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Institute for History 


Annual Report 

2010 

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Institute for History Annual Report 2010 

Colophon 

© Institute for History, 2011 

www.history.leidenuniv.nl 

Composition: 

José Birker, Efy Matulessy and Peter Meel 

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Index 


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Page 

Introduction 4 

Boards and Committees 8 

The Unification of the Mediterranean World 10 

The Dynamics of European Identity, 1300-1700 21 

Political Culture and National Identities 54 

European Expansion and Globalisation 77 

Migration and Global Interdependence 110 

Research Master Programme 133 

PhD Programme 133 

Graduate Seminars 135 

Members 136

Introduction 

In 2010, there was a substantial increase in the 

number of staff members working in the Institute 

for History. In 2008, when a similar development 

took place, this was due to the restructuring and 

reorganization processes the Faculty of 

Humanities went through. This time the rising 

number of staff members mainly resulted from the 

continuous influx of PhD students (and – to a 

lesser extent – postdoctoral researchers) which 

visibly aggrandized the capacity of the Institute. 

Although these temporary staff members are 

predominantly funded externally, the board of the 

Institute managed to finance one PhD position 

with internal funds. This position was advertised 

especially for former research master students in 

the Institute, who had been excluded from opting 

for an open PhD position during the preceding 

two years. Furthermore, the board was able to 

introduce a subsidy instrument allowing staff 

members to take a sabbatical. This instrument will 

be treated in more detail below. First attention will 

be paid to the celebration of the Fruin year, which 

shed a special light on the twelve months under 

review here. 

Fruin year 

In commemoration of the acceptance in 1860 of the 

chair in Dutch national history by its first holder 

Robert Fruin on 1 June the Institute for History 

together with the Faculty of Humanities organized 

a colloquium entitled Between History and 


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Society. The importance of history research for 

society and good citizenship being the theme of 

Fruin’s inauguration speech the organizers 

thought it appropriate to reconsider the role of the 

historian against the backdrop of contemporary 

societal developments. Three well-known 

researchers – prof Henk te Velde, prof Marjan 

Schwegman (NIOD) and prof Piet de Rooy (UvA) 

– each presented their views on this highly 

relevant subject. Following their presentations the 

latter two were offered Het vaderlandse verleden. 

Robert Fruin en de Nederlandse geschiedenis by 

editors Henk te Velde and Dr Herman Paul. After 

the tea break under the leadership of Henk te 

Velde four Dutch politicians took part in a lively 

debate about the political importance of history, 

the planned National Historical Museum and the 

canon of Dutch history. On 4 June Fruin was also 

the object of discussion in the workshop Fathers of 

History: Genealogies of the Historical Discipline 

organized by Herman Paul. 

Sabbaticals 

Sabbaticals are realized by awarding candidates a 

one semester relief from teaching obligations. The 

laureate is expected to finish a monograph and/or 

a substantial research proposal during the time of 

his leave. Candidates hand in an application 

entailing a description of their research project, an 

elaborate working plan and an indication of the 

scientific value of the proposed research. Selection 

takes place on the basis of a peer review 

procedure. A special committee consisting of 

senior staff members evaluates the applications

and advises the board of the Institute. It is the 

board that decides about the funding requests that 

have been sent in and about the amount of subsidy 

involved to temporary replace candidates for their 

teaching duties. The board of the Institute 

considers its sabbatical programme a welcome 

addition to its HRM policy. It particularly wishes 

to address the research needs of assistant and 

associate professors and further boost their 

publication record. 

In 2010 laureates were Dr. Dennis Bos, Dr. Patrick 

Dassen and Dr. Robert Stein. 

Research funding 

The Institute for History successfully gained 

external funding to carry out research projects 

within the five specializations that constitute the 

backbone of the Institute’s research programme. 

Although compared to 2009 the amount of money 

acquired in 2010 slightly decreased the substance 

and impact of the earnings are still difficult to 

overestimate. Not unlike developments in 

previous years the Dutch national science 

foundation (NWO) acted as the Institute’s main 

research sponsor. Special mention should be made 

of two large programmes that will be executed in 

collaboration with partner universities in the 

Netherlands. These programmes are Eurasian 

Empires: Integration Processes and Identity formations. 

A Comparative Program and Processes of Integration 

in History. 


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A full list of the research proposals that were 

awarded financial means in 2010 (including those 

within the Leiden University research profile 

areas) can be found here. 

*NWO funded projects and programmes: 

VENI-subsidy 

Dealing with Foreign Traders, Dealing with Conflict. 

Strategies of Conflict Resolution and Their Role in 

Trade Relations in the Baltic c. 1450-1580 

Dr Justyna Wubs-Mrozewics - € 250.000. 

Rubicon subsidy 

Uncovering the Determinants of Organized Labor 

Support for Redistribution: Union Structure and 

Cross-National Variation in Income Inequality 

Dr. Dennie Oude Nijhuis - € 44.7000. 

Rubicon subsidy 

Families, Corporations and Institutions. The Role of 

Trust in the Formation of Urban Communities in 

Western Europe, 1250-1500 

Dr. Arie van Steensel - € 55.000. 

AIO position Duurzame Geesteswetenschappen 

Recognition and Retribution. Transitional Justice in the 

Netherlands Indies after the Second World War 

Prof. H.W. van den Doel, Dr. Th. Lindblad 

(Esther Zwinkels MA) - € 210.013. 

Mozaïek subsidy 

Aliens wanted? A Study in Cultural Interactions 

Following the Entrance of North African troops into 

Europe (1936-1945)

Prof. Dr. H. te Velde, Dr .H.J. Storm 

(Ali Al Tuma MA) - € 200.000. 

Open competition (small programme) 

Moving Romans. Urbanisation, Migration and Labour 

in the Roman Principate 

Prof. Dr. L. de Ligt 

(Dr. Rens Tacoma en Miriam Groen-Vallinga 

MPhil.) - € 522.318. 

NWO G-programme 

Eurasian Empires: Integration Processes and Identity 

Formations. A Comparative Program 

Prof. Dr. J.F.J. Duindam, Prof. Dr. J.J.L. Gommans, 

Prof. Dr. P.J.A.N. Rietbergen (RU), Dr. M.L.M. 

van Berkel (UvA) - € 1.932.348. 

NWO Graduate Programme 

For the N.W. Posthumus Institute 

Processes of Integration in History 

Dr. L.J. Touwen with Prof. Dr. M.L.J.C. Schrover, 

Prof. Dr. C.A. Davids (VU), Dr. M.C. ‘t Hart 

(UvA), Prof. Dr. J.L. van Zanden (UU) - € 800.000. 

*Leiden University research profile areas 

AIO position Profile area Global Connections 

Not all Gin and Tonics by the Pool”: On the Role of 

Western and Non-Western Expats as ‘Agents of 

Globalisation’ in the Cities of The Hague and Jakarta, 

1850-2010 

Prof. Dr. L.A.C.J. Lucassen 

(Aniek Smit MA) - € 180.000. 

AIO position Profile area Political Legitimacy 


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Politieke legitimiteit in debat. Democratie en gezag in 

Nederland in de jaren 1880, 1930 en 1960 

Prof. Dr. H. te Velde 

(Elisabeth Dieterman MA) - € 183.000. 

AIO position Profile area Political Legitimacy 

Public Security, Governability and Political 

Legitimacy in Bogotá, Colombia, 1980-2010 

Prof. Dr. P. Silva 

(Havar Solheim) - € 200.000. 

*European Union 

European Union Marie Curie Individual 

Fellowship 

Migration and Citizenship in Western Europe: A 

History 


(Dr. Guido Tintori) - € 150.284. 

*Private funding 

Karwansaray B.V. Rotterdam 

Alva-Project: Collection of Biographical Articles on 

Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Third Duke of Alba 

Dr. Maurits Ebben - € 85,000,- 

Grand total: € 4.612.663. 

Minus funding contributions awarded to partner 

universities: € 2.724.431. 

Research output 

Staff members of the Institute produced a great 

variety of monographs, edited volumes, journal 

articles and popular publications. The following 

monographs deserve special attention: Van


regentenmentaliteit tot populisme (Amsterdam: Bert 

Bakker), a thorough examination of Dutch political 

traditions by Henk te Velde, Patrick Pearse: The 

Making of a Revolutionary (Basingstoke: Palgrave 

Macmillan), a new comprehensive biography of 

the founding father of the Irish state by Joost 

Augusteijn, Metropolen aan de Noordzee 

(Amsterdam: Bert Bakker), an analysis of the 

economic and cultural lead Vlaanderen, Brabant 

and Zeeland took in the 1100-1650 period by Wim 

Blockmans and The culture of regionalism: Art, 

architecture and international exhibitions in France, 

Germany and Spain, 1890-1939 (Manchester: 

Manchester University Press), a pioneering study 

on art, regionalism and nation-building in early 

20th century Europe by Eric Storm. 

Dr P.J.J. Meel 

Director of Research 

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Boards and Committees 

Board Institute for History 

Till October 15, 2010 


Dr. J. Augusteijn 

Ms. Drs. C. Stolte (PhD member) 

B. Hoonhout (student member) 

From October 15, 2010 


Dr. F.G. Naerebout 

Drs. K.J. Fatah-Black (PhD member) 

Ms. J. Lindhout (student member) 

D. Claszen (student member) 

Advisors 

Dr. P.J.J. Meel (director of research) 

Ms. J.W.G. Birker-van Herten (institute manager) 

Research Master Educational Review 

Committee 


Staff-members 

Prof. Dr. L.A.C.J. Lucassen (chairman) 

Ms. Prof. Dr. J.S. Pollmann 

Dr. P.J.J. Meel 

Student-members 


D. Claszen 

S. Kruithof 


S. Kamphorst 

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D. Claszen 

L. de Beer 

M. Messink 

Board of Examiners 


Dr. J. Augusteijn (chairman) 

Dr. M.A. Ebben 

Prof. Dr. P.C.M. Hoppenbrouwers 


Prof. Dr. M.L.J.C. Schrover 

Dr. L.J. Touwen (secretary) 


Dr. J. Augusteijn (secretary) 

Dr. M.A. Ebben (chairman) 


Prof. Dr. M.L.J.C. Schrover 

Dr. L.E. Tacoma 

Board of Admissions Research 

Master 

Prof. Dr. P.C. Emmer/Prof. Dr. J.J.L. Gommans 





Ms. Prof. Dr. M.E.H.N. Mout/Prof.Dr. J.F.J. 

Duindam 

Prof. Dr. H. te Velde

Coordinators Research 

Specilizations 

The Unification of the Mediterranean World, Dr. 

L.E. Tacoma. 

The Dynamics of European Identity, 1300-1700, 

Prof. Dr. J. S. Pollmann/Prof. Dr. J.F.J. Duindam. 

Political Culture and National Identities, Dr. P.C. 

Dassen/Dr. B.E. van der Boom. 

European Expansion and Globalisation, Prof.Dr. 

P.C. Emmer/Prof.Dr. J.J.L. Gommans. 

Migration and Global Interdependence, Prof.Dr. 

M.L.J.C. Schrover. 

Institute’s Office 

Ms. J.W.G. Birker-van Herten 

Ms. E.P. Matulessy 

Ms. R.J. Wensma 

Ms. M.C.E. van Wissen-van Staden 

PhD Council 


Ms. Drs. C. Stolte, chair 

Members: all PhD students and external PhD 

students 

From October 15, 2010: 

Drs. K.J. Fatah-Black, chair 

Members: all PhD students and external PhD 

students 

Bachelor and Master Educational 

Review Committee (OLC) 


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Dr. D. Bos (chair) 

Dr. L.H.J. Sicking 

Dr. H.W. Singor (till October 15, 2010) 

Dr. H.J. Storm 

Dr. L.E. Tacoma (from October 15, 2010) 

Ms. Dr. M.P.C. van der Heijden 

Student-members 


J. Boon (MA) 

J. Reinders 

B.Vrijer 

E.J. Westervelt 

J. Trouw 

From October 15, 2010: 

R. op 't Ende 

J. Reinders 

D.J. Verdel 

E.J. Westervelt 

R. Sevink (MA)

The Unification of the 

Mediterranean World 

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 


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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 interregional 

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 


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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 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 so-called

‘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 


Research 

0.3 fte 

Publications 

Ligt, L. de, Spruit, J.E. & Chorus, J.M.J. 


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Corpus Iuris Civilis, tekst en vertaling, IX. Codex 

Justinianus 9-12. Amsterdam: KNAW Press. 

Ligt, L. de 

[Book review] U. Laffi, Colonie e municipi nello stato 

romano]. Mnemosyne, 63, 162-164. 


Research 

0.3 fte 

Conference attendance 

April 10: ‘The time of your life. Ancient society 

and its awareness of time’. Paper read at the 

Annual Conference of the Classical Association, 

Cardiff, United Kingdom. 

Invited lectures 

April 28: ‘No toga’s, no volcanoes, it’s fucking 

Raymond Chandler’, ‘De ‘Oudheidfilm’ en de 

regisseur’. Paper presentation at Leidschrift 

symposium ‘Film en Historie’, Leiden University, 

with a subsequent panel discussion. 

June 10: ‘But where is the Hellenization debate?’, 

Paper read at a mini-symposium, Bibliotheca 

Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt. 

Conference organization 

January-June: Organizer, with Prof. Jürgen 

Zangenberg, of the Honours Class A world full of 

gods II: Time and the Divine, Leiden University. 

Lectures, symposia, colloquia, presentations

April 7-11: Convener of a panel titled: ‘Some 

thoughts on time in the Graeco-Roman world’, at 

the Classical Association Conference, Cardiff; 

Presenters: Kim Beerden, MA, Dr. Henk Singor 

and Dr. Frederick Naerebout (Leiden University). 

Research leave 

May 30 – June 12: Study trip in Egypt (Cairo, Nile 

Delta, Alexandria), with the support of the Dutch 

and French Institutes at Cairo, the Centre des 

Etudes Alexandrines and The Alexandria Center 

for Hellenistic Studies at Alexandria. 

Referee 

Member of the editorial board of Lampas. 

Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse classici. 

Membership of board committees 

Exam committee Opleiding Geschiedenis (until 

January 2010). 

Education committee Opleiding GLTC. 

Secretary, Opleiding Geschiedenis (from January 

2010). 

Director of Education, Institute for History (from 

January 2010). 

Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD 

committee 

Supervising the PhD thesis of Kim Beerden, MA, 

Carolyn de Greef, MA (Leiden University) and 

Amerso Psarrou (University of Athens). 

Member of the ‘promotiecommissie’ of Kyriakos 

Savvopoulos (Leiden University). 


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Miscellaneous 

March 14: ‘Theater als politiek statement in het 

klassieke Athene’, Paper given at Geert Grote 

University, Deventer. 

Publications 

Naerebout, F.G. 

'In search of a dead rat': the reception of ancient 

Greek dance in late nineteenth-century Europe 

and America. In: Macintosh, F. (Ed.), The ancient 

dancer in the modern world. Responses to Greek and 

Roman dance, pp. 39-56. Oxford: Oxford University 

Press. 

Naerebout, F.G. & Singor, H.W. 

‘De Oudheid. Grieken en Romeinen in de context 

van de wereldgeschiedenis’, 14de druk. 

Amsterdam: Ambo|Anthos. 


How do you want your goddes? From the Galjub 

Hoard to a general vision on religious choice in 

Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. In: Bricault, L. & 

Versluys, M.J. (Eds.) Isis on the Nile. Egyptian gods 

in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. Michel Malaise in 

honorem Vol. 171 (pp. 55-74). Leiden: Brill. 


Intelligently designed stories. Scheppingsmythen 

uit de wereld van de oudheid. Déjà Vu. Periodiek 

van de Studievereniging HSVL, 1, pp. 6-8. 


[Bespreking van: Scholars, Travels, Archives: 

Greek History and Culture through the British 

School at Athens]. In: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 

2010.11.08 

Naerebout, F.G.

[Book review: Die Archäologie der ephesischen 

Artemis: Gestalt und Ritual eines Heiligtums]. In: 

Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2010.05.31 

Dr. H.W. Singor 

Research 

0.3 fte 

Publications 

Singor, H.W. 

'Sicilië: een historisch overzicht'. Hermeneus, 82 (2), 

pp. 50-61. 

Singor, H.W. 

De Komst van Alexander. Alexander de Grote en zijn 

nalatenschap in Azië. Amsterdam: Ambo/Anthos. 

Naerebout, F.G. & Singor, H.W. 

De Oudheid. Grieken en Romeinen in de context van de 

wereldgeschiedenis, 14de druk. Amsterdam: 

Ambo|Anthos. 


Research 

0.3 fte 

Advisory and coordinating activities 

Coördinator MA- and RMA-programmes Ancient 

History Leiden. 

Membership of boards and committees 


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Membership Opleidingscommissie Institute for 

History. 

Membership Examencommissie Institute for 


Externally acquired funds 

Contributed to NWO-application of Prof. Dr. L. de 

Ligt, Moving Romans. 

Publications 

Tacoma, L.E. 

[Book review: Power and Status. Administration, 

appointment politics and social hierarchies in the 

Roman Empire]. Ex Tempore : Historisch Tijdschrift 

KU Nijmegen, 29(3), 260-262. 

Dr. R.A. Tybout 

Research 

1.0 fte 

Publications 

A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, R.S. Stroud, R.A. Tybout, 

Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum volume 

LVI (Brill; Leiden/Boston 2010); XXXVII + 933 pp. 

PhD Candidates 

Ms. K. Beerden MPhil 

Research

0.8 fte 


Lectures 

March 19: ‘Vinicia Tyche – een Romeins grafaltaar’ 

at the SOJA Symposium, Nijmegen. 

March 16: ‘Apocalypse then: a historian’s point of 

view’ at Symposium ‘2012’., Utrecht. 

March 16: Chair symposium ‘2012’, Utrecht 

April 10: ‘Divination and its relationship to past, 

present and future’ Classical Association Cardiff, 

Cardiff, United Kingdom. 

Miscellaneous 

May 4: ‘Divination and time’ , Workshop Honors 

class ‘Time and the divine’, Leiden University. 

