Huistra P.A., Paul H.J. & Tollebeek J.
Historians in the Archive: An Introduction, History of the Human Sciences 26(4): 3-7
Paul H.J.
Figure and Fulfillment: How Hayden White Reads Erich Auerbach, Storiografia 17: 91-108
Logmans J.A. & Paul H.J.
Hercules at the Crossroads: Confirmation as a Rite of Passage in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands
Reformed Church, Church History and Religious Culture 93: 385-408
Ms. Dr. A.I. Richard
Research
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Conference attendance
September 6-7: Conference ‘Reframing Diplomacy’: The ‘avant-garde’ of the League of Nations: The
International Federation of League of Nations Societies and their part in governing the world’,
Leiden University
December 2-3: Conference ‘Postwar Decolonization and its Impact in Europe’: The limits of solidarity
in a decolonizing world. Europeanism, anti-colonialism and socialism at the Congress of the Peoples of
Europe, Asia and Africa, Exeter, UK
December 18-20: Conference ‘Re)Constructing Communities in Europe, 1918-1968. A venture into
the discursive practices of community building’: A sense of belonging, the Dutch interwar European
movement between Europe and Empire, Soeterbeeck (Nijmegen)
Conference organization
September 6-7: Conference ‘Reframing Diplomacy’: South Asia & the Long 1930s. Appropriations &
Afterlives, discussant session: International Affinities
December 18-20: Conference Re)Constructing Communities in Europe, 1918-1968. A venture into the
discursive practices of community building, Soeterbeeck (Nijmegen), Chair session: ‘Manifestations of
cultural and religious communities’
Publications
Richard, A.I.
‘Huizinga, intellectual cooperation and the spirit of Europe, 1933-1945’, in: Mark Hewitson, Matthew
D’Auria (eds.) Europe in Crisis. Intellectuals and the European idea, 1917-1957. (Berghahn, Oxford,
2012), p. 243-256
Richard, A.I.
‘Competition and complementarity: civil society networks and the question of decentralising the
League of Nations’, Journal of Global History 7, 2 (2012), pp. 233-256
Richard, A.I.
Co-authored with S.L. Lewis, A.K. Arsan, ‘The Roots of Global Civil Society and the Interwar Moment.
Editorial’, Journal of Global History 7, 2 (2012), pp. 157-165
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Richard, A.I.
‘Les boutiquiers idéalistes. Federalism in the Netherlands in the interwar period’, in: Geneviève
Duchenne, Michel Dumoulin, Générations de fédéralistes européens depuis le XIXe siècle. Individus,
groupes, espaces et réseaux. Actes du colloque international d’histoire, Louvain-la-Neuve, les 2 et 3
décembre 2009 (PIE-Peter Lang, Brussels, 2012), pp. 93-108
Richard, A.I.
Book review: Verena Schöberl, ‘‘Es gibt ein großes und herrliches Land, das sich selbst nicht kennt... Es
heißt Europa.’ Die Diskussion um die Paneuropaidee in Deutschland, Frankreich und Großbritannien,
1922-1933’, in: Journal of European Integration History, 15, 1 (2009) p. 171-173
Richard, A.I.
Conference report, RICHIE international conference, ‘The Two Europes’, Naples, 14-15 December
2007’, Journal of European Integration History, 14, 1 (2008) p. 149-152
Richard, A.I.
‘The constitutional framework of EU external relations and the European Neighbourhood Policy’, in:
T. van den Vijver et al (eds.), The European Union and its Neighbours (Leiden 2007) p. 68-76.
Prof. Dr. G. P. Scott-Smith
Research
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Conference attendance
March 12: ‘Dealing with the 1980s: Transatlantic Relations in Perspective’ Guest
Lecture, ISCTE / University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
April 8: ‘American Educational Exchange Programs in Asia’ Symposium: Sino-US
Struggles over Asia, AHRC Obama Research Network, Foreign Office, London, UK
September 7: ‘A Dutch Dartmouth: Ernst van Eeghen’s effort to defuse the
Euromissiles Crisis,’ Conference: Reframing Diplomacy: New Diplomatic History in the
Benelux and Beyond, Leiden University, The Netherlands
September 10: Does the EU need an Asian Pivot?’ Keynote Lecture, ‘Smart,
Sustainable and Inclusive: Researching the EU from Australia and New Zealand,’
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
December 18: ‘The Fulbright Program in the Netherlands: Much Ado About
Nothing?,’ Conference: Cold War Science, Lorentz Center, Leiden University
Conference organization
September 6-7: International Conference ‘Reframing Diplomacy: New Diplomatic History in the
Benelux and Beyond’, organizer
November 6-8: International conference ‘Weapons of Mass Seduction: Political Rhetoric through US
History’, Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, and the University of Ghent, co-organizer
November 1-2: International conference ‘Selling America in an Age of Uncertainty: US Public
Diplomacy in the 1970s’, Nobel Institute, Oslo, co-organizer
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Editorial board, Journal of American Studies (till September 2013)
Co-editor, Key Studies in Diplomacy series, Bloomsbury Books
Membership of boards and committees
Chair, Transatlantic Studies Association
Advisory and coordinating activities
September-November 2013 : Advisor for AIV report ‘Azië in Opmars: Strategische Betekenis en
Gevolgen’, December 2013
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision PhD
Albertine Bloemendal, ‘Ernst van der Beugel: Transatlantic Mediator during the Cold War,’ Leiden
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University, promoter
Membership PhD committee
Joost Kleuters, ‘Van Westbindung naar Ostpolitik: De invloed van partijpolitieke processen op de
totstandkoming van het buitenlandse beleid van de Bondsrepubliek Duitsland aan de hand van de
strijd tussen CDU/CSU en SPD over de Duitse kwestie tegen de achtergrond van de relatie met de VS
1949-1972’, Radboud University, 15 March 2013
External Examiner
Robert Pee, ‘Democracy Promotion and National Security Strategy during the Reagan Administration
1981-1986’ University of Birmingham, 12 February 2013
Dino Knudsen, ‘The Trilateral Commission: The Global Dawn of Informal Elite Governance and
Diplomacy 1972-1982’ University of Copenhagen, 4 November 2013
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
October 20: interview in Danish newspaper Jyllandsposten - Matias Seidelin, ‘Biskoppens hemmelige
fortid’
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
April 24: Keynote lecture on the United States and the Arctic, Jong Atlantici seminar ‘Security in the
Arctic’
Publications
Scott-Smith, G. and Snyder, D.
‘A Test of Sentiments’: Civil Aviation, Alliance Politics, and the KLM Challenge in Dutch-American
Relations,’ Diplomatic History, Vol. 37 No. 5, 2013
Scott-Smith, G. and Smeets, M.W.E.
‘Noblesse Oblige: The Transatlantic Security Dynamic and Dutch Involvement in the JSF,’
International Journal Special Issue: The International Politics of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (Kim
Nossal and Srdjan Vuletic, eds.), International Journal 68(1): 49-69, Vol 68 No. 1, 2013
Scott-Smith, G.
‘Reviving the Transatlantic Community? The Successor Generation Concept in U.S. Foreign Affairs,’ in
Klaus Kiran Patel and Kenneth Weisbrode (eds.), European Integration and the Atlantic Community in
the 1980s, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013
Scott-Smith, G.
‘The Free Europe University in Strasbourg: US State-Private Networks and Academic ‘Rollback’,
Journal of Cold War Studies 15(4)
Scott-Smith, G.
‘Maintaining Transatlantic Community: US Public Diplomacy, the Ford Foundation, and the
Successor Generation Concept in US Foreign Affairs, 1960s-1980s, Global Society 28(1)
Scott-Smith, G.
America’s Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity, Insecurity [Review of: Logevall F., Craig C.
(2009) America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity] 25(4): 696-698.
Scott-Smith G.
De-Centering Cold War History: Local and Global Change [Review of: Jadwige Pieper
Mooney, Fabio Lanza (2013) De-Centering Cold War History: Local and Global Change]
24(3): 528-530
Scott-Smith, G.
Divided but not Disconnected: German Experiences of the Cold War, [Review of: Hochscherf T.,
Laucht C., Plowman A. (eds) (2010) Divided but not Disconnected: German Experiences of the Cold
War] 48: 165-167
Scott-Smith, G.
The Last American Diplomat: John D. Negroponte and the Changing Face of American Diplomacy,
[Review of: Liebmann George W. (2013) The Last American Diplomat: John D. Negroponte and the
Changing Face of American Diplomacy] 24(3): 536-538.
Scott-Smith, G.
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Transatlantic Relations since 1945, [Review of: Hanhimaki J.M., Schoenborn B., Zanchetta B. (2012)
Transatlantic Relations since 1945] 11(4): 428-430.
Prof. Dr. P. Silva
Research
0.3 fte
Conference attendances
January 24-25: Conference on Political Legitimacy. Title of the presented paper: ‘Legitimacy under
stress? Assessing the Chilean Students Movement’, Leiden University
April 25: Presentation at the Mexico Day, Academy Building at the homage of Prof. Raymond Buve
August 16: talk to PhD candidates of the higher education programme, Universidad Diego Portales,
Santiago de Chile
October 5: International Symposium ‘Mass Higher Education: Problems and Challenges’, Universidad
Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile. Title of the presented paper: Presentation of the paper ‘Social
Sciences and the Humanities in the Netherlands: Towards a Convergence?’
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Alonso Domínguez Rascón, ‘Estado, frontera y ciudadanía. El Septentrión entre el Antiguo regimen y
la formación de la nación mexicana’, Leiden University, September 19, 2013
Diego Barría Traverso, ‘La autonomía estatal y la clase dominante en el siglo XIX chileno’, Leiden
University, October 2, 2013
Mladen Yopo Herrera, ‘Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia: Coalición política, partidos y
sistema electoral en Chile, 1987-2010’, Leiden University, October 2, 2013
Member of PhD Commissions
Jorge Ulloa Hung, 'Arqueología en la línea noroeste de la Española, Paisaje, cerámicas e interacciones',
Leiden University, April 23, 2013
Russell N. Shepak, ‘Colonial Masca in Motion: Tactics of Persistence of a Honduran Indigenous
Community’, Leiden University, June 19, 2013
Publications
Silva, P. and Rojas Aravena F. (Eds.)
‘Gobernabilidad y Convivencia Democrática en América Latina: Las dimensiones regionales,
nacionales y locales. San José: Flacso, Secretaría general
Silva, P.
Gobernabilidad y representación democrática en el Chile post-Concertacionista. In: Silva P., Rojas
Aravena F. (Eds.) Gobernabilidad y Convivencia Democrática en América Latina: Las dimensiones
regionales, nacionales y locales. San José: Flacso, 177-196
Silva, P. and Rojas Aravena F.
Gobernabilidad y convivencia democrática en América Latina: Las dimensiones macro, meso y micro.
In: Silva P., Rojas Aravena F. (Eds.) Gobernabilidad y Convivencia Democrática en América Latina: Las
dimensiones regionales, nacionales y locales. San José: FLACSO, 1-16
Dr. H.J. Storm
Research
0,25 fte
Conference attendance
January 11-12: Workshop European Regions and Boundaries: A Conceptual History, ‘Art Historical
Regions in the 19th and 20th century. An exploration’, Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, Bulgaria
June 24: Forschungskolloquium zur Südeuropäischen Geschichte, ‘Die Erfindung regionaler
Identitäten in Kunst, Architektur und Ausstellungen (1890-1939). Kultureller Regionalismus in
Frankreich, Spanien und Deutschland’, Historisches Seminar, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München, Germany
September 7-8: Workshop European Regions and Boundaries: A Conceptual History, ‘European
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Regions in the Historiography of Art’, 7-8 September, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
October 10-12: Tagung El Greco und der Begriff der Spanischen Schule: kritische Revision einer
kunsthistorischen Kategorie, ‘La nacionalización del arte: El Greco y la Escuela Española’, Institut für
Kunstgeschichte, University of Leipzig, Germany
November 20: Research meeting Political Culture and National Identities, ‘Overcoming
Methodological Nationalism in Nationalism Studies: The Impact of Tourism on the Construction and
Diffusion of National and Regional Identities’, Institute for History, Leiden University
Conference organization
October 10-12: Tagung El Greco und der Begriff der Spanischen Schule: kritische Revision einer
kunsthistorischen Kategorie, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, University of Leipzig, Germany, chair
Research leave, home and abroad
May 9-16: Research trip to Madrid to visit various libraries
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
External referee for journal Nations and Nationalism
Membership of boards and committees
Member of the Jury of the Fruin Award, Institute for History, Leiden University
Elected member of the Faculty Council, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University (until September
2013)
Advisory and coordinating activities
Secretary of the Section General History (Algemene Geschiedenis), Institute for History, Leiden
University
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision PhD
Ali al Tuma, Institute for History, Leiden University, ‘Moroccan Troops in Europe (1936-1945)’
(October 2015?)
Membership PhD committee
Alonso Domínguez Rascón, September 19, 2013, ‘Estado, frontera y ciudadanía: el Septentrión entre el
Antiguo Régimen y la formación de la nación mexicana’, member of promotion committee, Leiden
University
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
January 25: Lecture ‘Genocide in Spanje: De Spaanse Burgeroorlog’, Holocaust Memorial Day, Utrecht
University
March 13: Lecture ‘Sevilla in de 20e eeuw’, HSVL reiscommissie, Leiden University
Scientific advisor for documentary film ‘El Greco, la ruptura y el espacio’ by José Luis López Linares,
commissioned by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports
Publications
Storm, H.J.
‘Patrimonio local, turismo e identidad nacional en una ciudad de provincias: Toledo a principios del
siglo XX, Hispania’. Revista Española de Historia 73(244): 349-377
Storm, H.J.
‘The Belief in Disbelief: Anticlericalism and the Sacralization of Politics in Spain (1900-39). In:
Augusteijn J., Dassen P.G.C., Janse M.J. (Eds.) Political Religion Beyond Totalitarianism: The
Sacralization of Politics in the Age of Democracy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 231-255
Storm, H.J.
[Review of: Thomson G. (2010) The Birth of Modern Politics in Spain: Democracy, Association and
Revolution, 1854-1875] English Historical Review 128: 181-182
Storm, H.J.
‘Una España más española. La influencia del turismo en la imagen nacional’. In: Moreno Luzón J.,
Núñez Seixas X.M. (Eds.) Ser españoles. Imaginarios nacionalistas en el siglo XX. Barcelona: RBA. 52958
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Storm, H.J.
‘Spaanse Burgeroorlog. Een hoorcollege over de strijd om Spanje: 1936-1939’. Den Haag: Home
Academy
Storm, H.J.
‘Ausstellungen als Schaufenster der regionalen und lokalen Identität. Transnationale Überlegungen’.
In: Rheinisch! Europäisch! Modern! Netzwerke und Selbtsbilder im Rheinland vor dem Ersten
Weltkrieg. Essen: Klartext Verlag, 186-197
Storm, H.J.
‘Crushed between Gauguin and Picasso: Ignacio Zuloaga’s Depictions of Spain and the Politics of
Nationalism’. In: Hanson, I., Rhoden, W.J., Snyder, E.E. (Eds.) Poetry, Politics and Pictures: Cultural
and Identity in Europe, 1840-1914. New York: Peter Lang, 67-90
Storm, H.J.
[Review of: Cruz J. (2011) ‘The Rise of Middle Class Culture in Nineteenth-Century Spain] Journal of
Social History 46
Storm, H.J.
[Review of: Van Ginderachter M., Beyen M. (2012) Nationhood from Below: Europe in the Long
Nineteenth Century] European History Quarterly 43: 543-545
Storm, H.J. and Solheim H.A.S. (2013), War and Peace in Colombia. In: Hwang Y.-J., Cerna L. (Eds.)
Global Challenges: Peace and War. Leiden: Martinus Nijhof Publishers, 177-194
Other activities
Participation in international research project European Regions and Boundaries: ‘A Conceptual
History’, Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (Prof. Dr. Diana Mishkova) and Central European
University Budapest (dr. Balazs Trencsenyi), 2012-2014
Participation in international research project La nación desde la raíz. Nacionalismo español y
sociedad civil en el siglo XX, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Prof. Dr. Javier Moreno Luzón)
and Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Prof.Dr. Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas), 2013-2016
Participation in international research project La imagen artística de Andalucía en Europa (18001929), Universidad de Sevilla (Dr. Luis Méndez Rodríguez), 2013-2015
Ms. Dr. A.C.M. Tijsseling
Research
0.7 fte
Membership of boards and committees
Faculty Board Humanities, Personnel representative (Leiden)
Chief Committee Humanities Lab (Honours Program Humanities) (Leiden)
BAIS Curriculum Committee BA International Studies (The Hague)
Advisory and coordinating activities
Coordination Section AGC, Institute for History (Leiden): February 2011 onwards
Publications
Tijsseling, A.
‘Het revolutionair potentieel van herinneringen: omwentelingen in de Nederlandse bestraffingscultuur
na de Duitse bezettingstijd’ in: Pro Memorie. Bijdragen tot de rechtsgeschiedenis der Nederlanden, vol. 15
(2013) 1,135-153
Other activities
Training Research Methods for PhD-students from the Centrum voor Regionale Kennisontwikkeling
(CRK), The Hague (December 13, 2013)
PhD-training Institute for History: ‘Teaching History’
Huizinga-Institute (Amsterdam): Annual Training for PhD students: ‘Theory: Gender Analysis’
Development ‘Aansluitmodule Geschiedenis’, in co-operation with ICLON (Leiden)
‘Proefstuderen’, together with Bart van der Boom
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Prof. Dr. H. te Velde
Research
0.3 fte
Conference attendance
May 30-June 1: International Conference ‘The Ideal Parliament: Perception, Interpretation and
Memory of Parliaments and Parliamentarism in Europe’. Title of presented paper: ‘Models of
Parliamentary Culture: Britain and France’, The Hague
June 21: International Conference ‘200 Jahre Monarchie in den Niederlanden’. Title of presented
paper:’Monarchie und ‚Orangismus‘ seit dem frühen 19. Jahrhundert’, Zentrum für NiederlandeStudien der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster
December 13: Conference ‘Keerpunt 1813’. Title of presented paper: ‘1813: Tussenbalans’, Werkgroep
De Negentiende Eeuw, University of Amsterdam
Conference organization
May 30-June 1: International Conference ‘The Ideal Parliament: Perception, Interpretation and
Memory of Parliaments and Parliamentarism in Europe’, The Hague. Role: Co-Organizer, and Chair
of Session
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Modern European History
Member of the Board of Leiden University Press
Membership of boards and committees
Director of the Netherlandish and Flemish Research School Political History
Member of National Committee 200 Years Kingdom of the Netherlands
Chair of the Jury for the Prix de Paris
Member of the Sociaal Wetenschappelijke Raad (KNAW)
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Membership PhD readerscommittee
Kristian Mennen, Rijks Universiteit Nijmegen
‘Selbstinszenierung im öffentlichen Raum. Katholische und sozialdemokratische
Repertoirediskussionen um 1930’. Date of defence: 9 December 2013
External PhD
C. Boot
H. van Bree
P. Consten
J.A. Janssen
B. Koopman
L. Ornstein
J. Postma
J. de Vetten
M.J. van de Waardt
D. Wolthekker
Externally acquired funds
Single Project: ‘Democracy in Europe: a conceptual history’. Major applicant funded by
KNAW, Akademie Colloquia
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
A large number of interviews on radio (British and Australian), websites (Reuters) and newspapers
(Argentinian), on the occasion of the inauguration of King Willem Alexander on 30 April 2013.
October 3: Also contribution to francophone debate ‘La monarchie néerlandaise en 2013’, Institut
français, Maison Descartes
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Ten lectures for several audiences (historical associations, student conferences, Maatschappij van
Letterkunde) on the occasion of 200 years Kingdom of the Netherlands
October 16: 11e Ketelaarlezing, Nationaal Archief, The Hague
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
Historical comments, national television, 30 November 2013, Scheveningen, c. 1 hour.
Historical Advice, television series about the 19th century in the Netherland, VPRO
April 9: Oral column, board dinner with IPO, VNG and Unie van Waterschappen, Nieuwe Kerk, The
Hague
Publications
Velde, H. te
‘De herdenkingen en betekenis van 1813’. In: Haan I. de, Hoed P. den, Velde H. te (Eds.) Een nieuwe
staat. Het begin van het koninkrijk der Nederlanden. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker. 363-376
Velde H. te
‘Over het begrijpen van 1813, tweehonderd jaar later’. Elfde Ketelaarlezing. Den Haag, (Nationaal
Archief).
Velde, H. te
‘Parliamentary obstruction and the "crisis" of parliamentary politics around 1900’, Redescriptions.
Yearbook of political thought, conceptual history and feminist theory 16: 125-147
Haan I. de, Hoed P. den & Velde H. te (Eds.)
Een nieuwe staat. het begin van het koninkrijk der Nederlanden. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker
Velde, H. te
The Opening Up of Political History. In: Steinmetz W, Gilcher-Holtey I, Haupt H-G (Eds.) Writing
Political History Today. Frankfurt: Campus. 383-395
Petterson A.F. & Velde H. te
Il nazionalismo come negoziazione e interazione. "Orangismo" e nation building nei Paesi Bassi del
XIX secolo (Nationalism as Negotiation and Interaction), Memoria e Ricerca (42): 51-67
Velde, H. te
The Religious Side of Democracy. Early Socialism, Twenty-first-century Populism and the
Sacralization of Politcs. In: Augusteijn J, Dassen P, Janse M (Eds.) Political Religion Beyond
Totalitarianism. The Sacralization of Politics in the Age of Democracy. Basingstoke: Palgrave
MacMillan. 33-51
PhD Candidates
Ms. N.A. Bloemendal MA
Research
0.8 fte
Conference attendance
September 6-7: Symposium 'Reframing Diplomacy: New Diplomatic History in the Benelux and
Beyond'. Title of presented paper: Ernst van der Beugel (1918-2004): Private Diplomat for an Atlantic
Community, Leiden University
Conference organization
September 6-7: Symposium 'Reframing Diplomacy’, Leiden University. Role: co-organizer (with Prof.
Dr. Giles Scott-Smith and Jorrit van den Berk)
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Contributions to newspaper and magazines through interviews, opinion articles and/or book reviews:
‘Onder Barack Obama zal het bij dromen blijven’, Trouw
‘Obama, wees diplomaat in de kwestie-Poetin’, Trouw
‘Tweestrijd Republikeinen kan Obama maken of breken’, Trouw
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
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October-November: Public lectures (including Studium Generale): Quincy Club Lecturer for the John
Adams Institute. The Quincy Club is part of the John Adams Institute's ongoing effort to help young
audiences better understand American culture. As this year's Quincy Club lecturer I visited 22 high
schools throughout the Netherlands to talk about the history of Dutch-American relations for groups
of 70-100 high school students.
January: Contributions to exhibitions and/or websites: a webspecial for Dagblad Trouw on the
occasion of the exhibition ‘De Tweede Wereldoorlog in 100 voorwerpen’ Kunsthal, Rotterdam. The
webspecial consists of three videos: ‘De vulpen van Anton de Kom’,’De Schoenmakerskist van Julius
Gold’ and ‘De vermomming van Gerrit Hoopman’. (http://wo2invoorwerpen.webflow.com/)
Ms. C.Y.E. Boot MA
Research
0.8 fte
Ms. E.M. Dieterman MA
Research
0.8 fte
Conference attendance
January 23-25: International conference: ‘Political legitimacy and the paradox of rules’, Leiden. Title of
the presented paper: ‘Legitimating rules. Rules and legitimacy in Dutch parliamentary politics in the
1790s and 1880s’
November 13-15: International workshop: ‘Interwar democracy and democratic governance’,
Hamburg. Title of the presented paper: ‘These principles are not ours. Dutch democratic thought in
the 1930s’
Membership of boards and committees
(PhD-representative in:) board of the Dutch/Flemish Research School of Political History
Other activities
December 11: Presentation of research project at the Graduate Seminar: ‘Political legitimacy under
debate. Democracy and authority in the Netherlands in the 1880s, 1930s, and 1960s’, Leiden University
C.A. Engberts MA
Research
0.8 fte
Ms. A. Heyer MA
Research
0.8 fte
C.W. Hijzen MA
Research
0.8 fte
Conference attendance
September 7: Congres ‘Reframing Diplomacy’, organized by Giles Scott Smith, Leiden University. Title
of the presented paper: ‘A serving element. Dutch intelligence and diplomacy: the problem of national
interest and informal influence’
September 26-27: Conference ‘Neet to know III: them vs Us. Image of the enemy’. Title of presented
paper: ‘Designating the true enemy. Enemy perceptions and the institutionalization of intelligence and
security services in the West’, Visby at Uppsala University – Campus Gotland, Cramergatan 5, Library
building (almedalsbiblioteket). Organizers: Polish institute of national remembrance, Uppsala
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Universitet, University of Southern Denmark, and Baltic Intelligence and Security Studies Association
Membership of boards and committees
Member of Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association
Member of research group Roel van Duijn
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Radio interviews:
July 14: Met het oog op morgen, Radio 1
August 30: Radio 1-journaal
September3: Radio 1-journaal
October 24: BNR Nieuws Radio
November 2: Radio 1-journaal
November 7: BNR Nieuws Radio
December 2: BNN Today, Radio 1
December 6: BNN Today, Radio 1
Television interviews:
October 21: NOS op 3
October 24: RTL Z
October 25: RTL Nieuws
November 30: RTL Nieuws
December 2: Nieuwsuur
December 3: Nieuwsuur
Blogs:
Article on the website ‘The Holland Bureau’ ‘Security services and journalists: inform and be damned’,
http://www.thehollandbureau.com/2013/07/02/security-services-and-journalists-inform-and-bedamned/
Contributions to newspapers:
‘AIVD deed jaren niet wat Den Haag nodig had’, NRC Handelsblad, April 25, 2013
‘Politici, toon nu eens werkelijk interesse in AIVD’, De Persdienst (Alphen CC, Almere Vandaag, De
Gooi- en Eemlander, IJmuider Courant, Leidsch Dagblad, Haarlems Dagblad, Noord-Hollands
Dagblad, HDC Media, Media Groep Limburg, de Stentor, PZC, de Gelderlander, BN De Stem,
Brabants Dagblad, Tubantia), May 11, 2013 (and also published at May, 12, 14 and 22, 2013)
‘Zaak-Snowden is geen schandaal, maar praktijk’, NRC Handelsblad, July 12, 2013
Hijzen, C.W.
- Tot het lachen ons vergaat — Over de noodzaak van parlementaire aandacht voor inlichtingen- en
veiligheidsdiensten, Socialisme en Democratie, July and August 2013 (volume 6 and 7), July 16, 2013,
64-75
Hijzen, C.W.
‘Tappen wat je tappen kan: ook Nederland luistert op grote schaal af’, Groene Amsterdammer, 30
October 2013, pp. 20-23
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
July 10: Debate ‘Prism, need to know?’ organized by Amsterdamse Studievereniging Happychaos,
NRC-gebouw, with Ronald Prins and Janneke Sloetjes, moderation by Jeroen Wollaars
July 24: Presentation ‘Secret services in the line of fire: intelligence and security services and
counterterrorim’, Summer Law School ‘Legal Aspect of Terrorism’ 2013
September 23: Debate S&D om tafel’; veiligheidsdiensten terug onder democratische controle’
October 17: Debate ‘De Geheime dienst’, organized by Studium Generale of the Erasmus University
and Arminius Podium
November 5: Eveningcollege about PhD-research, Jonge Democraten Regio Haaglanden, Leiden and
Delft,
November 28: Guestcollege ‘Researching intellligence and security’ in LUC-vak ‘Researching terrorism
and counterterrorism’
December 9: Guestcollege ‘Hoe doe je onderzoek naar inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten in
Nederland?’, in minor Safety, Security, and Justice, Bestuurskunde
http://jongedemocraten.nl/leiden-haaglanden-blog/4865-avond-over-de-inlichtingendienst-met63
constant-hijzen.html
http://wbs.nl/nieuws-agenda/agenda/sd-om-tafel-veiligheidsdiensten-terug-onder-democratischecontrole
Stream: http://arminius.nu/entry/521/de-geheime-dienst-van-nederland
Publications
Hijzen, C.W.
‘The Perpetual Adversary. How Dutch Security Services Perceived Communism (1918-1989)’, In
Historical Social Research 38 (1): 166-199
Ms. Drs. M. Kamphuis
Research
0.8 fte
Publications
Petterson, A.F., Kamphuis, M. & Muurling, Sanne (Eds.)
Holland, Historisch Tijdschrift, 3(44)
Ms. K. Manteufel MA
Research
0.8 fte
Ms. H. Mazepus MA
Research
1.0 fte
Conference attendance
January 23-25: International conference ‘Political Legitimacy Research Profile area and the Paradox of
Regulation' . Title of the presented paper: ‘Legitimacy of ‘good’ dictators: a comparative study of
institutional legitimacy in Venezuela and Russia’, Leiden University (co-author: Juan Manuel TrakVasquez, University of Salamanca and Universidad Católica Andrés Bello)
November 27-29: Colloquium at the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen,
Masterclass on ‘The ‘New Authoritarianism’: Russia and China in Comparative perspective. Title of the
presented paper: ‘Perceived legitimacy in mixed regimes: The case of Putin’s Russia’
Conference organization
January 23-25: International conference ‘Political Legitimacy and the Paradox of Regulation' , Leiden
University. Workshop on 'Compliance with International Standards and Legitimacy in Hybrid
Regimes' for the conference of Political Legitimacy Research Profile area 'Political Legitimacy and the
Paradox of Regulation'. Keynote speaker (funds for his visit from the Institute for History and from the
Political Legitimacy Profile Area): Dr Nikolay Petrov (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Workshop director, chair, and discussant
October 9-11: International Conference ‘Centenary Conference of Slavic Studies’, Leiden University.
Workshop on 'The Linkage of Political and National Identities in the Russian Federation'.
Organizer, workshop convener, chair, convener of the plenary concluding session
On-going preparations (application, selection of papers, organization)
The 42nd ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops: workshop on Regime Legitimisation through
Institutional Reform: Analysing its Dimensions and Effectiveness (directing with Magnus Feldmann
and Ingrid van Biezen). 10-15 April 2014, Universidad de Salamanca (up-coming)
Research leave, home and abroad
June 6: Peer-reviewing workshop (JLGC) by Jacqueline Hylkema, Leiden University
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December 12-13: Workshop ‘Advanced Factorial Survey Methods Workshop’, training by Carsten
Sauer and Luzia Helfer. Title of the presented paper: ‘Perceived political legitimacy: Factorial design’,
University of Antwerp
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
June 7: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands (Russia-Netherlands year programme) June
June 14: SPIL (Studie Vereniging for Politicologen in Leiden), presentation ‘Political institutions in
Russia Leiden’
June 25: Amnesty International, presentation on ‘Civil Society in Russia’, Amsterdam
September 3: Youth Democrats Utrecht: presentation on ‘Civil Society in Russia’, Utrecht
September 15: COVOR (organisations for Russian expats in the Netherlands), presentations before
film screenings: on ‘State-Society Relations in Russia’
December 2: Young Democrats Leiden, ‘Russia: between democracy and dictatorship’, Leiden
Publications
Mazepus, H.