Publications 

Beerden, K. 

‘Dismiss me. Enough.’: a comparison between 

Mesopotamian and Greek necromancy. In: 

Rollinger, R., Gufler, B., Lang, M., Madreiter, H. 

(Eds.) Interkulturalität in der Alten Welt: Vorderasien, 

Hellas, Ägypten und die vielfältigen Ebenen des 

Kontakts (pp. 265-281). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 

Verlag. 

Beerden, K. 

'Eureka!', ik heb het gevonden. Leidsch Dagblad 

Beerden, K. 

‘A conspicuous meal: fattening dormice, snails and 

thrushes in the Roman world.’ Petit Propos 

Culinaires, 90, pp. 79-98. 

Beerden, K. 

‘Orakels, waarzeggers en andere 


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toekomstvoorspellers: wat de toekomst ons (niet) 

zal brengen.’ De Academische Boekengids, pp. 12. 

Beerden, K. 

[Book review: The seer in ancient Greece]. In: 

Journal of Religious History, 34, pp. 495-496. 

Ms. M. Groen-Vallinga MPhil 

Research 

0.8 fte 

External PhD Candidates 

Ms. Drs. M. Jorna 

Z. Wang 

Research Master students 

Stijn Berger 

Simke Kamphorst 

Stefan Penders 

Marijn Visscher 

PhD Defences 

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Externally funded programmes 

Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers: The 

Effects of Demographic Growth in Roman

Republican Italy (202-88 BC) 

Luuk de Ligt 

For medieval and modern historians demographic 

change is a major determinant of economic, social, 

military and even political developments. By 

contrast, the vast majority of ancient historians 

content themselves with identifying certain 

periods of population decline, which have a 

suspicious tendency to coincide with eras of 

political and military crisis. One such period is the 

Later Roman Empire, another is the second 

century BC. Strikingly, in most publications in the 

field of ancient history periods of demographic 

growth are conspicuous by their absence. It seems, 

however, possible to explore the significance of the 

demographic factor during at least one muchdiscussed 

period of Roman history, the century 

following the conclusion of the Second Punic War 

(218-202 BC). The specific themes covered by the 

project include the shortage of military manpower 

that supposedly lay behind the Gracchan land 

reforms, the emergence of a more commercialized 

type of agriculture with special reference to the 

number of slaves employed on the slave-staffed 

farms of the elite, the gradual privatization of large 

tracts of public land, and the evolving 

relationships between the Romans on the one 

hand and their Latin and other Italian allies on the 

other. 

The guiding idea underlying the project is that, 

contrary to the prevailing view, the second century 

BC was a period of rapid population growth. 

If this is correct, many time-honoured views concerning 

the background to well-known episodes of 


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Roman republican history, including Tiberius 

Gracchus’ programme of agrarian reform, are up 

for re-assessment. Methodologically, a central 

assumption underlying this research project is that 

those who approach Roman society from the angle 

of demography must do full justice not only to the 

written sources but also to the ever-growing body 

of archaeological evidence. 

The project comprises three PhD-projects and two 

post-doc projects. 

Demographic Developments in Italy (202- 

88 BC) (This PhD-project was finalized in 

2009) 

One of the best-known episodes of Roman republican 

history is the introduction of a spectacular 

programme of agrarian reform by Tiberius 

Sempronius Gracchus, one of the tribunes of the 

plebs of 133 BC. The linchpin of this reform programme 

was the re-affirmation of a pre-existing 

regulation that declared it illegal for anyone to 

occupy more than 125 ha of public land (ager 

publicus). The excess holdings retrieved by the 

state were to be parcelled out to impoverished Roman 

citizens. The present state of research 

concerning this scheme can be characterized as a 

stalemate in which two mutually exclusive 

interpretations hold the field. One school of 

thought starts from the literary sources which tend 

to describe the second century BC as a period in 

which the free population of Italy declined, partly 

as a result of the spread of slavery. The problem 

with this view is that it sits uneasily with the 

archaeological evidence which points to the

continued existence of countless small farms 

during the last two centuries BC (cf. below). 

Building on these non-literary data a vigorous 

school of ‘optimists’ has argued that the idea of 

population decline is a figment of the literary 

tradition. The principal weakness of this position 

is that it makes it difficult to find a convincing 

explanation for the Gracchan land reforms. The 

solution proposed by some optimists is that the 

rationale of these reforms was purely social rather 

than demographic. 

The aim of this project is to test the hypothesis 

that, contrary to all existing reconstructions, the 

second century BC witnessed a rapid expansion 

not only of the Roman citizenry but of the Latin 

and other Italian allies as well. A major advantage 

of this unorthodox approach is that it may provide 

us with a new and convincing background to the 

Sempronian law of 133 BC. The guiding idea is 

that since the obligation to serve in the army 

rested only on those owning a certain amount of 

land, population growth had the paradoxical effect 

of diminishing the number of potential recruits. 

Gaius Marius’ decision to abandon the property 

requirement for military service, taken in 107 BC, 

can be seen as the ultimate solution to this 

problem. The textual evidence pertaining to 

demographic developments during the second 

century BC is surprisingly abundant. Its principal 

components are the census figures reported by 

Livy and other sources, numerous mobilization 

and casualty figures and some valuable surveys of 

the number of recruits available in particular 

years. The aim is to study these data with the help 


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of demographic models, including comparative 

evidence concerning plausible rates of population 

growth. 

The Role of State-Owned Land in the 

Roman Economy (This PhD-project was 

finalized in 2009) 

According to the literary sources the illegal occupation 

of large tracts of public land by the rich led 

to massive rural impoverishment. Since Tiberius 

Gracchus’ proposal concerned the redistribution of 

ager publicus, there seems little reason to challenge 

this picture. Unfortunately, there are serious 

difficulties. Since holdings of public land were not 

counted as part of the private property required 

for military service, it is not immediately apparent 

how the take-over of public land by the wealthy 

elite could have helped to create a shortage of 

potential recruits. It is true that a very substantial 

part of the Italian ager publicus was eventually 

turned into the private property of those already 

holding the land. This, however, seems to have 

happened only after the Gracchi had violently 

been removed from the scene. 

Starting from the idea of population growth a new 

interpretation comes to mind. Is it perhaps the case 

that the importance of communal land in early 

republican history is linked with low population 

densities? And cannot the ultimate privatization of 

much of the former ager publicus be seen as a 

response to an increase in population (as well as to 

the emergence of a more commercialized type of 

agricultural production that was itself linked to 

population growth and urbanization). In exploring

this hypothesis the researcher will take into 

account comparative evidence, including that 

relating to the enclosure movement in earlymodern 

England. 

Partly because conflicts over public land were an 

endemic feature of Roman republican history, 

there is sufficient evidence to permit a detailed 

reconstruction of how large tracts of ager publicus 

ended up in private hands. Since the sources 

pertaining to the final stage of this development 

include the general survey contained in the epigraphic 

Tabula Bembina, the researcher closely 

cooperates with the researcher of project 3. 

Archaeology and Demography: a Re- 

Appraisal of the Evidence (PhD-project) 

Jeremia Pelgrom 

From the mid-1960s onwards archaeologists of 

many nationalities have carried out extensive 

surveys of the Italian countryside in which traces 

of numerous small farms were discovered. Since 

many of these farms seemed to date to the last two 

centuries BC, the initial response was to reject the 

testimony of the literary sources concerning the 

demographic background to the Gracchan land 

reforms. In recent years it has, however, become 

clear that the interpretation of the archaeological 

evidence poses as many problems as the literary 

sources. One problem is that much of the pottery 

originally assigned to the second century BC may 

well belong to an earlier period. A closely related 

difficulty is that some types of pottery appear to 

have circulated more widely than others, so that 

some periods are over-represented in the 


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archaeological record. Finally, many early survey 

reports rather simplistically tended to identify 

small sites as peasant farms and big sites as slavestaffed 

villas. On closer inspection, however, many 

‘small’ sites turn out to correspond to quite large 

farm buildings, some of which may well have been 

the headquarters of modest slave-run plantations. 

As a result of these methodological advances the 

tidy picture of the 1970s and early 1980s has lost 

much of its attraction. 

The post-doc project is directed towards a reanalysis 

of the archaeological data. In carrying out 

this re-assessment the researcher draws on the 

expertise built up by those working on the 

European POPULUS project one of whose aims is 

precisely to explore the relationship between 

demographic developments and changes in the 

archaeological record. 

The Tabula Bembina: A Survey of the 

Italian Ager Publicus in 111 BC (This postdoctoral 

project was finalized in 2007). 

Following the death of Gaius Gracchus, Tiberius’ 

younger brother, in 121 BC the Gracchan reform 

programme was gradually undone by a series of 

laws the effect of which was to turn enormous 

tracts of former ager publicus into private property. 

By a remarkable piece of luck thirteen sizeable 

fragments of the last of these laws (passed in 111 

BC) were discovered as long ago as the fifteenth 

century. The main obstacle impeding a satisfactory 

interpretation is that it has taken centuries to 

assign the thirteen fragments to their correct positions 

in the original inscription. In fact, as late as

1992 the Oxford historian Lintott published an 

entire book that turns out to be based on an 

incorrect arrangement of the surviving pieces of 

bronze. Four years later the puzzle was finally 

solved by Crawford, the principal discovery being 

that the two largest fragments are separated by a 

lacuna of no more than ca. 35 characters. The 

practical significance of this is that it now seems 

possible to arrive at a completely new 

interpretation of this crucially important text 

which not only summarizes all measures taken 

between 133 and 111 BC but also provides a 

fascinating overview of the economic functions 

and legal status of what remained of the former 

ager publicus in 111 BC. Given the length of this 

complicated text, to which Lintott devoted several 

years of study, the task of elucidating its contents 

is a mini-project of its own. 

Romans, Latins and Allies: Demographic 

and Military Aspects. (This post-doctoral 

project was finalized in 2007). 

Any inquiry into the changing size of the Roman 

citizenry must pay special attention to the relationship 

between Romans, Latins and allies. At 

least originally, any Latin who migrated to Roman 

territory (mostly the city of Rome) automatically 

obtained Roman citizenship. Migrating Latins thus 

contributed to the growth of the body of citizens. 

On the other hand, between 200 and 170 BC large 

numbers of Romans became Latins as they were 

sent out to newly founded coloniae Latinae. 

Although this two-way exchange of Romans and 

Latins is of vital importance for our understanding 


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of the demographic make-up of 2nd-century BC 

Italy, it is a topic to which very few studies have 

been devoted. At the same time there is evidence 

to suggest that the second century BC was a 

period of rapid demographic growth for both 

Roman and Latins, who seem to have expanded at 

the expense of other Italian groups, such as the 

Gauls of North Italy. The implications of this 

development for the vexed issue of how Italy was 

romanized (or latinized) have never been explored. 

Finally, it would seem that as the second 

century proceeded, the Latins and the other Italian 

allies had to shoulder an increasing share of the 

military burden of imperial expansion. If this shift 

was out of line with the patterns of population 

growth in various parts of Italy – as would seem to 

have been the case – it becomes easier to 

understand why the question of Roman 

citizenship acquired a prominent place on the 

political agenda from the mid-120s BC onwards. 

Of course the same hypothesis helps to explain the 

outbreak of the Social War (91-88 BC) as a result of 

which Roman citizenship was extended to the 

entire free population of Central and South Italy. 

Moving Romans. Urbanisation, migration 

and labour in the Roman Principate 

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 preindustrial 

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 


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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.

The Dynamics of 

European Identity, 1300- 

1700 

Description 

As the recent wave of concern about national and 

cultural identity demonstrates, the question of 

how, and with whom, people identify is of continuing 

political and social importance. This was 

also the case in pre-Modern Europe. Although the 

power of the state steadily increased between 1300 

and 1700, rulers and administrators remained very 

much dependent on good relations with their 

subjects, or at least with the local elites. Since these 

often identified themselves primarily with the 

local community, the region, or other group 

interests, the creation of panoptic loyalties was 

problematic. This was certainly true in new states. 

For this reason, rulers such as the Dukes of 

Burgundy consciously concentrated on creating a 

supra-territorial elite. Any wise administrator 

would expend considerable energy on his 

patronage networks. Old media, such as ballads, 

pageants and spectacles were used to deliver political 

messages, and additional new media were 

constantly appearing. Pamphlets and newspapers 

created a ‘public sphere’, in which new identities 

could be propagated. The development of a sense 

of ‘fatherland’ in the highly fragmented Republic 

of the Netherlands is an excellent example of this 

process. 


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Yet, state borders were most certainly not the most 

important determinant of identity. On the one 

hand regions continued to compete with one 

another, while, conversely, transnational networks 

often proved to be surprisingly resistant to political 

division. Even while their rulers were at war, 

trade networks continued to unite the Spanish, 

Flemish and Dutch trading communities . Cultural 

networks also transcended national borders. 

Throughout this period, a recognizably European 

intellectual culture prevailed, which played an essential 

role in the fast transfer of knowledge. Until 

1520, the whole of Europe shared one dominant 

religious culture. The schism in the Church in the 

sixteenth century not only created trans-national 

interest groups and refugee flows, it also created 

new confessional alliances in international politics. 

There are few areas in Europe in which the 

dynamics of identity between 1300 and 1700 

manifested itself as clearly as in the Low Countries. 

Having started out as a loose conglomeration 

of semi-autonomous principalities, personal 

unions led to the emergence of a fledgling unitary 

state until a Revolt against princely authority led 

to the creation of two separate states with their 

own clear identity, each of which was related 

through its dominant religion to confessional 

friends elsewhere in Europe. In this world of 

constantly changing borders, strong local political 

traditions, an important trading culture and the 

interdependence of international markets, 

‘identity’ was never monolithic. Yet elsewhere in 

Europe too, in particular in the great ‘composite 

monarchies’ ruled by the Habsburgs, the relation

etween local identity and the links with a greater 

whole constitutes an essential theme in historical 

research. Leiden research into the late Middle 

Ages and the Early Modern Period currently 

focuses primarily on three dimensions of the 

dynamics of identity. A first group of researchers 

explicitly concentrates on the relation between 

subjects and those in authority. They examine, for 

example, the manner in which local administration 

and regional identity influenced one another; they 

examine how elites are formed, and how collective 

identities developed. A second group focuses on 

intra-regional and supra-regional networks which 

operated between 1300 and 1700. These were 

partially driven by trade, trade contacts and trade 

conflicts, which demanded new political and 

diplomatic solutions. Finally, some researchers 

focus on cultural identities and transfers. A new 

project on memory and identity formation, 

examines the lasting social, political and cultural 

impact of civil war on early modern communities. 

Leiden has a strong tradition in intellectual 

history. The projects centred on Scaliger and 

Clusius derive from this tradition. In addition, 

research is carried out into book ownership and 

reading culture in the Late Middle Ages. 

Staff 

Ms. Dr. N.N.W. Akkerman 

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March 2010: paper, ‘The Queen of Bohemia 

Shrouded in Mystery: Enigmatic Cultures of 

Cryptography, 1603-1642’, Albion symposium, 

Leiden University. 

September 2010: invited lecture / podcast, 

‘Deciphering the Winter Queen,’ Researchers’ 

Night Scotland and the Wider World, organised 

by the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. 

November 2010: paper, ‘De Winterkoningin en het 

Geheimzinnige Gebruik van Geheimschrift’, 

Seminar contactgroep 15 e en 16 e eeuw, Institute 

for History, Leiden University. 


Advisory Huygens Briefwisseling Online at the 

Huygens Instituut Nederlandse Geschiedenis. 


VENI – 250.000 to be executed at LUICD. 

Miscellaneous 

Media interest in Rubicon research: 

January: radio interview Leiden local radio. 

September 21: radio interview Teleac, Hoezo 

Radio. 

September 25: radio interview VRT (Vlaamse 

Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie) Radio 1, 

Interne Keuken, Brussels, Belgium. 

September 25: newspaper interview NRC 

November 4: magazine interview in Quest Historie: 

p. 14. 

December 16: newspaper interview Trouw, p. 2. 

(on receiving the Rubicon Grant).

Publications 

Akkerman, N.N.W. (2010). 

Lucas, Margaret. Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon Nederland. 


Cupido en de eerste koningin in Den Haag: 

Constantijn Huygens en Elizabeth Stuart. In: Els 

Kloek, Frans Blom & Ad Leerintveld (Eds.), 

Vrouwen rondom Huygens (pp. 73-96). Hilversum: 

Verloren. 


'Dwaze Correspondentie' [Bespreking van het 

boek Béatrix en Constantijn: De Briefwisseling tussen 

Béatrix de Cusance en Constantijn Huygens, 1652- 

1655]. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 2, 288-289. 

Akkerman, N.N.W. (01-08-2010). 

'Cardenio: Op Zoek naar de Verloren Shakespeare: 

Alleen de Dwaas heeft de Waarheid in Pacht'. 

Theater aan het Spui Magazine nr 6, pp. 26-27. 

Prof. Dr. W.P. Blockmans 

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Publications 

Blockmans, W.P. 

‘De Ontdekking van de Renaissance. Een terugblik 

op Jacob Buckhardts Die Kultur der Renaissance in 

Italien’. Geschiedenis Magazine, 44 (1), 45-49. 


‘De Fascinatie voor Italië’. In: J. Burckhardt (Ed.), 

De cultuur der Renaissance in Italië (pp. 7-18). 


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Utrecht, Antwerpen: Het Spectrum B.V. 


Metropolen aan de Noordzee (Amsterdam: Bert 

Bakker), an analysis of the economic and cultural 

lead Vlaanderen, Brabant and Zeeland took in the 

1100-1650 period. 

Dr. M.J.M. Damen 

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Publications 

Damen, M.J.M. 

‘Heren met banieren. De baanrotsen van Brabant 

in de vijftiende eeuw.’ In: M. Damen & L. Sicking 

(Eds.), Bourgondië voorbij. De Nederlanden 1250- 

1650. Liber alumnorum Wim Blockmans 

(Middeleeuwse studies en bronnen, 133) (pp. 139- 

158). Hilversum: Verloren. 

Damen, M.J.M. & Sicking, Louis (Eds.). (2010). 