‘The Development of Civil Society in the Russian Federation’, JASON Magazine, 39, available at
http://issuu.com/stichtingjason/docs/stichting_jason_-_rusland_magazine_/3?e=0 (to be published in
2014)
Other activities
September 11: Democratic Development course, online course by Larry Dimond, Stanford University
(Coursera), finished with distinction
Ms. Drs. S.A Otterloo MA
Research
0.8 fte
Ms. A.F. Petterson MA
Research
0.8 fte
Conference attendance
October 4: Presentation current research Werkgroep Europese Monarchie , Utrecht
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Member of the editorial board of Historisch Tijdschrift Holland
Member of the editorial board of Onvoltooid Verleden. Website voor de geschiedenis van sociale
bewegingen
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
September 20: Presentation 'Rood en Oranje', Wiardi Beckman Stichting, Leiden
October 5: presentation Nacht van de Geschiedenis 2013, Jonge Historici Schrijven Geschiedenis,
Amsterdam
October 27: excursion 'Oranjefurie in de Jordaan', Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis,
Amsterdam
Publications
H. te Velde & A.F. Petterson
‘Il nazionalismo come negoziazione e interazione. ‘Orangismo’ e nation building nei Paesi Bassi del
XIX secolo', Memoria e Ricerca 42 (2013) 51-67
A.F. Petterson & P.P. de Baar
'Eén stad, twee werelden. Vier eeuwen contact tussen Jordaan en grachtengordel', Ons Amsterdam 65
(2013) 2, 14-19
A.F. Petterson
‘Oranjebolwerk’, ThemaTijdschrift 4 (2013) 55
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A.F. Petterson & M. van Leeuwen
‘Drie akkoorden en loeiende Sirenes’. Een interview met Karin Hoogeveen en Els Veenis', Onvoltooid
Verleden (digitale nieuwsbrief, 20 december 2012)
J.J.L. Saarloos MA
Research
0.8 fte
D.E.J. Smit MA
Research
1.0 fte
Conference attendance
January 29: Graduate School Political History Seminar ‘Herinneringspraktijken’. Title of the presented
paper: ‘Huisvesting, herinnering en Haagse politiek. Het belang van het Binnenhof, 1813-2013’,
Amsterdam
Publications
Alberts, J., Habben Jansen, E., Smit, D.E.J.
‘Het Haagse Binnenhof. Acht eeuwen centrum van de macht’. Den Haag: ProDemos
Smit, D.E.J.
‘Het belang van het Binnenhof. Plaats en politiek in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, Holland’.
Historisch Tijdschrift
H.A.S. Solheim Mphil
Research
1.0 fte
Conference attendance
November 27-29: NOLAN (Nordic Latin America Research Network) 2013 Conference: Latin
America: Challenging Frontiers. Title of presented paper: ‘Cooperation in local public security; key to
fighting crime in Latin America? Local government and police in Bogotá, 1991-2012’, Oslo, Norway
Advisory and coordinating activities
Master student guidance at the Center for Latin American Research and Documentation, Amsterdam
(CEDLA): period of time: since November – ongoing
Student guidance at Latin American Studies (LAS), Institute of History: period of time: since April –
ongoing
Publications
Storm, H.J. & Solheim, H.A.S.
‘War and Peace in Colombia’. In: Hwang Y.-J., Cerna L. (Eds.) Global Challenges: Peace and War.
Leiden: Martinus Nijhof Publishers, 177-194
Solheim, H.A.S.
Chapter ‘Legitimidad, eficacia y relación interinstitucional entre autoridades civiles y Policiales en
Bogotá, 1995-2012’ in: Silva, P. y F. Rojas Aravena (eds.) (2013) Gobernabilidad y Convivencia
Democrática en América Latina: Las dimensiones regionales, nacionales y locales. San José: FLACSO
Solheim, H.A.S.
Co-author of the chapter ‘War and Peace in Colombia’ with Eric Storm in: Global Challenges: Peace
and War / Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Brill NV (2013)
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A. al Tuma MA
Research
1.0 fte
Conference organization:
Preparations for symposium ‘Aliens in Uniform’ in January 10 and 11, 2014. Role: co-organizer
together with H.J. Storm
Research leave, home and abroad
January: research in Vincennes (Paris) in the military archives of the Service Historique de la Défense
Ms. S. Valdivia Rivera MPhil
Research
1.0 fte
Conference attendance
April 10: Graduate Seminar of the Institute of History. Title of presented paper: ‘A Democracy
without Political Parties? The relation between the State and the Social Movements under the
presidency of Evo Morales in Bolivia’, Leiden University
June 4: Phd-seminar LAS. Title of presented paper: ‘La relación Estado-movimientos sociales bajo el
gobierno de Evo Morales: Gobernanza de red?’, Leiden University
July 28-August 1: International Congress of the Bolivian Studies Association. Title of presented paper:
‘La relación Estado-movimientos sociales en el ‘Estado Plurinacional’: participación democrática sin
partidos políticos?’Sucre, Bolivia
Membership of boards and committees
Member of the ‘Curatorium Wisselleerstoel Chileense studies ‘Andres Bello’
Drs. A.P. van Veldhuizen
Research
0.8 fte
Editorial and reviewer activities
Editorial Board ‘Socialisme & Democratie’
Advisory and coordinating activities
VARA (Dutch television)
Historical advisor on a series of documentaries titled ‘De Strijd. De gouden eeuw van de arbeider’.
From November 2013 onwards
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Advisor to ‘De Strijd’
Advisor to ‘College Club’
Twitter @apvanv
Valorisation (societal relevance and impact)
Lectures on socialism at several political parties (CDA, PvdA, D66, PvdD)
Policy advice at WBS –think tank
Publication
Veldhuizen A.P. van
Solidariteit door de eeuwen heen, Idee - Tijdschrift van het Wetenschappelijk Bureau van D66
(Jaargang 34, April 2013)
Veldhuizen A.P. van
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‘Vrees is het zand in de machine van het leven’. In: Hurenkamp M., Sie Dhian Ho M., Nierop A. (Red.)
Tegenwicht. Waarom waarden ertoe doen. Amsterdam: Van Gennip
Veldhuizen A.P. van
'Het uitbestede ideaal'. In: Sie Dhian Ho M., Nierop A., Hurenkamp M. (Red.) Tegenwicht. Waarom
waarden ertoe doen. Amsterdam: Van Gennip
Veldhuizen A.P. van
A grassroots sacred socialist history: Dutch Social Democrats (1894-1920). In: Augusteijn J., Dassen P.,
Janse M. (Red.) Political religion beyond totalitarianism. The sacralization of politics in the age of
democracy: Palgrave MacMillan
Veldhuizen A.P. van
Kitty (column), Socialisme & Democratie (Februari Maart)
Other activities
Coordinator Research Profile Area ‘Political Legitimacy’
Ms. Drs. L.G.M. Visser-Maessen
Research
0.8 fte
Laura Maessen, Leiden University (Institute for History)
‘A Lot of Leaders? Robert Parris Moses, SNCC, and Leadership in the Production of Social Change
during the American Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1965’. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. A. Fairclough. Date of
defence: 10 October 2013
Drs. M.L. de Vries MA
Research
1.0 fte
Conference attendance
October 31-November 3: Southern Historical Conference, St. Louis Missouri, Membership Committee
Drs. G. H. Waling MA
Research
1.0 fte
Conference attendance
September 27: Workshop Onderzoeksschool Politieke Geschiedenis
University Utrecht
November 13: Presentation at Graduate Seminar, Leiden University. Title of the presented paper:
‘ Poplar and populism. Revolutionary gatherings in Berlin 1848'
Research leave, home and abroad
Archival research in Berlin, March-June 2013
Membership of boards and committees
Platform HOOFT (for Dutch PhD’s in the Humanities)
Board of Jonge Historici Schrijven Geschiedenis (until October 2013)
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
March 12: Ernest Renan, Wat is een natie? Translated, introduced and marked by Coos Huijsen and
Geerten Waling (Elsevier Amsterdam 2013) + moderating a debate (‘Forza NL’) about this book at
Debatcentrum De Balie, Amsterdam
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Opinion articles and columns about history, politics, society, etc. for an overview:
http://www.issuu.com/gwaling
Twitter: @geertenwaling
Publications
G.H. Waling
Ernest Renan, Wat is een natie? Vertaald, ingeleid en geduid door Coos Huijsen en Geerten Waling
(Elsevier Amsterdam 2013)
G.H. Waling
‘Les assemblées populaires. Le rôle des clubs dans les élections de 1848’, in: Vincent Villette ed., Les
français et le vote depuis 1789 (Parijs 2013) 69-83
PhD Defences
Laura Visser-Maessen
‘A lot of leaders? Robert Parris Moses, SNCC, and the production of social change in the American
civil rights movement.’ Defence thesis: October 10, 2013
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. A. Fairclough
External PhD Candidates
C.Y.E. Boot
D. Barría Traverso
E. Blommaert
H. van Bree
I. Butter
D. Casanova-Cruz
P. Consten
N. Daito
C.T. ten Dam
F. Diallo
N.F. Dwiandari
M.E. Gerona Morales
I. Gooskens
J. Gysling Caselli
R. ‘t Hart
T.C.J. van Hengel
C. Hulshof
C. Jara Ibarra
J.A. Janssen
M.J. Karabinos
B. Koopman
B. Mutsvairo
E. Ntewusu
H. Nyamnjoh
L. Ornstein
J.K.T. Postma
T. Prasodjo
J. Scharager Goldernberg
J. Scheele
D. Seli
I. Veyl Ahumada
J. de Vetten
M.J. van de Waardt
P. Wibusilp
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D. Wolthekker
Research Master Students
Carolien Boender
Daan van Bloois
Dana Filonova
Lucas Geurts
Niels Goedegebuur
Eline de Graaf
Jolijn Groothuizen
Michiel de Haan
Girija Joshi
Susanne Keesman
Wouter Klem
Wouter Linmans
Jacobien Nieuwenhuijsen
Ellen Oostenbrink
Antonio Renato Castelo Branco Da Silva Rego
Eveline van Rijswijk
Annemarie Rullens
Gustaaf Jan Schaepman
Wietse Stam
Wessel Toonen
Jens van der Weele
Arthur Westerhof
Mart van de Wiel
Johan van de Worp
Eva van der Woude
Organizing the Masses: The Contested Nature of Early Irish, British and American
Pressure Groups, 1820-1840
Maartje Janse
In the early nineteenth century, Irish, British and American pressure groups opposing, for
example, slavery or the British Corn Laws, introduced a new type of politics: mass politics.
This did not go unnoticed. Some contemporaries expressed enthusiasm about the fact that
people who were formally excluded from political life could now engage in politics without
breaking the law or making revolution. Others despised the influence an organization could
gain by efficient fund raising and the distribution of propaganda, and feared that this
development would corrupt the proper functioning of the political system.
This project asks why these early pressure groups were so heavily contested. The working
hypothesis is that there was much at stake: the debate on pressure groups was essentially a
debate over democracy. In the post-revolutionary context, the future of politics was unclear.
What was considered good politics, who should participate, and in what way? For
contemporaries, this was by no means an academic debate. Their social position was at stake.
Those who had little social standing and were excluded from the political process (women,
members of the (lower) middle class or ethnic and religious minorities) aspired to be
accepted as worthy members of civil society and political life. The members of the social elite
who represented the political establishment in turn feared the loss of their privileged
position.
By making use of biographical sketches and digitized nineteenth-century newspapers, I will
be able to reconstruct the debate on the merits and perils of the first pressure groups.
Historians have devoted much energy to the study of individual movements, but following
the observations of contemporaries, the modern pressure group was a phenomenon in its
own right. Exciting and promising, or threatening and unethical - it heralded the advent of
mass politics.
The VENI-project is closely related to the project ‘The Promise of Organization. Political
Associations, 1820-1890, Debate and Practice’ (awarded in the Vrije Competitie
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Geesteswetenschappen) coordinated by Dr. Maartje Janse and Prof. Dr. Henk te Velde.
The promise of Organization. Political Associations, 1820-1890, Debate and Practice
Henk te Velde, Maartje Janse
Political parties have often been seen as obstacles on the road to true democracy, and as
instruments of over-ambitious career politicians. And before modern parties even existed,
political associations were seen as dangerous ‘machines’, producing ‘oligarchies’. Still, the
modern voluntary association was ‘democratic’ because it integrated ordinary men and
women into the political process in a disciplined, civilized manner. Without it, many people
would never have been able to use the political system. Voluntary organizations could fit
into the system of representative government which rejected unrestrained popular passions,
but also be an instrument of mobilizing the common people. The contested machine-like
appearance of voluntary organizations and political parties was the nearest one could get to
the ideal of respectable democratization. This program will focus on the enthusiasm,
arguments and concrete activities of the organizers as well as the criticism offered by
opponents of modern political organization. The three projects focus on three waves of
associational mania and debate: modern antislavery organizations and other early pressure
groups; organizing during the revolutions of 1848; mass political parties during the 1870s
and 1880s. Together they give an overview of the introduction of organizations into politics.
We will study the separate discussions about the merits and dangers of voluntary
associations and political parties as parts of a general debate during the 19th century, and
assume that the intensity of the debate was caused by the controversial issue of
democratization and the related issue of inclusion and exclusion. By studying the contested
nature of modern organizations, and in particular by thick description of the perception and
introduction of new forms of organization, by biographical research, and by studying the
debate on organizing in particular in (recently digitized) newspapers, the program will
throw new light on one of the most hotly debated issues of modern politics.
Project Coordinators: Prof. Henk te Velde and Dr. Maartje Janse
Project 1: Pressure groups: Dr. Maartje Janse (also see VENI-project 'Organizing the Masses')
Project 2: Associations in the European Revolutions of 1848: Geerten Waling, MA
Project 3: The birth of mass political parties: Anne Heyer, MA
Historicizing Security. Enemies of the state, 1813-present
Beatrice de Graaf
After 1945, the (re-)construction of parliamentary democracies was paralleled by the
development of a national security state: a system of organisations, policy procedures and
other instruments directed at promoting national security – as well as the underlying
ideology, culture and perceptions. How and why did this happen?
Parliamentary democracies entertain an ambivalent relationship with national security. As
open societies, they are more vulnerable to external threats, but at the same time they require
public legitimacy to adopt security measures – which themselves might contradict
democratic values. This project compares national security regimes in three Western
democracies (the Netherlands, the U.S. and [West-]Germany) during the 1945-2010 period.
It will provide a new view on postwar security history since it firstly rejects the ‘essentialist’
approach to threats and interests undertaken by traditional security studies and does not
take for granted balance-of-power explanations for the build-up of military stocks and other
security instruments. It rather brings the concept of national security to discussion and
investigates why and how certain security threats and interests were perceived and gave rise
to security measures (whereas others were overlooked), by exploring the political and social
determinants that inform these measures. In the second place it will explore how these
interests and threats were contested and how national security regimes transformed over
time. Thirdly, it will demonstrate how the national security state became a defining aspect of
parliamentary democracies. Through processes of identifying and excluding certain groups
as threats to national security, the arena of democratic politics was redefined.
The project adds to our understanding of the ‘iron spine’ of parliamentary democracies: the
development of a national security state. It will analyze different types of national security
regimes, the way they are determined, how ‘enemies of the state’ are constructed and how
these regimes transformed through stages of contentious politics.
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In this project we will ask the following questions:
Who were the decision-makers regarding the new national security infrastructures?
What were their intentions, what threats did they identify? What factors did propel them to
construct these images of national security threats and interests?
Did these measures and corresponding threats possess political legitimacy?
Did the decision-makers and/or their measures mobilize public and political support?
Did the new security instruments change the underlying security regimes and culture, did
they create new security and threat images?
In answering these questions, we will learn more about the way national security lies at the
heart of modern western democracies, and to what extent national security is intertwined
with both the political legitimacy conferred on the government by its citizens and the way
governments strive to uphold their position of legitimate power by defining threats and
dangers to their order.
PhD-projects
The Development of a Secret State. The Intelligence & Security Services and
their contribution to the National Security State, 1945-1989
Constant Hijzen
How did a professional ‘secret state’, consisting of a system of intelligence & security
services, as well as the underlying assumptions on national security threats and interests
came into existence after 1945? Which national security measures were carried out
(establishment of bureaus, organisations as well as concrete measures such as ‘internment
lists’, occupational bans in government institutions), and what where the underlying threat
assumptions? Was this process of constructing a secret state made subject to parliamentary
or public control? How did parliament, opposition, society react to these security measures?
Military legitimacy during the Cold War: The Dutch army and its criticasters
Coreline Boot
The onset of the Cold War brought to the fore new international and national threats to the
military. On an international level, Moscow and its allies became a permanent military and
political danger. Nationally, organizations from inside and outside the army started to
criticize the military culture, its national and international security policy (including the
Dutch contribution to the NATO), or even doubted the legitimacy of the military institution
itself.
The VIDI-project already resulted in a number of articles, a special issue of Tijdschrift voor
Geschiedenis (Volume 125, No. 3), a special issue of Historical Social Research (forthcoming),
Journal of Modern European History (forthcoming) a website
(http://hum.leiden.edu/history/enemies-of-the-state/) and a collaboraty
(http://collab.vuw.leidenuniv.nl/sites/enemies-of-the-state/seminar-securitydispositives/
Pages/default.aspx). A Research Network on Securitization was furthermore
created in cooperation with social scientist Willem Schinkel, that resulted in a series of
seminars and an edited volume on securitization (forthcoming).
Democratization and political terrorism: The formation and destruction of the
two-party system in the Red River Valley of Louisiana, 1865-1878
Adam Fairclough
This project analyzes the failure of Congressional Reconstruction after the American Civil
War. It treats Reconstruction as an effort by the Republican party to democratize the states of
the former Confederacy on the basis of universal suffrage and equal citizenship By giving
voting rights to black men, the Republicans hoped to control the South politically and
thereby protect the newfound citizenship of the former slaves. The majority of southern
whites, however, refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of black suffrage and the
Republican state and local governments that black voters supported. Instead of accepting
the new two-party system, they used the Democratic party as a vehicle to reestablish white
supremacy by means of destroying the Republican party. The project, which employs two
PhD candidates, focuses on the Red River Valley of Louisiana, a region where blacks
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constituted a majority of the voters, and where the Democratic party used violence,
intimidation, and electoral fraud to dislodge the Republicans. This kind of political
terrorism exposed the weakness of the federal authorities and postponed the
democratization of the southern states for one hundred years.
The Scholarly Self: Character, Habit, and Virtue in the Humanities, 1860-1930
Herman Paul, Christiaan Engberts , Léjon Saarloos , Katharina Manteufel
Why did 'character', 'habit', and 'virtue' serve as key terms in late 19th and early 20th-century scholarly
correspondences, biographies, and obituaries? Why did scholars around 1900 display so much interest
in the working habits and character traits of what they called the 'scholarly self'?
Focusing on the humanities around 1900, this project examines the hypothesis that many of those who
laid the foundations of modern disciplinary infrastructures saw 'discipline formation' as a project that
not only required professorial chairs and scientific periodicals, but also, and especially, a disciplining of
the scholar's body, heart, and mind. Their emphasis on the exercise of scholarly habits (e.g., disciplined
time management) and character virtues (e.g., impartiality) is therefore best understood as an attempt
to provide emerging humanities disciplines with an appropriate research ethic.
If this hypothesis is correct, it will alter our understanding of scholarly discipline formation. It will
correct one-sided accounts of discipline formation in institutional and/or methodological terms by
drawing attention to a personal dimension, consisting of a disciplining of the scholar's 'self'.
Four subprojects examine (1) how 'scholarly selfhood' was envisioned by late 19th and early 20thcentury humanities scholars, (2) how these scholars implemented their ideals of scholarly selfhood, (3)
how they monitored the observance of these ideals in day-to-day research, and (4) what kind of
contexts and conditions enabled these ideals to flourish around 1900. Each of the subprojects focuses
on one or more humanities disciplines, in one or more European countries. Their main sources
include scholarly letters, (auto)biographies, obituaries, lecture notes, and methodology manuals.
Although the project focuses on the humanities, it includes a conference aimed at comparing scholarly
selfhood in the humanities with its role in medicine, law, chemistry, and physics, thereby placing its
results in a wider framework and paving the way for follow-up research.
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6. Colonial and Global History
Description
One of the central themes of the history of the last five hundred years is the phenomenon
currently referred to as the process of globalisation. In this process, a central role has been
played in the past by the phenomenon of Western European expansion, the various ways in
which other continents responded to this and the developments resulting from this
expansion. Globalisation means the emergence of a world economy, worldwide migration
flows, the birth of nation states and many other phenomena. Central to this history are the
early activities of the chartered trading companies, the rise of colonial empires and
enterprises, resistance movements, wars of independence and decolonization, all of which
have left us their archives whose unique character stems from the interaction between
expanding and contracting Europe and the rest of the world. It is therefore no coincidence
that this history has its own historiography and its own journals. Owing to the rich
economic, anthropological and political data they contain, ‘colonial’ archives are also of
inestimable value in the study of the autochthonous history of non-Western areas, as
demonstrated by the success of the TANAP and ENCOMPASS projects which the history
department of Leiden University is presently carrying out in close cooperation with
academic institutions in Asia and South Africa. The scholarly and societal importance of
studying the history of European expansion and global interaction cannot be
overemphasized.
The history department plays an important role in the study of global history. As early as
1902, Leiden University offered lectures on ‘colonial history’, but from the 1950s onwards
turned towards ‘global history’. This concept should not be understood in the sense of the
comparative method, but as an approach which focuses on the study of emerging global
connections in history. As the American historian Patrick Manning put it: ‘Connection
conveys the character of world historical analysis better than any other term. It
acknowledges locality and uniqueness, yet also invokes broad patterns’. (Navigating World
History: Historians Create a Global Past 2003).
In this context, the history department of Leiden University centres on the study of global
interaction processes making use of the wide range of primary sources available in the broad
environment of the university. Leiden possesses in this respect a unique infrastructure for
the use of both primary and secondary source materials. Not only are the rich archives of the
VOC, the WIC and the former Ministry of Colonies in the National Archives in The Hague
located at a fifteen minutes distance by public rail system from Leiden, but the Leiden
University Library also houses the entire library collection of the former Ministry of
Colonies, while the KITLV and Africa Studies Centre have world famous collections on
Caribbean, Southeast Asian and African history. In addition, Leiden is home to other
libraries and instances which are involved in the study of the world outside Europe and
which belong to the largest in their fields in Europe. The Leiden MA and MPhil programmes
offer students from within and outside the Netherlands thorough training in the use of these
primary sources while they are carrying out their research. A follow-on PhD track is also
offered, with a clearly recognizable individual character. In this way, the history department
has created a niche for itself in the field of global history focusing on the search for
connections and the origins of the migration and transfer of people, beliefs, goods and ideas
within and among the continents.
Staff
Ms. Dr. C.A.P. Antunes
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Conference attendance
Keynote Speaker IIe Congrès International du Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique d’Histoire Maritime.
La Recherche en Histoire Maritime: Enjeux, Objects et Méthodes, University of Nantes: ‘Maritime
History: Past, Present and Future’
Symposium PKvV, ‘Conformisme in Nederland’, Leiden University: ‘Conformisme in de Nederlandse
Cultuur’
International Conference Places of Encounter. Jews and Non-Jews in the Low Countries Between 1500
and 1800, Institute for Jewish Studies, University of Antwerp: with Jessica Roitman: ‘Juggling
Jurisdictions: Amsterdam’s Courts as a Zone of Encounter in the Early Modern Age’
The Leiden Seminar for Global Interactions (LSGI), Leiden University, Leiden: ‘Fighting Monopolies,
Defying Empires 1500-1750: a Comparative Overview of Free Agents and Informal Empires in Western
Europe and the Ottoman Empire’, Academic Posts
Conference organization
Workshop Feedback PhD Proposals VIDI Project Challenging Monopolies, Building Global Empires
in the Early Modern Period (2013)
Editorial and reviewer activities
Editorial Board:
Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis
e-Journal of Portuguese History
International Journal of Maritime History
Routledge
Brill – EURO series
Pickering & Chatto Publishers
Evaluation Boards/Peer Review Pools
European Science Foundation
European Research Council – Synergy Program
FWO (Flemish National Science Foundation)
Advisory and coordinating activities
Chair Search and Selection Committee PhD Assistant (AIO): ‘Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires,
1500-1750: Free Agency and Informal Empire in the French Domains Overseas’, History Institute,
Leiden University
Chair Search and Selection Committee Post-Dotcoral Researcher: ‘Fighting Monopolies, Defying
Empires, 1500-1750: a Comparative Overview of Free Agents and Informal Empires in Western Europe
and the Ottoman Empire, History Institute, Leiden University
Membership of boards and committees
IIe Congrés International du Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique d’Histoire Maritime: La Recherche en
Histoire Maritime – Enjeux, Objects et Méthodes, University of Nantes
Member Scientific Committee for the International Conference Colonial Mis(Understandings):
Portugal and Europe in Global Perspective, 1450-1900’, Centro de Historia de Alem Mar – FCSH, New
University of Lisbon, Lisbon
Member Scientific Committee II Simpósio Internacional de Estudos Inquisitoriais: Religião e Poder,
University of Bahia, Brazil
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Dissertation (PhD)
Kate Ekama, ‘Challenging Monopolies, Building Global Empires in the Early Modern Period – Suing
the Monopolies – The Case of the VOC and the WIC’, History Institute, Leiden University (in
progress)
Joris van den Tol, ‘Challenging Monopolies, Building Global Empires in the Early Modern Period –
Lobbying for Brazil and Taiwan – Lobby Groups to the Companies and the States General’, History
Institute, Leiden University (in progress)
Erik Odegard, ‘Challenging Monopolies, Building Global Empires in the Early Modern Period –
Serving the East and the West – Strategies in Imperial Career Paths Within the VOC and the WIC’,
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History Institute, Leiden University (in progress)
Kaarle Wirta, ‘Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empire: The Scandinavian Empires’, History Institute,
Leiden University (in progress)
Julie Svalastog, ‘Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empire: The British Empire’, History Institute, Leiden
University (in progress)
Elisabeth Heijmans, ‘Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empire: The French Empire’, History Institute,
Leiden University (in progress)
Edgar Cravo Bertrand Pereira, ‘Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empire: The Iberian Empires’, History
Institute, Leiden University (in progress)
Committees (PhD)
October: Karwan Fatah-Black, ‘Suriname and the Atlantic World, 1650-1800’, thesis defence, Leiden
University
Externally acquired funds
Partner Marie-Curie Consortium, European Research Council, For Sea Discovery: Forest Resources for
Iberian Empires: Ecology and Globalization in the Age of Discovery (2014-2018), granted in 2013
‘Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires 1500-1750: a Comparative Overview of Free Agents and
Informal Empires in Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire’(ERC)
Publications
Antunes, C.A.P. ‘Trade Networks and Migration, Early Modern Europe’, Immanuel Ness (org.), The
Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, vol. 5, New York, Blackwell, 2013, 2943-2947
Book Review: Richard W. Unger (ed.), Shipping and Economic Growth, 1350-1850, Leiden, Brill,
2011, The Mariner’s Mirror, 99-1 (2013), 95-96
Antunes, C.A.P., Dissel A.M.C. van, Heijveld W. et.al. ed.
Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 32 (2013) 1
Antunes, C.A.P., Dissel A.M.C. van, Heijveld W. et.al. ed.
Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 32 (2013) 2
Antunes, C.A.P.
Member of editorial staff Anais de História de Além Mar
Antunes, C.A.P.
Member of editorial staff Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis
Antunes, C.A.P.
[Review of: Unger R. W. (2011) Shipping and Economic Growth 1350-1850] Mariners Mirror
99-1: 95-96
Antunes, C.A.P.
Member of editorial staff International Journal of Maritime History
Antunes, C.A.P., Dissel, A.M.C. van, Heijveld, W., Paesie, R., Peet, A.J. van der, Romburgh,
C.P.P. van, Scheltjens, W., Tang, D.J. & Wit, J.M. de
Member of editorial staff Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 32(2)
Antunes, C.A.P., Dissel, A.M.C. van, Heijveld, W., Paesie, R., Peet, A.J. van der, Romburgh,
C.P.P. van, Scheltjens, W., Tang, D.J. & Wit, J.M. de
Member of editorial staff Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 32(1)
Other activities
Associate Professor Economic and Social History, Leiden University (2013-present)
Full Member of the Young Academy of Europe (2013-2018)
Prof. Dr. J. L. Blussé van Oud Alblas
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
June 4, 2013: Murari Kumar Jha, The Political Economy of the Ganga River; Highway of State Formation
in Mughal India, c.1600-1800. Promotor with Prof. Dr. J.J.L. Gommans
June 6, 2013: Sun Jing, The Illusion of Verisimilitude, Johan Nieuhof’s Images of China, Promotor with
Dr. J.L.L. Tilanus
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October 15: Monique Erkelens, The Decline of the Chinese Council of Batavia: The Loss of Prestige and
Authority of the Traditional Elites amongst Chinese Community between 1900-42. Promotor with Dr. L.
Douw (UvA)
Publications
Leonard Blussé, Nie Dening e.a.eds.
Gongan bu, Bacheng huaren Gongguan Dangan公案簿, 吧城花 人公馆 档案(Gong An Bu – Minutes of
the Board Meetings of the Chinese Council). 1869-1873) Vol. 12, Xiamen: Xiamen University Press
2013. 2 vols. 611 pp.
Guest Editor
Special Issue, Itinerario Vol. 37-3, 2013. ‘Canton and Nagasaki Compared’. 206 pp.
Articles
‘Of Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water: Leiden University’s Early Sinologists (1854-1911)’. In:
Wilt L. Idema ed, Chinese Studies in the Netherlands. Past, Present and Future. Leiden: Brill 2014. pp.
27-68. (Revised and updated version of no. 25)
‘Peeking into the Empires: Dutch Embassies to the Courts of China and Japan’. In: Itinerario Vol.37-3.
pp. 14-29
‘Thee met een luchtje. Experimenten met vervoer van Chinese thee door Ezechiël Lombard.’ In: Eric
van der Doe, Perry Moree en Dirk J. Tang e.a, Buitgemaakt en teruggevonden, Nederlandse brieven en
scheepspapieren in een Engels archief. Zutphen: Walburg Pers 2013. pp.154-165
‘Koning Willem I en de schepping van de koloniale staat’. In: Ido de Haan, Paul den Hoed en Henk te
Velde ed, Een nieuwe staat. Het begin van het koninkrijk der Nederlanden. Amsterdam: Prometheus.Bert
Bakker 2013. pp. 145-172
‘Port Cities of Southeast Asia’. In: Peter Clark ed, The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History.
Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013, pp.346-363
Other activities
October first 2012- June first 2013: guest professor Research Institute of Advanced Studies in the
Humanities (Jimbun Kagaku Kenkyujo) for various lectures at the Kyoto University, Japan
September 9-25: guest lecturer at the Guangzhou University and Zhongshan University
September 30-October 3: keynote speaker at the International Conference Maritime East Asia in the light
of History, 16th-18th Centuries. L’Orientale University of Napoli/ University of Tokyo
Ms. Prof. Dr. M.E. de Bruijn
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February 14-15: Final conference: ‘Mobile Africa Revisited’. Organiser, introducer and chair ‘Control
and Navigation: People Searching to Reach their Goals in an Ever More (In)Flexible World’, Leiden
University. From the final conference of ‘Mobile Africa revisited’ we will produce a book in 2014
working title: ‘Control and navigation: people searching to reach their goals in an ever more (in)flexible
world’
March 8: invited lecture, ‘LifeHistories’, Edinborough University
March 15:workshop at IMED. Title of presented paper: ‘Connecting Dreams: ‘Mobility meets
Communication’, Universiteit van Amsterdam
March 17: conference of the Mobile Africa revisited project, Chad
April 5: Vici lecture by Marie Soleil Frere and Katrien Pype, Leiden University
April 10: Conference ‘Al Qaida goes to Africa’. Title of presented paper: ‘The Mali conflict and (long
term) effects on the population’, Leiden University
April 25: Conference ‘La nouvelle parole en Afrique, le téléphone mobile : e-innovations, emobilisations’, Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux. Title of presented paper: ‘Digi-politiques en
Afrique: le rôle de la communication mobile dans les situations conflits au Tchad et Mali (invited)
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May 24-25 : Conference ‘Mobile Telephony in the Developing World’. Title of presented paper:
‘Communicating war’(with Inge Brinkman), University of Jyväskylä, Finland
May 22: invited lecture on Mobile telephony, Leuven, department of Anthropology
June 22-25: ECAS conference in Portugal; panel nr: Digipolitics (organized by Koen Stroeken & Inge
Brinkman, Ghent); Title of presented paper (with Lotte Pelckmans): ‘Communicating war: The Mali
conflict in a changing communication landscape’
July 24: ICHSTM: International Conference for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (24th),
Manchester UK. Title of the presented paper: ‘The materiality of mobile telephony in Cameroon’ (this
paper will be published as part of a book on mobile telephony in Cameroon, to be finalized in 2014)
August 28-30: 4th bi-annual Conference of PACSA ‘Crisis and Conflict’ (Peace and Conflict Studies in
Anthropology ) European Association of Social Anthropologists/ Association Européenne des
Anthropologues Sociaux. Title of presented paper with Lotte Pelckmans: ‘Livelihoods under Duress:
living in and with war and conflict in Africa’, Copenhagen
September 10-11: SEMA workshop ‘Sensors, Empowerment, and Accountability (SEMA):
(Dis)connecting people and water Logistics’. Title of the presented paper: The Political Economy of
Mobile Phone ‘use’ by African Citizens, University of Twente
September 17: lecture Shamil Jeppie ‘Connecting programme’, Leiden University
September 21: Conference: ‘Two Africa’s ‘
September 26-28: SPP1448 Summer School on Crisis, in Halle ; invited lecture of one afternoon
University of Halle
October 8: Workshop for the programme ‘Resources and Mobility, Bamenda’, (Volkswagen funded
research programme), Cameroon, Langaa
November 12: invited lecture on ‘Ethnicity and Mobility’. Title of the presented paper: ‘Mediating
Ethnicity: Academic and local discourses on borders and mobility’, Migration Institute COMPAS, Oxford
November 27: Chair at Presentation of Leiden Global launch event, Leiden University
December 1-5: Johannesburg: conference on internal migration in Africa; presentation and tutor
(invited) organized by WITTS and IMI (Oxford)
December 6-7: ‘The Long 1930s in South Asia: Appropriations and Afterlives’, Leiden University
Panel member around the discussion of the work of Cooper (on Saturday)
Conference organization
February 14-15: Final conference: ‘Mobile Africa Revisited’. Organiser, introducer and chair ‘Control
and Navigation: People Searching to Reach their Goals in an Ever More (In)Flexible World’, leiden
University. Role: organizer
March 17: workshop at conference of the Mobile Africa revisited project, Chad. Role: Organizer
April 10: Al Qaida goes to Africa, co-organizer with Petra de Bruijn, Leon Buskens and Ben Soares,
Leiden University
May 24-25: Panel organization: Conference ‘Mobile Telephony in the Developing World’, University
of Jyväskylä, Finland. Title panel: ‘Calling to Arms: Communication Circuits and War in Africa’
July 24: ICHSTM: E047. ‘Historical and contemporary communications technologies in Africa: a case
study in Cameroon and wider reflections’. Special session organisers: Charlotte Connelly, (Science
Museum, London, United Kingdom) and Mirjam de Bruijn, University Leiden, The Netherlands
September 20: ‘African studies and the epistemological reflections on ‘two Africas’’, Leiden University,
Organizer with Daniela Merolla
Vici Seminars
April 5: Vici lecture by Marie Soleil Frere and Katrien Pype, Leiden University
September 17: chair and organizer lecture Shamil Jeppie ‘Connecting programme’, Leiden University
September 21: organizer with Daniela Merolla conference: ‘Two Africa’s’, Leiden Univeristy
Research leave, home and abroad
March 17-31: Chad
October: Cameroon and Chad
Both leaves were part of the research programme: Connecting in times of Duress
The first week in October was devoted to the project Mobility and resources of the Volkswagen
Both travels involved: supervision and workshop of MA students; supervision of PhD projects;
preparation film project; field research
Editorial and reviewer activities
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Reviews:
New Media and Society
Africa
Berghahn Books
Membership of boards and committees
IICD (International Institute for Communication and Development) Board member
AIV/COS (Commissie voor Ontwikkelings Samenwerking)
Leiden Global (for 2014)
Board member of Langaa publishing and research institute, based in Cameroon
Board member of CRASH, research center in Chad, based in N’djamena
Advisory and coordinating activities
Coordination of:
Vici research programme: ‘Connecting in times of duress’
Mobile Africa Rvisited
Volkswagen project; Mobility and Resources, Cameroon sub project
Participation in research programme, coordinated from Aix en Provence: EINSA
Programme ANR EInSA
« L’Etat et les institutions face à la sorcellerie dans l’Afrique contemporaine »
2013-2015
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision PhD
Inge Ligtvoet (2012-2016) ‘ICT and Protest against Repression: The Case of Anglophone Cameroon
(PhD) and a comparison with Nigerian dynamics
Catherina Wilsson (2012-2016) ‘Being (dis)connected during war(s): Shaping Urbanity in Chad and
CAR’
Adamou Ahmadou (2013-2016) ‘Nomadic pastoralists Confronted with Duress and new ICTs’
Souleymane Adoum (2013-1016) ‘Histories of Mobility and Communication in Societies under Duress,
The Past in the Present, Northern Central Africa
External PhD
Caroline Hulshof, ‘Muziek Oost Afrika’ with prof. Maarten Mouss welke universiteit??
Bruce Mutsvairo ‘ (social)media, ICT, diaspora and politics, the case of Zimbabwe’ (with prof. de Jong,
University of Twente). Date of defence: June 13, 2013
Inge Butter, (2011-2015). ‘Arabization and Technologies of Communication in a Post-conflict Situation,
Chad’, MaGW/NWO funding (with Prof. M. Mouss, Leiden University)
Henrietta Nyamnjoh, ‘Building Bridges and Harnessing Opportunities: ICTs and Mobility amongst
Pinyin and Mankon Migrants in South Africa and the Netherlands’, started April 2010; NWO-Wotro,
Mobile Africa Revisited; (with Prof. M. Rowlands, LSE, UK). Date of defence: November 28, 2013
Evelyne Ntewusu, in the Volkswagenstiftung programme since 2009; ‘Material Culture, Mobility and
Social Change, a Case Study in the Grassfields, Cameroon’ (working title) (with Prof F. Nyamnjoh,
UCT, South Africa)
Jonna Both, MagW/NWO funded project that started in 2010, ‘The dynamics of stabilization and
youth's social navigation in the post-conflict margins of Yumbe district (West Nile, Uganda)’ (with Prof.
R. Reis, AISSR, Amsterdam)
Djimet Seli, ‘ICT and Mobility in Chad’, WOTRO/NWO (Part of the Mobile Africa programme) (with
Prof. Nyamnjoh, University of Cape Town, and Prof. Khalil from Ndjamena University) (started in
2008). Date of defence: February 13, 2013
hr. D. Seli
(De)connexions identitaires post-conflit: Les Hadjeray du Tchad face à la mobilité et aux technologies
de la communication
Promotors: Prof.dr. M.E. de Bruin (Leiden University Institute for History), Prof.dr. K. Alio
(University of N'Djaména) and Prof.dr. F.B. Nyamnjoh (University of Cape Town)
Imke Gooskens, ‘ICT and Mobility in Angola/South Africa’, WOTRO/NWO, Part of Mobile Africa
research project (started in 2009)
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Fatima Diallo, ‘ICT and Law in Senegal’, WOTRO/NOW (ASC funded, part of the Mobile Africa
integrated programme) (with Prof. Kante, Saint Louis; Prof van Dijk, WU & ASC) (started in 2009)
(ASC funding)
Laguerre Dionro Djerandi ‘Le projet pertrolier Tchadien- un nouveau mode de prevention de conflit’,
2006-2010, Volkwagenstiftung, with Dr Andrea Beherends (University of Halle) and Prof. H. van Dijk
(ASC)
Ellen Blommaert, ‘AIDS and Youth in Kenya’, University of Amsterdam (2005-2008) (with Prof. A.
Hardon, ASSR
Nakar Djindil ‘Food Security in Historical Perspective: Nutritional Status and Physical Development as
Indicators of the Long-term Effects of Crisis in the Sahel. The Case of Chad’, 2004-2008, (with Prof. H.
van Dijk, Wageningen University WOTRO W 52-1050 NWO funding
Membership PhD readers committee
Cecilia Gordano Peile, ‘Contested Discourses on Migrant Connectivity’, Barcelona
Rantimi Jays Julius-Adeoye, ‘The drama of Ahmed Yerima, studies in Nigerian Theatre’. Date of defence:
May 8, 2013
Yuh Jin Bae, Renewable Energy and Resource Curse; on the possible consequences of solar energy in North
Africa. Date of defence: September 26. 2013
Kathrin Heitz, Trust and distrutst in rebel held Cote d’Ivoire. Date of defence: December 11, 2013, Basel,
Switzerland
Christopher Tankou, Leiden University. Date of defence: December 12, 2013
Christian Vium, ‘Our life is Water’ an ethnography of scarcity in contemporary Mauritania,
Copenhagen, Denmark . Date of defence: December 17, 2013
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Radio : 30 November, Radio 1
Russia Radio, Voice TV : RTL4 News, Friday, Nov 1
Radio 1, on CAR, 6 Dec 2013
BNR Radio on Mali: 10 December 2013
Web pages www.connecting-in-times-of-duress
Twitter (@CTDuress)
Interviews in several journals:
Leidraad (article about globalisation programme Leiden University)
September: NRC en Volkskrant interviews Shamil Jeppie, on the Timbouctou archives
October 7: Financieel Dagblad, ‘Telefonie in Afrika via Nederlandse BV’s’; Sieme Eijkelenhof en Gaby
de Groot
November 20: Mali lectures for DWARS (Groen Links jongeren)
November 18: Presentation on Mali at Groen Links party meeting: (Al Qaida goes to Africa? Was also
for a broader public, but held in academia)
November 23: NVAS (Vereniging voor Afrika Studies, Nederland); Key note: Mobile Telephony in
Everyday Africa
Interview Historisch tijdschrift
Interview BRT
Publications
Bruijn, M.E . de, I. Brinkman, F. Nyamnjoh
Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa Bamenda/Leiden: Langaa
RPCIG/African Studies Centre Leiden. (ISBN: 978-9956728763) (210 pages)
Bruijn, M.E. de & Nkwi, W.G.
‘Life is so summarised’: Society’s memory in the digital age in Africa’ in: to be completed, expected
December 2013, published with Brill, peer reviewed; still waiting for the book!
Bruijn, M. E. de
Mobile telephony and Socio-economic Dynamics in Africa. In: G. K. Ingram & K.L. Brand (eds)
Infrastructures and land Politics, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge Ma.
Bruijn, M. E. de, Nyamnjoh, F. & Brinkman, I.
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Introduction, Mobile Margins and the dynamics of Communication. In: De Bruijn, M.E, I. Brinkman,
F. Nyamnjoh (2013) Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa
Bamenda/Leiden: Langaa RPCIG/African Studies Centre Leiden. Pp. 1-17
Bruijn, M.E. de
comments on book ‘Marielle de Bos’ ; Débats Livres, numéro 132, Politique Africaine, December 2013
(not yet received)
Review of (authors) ‘Mobile phone Book, India’ in Asian studies (fc. November 2013); not yet
received a copy
Review of Marcia Luiten, ‘Dag Afrika’, in Openbaar Bestuur, November 2013, pp. 28-29
Other activities
Coordination research programmes
Coordination Vici research programme
Coordination and finalisation of WOTRO research programme ‘Mobile Africa Revisited’(end
discussion was on 29 November 2013)
Coordination of Volkwagen programme (Mobilety and resources), till March 2014
Participation in research programme, coordinated from Aix en Provence: EINSA
Preparation of FP7 Project proposal: ‘Calling to Arms’; which acquired all points but was not funded
because of lack of financial means; we will retry in 2014; (with Inge Brinkman and Marie Brobeck)
Participated in several proposal writing projects at the History institute (see also at L.A.C.J. Lucassen)
April till June: sick due to cattle infection, Chad
In Press:
Ordinary Violence; book edit with Jacky Bouju, will be published in Africa Series Brill, 2014
Article : Africa, special issue on migration, 2014 (accepted)
Article: Media, Culture and Society, April 2014 (accepted)
Article: Media and society: under review
Book: end conference Mobile Africa revisited book; to be published in 2014-2015
Displacement: special issue, book publication ZED books? Manuscritp ready; after review to be
edited/revised, for 2014
Article for joined publication with John Postill, as a result of EASA conference, 2014-2015 (accepted)
Book for museum project; Materiality of mobile telephony in Africa, to be published with Brill
Production of two films: to be finalized in 2014; based on the material gathered during research
programme ‘mobile Africa revisited’, see also mobileafricarevisted.wordpress.com
Teaching activities:
BA course, Talen en culturen van Afrika, course MediaAntropology (first semester)
IS coordination, including organization of stage possibilities in Africa ( for third year students)
ResMa African Studies: teaching/guest lectures
MA students: Eefje Gilbert; Peter Angwafo; Leonie Meester
MA course: connecting dreams; second semester together with Marlou Schrover)
Summary of main activities and research:
The research programme ‘Connecting in Times of Duress’ was firmly put on its feet! Although the
programme is based at the History Institute, its content is present at the ASC as well. Phd- projects
were developed. Mirjam’s own research in the programme also took shape and is geared around the
filming project. The core question of the research programme of (social) media and politics showed to
be more relevant than we could have assumed. The run to social media of the young segment of
African societies is extremely present; but also the development of this social media access in times of
duress became even more reality with the political developments in Mali and in Central African
Republic. The project became centre stage for these ‘conflicts’ in Africa
The programme Mobile Africa Revisited was closed this year with a very successful final conference,
where the question of an open world ideology confronted with increasingly closed borders was the
central problem; furthermore Henrietta Nyamnjoh and Djimet Seli defended their PhD theses
successfully. They both organised conferences in resp. South Africa and Chad
The research on resources and mobility in the Volkswagen funded research programme continued and
resulted in one defense of thesis by Christopher Tankou
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Ms. Dr. A.M.C. van Dissel
Research
0.2 fte
Conference attendance
June 7: Symposium ‘Wederzijds profijt? De betekenis van de marine voor Zeeland en vice versa tussen
1600 en 2013’. Title of presented paper: ‘Zeeland en Zeemacht in de negentiende eeuw’; Werkgroep
Cultuurhistorie van het Koninklijk Zeeuws genootschap der Wetenschappen in Zeeuwse Bibliotheek,
Middelburg
November 20: Workshop ‘Passenger shipping’, Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Member Editorial Board International Journal of Maritime History
Book review editor Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis
Referee Werken van de Linschoten-Vereeniging
Member of the supervisory editorial board of the series Militaire geschiedenis der Nederlanden
(Netherlands Institute of Military History, Ministry of Defense, The Hague)
Member of the supervisory editorial board of the series Nieuwe Maritieme Geschiedenis van
Nederland [work in progress]
Membership of boards and committees
President of the Linschoten-Vereeniging
Chairman of the jury of the Schouwenburgprijs 2011-2013
Member of the Bachelor and Master Educational Review Committee (OLC), Institute for History,
Leiden University
Member of the Jury of the Fruin Award, Institute for History, Leiden University
Advisory and coordinating activities
Member project group ‘Dutch merchant seamen during WOII’. Aim: book, website and exhibition.
Editorial board Dr. A.M.C. van Dissel, drs. M. Elands (Veterans Institute), drs. H. Faber and Dr. P.
Stolk (DdM)
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Co-promotor for R. Stapel, ‘Safety and rescues at sea’ (Leiden University)
Co-promotor for G.M.W. Acda, ‘Naval career of G.F. Tydeman’ (Leiden University)
Valorisation (societal relevance and impact)
February 15: Public lecture ‘Zeevaren en zeedienen’: visies op zeeroof en zeeroofbestrijding in Indië;
Annual parents’ day HSVL, University Leiden
June 4: Presentation Schouwenburgprijs 2013; Stichting Schouwenburgfonds in Clingendael Den
Haag
June 11: Public lecture ‘De zee is open! Zeevarend Nederland in het Verenigd Koninkrijk (18131839)’; Studium generale in Het Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam
October 16: Public lecture ‘Zicht op zee; Introduction to the Annual Royal Netherlands Navy
Admiral’s Lecture 2013 by prof.dr.mr. J.P. Balkenende in Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Publications
Dissel, A. M.C. van
‘Roerig Curaçao. Ambities en verlangens van een Bataafse marineofficier in 1803’ in: Erik van der Doe,
Perry Moree, Dirk J. Tang ed., Buitgemaakt en teruggevonden. Nederlandse brieven en
scheepsarchieven in een Engels archief. Sailing Letters Journaal 5 (Zutphen 2013) 305-313
Alphen, Marc A. van, Dissel, Anita M.C. van & Vliet, Adri P. van
‘Kroniek der zeemacht. Gedenkwaardige gebeurtenissen uit vijf eeuwen Nederlandse
marinegeschiedenis ‘ (third ed.; Amsterdam 2013)
Antunes, C.A.P., Dissel, A.M.C. van, Heijveld, W. et.al. ed.
Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 32 (2013) 1
Antunes, C.A.P., Dissel, A.M.C. van, Heijveld, W. et.al. ed.
Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 32 (2013) 2
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Other activities
May 25: symposium ‘Het Nederlandse slavernijverleden’; Nederlandse Vereniging voor
Zeegeschiedenis in Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
September 6: symposium ‘Boekhouder generaal Batavia; het goederenvervoer van de VOC in de
achttiende eeuw’; Huygens-ING Den Haag
November 19: presentation ‘Buitgemaakt en teruggevonden’; Sailing letters project Koninklijke
Bibliotheek Den Haag
November 29: symposium ‘Maritieme cultuur en identiteit’; Het Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam
Antunes, C.A.P., Dissel, A.M.C. van, Heijveld, W., Paesie, R., Peet, A.J. van der, Romburgh, C.P.P. van,
Scheltjens, W., Tang, D.J. & Wit, J.M. de
Member of editorial staff Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 32(2)
Antunes, C.A.P., Dissel, A.M.C. van, Heijveld, W., Paesie, R., Peet, A.J. van der, Romburgh, C.P.P. van,
Scheltjens, W., Tang, D.J. & Wit, J.M. de
Member of editorial staff Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 32(1)
Prof. Dr. H.W. van den Doel
Research
0.1 fte
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Carolien Stolte, Orienting India: Interwar Internationalism in an Asian Inflection, 1917-1937
Promotoren: Prof. Dr. H.W. van den Doel and Prof. Dr. H. Fischer-Tiné (ETH Zürich)
October 8, 2013
Prof. Dr. J.B. Gewald
Research
1.0 fte
Prof. Dr. J.J.L. Gommans
Research
0.3 fte
Conference attendance
January 11-13: invited lecture: ‘Continuity and Change in the Indian Ocean Basin (1400-1800)’, Goods
from the East: Trading Eurasia 1600-1830, Conference organized by Maxine Berg of Warwick
University, Palazzo Pesaro-Papafaval, Venice, Italy
March 12: invited participation in NIAS workshop: Beyond Dutch Atlantic Connections, Wassenaar
Participation Summerschool NWO-Horizon Program Eurasian Empires (Rome, KNIR, 26-31 August
2013)
October 3: invited participation Roundtable Asia in Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Editor Sources on South Asia (Manohar Publishers – 2010)
Editorial Board Monograph Series Rulers and Elites (Leiden: Brill)
Editorial Board Rijksmuseum Bulletin(2013), Member of editorial staff Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 61(1-)
Advisory and coordinating activities
Advisory Board Itinerario
Membership of boards and committees
Search Committee NWO Project Dr Herman Paul (UL) – September 2013
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Supervisory Board LUF Chair ‘Nederlandse literatuur in contact met andere culturen’ (Praamstra)
Co-leader NWO-Horizon project on Eurasian Empirese (since 1 August 2011)
Advisory Board Institute for History (LU)
Coordinator Cosmopolis Programme (since 1 July 2011), including
(a)ENCOMPASS-program (OC&W)
(b)LUF (Leiden University Fund)-program The Making of Religious Traditions in Indonesia: History
and Heritage in Global Perspective (1600-1940)
(c)Erasmus Mundus-program: IBIES
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision PhD
Murari Kumar Jha, ‘The Political Economy of the Ganga River: Highway of State Formation in Mughal
India, c. 1600-1800’, June 4, 2013
Promotors: Prof. Dr. L. Blussé and Prof. Dr. J. J.L. Gommans
Cosmopolis (Encompass):
Manjusha Kuruppath, since October 1, 2010, Study of Dutch Drama in the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Century and their Relations with the Dutch East India Company in Asia
Ariel Lopez, since October 1, 2012 (with David Henley), Social Transformations in the Sangir
Archipelago
Eurasian Empires (NWO-Horizon):
Barend Noordam, since August 1, 2011, ‘Barbarians at the Gates? Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, and the Ming
Dynasty’s Frontier Military in the Late Sixteenth Century’
Lennart Bes, since August 1, 2011; Radboud University Nijmegen (with Peter Rietbergen), ‘Empire and
Legacy in South India: Court Politics in Vijayanagara and its successor states, 1330-1770’
Erasmus Mundus IBIES (since September):
Archisman Chowdhuri, ‘Warfare and Economy in Mughal India’
Byapti Sur, ‘State and Corruption in the Dutch Republic and Bengal’
Mahmood Kooriadathodi, ‘Circulation of Islamic texts and ideas in the Indian Ocean World’
Abdur Rahoof Ottathingal, ‘Arabi-Malayalam in the Making of Vernacular Islam in Kerala’
Deepshikha Boro, ‘Pere Tachard in Siam: Mission, Diplomacy and Republic of Letters’
Onenkala, ‘Luso-Jesuit Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern South Asia’
LUF-program
Yulianti, since September 1, 2013 (with Bambang Purwanto (UGM), ‘The Making of New Buddhism
in the Early 20th Century Indonesia (1900 -1959)’
Johny Khusyari, since September 1, 2013 (with Bambang Purwanto (UGM), ‘The Formation of Urban
Javanese Christian Heritages in Colonial Java’
Vacancy (starting from 1-9-2014)
Vacancy (starting from 1-9-2014)
External (funded)
Pimmamus Wibusilp, since October 1, 2012, ‘Eighteenth-century State-formation in Arcot (South
India)’
Funding: Anandamahidol Foundation Thailand
Tjahjono Prasodjo, since September 1, 2013 (with Marijke Klokke), ‘Water Management in Brantas
River Basin, East Java, Indonesia (10th – 16th Century CE)’
Funding: Yayasan Arsari Djojohadikusumo
Norifumi Daito, since September 1, 2013, ‘Trade and Society in the Eighteenth-century Persian Gulf ‘
Funding: Japan Student Services Association
External (private)
Aleksandar Stoyanov, since September 1, 2012, ‘Russia marches South: The Russian Campaigns in
Persia’
Bart Westenbroek, since September1, 2013, ‘Banda: The Making of a Settlement Colony’
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Visiting scholars
Dr. Ikuko Wada (Kyoto University): October 2013 – January 2014
(Funded by Alfred Ailion Foundation)
Samual Ostroff (University of Pennsylvania): November 2013 – June 2014
(Funded by Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship)
Membership PhD committee
8 October 2013: Carolien Stolte, Leiden University, ‘Orienting India: Interwar Internationalism in an
Asian Inflection, 1917-1937’ (promoter Prof. Dr. H.W. van den Doel)
15 October 2013: Monique Erkelens, Leiden University, ‘The Decline of the Chinese Council of
Batavia: The Loss of Prestige and Authority of the Traditional Elite amongst the Chinese Community
from the End of the Nineteenth Century until 1942’ (promotor Prof.Dr. J.L. Blussé van Oud Alblas)
21 November 2014: Matthias van Rossum, VU, ‘Werkers van de wereld. Globalisering, maritieme
arbeidsmarkten en de verhouding tussen Aziaten en Europeanen in dienst van de VOC’ (promotor
Prof.Dr. C.A. Davids and Prof.Dr. J.M.W.G. Lucassen)
Externally acquired funds
Visiting Scholarship Alfred Ailian Foundation for Dr. Ikuko Wada
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Major review article of author’s work in widely read Indian weekly Economic and Political Weekly
(Majed Akhter, ‘Writing the Mughal State as a Political Process’, October 5, 2013)
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
Invited Lecture: ‘De VOC en de Islam: Botsing of dialoog?’ Leiden University Dies Natalis (Leiden, 9
February 2013)
Other activities
Lecturer HOVO courses ‘Het Einde van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog en de Nederlanden’
Lecturer in three BA/MA-programmes: History, South and Southeast Asian Studies, International
Studies and Honours Class
Contribution in setting up Dutch Language Program at JNU Delhi (started September 2013)
Contribution in setting up Digitization Project National Archives of the Netherlands
Contribution to Seminar Leiden Global: Area Studies and the Disciplines (September – December
2013)
Organizing program for visit prof.dr Jan De Vries on 30 May 2013: (1) Lecture: ‘Europe-Asia trade and
the Great Divergence debate, 1600-1850’ and (2) Interview for Itinerario by by Simon Kemper, Kaspar
Pucek and Mikko Toivanen
Meeting of the European Association of India Study Centres (Bremen, 6-7 December, 2013)
Prof. Dr. H.J. den Heijer
Research
0.2 fte
Conference attendance
October 3: Symposium ‘Trade and Ideas’, Maritime Museum Rotterdam
Title of presented paper: ‘De bomschuit van achterblijver tot koploper’
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision PhD
Karwan Fatah-Black, Leiden University. Title of the dissertation: ‘Suriname and the Atlantic World,
1650-1800’. Promotor, together with Prof. Dr. G.J. Oostindie. Date of defence: 1 October 2013
Membership PhD committee
Remmelt Daalder, University of Amsterdam. Title of the dissertation: ‘Van der Velde en Zoon,
zeeschilders’. Date of defense: 12 June 2013
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Externally acquired funds
NWO research programme (vrije competitie)
Title: ‘The economic impact of eighteenth-century Atlantic slave-based activities on the Dutch
economy’. Role: co-applicant
Publications
Heijer, H.J. den
The Twelve Years' Truce and the Founding of the Dutch West India Company . In: Lacey M. (Ed.) A
Beautiful and Fruitful Place. Selected Rensselaerswijck Papers Volume 3. Albany, NY: New Netherland
Institute, 267-270
Heijer, H.J. den
[Review of: Gelder R. van (2012) Naar het aards paradijs. Het rusteloze leven van Jacob Roggeveen,
ontdekker van het Paaseiland (1659-1729).] Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 32: 100-102
Heijer, H.J. den
[Review of: Witteveen M. (2011) Antonio van Diemen. De opkomst van de VOC in Azië] Tijdschrift
voor Zeegeschiedenis 32: 91-93
Heijer, H.J. den
‘1500. De visafslag’. In: Doorn M. van, Grootveld H. (Eds.) De canon van Scheveningen. Vijftig
hoofdstukken uit de geschiedenis van Scheveningen. Scheveningen: Muzee Scheveningen,16-17
Heijer, H.J. den
‘1514. Adriaen Coenens visboek’. In: Doorn M. van, Grootveld H. (Eds.) De canon van Scheveningen.
Vijftig hoofdstukken uit de geschiedenis van Scheveningen. Scheveningen: Muzee Scheveningen, 18-19
Heijer, H.J. den
‘1551. De vuurbaak’. In: Doorn M. van, Grootveld H. (Eds.) De canon van Scheveningen. Vijftig
hoofdstukken uit de geschiedenis van Scheveningen. Scheveningen: Muzee Scheveningen, 20-21
Heijer, H.J. den
‘1653. De Zeeslag bij Scheveningen’. In: Doorn M. van, Grootveld H. (Eds.) De canon van
Scheveningen. Vijftig hoofdstukken uit de geschiedenis van Scheveningen. Scheveningen: Muzee
Scheveningen, 30-31
Heijer, H.J. den
‘1857. Einde van het kaakverbod’. In: Doorn M. van, Grootveld H. (Eds.) De canon van Scheveningen.
Vijftig hoofdstukken uit de geschiedenis van Scheveningen. Scheveningen: Muzee Scheveningen, 52-53
Heijer, H.J. den
‘1866. De logger van Adrien Maas’. In: Doorn M. van, Grootveld H. (Eds.) De canon van
Scheveningen. Vijftig hoofdstukken uit de geschiedenis van Scheveningen. Scheveningen: Muzee
Scheveningen, 58-59
Heijer, H.J. den
‘1938. De SCH 102 op het noorderhavenhoofd’. In: Doorn M. van, Grootveld H. (Eds.) De canon van
Scheveningen. Vijftig hoofdstukken uit de geschiedenis van Scheveningen. Scheveningen: Muzee
Scheveningen, 86-87
Heijer, H.J. den
‘A expediçao de Hendrick Brouwer e Elias Herckmans para o Chile’. In: Wiesebron M. (Ed.) O Brasil
em arquivos neerlandeses (1624-1654). Leiden: Leiden University Press, 113-139
Heijer, H.J. den
‘Africans in European and Asian Clothes. Dutch Textile Trade in West Africa, 1600-1800’. In: HydenHanscho V., Pieper R., Stangl, W. (Eds.) Cultural Exchange and Consumption Patterns in the Age of
Enlightenment. Europe and the Atlantic
Heijer, H.J. den
‘De expeditie van Hendrick Brouwer en Elias Herckmans naar Chili’. In: Wiesebron M. (Ed.) Brazilië
in de Nederlandse archieven (1624-1654). Leiden: Leiden University Press,112-138
Heijer, H.J. den
‘Expeditie naar de Goudkust. Het journaal van Jan Dircksz Lam over de Nederlandse aanval op
Elmina, 1624-1626’. Zutphen: Walburg Pers
Heijer, H.J. den
‘Geschiedenis van de WIC. Opkomst, bloei en ondergang’. Zutphen: Walburg Pers
Heijer, H.J. den
‘Vergeten, herinneren en onderzoeken. De ontwikkeling van het historisch onderzoek naar het
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Nederlandse slavernijverleden’. In: Daalder, R., Tang, D.J., Balai, L. (Eds.) Slaven en schepen in het
Atlantische gebied. Leiden: Primavera Pers
Richter, D.K. & and others
‘The Twelve Years' Truce and the Founding of the Dutch West India Company’. In: Lacey, M. (Eds.) A
Beautiful and Fruitful Place. Selected Rensselaerswijck Papers Volume 3 no. 3. Albany, N.Y.: New
Netherland Institute, 267
Prof. Dr. K.J.P.F.M. Jeurgens
Research
0.1 fte
Conference attendance
April 12: Symposium : 'Oud Papier?! Papieren verleden - digitale geschiedenis'. Title of presented
paper: ‘De geur van het digitale archief’, NIOD, Amsterdam, Netherlands
May 16: Symposium ‘Anforderungsprofile an Archive und ihr Personal: Aufgaben – Qualifikationen’.
Title of presented paper: ‘Janus schaut in eine ungewisse Zukunft’, Xanten, Germany
May 19: Symposium 2nd International Conference on Vietnamese and Taiwanese Studies & 6th
International Conference on Taiwanese Romanization. Title of presented paper: ‘Cultural heritage: a
concept under (re)construction’, Tainan, Taiwan
June 10: Symposium Koninklijke Vereniging van Archivarissen in Nederland: KIEZEN. Title of
presented paper: ‘Kiezen voor de eeuwigheid. Welke eeuwigheid?’, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Conference organization
October 2: symposium ‘De informatiemaatschappij van 2023. Van Apocalyps tot Nirwana’,
Amsterdam. Role: discussant
Membership of boards and committees
Member of the scientific board of NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Member of the board of Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap
Member of the scientific board of the project ‘Geschiedschrijving van de provincie Zuid-Holland’
Member of the steering committee ‘Mutual Cultural Heritage’, Nationaal Archief Netherlands
Advisory and coordinating activities
February-June: Nationaal Archief, report: ‘Grotere toegang tot de koloniale archieven:
digitaliseren in samenhang’ (together with Jos Gommans, Henk den Heijer, Gert Oostindie).