‘Bourgondië voorbij. De Nederlanden 1250-1650.‘ 

Liber alumnorum Wim Blockmans 

(Middeleeuwse studies en bronnen, 123). 

Hilversum: Verloren. 

Damen, M.J.M. 

‘Charity against the odds. Margaret of York and 

the isle of Voorne (1477-1503)’. In: D. Eichberger, 

A.-M. Legaré & W. Hüsken (Eds.), Women at the 

Burgundian court: presence and influence 

(Burgundica, 17) (pp. 57-72). Turnhout: Brepols.

Prof. Dr. J.F.J. Duindam 

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March 25: Paper in EUR Seminar: Nobles, Slaves, 

and Scholars? A comparative view of rulers and 

elites in Early Modern Eurasia. 

April 29: Public lecture China Centre, Centre for 

Early Modern Studies, Oxford: Dynastic centres in 

early modern Europe and Asia: an attempt at 

comparison. 

April 30-May 1: UCL/CTH paper in conference 

Rewriting Histories – The Transnational 

Challenge: Early modern Eurasian composite 

states and empires: dynastic, multiethnic, 

‘transnational’? 

September 23-24: Public lecture on 23 September 

opening a One Day Colloquium at Birkbeck, 

University of London: From Coronation to 

ChariVari: The Many Uses of Ritual and 

Ceremony in the Early Modern World. 

Referee, advisory committees, editor etc. 

Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. 

Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, België. 

Irish Research Council for the Humanities and 

Social Sciences (IRCHSS). 

Fonds für Wissenschaftliche Forschung, 

Österreich. 



Principal organizers China-Europe research 

cooperation Proposal COREACH-64-034 funded 

(conferences in Beijing 2009, Wolfenbüttel 2011, 

Leiden 2011). 

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committee 

Dissertation committees: 

Orsolya Rethely (CEU Budapest). 

Aiman Sallat (Universität Rostock). 

Supervisor thesis 

Frouke Schrijver (University of Birmingham). 

Publications 

‘Early Modern Europe: beyond the strictures of 

modernization and national historiography’, 

European History Quarterly, 40, 4 (2010) 606-623. 

‘El legado borgoñón en la vida cortesana de los 

Habsburgo austriacos’, in: El Legado de Borgoña. 

Fiesta y Ceremonia Cortesana en la Europa de los 

Austrias (1454-1648), Krista De Jonge, Bernardo 

Garcia Garcia, A. Esteban Estríngana, ed. (Madrid 

2010) 35-58. 


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March 19: Annual meeting concerning current 

research in The Netherlands and Belgium, 

organized by the Flemish-Dutch Association for

Early Modern History. Identity in The 

Netherlands, 1500-1800. Research seminar, 

Antwerp. 

September 17: Annual Flemish-Dutch Congress for 

Early Modern History 2010. Education in Northern 

and Southern Netherlands, at Louvain (Belgium). 

Invited lecture 

November 4: Un holandés en la España de Felipe 

IV. Diario del viaje de Lodewijck Huygens, 1660- 

1661. Book presentation Fundación Carlos de 

Amberes, Madrid: Viajeros extranjeros en la 

España del siglo XVII, Madrid, Spain. 




organized by the Flemish-Dutch Association for 



Antwerp. 





Alva-project: Collection of biographical articles on 

Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, third duke of Alba. 

Editorial board: Dr. M.A. Ebben and R.H.A.M. 

Baron van Hövell tot Westerflier MCL. 

Board member of Vlaams-Nederlandse 

Vereniging voor Nieuwe Geschiedenis. (Flemish- 

Dutch Association for Early Modern History). 


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Chairman of Fundación Jan Lechner at Leiden 

(Foundation to stimulate the study of Spanish and 

Portuguese history in relation to The Netherlands). 

Independent member of the reading committee of 

Hispania, Revista Española de Historia, CSIC. 

Member of the editorial staff of the website The 

Dutch Revolt (http://dutchrevolt.leidenuniv.nl/). 

Member of the editorial staff of Publication van de 

Vlaams-Nederlandse Vereniging voor Nieuwe 

Geschiedenis. 


committee 

Copromotor of dissertation: 

R. Dijk, Het Hoogheemraadschap Rijnland, 1550- 

1650. 

J. Besseling, Een sociale en bestuurlijke 

geschiedenis van een stad in Holland: Purmerend 




Budget: € 85.000 

Publications 

M.A. Ebben 

Espejo de España. La percepción de España y la 

confirmación de la nación holandesa. La embajada 

extraordinaria de la República de las Provincias 

Unidas en Madrid, 1660-1661. In: Crespo Solana, A 

(Ed.), Comunidades transnacionales. Colonias de 

mercaderes extranjeros en el Mundo Atlántico, 1500- 

1830, pp. 337-357. Aranjuez (Madrid): Ediciones 

Doce Calles.

M.A. Ebben, Un holandés en la España de Felipe IV. 

Diario del viaje de Lodewijck Huygens, 1660-1661 

(Madrid 2010) 329 pp. Spaanse vertaling van M.A. 

Ebben, Lodewijck Huygens’ Spaans journaal. Reis naar 

het hof van de koning van Spanje, 1660-1661 

(Zutphen Walburg Pers, 2005) 384 pp. 

Ebben, M.A., H.J. den Heijer en J.C.A. 

Schokkenbroek, eds., 

Alle streken van het kompas. Maritieme geschiedenis in 

Nederland. (Zutphen 2010). 

Heijer, H.J., den, M.A. Ebben en J.C.A. 

Schokkenbroek, ‘Woord vooraf’ in: M.A. Ebben, 

H.J. den Heijer, J.C.A. Schokkenbroek eds., Alle 

streken van het kompas. Maritieme geschiedenis in 

Nederland (Zutphen 2010) 7-8. 

Dr. R.P. Fagel 

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March 24-26: ‘Adriano de Utrecht y la revolución 

de los Comuneros’, II Simposio de Historia 

Comunera, Villalar de los Comuneros. 

September 23-25: ‘La découverte de l’Espagne: Les 

récits de voyage d’Antoine de Lalaing et Laurent 

Vital’ Centre Européen d’Etudes Bourguignonnes, 

Madrid. 

Lectures, symposia, colloquia, presentations 


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Peer review with the journals Hispania (Madrid) 

and BMGN (The Hague). 


President of VOGeL (Association of alumni of the 

History Department Leiden). 

Member of the commission of the website on the 

Dutch revolt (Dutchrevolt). 

Member of the commission of the yearly lecture on 

‘Drie Oktober’. 

Member of the Board of the Vlaams-Nederlandse 

Vereniging voor Nieuwe Geschiedenis. 

Miscellaneous 

July, 12-16: Sabbatical visit to archives and 

libraries in Madrid, Spain. 

Lecture ‘Julián. The Spanish hero for the Dutch 

Revolt’, Werkgroep 15e en 16e eeuw, Leiden. 

Lecture on the history of the liberation of Leiden, 

1574, HSVL, 29-10. 

Publications 

Fagel, R.P. 

‘Baltasar de Ayala.’, Diccionario Biográfico Español 

VI, VI. , pp. 218-219. Madrid: Real Academia de la 

Historia. 

Fagel, R.P. 

‘Gregorio de Ayala., Diccionario Biográfico Español 

VI, VI. , pp. 221-222. Madrid: Real Academia de la 

Historia. 

Fagel, R.P. 

‘Leopoldo de Austria.,’ Diccionario Biográfico 

Español VI, VI. , pp. 119-120. Madrid: Real

Academia de la Historia. 

Dr. D. Haks 

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June 17-19: paper American Association for 

Netherlandic Studies, Los Angeles: 'War and 

literature. France, England and the Dutch Republic 

c. 1700' 

Publications 

Haks, D. 

'Elisabeth van den Heuvel', in: Digitaal 

Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland (www.dvn.nl). 

'Quantity, quality and the public. The electronic 

edition of historical sources', in: Digital edition of 

sources in Europe: achievements, problems and prospects, 

Handelingen Koninklijke Commissie voor Geschiedenis, 

176 (2010) 65-76. 


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April 13-16: Ghent, Eighth European Social Science 

History Conference: paper ‘Ethnic personality of 


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law in the Middle Ages’; also co-organisation 

sessions ‘Multiple images. National identity in the 

Middle Ages and the Middle Ages used for postmedieval 

identity construction, I and II’; also chair 

of session ‘Multiple images. National identity in 

the Middle Ages and the Middle Ages used for 

post-medieval identity construction, II’. 

May 10: Ghent University: honorary chairman of 

the workshop of Ph.D students in medieval 

studies in Flanders. 

September 17: Leiden, farewell conference W.P. 

Blockmans, paper: ‘Lola moet rennen. Een pleidooi 

voor meer creatieve geschiedschrijving’. 

December 17-18: Leiden, International Conference 

‘Shifting Frontiers: Current Issues in the History of 

Early Islamic Central Asia’[hosted by the Leiden 

University Centre for the study of Islam and 

Society (LUCIS)]: chair of session ‘From the 

Samanid into the Qarakhanite period’. 

Lectures, symposia 

September17: organisation of De Agenda 

(international farewell conference for professor 

W.P. Blockmans), Leiden University. 

Referee 

Member of FWO commission Cult3 (History, 

History of Arts; Archaeology)(Flanders). 

Member of the editorial board of Tijdschrift voor 

Geschiedenis. 

Member of the editorial board of the Journal of 

Medieval History. 

Member of the editorial board of The Medieval 

Countryside (Monograph Series).

Member of the Board of Advisors of Fragmenta, 

Journal of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. 

Manuscript reviewer for The Economic History 

Review. 

External evaluator for a promotion to the rank of 

associate professor in medieval history at the Ben- 

Gurion University of the Negev at Beer-Sheva 

(Israel). 


Chairman of the Research Committee of the 

Faculty of Humanities (Leiden University). 

Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for 

History (Leiden University). 

Member of the Exam Committee of the Institute 

for History (Leiden University). 

Member of the Board of Governors (Curatorium) 

of the special chair ‘Geschiedenis van de Friese 

landen in de middeleeuwen’ (Leiden University). 

Member of the Board of Governors (Curatorium) 

of the special chair ‘Bronontsluiting en apparaat 

voor historisch onderzoek van de geschiedenis van 

Nederland’ (University of Amsterdam). 

Chairman of the Advisory Board of the H.F. van 

den Eerenbeemt-foundation (Den Bosch). 


Member of the advisory committee of the edition 

project ‘Henegouwse Registers’ (The Hague). 

Member of the advisory committee of the 

translation project ‘Nibelungenlied’ (Uitgeverij 

Boom, Amsterdam). 


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committee 

Supervisor of internal PhD students: 

Mrs. J. Smithuis MA and M. Gerrits MA [together 

with Prof. Dr. J.A.A. Mol] (NWO-project ‘Twilight 

zone’), 

external PhD students: L. Alberts [together with 

Prof. Dr. L. Noordegraaf], J. Cox MA [together 

with em. Prof. Dr. F. Keverling Buisman], Dr. H. 

Denessen MA; Mrs. J. Smit MA [together with 

Prof. Dr. J.W.J. Burgers]; Mrs. C. Weeda MA 

[together with Prof. Dr. G. Geltner], and Drs. J.-W. 

Wesseldijk. 

Supervisor of Postdoc Researchers: 

Mrs. Dr. J Wubs-Mrozewicz (Rubicon) and Dr. A. 

Noordzij (NWO-project ‘Twilight zone’). 

Member of the Board of PhD Examiners 

(promotiecommissies) of Mrs. Valeria van Camp 

(Ghent University); Mrs. Jessica Dijkman 

(University Utrecht); Arie van Steensel (University 

Leiden); Mrs. Janet van der Meulen (University 

Leiden); and Mrs. Annemieke Verboon (University 

Leiden). 

Publications 

Hoppenbrouwers, P.C.M. 

‘The dynamics of national identity in the later 

Middle Ages’. In: R. Stein & J. Pollmann (Eds.), 

Networks, regions and nations: shaping identities in the 

Low Countries, 1300-1650 (Studies in Medieval and 

renaissance Traditions) (pp. 19-41). Leiden and 

Boston: Brill. 

Hoppenbrouwers, P.C.M.

‘Ridders en hun ruiters. Het krijgsbedrijf in 

Holland en Brabant gedurende de veertiende 

eeuw’. In: M. Damen & L. Sicking (Eds.), 

Bourgondië voorbij. De Nederlanden 1250-1650. Liber 

alumnorum Wim Blockmans (pp. 327-349). 



Malgoverno or good lordship? The failing state in 

the later Middle Ages’. In: S. Grodziskiego & [et 

al.] (Eds.), Vetera novis augere. Studia i prace 

dedykowane Profesorowi Waclawowi Uruszczakowi 

(pp. 321-336). Kraków: Wydawnictwo 

Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego. 


‘Bloedwraak en vete in de late middeleeuwen’. 

Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 123(2), 158-177. 

Hoppenbrouwers, P.C.M. (Eds.) 

Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 123-2. 

Hoppenbrouwers, P.C.M. & Janse, A. & Stein, R. 

(Eds.) 

Power and Persuasion. Essays on the Art of State 

Building in Honour of W.P. Blockmans. Turnhout: 

Brepols. 

(Book editorial) 

Hoppenbrouwers, P.C.M. (2010). 'Inleiding: 

seksualiteit in de middeleeuwen'. Leidschrift. 

Historisch Tijdschrift, 25(3), 7-20. 

Dr. A. Janse 

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April 22: Erasmus Centre for Early Modern 

Studies, Rotterdam, ‘Noble Genealogies in the 

Burgundian-Habsburg Low Countries’. 

September 21-22: University of Ghent, Between 

stability and transformation: ‘The scribe as 

partisan. The significance of minor changes in late 

medieval chronicles’. 

Research leave, home and abroad 

September 1, 2009-July 1, 2010: NIAS, Wassenaar. 


Chair NWO-Veni Committee. 

Chair Studies and Research Committee, Dutch 

Research School for Medieval Studies. 


Member advisory board Virtus. Yearbook of the 

History of the Nobility. 


committee 

Co-supervisor: Arie van Steensel (PhD June 23, 

2010), Rombert Stapel, Alois van Doornmalen, 

Véronique Flammang and Ingrid de Lange. 

Miscellaneous 

Member editorial board Millennium. 

Publications 

Janse, A.

‘De Tweede Stand in laatmiddeleeuws Holland’. 

In: Damen, M. & Sicking, L. (Eds.), Bourgondië 

voorbij. De Nederlanden 1250-1650. Liber Alumnorum 

Wim Blockmans (Middeleeuwse Studies en 

bronnen), cxxiii. , pp. 159-176. Hilversum: 

Verloren. 

Janse, A. 

‘Yolande van Lalaing’. In: Kloek, E. (Ed.), Digitaal 

Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland, Den Haag: Instituut 

voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis. 

Janse, A. 

‘Margaretha van Bourgondië.’ , Digitaal 

Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland, Den Haag: Instituut 

voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis. 


(Eds.) 



Brepols. 

Janse A. 

Yolande van Lalaing (1422-1497). In: Hartog, E. 

den & Wijsman, H. (Eds.), Yolande van Lalaing 

(1422-1497), kasteelvrouwe van Brederode, 2009, pp. 

7-36. Kastelenstichting Holland en Zeeland. 

Janse, A. 

Annales Sanctae Mariae Ultrajectenses. In R.G. 

Dunphy (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle 

(pp. 87). Leiden: Brill. 

Janse, A. 

Beke, Johannes de. In:R.G. Dunphy (Ed.), 

Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (pp. 163). 

Leiden: Brill. 

Janse, A. 


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Bella campestria. In: R.G. Dunphy (Ed.), 

Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (pp. 164-165). 


Janse, A. 

Catalogus episcoporum Ultrajectorum. In: R.G. 



Janse, A. 

Chroniques des pays de Hollande, Zellande et 

aussy em partie de Haynnau. In: R.G. Dunphy 

(Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (pp. 

388). Leiden: Brill. 

Janse, A. 

Chronogrammist. In: R.G. Dunphy (Ed.), 



Janse, A. 

Clerc uten laghen landen. In: R.G. Dunphy (Ed.), 



Janse, A. 

Cort Chronijkje van de Graaven van Holland. In: 

R.G. Dunphy (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Medieval 

Chronicle (pp. 493). Leiden: Brill. 

Janse, A. 

Croniken vanden biscopen van Utrecht. In: R.G. 



Janse, A. 

Goutsch Cronijxcken. In: R.G. Dunphy (Ed.), 



Janse, A.

Hollandse Adelskronieken. In: R.G. Dunphy (Ed.), 



Janse, A. & Stein, R. 

Introduction. In: P.C.M. Hoppenbrouwers, A. 

Janse & R. Stein (Eds.), Power and persuasion. Essays 

on the art of state building in honour of W.P. 

Blockmans (pp. vii-xiii). Turnhout: Brepols. 

Janse, A. 

Kattendijke-kroniek. In: R.G. Dunphy (Ed.), 



Janse, A. 

Kroniek van het St. Nicolaas-klooster te Utrecht. 

In: R.G. Dunphy (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Medieval 

Chronicle (pp. 981). Leiden: Brill. 

Janse, A. 

[Bespreking van het boek Profeet in eigen land. 

Philips van Leiden en het publiek belang]. BMGN, 125, 

124-126. 

Janse, A. 

Woord vooraf. In: H Salman & H Steenvoorde 

(Eds.), Steenvoorde. Een verdwenen middeleeuws 

kasteel, een adellijk geslacht met niet-adellijke nazaten 

en een Rijswijks landgoed. Rijswijk: Stichting 

Rijswijkse Historische Projecten. 

Dr. H.M.E.P. Kuijpers 

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January 28-29: With Thierry Allain (Université de 

Paris I), ‘The memories of War and the 

construction of urban Identities in Dutch cities, 

17th-18 th c.’, Journées de la Société Française 

d’Histoire Urbaine. 

April 2010: ‘Migrant workers in the 17th century 

Amsterdam cloth industry’, Paper presented at a 

the conference ‘Labour as Resource. Individuals, 

mobility and economic strategies in pre-industrial 

urban societies’, Paris. 