This report contains an annotated proposal for digitization of parts of colonial archives kept in
Nationaal Archief Netherlands and Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision PhD
Michael Karabinos, ‘Archives and heritage in postcolonial states: Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore’,
supervisor
Nadia F. Dwiandari, ‘Archives creation in the Algemene Secretarie in Batavia: 1816-1890’, supervisor
External PhD
Vincent Robijn, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, ‘Archival aspects of medieval ‘Memorieboeken’’, copromoter with Dick de Boer
Membership PhD committee
Monique Erkelens, Leiden University, ‘ The decline of the Chinese Council of Batavia: The loss of
prestige and authority of the traditional elite amongst the Chinese community between 1900-1942’.
Date of defence: 15 October, 2013
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Ada Peele, Leiden University, ‘Een uitzonderlijke erfgenaam. De verdeling van de nalatenschap van
Koning-Stadhouder Willem III en een consequentie daarvan: Pruisisch heerlijk gezag in Hooge en Lage
Zwaluwe, 1702-1754’. Date of defence: 19 November, 2013
Publications
Jeurgens, K.J.P.F.M.
‘Een indirecte archiefrelatie tussen Nederland en Formosa’, Archievenblad 117(10): 22-24
Jeurgens, K.J.P.F.M.
‘The Scent of the Digital Archive. Dilemmas with Archive Digitisation’, BMGN : Low Countries
Historical Review 128(4): 30-54
Jeurgens, K.J.P.F.M., Bent, E. & Waalwijk, H.
‘Onderzoekend leren in de praktijk’, Informatie Professional (8): 26-28
Jeurgens, K.J.P.F.M.
‘'Digital turn'. Het einde van de fictie van 'in control'’. In: Bussel, G.J. van (Ed.) De
informatiemaatschappij van 2023. Perspectieven op de nabije toekomst. Amsterdam: Hogeschool van
Amsterdam. 44-54
Jeurgens, K.J.P.F.M.
'The Untamed Archive: Historywriting in the Netherlands East Indies and the Use of Archives', History
of the Human Sciences 26(4): 84-106
Jeurgens, K.J.P.F.M.
‘Digitaliseren we ons kapot?’, Archievenblad 117(4): 13-15
Jeurgens, K.J.P.F.M.
‘De selectielijst en het historisch motief in de waardering en selectie van archieven’. In: Put, E.,
Vancoppenolle, Ch. van (Eds.) Archiefambacht tussen geschiedenisbedrijf en erfgoedwinkel. Een
balans bij het afscheid van vijf rijksarchivarissen. Brussel: Algemeen Rijksarchief - Archives générales
du Royaume. 207-226
Jeurgens, K.J.P.F.M.
‘Kiezen voor verbinden. Controverse tussen erfgoed en informatiebeheer in de archiefwereld’,
InformatieProfessional (5): 23-25
Jeurgens, K.J.P.F.M.
[Review of: Grebe Marc-André (2012) Akten, Archive, Absolutismus? Das Kronarchiv von Simancas in
Herrschaftgefüge der Spanischen Habsburger (1540-1598)] Archievenblad 2: 24-27
Other activities
March 24-27: Guest Lectures at Dong Hwa State University Hualien on VOC archives and indigenous
cultures and heritage and heritagization
May 21-24: Lecturer/researcher and master coordinator Archival Science at Amsterdam University
(main position)
Dr. J.Th. Lindblad
Research
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Research projects
‘State and Economy in Modern Indonesia’s Change of Regimes’ (N.W.O.) Terminated by 1 September
2013
‘Foreign capital and colonial development in Indonesia’ (N.W.O.) Executed since 1 October 2012
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
Presentation of research at several universities in Kalimantan, Indonesia (January) and in Jakarta (July)
Presentation of research findings at the bi-annual Euroseas congress at Lisbon (July)
Annual Cleveringa lecture in Stockholm, Sweden (November)
Publications
J. Thomas Lindblad
‘British business and the uncertainties of early independence in Indonesia’, Itinerario 37 (2): 147-164
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J. Thomas Lindblad
‘De Aziëcrisis in historisch perspectief’, Leidschrift 28 (2): 135-148
J. Thomas Lindblad
‘Manufacturing and foreign investment in colonial Indonesia’, in: Ewout Frankema and Frans Buelens
(eds), Colonial Exploitation and Economic Development; The Belgian Congo and the Netherlands
Indies compared (London/New York: Routledge) 211-228
J. Thomas Lindblad
‘State and economy during modern Indonesia’s change of regime’, Lembaran Sejarah [Gadjah Mada
University, Yogyakarta] 10 (1): 1-16
Dr. P.J.J. Meel
Research
0.2 fte
Conference attendance
June 6-10: Conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, Present and Future. Title of
presented paper: ‘Jakarta and Paramaribo Calling: New Challenges for the Surinamese Javanese
Diaspora?’, Paramaribo, Suriname
November 4-5: Workshop Javanese Diaspora. Title of presented paper: ‘Historiography of post-1945
Surinamese Javanese migration’, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Conference organization
June 6-10: Conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, Present and Future, Paramaribo,
Suriname. Role: Organizer of a panel on Return Migration
November 4-5: Workshop Javanese Diaspora, Yogyakarta, Indonesia . Role: Co-organizer and co-chair
of the two-day workshop
Research leave abroad
May 30 – June 11: Research project: Political biography of Henck Arron, Paramaribo, Suriname.
Taking interviews with Surinamese politicians and maintaining the concomitant research network
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Editor of Oso, Tijdschrift voor Surinamistiek en het Caraïbisch Gebied
Editor of Bronnen voor de Studie van Suriname’(BSS) (Rozenberg Publishers)
Membership of boards and committees
Chair of the Werkgroep Caraïbische Letteren van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde
Member of the Klankbordgroep Overdracht Surinaamse Archieven van het Nationaal Archief in Den
Haag
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Membership Phd committee
Karwan Fatah-Black (Leiden University, Institute for History)
Title dissertation: Suriname and the Atlantic World, 1650-1800
Role: Membership PhD committee
Date of defense: 1 October 2013
Publications
Meel P.J.J.
Oso, Tijdschrift voor Surinamistiek en het Caraïbisch Gebied [Bespreking van: Trommelen, Jeroen
(2013) Gowtu. Klopjacht op het Surinaamse goud.] 32(2): 122-123
Meel P.J.J.
Oso. Tijdschrift voor Surinamistiek en het Caraïbisch Gebied [Bespreking van: Winkels W.E.H. (2013)
De Toover-lantaarn van Mr. Furet, Suriname, 1840, Libri Musei Surinamensis] 32(2): 118-120
Meel P.J.J.
Oso, Tijdschrift voor Surinamistiek en het Caraïbisch Gebied [Bespreking van: Kagie Rudie (2012)
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Bikkel. Het verhaal van de eerste politieke moord van het Bouterse-regime.] 32(1): 117-119
Other activities
Supervising four MA-students in history at the Anton de Kom Universiteit van Suriname
Prof. Dr. G.J. Oostindie
Research
0.1 fte
Conference attendance
March 18: Politics and the media in Curaçao, Rotterdam, Erasmus University
March 21: ‘Gouden tijden, zwarte bladzijden’. Wassenaar, Openbare Bibliotheek
March 22: ‘Transitional justice and colonial memory wars’, keynote lecture, conference ‘Making peace
and justice: Histories, memories and images’, Utrecht University
June 21: ‘Unfulfilled ambitions: The Dutch, colonialism, slavery, remembrance’, keynote lecture,
conference ‘The Colonial Legacy of the Treaty of Utrecht’
Conference organization
March 11-12: workshop ‘Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1600-1830’ NIAS, co-organizer with Jessica
Roitman
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Series Editor Caribbean Series, BRILL/KITLV
Editor, New West Indian Guide
Membership of boards and committees
Professor Caraïbische geschiedenis, Leiden University (part time)
Member UNESCO-Nederland Commissie Memory of the World
MemberProgrammaraad Gemeenschappelijk Cultureel Erfgoed (OCW/BZ)
Member NWO-programmacommissie Cariben
Member stuurgroep Caribbean Netherlands Science Institute (CNSI)
Member begeleidingscommissie militaire geschiedschrijving Suriname (NIMH)
Member board Professor Slicher van Bath Fonds (CEDLA)
Editor, Island Studies
Advisory and coordinating activities
Member Advisory Board of Nationaal Archeologisch Antropologisch Museum, Curaçao
Member Advisory Board, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision PhD
Promotor, Karwan Fatah-Black. Suriname and the Atlantic world, 1650-1800. Date of defence: October
1, 2013, Leiden University
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
Lectures
April 19: ‘250 jaar Nederlandse slavenhandel en slavernij’, Amsterdam, Koninklijk Instituut voor de
Tropen
May 23: ‘Tweehonderd jaar koninkrijk, honderdvijftig jaar emancipatie’, ABC-advies, The Hague
May 28: ‘Ruptures and dissonance: Memories of colonialism and decolonization in the Netherlands’.
Seminar on ‘Postcolonial memories’, Universität Heidelberg
October 25:‘De monarchie en de koloniën’. Amsterdam, Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen,
October 26: Leiden, Acta Historica, Studium Generale , Leiden University
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November 6: ‘The politics of postcolonial memory-making in the Netherlands’. Universidad Diego
Portales, Santiago de Chile
November 15: ‘Remembering colonialism: Migration in the postcolonial Netherlands’. Institute of
Commonwealth Studies, London
November 22: ‘Een Koninkrijk zonder Curaçao?’, Cleveringalezing, Curaçao
November 27: ‘Een Koninkrijk zonder de Antillen?’, Interexpo, The Hague
Publications
Oostindie, G.J.
‘Intellectual Wastelands? Scholarship in and for the Dutch West Indies up to ca. 1800’. In: Peter
Boomgaard (ed.), Empire and Science in the Making. Dutch Colonial Scholarship in Comparative Global
Perspective, 1760-1830, pp. 253-80. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
Oostindie, G.J.
‘Post-Colonial Sovereignty Games in the Margins of Europe: The Netherlands, the Antilles and
Europe’. In: Rebecca Adler-Niessen & Ulrik Pram Gad (eds), Postcolonial Sovereignty Games, pp. 20316. London: Routledge
Oostindie, G.J.
‘Caribbean: Dutch Migration, Early 20th century to Present’. In: Emmanuel Ness (ed.), The
Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, 2 pp. London: Blackwell
Oostindie, G.J.
‘Waterland. De inventaris van een suikerplantage in 1794’. In: Eric van der Doe, Perry Moree & Dirk J.
Tang (eds), Buitgemaakt en teruggevonden. Nederlandse brieven en scheepspapieren in een Engels archief,
pp. 245-55. Zutphen: Walburg Pers. [Sailing Letters Journal V.]
Oostindie, G.J.
‘De Koning en de Cariben’. In: Ido de Haan, Paul den Hoed en Henk te Velde (eds), Een nieuwe staat.
Het begin van het koninkrijk der Nederlanden, pp. 173-81. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker
Oostindie, G.J.
‘Sweet Commodity, Bitter Memories’. In: Alejandro Chaskielberg et al., The Sweet and Sour Story of
Sugar. Sugar in a Globalized World, n.p. Groningen: Noorderlicht
Oostindie, G.J.
‘Voorbij de politieke bagasie: het Nederlands van Suriname en de Antillen’. In: Hanno Brand et al.
(eds), De tienduizend dingen. Feestbundel voor Reinier Salverda. pp, 219-300. Leeuwarden: Fryske
Akademy/Afûk
Reviews
Mark Edelman Boren, Sugar, Slavery, Christianity and the Making of Race. Pompano Beach 2013.
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 150-1
John Jansen van Galen, Afscheid van de koloniën. Amsterdam 2013. Openbaar Bestuur, September, 34-6
Linda A.J. Rupert, Creolization and Contraband: Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Athens
2012. Slavery & Abolition 34(3):524-5
Contribution magazines
‘Tot elkaar veroordeeld’. Maarten! 4:77-84
Contribution website
Diverse lemma’s in http://www.slavernijenjij.nl/leven-in-slavernij/ Den Haag: Ministerie van BZK.
Other activities
‘250 jaar Nederlandse slavernij’. In Gert Oostindie et al, Nederland en de slavernij, CD 1. CD Box.
Amsterdam: Historisch Nieuwsblad/Veen Media
Ms. Dr. L. Pelckmans
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Conference attendance
January 21: Paper ‘A Recent History of West African Anti-Slavery Movements’, Institute for History,
Leiden University
February 18: workshop ‘Connecting in Times of Duress’, Institute for History, Leiden University.
Title of the presented paper ‘Archiving visible traces of Duress: Contemporary history of social
movements in Southern Tsjaad and Eastern Cameroun’
February: International Conflict Group research, Ghent University
June 26-29: EAS conference, Lisbon, Portugal. Title of the presented paper (together with Prof. Dr.
M.E. de Bruijn): ‘Mediating war: Mali and Tchad conflicts in a changing communication landscape’,
panel on ‘Digipolitics’
June 26-29: ECAS conference, Lisbon, Portugal. Title of te presented paper: ‘The secular attempts of
West African anti-slavery movements to ‘develop’ fellow citizens and challenge religious ideologies’,
August 28-30: PACSA conference, Lisbon, Copenhagen. Title of the presented paper (together with
Prof . Dr. M.E. de Bruijn): ‘Connecting Africa in times of Duress’, in panel on ‘Crises – where there is
too much to forget yet too little to notice’
September 4-6: Panel organiser: ‘Slavery in the city: Memories of (internal) Slavery among African
Migrants in Urban Contexts’, Birmingham University, United Kingdom
September 4-6: Paper: ‘Mediated life histories of West African anti-slavery leaders’, in panel on life
histories of slaves, Birmingham University, United Kingdom
October 26: Conference ‘Words of violence: freedom of expression, conflict dynamics and the media’.
Title of presented paper: ‘Mobile communication and conflict escalation in Africa (Mali)’, Utrecht
University & Netherlands Institute for Human Rights (SIM)
September 10-12: participant in ‘Networked spaces’. Title of presented paper:
‘[email protected]’of mediated communication’, Seminar Holbaek
November 14-15: paper ‘Stereotypes, conflation and stigmatisation of slave descendants versus
strangers in contemporary West-Africa: a comparative approach’, Brussels
Conference organization
February 18: Organizer Teamworkshop’Times of Duress’, Leiden University
February 25: Organizer Teamworkshop ‘Conflict & Security’, Leiden University
September 4-6: Panel organiser: ‘Slavery in the city: Memories of (internal) Slavery among African
Migrants in Urban Contexts’, Birmingham University, United Kingdom
September 18: Organizer Masterclass ‘History & Anthropology’, Shamil Jeppie
October 10: Initiative and meeting postdoc network Leiden Institute for History
October 17: Initiative and meeting (post-)Slavery studies network, Leiden Institute for -History
Research leave, home and abroad
Fieldwork in Paris, France, April 2013, Purpose: studying activities and media use of the Malian
diaspora, length of stay: 2 weeks
Fieldwork in Bamako, Mali, December 2013. Purpose: studying activities and projects initiated by the
diaspora, length of stay: 2 weeks
Visit ‘Beeldarchieven’ in Hilversum, January 2013, 1 day
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Reviewer for History in Africa
Reviewer for Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe (JEMIE)
Membership of boards and committees
(Post-)slavery group, Institute for history, Leiden University
Post doc network, Institute for History, Leiden University
Advisory and coordinating activities
Co-coordinator Vici Project of Professor Dr. M.E. de Bruijn
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Special supervision responsibilities for Inge Ligtvoet (Vici-project)
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Membership PhD committee
February : thesis defense Djimet Seli, ‘(De)connexions identitaires post-conflit. Les Hadjeray du Tchad
face à la mobilité et aux technologies de la communication’, Leiden University
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Content provision Twitter and facebook account of ‘Connecting in times of duress’
Radio interview on Mauritanian Slavery, August 2013, Radio 1
http://www.radio1.nl/items/84112-slavernij-in-afrika
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
February 14-15: Contribution to the Visual photo exhibit and presentation ‘Cellphone advertisements
in African urban spaces’, Conference Mobile Africa Revisited, African Studies Centre, Leiden
Publications
Pelckmans, L.
‘To cut the rope from one’s neck?’ Manumission documents of slave descendants from Central Malian
Fulɓe society, in: M. Klein, A. Bellagamba, C. Brown & S. Green (eds) The Bitter Legacy: African
Slavery Past and Present, Princeton, NJ: Marcus Wiener Publishers, p.67-86
Pelckmans, L. et al.
‘The blind and the hippopotamus: a Multivocal analysis of the current political crisis in the divided
republic of Mali’, Lecocq B. and G. Mann (eds) Review of African Political Economy
Pelckmans, L.
‘Moving Memories of Slavery among West African Migrants in Urban Contexts (Bamako, Paris)’,
European Journal of International Migration (29:1): 45-68
Prof. Dr. J.Q.T. Rood
Research
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Publications
Rood , J.Q.T.
‘Rutte-II en Europa: hoe Brits kan Nederland zijn?’. In: Nieuwsbrief De Hofvijver, 25 February 2013
(webpublicatie)
Ko Colijn, Margriet Drent, Kees Homan, Jan Rood en Dick Zandee
Clingendaels visie op de krijgsmacht van de toekomst. Den Haag: Instituut Clingendael, February 2013
(Clingendael-rapport)
Rood, J.Q.T. & Dinnissen, R.
Een wereld in onzekerheid; Clingendael Strategische Monitor 2013. Den Haag: Instituut Clingendael,
mei 2013
Rood , J.Q.T.
‘Een wereld in onzekerheid’. In: Jan Rood en Rosa Dinnissen (eindred.), Een wereld in onzekerheid.
Clingendael Strategische Monitor 2013. Den Haag: Instituut Clingendael, mei 2013, p. 13-46
Frans-Paul van der Putten (coördinator), Ivan Briscoe, André Gerrits, Peter van Ham, Susanne
Kamerling, Maaike Okano-Heijmans, en Jan Rood
‘Grootmachten’. In Jan Rood en Rosa Dinnissen (eindred.), Een wereld in onzekerheid; Clingendael
Strategische Monitor 2013. Den Haag: Instituut Clingendael, mei 2013, p. 50-77
Hemminga, L. & Rood , J.Q.T.
‘Nederland en China: naar een ander buitenlandbeleid?’. In Internationale Spectator, mei 2013, p. 1620
Schout, A. & Rood , J.Q.T. (eds.)
Nederland als Europese lidstaat; eindelijk normaal? . Den Haag: BoomLemma Uitgevers, 2013
Adriaan Schout en Jan Rood,
‘Nederland voorbij de beeldvorming’. In Adriaan Schout en Jan Rood (red.), Nederland als Europese
lidstaat; eindelijk normaal?. Den Haag: BoomLemma Uitgevers, 2013, p. 17-30
Ko Colijn, Margriet Drent, Kees Homan, Jan Rood en Dick Zandee
‘Krijgsmacht van de toekomst; politiek is nu aan zet’. In Internationale Spectator, juni 2013, p. 27-31
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Rood , J.Q.T.
‘Wie de schoen past … !’. In Internationale Spectator, juni 2013, p. 50-51 (column)
Ko Colijn, Margriet Drent, Kees Homan, Jan Rood en Dick Zandee
Clingendael’s vision for the future of the armed forces of the Netherlands. Clingendael, 22 juli 2013
(webpublicatie)
Rood , J.Q.T.
De Europese Unie in de wereld van morgen, Universiteit Leiden, november 2013 (oratie uitgesproken
16 september 2013)
Schout, A. & Rood , J.Q.T. (eds.)
The Netherlands as an EU member: awkward or loyal partner? Den Haag: Eleven International
Publishing, 2013
Schout, A. & Rood , J.Q.T.
‘Europe beyond its image’. In Adriaan Schout en Jan Rood (eds.), The Netherlands as an EU member:
awkward or loyal partner? Den Haag: Eleven International Publishing, 2013, p.27-30
Rood, J.Q.T. & Dinnissen, R. (eds.)
Clingendael 2013 Strategic Monitor – An uncertain World. Clingendael, 2 december 2013
(webpublicatie)
Rood , J.Q.T.
‘Europa: toch belangrijk!’. In Nieuwsbrief De Hofvijver, 6 december 2013 (webpublicatie)
Homan, K. & J.Q.T. Rood
‘Europa, maak nu eens werk van je defensie!. In De Volkskrant, 13 december 2013
Homan, K. & J.Q.T. Rood
The elusive European army. Clingendael, 17 december 2013 (webpublicatie)
Prof. Dr. R.J. Ross
Research
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Conference organization
November 28-30: co-organizer conference ‘Central African Research Themes, V’, Oegstgeest
Publications
Ross, R.J., Pesa I & Hinfelaar M (Eds.)
The Objects of Life in Central Africa: the history of consumption and social change, 1840 – 1980.
Leiden, Boston: Brill
Ross, R.J.
Land Compensation in the Upper Kat River Valley” . In: Hebinck P., Cousins B. (Red.) In the Shadow
of Policy: everyday practices in South Africa’s land and agrarian reform. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand
University Press. 149-158
Ms. Dr. A.F. Schrikker
Research
0.1 fte
Conference attendance
June 4-5: Workshop ‘Empire, difference en disaster’. Title of the presented paper: ‘Making sense of
volcanic eruptions, Leiden University
July 5-8: EUROSEAS, ‘Panel 65: Environment, Disasters and Population in Southeast Asia’. Title of
presented paper: ‘The politics of disaster in colonial Indonesia, 1850-1940’, Lisbon, Portugal
August 27-28: commentator Workshop ‘Area studies and religion’, Leiden University
Conference organization
NWO/AHRC project ‘The cultural politics of catastrophe’
June 4-5: Workshop1. : ‘Empire, difference en disaster’, Leiden University, organizer
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December 12-13: Workshop 2: ‘Postcolonial representations: globalization and socio-ecological
vulnerabilities , Leeds, co-organizer with Anthony Carrigan (Leeds University) and Rivke Jaffe
(University of Amsterdam)
Colonial law seminar series
June 24 and December 18: co-organizer with Adriaan Bedner (Van Vollenhoven Instituut) and Sanne
Ravensbergen (Leiden University)
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Referee Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis (November)
Editor in chief Itinerario, Journal for European expansion and global interaction (Cambridge
University Press)
Editor publication series Dutch sources on South Asia (Manohar)
Membership of boards and committees
Member Honourscollege exam committee
Member Kernteam Honourscollege faculty of Humanities
Member search committee 'The Scholarly Self: Character, Habit, and Virtue in the Humanities, 18601930' (Vidi Herman Paul)
April 24-27: Interview committee Encompass, Yogyakarta
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision PhD
Nadeera Senevirante, NWO (Encompass) funded PhD project: Negotiating Custom: A History of the
Galle Landraad (1740-96) (Together with Nira Wickramasinghe, LIAS) Role: co-promoter, to be
defended in 2014
Sanne Ravensbergen, NWO funded PhD project: Crime and punishment in the Dutch East Indies
1816-1918 (Together with Adriaan Bedner, VVI. Role: co-promotor, to be defended in 2015
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Expert reviewer (vakreferent) ‘Niet-Westerse geschiedenis’ Geschiedenis Magazine
Ms. Dr. C.M. Stolte
Research
1.0 fte
Conference attendance
June 24-27: ICAS (International Convention of Asia Scholars). Title of the presented paper: ‘ReOrient(aliz)ing Rome: On the Use of Asian Academic Networks and Discourse at the Asian Students
Congress, Rome 1933’, Macau
October 25-27: Annual Conference on South Asia. Title of the presented paper: ‘Trade Unions on
Trial: The Meerut Conspiracy Case and Trade Union Internationalism, 1929–32’, Madison, Wisconsin
Conference organization
December 6-7: International Conference ‘The Long 1930s in South Asia: Appropriations and
Afterlives’, Leiden University. Co-organizer and chair
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Managing Editor, Itinerario
Referee, Comparative Studies of Society and History
Membership of boards and committees
Member Financial Committee, KITLV
Advisory and coordinating activities
Coordinator Encompass
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OCW-funded program for students interested in learning Dutch and working with Dutch sources
materials; fully funded for competitively selected students from Monsoon Asia
Coordinator Erasmus Mundus IBIES
EU-funded program entitled Interdisciplinary Bridges in Indo-European Studies, in which six
European and twelve Indian universities take part. Eight PhD candidates currently work at Leiden as
part of IBIES, six of whom are at the Institute for History
Coordinator Cosmopolis Seminar
Monthly seminar for all graduate students and staff connected to Cosmopolis
Co-convenor Modern South Asia Seminar
Monthly seminar for all students and staff of LIAS, History, and the Social Sciences working on South
Asia, jointly funded by AMT and IIAS
Externally acquired funds
Niels Stensen Postdoctoral fellowship to Harvard University
Project title: ‘The People’s Bandung: a study of regionalism in Indian civil society through the
All-India Peace Council and the Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee, 1930s-1950s.’
Awarded October 2013, fellowship running time August 2014- August 2015
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
January 13: ‘Are we all Global Historians Now?’, Cambridge Journals Blog
April 14: ‘‘Exotisch Europa’ als culturele handelswaar’, blog, DeFusie
Publications
Louro, M. & Stolte, C.M.
The Meerut Conspiracy Case in Comparative and International Perspective, Comparative Studies of
South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 33(3): 310-315
Stolte, C.M.
On the Location of a Non-event: Problematizing “Encounters” at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century,
Monde(s): Histoire, Espaces, Relations 2(1): 155-159
Stolte, C.M.
Trade Unions on Trial: The Meerut Conspiracy Case and Trade Union Internationalism, 1929–32,
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 33(3): 345-359
October 8: Thesis defence: ‘Orienting India: Interwar Internationalism in an Asian Inflection, 19171937’. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. H.W. van den Doel and Prof. Dr. H. Fischer-Tiné (ETH Zürich)
Ms. Dr. M.L. Wiesebron
Research
0.3 fte
Conference attendance
May 16: Symposium on Legal and Policy Aspects of Space Cooperation between Europe and the BRICS
Countries: Inventory, Challenges and Opportunities. BRICS: the view from Europe, Leiden University
October 14: lecture ‘Brazilië, opkomende wereldmacht’, Sociaal en Cultureel Werk in het Kulturhuis ,
Holten
October 22: invited as commentator at the Seminar Global Governance: crosses perceptions
(Seminário Governança Global: percepções cruzadas) Rio de Janeiro in corporation with Bologna
University, Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão, Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
November 29: congres ‘l’Europe et les puissances émergentes dans un monde en mutation’. Chair of
the session: Défis multilatéraux: commerce, environnement et développement’, Université de Liège
Congres organization
April 15-18: Co- organizer Brazil week / Semana Brasil at Leiden and organizer conference Rui Barbosa
Chair of Brazilian Studies
Public lecture – Rui Barbosa, Chair of Brazilian Studies
Prof. Dr. Érico Duarte (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Holder of the 2013 Rui
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Barbosa Chair of Brazilian Studies, Securing the Blue Amazon: Requirements for a Brazilian Maritime
Project for the 21st Century
Editorial ad reviewers activities
Member of Editorial Committee of journal Perspectiva: Reflexões sobre a Temática Internacional
Membership of boards and committees
Chair of the exam-committee LAS
President of the Executive Board of AHILA (2008-2014)
Member of the Task Force Latin America of the Coimbra Group
External advisor exam-committee LIACS
Advisory and coordinating activities
Secretary nominating committee, coordinator of the Chair of Brazilian Studies Rui Barbosa
Coordinator of the Dutch project Projeto Resgate de Documentação Histórica Barão do Rio Branco,
which includes research and finances. Appointed by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture
Coordinator of bilateral cooperation between Leiden University and Latin American universities
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Co-director of the following external PhD’s:
Ingrid Bartels , in co-operation with Prof. Dr. Kurt Radtke
Judith Akkerman, in co-operation with Prof. Dr. Patricio Silva
Lucia Furquim Xavier, in co-operation with Prof. Dr. Maarten Jansen
Membership PhD committee
September 13 : Alonso Domínguez Rascón, ‘Estado, frontera y ciudadanía. El Septentrión entre el
Antiguo Regimen y la formación de la nación Mexicana’
October 2: Diego Barría Traverso, ‘La autonomia estatal y la Clase dominante en el siglo XIX chileno.
La Guerra Civil de 1891’
October 2 : Mladen Yopo Herrera, ‘Coalición política, partidos y sistema electoral en Chile, 1987-2010’
Externally acquired funds
Received external subsidies for the project Brazil in the Dutch Archives in the 17th century
Received external subsidies for the Chair of Brazilian Studies Rui Barbosa
Publications
Wiesebron, M.L.
Amazonia Azul: Pensando a defesa do territorio maritimo brasileiro, Austral: Revista Brasileira de
Estratégia e Relações Internacionais v.2, n.3(Jan-Jul 2013): 107-131
Wiesebron, M.L.
Blue Amazon: Thinking the defense of Brazilian Maritime Territory ,Austral: Revista Brasileira de
Estratégia e Relações Internacionais v.2, n.3 (Jan-Jul, 2013): 101-124
Wiesebron, M.L.
Introdução. In: Wiesebron M.L. (Ed.) Brazilië in de Nederlandse Archieven (1624-1654) / O Brasil em
arquivos holandeses (1624-1654). Leiden: Leiden University Press, 14-27
Wiesebron, M.L.
Prefácio. In: Wiesebron M.L. (Ed.) Brazilië in de Nederlandse Archieven (1624-1654) / O Brasil em
arquivos holandeses (1624-1654). Leiden: Leiden University Press, 8-13
Wiesebron, M.L. (Ed.)
Brazilië in de Nederlandse Archieven (1624-1654) / O Brasil em arquivos holandeses (1624-1654).
Leiden: Leiden University Press
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PhD students
A. Adamou, MA
Research
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D. Boro, MA
Research
0.1 fte
A.Chaudhuri, MA
Research
0.1 fte
Dissertation project: ‘Warfare and Economy in Mughal India: Aurangzeb’s campaigns in the Deccan
and South India (1682-1707) and the Dutch East India Company’
Ms. Drs. M. Erkelens
Research
1.0 fte
‘The decline of the Chinese Council of Batavia: The loss of prestige and authority of the traditional elite
amongst the Chinese community between 1900-1942’. Date of defence: October 15, 2013. Promotor:
Prof. Dr. J.L. Blussé van Oud Alblas and co-promotor: Dr. L. Douw (UvA)
F. Fakih MA
Research
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'The Rise of the Managerial State in Indonesia' to be defended in 2014
Promotor: Prof. Dr. J.L. Blussé van Oud Alblas and co-promotor: Prof. Dr. J.T. Lindblad
K.J. Fatah-Black MPhil
Research
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‘Suriname and the Atlantic World, 1650-1800’ . Date of defence: October 1, 2013. Promotor and Copromotor(s): Prof. Dr. G.J. Oostindie (University Leiden and KITLV-KNAW) and Prof. Dr. H.J. den
Heijer (University Leiden)
Conference attendance
April 17: Conference: Datini Setimana di Studi 2013. Title of the presented paper: ‘A network to
encourage the slave trade?’, Prato, Italy
July 17-20: Conference: CHAM Conference Colonial Misunderstandings. Panel: Rivalry and conflict?
Dutch-Portuguese colonial exchanges, 1580-1715. Title of the presented paper: The Resilience of
Urban Networks Overseas, 1600-1800: Deflected colonial monopoly formation in the Dutch Atlantic.
Centre for Overseas History – New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Editor: OSO: Tijdschrift voor Surinamistiek en het Caraibische Gebied
Editor: Bookseries De Zeven Provincien, Uitgeverij Verloren
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
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Website
Slavernij en Jij: De Opbrengst
http://www.slavernijenjij.nl/driehoekshandel/de-opbrengst/
Public Lectures
‘Cultuur of economie? De impact van de slavenhandel op de Republiek’
Voorjaarsbijeenkomst van de Vereniging voor Zeegeschiedenis, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
‘De lobby tegen de afschaffing van de slavernij in de achttiende eeuw’. Genootschap Amstelodamum,
Amsterdam
Panel on the causes of and solution to forced labour ‘Global Capitalism and Forced Labour’, The
Hague University of applied sciences The Hague
‘Zwarte Piet en Racisme in Nederland’, Buurtcentrum de Meevaart, Amsterdam
Publications
Fatah-Black, K.J.
(1 October 2013), Suriname and the Atlantic World, 1650-1800 (PhD thesis. History, Humanities,
Leiden). Leiden. Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Prof. Dr. G.J. Oostindie (University Leiden and
KITLV-KNAW) Prof. Dr. H.J. Den Heijer (University Leiden)
Fatah-Black, K.J.
‘Orangism, Patriotism, and Slavery in Curaçao, 1795–1796’, International Review of Social History.
Fatah-Black, K.J.
‘Suriname en de wereld: Essay over de vraag wat een Atlantisch perspectief kan bijdragen aan de
Surinaamse historiografie’. In: Hassankhan Maurits S., Egger Jerome L., Jagdew Eric R. (Eds.)
‘Verkenningen in de historiografie van Suriname: Van koloniale geschiedenis naar geschiedenis van het
volk.’ Paramaribo: Anton de Kom Universiteit Suriname. 325-337
Fatah-Black, K.J.
‘A Swiss Village in the Dutch Tropics: The Limitations of Empire-Centred Approaches to the Early
Modern Atlantic World’, BMGN 128(1): 31-52
Fatah-Black, K.J.
‘Smokkelhandel en slavenhandel in Suriname gedurende de ondergang van de Nederlandse macht op
zee, 1780-1795’, Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 32(2): 38-53
Fatah-Black, K.J.
[Review of: Unger Richard W. (2011) Shipping and Economic Growth 1350-1800 (Leiden/Boston:
Brill, 2011), Global Economic History Series] Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 23(2): 88-90
Fatah-Black, K.J.
[Review of: Dewulf Jeroen,Praamstra Olf, Kempen Michiel van Shifting the Compass: Pluricontinental
Connections in Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature] Oso: Tijdschrift voor Surinaamse
taalkunde, letterkunde, cultuur en geschiedenis 32(2)
Ms. Drs. S. Feyder
Research
1.0 fte
Conference attendance
June 13-14: International workshop, ‘Beyond the Iconic Image’, Johannesburg
June 24-25: PhD annual seminar, organised by LIAS and Institute of Cultural Anthropology and
Development Sociology. ‘Context in question: conceptualizing the everyday, Leiden University
September 18: Master Class with South African Historian Shamil Jeppie, organized by Connections in
Times of Duress, Leiden University
Conference organization
June 13-14: International workshop: Beyond the Iconic Image. Title of the presented paper: ‘Tracing
South African Micro-histories’, Johannesburg. Role: (co-)organizer
Research leave, home and abroad
During April-June: in Johannesburg, for the organization of the exhibition and workshop in
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combination with some archival research
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
May 31: Press release from the Photo Market Workshop on the exhibition ‘Sidetracks: Working with
Two Photographic Studies’, Johannesburg.
September 9: ‘Sidetracks: Working with Two Photographic Studies’, article co-wrote with Tamsyn
Adams, released on the CA-OS blog
July 8: ‘Célébrer la photographie populaire: de joyeuses digressions dans l’histoire sud africaine’, article
wrote for the French blog on African photographers, ‘Afrique in Visus’, about the Sidetracks exhibition
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
June 13: Co-curating the Sidetracks exhibition, Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg
October 23: Guest lecturer, BA Contemporary Visual Culture, Professor. Spyer, Leiden University
October 23: Guest lecturer, MA specialisation Media, Material and Visual Culture, Prof. Spyer, Leiden
University
Publications
S. Feyder
‘Photographic Traditions in South African Popular Modernities, Material World Blog (NYU)’, April
2011. Co-written by Tamsyn Adams, Christoph Rippe
S. Feyder
‘Lounge photography and the politics of township interiors: the representation of the black South
African home in the Ngilima photographic collection, East Rand, 1950s’. Kronos vol.38 no.1 Cape
Town 2012
Extra activities
Tutoring ‘Culture in Placea: Africa’, BA Internationa Studies
M. Jha MA
Research
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‘The Political Economy of the Ganga River: Highway of State Formation in Mughal India, c. 1600-1800’,
Date of defence: June 4, 2013. Promotors: Prof. Dr. L. Blussé and Prof. Dr. J.J.L. Gommans
M. Kooriadathodi MA
Research
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Ms. M. Kuruppath MA
Research
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Ms. I. Ligtvoet MA
Research
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A. Lopez MA
Research
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B. Noordam MA
Research
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A.R. Othatingal MA
Research
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Ms. I. Pesa MPhil
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Conference attendance
April 18-19: N.W. Posthumus Conference 2013, Eindhoven. Title of presented paper: ‘A tradition of
change in Mwinilunga District: Writing the social history of a locality in North-Western Zambia’
September 11: Graduate Seminar for the Institute of History, Leiden University. Title of presented
paper: ‘Moving along the roadside: A social history of Mwinilunga District, 1870-1970
November 28-29: Central African Research Themes V Conference ‘Muskets to Nokias: Towards a
history of consumption, migration, and power in Central Africa, 1500-1973’, Oegstgeest, The
Netherlands. Title of presented paper: ‘Proletarianisation or pathway to prosperity? Trajectories of
labour migration from Mwinilunga District, 1930s-1970s’
Conference organization
Co-organiser of the CART V Conference (see above): Muskets to Nokias: Towards a history of
consumption, migration and power in Central Africa, 1500-1973’
Membership of boards and committees
Member of the NVAS (Nederlandse Vereniging van Afrikastudies) newsletter editing committee
Publications
Ross, R.J. , Hinfelaar, M. and I. Pesa (eds.)
The objects of life in Central Africa: The history of consumption and social change, 1840-1980 (Leiden and
Boston, Brill: 2013). Co-writer of the introduction and a chapter in this book
Pesa I.
‘Buying pineapples, selling cloth: Traders and trading stores in Mwinilunga District, 1940-1970’. In:
Ross, R.J. , Hinfelaar, M., Pesa, I. (Eds.)
The objects of life in Central Africa: The history of consumption and social change, 1840-1980. Leiden,
Boston: Brill. 259-280
Ross, R.J., Pesa, I. & Hinfelaar, M. (Eds.)
‘The Objects of Life in Central Africa: the history of consumption and social change, 1840 – 1980’.
Leiden, Boston: Brill
Ms. S. van Ravensbergen MA
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Conference attendance
August 4-9: Summerschool ‘Sites of Knowledge: Space, Locality, and Circulation between Asia and
Europe’. Title of presented poster: ‘Where knowledge and power meet. Colonial Courts on Java 18191918’, Heidelberg, Germany
Conference organization
June 24: Seminar ‘Colonial Law Talk’, Institute for History, Leiden University. Role: organizer
February 27: Master class 'Transnational history and its limits: sites, networks, sources' by Dr. Tim
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Harper, Institute for History, Leiden University. Role: (co-)organizer
December 18: Seminar ‘Colonial Law Talk’, Law Faculty, Leiden University. Role: organizer
Externally acquired funds
My PhD research is funded by the NWO (Cohen-gelden)
Ms. N.T. Seneviratne MA
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A.A. Souleymane MA
Research
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B. Sur
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Other activities
PhD theme: Corruption in the VOC: a case study of the van-Rheede committee in Bengal in the
seventeenth century
Under the programme of IBIES (started from September 2013) with the supervision of Prof. Dr. J.J.L.
Gommans
So far only a pilot presentation has been made.
Ms. C.M. Wilson MA
Research
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X. Xu MA
Research
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Ms. E.P.M. Zwinkels MA
Research
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Conference attendance
February 27: PhD Master Class Tim Harper '‘Transnational history and its limits: sites, networks,
sources’, Leiden, (participant)
February 27: Seminar, SEA Seminar Tim Harper, KITLV, Leiden
March 10: Film symposium, ‘Rape. Sexual violence in the age of genocide’, NIOD Institute for War,
Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam
March 13: Seminar, ‘‘A danger averted? The treatment of ‘potentially subversive’ NSB members in the
Netherlands Indies’, Graduate Seminar, Leiden (presenter)
June 21: Workshop day, SEA Update Wageningen 'Recognition and Retribution.Transitional justice in
the Netherlands Indies after the Second World War', Wageningen University, Wageningen (presenter)
June 24: Seminar, Colonial Law Seminar, Upik Djalins ‘The Rechtsschool Has Not Missed Its Target.
Producing Native Jurists for the East Indies’, Leiden
June 27-28: Conference, Transcultural Justice: Decolonization and Cold War and its Impact on War
Crimes Trials and International Law after 1945, ‘‘The sense of justice of the local people is crying for
satisfaction’. Challenging justice on Borneo’, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany (presenter)
Conference organization
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February 27: PhD Master Class Tim Harper '‘Transnational history and its limits: sites, networks,
sources’, Leiden, (Co-organiser with Sanne Ravensbergen, Marieke Bloembergen (KITLV) and
Fenneke Sysling (IIAS))
October 28: Workshop ‘How to write a PhD research proposal. Workshop for research master’s
students’, Leiden, (Co-organiser and presenter with Peter Meel)
Membership of boards and committees
Chair, PhD Council (until September 2013)
Member Advisory Board, Institute for History (from September 2013)
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
Public lectures (including Studium Generale)
January 20: Lecture, ‘Het Overakker-complot: Indisch verzet op Sumatra ‘, Volksuniversiteit Arnhem,
Museum Bronbeek, Arnhem
Other activities
Teaching BA2 WC ‘De ‘verre’ oorlog: de Pacific War, 1941-1945’, 2nd semester 2013
PhD defences
June 4, 2013: Murari Kumar Jha, The Political Economy of the Ganga River; Highway of State Formation
in Mughal India, c.1600-1800. Promotors: Prof. Dr. L. Blussé and Prof. Dr. J. Gommans
October 1: Karwan Fatah-Black , Suriname and the Atlantic World, 1650-1800 (PhD thesis. History,
Humanities, Leiden). Leiden. Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s):Prof. Dr. G.J. Oostindie (Universiteit
Leiden and KITLV-KNAW) Prof. Dr. H.J. Den Heijer (University Leiden)
October 8: Carolien Stolte, Orienting India: Interwar Internationalism in an Asian Inflection, 19171937. Promotoren: Prof. Dr. H.W. van den Doel and Prof. Dr. H. Fischer-Tiné (ETH Zürich)
October 15: Monique Erkelens, The Decline of the Chinese Council of Batavia: The Loss of Prestige and
Authority of the Traditional Elites amongst Chinese Community between 1900-42. Promotor ‘s. Prof. Dr.
L. Blussé with Dr. L. Douw
External PhD Candidates
S. Aliyu
Bae Yuh Jin
I.M.M. Bartels
A. van der Belt
Ellen Blommaert
M. Borgas
Jonna Both
D.A. Buiskool
I. Butter
n. Daito
F. Diallo
N. Djindil
J. Dmitrova
N. Everts
C. Feddersen
I. Gooskens
C. Hulshof
P. Kalenga
M.J. Karabinos
Laguerre Dionro Djerandi
B. Mutsvairo
H. Ngu Mambo Epse
S.A. Ntewusu
H. Nyamnjoh
N.E. Pacidal
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L.P. Paine
Tj. Prasodjo
D. Seli
J. Vangansbeke
R. Verma
C. Viallé
S.J. van der Vliet
P. Wibusilp
S.T. Yusuf
Research Master Students
Dave Boone
Maretta Kartika
Casper Luckerof
Maarten Manse
Jennifer de Nobel
Alexander Tetteroo
Mikko Samuli Toivanen
Externally funded programmes
Dutch connections: the circulation of people, goods and ideas in the Atlantic
world, 680-1795
Gert Oostindie, Karel Davids (VU), Femme Gaastra and Henk den Heijer
The early modern era witnessed the emergence of an integrated Atlantic world connecting Europe,
Africa, and the Americas, including the West Indies. These parts of the western hemisphere were
connected by the circulation of people, goods and ideas. This integrated Atlantic world disappeared in
a few decades after the Revolutionary era due to several causes, particularly the end of the slave trade
and the decolonisation of the Americas. In recent years, it has increasingly become clear that Dutch
activities in this Atlantic world were of far greater significance than historians hitherto assumed. This
project focuses on the Dutch dimension of the integrated Atlantic World between 1680 and 1795. The
pivotal and indeed exceptional role of the Dutch in the Atlantic world was not one of empire-builders,
but one of middlemen and brokers, who greased the Atlantic economic machine with unrivalled credit
facilities and a myriad of commodities and distribution channels. This project aims to analyze how the
Dutch networks functioned in this Atlantic world system and to explain to what extent and why these
networks changed during this period. The analysis relates to the circulation of people and goods as well
as to that of ideas. The project will not only generate more insight into the relevance of the Atlantic
dimension to Dutch history, but will also contribute to the rapidly expanding international field of
‘Atlantic history’ at large. The research will focus on four (clusters of) pivotal centres at both sides of
the Atlantic (Amsterdam/Rotterdam; Paramaribo; Curaçao/ St. Eustatius; Elmina). Each of these
centres is considered to be a major junction in the flow of people, goods and ideas connecting the three
continents of the Dutch Atlantic and its multinational environment. The project will result in a
synthesizing monograph and an edited volume, two monographs, a number of articles in international
and national journals, two doctoral dissertations (one of which primarily financed from other sources),
a number of papers at international conferences, and digital databases. These publications will be
mostly in English in order to contribute to the burgeoning field of Atlantic studies.
Cosmopolis
Jos Gommans, Charles Jeurgens, Thomas Lindblad, Alicia Schrikker, Carolien Stolte
The Institute for History has long been host to scholarly communities in the field of colonial and
global history. Following in the footsteps of the TANAP program (1999-2006) and ENCOMPASS
(2006-2012), August 2012 saw the inception of Cosmopolis. Cosmopolis represents a common
endeavor of Leiden University and the National Archives at The Hague to extend the accessibility and
study of all Dutch sources pertaining to Asia by deepening the cooperation with Asian universities,
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archives and local cultural institutions. It has grown into a research community with monthly
seminars, events, and excursions to archives and places of historical interest. Aside from Encompass,
students and researchers from three other programs are also part of Cosmopolis: DIKTI, Erasmus
Mundus IBIES and the LUF-funded Leiden-UGM joint degree program. Cosmopolis is managed by
Carolien Stolte.
Cosmopolis builds directly on the previous ENCOMPASS (Encountering a Common Past in Asia)
program. Encompass saw its inception in 2006 as an education program for Asian students
(BA3/MA/MPhil). All students started with a conversion year at BA3 level, during which they learned
Dutch and started working with primary research materials. After the first year, students joined the
MA or MPhil at the Institute for History. The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OC&W)
made a total of twelve yearly grants available for Asian students for a two or three year stay in Leiden in
the period from 2006 to 2011. The last two MPhil students from the fifth and final batch are set to
graduate in the Fall of 2013.
Since 2009, the Encompass program has also included a PhD track, funded by NWO and LUF. Its aim
is to offer the best students the possibility to continue their education in Leiden, and to ensure the
continuity and innovation of research on the Modern and Early Modern history of Asia. The emphasis
in this research program lies on the use of Dutch colonial sources. Since 2009, five PhD students have
been employed in the context of this program. A number of other Encompass alumni have found PhD
positions at other universities in the Netherlands and abroad.
With the launch of Cosmopolis in 2012, Encompass was continued, and entered a new phase as
ENCOMPASS II. The former Encompass conversion year was renamed the Cosmopolis Foundation
Year, and the program is now open to qualified students from all over the world. The Ministry of
Education, Culture and Science has made eleven more annual scholarships available annually for a four
year period between 2012-2013 and 2015-2016. For the Encompass scholarships however, only
students from Asia are eligible. Depending on the previous education of the participating students, the
conversion year, which leads to a BA degree, can now be followed as a pre-MA or pre-PhD track. In the
latter case, the conversion year’s final thesis functions as a PhD pilot. Students from outside of
Indonesia apply directly to Leiden. The selection of Indonesian students is carried out in close
collaboration with the Arsip Nasional and the Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta, as well as with the
Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta. Interviews take place in Yogyakarta before a committee that
includes a member of Encompass Leiden. During the conversion year, the students follow intensive
Dutch language classes, as well as courses in heuristics, and colonial and global history courses.
After the conversion year, students continue with the regular MA program in History, within which
they follow either the Colonial and Global History specialization, or Historical Archival Sciences.
Funding for continuation in MA, MPhil or PhD programs occurs on a competitive basis. The program
offers two annual MA scholarships for the most promising students. Students apply for a number of
other scholarships and fellowships, both in the Netherlands and abroad. A memorandum of
understanding was conducted with the Arsip Nasional (National Archives) in Jakarta, under which
agreement the Arsip contributes fifty per cent in the education costs of their staff members who
participate in the Encompass program. In 2012, participating students came from Indonesia, India,
Japan, and China. The PhD track currently includes students from the Philippines, China, India, Sri
Lanka and Indonesia.
‘State and Economy in Modern Indonesia’s Change of Regimes’
Thomas Lindblad
The research programme ‘State and Economy in Modern Indonesia’s Change of Regimes’
examines how changes of regimes in Indonesia between the 1910s and c. 1960 affected the
meaning and functioning of the State and its role in the economy. The research programme
consists of two PhD projects, entitled ‘State Performance and Political culture in Indonesia’
(Farabi Fakih, MPhil) and ‘The Political Economy of Transition in Indonesia’ (Pham Van
Thuy, MPhil). It also provides for an international conference to be held in Leiden in October
2011 that will serve as a basis for a collective volume with a synthesis. The programme is
executed in close co-operation with historians in Indonesia. The total research budget is €
410,000.
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From Muskets to Nokias: Technology, Consumption and Social Change in
Central Africa from Pre-Colonial Times to the Present
Robert Ross
Firearms and mobile phones are fitting examples of the kind of foreign technological
innovations that Central African peoples have appropriated and absorbed within their social
structures over the course of the past three centuries of their history. The individual research
projects that make up From Muskets to Nokias together represent an attempt to rewrite the
history of the Zambian and Congolese copperbelts and their hinterlands through the lenses
of technology and consumption, and their relations to social organization. Adopting an
explicitly social historical perspective, all the members of the proposed research team will
seek to understand the changing dynamics of African engagement with the products of
industrial technology and the impact of the transformation of consumption patterns upon
the region’s social structures and related notions of wealth. Set in a much deeper
chronological framework than has hitherto been the case, From Muskets to Nokias moves
away from a teleological narrative of oppression and exploitation with a view to reinstating
Africans as independent economic agents. It thereby intends to avoid the obfuscation of the
full range of Central African peoples’ social experiences which has so often marred
materialist interpretations of the region’s history because they portray rural Africans as mere
pawns in the impersonal clash between capital and organized labour.
The main planks of this project are, first, the investigation of the history of firearms in history
of Central Africa since around 1800, which is the task of the Post-doc within the project, Dr.
Giacomo Macola, and secondly, the PhD project of Ms Iva Peša on the social and economic
history of Mwinilunga, a district in the far north-west of Zambia, which is concentrating on
the changes associated with, first, the ending of the long-distance caravan trade and,
secondly, the opening of new labour and product markets in the copperbelts. Her work is
based on a combination of archival research in Great Britain and Zambia with extensive
fieldwork and the collection of oral history in Mwinilunga itself. In both cases there has been
significant progress. In addition, there are a number of Zambian, Congolese and other
scholars associated with the project, who met in Lusaka in July 2009 to discuss the
development of the project, as associated researchers.
Challenging Monopolies, Building Global Empires in the Early Modern Period:
Catía Antunes, Kate Ekama, Erik Odegaard, Joris van Tol
How did free agents in the Dutch Republic react to the creation of colonial monopolies (VOC and
WIC) by the States General? This project answers this question by looking at the role individuals
played in the construction of an informal global empire parallel to the institutional empire devised by
the States General and enabled by the chartered monopolies.
Free agents came into conflict with the Companies from the very beginning of the monopolies. Their
defiance against the state-imposed monopolies – that is to say, the discrepancy between the goals and
needs of the state-sponsored monopolies and the interests and objectives of the agents – drove the
latter to work against, together with or in name of- the monopolies and, ultimately, the State. Even
though the mechanisms of opposition, cooperation and appropriation/representation may be
separately identified, they were not necessarily mutually exclusive.
The informal empire that resulted from the individual choices of free agents and their networks as a
reaction to the State imposed monopolies was, in our view, a borderless, self-organized, often crosscultural, multi-ethnic, pluri-national and stateless world that can only be characterized as global.
Connecting in Times of Duress: Understanding Communication and Conflict in Middle
Africa’s Mobile Margins
Mirjam de Bruijn, Inge Ligtvoet, Lotte Pelckmans and Catharina Wilson
This research programme seeks to understand the dynamics in the relationship between social media,
mobile telephony and the social fabric under duress in Africa’s mobile margins. It combines studies on
mobility/migration, conflict and communication in an attempt to uncover these new dynamics, which
have been so evident in North Africa and the Middle East in 2011. Societies under duress are
characterized by long periods of war or repression that lead to mobilities (forced or economic) and
marginality. People who live in such circumstances have to manoeuvre between oppressive structures
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and possibilities to communicate, which are often informed by violence, fear and poverty. The
introduction of new ICT is enhancing information flows and communication between people and this
is expected to lead to social change and to influence the social fabric in its (re)forming of communities
and the construction of identity and feelings of belonging, which will increasingly differentiate social
groups. The study is situated in northern Middle Africa (Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon
and eastern Nigeria). The proposed methodology is interdisciplinary (anthropology, history,
communication studies, conflict studies and social geography), historical-ethnographic and
comparative, involving regional sub-projects among diverse mobile populations in urban centres,
refugee camps and remote rural areas. Film and photography will also form part of the methodology,
acting as a form of communication between researchers, local communities and stakeholders and will
result in a documentary. The study contributes to the development of a theory of connections. The
findings will enhance our understanding of conflict dynamics and further the debate on the role of
social media and ICT in conflict and post-conflict societies. Workshops and conferences in Africa and
Europe will guarantee regular exchanges between policy makers and academia.
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7. Cities, Migration and Global
Interdependence
Description
An important current topic of historical research is the global interdependence that came
about since the Early Modern period. The widening, deepening and acceleration of
worldwide inter-connectedness is known as globalisation. This affects all aspects of social
life, from the cultural to the criminal, the financial to the spiritual. In this research theme we
focus on the social and economic responses to increasing interconnectedness.
Globalisation has many dimensions and can be studied by distinguishing between extensity,
intensity, velocity and impact. Key themes in this research cluster are international contacts,
interaction and the effects of interdependencies on society and economy. We distinguish
between the movement of goods, services, capital, people and ideas. Geographical emphasis
is on Europe and the United States, but also on the Middle East, Central Asia and Southeast
Asia. What impact did global connections have on cultures, state formation, economies and
societies? We examine how people have coped with global interdependence and how people
attempted to control and manage these processes. This includes the study of individual
(migration) and collective reactions (institutions, states, EU, multinationals). The research
within this research theme can be divided into three sub-themes: (a) migration, membership
regimes and cities; (b) state formation and frontiers; (c) political economy, networks, and the
role of institutions.
Migration, membership regimes and cities
Research in the field of migration history includes the mobility of people, settlement
processes of migrants, and, finally, the effects of migration on state formation and the
formation of minorities. The migration theme is not restricted to a particular period or
region, although the focus is on the period from the Middle Ages onwards. In addition, we
study the colonisations and conquests in which the native population was forced to adapt to
the newcomers, resulting in processes of extinction, marginalisation and creolisation. In
order to study migration the comparative method (in time and space) is most appropriate.
An important issue is how migrants integrated in new communities and the role of different
political opportunity structures in the outcome of such processes. Here we use the new institutionalist
approach as advocated by scholars as Richard Alba and Victor Nee, which is
well suited for global comparisons of various membership regimes. Within the migration
theme special attention is paid to differences according to gender. The importance of gender,
as an analytical category, is studied in combination with class and ethnicity in relation to
migration to the Netherlands in the period from 1945 until 2000.
Cities and Civil Service
Migration, settlement processes of migrants and the formation of minorities (and
discrimination) are mostly studied in an urban context. For this reason, this research theme
focuses on the city as a framework for research. Urban environments can be seen as a
laboratory, in which processes of migration, integration and formation of minorities take
place. Depending on the specific research question, social processes can be studied with the
city as the ‘site’ or explicitly be linked to the demographic, physical, spatial and political
opportunity structure of specific cities. Two concrete projects should be mentioned: one is
the diachronic analysis of demographic changes in pre-war and post-war The Hague, when
both Dutch and foreign migrations repeatedly and significantly changed the character of the
city. The central question in this project is the extent to which the diminished social cohesion
of the last decades of the 20th century should be viewed as a new phenomenon. The second
project looks into the development of civil services in the Netherlands by focusing on the
area of tension between citizens, church and government. In this way we aim to discover the
nature of the interaction that existed between the civil initiatives undertaken by the
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government, citizens and churches in the transition from private to public. This research
focuses on the period between 1500 en 1800 when citizenship moved from town to nation
and the effects of bureaucratisation on the ideal of citizenship and the involvement of
citizens in civil services.
State formation and frontiers
The term globalisation refers primarily to an increase in the exchange of goods, persons and
ideas between various parts of the World. Borders, at local, national and supra-national
level, play a vital role. In the Early Modern period the boundaries of cities were often more
important than national borders. In the modern period national borders have not proved to
be very stable. Numerous new states emerged and the borders between states changed
constantly. Moreover, changes of regimes, for example as the result of decolonisation have
given new meaning to existing boundaries. In the case of the EU national borders have lost
salience to some extent, which in turn influenced the mobility of people, capital, goods and
ideas, as well as the status of citizenship. Political economy, networks and the economic role
of institutions The distribution of incomes, means of production and legislations changed
dramatically since the 16th century and even more so in the 19th and 20th centuries, leading
to an increasing intensity, velocity and impact of the globalisation process. These
developments are related to the consumption revolution, which started already in the 18th
century, involving trade networks, industrialisation, decolonisation, and more recently the
European unification. Closely related are the changes in labour relations and the competition
between various economies on a world scale. Specific attention is given to institutions
through which people build their networks and social capital. Instead of juxtaposing the
Early Modern and the Modern period we are more interested in similarities and continuities
with respect to the emergence of networks and institutions in a globalising world since 1600.
Staff
Ms. Dr. C.A.P. Antunes
Research
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Conference attendance
Keynote Speaker IIe Congrès International du Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique d’Histoire Maritime.
La Recherche en Histoire Maritime: Enjeux, Objects et Méthodes, University of Nantes: ‘Maritime
History: Past, Present and Future’
Symposium PKvV, ‘Conformisme in Nederland’, Leiden University: ‘Conformisme in de Nederlands
Cultuur’
International Conference Places of Encounter. Jews and Non-Jews in the Low Countries Between 1500
and 1800, Institute for Jewish Studies, University of Antwerp: with Jessica Roitman: ‘Juggling
Jurisdictions: Amsterdam’s Courts as a Zone of Encounter in the Early Modern Age’
The Leiden Seminar for Global Interactions (LSGI), Leiden University, Leiden: ‘Fighting Monopolies,
Defying Empires 1500-1750: a Comparative Overview of Free Agents and Informal Empires in Western
Europe and the Ottoman Empire’
Conference organization
Workshop Feedback PhD Proposals VIDI Project Challenging Monopolies, Building Global Empires
in the Early Modern Period (2013)
Academic Posts
Associate Professor Economic and Social History, Leiden University (2013-present)
Membership
Full Member of the Young Academy of Europe (2013-2018)
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision PhD
Kate Ekama, ‘Challenging Monopolies, Building Global Empires in the Early Modern Period – Suing
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the Monopolies – The Case of the VOC and the WIC’, History Institute, Leiden University (in
progress)
Joris van Tol, ‘Challenging Monopolies, Building Global Empires in the Early Modern Period –
Lobbying for Brazil and Taiwan – Lobby Groups to the Companies and the States General’, History
Institute, Leiden University (in progress)
Erik Odegard, ‘Challenging Monopolies, Building Global Empires in the Early Modern Period –
Serving the East and the West – Strategies in Imperial Career Paths Within the VOC and the WIC’,
History Institute, Leiden University (in progress)
Kaarle Wirta, ‘Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empire: The Scandinavian Empires’, History Institute,
Leiden University (in progress)
Julie Svalastog, ‘Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empire: The British Empire’, History Institute, Leiden
University (in progress)
Elisabeth Heijmans, ‘Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empire: The French Empire’, History Institute,
Leiden University (in progress)
Edgar Cravo Bertrand Pereira, ‘Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empire: The Iberian Empires’, History
Institute, Leiden University (in progress)
Membership PhD committee
Fatah-Black & K.J. (1 October 2013), Suriname and the Atlantic World, 1650-1800 (PhD thesis. History,
Humanities, Leiden). Leiden. Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s):Prof. Dr. G.J. Oostindie (University
Leiden and KITLV-KNAW) Prof. Dr. H.J. Den Heijer (University Leiden)
Editorial and reviewer activities
Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis
e-Journal of Portuguese History
International Journal of Maritime History
Routledge
Brill – EURO series
Pickering & Chatto Publishers
Anais de História de Além Mar
Evaluation Boards/Peer Review Pools
European Science Foundation
European Research Council – Synergy Program
FWO (Flemish National Science Foundation)
Membership of boards and committees
IIe Congrés International du Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique d’Histoire Maritime: La Recherche en
Histoire Maritime – Enjeux, Objects et Méthodes, University of Nantes (2013)
Chair Search and Selection Committee PhD Assistant (AIO): ‘Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires,
1500-1750: Free Agency and Informal Empire in the French Domains Overseas’, History Institute,
Leiden University
Chair Search and Selection Committee PhD Assistant (AIO): ‘Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires,
1500-1750: Free Agency and Informal Empire in the Iberian Domains Overseas’, History Institute,
Leiden University
Chair Search and Selection Committee PhD Assistant (AIO): ‘Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires,
1500-1750: Free Agency and Informal Empire in the British Domains Overseas’, History Institute,
Leiden University
Chair Search and Selection Committee PhD Assistant (AIO): ‘Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires,
1500-1750: Free Agency and Informal Empire in the French Domains Overseas’, History Institute,
Leiden University
Chair Search and Selection Committee PhD Assistant (AIO): ‘Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires,
1500-1750: Free Agency and Informal Empire in the Danish and Swedish Domains Overseas’, History
Institute, Leiden University
Chair Search and Selection Committee Post-Dotcoral Researcher: ‘Fighting Monopolies, Defying
Empires, 1500-1750: a Comparative Overview of Free Agents and Informal Empires in Western Europe
and the Ottoman Empire, History Institute, Leiden University
Member Scientific Committee for the International Conference Colonial Mis(Understandings):
Portugal and Europe in Global Perspective, 1450-1900’, Centro de Historia de Alem Mar – FCSH, New
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University of Lisbon, Lisbon
Member Scientific Committee II Simpósio Internacional de Estudos Inquisitoriais: Religião e Poder,
University of Bahia, Brazil
Externally acquired funds
Starting Grant, European Research Council, Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires, 1500-1750: A
Comparative Overview Of Free Agents and Informal Empires in Western Europe and the Ottoman
Empire (2013-2018)
VIDI Vernieuwingsimpuls NWO, Challenging Monopolies, Building Global Empires in the Early
Modern period (2012-2016)
Honors and Grants
Partner Marie-Curie Consortium, European Research Council, ForSeaDiscovery: Forest Resources for
Iberian Empires: Ecology and Globalization in the Age of Discovery (2014-2018), granted in 2013
Publications
Antunes, C.A.p.