September 17: ‘De Gouden Eeuw van de anonieme 

massa. Immigratie en sociale verhoudingen in 

zeventiende-eeuws Amsterdam’. Lecture for 

history teachers at the refreshing course organized 

by the ICLON. 

October 16: ‘Traumatic memory in the early 

seventeenth-century Netherlands: anachronism or 

hidden reality?’ Paper presented at the Sixteenth 

Century Conference in Montreal, Canada. 


committee 

Member of the readers committee thesis of C.O. 

van der Meij, ‘Tussen Oranje en Spanje. De 

leefwereld van Bredase regenten, 1550-1700’. 

Promotor Prof. F. Gaastra. 

Prof. Dr. J.A. Mol 

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Publications

J.A. Mol en P. Ekamper, ‘De kadastrale kapstok: 

HISGIS Fryslân als model voor een Nederlands 

basissysteem’, in: O. Boonstra en A. Schuurman 

(red.), Tijd en ruimte: nieuwe toepassingen van GIS in 

de alfawetenschappen (Utrecht 2009) 198-209. 

M. Boone e.a. (o.a. J.A. Mol) red.., Jaarboek voor 

Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis 12 (2009) [2010], 197 pp. 

F.W.J. Koorn en J.A. Mol, ‘Netwerken voor het 

Heilige Land. Jacob van Zuden en de expansie van 

de johannieters in het bisdom Utrecht, Jaarboek voor 

Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis 12 (2009) [2010] 146-174. 

J. van Moolenbroek en J.A. Mol (ed.), De 

abtenkroniek van Aduard. Studies, editie en vertaling 

(Hilversum/Leeuwarden 2010). 

J. van Moolenbroek en J.A. Mol, ‘Inleiding’, in: J. 

van Moolenbroek en J.A. Mol (ed.), De abtenkroniek 

van Aduard. Studies, editie en vertaling 

(Hilversum/Leeuwarden 2010) 9-17. 

J.A. Mol en J. Delvigne, ‘Het klooster, het land en 

het water’, in: J. van Moolenbroek en J.A. Mol 

(ed.), De abtenkroniek van Aduard. Studies, editie en 

vertaling (Hilversum/Leeuwarden 2010) 153-172. 

J.A. Mol, ‘Bezitsverwerving en goederenbeheer 

van de abdij van Aduard’, in: J. van Moolenbroek 

en J.A. Mol (ed.), De abtenkroniek van Aduard. 

Studies, editie en vertaling (Hilversum/Leeuwarden 

2010) 173-202. 

J.A. Mol en S. Strating, HISGIS Groningen, in 

www.hisgis.nl 

J.A. Mol, HISGIS Groningen. Opzet, 

verrijkingsmogelijkheden en prioriteiten (Leeuwarden 

2010), 35 pp. 


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J.A. Mol, ‘Stellingwerf en Schoterland als vrije 

Friese landsgemeenten en hun strijd met de 

bisschop van Utrecht’, in: H. Bloemhoff en C. Zuil 

(red.), Soe sullen die Stellinge … Lezingen van het 

Historisch Symposium ‘Stellingwarf 700’ op 18 

september 2009 (Oldeberkoop 2010) 11-30. 

J.A. Mol, ‘Emo’, in: Encyclopedia of the Medieval 

Chronicle, R.G. Dunphy ed. (Leiden/Boston 2010) 

575. 

J.A. Mol, ‘Menko’, in: Encyclopedia of the Medieval 

Chronicle, R.G. Dunphy ed. (Leiden/Boston 2010) 

1103. 

J.A. Mol, ‘Vitae abbatum Orti Sancte Marie’, in: 

Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, R.G. Dunphy 

ed. (Leiden/Boston 2010) 1487. 

Prof. Dr. M.E.H.N. Mout 

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committee 

June 10: Promotor: Filip Bloem 

‘Bedachtzame revolutionairen. Oost-Duitse en 

Tsjechische oppositiebewegingen, 1975-1990’. 

University Leiden. 

Publications 

Mout, M.E.H.N. & Stauffacher, W. (Eds.) 

Truth in Science, the Humanities, and Religion. Balzan 

Symposium 2008. Dordrecht, etc.: Springer. 

Mout, M.E.H.N.

[Bespreking van het boek A History of the Czech 

Lands]. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 123, 120-121. 

Dr. G.A. Noordzij 

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Publications 

Noordzij, G.A. 

‘Zelfstandigheid en integratie. Gelre, de Nederrijn 

en de Nederlanden in de zestiende eeuw’. In: M. 

Damen & L. Sicking (Eds.), Bourgondië voorbij. De 

Nederlanden 1250-1650 (pp. 43-55). Hilversum: 

Verloren. 


Tussen publiek en privaat. Partijstrijd in Gelre in 

de veertiende eeuw. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 

123(2), 226-239. 


Against Burgundy. The appeal of Germany in the 

duchy of Guelders. In: R. Stein & J. Pollman (Eds.), 

Networks, regions and nations. Shaping identities in 

the Low Countries 1300-1650 (Studies in Medieval 

and Reformation Traditions, 149) (pp. 111-129). 

Leiden, Boston: Brill. 


Annales Tielenses. In: G. Dunphy (Ed.), 

Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle. Leiden. 


Beginsel des lantz van Gelre. In: G. Dunphy (Ed.), 




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Chronica de Gelria. In: G. Dunphy (Ed.), 



Chronicon Tielense. In: G. Dunphy (Ed.), 



Historia Gelriae. In: G. Dunphy (Ed.), Encyclopedia 

of the Medieval Chronicle. Leiden. 


Johannes Cluys. In: G. Dunphy (Ed.), Encyclopedia 

of the Medieval Chronicle. Leiden. 


Johannes de Speculo. In: G. Dunphy (Ed.), 



Manuscript of Anholt. In: G. Dunphy (Ed.), 



Willem of Berchen. In: G. Dunphy (Ed.), 



De eerste graven. Ontstaansverhalen over Gelre en 

Zutphen. In: D. Verhoeven & M. Wingens (Eds.), 

Geschiedenis van Gelderland. De canon van het Gelders 

verleden. Zutphen. 


Van graafschap tot hertogdom. De territoriale 

eenwording van Gelre. In: D. Verhoeven & M. 

Wingens (Eds.), Geschiedenis van Gelderland. De 

canon van het Gelders verleden. Zutphen. 

Dr. D. Onnekink

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March 25-28: ‘Exiled Huguenots and the 

Construction of Identities’, The Huguenots: History 

and Memory. ASDAH Sixth Triennial Meeting, 

Washington Adventist University. 


May 27: The Glorious Revolution in British, 

European and Global History – comment on Steve 

Pincus’s 1688‘. ‘The First Modern Revolution?’, 

international conference University of Sussex. 

Research leave 

January-May: Visiting Scholar William & Mary 

College, Williamsburg, USA. 


Board Member Vlaams-Nederlandse Vereniging 

voor Nieuwe Geschiedenis 

Miscellaneous 

Series editor Politics and Culture in North West 

Europe, 1650–1720, a series with Ashgate 

Publishing Ltd. 

Editing Board Virtus 

Chief editor Transparant 

Editor Zeven Provinciën Reeks 

Prof. Dr. J.S. Pollmann 


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March: ‘Tales of the Revolt’ Presentation VICI 

project, VNVNG. 

June 11: ‘Met grootvaders bloed bezegeld. 

Herinnering en religieuze identiteit in de 

zeventiende-eeuwse Nederlanden’, UCSIA lecture, 

University Antwerp, Belgium. 

June 15: ‘Furie. Over de logica van massamoorden 

in de zestiende eeuw’, public lecture Lustrumweek 

Ratio en Emotie, Leiden University. 

September 1-4: Commentator ESF workshop 

Region, Memory And Agency In Eastern And Western 

Europe, UWE Bristol. 

September 17: ‘Over spiegels, theaters en publieke 

opinie in de vroegmoderne tijd’, presentation 

afscheidssymposium Wim Blockmans. 

December: ‘Versatile tales. Memory practices 

before and after modernity’ , conference Memory 

on the Move, University Utrecht. 

October 14-17: Convenor of and speaker at panel 

Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in Montreal, 

Canada. With Daniel Woolf (Queen’s, Canada), 

Matthew Neufeld (Warwick), Penny Roberts 

(Warwick), My own paper was entitled ‘The price 

of civic unity. Reframing the Dutch Revolt’. 


Member programme committee Culturele 

Dynamiek NWO.

Member beoordelingcommissie Vrije Competitie 

NWO. 

Member selection committee Past and Present/IHR 

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Institute for 

Historical research. 

Member editorial board Past & Present. 

Editor in chief Zeven Provinciën Reeks, uitgeverij 

Verloren. 

Member editorial board Church History and 

Religious Culture. 

Member editorial board Trajecta. 

Advice on grant applications for NWO VIDI 

competition, FWO, NIAS, Philip Leverhulme 

Prize, Leverhulme Trust, British Academy, 

Guggenheim Foundation. 

Advice on manuscripts for Brill publishers. 

Research leave home and abroad 

March 1- May 31: UCSIA fellowship at University 

of Antwerp, Belgium. 



Chair section Vaderlandse Geschiedenis. 

Member of the Academic Advisory Board. 

Coordinator MA track Medieval and Early 

Modern European History. 

Coordinator research team ‘Dynamiek van 

Identiteit’. 

Member OLC Research master. 

Appointment committee UD Zeegeschiedenis. 

Leiden University 


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Member BAC Korean Studies. 

Member stuurgroep SURF cie Virtual Research 

Environments. 

(substitute) member Commissie 

Wetenschappelijke Bestedingen LUF (till February 

1). 

Member academic advisory board Scaliger 

Instituut. 

Member curatorium bijz. leerstoel Geschiedenis 

van het Nederlands. 

Coordinator Minor course Transmissie en 

Transformatie van Cultuur. 

External 

Member of the board Instituut voor Nederlandse 

Geschiedenis. 

Member of the board KNHG (from September 1). 

Member and secretary of the academic advisory 

board of the Kon. Ned. Inst. Rome (until 

September 1. 

Member editorial council Biografisch Portaal. 

Member of the board Thijssen-Schoute stichting. 

Member supervisory board Centrum Gouden 

Eeuw studies University Amsterdam. 

Curator bijzondere leerstoel middeleeuwse 

bronnenkunde University Amsterdam. 


Member academic advisory board exhibition 

Antwerpen-Noord till 2012. 

Member advisory board 3 October exhibition 

Lakenhal, Leiden. 

Advice on NPS television project Gouden Eeuw. 

Supervisor PhD research; membership

PhD committee 

Supervisor of: 

Community and memory. Mediating local memories of 

the Dutch Revolt, 1566-1700 (Marianne Eekhout), 

UL, started 2008-to be submitted 2013. 

The politics of memory in the Low Countries, 1566- 

1700, (Jasper van der Steen), started 2008-to be 

submitted 2013. 

Exile memories and the reinvention of the Netherlands 

(Johannes Müller), started 2008-to be submitted 

2013. 

Arminianisme in Nederland en Engeland (Dirk 

Pfeifer); external PhD start October 2010. 

Examination committee: 

September: Bauke Hekman, Amsterdam 1661. De 

affaire De Lalande-Lestevenon, University Leiden. 

Publications 

Pollmann, J.S. 

No Man's Land. Reinventing Netherlandish 

Identities, 1585-1621. In: Robert Stein & Judith 

Pollmann (Eds.), Networks, Regions and Nations. 

Shaping Identities in the Low Countries, 1300-1650 

(Studies in medieval and reformation traditions, 

149) (pp. 241-261). Leiden: Brill. 

Pollmann, J.S. & R.Stein 

(Eds.). Networks, regions and nations. Shaping 

identities in the Low Countries, 1300-1650 (Studies in 

medieval and reformation traditions, 149). Leiden, 



Honor, gender and discipline in Dutch Reformed 

churches. In: R.A. Mentzer, F. Moreil & P. 


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Chareyre (Eds.), Dire l’interdit. The Vocabulary of 

Censure and Exclusion in the Early Modern Reformed 

Tradition (Brill's series in Church History, 40) (pp. 

29-42). Leiden: Brill. 


'Hij had geen oog op zijn tijd'. Robert Fruin 

gebruik van egodocumenten als bron voor de 

cultuurgeschiedenis. In: Herman Paul & Henk te 

Velde (Eds.), Het vaderlandse verleden. Robert Fruin 

en de Nederlandse geschiedschrijving (pp. 60-81). 

Amsterdam: Bert Bakker. 


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May 4-7: ‘The North-western European 

contribution to Mediterranean warfare at sea: the 

case of the Dutch and Venice in a comparative 

perspective’, 3rd Mediterranean Maritime History 

Conference, Izmir, Turkey. 

March 23: Stadsgeschiedenis. De lobby van de drie 

zeesteden van Vlaanderen in Brussel, Vrije 

Universiteit Brussel. 

June 25: Theories and models in Urban History: an 

introduction, University of Cantabria, Santander. 

September 23-25 : ‘Marchands espagnols et 

Portugais aux Pays-Bas et la navigation à l’époque 

de Charles-Quint: gestion des risques et 

législation’, Diplomates, voyageurs, artistes, pèlerins,

marchands entre pays bourguignons et Espagne aux 

XVe et XVIe siècles. Real Academia de la Historia in 

Madrid en Universidad Castilla La Mancha in 

Toledo, 51e rencontre du centre européen d’études 

bourguignonnes. 

October 15 : ‘La navigation à l’époque de Charles- 

Quint: gestion des risques et législation’, 

Réglementations publiques et risques maritimes, 

Université de Nantes, UFR d'histoire, histoire de 

l'art et archéologie de Nantes. 

November 26 : ‘De integratie van Zeeland. 

Politiek, bestuur en rechtspraak, 1300-1550’, 

Studiedag Provinciale Geschiedenis van Zeeland, 

Provinciehuis, Middelburg. 


September 9-10: Maritime frontiers. Interfaces 

between Powers, Economies and Societies, 12 th -18 th 

centuries, Leiden University. 


Member of the editorial board of the series 

Warfare, Society and Culture (Pickering and Chatto, 

London, United Kingdom). 

Referee for The Encyclopedia of war (Wiley- 

Blackwell, Oxford, United Kingdom). 

Referee for Scottish Historical Review Trust 

Monograph Series. 


July 27-30: Member of the scientific committee of 

Najera. Encuentros internacionales del medievo 

(Governance of the European City in the Middle 

Ages, Nájera). 


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Member of the Commissie voor Vaderlandse 

Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde. 

Member of the scientific committee of the Annales 

Médiévales de L'Europe Atlantique. 

Associated member of the Revue du Nord. 

Member of the board of the Stichting Bevordering 

Middeleeuwse Studies. 

Collaborator of the Hansische Umschau in de 

Hansische Geschichtsblätter. 

Member of the Dutch and French editorial 

committee of the website concerning the Dutch 

Revolt. 


Director of Studies MA History. 

Member of the Education Committee. 


Subsidies in order to maintain French-Dutch 

network in Lille and French-Dutch Academy in 

Utrecht and organize the Maritime Frontiers 

congress. 

Publications 

Heijer, H.J., den & Emmer, P.C. & Sicking, L.H.J. 

(Eds.) 

Atlantisch avontuur. De Lage Landen, Frankrijk en de 

expansie naar het westen, 1500-1800. Zutphen: 

Walburg Pers. 

Damen, M.J.M. & Sicking, Louis (Eds.) 


alumnorum Wim Blockmans. Hilversum: Verloren. 

Sicking, Louis 

Door Oranje overschaduwd. Het hof van

Maximiliaan van Bourgondië, heer en markies van 

Veere. In: Damen, M. & Sicking, L. (Eds.), 


alumnorum Wim Blockmans (Middeleeuwse studies 

en bronnen), 123, pp. 99-122. Hilversum: Verloren. 

Sicking, Louis 

Naval warfare in Europe, c. 1330-c. 1680. In: 

Tallett, F. & Trim, D.J.B. (Eds.), European warfare, 

1350-1750, pp. 236-263. Cambridge: Cambridge 

University Press. 

Sicking, Louis (2010). Zout, wijn en graan. De 

Nederlanden en de zeehandel met Atlantisch 

Frankrijk. In P. Emmer, H. den Heijer & L. Sicking 

(Eds.), Atlantisch avontuur. De Lage Landen, 

Frankrijk en de expansie naar het westen, 1500-1800 

(pp. 27-35). Zutphen. 

Sicking, Louis & Vliet, A. van (2010). Fisheries in 

Conflict: Protecting the Netherlandish Herring 

Fishery in the Early Modern Era. In D.J. Starkey, 

D. Thorleifsen & R. Robinson (Eds.), Conflict, 

Overfishing and Spatial Expansion in the North 

Atlantic Fisheries, c. 1400-2000 (pp. 9-32). Hull: 

North Atlantic Fisheries History Association. 

Dr. R. Stein 

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Universitaire Commissie beroep voor de examens. 

Facultaire Commissie basiskwalificatie onderwijs. 


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Supervisor PhD research; membership 

PhD committee 

PhD-committee Liesbeth Zuidema, University 

Leiden. 

Publications 

Stein, R. 

An urban network in the medieval Low Countries. 

A cultural approach. In: Stein, R & Pollmann, J 

(Eds.) Networks, regions and nations. Shaping 

identities in the Low Countries, 1300-1650 (pp. 43-71). 


Janse, A. & Stein, R. 

Introduction. In: Hoppenbrouwers, P.C.M., Janse, 

A., Stein, R. (Eds.), Power and persuasion. Essays on 

the art of state building in honour of W.P. Blockmans, 

pp. vii-xiii. Turnhout: Brepols. 

Stein, R. 

Introduction. In: Stein, R & Pollmann, J (Eds.) 


the Low Coutries, 1300-1650 (pp. 1-18). Leiden, 


Stein, R. & Pollmann, J.S. (Eds.) 


the Low Countries, 1300-1650. Leiden, Boston: Brill. 


(Eds.) 



Brepols. 

Stein, R. 

Natuurlijk Filips de Goede? In: M. Damen & L. 