‘Trade Networks and Migration, Early Modern Europe’, Immanuel Ness (org.), The Encyclopedia of
Global Human Migration, vol. 5, New York, Blackwell, 2013, 2943-2947
Book Review: Richard W. Unger (ed.), Shipping and Economic Growth, 1350-1850, Leiden, Brill,
2011, The Mariner’s Mirror, 99-1 (2013), 95-96
Antunes, C.A.P., Dissel A.M.C. van, Heijveld W., Paesie R., Peet A.J. van der, Romburgh C.P.P. van,
Scheltjens W., Tang D.J. & Wit J.M. de
Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 32(1)
Antunes, C.A.P., Dissel A.M.C. van, Heijveld W., Paesie R., Peet A.J. van der, Romburgh C.P.P. van,
Scheltjens W., Tang D.J. & Wit J.M. de
Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 32(2)
Antunes, C.A.P.
Book Review: Rila Mukherjee (eds.), Networks in the First Global Age 1400-1800 [Bespreking van: Rila
Mukjerjee (eds.) (2011) Networks in the First Global Age 1400-1800] International Journal of
Maritime History 25(1): 299-300
Antunes, C.A.P.
[Book review: Unger R. W. (2011) Shipping and Economic Growth 1350-1850] Mariners Mirror 99-1:
95-96
Antunes, C.A.P.
'Trade Networks and Migration in Early Modern Europe'. In: Ness Imannuel (Red.) The Encyclopedia
of GlobaL Human Migration. New York: Blackwell. 2943-2947
Ms. Dr. S.A. Bonjour
Research
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Conference attendance
May 30: lecture at Migration Studies Seminar, Faculty of Sociology. Title of presented paper: ‘Gender,
family, and the politics of belonging in Dutch migration policies’, Bern, Switzerland
August 28-30: Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference. Title of presented paper:
‘Gendered and ethnicized membership. Reducing citizens’ family migration rights in France, Germany
and the Netherlands’, co-authored with Laura Block, London, United Kingdom
July 3-5: 8th International Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference. Title of presented paper: Ethnicized
membership. The decreasing family migration rights of citizens in France, Germany, and the
Netherlands’, co-authored with Laura Block , Vienna, Austria
June 25-27: Council of European Studies conference. Title of presented paper: ‘When guest workers
turn to settlers. Family migration policy-making in Germany (FRG) and the Netherlands, 1975-1985’,
Amsterdam
February 28: seminar ‘Family Reunification Policies’. Title of presented paper: ‘Reassessing the control
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gap debate: family migration policies in the Netherlands and Germany’, Nijmegen
December 9-10: international conference ‘Stockholm and Beyond, Migration Policy Conference’.
Title of presented paper: ‘When Europeanization backfires. The Normalisation of Migration Policies in
Europe’, co-authored with Maarten Vink, The Hague
Conference organization
September 20: seminar at the Annual Conference Dutch Association for Migration Research, Utrecht.
Role: (co-)organizer and discussant
Research leave, home and abroad
Archive research in the context of my VENI research project Reassessing the Control Gap Debate:
January 13-17 : Fontainebleau (Archives Nationales) and Paris (Archives Diplomatiques)
October 20-25: Paris (Archives Nationales de Pierrefitte)
December 15-18: Paris (Archives Assemblée Nationale and Archives Diplomatiques)
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
H-Migration Book Review Editor
H-Migration is an online discussion network dedicated to enhancing scholarly communication about
the global history of migration and migrant integration. H-Migration is part of H-Net, an online
scholarly resource for the Humanities and Social Sciences which reaches over 100 thousand subscribers
in more than 90 countries
Membership of boards and committees
Board of Dutch Association for Migration Research
DAMR was founded in 2012. It aims to provide a podium for exchange and cooperation of Dutch
migration researchers from a broad range of disciplines. DAMR has over a hundred members and
organises two conferences each year
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Radio: ‘De Andere Wereld’ (IKON) on ‘Arbeidsmigratie: toen Turken, nu Polen’ on 20 October 2013
Television: ‘Buitenhof’ (VPRO), debate about EU refugee policies with EU-Parlementarian Wim van
de Camp, 20 October 2013
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
Member of the ‘Klankbordgroep’ of the study project ‘Tien jaar gezinsmigratiebeleid: een inbreuk op
het recht op gezinsleven’ of the College Mensenrechten (2012 to present).
Presentation on ‘Language requirements in the EU as a basis for integration’ at the EU-Asia Dialogue`s
Policy Panel on Promoting Integration of Immigrants in Europe and Asia, 13 May 2013, Stockholm.
Consultant for the organisation of the workshop ‘Migratiebeleid: ambtenaren in gesprek met
onderzoekers’, Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid, 6 June 2013, The Hague.
Public debate with members of parliament and a member of the College voor de Rechten van de Mens
about asylum policies and border control, organised by Montesquieu Instituut, ProDemos and
Nieuwspoort, on 6 November 2013
Publications
Bonjour, S.A. & Vink, M.
When Europeanization backfires: the normalization of European migration politics. Acta Politica
48(4): 389-407
Block , L. & Bonjour , S.A.
Fortress Europe or Europe of Rights? The Europeanisation of family migration policies in France,
Germany and the Netherlands. European Journal of Migration and Law 15(2): 203-224
Bonjour, S.A. & Hart, B. de
A proper wife, a proper marriage. Constructions of ‘us’ and ‘them’ in Dutch family migration policy.
European Journal of Women's Studies 20(1): 61-76
Bonjour, S.A.
Governing Diversity. Dutch political parties’ preferences on the role of the state in civic integration
policies. Citizenship Studies 17(6-7): 837-851
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Bonjour, S.A.
Review of: Kraler A., Kofman E. (2011) Gender, Generations and the Family in International
Migration. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2013.784082
Carina van Eck, Marit Maij, Eddy van Hijum, Saskia Bonjour & Max van Wezel (6 november 2013),
Wankelt Fort Europa?Geinterviewed bij for Democratie in Debat / Montesquieu Instituut / Pro Demos
[interview]
Other activities
October 20: Buitenhof : Lampedusa en Europese grensbewaking, interview with Marcia Luyten for
Buitenhof(VPRO) [interview]
October 20: De Andere Wereld: Arbeidsmigratie - toen Turken, nu Polen for De Andere
Wereld(IKON) [interview]
Dr. H. Colak
Research
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Conference attendance
November 7: Brown Bag Seminar, Leiden University. Title of presented paper: ‘Questioning
decentralization in the 18th-century Ottoman Middle East: the case of the Orthodox Church’
Publications
Colak, H.
17. Yüzyıl Osmanlı Tarihinin Arap-Hıristiyan Müelliflerine İki Mühim Örnek: Antakya Ortodoks
Patriği III. Makarios ibn el-Za’îm ve oğlu Halep Başdiakonosu Paulos [Bespreking van: Ioana
Feodorov (2012) Relations entre les peoples de l’Europe Orientale et les chrétiens arabes au XVIIe
siècle: Macaire III Ibn al-Za‘îm et Paul d’Alep, Actes du Ier Colloque international, le 16 septembre
2011] Toplumsal Tarih 234: 90-94
Dr. K.J. Fatah-Black
Research
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Conference attendance
April 13: Conference: Datini Settimana di Studi 2013. Title of presented paper: ‘A network to
encourage the slave trade?’, Prato, Italy
July 17-20: Conference: CHAM Conference Colonial Misunderstandings. Panel: Rivalry and conflict?
Dutch-Portuguese colonial exchanges, 1580-1715. Title of presented paper: ‘The Resilience of Urban
Networks Overseas, 1600-1800: Deflected colonial monopoly formation in the Dutch Atlantic’, Centre
for Overseas History – New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Editor: OSO: Tijdschrift voor Surinamistiek en het Caraibische Gebied
Editor: Bookseries De Zeven Provincien, Uitgeverij Verloren
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Website
‘Slavernij en Jij: De Opbrengst’
http://www.slavernijenjij.nl/driehoekshandel/de-opbrengst/
Public Lectures
‘Cultuur of economie? De impact van de slavenhandel op de Republiek’
Voorjaarsbijeenkomst van de Vereniging voor Zeegeschiedenis, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
‘De lobby tegen de afschaffing van de slavernij in de achttiende eeuw’.
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Genootschap Amstelodamum, Amsterdam
Panel on the causes of and solution to forced labour
‘Global Capitalism and Forced Labour’, The Hague University of applied sciences, The Hague
‘Zwarte Piet en Racisme in Nederland’, buurtcentrum de Meevaart, Amsterdam
Publications
Fatah-Black , K.J.
‘Suriname and the Atlantic World, 1650-1800 ‘ Leiden University. Thesis October 1, 2013
Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Prof. Dr. G.J. Oostindie (Leiden University and KITLV-KNAW)
and Prof. Dr. H.J. Den Heijer (Leiden University)
Fatah-Black , K.J.
‘Orangism, Patriotism, and Slavery in Curaçao, 1795–1796, International Review of Social History’
Fatah-Black, K.J.
‘Suriname en de wereld: Essay over de vraag wat een Atlantisch perspectief kan bijdragen aan de
Surinaamse historiografie’. In: Hassankhan Maurits S., Egger Jerome L., Jagdew Eric R. (Eds.)
Verkenningen in de historiografie van Suriname: Van koloniale geschiedenis naar geschiedenis van het
volk. Paramaribo: Anton de Kom Universiteit Suriname, 325-337
Fatah-Black ,K.J.
‘A Swiss Village in the Dutch Tropics: The Limitations of Empire-Centred Approaches to the Early
Modern Atlantic World’, BMGN 128(1): 31-52
Fatah-Black, K.J.
Smokkelhandel en slavenhandel in Suriname gedurende de ondergang van de Nederlandse macht op
zee, 1780-1795, Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 32(2): 38-53
Fatah-Black, K.J.
[Review of: Unger Richard W. (2011) Shipping and Economic Growth 1350-1800 (Leiden/Boston:
Brill, 2011), Global Economic History Series] Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 23(2): 88-90
Fatah-Black , K.J.
[Review of: J. Dewulf, O. Praamstra, M. Kempen from Shifting the Compass: Pluricontinental
Connections in Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature] OSO: Tijdschrift voor Surinaamse
taalkunde, letterkunde, cultuur en geschiedenis 32(2)
Fatah-Black, K.J.
[Review of: Schalkwijk M., Small S. (2012) New Perspectives on slavery and colonialism in
the Caribbean] OSO: Tijdschrift voor Surinamistiek en het Caraïbisch Gebied 31: 318-320.
Dr. J. Fynn-Paul
Research
0.1 fte
Conference attendance
April 14-18: Conference ‘Serfdom and Slavery in the European Economy, 11-18th Centuries,’ at the
Francesco Datini International Institute of Economic History, Prato, Italy. Title of the presented
paper: ‘The fourteenth-century crisis and the emergence of Renaissance slavery in Catalonia and Italy:
new evidence,’ to be published in May 2014
May 28: invited lecture at the Annual Mediterranean World Lecture. Title of the presented paper:
‘Mediterranean Slavery in Long-Term Perspective’, Groningen
Conference organization
Began organizing, with Damian Pargas and Karwan Fatah-Black, a conference to be held in Leiden in
May 2015, entitled: ‘Slaving Zones in Global History.’ Meetings and draft proposals were prepared in
November and December, and we received several high-profile acceptances in January/February 2014.
Invited Fabrizio Titone (Urban History, Vittoria Spain) to become guest speaker; this will take place in
Leiden, May 2014
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Review of Gregory B. Milton, Market Power: Lordship, Society, and Economy in Medieval Catalonia
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(1276-1313), for American Historical Review, (December 2013)
Membership of boards and committees
Departmental Teaching Committee (OLC), BAIS
Publications
Fynn-Paul, J.
Review of Gregory B. Milton, Market Power: Lordship, Society, and Economy in Medieval Catalonia
(1276-1313), for American Historical Review, (December 2013)
Ms. Prof. Dr. M.P.C. van der Heijden
Research
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Conference attendance
March 6: Conference ‘Singles in the City’, University of Antwerp, 6-3-2013. Title of the presented
paper: ‘Singles in early modern Dutch Towns’
April 18-19: N.W. Posthumus Conference, Eindhoven, discussant. Title of the presented paper:
‘Women and violence in Dutch towns, 1600-1838’
May 15-18: XIXth Forum For Young Legal Historians ‘(Wo)Men in Legal History’. Title of the
presented paper: ‘Crime and Gender in European History’, Lille & Ghent, Belgium
June 13: Nederlands Criminologen Congres (NVC), University of Leiden, Faculty of Law. Title of the
presented paper: ‘A Vanishing Female? De mythe van de verdwenen criminele vrouw’
September 17: lecture ‘Wetenschapsfraude: kwestie van integriteit of controle?’ at the KNAW
Symposium ‘Zorgvuldigheid en integriteit in onderzoeksopleidingen’, Amsterdam
November 21-24: Social Science History Association. Title of the presented paper: ‘Crime and gender
1600-1900’, Chicago
November 7-8: Historical Criminology, University of Leiden. Title of the presented papers:
‘Introduction: Crime and Gender 1600-1900’ and ‘Historical Criminology: an Agenda’
Conference organization
April 18-19: Session Criminal Justice: Inclusion and Exclusion, N.W. Posthumus Conference,
Eindhoven
November 7-8: Historical Criminology Workshop, 1st meeting, University of Leiden
November 21-24: Session Crime and Gender: New Perspectives, Annual Conference of the Social
Science History Association, Chicago, IL
Editorial and reviewer activities
Member editorial board Crime, History & Socieities (journal)
Member editorial board Jaarboek Geschiedenis Leiden
Member editorial board Flemish-Dutch Journal of Urban History, Stadsgeschiedenis
Member series Studies in Premodern Crime and Punishment, Amsterdam University Press
Reviews and anonymous referee reports for Journal of Urban History, Journal of Social History,
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, History of the Family, Journal of Family History, Social History,
Intams Review, Journal of the History of Childhood, Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische
Geschiedenis
Membership of boards and committees
Member NWO VIDI committee (ca. 50 proposals)
Member board scientific committee humanities (Leescommissie Onderzoeksraad), University of
Antwerp
Member LISF Committee (Travel grants LUF International University Fund), University of Leiden
Member Board Stichting Geschiedenis Leiden
Member Sabbatical Committee, History Department, Faculty of Humanities, University of Leiden
Member Education Committee (OLC), Department of History, University of Leiden
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Member of the examination committee of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, Flemish-Dutch research
school for Social and Economic History
Advisory and coordinating activities
Coordinator Project Blended Learning, Themacolleges propedeuse, History Department, University
Leiden
Secretary section Social and Economic History, History Department, Leiden University (see
administration and management)
Organization masterclasses and workshops PhD’s research school N.W. Posthumus Instititute
Screening of CITO history exams secondary history education, the Netherlands
Member Advisory board book ‘Rotterdam is vele dorpen’ (published in 2013 by Waanders)
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervisor Phd
Mirjam Bekker, University of Leiden, Crime and Gender in Bologna 1600-1800
Jeannette Kamp, University of Leiden, Crime and Gender in Frankfurt 1600-1800
Sanne Muurling, University of Leiden, Crime and Gender in Bologna, 1600-1800
Supervision as promotor of Clare Wilkinson, External promovendus, ‘Masculinity and Sex Crime
Reporting, 1870-1939’
Membership PhD committee
Diederick Klein Kranenburg, ‘Samen voor ons eigen’. De geschiedenis van een Nederlandse
volksbuurt, de Haagse Schilderswijk 1920-1985. University of Leiden, 26 November 2013
Externally acquired funds
NWO funded VICI grant, major applicant, Research Programme Crime and Gender 1600-1900: a
comparative perspective, September 2012-2017, € 1.500.000
NWO Aspasia grant, September 2012-2017, € 130.000
Co-applicant/partner Inter University Attraction Poles, funded by Belspo (Belgian Science Policy
Office), Research Programme City and society in the Low Countries c. 1200-1850: The condition
urbaine: between resilience and vulnerability, 2012-2017, € 30.000
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
October 20: KRO ‘Brieven boven water’
October 31: Interview in special issue of Groene Amsterdammer about the future of humanities
September 17:”KNAW Symposium: Zorgvuldigheid en integriteit in onderzoeksopleidingen, paper
‘Wetenschapsfraude: kwestie van integriteit of controle’
Project promotion History of Leiden (cooperation University of Leiden with history organisations,
museums and Regional Archive)
Website
Congress ambassador of the University of Leiden
www.crimeandgender.nl
Awards
Aspasia grant, September 2012-2017
Publications
Heijden, M.P.C. van der
‘Crime and Gender 1600-1900: A Comparative Perspective’, Law, Crime and History (2013) 1, 136141
Heijden, M.P.C. van der and Koningsberger, V.
‘Continuity or Change?The prosecution of female crime in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’,
Crime, History & Societies 17:1 (2013), 101-127
Heijden, M.P.C. van der
‘Women, Violence and Urban Justice in Holland, c. 1600-1838’, Crime, History & Societies 17:2 (2013)
71-100
Furnée, J. H. , Heijden, M.P.C. van der & Verlaan, T. , ‘Stadsgeschiedenis in buitenlandse tijdschriften’,
Stadsgeschiedenis 7:2 (2013) 281-298
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Boone, M. and Heijden, M.P.C. van der
‘Urban finances and public services in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries’, in: Ángel
Galán Sánchez and Juan Manuel Carretero Zamora, El alimento del estado y la salud de la Res Publica:
orígenes, estructura y desarrolo del gasto public en Europa (Madrid 2013) 41-356
Heijden, M.P.C. van der
‘Jonge criminelen voor de rechtbank, 1850-1939’, Acta Historica 2:2 (2013) 5-8
Heijden, M.P.C. van der
‘De gezinseconomie in Hollandse havensteden 1580-1800, Holland. Historisch Tijdschrift 3(4): 102109
Heijden, M.P.C. van der
‘Paria’s van de Gouden Eeuw. De beul en zijn slachtoffers, 1600-1800’, Geschiedenis Magazine 48:8
(2013) 36-40
Heijden, M.P.C. van der
‘Misdadige vrouwen’. Criminaliteit en rechtspraak in Holland 1600-1800 (Amsterdam, 2014)
Dr. J.Th. Lindblad
Research
0.15 fte
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
Presentation of research at several universities in Kalimantan, Indonesia (January) and in Jakarta (July)
Presentation of research findings at the bi-annual Euroseas congress at Lisbon (July)
Annual Cleveringa lecture in Stockholm, Sweden (November)
Publications
Lindblad, J.Th.
‘British business and the uncertainties of early independence in Indonesia’, Itinerario 37 (2): 147-164
Lindblad, J. Th.
‘De Aziëcrisis in historisch perspectief’, Leidschrift 28 (2): 135-148
Lindblad, J. Th.
‘Manufacturing and foreign investment in colonial Indonesia’, in: Ewout Frankema and Frans Buelens
(eds), Colonial Exploitation and Economic Development; The Belgian Congo and the Netherlands
Indies compared (London/New York: Routledge) 211-228
Lindblad, J. Th.
‘State and economy during modern Indonesia’s change of regime’, Lembaran Sejarah [Gadjah Mada
University, Yogyakarta] 10 (1): 1-16
Research projects:
‘State and Economy in Modern Indonesia’s Change of Regimes’ (N.W.O.) Terminated by 1 September
2013
‘Foreign capital and colonial development in Indonesia’ (N.W.O.) Executed since 1 October 2012
Prof. Dr. L.A.C.J. Lucassen
Research
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Conference attendance
January 26: ‘New trends and frontiers in European Migration History’, keynote lecture at the Japan
Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan
March 2: ‘Nijmegen als bakermat van het integratiepessimisme’, invited lecture for the conference
‘Vreemdelingen in Gelderland, wederzijdse acceptatie of een ‘multiculturele mythe’ ( Historische
Vereniging Gelre), Nijmegen
April 4: ‘To move or not to move: A global overview of migration to the city since the 18th century’,
Invited Lecture at the symposium IMISCOE meets Academy: Migration in urban contexts,
Österreichische Akademie für Wissenschaften, Vienna, Austria
April 20: ‘Zelf en midden? Migrantenorganisaties in Nederland sinds de vroegmoderne tijd’, Key note
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voor de studiedag ‘Made in Flanders’, georganiseerd door KADOC (KU Leuven) en AMSAB
(University Gent), Mechelen, Belgium
May 3-5: ‘The strange death of political correctness in the Netherlands, 1960-2010’, lecture at the
symposium Combining Freedom and Diversity: Lessons from Experience in Britain, Canada, France,
Germany and the United States. Dahrendorf Colloquium honoring Timothy Garton Ash , St Antony’s
College, Oxford, United Kingdom
May 15: ‘After Auschwitz . The Cultural Revolution and the rise of xenophobia in Europe since the
1950s’, Conference ‘A Harmonious Europe?’, Riga, Latvia
June 14: ‘Organizational migration in a global perspective’, Institute for History and Religion Studies,
University of Bergen, Norway
June 24: ‘The strange death of multiculturalism in Western Europe since the 1970s’. ADFU,
MIGRATION POLICIES Between Security and Humanitarian concerns, The Hague, Ministry of
Security and Justice, The Hague Centre
September 18: ‘De linkse wortels van het integratiepessimisme’, Dispuut Merlijn, Leiden
September 23: ‘Het onbekende land: de selectie van migranten in Nederland sinds de 17e eeuw’,
Cornelis Lelylezing, Lelystad
October 2: Referent at the ‘Globaliseringslezing’ in Felix Meritis on the bookpresentation ‘Lieve Joris
over Afrikanen in China’, Amsterdam
October 2: ‘Xenophobia and Rumanian migrants in the Netherlands’, contribution to the workshop
‘EU liberalization of the labour market: from challenges to opportunities’, Huis van Europa, The
Hague
November 6: ‘How memory politics shaped the Dutch migration debate ‘, Universidad Diego Portales,
Santiago Chili
Memberships of boards and committees
Board member of the Historical Sample of the Netherlands
Chairman of the Centrum voor de Geschiedenis van Migranten
Member of the editorial board of Europäische Geschichte Online/European History Online (Institut
für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz)
Member of the Scientific Board (Wissenschaftlicher Beirat) of the IMIS-Schriften, Institute for
Migration and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrück
Member of the Advisory Board of the Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis (BTNG)
Member of the Editorial Board of the series World Migration History, published by the University of
Illinois Press
Member of the Academia Europaea
Member of the ERC Synergy panel
Member of the Samkul panel of the Research Council of Norway (Norges forskningsråd)
Co-director of the Leiden University Research Theme ‘Global Interactions of People, cultures and
power through the ages’
Publications
Bosma , U., Kessler, G. & Lucassen, L.A.C.J.
Migration and Membership Regimes in Global and Historical Perspective: An Introduction. In: Bosma,
Ulbe, Kessler, Gijs, Lucassen, Leo (Eds.) ‘Migration and Membership Regimes in Global and Historical
perspective’
Bosma , U., Kessler, G. & Lucassen, L.A.C.J.
‘Migration and Membership Regimes in Global and Historical Perspective’. Leiden and Boston: Brill
Lucassen, L.A.C.J.
‘Eigen arbeiders eerst. De moeizame verhouding tussen sociaaldemocraten en immigratie’, Socialisme
& Democratie 70(5)
Lucassen, L.A.C.J.
‘Migration and population’. In: Clark P. (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History.
Oxford: Oxford University Press
Lucassen, L.A.C.J. (14 June 2013)
‘The political left and its discomfort with diversity: David Goodhart represents a longstanding current
within Labour’
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Ms. Dr. C.M. Nakamura
Research
0.8 fte
Conference attendance
April 3-7: symposium at the conference ‘SAA Annual Meeting Symposium - Assembling Çatalhöyük’.
Title of presented paper: ‘Roles for the sexes: the bioarchaeology of women and men at Çatalhöyük’.
(Co-authored with Sabrina Argawal, Clark Larsen, Josh Sadvari and Jessica Pearson), Honolulu, HI,
USA
May 30-31: conference ‘Heritage, Cities and Sustainable Development Conference’. CCIC, University
of Cergy-Pontoise & Stanford University. Title of presented paper: ‘Reimagining the Historic Urban
Landscape of Mumbai: Towards an Inclusive Heritage of Peoples, Histories and Habitats’. Paris,
FRANCE
December 9-11: symposium at the conference World Heritage sites in context: defining Indian cultural
landscapes, Delhi, INDIA
November 13-18: symposium 112th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Title of
presented papers: Urban Fault Lines: (Re)Sourcing Land and Heritage in Mumbai, India and Durban,
South Africa’ (with L.Weiss) and ‘Partial Occupations, Assertions of Urban Heritage in the Neoliberal
Era’ (with L. Weiss), Chicago, IL, USA
Research leave, home and abroad
June 28-July18: Catalhoyuk Research Project: Konya, Turkey; figurine, burial goods, database specialist
December 12-22: Preliminary fieldwork: Mumbai, India; site visits, interviews, and meetings
Editorial and reviewer activities
Cambridge University Press
Advisory and coordinating activities
Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)
• LGI and AMT joint initiative
• Series that brings out international scholars for public lecture, masterclass and roundtable discussion
• biannually
Leiden Seminar for Global Interactions (LSGI)
• LGI Research Profile
• invited speaker series
• monthly
Gravensteen Lectures
• LGI and AMT joint initiative
• Series that brings out international scholars for public lecture
• monthly
LGI Seed Grants
• small grants programme to stimulate cross-disciplinary collaborative research at Leiden
• biannually
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision PhD
Marlous van den Akker, ‘The Cul(ture) of Natural Heritage: on the Designation and Extension of Mt.
Kenya UNESCO World heritage Site’, to be defended in 2015. Role: co-promoter
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Leiden-Stanford Heritage Network (networkedheritage.org), co-founder and co-administrator
Global Interactions Blog, administrator
Publications
Nakamura, C.M. and Meskell, L.
‘The Çatalhöyük Burial Assemblage’. In: Humans and Landscappes of ÇATALHÖYÜK: reports from
the 2000-2008 Seasons. Ed. Ian Hodder. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute
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Nakamura, C.M. and Meskell, L.
‘Figurine Worlds at Çatalhöyük’. In: Substantive Technologies at ÇATALHÖYÜK: reports from the
2000-2008 Seasons. ed. Ian Hodder. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute
Other activities
Assistant and contributor to development of university-wide Dynamics of Diversity initiative with
Prof. Dr. L.A.C.J. Lucassen
Dr. D.M. Oude Nijhuis
Research
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Conference attendance
February: Swiss Congress of Historical Science. Title of the presented paper in panel ‘Stratégies
syndicales et patronales autour de l’échelle des politiques sociales’
June: Council of European Studies: presented paper in panel titled ‘Income inequality and the postwar
welfare state’
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
February: provided training on economic consequences of financial crisis for Turkish businessmen
through ETCF II EU Training Programma in Ankara
March: visited two universities in Azerbedzjan as curriculum development officier
Publications
Oude Nijhuis, D.M.
‘Labor Divided in the Postwar European welfare State’, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013
Dr. D.A. Pargas
Research
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Conference attendance
December 12: lecture ESG section seminar. Title of presented paper: ‘Newcomers in Chains: Slave
Migrants in the Antebellum South’, Leiden University
Research leave, home and abroad
‘Newcomers in Chains: Slave Migrants in the American South, 1820-1860.’
September 1-7: research trip to UK to consult microfilm collections of the American Colonization
Society at the Rothermere Institute, Oxford University
October 18-28: research trip to USA to consult microfilm and manuscript collections of the Library of
Congress and National Archives in Washington, DC.
November 18-29: research trip to Germany to consult microfilm collections of the JFK Institute for
North American Studies at the Freie Universität, Berlin
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Editor, Itinerario: Journal of European Expansion and Globalisation (Cambridge University Press
Journals)
Membership of boards and committees
Board member and secretary, Netherlands American Studies Association (NASA)
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Membership PhD committee
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Laura Maessen, Leiden University (Institute for History). ‘A Lot of Leaders? Robert Parris Moses,
SNCC, and Leadership in the Production of Social Change during the American Civil Rights
Movement, 1960-1965’, 10 October 2013
Externally acquired funds
Veni research project (beginning 1 February 2011 and ending 31 January 2014)
Newcomers in Chains: Slave Migrants in the American South, 1820-1860
Major applicant; funded by NWO
Publications
Pargas D.A.
'In the Fields of a Strange Land': Enslaved Newcomers and the Adjustment to Cotton Cultivation in the
Antebellum South, Slavery & Abolition 34(4): 564-580
Ms. Dr. M. Pluskota
Research
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Conference attendance
November 7-8: Workshop ‘Historical Criminology’. Title of presented paper: ‘Crime, gender and
urbanization in 19th century Amsterdam and Bologna’, Leiden University
Conference organization
November 20: SSHA Chicago 2013 presentation at the conference: ‘Quantifying and qualifying
violence in history, 1600-2000’, Chicago, United States of America. Role: chair
Research leave, home and abroad
Brief overview of the activities carried out in the context of research projects:
Project: Crime and Gender 1600-1900
Research trip to Amsterdam archives – 3 months; research trip to Bologna archives September 2013:
archival work
Publications
Pluskota, M.
‘Bagnard’, ‘Galérien’ and ‘Forcat’ in Lucien Faggion and Christophe Regina (eds), Dictionnaire de la
Méchanceté (Paris, 2013), pp. 34-36 ; pp. 136-138 ; 142-144
Pluskota, M.
Review of Julia Laite, 'Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens. Commercial Sex in London, 1885–
1960' (Basingstoke, 2012) in: International Review of Social History, 58, 3 (December, 2013)
Pluskota, M.
In: International Review of Social History. 58 (3). pp. 526-28
Pluskota, M.
(Summer): ‘Prostitutes in the Cities: Localisation of Prostitution in Port Cities in the Eighteenth
Century’, Urban History (FirstView, July 2013). Pre-publication online:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0963926813000308
Schmidt, A. & Pluskota, M.
'Gevaarlijke vrouwen, gewelddadige mannen? Een review van het historisch onderzoek naar
criminaliteit en gender in Europese steden, 1600-1900', Stadsgeschiedenis 8:1 (2013) 60-77
Dr. C.G. Quispel
Research
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Ms. Dr. J.V. Roitman
Research
1.0 fte
Conference attendance
September 19: Lecture ‘Global Encounters Seminar’. Title of the presented paper: ‘Blurred Boundaries:
The Civil and the Ecclesiastical in Early Modern Dutch Sephardic Communities’, Vrij Universiteit,
Amsterdam
June 9-11: Latin American Jewish Studies Association’s XVI International Research Conference’. Title
of the presented paper: ‘Jews and their intercultural connections to native communities in Western
Africa and the Caribbean: Amerindians and Jews in Dutch colonial Suriname’, Schusterman Center for
Jewish Studies, University of Texas at Austin
April 8-10: Conference ‘Jews, Colonialism, and Post-colonialism’. Title of the presented paper:
‘Creating Confusion in the Colonies: Jews, Citizenship, and the Dutch and English Atlantics’, Isaac and
Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, University of Cape Town
March 14: Conference ‘Places of Encounter - Jews and Non-Jews in the Low Countries between 1500
and 1800’. Title of the presented paper: ‘Juggling Jurisdictions: Amsterdam’s Courts as a Zone of
Encounter in the Early Modern Age’, Institute for Jewish Studies, University of Antwerp
Conference organization
March 12: Workshop ‘Beyond the Dutch Atlantic’, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies,
Wassenaar. Co-organizer and chair
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Advisory committee for Jewish Historical Museum (Joods Historisch Museum), Amsterdam ‘Jews in
the New World’ exhibition
Advisory and coordinating activities
History Institute, University of Leiden
Coordinator, Europaeum MA Program in European History and Civilization (Leiden, Paris – I,
Oxford) Entire year (0.1 fte)
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Membership PhD committee
Karwan Fatah-Black, University of Leiden, ‘Suriname and the Atlantic World, 1650-1800’, Reading
committee, promotion committee, 1 October 2013
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
Advisory committee for Jewish Historical Museum (Joods Historisch Museum), Amsterdam ‘Jews in
the New World’ exhibition
Publications
Roitman, J.V.
‘‘A Flock of Wolves Instead of Sheep’: The Dutch West India Company and conflict resolution in the
Jewish Community of Curacao in the 18th Century’, in: Jane Gerber (ed.), The Jewish Diaspora in the
Caribbean pp. 85-105. Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Dr. F. Schipper
Research
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Conference attendance
‘Roads, culture and history: Interdisciplinary cross-roads, a workshop on roads in Europe, Asia, Africa,
Latin America’.
Lecture ‘Roads to Regional (Dis)Integration’
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February 2: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London workshop ‘Economic
Europeanness: Historical trajectories and current perspectives’. Title of the presented paper:
‘Infrastructure networks and the creation of a European economic space’
April 29-30: Centre for European Union Research, Central European University Budapest
Conference organization
September 19-21: Sixth Tensions of Europe Conference ‘Democracy and Technology: Europe in
Tension from the 19th to the 21st Century’, Paris. Discussant for Session 5A ‘The making of European
tourism: regimes of integration and segregation’
Research leave, home and abroad
January 31- February 1: Archive visit of Thomas Cook Archives, Peterborough (UK).
Project ‘Transatlantic tourism: American Visitors to Europe in the Long 20th Century’
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Member editorial board Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History/Tijdschrift voor Sociale en
Economische Geschiedenis
Referee for:
Transfers: New Mobility Studies (Berghahn Books)
Journal of Transport History
Membership of boards and committees
Chair, Society for the History of Technology, Levinson Prize Committee
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Altijd aan het reizen: Brieven van een mormoonse emigrant naar Noord-Amerika, 1877-1913, bezorgd en
toegelicht door J. Spitse (Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2011), Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische
Geschiedenis 10, no.3 (2013): 130-131
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
Two columns website ‘Next Generation Infrastructures, http://www.nextgenerationinfrastructures.eu/
‘Music 2.0: Fast Operas and Virtual Choirs’, 25 April 2013
‘The railway station and the bridge’, 20 February 2013
Ms. Dr. A. Schmidt
NW Posthumus
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Conference attendance
November 7-8: Presentation ‘Crime and gender before the courts of England and The Netherlands:
1600-1800’, Historical Criminology Workshop, Leiden University
November 21-24: Paper presentation 'Singles and crime in early modern Dutch towns' 38th Annual
Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago
October 4-5: ‘Paper presentation 'Vulnerable and villainous? Singles and crime in the early modern
Dutch town', 10th Swedish Economic History Meeting, Lund
May 15-18: Paper presentation [with Marion Pluskota], ‘Gender and crime: what to do next? Crime,
gender and history: an historiographical review’, International Conference, XIXth Forum for Young
Legal Historians, Lille/ Gent
March 6-8: Paper presentation [with Manon van der Heijden] ‘Singles and their public roles in early
modern Dutch towns’, International conference Singles in the cities of North-West Europe, c.10002000, Antwerp
Conference organization
March 6-8: international conference Singles in the cities of North-West Europe, c.1000-2000, Antwerp,
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co-organizer
October 4-5: 10th Swedish Economic History Meeting, Lund, session ‘Singles and the economy’, coorganizer
November 21-24: 38th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago,
Organization session, ‘Singles and Society, 1500-1900’, co-organizer
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Editor/ chair of the editorial board, Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History/ Tijdschrift
voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Clare Wilkinson, Leiden University
Project:Masculinity and local newspaper reports of male sex crimes from 1870 to 1939
Role: Co-promotor
Member of promotion committee
Sofie Delanghe, Ghent University
‘Oude vrijsters: bestaansstrategieën van ongehuwde vrouwen op het Brugse platteland, late achttiendebegin negentiende eeuw’, supervisor: Prof. Dr. I. Devos
Date of defence: 21 March 2013
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Interview by Margreet Fogteloo on Singles in the past, 'Alleenstaand maar niet alleen', De Groene
Amsterdammer, 18 September 2013
Publications
Schmidt, A. & Pluskota, M.
'Gevaarlijke vrouwen, gewelddadige mannen? Een review van het historisch onderzoek naar
criminaliteit en gender in Europese steden, 1600-1900', Stadsgeschiedenis 8:1 (2013) 60-77
Heijden M.P.C. van der & Schmidt A.
‘Crime and Gender 1600-1900: A Comparative Perspective’ (2877.0). [website]
Ms. Prof. Dr. M.L.J.C. Schrover
Research
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Conference attendance
January 8: Guestlecture ‘Historical perspective on migration. What are the Differences?’ Maastricht
University
February 28: Lecture Seminar Gezinshereniging: ‘Differences that make a difference’, Radboud
University Nijmegen
May 9-10: Migration history conference: ‘New approaches to migration history:
‘Differences that make all the difference’, Sheffield
June 12: lecture ‘Loving Day: Loving’ , Amsterdam
August 25-27: IMISCOE conference: ‘Their’ poverty is ‘our’ problem: Explaining continuities and
discontinuities in xenophobic responses to crisis’, Malmø, Sweden
September 9-10: lecture congress ‘Family Members Coming Home: Press and Parliamentary Debates
about Migration from the (Former) Dutch Colonies, 1945-2005’, York
November 20-24: SSHA: Pick and choose: Selection and category switching of immigrants 1945-2013,
Chicago
Conference organization
Chair of the migration and ethnicity network of the ESSHC: ESSHC in Wenen April 2014: 40 sessions,
organization
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Member editorial board IMISCOE book series, AUP
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Editor in chief Journal of Migration History, Brill
Member editorial board series ‘Historische migratie studies’, Verloren
Member advisory board Immigrants and Minorities
Editor Transkulturelle Perspektiven V&R Unipress
Membership of boards and committees
Member of VICI NWO assessment
Member Executive Committee Landelijke onderzoeksschool NW Posthumus (2004-onwards)
Posthumus research leader Communities
Organisation Exchange with Sheffield Hallam University
Member board CGM (Centrum voor Geschiedenis van Migranten)
Chair faculty committee tweede geldstroom University Leiden
Co-chair Migration and Ethnicity Network from the European Social Science History conference
(since 2000)
Elected member of the ESSHC board (since 2010)
Moderator of H-migration (since 2002) (discussielijst met migratiehistorici)
Organisation of the monthly Brown Bag Seminar from the section ESG
Chair Examination Board Geschiedenis
Advisory Board migrationmuseum Parijs Établissement public du Palais de la Porte Dorée - Cité
nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration
Selection committee interview with Damian Pargas
Chair section ESG ad interim
Member Advisory Board Vakgroep Geschiedenis
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Supervision PhD
Charlotte Laarman, Oude onbekenden. Het politieke en publieke debat over postkoloniale migranten in
Nederland, 1945-2005 (Hilversum 2013) promotor. Date of defence: 27 June 2013
Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson, The Eurasian Question, promotor
Leen Sterkx, UVA, Trouwen met een Vreemdeling, Co-promotor (promotor Jan Rath)
Marielle Kleijn, Beleid in de Nederlandse Antillen
Membership PhD committee
Vera Hajto: ‘Milk Sauce and Paprika: Migration, Childhood and Memories
of the Interwar Belgian- Hungarian Child Relief Project’, member of promotion committee, Date of
defence: February 11, 2013, Leuven, Belgium
Henrietta Nyamnjoh: ‘Bridging Mobilities: Cameroonians and ICTs in the Netherlands and South
Africa’, member of promotion committee, 28-11-2013 Leiden
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
February 25: politica land social education for women: ‘Historisch perspectief op migratie wat zijn de
verschillen?’, Geldermalsen
March 2: Symposium vereniging Gelre: ‘Geen bemoeienis met de AKU-Italianen’, Nijmegen
March 21: Lecture at Brabants Studenten Gilde: ‘Historisch perspectief op migratie:
wat zijn de verschillen?’,Wernhout
October 7: Lecture ACVZ: ‘Gezinsmigratie in historisch perspectief’, The Hague
June 6: Studiedag KENNIS + ERVARING = BELEID BELEID = ERVARING + KENNIS Ministry of
Justice, The Hague
June 10: Training of diplomats from Maroc, Tunesia, Egypt, Libia en Jordan: ‘The place and influence
of immigrants from North Africa in Western societies’, Instituut Clingendael, The Hague
November 1: Dag van de Geschiedenis, Iclon bijscholing Migratie en burgerschap: Republiek en
Verlichting, Leiden
Publications
Immanuel Ness, Saer Maty Ba, Michael Borgolte, Donna Gabaccia, Dirk Hoerder, Alex Julca, Cecilia
Menjivar, Marlou Schrover and Gregory Woolf, The encyclopedia of global human migration Vol. I to V.
(Chichester Wiley-Blackwell 2013). Vijf delen, 3264 pagina’s
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Schrover, M.L.J.C.
‘Europe: gender and migration’, in: I. Ness et al. (Eds.), The encyclopedia of global human migration
Vol. I to V. (Chichester Wiley-Blackwell 2013) 1349-1354.
Schrover, M.L.J.C.
‘Netherlands, migration 19th-20th century’, in: I. Ness et al. (Eds.), The encyclopedia of global human
migration Vol. I to V. (Chichester Wiley-Blackwell 2013) 2294-2298.
Schrover, M.L.J.C.
Marlou Schrover, ‘Marriage migration, Europe 1945-2010s’, in: I. Ness et al.(Eds.), The encyclopedia of
global human migration Vol. I to V. (Chichester Wiley-Blackwell 2013) 2108-2112.
Schrover, M.L.J.C.
Migrantenvrouwen in de slachtofferrol. Integratiebeleid na 1945 en het terugslageffect’, in: Laura
Coello, Jaco Dagevos, Chris Huinder, Joanne van der Leun en Arend Odé (red), Het minderhedenbeleid
voorbij; motieven en gevolgen (Amsterdam AUP 2013) 69-90.
Ashley Terlouw and Marlou Schrover
'Die Auswahl qualifizierter Migranten und Migrantinnen - Welche Rolle spielen Ausbildung und
Berufserfahrung bei der Auswahl von Asylsuchenden und Familienangehörigen und wie ist dies
gerechtfertigt?', in: K. Barwig, S. Beichel-Benedetti en G. Brinkmann, Solidarität, Hohenheimer Tage
zum Ausländerrecht 2012, Schriften zum Migrationsrecht, Nomos (2013) 261-271.
Marlou Schrover en Willem Schinkel
‘Introduction: the language of inclusions and exclusion in the context of immigration and integration’,
Ethnic and Racial studies 36: 7 (2013) 1123-1141. special issue edited by Marlou Schrover and Willem
Schinkel
Schrover, M.L.J.C.
‘Feminization and problematization of migration: Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’,
in D. Hoerder & A. Kaur (eds), Proletarian and gendered mass migrations. A global perspective on
continuities and discontinuities from the 19th to the 21st Centuries (Leiden: Brill 2013) 103-131.
Marlou Schrover and Deirdre Moloney
Gender, Migration and categorisation: Making distinctions between migrants in Western countries (1900)
1945-2010 (Amsterdam AUP 2013).
Schrover, M.L.J.C.
‘Multiculturalism, dependent residence status and honour killings: explaining current Dutch
intolerance towards ethnic minorities from a gender perspective (1960-2000)’, in Marlou Schrover and
Deirdre Moloney, Gender, Migration and categorisation: Making distinctions between migrants in
Western countries (1900) 1945-2010 (Amsterdam AUP 2013) 227-249
Marlou Schrover and Deirdre Monloney
‘Introduction. Making a difference’ in Marlou Schrover and Deirdre Moloney, Gender, Migration and
categorisation: Making distinctions between migrants in Western countries (1900) 1945-2010
(Amsterdam AUP 2013) 7-54
Schrover, M.L.J.C. and Moloney, D.
‘Conclusion’, Marlou Schrover and Deirdre Moloney, Gender, Migration and categorisation: Making
distinctions between migrants in Western countries (1900) 1945-2010 (Amsterdam AUP 2013) 250-258
Kleijn, M. and Schrover, M.L.J.C.
‘The Dutch state as a pimp Policies regarding a brothel on Curaçao (1945-1956) Tijdschrift door Sociale
en Economische Geschiedenis / The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History 10: 3 (2013)
33-54
Schrover, M.L.J.C.
‘Burgers, ingezetenen en vreemdelingen’, in Ido de Haan, Paul den Hoed en Henk te Velde, Een nieuwe
staat. Het begin van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden (Amsterdam 2013) 243-250.
Inge van der Hoeven and Marlou Schrover
‘Een zorgzame of bemoeizuchtige werkgever? De AKU en haar Italianen’, Jaarboek Gelre (2013) 185214.
Dr. L.J. Touwen
Research
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Conference attendance
April 18-19: welcome speech at the symposium N.W. Posthumus Annual Conference 2013, Eindhoven
Discussant at the Presentation of the Making Europe Research and Dissemination Program of Past
and Future of European History
Comments as senior discussant to Nikita Bos (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), ‘Winning the war, losing
the peace? A comparative study of labour productivity in British and West German industry, 19361968’
Conference organization
April 18-19: N.W. Posthumus Annual Conference 2013, Eindhoven
General conference organization, introductory keynote speech, discussant, chair
Organizational activities for three future conferences:
European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, 10-14 April 2014, Network chair Economics with
Dr. Peter Meyer (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington) and Dr. Jochen Streb (Mannheim
University)
Programming of 14 sessions
N.W. Posthumus Annual Conference 2014, Leeuwarden, 5-6 June 2014
Organization of Session for WEHC 2015 in Kyoto, 3-7 August 2015, entitled ‘Business and the
Development of the Twentieth Century Welfare State’ (proposal has been accepted)
Membership of boards and committees
Secretary of the Sectie Economische en Sociale Geschiedenis
‘Commissie Verbetering Eindtermen en Leerlijnen’ BA History, October-December 2013
Scientific Director of N.W. Posthumus Institute, Research School for Economic and Social History
(since 2010)
Exam Committee of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, Research School of Economic and Social History
Advisor to the General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, Research School of Economic and
Social History
Representative at LOGOS, the association of Dutch Research Schools in the Humanities
Advisory and coordinating activities
Since 1 January 2010: Scientific director of the Research School N.W. Posthumus Institute
The interuniversity research school organises the PhD training for 25-30 PhD students annually.
Individual Assessments N.W. Posthumus Institute, January 2013:
‘Individual Assessments’ of progress of PhD students:
Y. Hilevych (Radboud University Nijmegen)
B. Mönkediek (Radboud University Nijmegen)
P. Rotering (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
R. Satter (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Comments
S. Kerckhofs (KU Leuven), ‘Agricultural science and knowledge networks in Belgian Congo, 19081962’; T. Lilljegren (Universiteit Umeå), ‘Organizational dynamics of Swedish property insurance
1850-1950’; P. De Graeff (Universiteit Antwerpen), ‘Waste in the rural economy of early modern
Flanders’. ESTER European Research Design Course, Verona, 5-8 November 2013
Comments (invited):
Robrecht Declercq (European University Institute/Ghent University), ‘Creating a Commercial
Frontier: The German Fur Industry in South-West Africa, 1900-1939’. Workshop Frontiers and
Borders in Global and Transnational History, Gent 6-7 September 2013.
Nikita Bos (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), ‘Winning the war, losing the peace? A comparative study of
labour productivity in British and West German industry, 1936-1968’. N.W. Posthumus Conference,
Eindhoven, 18-19 April 2013.
Ghiselle Nath (Universiteit Gent), ‘Mass consumption, between political empowerment and the
Frankfurt School. The case of post-war social movements in Belgium, 1950-1990’. Posthumus Seminar
Work in Progress, Rotterdam, May 15, 2013
ESTER RDC, VERONA: Pieter de Graef, Stephanie Kerckhofs, Thomas Lillegren
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Chair of the jury for the Jaarcongres VIML (Vereniging Internationaal Management Leiden) –
Selection best paper – May 17, 2013
NWO project: NWO Graduate Programme 2010 € 800.000: Selection of four PhD Students for the NWO
Graduate Programnme of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, January- May 2013
NWO Projectaanvraag: Discipline or Trust? Interaction Between Civil Society And The State In The
Netherlands And Sweden, 1945-2010 (Herindiening van Discipline and trust, Policy making and social
engineering in Sweden and the Netherlands, 1914-2010.) With Leo Lucassen. Submitted in July 2013 at
Vrije Competitie NWO. Not granted.
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Supervision of student (Luuk Wijnhold) who wrote a small historical monograph on the
automatization of the PCGD in 1923 as an assignment for a financial consultancy firm, resulting in:
Gaston Aussems, Remco Boer, Luuk Wijnhold, Ik geef U op een briefje.’ Centralisering en mechanisering
van de PCGD in 1923 . Lessen uit een fiasco (Amsterdam: Trevver, 2013)
Publications
Touwen, L.J.
‘Druiven der Gramschap’ en de ‘Hoorn des Overvloeds’. Overeenkomsten en verschillen tussen de
crisis van de jaren 1930 en de kredietcrisis’, Leidschrift 28:2 (2013) 101-118
Touwen, L.J.
‘Het moeilijke proces van trial and error’ in: Gaston Aussems, Remco Boer, Luuk Wijnhold, ‘Ik geef U
op een briefje.’ Centralisering en mechanisering van de PCGD in 1923 . Lessen uit een fiasco (Amsterdam:
Trevver, 2013) 7-8
Touwen, L.J.
Book review: Bruno Blondé, Isabelle Devos, Jord Hanus, en Wouter Ryckbosch, Trend en toeval.
Inleiding tot de kwantitatieve methoden voor historici (Leuven: Universitaire Pers Leuven, 2012)
Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis 10-3 (2013) 128-129
Ms. Dr. M.L. Wiesebron
Research
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Conference attendance
May 16: Symposium on Legal and Policy Aspects of Space Cooperation between Europe and the BRICS
Countries: Inventory, Challenges and Opportunities. BRICS: the view from Europe, Leiden University
October 14: lecture ‘Brazilië, opkomende wereldmacht’, Sociaal en Cultureel Werk in het Kulturhuis ,
Holten
October 22: invited as commentator at the Seminar Global Governance: crosses perceptions
(Seminário Governança Global: percepções cruzadas) Rio de Janeiro in corporation with Bologna
University, Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão, Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
November 29: congres ‘l’Europe et les puissances émergentes dans un monde en mutation’. Chair of
the session: Défis multilatéraux: commerce, environnement et développement’, Université de Liège
Congres organization
April 15-18: Co- organizer Brazil week / Semana Brasil at Leiden and organizer conference Rui Barbosa
Chair of Brazilian Studies
Public lecture – Rui Barbosa, Chair of Brazilian Studies
Prof. Dr. Érico Duarte (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Holder of the 2013 Rui
Barbosa Chair of Brazilian Studies, Securing the Blue Amazon: Requirements for a Brazilian Maritime
Project for the 21st Century
Editorial ad reviewers activities
Member of Editorial Committee of journal Perspectiva: Reflexões sobre a Temática Internacional
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Membership of boards and committees
Chair of the exam-committee LAS
President of the Executive Board of AHILA (2008-2014)
Member of the Task Force Latin America of the Coimbra Group
External advisor exam-committee LIACS
Advisory and coordinating activities
Secretary nominating committee, coordinator of the Chair of Brazilian Studies Rui Barbosa
Coordinator of the Dutch project Projeto Resgate de Documentação Histórica Barão do Rio Branco,
which includes research and finances. Appointed by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture
Coordinator of bilateral cooperation between Leiden University and Latin American universities
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Co-director of the following external PhD’s:
Ingrid Bartels , in co-operation with Prof. Dr. Kurt Radtke
Judith Akkerman, in co-operation with Prof. Dr. Patricio Silva
Lucia Furquim Xavier, in co-operation with Prof. Dr. Maarten Jansen
Membership PhD committee
September 13 : Alonso Domínguez Rascón, ‘Estado, frontera y ciudadanía. El Septentrión entre el
Antiguo Regimen y la formación de la nación Mexicana’
October 2: Diego Barría Traverso, ‘La autonomia estatal y la Clase dominante en el siglo XIX chileno.
La Guerra Civil de 1891’
October 2 : Mladen Yopo Herrera, ‘Coalición política, partidos y sistema electoral en Chile, 1987-2010’
Externally acquired funds
Received external subsidies for the project Brazil in the Dutch Archives in the 17th century
Received external subsidies for the Chair of Brazilian Studies Rui Barbosa
Publications
Wiesebron, M.L.
Amazonia Azul: Pensando a defesa do territorio maritimo brasileiro, Austral: Revista Brasileira de
Estratégia e Relações Internacionais v.2, n.3(Jan-Jul 2013): 107-131
Wiesebron, M.L.
Blue Amazon: Thinking the defense of Brazilian Maritime Territory ,Austral: Revista Brasileira de
Estratégia e Relações Internacionais v.2, n.3 (Jan-Jul, 2013): 101-124
Wiesebron, M.L.
Introdução. In: Wiesebron M.L. (Ed.) Brazilië in de Nederlandse Archieven (1624-1654) / O Brasil em
arquivos holandeses (1624-1654). Leiden: Leiden University Press, 14-27
Wiesebron, M.L.
Prefácio. In: Wiesebron M.L. (Ed.) Brazilië in de Nederlandse Archieven (1624-1654) / O Brasil em
arquivos holandeses (1624-1654). Leiden: Leiden University Press, 8-13
Wiesebron, M.L. (Ed.)
Brazilië in de Nederlandse Archieven (1624-1654) / O Brasil em arquivos holandeses (1624-1654).
Leiden: Leiden University Press
Prof. Dr. W.H. Willems
Research
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Advisory and coordinating activities
Research leader of the Center for Modern Urban Studies (MUS), Faculty Campus The Hague
Co-founder (in 1995) and advisor of the interdisciplinary academic foundation Center for the History
of Migrants
Co-leader of the research-program Social Mobility in the Netherlands: individuals, groups and
neighbourhoods, a collaboration of the University of Amsterdam, Campus The Hague, NICIS and six
Dutch cities
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Initiator and chief editor of a volume on The myth of temporary residence. The history of Polish
migrants in the Netherlands, 1900-2012. A collaboration of Polish and Dutch researchers and
photographers. Book has been published in November 2012 – an exhibition will follow in 2013
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD committee
Co-promoter (with Leo Lucassen) of Diederick Klein Kranenburg: ‘The Schilderswijk. Patterns of
social cohesion in a working class neighbourhood in The Hague, 1920-1985’
Co-promoter (with Leo Lucassen) of Aniek Smit: ‘Representatives of globalization. The role of western
and non-western expats in international cities as The Hague and Jakarta, 1850-2010’
Promotor of Saskia Gras, ‘The meaning of the ideology of Free Expression and the ‘Vrije Academie’ in
The Hague’
Promotor of R.J. Visser Rotgans, ‘The Faces of Community Arts’
Supervisor of the Veni-application of Dr. Miriam van de Kamp, ‘Reading the multi-ethnic city
comparing policy views and everyday urban life in multi-ethnic neighbourhoods to refine notions on
ethnic diversity in an urban context.’
Publications
Rath J, Kamp M.C. van de, Slootman M., Tzaninis I., Crul M., Duyvendak J.W., Veldboer L. & Willems
W.H.
‘Social and Spatial Mobility and the Quest for Normalcy’. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam
PhD Candidates
K.J. Ekama
Research
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Conference attendance
May 15-16: seminar Posthumus Seminar 11. Title of presented paper: ‘Suing the Companies: The case
of the Dutch East and West India Companies’, Rotterdam
May 28: workshop ‘Team Evaluation’. Title of presented paper: ‘Courting Conflict: Suing the Dutch
East and West India Companies’, Leiden
July 17-20: symposium CHAM International Conference: Colonial (Mis)understandings. Title of
presented paper: ‘Courting Conflict: Suing the Dutch East and West India Companies’, Lisbon
November 12-14: seminar Research Design Course. Title of presented paper: ‘Suing the Monopolies:
Opposition to the Dutch East and West India Companies in the Hoge Raad’, Verona
November 28: workshop Team Evaluation. Title of presented paper: ‘Suing the Companies:
Opposition to the Dutch East and West India Companies in the Hoge Raad, c. 1600-1795’, Leiden
Decedmber 4-6: symposium Crossing Cultures: Gender, space and honour in colonial cities. Title of
presented paper: ‘Rights and Wrongs: Slave perceptions of (un)acceptable behaviour and responses to
it at the Cape and in Colombo in the eighteenth century’. University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Conference organization
November 29: workshop ‘Global Challenges Historical Reponses’, Leiden. Role: organizer
E.A.R. Heijmans MA
Research
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Conference attendance
November 28: Internal panel/workshop with individual presentation of work on the project.
Title of presented paper: ‘The forgotten actors of the French expansion: The role played by informal
networks in the French empire building during the early modern period’, Leiden University
December 19-20: Posthumus Conference ‘My Project in a Nutshell’. Title of presented paper: ‘The
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forgotten actors of the French expansion: The role played by informal networks in the French empire
building during the early modern period’, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Conference organization
December 19-20: Posthumus Conference ‘My Project in a Nutshell’. Title of presented paper: ‘The
forgotten actors of the French expansion: The role played by informal networks in the French empire
building during the early modern period’, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Role: Presenter, chair & discussant
Ms. J.M. Kamp MA
Research
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Conference attendance
April 18-19: N.W. Posthumus Conference 2013, Eindhoven [only attendance; no presentation]
May 15-16: Posthumus Basic Training, Work in Progress Seminar, Rotterdam. Title of presented
paper: ‘Crime and Gender in Frankfurt am Main, 1600-1800’
November 12-14: Ester Research Design Course, Verona, Italy. Title of presented paper:
‘On the margins: Crime, Gender and Migration in early modern Frankfurt am Main, 1600-1800’,
December 3: Masterclass on ‘History from Below’ with prof. dr. Tim Hitchcock, Brussel. Title
presented paper: ‘On the margins: Crime, Gender and Migration in early modern Frankfurt am Main,
1600-1800’
Conference organization
April 25: Masterclass, Dr. Alison Twells, ‘Separate spheres? Gender history in writings and records’,
Leiden. Role: co-organizer together with N.W. Posthumus and Netherlands Research School of Gender
Studies
Research leave, home and abroad
NWO VICI project Crime and Gender 1600-1900
January 20 -February 23: Frankfurt am Main, Institut für Stadtgeschichte (City Archive)
August: Frankfurt am Main, Institut für Stadtgeschichte (City Archive)
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Review Editor De Zeventiende Eeuw
Publications
Kamp J.M., Dijck M.F. van, Bertels I. & Brouwer P.
‘Een blik op de eigen tuin. Stadsgeschiedenis in Belgische en Nederlandse historische tijdschriften
(2011)’, Stadsgeschiedenis 8(1): 78-95
D.J. Klein Kranenburg MA
Research
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'Samen voor ons eigen' De geschiedenis van een Nederlandse volksbuurt: de Haagse Schilderswijk
1920-1985. Uitgeverij Verloren
Ms. C.J. Laarman MA
Research
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‘Oude onbekende. Het politieke en publieke debat over postkoloniale migranten in Nederland, 19452010’. Promotor: Prof. Dr. M.L.J.C. Schrover
Ms. S.T.D. Muurling MA
Research
0.8 fte
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Holland, Historisch Tijdschrift (editor)
Publications
S. Muurling
'Dolre doe dog het hout en planke soo wat aan Geertruijdenberg. Een inkijk in het leven van de
plantagedirecteur Jan Gerhard Dolre tussen 1778-1782', in: E. van der Doe, P. Morree en D.J. Tang
(eds.), Sailing Letters Journaal V. Buitgemaakt en teruggevonden. Nederlandse brieven en
scheepspapieren in een Engels archief (Zutphen 2013) 122-130
S. Muurling
[Recensie: H. de Mare, Huiselijke taferelen. De veranderende rol van het beeld in de Gouden Eeuw
(Nijmegen 2012)], Holland 45:2 (2013) 90-91
C.A. Mandemakers, S. Muurling, I. Maas, B. Van de Putte, R.L. Zijdeman, P. Lambert, M.H.D. van
Leeuwen, F. van Poppel and A. Miles
HSN standardized, HISCO-coded and classified occupational titles, release 2013.01 (Amsterdam 2013)
E.L.L. Odegard MA
Research
0.8 fte
Conference attendance
May 15-16: Posthumus seminar II. Title of presented paper: Free Agents and the Career Paths of Dutch
Colonial Governors, Rotterdam
May 28: workshop Team, Evaluation paper. Title of presented paper: Free Agents and the Career Paths
of Dutch Colonial Governors , Leiden
July 17-20: symposium at the CHAM International Conference: ‘Colonial (mis)understandings’.
Title of presented paper: ‘The empire’s brittle blow: Free agents and the careers of colonial governors:
two case studies from the Dutch chartered companies’, Lisbon
September 6-7: workshop ‘Frontiers and Borders in Global and Transnational History ‘.
Title of presented paper (presented on behalf of supervisor who wrote the paper): Birthing and
Aborting Borders: The Curious Case of European Colonial Empires, 1500-1750, Draft work in
progress’, Gent
November 28: workshop at the conference ‘Team, Paper presentations’.
Title of presented paper: Careers on the frontiers of empire: Two Dutch colonial governors, 1630-1690,
Leiden
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Social media: use of facebook for outreach to general audience. Mainly presenting archival finds.
Publications
Odegard, E.
Review: Niels Wiecker, Der iberische Atlantikhandel: Schiffsverkehr zwischen Spanien, Portugal und
Iberoamerika, 1700-1800, p. 348
E.F. C.B. Pereira MA
Research
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0.8 fte
Ms. E.W. Rosen Jacobson MA
Research
0.8 fte
Ms. A.X. Smit MA
Research
0.8 fte
Conference attendance
April 11: EAC Symposium Expats in Past and Present, The Hague
April 18-19: N.W. Posthumus conference, Eindhoven
June 21: SEA Update, Wageningen
November 21-24: SSHA conference, Chicago
Conference organization
April 11: EAC Symposium Expats in Past and Present, The Hague . Role: co-organizer and presenter
April 18-19: N.W. Posthumus conference, Eindhoven. Role: presenter
June 21: SEA Update, Wageningen. Role: presenter
November 21-24: SSHA conference, Chicago. Role: session organizer and presenter
Research leave, home and abroad
August 10-October 28: Fieldwork Jakarta and Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Referee, advisory committees, editor etc.
Referee TSEG: Irene Stengs (red.), Nieuw in Nederland: Feesten en rituelen in verandering (Amsterdam:
Amsterdam University Press, 2012)
Membership of boards and committees
Advisory Board www.vijfeeuwenmigratie.nl
Academic Advisor CGM (Centrum Geschiedenis Migranten)
Secretary / Vice-chair PhD Council (organisation PhD Outing)
Advisory and coordinating activities
Supervision MA theses Marieke Elske Prins
Teaching Oral History BA Course
Advisory role in Erasmus University Oral History project (coordinated by Max Kemman)
Valorisation (sociétal relevance and impact)
Lecture on ‘My dad had Afro hair’ (book) at NHTV, Tilburg
Debate ‘Alles snor’, Kosmopolis, Rotterdam
Lecture on ‘We all eat herrings, and we eat them raw’ (article), at ING, Delft
Publications
Smit A.X.