Sicking (Eds.), Bourgondië voorbij. De Nederlanden

1250-1650. Liber alumnorum Wim Blockmans (pp. 15- 

29). Hilversum: Verloren. 

Stein, R. 

Balduin of Ninove. In G Dunphy (Ed.), 

Encyclopedia of the medieval chronicle (pp. 148). 


Stein, R. 

Brabantsche Yeesten Continuation. In G Dunphy 

(Ed.), Encyclopedia of the medieval chronicle (pp. 198- 

199). Leiden, Boston: Brill. 

Stein, R. 

Chronica de origine ducum Brabantiae. In G 

Dunphy (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the medieval chronicle 

(pp. 383-384). Leiden, Boston: Brill. 

Stein, R. 

Chronica pontificum Leodiensium. In G Dunphy 

(Ed.), Encyclopedia of the medieval chronicle (pp. 397). 


Stein, R. 

Chronicon ecclesiae S. Andreae Leodiensis. In G 


(pp. 330). Leiden, Boston: Brill. 

Stein, R. (2010). Chronicon Laetiense. In G Dunphy 



Stein, R. 

Chronicon universale in Amsterdam UB, I C 7. In 

G Dunphy (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the medieval 

chronicle (pp. 439). Leiden, Boston: Brill. 

Stein, R. 

Chroniques de Franche, d'Engleterre, de Flandres, 

de Lile et espécialement de Tournay. In G Dunphy 




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Stein, R. 

Chroniques des Pays-Bas, de France, d'Angleterre 

et de Tournai. In G Dunphy (Ed.), Encyclopedia of 

the medieval chronicle (pp. 388). Leiden, Boston: 

Brill. 

Stein, R. 

Dullaert, Adriaan. In G Dunphy (Ed.), Encyclopedia 

of the medieval chronicle (pp. 550-551). Leiden, 


Stein, R. 

Emond de Dynter. In G Dunphy (Ed.), Encyclopedia 



Stein, R. 

Jacobus Traiecti. In G Dunphy (Ed.), Encyclopedia of 


Brill. 

Stein, R. 

Jan Allertszoon. In G Dunphy (Ed.), Encyclopedia of 


Brill. 

Stein, R. 

Kroniek van Rooklooster. In G Dunphy (Ed.), 

Encyclopedia of the medieval chronicle (pp. 982). 


Stein, R. 

Lambert de Waterlos. In G Dunphy (Ed.), 

Encyclopedia of the medieval chronicle (pp. 991-992). 


Stein, R. 

Manuscript Utrecht, Gemeentearchief VII F 5. In G 


(pp. 1074). Leiden, Boston: Brill. 

Stein, R.

Petrus de Thimo. In G Dunphy (Ed.), Encyclopedia 



Stein, R. 

Suggerode, Gerard. In G Dunphy (Ed.), 

Encyclopedia of the medieval chronicle (pp. 1398- 

1399). Leiden, Boston: Brill. 

Stein, R. 

Wielant, Philip. In G Dunphy (Ed.), Encyclopedia of 

the medieval chronicle (pp. 1504-1505). Leiden, 


Dr. H.W. Wijsman 

Research 

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Publications 

Wijsman, H. 

Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and 

Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the 

Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550) (Burgundica, 

16). Turnhout: Brepols. 

Wijsman, H. 

Las Filips de Goede wel eens Nederlands? ‘Kleine 

talen’ in de Bourgondische Librije. In: Mario 

Damen & Louis Sicking (Eds.), Bourgondië voorbij. 

De Nederlanden 1250-1650. Liber alumnorum Wim 

Blockmans (Middelleeuwse Studies en Bronnen, 

123) (pp. 69-83). Hilversum: Verloren. 

Wijsman, H. 

Une bataille perdue d’avance ? Les manuscrits 

après l’introduction de l’imprimerie dans les 


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anciens Pays-Bas. In: Hanno Wijsman (Ed.), Books 

in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair. 

Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Fifteenth 

and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries 

(Burgundica, 15) (pp. 257-272). Turnhout: Brepols. 

Wijsman, H. 

Introduction: A Prince and the Books of his Time. 

In: Hanno Wijsman (Ed.), Books in Transition at the 

Time of Philip the Fair. Manuscripts and Printed Books 

in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Low 

Countries (Burgundica, 15) (pp. 1-6). Turnhout: 

Brepols. 

Wijsman, H. 

Philippe le Beau et les livres : rencontre entre une 

époque et une personnalité. In: Hanno Wijsman 

(Ed.), Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the 

Fair. Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late 

Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries 

(Burgundica, 15) (pp. 17-91). Turnhout: Brepols. 

Wijsman, H. (Ed.) 

Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair. 

Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Fifteenth 

and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries 

(Burgundica, 15). Turnhout: Brepols. 

Wijsman, H. 

Enguerrand de Monstrelet. In: R.G. Dunphy (Ed.), 

Encyclopedia of Medieval Chronicles (pp. 578-578). 

Leiden-Boston: Brill. 

Wijsman, Hanno (2010). Luxury Bound: an on-line 

database (http://www.cn-telma.fr/luxury-bound) 

of 3676 illustrated manuscripts produced in the 

Netherlands between 1400 and 1550. 

Wijsman, Hanno (2010). De boeken van Frank van 

Borssele. In Elizabeth den Hartog (Ed.), Het

voormalige kasteel te Sint-Maartensdijk (Jaarboek 

Kastelenstichting Holland en Zeeland). Haarlem: 

Kastelenstichting Holland en Zeeland. 

Dr. J. Wubs-Mrozewicz 

Research 

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‘Multiple images. National identity in the Middle 

Ages and the Middle Ages used for post-medieval 

identity construction’. European Social Science 

History Conference, Ghent, Belgium. 

Publications 

‘Rules of inclusion, rules of exclusion. The 

Hanseatic Kontor in Bergen and its normative 

Boundaries’. In: German History (Oxford 

University Press). 

‘Hollanders in pursuit of mercantile success on 

Hanseatic ground c. 1440-1560. Bergen in Norway; 

the other story’. In: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 

123, 340-353. 

‘Introduction’. In: Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz and 

Stuart Jenks (eds.) The Hanse in Late Medieval 

Europe (Leiden/Boston: Brill, the Northern World 

Series, 2010). 

‘De Kantoren van de Hanze: Bergen, Brugge, 

Londen en Nowgorod’. In: H. Brand and E. Knol 

(Eds.) Koggen, kooplieden en kantoren: de Hanze, een 

praktisch netwerk (Hilversum), pp. 90-107. 

WEHC: ‘Hansards and the ‘Other’. Perceptions 


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and strategies in late medieval Bergen’. In: Justyna 

Wubs-Mrozewicz and Stuart Jenks (eds.) The Hanse 

in Late Medieval Europe (Leiden/Boston: Brill, the 

Northern World Series, 2010). 

Paper presentations 

University of Oslo: ‘Made in Deventer’ på det 

norske markedet i senmiddelalderen. Hanseatisk 

handel i ulltøy og stillingen til kjøpmenn fra 

Overijssel. 

University of Groningen: Olaus Magnus and the 

Swedish relations with the Low Countries in the 

sixteenth century. 


Ms. Drs. M.F.D. Eekhout 

Research 

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October 15: Paper presentation: ‘War, Material 

Culture, and Local Memory in the Spanish 

Netherlands, 1576–1629’ at Sixteenth Century 

Studies Conference, Montreal, Canada. 


October 15: Panel entitled ‘Reflecting Memories in 

the Urban Landscape’, at Sixteenth Century 

Studies Conference Montreal, Canada.


Spring (three months), guest researcher at the 

University of Antwerp. 

Miscellaneous 

November 25: Lecture Master Seminar ‘War, 

Material Culture and Local Memory’ at the 

Victoria and Albert Museum London, United 

Kingdom. 

Drs. K.J. Fatah-Black, MPhil 

Research 

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April 14: European Social Science and History 

Conference, Ghent, Belgium. ‘Paramaribo’s intercolonial 

connections’. 

June 29: Dutch Atlantic Connections, ‘Curacao in 

the Age of Revolutions’. ‘(Re)interpreting the 

Curacao Revolution of 1796’. 

June 30: Dutch Atlantic Connections, with Henk 

den Heijer, ‘The Dutch in the Atlantic, a shifting 

history from empire to networks and nodal 

points’. 

October 1: KNHG Autumnal congress ‘A New 

Dutch Imperial History’, The Hague, The 

Netherlands. ‘Eighteenth Century Surinamese- 

Dutch Migration Circuits’. 



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Spring 2010: Reading Group Atlantic History, with 

Linda Rupert, KITLV. 


Chair of the PhD council. 

PhD-representative in the Board of Management 

of the Institute for History. 

National evaluation of Graduate Schools of the 

Humanities. 


October 10: Expertmeeting ‘Armazoenen en 

cargazoenen: de impact van de trans-Atlantische 

handel op Nederland, 1600-1900. NiNsee and IISG. 

Klankbordgroep Nationaal Archief. 

M. Gerrits MA 

Research 

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April 13-16: ESSHC; lecture at the session Physical 

environment and the shaping of social networks, 1500- 

1900: ‘Feuding and party strife in a vacuum? The 

spatial factor in noble conflict in late medieval 

Frisia’, Gent, Belgium. 

Publications 

Gerrits, M. 

Financiële relaties van Haarlem en Leiden met het 

landsheerlijke bestuur, 1505-1518. Jaarboek der 

economische en sociale geschiedenis van Leiden en

omstreken, 22, pp. 37-67. 

Gerrits, M. 

Schieringers, Vetkopers en het einde van de Friese 

vrijheid. De historiografie van veten en partijen in 

een overgangssituatie. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 

123 (2), pp. 254-267. 

Gerrits, M. 

[Bespreking van: For the common good. State 

power and urban revolts in the reign of Mary of 

Burgundy (1477-1482)]. In: Tijdschrift voor Sociale en 

Economische Geschiedenis, 7, pp. 86-87. 

Gerrits, M. (2010). [Bespreking van het boek 

Graven van Holland. Middeleeuwse vorsten in woord 

en beeld (880-1580)]. Holland. Historisch Tijdschrift. 

Drs. J. Müller 

Research 

0.8 fte 


August 27: ‘Understanding understanding or 

Cybernetics of cybernetics. Gadamer in systemstheory 

and constructivism’, International 

Conference ‘'Truth and Method' Fifty Years After: 

Gadamer's Influence on the Humanities’, 


October 15: ‘Confessional Memory Management in 

Early Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Exile 

Communities’, Sixteenth Century Studies 

Conference 2010, Montreal, Canada. 



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March 19: ‘Vluchtelingenidentiteit als metafoor: de 

Nederlands-Lutherse kerk in Frankfurt’, Dag van 

het Onderzoek van de Vlaams-Nederlandse 

Vereniging voor Nieuwe Geschiedenis, University 

Antwerp, Belgium. 

October 29: ‘Zuidelijke identiteiten in de 

Noordelijke Nederlanden, 1585-1648’, Studiedag 

‘Migratie van de Zuidelijke naar de Noordelijke 

Nederlanden in context (1581-1648)’, Provinciehuis 

Antwerpen. 


March 1 – May 30, 2010: guest researcher at 

Universiteit Antwerpen. 

Publications 

Müller, J.M. 

Recensie van: Simon Groenveld, Het Twaalfjarig 

Bestand 1609-1621. De jongelingsjaren van de 

Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden, Uitgeverij 

Verloren/Haags Historisch Museum 2009 en: 

Simon Groenveld, Unie-Bestand-Vrede. Drie 

fundamentele wetten van de Republiek der 

Verenigde Nederlanden, Uitgeverij 

Verloren/Nationaal Archief. Holland. Historisch 

Tijdschrift, 42(2), 155-156. 

Müller, J.M. & Jansen, K.J. 

Konfessionelle Ambiguität – Uneindeutigkeit und 

Verstellung als religiöse Praxis in der Frühen 

Neuzeit, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität 

Münster, 20-22 september 2010. In: 

http://hsozkult.geschichte.huberlin.de/index.asp?pn=tagungsberichte&id=3340.

Ms. Drs. J. Smithuis 

Research 

0.8 fte 

Publications 

Smithuis, J. 

The imagined community of Friesland in the late 

middle ages. In: R. Stein & J. Pollmann (Eds.), 


the Low Countries, 1300-1650 (pp. 73-89). 

Leiden/Boston: Brill. 

Smithuis, J. 

Politiek en geweld in een laatmiddeleeuwse stad. 

Utrecht, 1400-1430. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 

123(2), 240-253. 

Smithuis, J. 

Aldfrysk Kronykje. In: R.G. Dunphy (Ed.), 



Smithuis, J. 

Coronike van Vrieslant. In: R.G. Dunphy (Ed.), 



Smithuis, J. 

Frederiks, Willem. In: R.G. Dunphy (Ed.), 



Smithuis, J. 

Gesta Fresonum. In: R.G. Dunphy (Ed.), 



Smithuis, J. 


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Historia Frisiae. In: R.G. Dunphy (Ed.), 



Smithuis, J. 

Lemego, Johan van. In: R.G. Dunphy (Ed.), 

Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (pp. 1014- 

1015). Leiden/Boston: Brill. 

Smithuis, J. 

Olde Freesche Cronike. In: R.G. Dunphy (Ed.), 



Smithuis, J. 

Quaedam narracio. In: R.G. Dunphy (Ed.), 



Smithuis, J. 

Sneker kroniekje. In: R.G. Dunphy (Ed.), 



Smithuis, J. 

Thet Freske Riim. In: R.G. Dunphy (Ed.), 



Smithuis, J. 

Vriesche Aenteyckeninge. In: R.G. Dunphy (Ed.), 



Smithuis, J. 

[Bespreking van het boek De stinzen in middeleeuws 

Friesland en hun bewoners]. Millennium : Tijdschrift 

voor Middeleeuwse Studies, 24, 76-78.

Drs. R.J. Stapel 

Research 

0.8 fte 

Miscellaneous 

Editor of online journal Signum 

(www.contactgroepsignum.eu). 

Publications 

Stapel, R.J. 

Writing in the ‘Periphery’. The Teutonic Order’s 

History from the Bailiwicks' Standpoint. Gent, 

Belgium. Between Stability and Transformation. 

Textual Traditions in the Medieval Netherlands. 

Stapel, R.J. 

This Land Is Ours to Keep: Legitimation Strategies in a 

Teutonic Order's Chronicle in the Late Fifteenth 

Century. Cambridge International Chronicles 

Symposium, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 

Appelmans, J., Gaens, T., Weijert, R. de & Stapel, 

R.J. (Eds.). 

Signum, 2010(2). 

Appelmans, J., Speetjens, A., Gaens, T., Weijert, R. 

de & Stapel, R.J. (Eds.). 

Signum, 2010(1). 

Appelmans, J., Gaens, T., Weijert, R. de & Stapel, 

R.J. (Eds.). (2010). 

Signum, 2010/2011(3/1). 

Stapel, R.J. 

De Utrechtse Croniken van der Duytscher Oirden. 

Duitse Orde-geschiedschrijving in een periode van 

transitie. Gemert, De geestelijke ridderorden in de 


Nederlanden. 20e Symposium van de 

Contactgroep Signum. 

Stapel, R.J. & Vollmann-Profe, G. 

Cronike van der Duytscher Oirden. In: R.G. 


(pp. 328-329). Leiden/Boston: Brill. 

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J. van der Steen, MA 

Research 

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October 15: ‘Constructing a Catholic National 

Identity: Memory Making in the Southern 

Netherlands of the Archdukes’, Lecture Sixteenth 

Century Conference in Montreal, Canada. 

Publications 

Steen, J.A. van der 

Graaf Hendrik van den Bergh en het verraad van 

edelen in 1632. In Hendrik, graaf van den Bergh 

(1573-1638): van Spanje naar Oranje (pp. 65-70). ’s- 

Heerenberg: Stichting Huis Bergh. 

Steen, J.A. van der 

[Bespreking van het boek Orangism in the Dutch 

Republic in Word and Image]. The Seventeenth 

Century, 25(2), 385-386. 

Drs. A. van Steensel

Research 

1.0 fte 

Publications 

Steensel, A. van (2010). Edelen, belastingheffing en 

politieke verhoudingen in laatmiddeleeuws 

Zeeland. In M.J.M. Damen & L.H.J. Sicking (Eds.), 


alumnorum Wim Blockmans (pp. 163-179). 


PhD Defences 

June 23, 2010: Drs. A. van Steensel 

‘Edelen in Zeeland. Macht, rijkdom en status in 

een laatmiddeleeuwse samenleving’. 

October 12, 2010: Ms. Drs. A.R. Verboon 

Lines of thought: Diagrammatic representation and the 

scientific texts of the Arts Faculty, 1200-1500. 

External PhD. Candidates 

Drs. L. Alberts 

Drs. J. Besseling 

Drs. S. Bijker 

Drs. J. Brüsewitz 

Drs. J. Cox 

Drs. H. Denissen 

Drs. W. Dral 

Drs. F.J.L. van Dulm 

Drs. R. Dijk 

Ms. Drs. V. Flammang 

Ms. Drs. E. van Gelder 


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Drs. M.A. van Hattem 

Drs. D. J. Jansen 

Drs. J.M.J.G. Kats 

Drs. H.J.L.C. Koopmanschap 

Drs. C.O. van der Meij 

Ms. Drs. M. van der Meij-Tolsma 

Drs. A. Nobel 

Ms. Drs. A. Peele 

Drs. D. Pfeifer 

Drs. V. Roelvink 

Drs. O.D.J. Roemeling 

Drs. G. van Roon 

Drs. R. van Rossenberg 

Drs. G.P. Sanders 

Drs. A.A.J. Scheffers 

Drs. P. Schoen 

Drs. H. Spanninga 

Drs. A.P.W. van den Steen 

Drs. H.D. Tjalsma 

Drs. F.W.G. Visser 

Drs. E. Verbaan 

Drs. J.W. Wesseldijk 

Research Master Students 

Erica Boersma 

David Claszen 

Luca Foti 

Jasper Groen 

Peter van den Hooff 

Wouter Klein 

Carolina Perrick-Lenarduzzi 

Lisette Mierop 

Thijs Porck

Lex van Tilborg 

Jenine de Vries 


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 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 indi- 


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vidual 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? 


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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 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 


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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 selfimages. 

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 


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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 macrohistorical 

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. 

Families, Corporations and Institutions. 

The Role of Trust in the Formation of 

Urban Communities in Western Europe, 


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1250-1500 (NWO Rubicon, Birkbeck, 

University of London) 

Arie van Steensel 

In the rapidly growing cities of the late Middle 

Ages new forms of trust emerged that gave social 

cohesion to the urban community. Civic 

corporations and public institutions strengthened 

the processes of social integration and community 

building in the medieval city. This project aims to 

reveal the social mechanisms that underlay these 

new, extra-familial solidarities, as well as to 

determine the factors that facilitated their 

formation. It does so by comparing the 

developments in cities with different political and 

socio-economic profiles from Italy, the Low 

Countries and England. This comparative research 

will contribute to our knowledge about the 

structural factors that explain the relation between 

the evolution of urban communities and the 

provision of public services. It will contribute to 

the interdisciplinary debate about the practice of 

trust and the role of institutionalisation and civil 

society in community building, drawing on 

sociological theory pertaining to trust and social 

networks. The research also enhances our 

understanding of the scope and organisation of 

public services in the medieval city. The central 

question is how the transition from personal to 

more general forms of trust in corporations and 

institutions facilitated the process of urban 

community building in the period from 1250 to 

1500. 

Taste in Transition

Hanno Wijsman 

Over the centuries, the Low Countries have been a 

key region in Europe for the developments of book 

production, art production, and commercialisation. 

This project intends to view these 

developments in a combined way, focussing on 

changes in illustrations in manuscripts and printed 

books in the 15th and 16th centuries. 

In former research, manuscripts and printed books 

have largely been studied as separate worlds, by 

medievalists on the one side and modernists on 

the other. Printing has often been seen as a 

‘revolution’ or even as the ‘invention of the book’. 

Only very recently one starts to see that it is more 

fruitful to stress the continuity of book production 

and to consider the introduction of printing as one 

technical step in book history, though a very 

important one. Books, whether hand written or 

printed, are important objects in the transmission 

of culture. The main novelty of printing is a 

commercial one: printers seek a new public to sell 

books they now make in several dozens or even 

hundreds of copies, instead of individually in 

commission. It has been often stated that books get 

more numerous and cheaper, but many questions 

remain on how exactly the printers tried and 

managed to reach new target groups in society. 

This interdisciplinary project intends to venture 

into the field where the history of art and history 

of the book meet with social and economic history. 

The production of books and other works of art is 

closely linked to the important position of 

commerce. The major commercial cities in 

Northern Europe were Bruges (13th-15th cen- 


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turies) and Antwerp (16th century). In the same 

period the production of books and art flourished 

as never before. The trading network and the 

presence of many foreign agents led to the exportation 

of these luxury products all over Europe, 

especially to England, the Iberian Peninsula and 

Italy. The economic shift from Bruges to Antwerp 

is reflected in book production, because Bruges 

was the major town for manuscript production in 

the 15th century Netherlands, but Antwerp 

became by far the foremost printing town in the 

16th century (although the first flourishing of 

printing (1470-1490) was in the North, in cities like 

Gouda and Haarlem). 

Our project wants to examine how market strategies 

of the book producers (aiming at socially and 

geographically ever growing markets), technical 

innovations, the culturally conditioned demand of 

book possessors, and changing contents of books 

are linked together. Our aim is to combine the 

history of taste and fashion at the side of the 

consumers with the history of technological and 

stylistic inventions of book production, especially 

concerning the illustrations, focussing on form and 

content of the books, social stratification of the 

buyers and strategies of the printers. Thus we 

want to innovate in a field where a lot of research 

has been done, but where different approaches are 

as yet not combined systematically and on a 

quantitatively representative basis. Our main 

source is constituted by the surviving books, 

manuscripts and printed books. It is our intention 

to study them first broadly, quantitatively, in 

order to see the long term developments and sec-

ondly by in depth case studies to view the precise 

iconographical changes in the illustrations. Focus 

points are the shift in techniques from manuscript 

to print and the choices that have been made for 

that, the choice of texts and images by the printers, 

and the reactions of the intended reading public. 

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 


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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. 

Hollanders as ‘the Other’. Late medieval 

perceptions of identity in Hanseatic 

sources (Rubicon project) 

Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz 

The division between ‘us’ and ‘them’ is one of the 

most common mechanisms of social interaction 

and (self)perception. It also contributes to the 

creation of identities, both nowadays and in the 

past. In this project, Hollanders in the late Middle 

Ages are viewed as ‘the Other’ through the lens of 

Hanseatic sources. Hollanders were an upcoming 

mercantile power in the 15th-16th centuries, 

expanding to the Baltic region: a ground until then 

dominated by the Hanse, a mercantile 

organisation. The interaction with Hanseatic 

traders ranged from rivalry to cooperation, and it 

resulted in the creation of an image of Hollanders 

as ‘the Other’. There are abundant sources on this 

representation of Hollanders, and it is one of the 

few instances when an external view on the 

medieval Hollandish identity can be analysed.


However, these sources have not been yet 

systematically examined. This project aims to fill 

this lacuna, and to place the findings in a 

theoretically informed framework. It will thus be 

both an contribution to the study of Holland- 

Hanse relations in the late Middle Ages, and to the 

theoretical discussion of identities from a historical 

perspective. The question is what role the image of 

‘the Other’ played in mercantile interaction. 

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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 


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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 nationally-oriented 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 


Research 

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September 17-19: Lecture ‘Hungerstrikes as a 

weapon of the IRA in the battle for public support, 

1917-1990’ at the Irish Historians in Britain, 

University of Southampton. 


January 15-16: Together with Eric Storm 

organization of the conference: Nation-building, 

Regional Identities and Separatism in West- and 

Central Europe, 1890-1914 held at Leiden 

University. 


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Since September: Fellow in Residence at the NIAS. 


Referee for the Irish Research Council for the 

Humanities and Social Sciences. 

Screening of the HAVO and VWO exams in 

history for the CITO. 


Until 15 October acted as: 

Director of Teaching, Institute for History, Leiden 

University. 

Secretary to the Bachelor Programme for History, 


Secretary to the Master Programme for History, 


Secretary to the Research Master Programme for 

History, Leiden University. 

Chair of the Joint Exam Committee of the three 

degree programmes in History. 

From 15 October: 

Secretary of the Joint Exam Committee of the three 

degree programmes in History 

Whole Year: 

Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for 



Member of the search committee for the new 

department head of the Section Education and 

Studentaffairs (OSZ) of the Faculty of Humanities, 

University Leiden.

Member of the search committee for a temporary 

lecturer in Economic History 

Member of the search committee for a lecturer in 

European Studies, University Leiden. 

Member of the advisory group for the University 

Library, University Leiden. 

Coordinator and principal applicant for the NIAS 

Research Theme Group: Terrorists on Trial. 

Representative for Leiden University in 

negotiations to establish a joint-degree with 

Charles University, Prague and the Sorbonne, 

Paris. 


committee 

Member of the PhD committee of Patrick Frehan at 

the University ofAmsterdam. 

June 10: Opponent at the PhD defence of Filip 

Bloem at the University Leiden. 

Miscellaneous 

Have been commentator mainly on Irish affairs on 

national radio in Holland and Belgium. 

Have given papers to various student bodies. 

Publications 

Augusteijn, J. 

[Book review ‘Making Ireland Irish: Tourism and 

National Identity since the Irish Civil War’]. 

American Historical Review, 115(1), 293-294. 


Patrick Pearse. The Making of a Revolutionary. 

Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan. 



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Patrick Pearse: proto-fascist eccentric or 

mainstream European thinker? History Ireland, 

18(6), 34-37. 

Dr. E.F. van de Bilt 

Research 

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June 16: International conference ‘Travel, Trade, 

and Ethnic Transformations’ at the university of 

Pécs, Hungary: ‘Mark Twain's 'Most Benevolent 

Critic': Subversive Transference and the End of 

Orientalism’. 

October 28: international conference ‘The Obama 

Effect’ at the Roosevelt Study Center in 

Middelburg: ‘Father Issues: Barack Obama and 

Woodrow Wilson’. 


March 5: Organizer of the national Americanist 

Conference ‘Reconciliation and Change: Hopes of 

Harmony and Reform in American History and 

Culture’, Amsterdam. 

Dr. B.E. van der Boom 

Research 

0.3 fte


Application, NWO Research Proposal: ‘Plaatsen 

van Terreur, onderdeel van Dynamiek van de 

Herinnering. Granted October 15, 2010. 

Publications 

Boom, B.E., van der 

June 26: ‘Mensen achter het partijinsigne’. 

[Bespreking van: Hier woont een NSB'er. 

Nationaal-socialisten in bezet Amsterdam]. In: De 

Volkskrant. 

(Book review) 

Dr. D. Bos 

Research 

0.3 fte 


October 21: War and propaganda, NIOD 

Amsterdam. 

October 30: Multatuli als emancipator, IISG 

Amsterdam 

Referee, advisory committees, editor, etc. 

Member of Editorial Committee International 

Review of Social History (Cambridge University 

Press). 

Editor ‘Onvoltooid Verleden’, website for the 

history of social movements (in Dutch) 

(www.onvoltooidverleden.nl/) 


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Member of the Recommendation Committee for 

Kritiek. Jaarboek voor socialistische discussie en analyse 

(Uitgeverij Aksant: Amsterdam). 

Member of the Editorial Board, Biography Portal 

of the Netherlands 

(http://www.biografischportaal.nl/). 

Member of the Advisory Board of the Hitimeproject 

(IISG Amsterdam / Tilburg Centre for 

Creative Computing at Tilburg University). 


Advisor for De rode canon. Een geschiedenis van de 

Nederlandse sociaal-democratie in 32 verhalen (Wiardi 

Beckmanstichting: The Hague 2010) 

Miscellaneous 

April 25: Guest in Onvoltooid Verleden Tijd 

(VPRO radio) on the occasion of the publication of 

a new Dutch translation of Marx' Das Kapital. 

May 31: Co-referee at the Onderzoekschool 

Politieke Geschiedenis, Amsterdam NIOD. 

June 6: Lectures as 'historian on location' during 

the 'Dag van de Amsterdamse Geschiedenis'. 

October 30: Opening lecture at conference 

'Multatuli als emancipator', IISG Amsterdam. 

November 21: Lecture on the early socialist 

movement in the Netherlands at the 2.Dh5-festival 

('Samenscholing van activisten en 

wereldversleutelaars'), Tilburg. 

Dr. P. Dassen

Research 

0.3 fte 


Spring 2010: secretary of the foundation 

‘Oostenrijk-Studiën’, allied to Leiden University. 


Till 1 September: Coordinator of the Researchtheme 

‘Political Culture and National Identities’ of 

the Institute for History of Leiden University. 

Till 1 September: Coordinator of the BA-Honours 

Class of the Institute for History of Leiden 

University. 

Adviser on behalf of the organisation of the 

‘Honours-History-Traject’ of Leiden University for 

the next years (‘Sirius-programme’). 

Adviser on behalf of the Cleveringa-Chair (2010: 

Prof. Dr. J.C.H. Blom) at Leiden University, 

including the organisation of an extra Tutorial for 

Honours Students. 


committee 

Member of the PhD-committee of the dissertation 

of Filip Bloem, June 10: Bedachtzame revolutionairen. 

Oost-Duitse en Tsjechische oppositiebewegingen, 1975- 

1990 (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. M.E.H.N. Mout). 

Opponent at the PhD defence of Iwona Maçzka, 24 

November 2010, Alles Banane? Fiktionale Erinnerung 

an DDR und Wende in den ersten zwanzig Jahren nach 

dem Mauerfall (2010). (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. A. 

Visser). 


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Publications 

Dassen, P.G.C. (01-07-2010). Max Weber over de 

'Entzauberung der Welt'. 

http:/www.humanistischecanon.nl/secularisering/max_ 

weber_over_onttovering_ 

Prof. Dr. H.W. van den Doel 

Research 

0.3 fte 


Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. 

Member of the Board of Governors of Clingendael 

Institute. 

Member of the Board of the Leiden Communicatiestad 

Foundation. 

Publications 

Doel, H.W. van den 

The Dutch Empire. An Essential Part of World 

History. Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de 

Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 125(2-3), 179-237. 


Not a bridge too far. The battle for the Moerdijk 

bridges, Dordrecht and Rotterdam. In: Amersfoort, 

H & Kamphuis, P (Eds.), May 1940. The battle for 

the Netherlands (History of Warfare), 57. , pp. 343- 

394. Leiden: Brill. 

Doel, H.W., van den 

Disputed Territory: the battle in the Dutch 

provinces of Limburg, Noord-Brabant and 

Zeeland. In: Amersfoort, H & Kamphuis, P (Eds.),

May 1940. The battle for the Netherlands (History of 

Warfare), 57. , pp. 205-260. Leiden: Brill. 


The Field Army Defeated. The battle for the 

Grebbe Line. In: Amersfoort, H. & Kamphuis, P. 

(Eds.), May 1940. The battle for the Netherlands 

(History of Warfare), 57. , pp. 261-320. Leiden: 

Brill. 


The emergence of the German threat. In: 

Amersfoort, H. & Kamphuis, P. (Eds.), May 1940. 

The battle for the Netherlands (History of 

Warfare), 57., pp. 13-34. Leiden: Brill. 

Prof. Dr. A. Fairclough 

Research 

0.3 fte 



February 2010: ‘Last best hope of earth or warning 

to us all? American democracy in historical 

perspective’. University of Amsterdam, ‘The 

American Dream’ lecture series. 


Reader of manuscript submissions to History of 

Education Quarterly; Journal of Policy History; Journal 

of the Civil War Era. Book reviewer for Journal of 

American History; Journal of Southern History. 

Referee, American Council of Learned Societies; 

American Philosophical Society. 


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Coordinator, MA American History. 


committee 

Supervisor of AIO’s Laura Maessen, Sabrina 

Otterloo, Mark de Vries. 

Miscellaneous 

Chair, Netherlands American Studies Association. 

Chair of jury, Theodore Roosevelt Association 

History Award 

Prof. Dr. A.W.M. Gerrits 

Research 

0.3 fte 



October 12: ‘Democracy and democracy 

promotion under Obama’, U.S. Democracy Policy 

Under Obama: Rebalancing or Retreat?, Carnegie 

Endowment for International Peace, Brussels. 

November 16: ‘Rusland en de voormalige 

Sovjetstaten’, Rusland en zijn buren, Spui 25, NIP. 

Keynote lecture 

November 26: ‘Studying Russia Today: What Do 

We See and Why Would We Bother?’ Cleveringa 

Lecture Leiden University at the Netherlands

Institute in St. Petersburg / Netherlands Consulate 

in St. Petersburg. 


‘Demokratizatsiya’. The Journal of Post-Soviet 

Democratization (referent). 


Nederlands Genootschap voor Internationale 

Zaken (NGIZ), Department Amsterdam (chair). 

Alfred Mozer Stichting (chair). 


Pax Christi (key informant Caucasus). 


committee 

PhD supervisor: Maja Nenadovic; Marlene 

Spoerri. 

Miscelleanous 

Commissions: BA International Studies; MA 

International Relations (University Leiden). 

Publications 

Gerrits, A.W.M. & Burnell, Peter. 

Promoting Party Politics in Emerging 

Democracies. Democratization, 17(6), 1065-1084. 

Gerrits, A.W.M. 

Time, Fortuna and Policy – or How to understand 

European Integration? Bijdragen en Mededelingen 

betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 125(4), 

67-73. 


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Gerrits, A.W.M. & Burnell, Peter (Eds.). 

‘Promoting party politics in emerging 

democracies’, Special issue of Democratization, 17 

(December) 6, 1065-1296. 


Het olifantje en de porseleinkast: Over de 

Europese Unie in de wereldpolitiek en de studie 

van Europa. Vrede en Veiligheid. Tijdschrift voor 

Internationale Vraagstukken, 39(3), 179-193. 


Rehabilitation of Politics; A few Comments on 

Tony Judt, ‘Ill Fares the Land’. Unknown FGW, 41- 

43. 


Het olifantje en de porseleinkast: Over de Europese 

Unie in de wereldpolitiek en de studie van Europa. 

Oratie Europese Studies, (20-05)Amsterdam: 

Vossiuspers University of Amsterdam. 

Dr. J.C.G. Gomez Aguiar 

Research 

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April 20: ‘Hogeronderwijsinstellingen in Mexico’ 

(Institutions for higher education in Mexico), 

presented for the seminar ‘Samenwerking met 

Latijns Amerika’ (Cooperation with Latin 

America), Netherlands Organization for 

International Cooperation in Higher Education 

Nuffic, Utrecht.

November 15: ‘Sex, slander and the church: the 

struggle on minority rights in Mexico’, Political 

Science Department, Amherst College, Amherst. 

December 3-4: ‘Estados de simulación: Piratería, 

contrabando y el control de la ilegalidad en 

América Latina’, XIV Encuentro Internacional de 

Juristas, Feria Internacional del Libro, Guadalajara, 

Mexico. 

December 13 : ‘Fronteras en disputa. El estado 

neoliberal, comercio e ilegalidad en la triple 

frontera de Sudamérica’, Centro de Estudios 

Migratorios, Instituto Nacional de Migración, 

Mexico City. 


Editor of Etnofoor, Anthropological Journal, two 

issues published per year. 

Referee for the European Review of Latin American 

and Caribbean Studies, CEDLA. 


National Researcher, level C, Sistema Nacional de 

Investigadores (National Register of Researchers), 

Consejo Nacional para la Ciencia y la Tecnología 

(National Council for Science and Technology), 

Mexico. 

Affiliated researcher Consortium on Security 

Transformation, FLACSO, Chile. 

Affiliated researcher research network Global 

interactions of people, cultures and power, 


Member of the Latin American Studies Association 

(LASA). 


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Member of the European Association of Social 

Anthropologists (EASA). 

Member of the American Association of 

Anthropologists (AAA). 

Member of the Netherlands Association of Latin 

American And Caribbean Studies (NALACS). 