[Bookreviw: Stengs Irene (2012) Nieuw in Nederland: Feesten en rituelen in verandering] Tijdschrift
voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis 10: 145-147
J.M. Svalastog MA
Research
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Conference attendance
November 28: Internal panel/workshop with individual presentation of work on the project. Title of
presented paper: ‘Coexistence or Defiance? The meetings of free agency and the British state-sponsored
monopolies in the early modern period’, Leiden University
December 19-20: Posthumus Conference ‘My Project in a Nutshell’. Title of presented paper:
‘Coexistence or Defiance? The meetings of free agency and the British state-sponsored monopolies in
the early modern period’, Vrije Universiteit Brussels
Conference organization
December 19-20: Posthumus Conference ‘My Project in a Nutshell’, Vrije Universiteit Brussels. Role:
Presenter, chair & discussant
J.J.S. van den Tol MA
Research
0.8 fte
Conference attendance
April 9: conference Huygens ING. Title of presented paper: ‘Merchants without borders: 17th century
interest groups lobbying for private interests in Formosa and Brazil’, The Hague
May 15-16: Posthumus seminar II, Rotterdam
May 28: workshop at the conference ‘Team: Evaluation paper’. Title of presented paper: ‘Agents
without borders: Lobbying for Brazil and Formosa, 1624-1662’, Leiden
July 17-20: symposium at the CHAM International Conference: ’Colonial (mis)understandings’. Title
of presented paper: ‘Monopolizing Arguments: Public discourse on free trade to Brazil in the Dutch
Republic, 1630-1638’, Lisbon, Portugal
November 12-14: conference ESTER RDC, Posthumus seminar III. Title of presented paper: ‘Agents
without borders: Lobbying for Brazil and Formosa, 1624-1662’, Verona, Italy
November 28: workshop at the conference ‘Team: Paper presentations’. Title of presented paper: The
Audacity of Empire: Lobbying for Brazil and Formosa, 1624-1662, Leiden
Conference organization
November 28: workshop at the conference ‘Team: Paper presentations’. Title of presented paper: The
Audacity of Empire: Lobbying for Brazil and Formosa, 1624-1662, Leiden. Role: organizer, chair
Outreach (knowledge transfer to a general audience)
Use of Instagram @joritol
Other activities
Course in Academic English at Leiden Talencentrum
Publications
Tol J.J.S. van den
[Review: (2012) ‘Inside the Illicit Economy. Reconstructing the Smugglers' Trade of Sixteenth Century
Bristol’] Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 32: 85-87
K.H. Wirta MA
Research
0.8 fte
Conference attendance
November 28: workshop ‘Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires 1500-1750: a Comparative Overview
of Free Agents and Informal Empires in Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire’. Title of the
presented paper: ‘Scandinavian Empires in the Early Modern World, Networks of Free Agents in the
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Overseas Expansion’, Leiden University
December 20: Posthumus training – Workshop ‘My Project in a Nutshell’. Title of the presented paper:
‘Scandinavian Empires in the Early Modern World, Networks of Free Agents in the Overseas
Expansion’, Vrije Universiteit Brussels
External PhD Candidates
R.P. Anwar
F. E. Baggeler
M.J. Kleijn
J. Pešali
Research Master Students
Samuela Etossi
Hélène Feest
Frerik Kampman
Simon Kemper
Daan Loeff
Nancy Peiffer
Kasper Pucek
Marjolein Schepers
Julian Tangermann
Externally funded programmes
Differences That Make All The Difference. Gender and Migration (The Netherlands 19452005)
Marlou Schrover
Over the past decades, dozens of publications have appeared that start out by saying that thefield of
gender and migration is under-researched. It is a mantra that is not true anymore.The 2006 spring
special issue of International Migration Review on gender and migrationgave an impressive overview
of what has been written in recent years. In this issue theorising in the field of research on migration
and gender is identified as one of the greatest challenges for future research. Much of the earlier
research on migration is descriptive. It makes little or no use of explanatory models or uses gender
insensitive models. This project takes up on this challenge. The leading questions are how migrant
men and women differ - in their decision to migrate, in the migration itself, and in the subsequent
settlement process - and how these differences can be explained. Current historical and sociological
research sees gender as one of the key markers of social relations, next to ethnicity and class. Early
studies on migration either focused on men or described migrants in genderless terms. Models were
largely based on male experience and similar mechanisms were assumed to influence the migration
decisions of both men and women. Women were ‘added’ later, but without applying gender as an
analytical category, and hence without systematically explaining differences between migrant men and
women. Many of the studies on migration that did include women focused on women only, rather
than comparing men and women. Of course these studies did add greatly to our understanding of the
gendered nature of migration, but the added value of an approach that compares men to women is
widely acknowledged.
Some of the contemporary literature on migration sees the migration of women as a recent
phenomenon and speaks of a feminization of migration. As Zlotnik has shown women have however
also migrated in large numbers in previous eras. Whether the migration of women has recently
increased or whether women have only become more visible, is still debated.
Recently, research on migration is more gender-aware and this has resulted in excellent and important
studies. Three points in the literature can be highlighted. In the first place, there is the gendered nature
of belonging. Immigrant men are often seen as belonging to a nation of origin, while immigrant
women are given – rather paradoxically - key roles as the guardians of ethnicity and of ethnic nations.
These ideas on belonging are reflected in studies on mixed marriages. Out-marriage of women, more
than out-marriage of men, is seen a priori as problematic. Women are warned against out-marriage,
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whereas men are not. After marriage, women are assumed to cross over to the culture of their partner,
even if their partner is the one who belongs to a minority. Out-marrying women are described in
sexually laden disapproving terms even if they are in a stable monogamous relationship, implying that
by crossing one boundary – ethnic – they have also crossed the boundary as to what is morally
acceptable. Out-marrying women are accused of adultery, where the betrayed party is not a (potential)
husband, but the group she is felt to belong to. Out-marrying women are seen as being lost to their
original community, whereas out-marrying men are not. Women are seen as objects of loss and gain,
whereas men are seen as conquerors. Families and ethnic groups feel they need to be protected against
this kind of ‘losses’. At the same time, however, women could generally more easily acquire a new
nationality through marriage than men could. Marriages of women outside their primordial group are
also seen as a threat to the group. After marriage, women are no longer considered to belong to their
original ‘group’ emotionally (and often also juridically). Secondly, in the discussions on gender and
migration Susan Okin’s article ‘Is multiculturalism bad for women?’ has played an important role. It
has led to studies and debates on the extent to which the so-called multi-cultural policies, which many
countries followed since the 1970s, were bad for women. This policy ‘allowed’ immigrants to be
different. A debate has erupted over how this policy has created, stressed and maintained differences
between immigrant men and women. As part of this policy frequent reference was made to family,
portraying all immigrant women as wives and mothers. Defences for certain practices (such as honour
killings or forced marriages) were based on tradition. Immigrants were granted group rights, which
were different from those of non-migrants, but which were usually bad for immigrant women (and
profitable for men). This multi-cultural policy is considered to have been bad for immigrant women
since stress on cultural difference and traditional values often implied restricted rights for women.
Furthermore, because they were seen as backward and traditional (especially when they came from
Islamic countries), policy makers for a long time thought it best to reach immigrant women via men.
In the third place, one of the most important issues in the discussion on gender and migration is the
trafficking of women. It is as trafficked women that women migrants gain a high visibility in academic,
public and political discourse. Men are more often regarded as being smuggled, women as being
trafficked. The definition of trafficking emphasises that people are transferred against their will, while
the definition of smuggling not only implies consent but also payments. In debates, trafficking is often
used as a synonym for prostitution. The gendered discourse about abuse is applied to women only. The
assumption that women are more often trafficked leads to a stronger monitoring of migrant women, as
opposed to men. It also leads to all migrant women being portrayed as (potential) victims of rape and
other sexual harassment. Although differences between migrant men and women have been noted,
they have not been described systematically over an extended period of time. Several authors have
stressed the need for such an approach and for more research on migration from a gender perspective.
The hypothesis underlying our research is that some of the differences can be explained by the different
ways in which the vulnerability of (potential) migrant women and men are constructed. Migrants
themselves, their families, immigrant communities, employers, lawyers, governments, organizations
and media reports all play a role in the construction of this vulnerability. The heuristic constructed
vulnerability model builds on recent research on gendered assumptions about vulnerability in
migration discourses. The model also builds on research into the social construction of risks,
acceptability of risk, and risk avoidance. Although the model is thus firmly rooted in current research,
constructed vulnerability has not yet been used to explain systematically gendered differences within
migration and settlement.
Since it is our aim to explain differences between migrant men and women, it is important to note that
several authors have stressed that there is no consensus as yet about what these differences are. Various
attempts have been made to take inventory of differences between migrant men and women, but
researchers agree that the results have been somewhat disappointing. The constructed vulnerability
model is based on what is now known about differences between men and women in migration. The
differences that are created do not (necessarily) result in a restriction of the migration of women, but
do cause women to migrate via different routes, with different agency. They are submitted to more
social monitoring and they seek to avoid (perceived) risks. Immigrant women are (perceived to
be)more at risk and are (perceived to have) less capacity to cope with hazards. The result is that they
are (perceived as) more vulnerable. Rights and opportunities are different, as are the safety nets to fall
back on. As a result they set up and make use of different networks than men.
The four projects that are part of this research are described in more detail below.
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In Between (Post-doctoral project)
Corrie van Eijl
Since the 1950’s the Netherlands changed from a country with low numbers of immigrants into a
multicultural and multicoloured society. Yet there is an increasing group of immigrants whose stay has
a provisional character, either by choice or out of necessity. On the one hand there are ‘irregular
migrants’ who lack the necessary permits or papers; on the other hand migrants who reside in the
country for a long period of time but who maintain strong ties with their mother country and intend
to return or do return. In the context of this project special attention will be drawn to state policy,
international developments and gender. State policy contributed to the construction of this ‘home in
between’ for immigrants and was a main actor for changes. The construction of this provisional
situation is not restricted to the Netherlands, and no more are the strict immigration regulations and
the actions against illegal immigrants. Regulations and implementations distinguish (directly and
indirectly) between men and women. Besides, motives and possibilities to migrate to the Netherlands,
to stay there or to return are different for men and women.
Women at Risk? Male and Female Asylum Seekers in the Dutch Asylum
Procedure 1945-2000 (PhD-project) Tycho Walaardt
Various researchers have raised the issue that female asylum seekers were granted more often refugee
status than male asylum seekers in the Dutch asylum procedure. Jurists, sociologists and
anthropologists gave several reasons why women are more successful within this procedure, but mostly
these explanations are rather speculative. They also lack an historical component. The abovementioned favourable position of women contrasts sharply with the dominant image of a refugee: a
political active male dissident. In my dissertation I will try to answer the question how and why gender
played a role in the asylum procedure since the Second World War. The contents of individual case
files of asylum seekers, present in the IND-archive, will be my main source of information. My
hypothesis is that the arguments used by advocates of female asylum seekers to protest against a
negative decision of the IND differed from the arguments used by advocates of their male
counterparts. An advocate might be the individual himself, but could also be a friend, a relative, a
colleague, a member of a refugee aid organization, a lawyer, a representative of a ministry, a politician,
etc. By doing longitudinal research it seems plausible to distinguish constants, which were raised to
defend male and female asylum seekers during different periods.
Transnational Ties with the Country of Origin: Moroccan Migrants and TheirDescendants
in the Netherlands, 1960-2000
(PhD-project) Nadia Bouras
Research shows that transnational participation is supposedly gendered. The field of institutional and
public transnational activities is mostly a male-dominated area, whereas women are more engaged in
the social life of the receiving society. These differential forms of gender participation in transnational
and local contexts are related to the fact that migration has different outcomes for men and women.
Transnational ties imply the ways in which transmigrants maintain, build and reinforce multiple
linkages with their country of origin and the country of settlement. In my research I explore the
linkages first and second generation Moroccans in the Netherlands maintain with their country of
origin from a gender perspective. The implications of transnational-ism for both first en second
generation Moroccan men and women will be considered. I will first explore the role migrant men and
women of the first generation play in the maintenance of transnational ties, in which the gendered
differences over time will be explained. Secondly, I will examine how these transnational linkages differ
from the ties second generation Moroccans maintain.
Ethnically Mixed Relationships in a Postcolonial Context, 1945-2000
(PhD project) Charlotte Laarman
My research focuses on mixed relationships of immigrants from former colonies of the Netherlands
from a gender perspective. I will look at how boundaries are drawn between ‘us’ and ‘them’, between
the Dutch and immigrants from former colonies, and how and why this is different for men and
women. These boundaries are constructed or invented in public and political debates relating to
mixed. relationships in the Netherlands. Furthermore I will use a historical perspective which will shed
light on changes in ideas on what is ‘mixed’. The Dutch government set out a policy concerning mixed
relationships in the Dutch East Indies which was different from the policy in Suriname and the
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Netherlands Antilles. This influenced the (gendered) ways in which both the immigrants and the
Dutch considered mixed relationships. What the immigrants perceived as ‘different’ changed by the
process of migration, but some perceptions of difference persisted.
Uncovering the Determinants of Labor Union Support for Redistribution:
Union Structure and Cross-National Differences in Income Inequality
(Rubicon project)Dennie Oude Nijhuis
This research project aims to contribute to our understanding of the causes of cross-national
differences in income inequality by conducting a comparative analysis of organized labor’s post-war
involvement in wage bargaining and the development of redistributive policies in the Netherlands, the
United Kingdom, the United States and Sweden. The main purpose of the project is to uncover the
determinants of labor union support for wage compression and redistributive government
intervention in the labor market. Despite massive attention for the involvement of labor unions in
labor market development, this issue has not been addressed in a systematic manner. In much of the
literature on income equality and the broader literature on labor market development, labor union
support redistribution is simply taken for granted. This project proceeds from the recognition that
labor union support for redistribution depends on the organizational structure of labor unions.
Crime and gender 1600-1900: a comparative perspective
Manon van der Heijden
This project contests the assumption of criminologists that gender differences in recorded crime are
static over time and that women are in general less likely to commit a crime than men. We argue that
there is discontinuity rather than continuity in the contribution of men and women to criminality.
Given the evidence of high female crime rates at times in the past, the need for a long- term historical
approach to crime and gender has been stressed. However, so far no scholar has taken up the challenge.
This project presents a new dynamic perspective, that of change and variation. It aims at developing an
explanatory model of gendered crime patterns by providing a comparative analysis of crime and
gender between 1600 and 1900 based on various primary sources.
Crime rates defined by public roles
The hypothesis is that gender differences in crime rates are strongly determined by the public roles
attributed to men and women, which have varied over time and space. Scholars generally assume that
women commit fewer and different crimes than men because of the different nature of their public
lives. Specific gender roles would also lead to prosecutors and courts treating men and women
differently. However, this assumption has never been tested in a long-term comparative perspective.
The innovative character of the proposed research lies in the fact that it introduces a conceptual
framework of public roles that looks at both ideologies regarding the role of men and women and
practices in public life, and their impact on gender differences in recorded crime. This model
distinguishes between various public activities of men and women, and links such roles to a set of five
determinant factors: 1. Moral and legal norms 2. Urbanisation 3. Family structure 4. Labour
participation 5. Living standards.
The project combines developments through time with comparisons between different societies, first
of all within Europe, but ultimately also globally. By comparing England, Germany, Italy and the
Netherlands, this project offers both quantitative and qualitative data to test the impact of public roles
on gender differences in recorded crime in this part of the world. Such an analysis will be an important
step in developing a European and global field of comparative historical studies that will help to
explain gender differences in crime linked to the public roles of men and women in various areas of the
world.
Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires 1500-1750: a Comparative Overview of Free Agents
and Informal Empires in Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire.
Catia Antunes
How did ‘free agents’ (entrepreneurs operating outside of the myriad of interests of the centralized,
state-sponsored monopolies) in Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire react to the creation of
colonial monopolies (royal monopolies and chartered companies) by the central states in the Early
Modern period? This proposal will answer this question by looking at the role individuals played in the
construction of what I have called “informal empires”, understood as a multitude of self-organized
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networks operating world-wide, whose main goal was safeguarding their personal social and economic
advantages, regardless of (and in spite of) state intervention.
Self-organized networks challenged royal monopolies held by the Ottoman Sultans, the Iberian and
French Kings and the Dutch, the English, Swedish or Danish chartered companies. Free agents, their
families and networks operated in the Atlantic or Asia, across geographical borders between empires,
went beyond the restrictions imposed by religious differences, ethnic diversity or the interests of the
different central states had in Europe, or in their territories in Africa, the Americas and/or Asia, and led
to the questioning of loyalties and the redefinition of identities. This informal empire, brought to
fruition by the individual choices of free agents and their networks as a reaction to the state-imposed
monopolies, was, I hypothesize, a borderless, self-organized, often cross-cultural, multi-ethnic, plurinational and stateless world that can only be characterized as global.
The informal empires resulting from the self-organized networks of free agents operated alongside the
institutional empires promoted by the central states and put into place by the monopoly holders. My
research question will challenge traditional historiography that privileges the role that institutionalized
monopolies played in building empires, while all but ignoring the contribution of free agency to the
construction, maintenance and growth of those same empires.
My approach is innovative in that it employs a theoretical grid for the analysis of the instances in which
Early Modern monopolies were challenged, mediated, co-opted or quite simply hijacked by free agents.
My model delineates actions an re-actions such as illegal activities, cooperative strategies or even
extensive collaboration between free agents and central states. Based on the unique comparison
between Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire, as well as in analyses linking the Atlantic and the
Asian expansions of European empires, our proposal will pioneer a new approach to the comparative
history of empires between 1500 and 1750.
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Research Master Programme
The Research Masters Programme in History is founded on fields of research well presented in Leiden.
The programme consists of five specialisations each containing a number of specific subjects and
possibilities. The five specialisations are: Ancient History, Medieval and Early Modern European
History, History of Political Culture and National Identities, History of European Expansion and
Globalisation, and History of Migration and Global Interdependence. The individual students’
interests, knowledge, and capabilities determine the ‘specialisation’ ultimately decided upon. Following
their examinations the Research Masters students will be able to function as a beginning academic
researcher, either in a semi-academic position, or at an university. The student will be well-prepared to
conduct PhD research successfully within the time limits set.
The components of the Research Masters Programme in the first year include a literature seminar, a
research seminar and a seminar on historical theory in the fall semester, and a tutorial, a colloquium
on historical controversies and a research seminar in the spring semester. The second year offers
students the possibility to take classes in a masters programme of another discipline and at another
university (in the Netherlands or abroad) up to 20 ECTS. The remaining part of the second year is
focussed on the writing of a substantial research masters thesis based on original source research and in
principal worthy of elaboration into a PhD dissertation.
The total number of research master students in the Institute for History in 2013: 56.
PhD Programme
The PhD programme in history is characterized by a strong international orientation, a broad variety
of disciplinary perspectives, a focus on the use of primary sources and an incorporation into a
humanities faculty which is the only such faculty in The Netherlands to provide the opportunity to
study the languages and cultures of Africa, Asia and America.
PhD candidates primarily focus on conducting research and writing their dissertation under the
guidance of their supervisor. In addition, they take a range of courses relevant to their field of research,
which are offered by the Institute for History and other institutions, including national research
schools in the field of history. PhD candidates are also involved in teaching history. To prepare them
for these teaching tasks the candidates follow apractical educational course. Finally, the PhD
programme provides a timely orientation towards a career after the completion of the PhD.
The number of regular PhD candidates currently employed in the Institute for History is 69.
Besides, there are more than 100 PhD candidates affiliated to the institute but mostly having their
working place elsewhere.
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Graduate Seminars
February 15
Chair: Jeroen Duindam
Presentation: Marianne Eekhout
Commentary: Frits Naerebout and Eric Storm
March 21
Chair: Jos Gommans
Presentation: Farabi Fakih
Commentary: Catia Antunes and Erika Kuijpers
April 11
Chair: Bart van der Boom
Presentation: Constant Hijzen
Commentary: Joost Augusteijn en Mark de Vries
May 9
Chair: Jeroen Duindam
Presentation: Johannes Müller
Commentary: Jos Gommans and Herman Paul
June 6
Chair: Bart van der Boom
Presentation: Albertine Bloemendal
Commentary: André Gerrits and Diederik Smit
September 19
Chair: Laura Visser-Maessen
Presentation: Cátia Antunes
Commentary: Jeroen Duindam and Geerten Waling
October 17
Chair: Constant Hijzen
Presentation: Diederik Smit
Commentary: Maartje Janse and Aniek Smit
November 14
Chair: Johannes Müller
Presentation: Anne Petterson
Commentary: Eduard van de Bilt and Elisabeth Dieterman
December 12
Chair: Geerten Waling
Presentation: Nadeera Seneviratne
Commentary: Charles Jeurgens and Ali al Tuma
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Members
A. Adamou, MA
Phd Candidate
Theme: Colonia land Global History
Dr. J.C. G. Aguiar
Lecturer
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Ms. Dr. C.A.P. Antunes
Lecturer
Theme: Colonia land Global History
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Dr. J. Augusteijn
Lecturer
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Dr. M. Bader
Lecturer
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Ms. Dr. K. Beerden
PhD candidate
Theme: The Unification of the Mediterranean World (400 BC- 400 AD)
Ms. M. Bekker
PhD candidate
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Dr. E.F. van de Bilt
Lecturer
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Ms. N.A. Bloemendal MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Prof. Dr. J.L. Blussé van Oud Alblas
Professor
Theme: Colonia land Global History
Ms. Dr. S.A. Bonjour
Researcher
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Dr. B.E. van der Boom
Lecturer
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Ms. C.Y.E. Boot MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
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D. Boro
PhD candidate
Theme: Colonia land Global History
Dr. D. Bos
Lecturer
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Ms. Prof. Dr. M.E. de Bruijn
Professor
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Theme: Migration and Global Interdependence
Ms. Dr. M.F. Carmody
Lecturer
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Ms. Dr. L.M.G.F.E. Claes
Lecturer
Theme: The Unification of the Mediterranean World (400 BC- 400 AD)
A. Chaudhuri MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Dr. H. Colak
Postdoctoral Researcher
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Dr. P.G.C. Dassen
Lecturer
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Ms. E.M. Dieterman MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Ms. Dr. A.M.C. van Dissel
Lecturer
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Prof. Dr. H.W. van den Doel
Professor
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
D. Donev MA
PhD candidate
Theme: The Unification of the Mediterranean World (400 BC- 400 AD)
Prof. Dr. J.F.J. Duindam
Professor
Theme: Collective identities and Transnational Networks in
Europe, 1000-1800
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Dr. M.A. Ebben
Lecturer
Theme: Collective identities and Transnational Networks in Europe, 1000-1800
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Ms. M.F.D. Eekhout MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Collective identities and Transnational Networks in Europe, 1000-1800
Dr. G. Eisenloeffel
Lecturer
European Union Studies
Ms. K.J. Ekama MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
C.A. Engberts MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Ms. M. Erkelens MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Dr. R.P. Fagel
Lecturer
Theme: Collective identities and Transnational Networks in Europe, 1000-1800
Prof. Dr. A. Fairclough
Professor
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
F. Fakih MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Colonial and Global History
K.J. Fatah-Black MPhil
PhD candidate
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Ms. Dr. M.F. Favereau-Doumenjou
Post-doctoral researcher
Theme: Collective identities and Transnational Networks in Europe, 1000-1800
Ms. Drs. S. Feyder
PhD canditate
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Dr. M. Flohr
Post-doctoral researcher
Theme: The Unification of the Mediterranean World (400 BC- 400 AD)
Dr. M. J. Frear
Lecturer
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
144
Prof. Dr. A.W.M. Gerrits
Professor
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
M. Gerrits MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Collective identities and Transnational Networks in Europe, 1000-1800
Dr. J.B. Gewald
Professor
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Prof. Dr. J.J.L. Gommans
Professor
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Ms. Prof. Dr. B.A. de Graaf
Professor
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Ms. M.J. Groen-Vallinga MPhil
PhD candidate
Theme: The Unification of the Mediterranean World (400 BC- 400 AD)
Dr. D. Haks
Lecturer
Theme: Collective Identities and Transnational Networks in Europe, 1000-1800
Ms. Prof. Dr. M.P.C. van der Heijden
Lecturer
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Prof. Dr. H.J. den Heijer
Professor
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Ms. E.A.R. Heijmans MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Ms. A. Heyer MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Drs. C.W. Hijzen
PhD candidate
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Dr. M. S. Hobson
Post-doctoral researcher
Theme: The Unification of the Mediterranean World (400 BC- 400 AD)
Prof. Dr. P.C.M. Hoppenbrouwers
Professor
Theme: Collective Identities and Transnational Networks in Europe, 1000-1800
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P.H.A. Houten MA
PhD candidate
Theme: The Unification of the Mediterranean World (400 BC- 400 AD)
Dr. A. Janse
Lecturer
Theme: Collective Identities and Transnational Networks in Europe, 1000-1800
Ms. Dr. M.J. Janse
Post-doctoral researcher
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
M.K. Jha, MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Prof. Dr. K.J.P.F.M. Jeurgens
Professor
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Dr. J.H.M. de Jong
Lecturer
Theme: The Unification of the Mediterranean World (400 BC – 400 AD)
Ms. J.M. Kamp MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Ms. Drs. M. Kamphuis
PhD candidate
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Dr. J.H.C. Kern
Lecturer
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
D.J. Klein Kranenburg
PhD candidate
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
P. Kloeg MA
PhD candidate
Theme: The Unification of the Mediterranean World (400 BC- 400 AD)
M. Kooriadathodi MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Dr. J.F. de Kort
Lecturer
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Dr. D.E. Kretschmann
Lecturer
Theme: The Unification of the Mediterranean World (400 BC – 400 AD)
146
Ms. Dr. H.M.E.P. Kuijpers
Lecturer/post-doctoral researcher
Theme: Collective Identities and Transnational Networks in Europe, 1000-1800
Ms. M. Kuruppath MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Colonia land Global History
Ms. Drs. C.J. Laarman
PhD candidate
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Prof. Dr. L. de Ligt
Professor
Theme: The Unification of the Mediterranean World (400 BC – 400 AD)
Ms. I. Ligtvoet MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Dr. J.Th. Lindblad
Lecturer
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
A. Lopez MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Prof. Dr. L.A.C.J. Lucassen
Professor
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Ms. K. Manteufel MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Ms. H. Mazepus MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Dr. P.J.J. Meel
Lecturer
Theme: Colonia land Global History
Prof. Dr. J.A. Mol
Professor
Theme: Collective Identities and Transnational Networks in Europe, 1000-1800
J.M. Müller MPhil
PhD candidate
Theme: Collective Identities and Transnational Networks in Europe, 1000-1800
Ms. S.T.D. Muurling MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
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Dr. F.G. Naerebout
Lecturer
Theme: The Unification of the Mediterranean World (400 BC – 400 AD)
Ms. Dr. C.M. Nakamura
Post-doctoral researcher
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Drs. B. Noordam
PhD candidate
Theme: Colonia land Global History
Dr. G.A. Noordzij
Lecturer
Theme: Collective Identities and Transnational Networks in Europe, 1000-1800
E. L.L. Odegard MPhil
PhD candidate
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Ms. Dr. A.M. O’Malley
Lecturer
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Prof. Dr. G.J. Oostindie
Professor
Theme: Colonial and Global History
A.R. Othatingal MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Ms. S.A. Otterloo MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Prof. Dr. W. Otterspeer
Professor
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Dr. D.M. Oude Nijhuis
Lecturer
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Dr. D.A. Pargas
Lecturer
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
K. Pazmany MA
PhD candidate
Theme: The Unification of the Mediterranean World (400 BC – 400 AD)
148
Dr. H.J. Paul
Lecturer
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Ms. Dr. L. Pelckmans
Post-doctoral researcher
Theme: Colonia land Global History
F. Pellegrino MA
PhD candidate
Theme: The Unification of the Mediterranean World (400 BC- 400 AD)
E.F. C.B. Pereira MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Ms. I. Pesa MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Ms. J.I. Petter
Lecturer
European Union Studies
Ms. A.F. Petterson MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
D. Pfeifer MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Collective Identities and Transnational Networks in Europe, 1000-1800
V.T. Pham MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Ms. Dr. M. Pluskota
Post-doctoral researcher
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Ms. Prof. Dr. J. S. Pollmann
Professor
Theme: Collective Identities and Transnational Networks in Europe, 1000-1800
Dr. G.C. Quispel
Lecturer
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Ms. S. Ravensbergen MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Ms. Dr. A.I. Richard
Lecturer
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
149
Ms. Dr. J.V. Roitman
Researcher
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Prof. Dr. J.Q.T. Rood
Professor
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Ms. E.W. Rosen Jacobson MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Prof. Dr. R.J. Ross
Professor
Theme: Colonial and Global History
M. van Rossum MPhil
Lecturer
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Ms. Dr. F. Rosu
Lecturer
Theme: Collective Identities and Transnational Networks in Europe, 1000-1800
J.J.L. Saarloos MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Dr. F. Schipper
Lecturer
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Ms. Dr. A. Schmidt
Lecturer
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Ms. Dr. A.F. Schrikker
Lecturer
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Ms. Prof. Dr. M.L.J.C. Schrover
Professor
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Prof. Dr. G.P. Scott-Smith
Professor
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Ms. N.T. Seneviratne MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Dr. L.H.J. Sicking
Lecturer
Theme: Collective Identities and Transnational Networks in Europe, 1000-1800
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Prof. Dr. P. Silva
Professor
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Ms. A.X. Smit MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Cities,Migration and Global Interdependence
D.E.J. Smit MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Ms. Drs. J. Smithuis
PhD candidate
Theme: Collective Identities and Transnational Networks in Europe, 1000-1800
H.A.S. Solheim MPhil
PhD candidate
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
A.A. Souleymane MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Colonia land Global History
R. J. Stapel MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Collective Identities and Transnational Networks in Europe, 1000-1800
J.A. van der Steen MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Collective Identities and Transnational Networks in Europe, 1000-1800
Dr. R. Stein
Lecturer
Theme: Collective Identities and Transnational Networks in Europe, 1000-1800
Ms. Dr. C. M. Stolte
Lecturer
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Dr. H.J. Storm
Lecturer
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
B. Sur MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Ms. J.M. Svalastog MA
Researcher
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Dr. L.E. Tacoma
Lecturer
Theme: The Unification of the Mediterranean World (400 BC- 400 AD)
151
Ms. Dr. A.C.M. Tijsseling
Lecturer
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
J.J.S. van den Tol MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Dr. L.J. Touwen
Lecturer
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
A. al Tuma MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Dr. R.A. Tybout
Researcher
Theme: The Unification of the Mediterranean World (400 BC – 400 AD)
Ms. C. Tzanatea MA
PhD candidate
Theme: The Unification of the Mediterranean World (400 BC – 400 AD)
Ms. S. Valdivia Rivera MPhil
PhD candidate
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Prof. Dr. H. te Velde
Professor
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Drs. A.P. van Veldhuizen
PhD candidate
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
Ms. Drs. L.G.M. Visser-Maessen
PhD candidate
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
M.L. de Vries MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
G. H. Waling MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Political Culture and National Identities
A. Weber MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Ms. Dr. M.L. Wiesebron
Lecturer
Theme: Colonial and Global History
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Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Prof. Dr. W.H. Willems
Professor
Theme: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence
Dr. R. Willet
Post-doctoral researcher
Theme: The Unification of the Mediterranean World (400 BC- 400 AD)
Ms. M.C. Wilson MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Colonial and Global History
K. H. Wirta MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Migration and Global Interdependence
Ms. Dr. J.J. Wubs-Mrozewic
Post-doctoral researcher
Theme: Collective Identities and Transnational Networks in Europe, 1000-1800
X. Xu MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Colonial and Global History
Ms. E.P.M. Zwinkels MA
PhD candidate
Theme: Colonial and Global History
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