Publications 

Aguiar, José Carlos G. 

La piratería como conflicto. Discursos sobre la 

propiedad intelectual en México. Iconos, 38. 

Revista de Ciencias Sociales. 


Que siga la música. Neoliberalismo, piratería y la 

protección de los derechos de autor en México. 

Renglones, 62. 

Aguiar, José Carlos G., Spronk, Rachel, 

Oosterbaan, Martijn, Witte, Marleen, Jaffe, R.K. & 

Sunier, Th. (Eds.). 

Etnofoor, 22(1). 

Articles in journals 

‘Book Review: ‘I know It’s Dangerous’. Why 

Mexicans Risk Their Lives to Cross the Border, by 

Lynnaire Sheridan’, Revista Europea de Estudios 

Latinoamericanos y del Caribe, 89. 


‘Stretching the Border: Smuggling Practices and 

the Control of Illegality in South America’. Global 

Consortium on Security Transformation, New 

Voices Series, 6. 

As editor 

‘Imitation’, Etnofoor, 22(1).

‘New Savages’, Etnofoor, 22(2). 

Prof. Dr. R.Th. Griffiths 

Research 

0.3 fte 

Dr. M.J. Janse 

Research 

0.8 fte 


July 23-30: ‘Association is a mighty engine’: The 

metaphor of technological innovation in American, 

British and Irish reform movements, c.1825-1845, on 

panel ‘Making things, remaking a nation’, SHEAR, 

Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY. 

October 1: ‘Distant Victims: The paradox of 

Nineteenth-century protests against slavery and 

the cultivation system’, KNHG-Conference ‘A New 

Dutch Imperial History – Connecting Dutch and 

Overseas Pasts’, The Hague, The Netherlands. 


June 24: ‘The intermediary character of 19th century 

Dutch civil society’, DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 

‘Zivilgesellschaftliche Verständigungs-Prozesse 

vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart – 

Deutschland und die Niederlande im Vergleich’, 


Münster, Germany. 

November 19: ‘De politiek van het Reveil’, 

Studiedag Stichting Reveilarchief, Amsterdam, The 

Netherlands. 

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December 6: Seminar ‘Past, present and future of 

the pressure group’, Institute for History, Leiden 

University. 

October 22: Studiemiddag Werkgroep 

Verenigingsgeschiedenis: Kunstenaars en hun 

verenigingen rond 1900; Huygens Instituut, The 

Hague. 


Secretary Editorial Board of De Negentiende Eeuw. 


Chair Werkgroep Verenigingsgeschiedenis 

Bestuurslid Stichting Reveilarchief. 


Advisor: NPS-serie ‘De Slavernij’, including two 

days rehearsal. 


committee 

Together with Henk te Velde: two PhD students 

Anne Heyer en Geerten Waling. 

Publications 

Aerts, R., Tibbe, L., Dongelmans, B.P.M., Velde, H. 

te, Janse, M.J. & Koolhaas, E. (Eds.). 

De Negentiende Eeuw.

Dr. J.H.C. Kern 

Research 

0.3 fte 



January 15-16: participation and reference at the 

PCNI-congress: 'Nationbuilding and Seperatism', 


September 23-24: participation and presentation: 

'Denken over Rusland, tussen oriëntalisme en 

essentialisme' op Nederlands-Vlaamse 

Slavistendagen, Leuven, Belgium. 


February 1: lecture and discussion for the Pre- 

University, Leiden. 

February 3 – March 31: serie of eight lectures for 

HOVO: 'Een geschiedenis van twee Ruslanden', 


Miscellaneous 

December 13: public debate with Orlando Figes 

about his book Crimea, the last crusade at the Spui 

25, Amsterdam. 

Publications 

Kern, J.H.C. 

Review article [Book review 'From the Soviet Bloc to 

the European Union. The Economic and Social 

Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe since 

1973' by Ivan T. Berend & 'Impact of Culture on 


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Human Interaction: Clash or Challenge?' by H. 

Helfrich, A.V. Dakhin, E. Hölter and I.V. 

Arzhenovskiy]. European Review, 18(2), 273-275. 

Kern, J.H.C. 

Het Sovjetexperiment. Hoorcollege over de moderne 

geschiedenis van Rusland. Studium Generale 

lezingenserie. Den Haag: NRC Academie i.s.m. 

Home Academy Publishers. 

Ms. Prof. Dr. M.E.H.N. Mout 

Research 

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committee 

June 10: promotor: Filip Bloem 

‘Bedachtzame revolutionairen. Oost-Duitse en 

Tsjechische oppositiebewegingen, 1975-1990’. 


Publications 

Mout, M.E.H.N. & Stauffacher, W. (Eds.) 

Truth in Science, the Humanities, and Religion. Balzan 

Symposium 2008. Dordrecht, etc.: Springer. 

Mout, M.E.H.N. 

[Bespreking van het boek A History of the Czech 

Lands]. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 123, 120-121. 

Prof. Dr. W. Otterspeer

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Dr. H.J. Paul 

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January 27: ‘Virtuous Performance: Distance and 

Self-Distanciation as Historicist Ideals,’ 

international conference ‘The Transfiguration of 

the Present: Reflections on Historical Distance,’ 

University of Groningen. 

April 13: ‘Mythic Genealogies of the Historical 

Discipline,’ European Social Science History 

Conference, Ghent. 

June 4: ‘Historicizing the Canon: Towards a 

Contextualist Understanding of Historiographical 

Genealogies,’ international workshop, ‘Fathers of 

History: Genealogies of the Historical Discipline,’ 


October 23: ‘The Scholarly Self: Ideals of 

Intellectual Virtue in Nineteenth-Century Leiden’, 

international conference ‘The Making of the 

Humanities II’, University of Amsterdam. 

August 27: ‘Gadamer in American Philosophy of 

History; or, Why History and Theory Never 

Reviewed Truth and Method,’ international 

conference, ‘Fifty Years After: Gadamer’s 

Influence on the Humanities,’ Leiden University. 



March 23: ‘Workshop zur 

Historiographiegeschichte: Hayden White,’ 

Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz. 

May 14: ‘Van voorbeeld tot voorganger: Robert 

Fruin en Godefroid Kurth als vaders van de 

geschiedwetenschap,’ Vlaams-Nederlands 

Historisch Congres, Leiden. 

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Co-organizer of international conference, ‘Fifty 

Years After: Gadamer’s Influence on the 

Humanities,’ Leiden University, August 26-28, 

2010. 

Organizer of international workshop, ‘Fathers of 

History: Genealogies of the Historical Discipline,’ 

Leiden University, June 4, 2010. 

Organizer of panel, ‘Self Images of the Historical 

Discipline; or, What Philosophers of History 

Can(not) Learn from how Historians Understand 

their own Practice,’ European Social Science 

History Conference, Ghent, April 13, 2010. 

Co-organizer of international conference, ‘The 

Transfiguration of the Present: Reflections on 

Historical Distance,’ University of Groningen, 

January 27-28, 2010. 


Referee report for the Journal of the Philosophy of 


Membership of boards and committees

Member International Commission for the History 

and Theory of Historiography. 

Miscellaneous 

Senior editor Leidschrift. 

Publications 

Paul, H.J. 

'De Hollandsche meester der streng-analytischen 

methode': Robert Fruin als vader van de 

Nederlandse geschiedwetenschap. In: Paul, H.J. & 

Velde, H., te (Eds.), Het vaderlandse verleden: Robert 

Fruin en de Nederlandse geschiedenis, pp. 221-248. 


Paul, H.J. 

'Perfect Peace for Mind and Will’. How Dutch 

Neo-Calvinists Did (Not) Remember John Calvin. 

Toronto Journal of Theology, 26 (supplement 1), pp. 

13-26. 

Paul, H.J. 

2000 Jaar Nederlanders en het einde der tijden. 

(Geloof in Nederland, 34). Zwolle: Waanders. 

Paul, H.J. 

Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Hannah's Child: 

A Theologian's Memoir]. In: Ars Disputandi, 10, pp. 

176-177. 

Paul, H.J. 

Een Leids historisch ethos? De epistemische 

deugden van Fruin en Acquoy. Leidschrift. 

Historisch Tijdschrift, 25, pp. 95-114. 

Paul, H.J. & Velde, H., te (Eds.) 

Het vaderlandse verleden: Robert Fruin en de 

Nederlandse geschiedenis. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker. 

Paul, H.J. & Velde, H., te 


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Inleiding. In: Paul, H.J. & Velde, H., te (Eds.), Het 

vaderlandse verleden: Robert Fruin en de Nederlandse 

geschiedenis, pp. 7-15. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker. 

Paul, H.J. 

Religion and the Crisis of Historicism: Protestant 

and Catholic Perspectives. Journal of the Philosophy 

of History, 4, pp. 172-194. 

Ankersmit, F.R. & Paul, H.J. & Krol, R.A. 

The Meaning of Historicism for Our Time. Journal 

of the Philosophy of History, 4, pp. 119-120. 

Paul, H.J. 

Who Suffered From the Crisis of Historicism? A 

Dutch Example. History and Theory, 49, pp. 169- 

193. 

Prof. Dr. G. Scott-Smith 

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December 2010: March 2010: ‘The Transnational Transatlantic: A 

Receding Epoch?’ & ‘A Missing Episode in the 

Cold War: Interdoc, West European Intelligence 

Services, and Psychological Warfare’ 

Marshall Memorial Fellow seminars, University of 

Wisconsin-Madison, USA. 

May 2010: ‘Reviving the Transatlantic 

Community? The Successor Generation Concept in 

US Foreign Affairs, 1960s – 1980s’ Conference: 

Europe and America in the 1980s: Old Barriers,

New Openings, European University Institute, 

Florence, Italy. 

July 2010: Expanding the Diffusion of US 

Jurisprudence: The Netherlands as a ‘beachhead’ 

for US Foundations in the 1960s’ 

Conference: US Foundations and the Power 

Policies of Knowledge Circulation in the Global 

Arena (20 th Century), Freiburg Institute for 

Advanced Studies, Germany. 

July 2010: ‘The Free Europe University in 

Strasbourg: US State-Private Networks and 

Academic ‘Rollback’ 

Conference: Transatlantic Studies Association, 

Durham, England. 

November 2010: ‘Cultural Exchange and the 

Corporate Sector – Public Diplomacy in an Era of 

Globalisation’. Conference: Impacts - Does 

Academic Exchange Matter? Cultural Diplomacy, 

Scholarly Internationalism, and American Studies 

since World War II, Amerika Haus / University of 

Vienna, Austria. 

December 2010: ‘The Heineken Factor? Using 

Exchanges to Extend the Reach of US Soft Power’. 

Conference: The Tobin Project - Prudent Strategies 

and Instruments for National Security, Boston, 

USA 

Keynote lectures 

February 2010: ‘West European Elites and the 

Foreign Leader Program’. Conference: USA and 

Spain – Propaganda and Cultural Cooperation in 

the Cold War 1945-1960, University of Madrid, 

Spain. 


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October 27-29: Organiser of the congress ‘The 

Obama Effect: Transatlantic Perspectives Past and 

Future,’ Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg. 


November 9: Leiden-Amsterdam MA Seminar in 

Contemporary Transatlantic History: 

Landscapes of Secrecy - The Public Record of the 

CIA in History, Media, Film, and the Arts, 

University of Amsterdam. 

Together with Ruud van Dijk (History Dept., 

University of Amsterdam) and Marianne van 

Leeuwen (Atlantic Association Chair in Modern 

Transatlantic Relations, University of Amsterdam). 


Referent (peer review) for the following journals: 

Diplomacy and Statecraft, Diplomatic History, Foreign 

Policy Analysis, Cold War History, en Journal of Cold 

War Studies. 

Referent (manuscript peer review) for the 

following editors: Brill, Palgrave Macmillan, 

Manchester University Press. 


Treasurer Netherlands American Studies 

Association. 

Member of the Netherlands Intelligence Studies 

Association. 

Member of the International Intelligence History 

Association.

Board member of the Transatlantic Studies 

Association. 

Member of the Monash European and EU Center, 

Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. 


committee 

April: External Examiner for PhD – student 

Darrell Ezell, University of Birmingham: 

‘Diplomacy and U.S.-Muslim world Relations: The 

Possibility of the Post-secular and Interfaith 

Dialogue’ Birmingham University. 

November: External Examiner for PhD - student 

Ksenia Demidova, European University Institute, 

Florence: ‘The Formation of US Foreign Policy 

towards Euro-Soviet Gas Trade during the Cold 

War 1969-1985’. 

Miscellaneous 

Editor of (History / Social Science), European 

Journal of American Studies. 

Board of Editors, Journal of American Studies. 

Publications 

Scott-Smith, G (2010). Searching for the Successor 

Generations: Exchange Programs, Networks of 

Influence, and US Foreign Policy towards Western 

Europe in the 1980s. In K. Osgood & B. Etheridge 

(Eds.), The United States and Public Diplomacy: New 

Directions in Cultural and International History 

(Diplomatic Studies, 5). Leiden: Brill. 

Scott-Smith, G (2010). Soft Power in an Era of US 

Decline. In I. Parmar & M. Cox (Eds.), Soft Power 


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and US Foreign Policy (Studies in US Foreign 

Policy). London: Routledge. 

Scott-Smith, G (2010). Soft Power, US Public 

Diplomacy, and Global Risk. In A. Fisher & S. 

Lucas (Eds.), Trials of Engagement: The Future of US 

Public Diplomacy (Diplomatic Studies, 6). Leiden: 

Brill. 

Scott-Smith, G (2010). The Congress for Cultural 

Freedom: Constructing an Intellectual Atlantic 

Community. In M. Mariano (Ed.), Defining the 

Atlantic Community: Culture, Intellectuals, and 

Policies in the mid-20th Century. London: Routledge. 

Scott-Smith, G (2010). The US State Department’s 

Foreign Leader Program in France during the 

early Cold War. In P. Ory, R. Frank, A. Dulphy & 

M-A Matard-Bonucci (Eds.), Les relations culturelles 

internationales au XXe siècle. De la diplomatie 

culturelle à l'acculturation (Enjeux internationaux, 

10). Brussels: Peter Lang. 


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May 11: Organizer of and referent at the 

Conference given by Prof. Miguel Angel Centeno 

(Princeton University) ‘Without State or Nation: 

Liberalism in 19 th Century Latin America’, Leiden 

University. 

May 20-21: Organizer of International Conference 

‘Assessing the State of the Nation: Argentina,


Chile, Colombia and Mexico at the Bicentenario, 

American and Caribbean Studies. 

1810-2010’, Leiden University. 


Chairman of the Department of Latin American 

Studies (TCLA), Leiden University. 

Chairman of the Executive Board (from January 

2004) of the Centre for Study and Documentation 

of Latin America (CEDLA) in Amsterdam. 

Member of the Examination Committee, 

Department of Latin American Studies. 

Member of the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of 

Latin American Research (Blackwell, Oxford). 

Member of the International Editorial Board of: 

Revista de Ciencia Política (Universidad Católica de 

Chile), Revista Bicentenario (Santiago de Chile), 

Revista Chilena de Estudios Regionales (Chile), 

Revista Política y Gobierno (Chile). 

The Editorial Board of the CNWS Publications. 

The Editorial Board of the CEDLA Latin America 

Studies Series (CLAS). 


April 16: ‘Key Social and Political Issues in 

Contemporary Latin America’, Lecture to future 

Diplomats (diplomatenklasje), Ministry of Foreign 

Affairs, The Hague. 

April 24: ‘Surviving in the Latin American City’, 

Presentation at Open Dag, Faculty of Humanities. 

May 12: Referent at the Graduate Seminar of the 

Institute for History, UniversityLeiden. 

June 22: ‘Democratization and Political Legitimacy 

in Latin America, 1980-2010’. Presentation at the 

Working Group, ‘Political Legitimacy: Institutions 

and Identities’. Leiden University, Faculty of Law. 

October 22: ‘Technocrats versus Politicians in 

Chile: From the Concertación to Piñera’, Lecture at 

the Center for Latin American and Caribbean 

Studies (CLACS), New York University (NYU), 

New York. 

November 4-5: Two Guest Lectures at the 

‘Kernvak Historische Wetenschap’. 

November 20: ‘Introduction to Latin American 

Studies’, Presentation at Open Dag, Faculty of 

Humanities. 

December 16: Lecture ‘Technocrats and Politics in 

Chile’, Central Hall, Universidad Diego Portales 

Santiago de Chile. 


Referee Revista Chilena de Estudios Regionales, Latin 

American Research Review, European Review of Latin 

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Advisory and Coordinating Activities 

Member of the Advisory Board, Institute for 

History, Leiden University. 

Coordinator Andrés Bello Visiting Chair on 

Chilean Studies. 

Coordinator Research Master ‘Latin American and 

Caribbean Studies’. 

Coordinator Master ‘Latin American Studies’. 

Supervisor PhD research; Membership PhD 

committee 

PhD-students: Soledad Valdivia, Iván Veyl, Diego 

Barría, Pablo Isla, Cristina Prieto, Daniel Flores,

Rodrigo Márquez, Gonzalo de la Maza, Lucía 

Dammert, Blanca Santibáñez, Judith Akkerman, 

Carmela Marcuzzo, María Adriana Audibert, 

Daniel Casanova, Jacqueline Gysling, Judith 

Scharager. 

PhD defence 

30 September, Blanca Santibáñez: 

‘Industria y trabajadores textiles en Tlaxcala: 

Convergencias y divergencias en los movimientos 

sociales, 1906-1918’. Leiden University (Promotor). 

23 September, Lucía Dammert: 

‘La encrucijada del temor : redefiniendo la relación 

entre Estado y ciudadanía en Chile’. Leiden 

University (Promotor). 

11 May, Gonzalo de la Maza: 

‘Construcción democrática, participación 

ciudadana y políticas públicas en Chile.’ Leiden 

University (Promotor). 

27 April, Rodrigo Márquez: 

‘La medida de lo posible: Cuantificación y esfera 

pública en Chile.’ Leiden University (Promotor). 

Membership Ph.D. Committee 

September 14: Benjamín Maldonado Alvarado, 

‘Comunidad, comunalidad y colonialismo en 

Oaxaca, México: La nueva educación comunitaria 

y su contexto’. Leiden University. 

June 16: Joanna McGarry, ‘Christian Democracy 

and its Popular Participation in Chile.’ External 

Examiner. University of Cambridge. 

June 15: Frauke Sachse, ‘Reconstructive 

Description of Eighteenth-century Xinka 

Grammar.’ Leiden University. 


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June 8: Saskia van Drunen, ‘Struggling with the 

past: the human rights movement and the politics 

of Memory in post-dictatorship Argentina (1983- 

2006)’. University of Amsterdam. 


PhD student: Havar Solheim (CEDLA/Political 

Legitimacy Group): € 200.000. 

Publications 

Book: En el Nombre de la Razón: Tecnócratas y 

Política en Chile. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones 

Universidad Diego Portales. ISBN: 978-956-314- 

117-7 (290 pp.). 


Research 

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Conference attendances 

January 15-16: Regionalism and Separatism in Europe, 

1890-1914, International Symposium, Leiden 

University, ‘The intellectual roots of regionalism in 

France, Germany and Spain’. 


May 19: Münsteraner Gespräche über Geschichte, 

Universität Münster, Germany, ‘Die Konstruktion 

regionaler Identitäten. Regionalismus in Kunst, 

Architektur und auf internationalen Ausstellungen

in Deutschland, Frankreich und Spanien (1890- 

1939)’. 


January 15-16: Regionalism and Separatism in Europe, 

1890-1914, International Symposium, Leiden 

University (together with Joost Augusteijn). 


External referee for Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez 

(Spain). 

Membership of Board and Committees 

Member of the Educational Review Committee, 

Institute for History, Leiden University 

Elected member of the Faculty Council, Faculty of 

Humanities, Leiden University (since September 



committee 

Supervisor of Ali al-Tuma ‘Moroccan Troops in 

Europe (1936-1945)’ 

Member PhD commission B.E. Santibáñez Tijerina, 

Industria y trabajadores textiles en Tlaxcala: 


sociales, 1906-1918, Leiden University. 


Financial support for the conference Regionalism 

and Separatism in Europe (January 2010), in total 

€ 8.400 from: Institute for History, The 

Europaeum, Huizinga Instituut, Leids 

Universiteitsfonds and KNAW. 


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Grant from Institute for History to have myself 

substituted for some of my teaching obligations in 

order to write a research proposal: €3.500 

Miscellaneous 

Participation in an international research project 

titled Imaginarios nacionalistas e identidad 

nacional española en el siglo XX (2008-11), which 

is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education. 

Lecture on the history of Barcelona for Excursion 

Committee of HSVL (17 February 2010). 

Publications 

Storm, H.J. 

[Book review: Spain: From dictatorship to democracy: 

1939 to the present & Spanisch politics: Democracy 

after dictatorship]. European History Quarterly, 40(2), 

320-322. 

Storm, H.J. 

The culture of regionalism: Art, architecture and 

international exhibitions in France, Germany and 

Spain, 1890-1939. Manchester: Manchester 

University Press. 

Storm, H.J. 

‘De voordelen van rasvermenging’. [Bespreking 

van: Impurity of Blood]. In: Tijdschrift voor 

Geschiedenis, 3, pp. 466-467. 

Storm, H.J. 

‘Toerisme en nationalisme in Ierland’. [Bespreking 

van: Making Ireland Irish: Tourism and National 

Identity since the Irish Civil War]. In: Tijdschrift 

voor Geschiedenis, 4, pp. 627-628.


Research 

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Publications 

Aerts, R., Tibbe, L., Dongelmans, B.P.M., Velde, H. 

te, Janse, M.J. & Koolhaas, E. (Eds.). 

De Negentiende Eeuw. 

Paul, H.J. & Velde, H. te 

Inleiding. In: H.J. Paul & H. te Velde (Eds.), Het 

vaderlandse verleden: Robert Fruin en de Nederlandse 

geschiedenis (pp. 7-15). Amsterdam: Bert Bakker. 

Paul, H.J. & Velde, H. te (Eds.). 

Het vaderlandse verleden: Robert Fruin en de 

Nederlandse geschiedenis. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker. 

Velde, H. te 

‘The international relevance of Dutch History. 

Closing comments’. Bijdragen en Mededelingen 

betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 125, 355- 

365. 

Velde, H. te 

Van regentenmentaliteit tot populisme. Politieke 

tradities in Nederland. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker. 

Velde, H. te 

‘Orde en vrijheid. Politieke geschiedenis en 

synthetische kracht bij Robert Fruin’. In: H.J. Paul 

& H. te Velde (Eds.), Het vaderlandse verleden: 

Robert Fruin en de Nederlandse geschiedenis (pp. 38- 

59). Amsterdam: Bert Bakker. 

Velde, H. te 

‘It really does end in tears’. Het einde van politieke 

carrières. In: M. Ebben, H. den Heijer & J. 

Schokkenbroek (Eds.), Alle streken van het compas. 


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Maritieme geschiedenis in Nederland (pp. 319-333). 

Zutphen: Walburg Pers. 

Velde, H. te 

‘Vader der Vaderlandse Geschiedenis’. Robert 

Fruin (1823-1899), historicus. Geschiedenis 

Magazine, 45(4), 26-29. 

Velde, H. te 

‘Waarom dompelmannetje Balkenende toch steeds 

weer bovenkomt’. NRC Handelsblad 


Drs. J.H.H. van den Berk 

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Ms. Drs. A. Bloemendal 

Research 

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Ms. Drs. C.Y.E. Boot MA 

Research 

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Publications 

Boot, C.Y.E.

‘DDR Patria Nostra? Repatriierte 

Fremdenlegionäre in der DDR: Von der 

Öffentlichkeit in die Staatssicherheit’. 

Deutschland Archiv: Zeitschrift für das vereinigte 

Deutschland, 43(1), 66-73. 

Ms. Drs. A. Heyer MA 

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Drs. C. Hijzen 

Research 

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Conference attendances 

"Third International Graduate Conference: States 

of Emergency – Interdisciplinary Perspective on 

the Dynamics of Crisis”, organised by the 

Graduate School of North American Studies 

(GSNAS)/John F. Kennedy Institute, Free 

University Berlin, lecture: 

“The Performative Power of Security Politics: The 

Construction of a Security State in Postwar 

Germany, the Netherlands and the U.S. (1945- 

1950)”, 11-12 June 2010 (together with Beatrice de 

Graaf). 

Graduiertenkolleg: "Staats-Feinde und 

Staatssicherheit", organised by the Duitsland 

Instituut Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 17 September 


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2010, presentation 'Intelligence and security 

services in the national security state', and 

discussion of the Enemies-of-the-State-project with 

Gisela Diewald-Kerkmann. 

Lecture “ ‘Inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten in 

de nationale veiligheidsstaat; presentatie van het 

promotieonderzoek in het kader van ‘Enemies of 

the state’”, held for the Netherlands Intelligence 

Studies Association (NISA), Utrecht University, 24 

September 2010. 

Conference: "The Obama effect: Transatlantic 

perspectives on past and future (Fifth biennial 

conference on transatlantic studies", organized by 

the Middelburg Centre for Transatlantic Studies, 

the Roosevelt Study Centre, the University of 

Central Missouri, and the University of South 

Dakota, Middelburg, 27-30 October 2010, lecture: 

"The making of the National Security State. The 

Netherlands and the U.S. compared" (Presentation 

written together with Beatrice de Graaf). 

Miscellaneous 

Secretary Dienstraad Campus Den Haag (2009heden). 

Editor: Sporen van Spionage, een uitgave over 

Nederlandse spionageadressen in Nederland. 

Together with dr. D. Engelen. 

Board member of the Netherlands Intelligence 

Studies Association (NISA). 

Publications 

'Draaien, opbouwen, runnen en afbouwen: 

Human intelligence in de Nederlandse context'

(with Daniel Meijer), in: Terrorisme. Studies over 

terrorisme en terrorismebestrijding in Nederland 

(Deventer: Kluwer 2010). 

Ms. Drs. M. Kamphuis 

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April 12: Workshop ‘Beyond Belgium: 

Transnational Social and Cultural Entanglements, 

1900-1925’, Ghent University; paper presentation: 

The transnational dimensions of Belgian and Dutch 

pillarisation (co-author: Dr. M. van Ginderachter). 


May 13-14: Nederlands-Vlaams Historisch 

Congres, Leiden University; practical assistance. 


June 11: Study day ‘Dutch-Belgian transnational 

history’ (Second meeting of the Network of Dutch- 

Belgian History 19 th and 20 th century), Antwerp 

University. 


Member of the editorial board of Historisch 

Tijdschrift Holland. 

Publications 

Kamphuis, M. 

[Book review: ‘Reizen in het spoor van Leopold II. Van 


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Koekelberg tot Hong Kong]. Groniek, Historisch 

Tijdschrift, 184, 348-349. 

Kamphuis, M. 

[Book review: Politicus uit hartstocht. Biografie van 

Pieter Jelles Troelstra]. Ons Erfdeel, 3, 191-193. 

Kamphuis, M. 

‘1887: Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis als held uit 

de gevangenis. In: K. van Leeuwen, M. Molema & 

I. Raaijmakers (eds.), De Rode Canon. Een 

geschiedenis van de Nederlandse sociaaldemocratie in 

32 verhalen (pp.12-13). Wiardi Beckman Stichting. 

Ms. Drs. S. Otterloo MA 

Research 

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A. al Tuma MA 

Research 

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Publications 

'Franco's Moren: Marokkaanse troepen tijdens de 

Spaanse Burgeroorlog', ZemZem. Tijdschrift over het 

Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en islam, Jaargang 6 

(2), pp. 119-126. 

D.E.J. Smit

Research 

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Ms. S. Valdivia Rivera MA 

Research 

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September-December 2010: Field research for own 

dissertation project in Bolivia. 


Committee Andrés Bello Chair. 

Miscellaneous 

May 19-21: Assistance to the organisation of the 

´Bicentenario´ Conference, organised by Prof. P. 

Silva. 

June 25: Attendance of the Symposium 

´Regulation of Political Parties´ of the ERC project 

´Reconceptualizing Party Democracy´, organised 

by Ingrid van Biezen and Hans-Martien ten Napel. 

Drs. A.P. van Veldhuizen 

Research 

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Editor Socialisme en Democratie. 



Chair ‘Werkgroep Eigentijdse sociaal-democratie’ 

(WBS). 

Participant werkgroep ‘Geschiedenis van de 

sociaaldemocratie’ (WBS). 

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Miscellaneous 

Participant ‘Voorbereiding profileringsgebied 

Political legitimacy’. 

Participant application committee for PhD 

‘Political legitimacy’ at the Institute for History. 

Participant application committee for PhD 

‘Political legitimacy’ at the Dept. of Politicology. 

Reading committee (leescommissie) De Rode Canon 

with Gerrit Voerman, Piet de Rooy and Paul 

Kalma. 

April 29: Interview by Cyntha van Gorp, ‘Hang 

naar onderscheid komt terug’, in: Trouw. 

May 1: Interview by Peter Giesen, ‘Marx gelijk en 

ongelijk, achtergrond bankencrisis maakt 

marxistisch gedachtegoed weer actueel’, in: De 

Volkskrant. 

May 12: Interview at Radio Wereldomroep. 

Course Sociaaldemocratie at PvdA (several 

sessions). 

Course Sociaaldemocratie at CDA (several 

sessions). 

Publications 

March: ‘De nacht van de democratie’, in: Socialisme 

en Democratie, nr. 3 

‘1893, Tjerk Luitjes en de anarchisten’ , in: De rode 

canon, Canon van de sociaaldemocratie, WBS 2010. 

‘1894, De oprichting van de SDAP’’, in: De rode

canon, Canon van de sociaaldemocratie, WBS 2010. 

July-August: ‘Wordt het niet eens, maar oneens 

over de toekomst’, in: Socialisme en Democratie, nr. 

7/8. 

February 19: ‘Politicus, maar boven alles een 

Fries’, in: NRC Handelsblad. 

November 14: ‘Waarom zou ‘Sterretje’ onderdoen 

voor Romeo’, in: De Volkskrant. 

December 12: ‘Laat kunst werken’, in: Socialisme en 

Democratie, nr.12. 

December: ‘Weeg niet alleen het “wat”, ook het 

“hoe”’, in: Socialisme en Democratie, nr. 12. 

Ms. Drs. L.G.M. Visser-Maessen 

Research 

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April 15-18: *50th Anniversary Conference 

‘Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’ at 

Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. 


April 14-22: *50th Anniversary Conference 

‘Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’ at 

Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. 

Civil Rights Collection, University of North 

Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 

USA. 



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Student Member Netherlands American Studies 

Association (NASA). 

Student Member Southern Historical Association 

(SHA). 

Drs. M.L. de Vries MA 

Research 

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Paper presentation at the Young Americanists 

Seminar , October 14-15, Rome, Italy. Titel: 

‘Revolution as Reaction : Legal and Extralegal 

strategies for Re-establishing Conservative Control 

over the Red River Valley. 


Member of organization committee PhD-daytrips. 

Drs. G. Waling MA 

Research 

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PhD Defences

June 10: Filip Bloem 

‘Bedachtzame revolutionairen. Tsjechische en 

Oost-Duitse oppositiebewegingen 1975-1990’. 

September 30: Blanca Santibáñez 

‘Industria y trabajadores textiles en Tlaxcala: 


sociales, 1906-1918’. 

September 23: Lucía Dammert 

‘La encrucijada del temor : redefiniendo la relación 

entre Estado y ciudadanía en Chile’. 

May 11: Gonzalo de la Maza 

‘Construcción democrática, participación 

ciudadana y políticas públicas en Chile.’ 

April 27: Rodrigo Márquez 

‘La medida de lo posible: Cuantificación y esfera 

pública en Chile.’ 


M.A. Audibert 

D. Barrio 

Drs. F. Bloem 

Drs. P.M.M.A. Bronzwaer 

N. Casanova 

D. Casanova-Cruz 

Ms. J. Dmitrova, MA 

N.F. Dwiandari 

C. Errázuriz 

J. Gysling 

E. Hanafi 

M. Harpe 

Drs. R. ‘t Hart 

Drs. M. van Hattem 

Drs. T.C.J. van Hengel 


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Ms. Drs. P. van der Hoeven 

D. Janssen 

P. de Jong 

M.J. Karabinos 

K. Karatzas 

J. Lentzner 

M. Loderichs 

Drs. M. Melchers 

Santibanez Tijerina 

J. Scharager 

Ms. Drs. M.W.F. van der Steen 

I. Veyl Ahumada 

H. Wilbrink 


Jurriën Cremers 

Gaiwin Eley 

Lonneke Geerlings 

Jolijn Groothuizen 

Rosa den Heijer 

Jacques de Jong 

Bodo Lamp 

Joost Luiten 

Bernard Nauta 

Jos Olsthoorn 

Hesna Özel 

Anne Petterson 

Denise Pieters 

Eveline van Rijswijk 

SiegerVerhart 

Jens van der Weele 

Koen van Wijk 

Rolf Wink

European Expansion and 

Globalisation 

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 


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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 Institute 

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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Conferences through Call for Papers 

International Colloquium: ‘Portugal na 

confluência das rotas comerciais ultramarinas’, 

Centro de História de Além Mar, New University 

of Lisbon: ‘Managing Portuguese risk: the 

Amsterdam insurance market for Portuguese 

colonial interests, goods and markets, 1580-1715’. 


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International Congress: ‘Negotiating Trade: 

commercial institutions and cross-cultural 

exchange in the medieval and Early Modern 

period’, Center for Medieval and Renaissance 

Studies (CEMERS), Binghamton University, New 

York: ‘Prosecuting the persecutor: commercial 

contracts, Jews and Inquisitors, 1580-1650’. 

International Conference: ‘From Iberian kingdoms 

to Atlantic Empires: Spain, Portugal and the New 

World, 1200-1700’, University of Notre Dame: ‘The 

Inquisition in Brazil: targeting and profiling a 

colonial society (1536-1821)’. 

10 th International Conference on Urban History 

‘City and Society in European History’, University 

of Ghent, Ghent: ‘Agents of Globalization: Iberian 

ports within the European context, 17 th and 18 th 

centuries’. 

International Conference ‘The Impact of the 

Atlantic worlds on the ‘old worlds’ in Europe and 

Africa from the 15 th to the 19 th centuries’, 

Université de Nantes, Nantes: ‘The Western 

African trade and the slave trade in the business 

portfolio of Amsterdam’s entrepreneurs and 

businessmen, 1580s-1670s’. 

8 th European Social Science History Conference, 

Ghent: ‘Cross-cultural and inter-faith business 

networks in the Atlantic, 1580-1776’. 


Workshop ‘Sound Toll Registers Online. First 

Proof’, University of Groningen: ‘The Baltic trade 

and the Portuguese Economy: an insight on Early 

Modern patterns 1580-1800’.

Conference organizations 


Ghent: with Francesca Trivellato (session 

organizers): Inter-faith commerce in Medieval and 

Early Modern Times (1): Culture, Norms and 

Negotiations. 




Early Modern Times (2): Jews, Christians and 

Muslims. 




Early Modern Times (3): Early Modern Europe and the 

Atlantic. 




Early Modern Times (4): in and around the Indian 

Ocean. 



of Ghent, Ghent: with Amélia Andrade (session 

organizers): Iberian transactions: medieval and early 

modern history in comparative perspective. 


Editorial Boards 

International Journal of Maritime History. 

Evaluation Boards/Peer Review Pools 

European Science Foundation (ESF). 

European Research Council (ERC). 


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The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies 

(NIAS). 

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). 


Coordinator MA-History: Europaeum Program 

European History and Civilization: Leiden- 

Oxford-Paris. 

Publications 

Antunes, C.A.P. 

'An insight in European trade networks. The 

commercial relationship between Amsterdam and 

Lisbon, 1580-1710'. Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis, 

29 (2), pp. 44-67. 


‘Early Modern ports, 1500-1750’. EGO/Europaïsche 

Geschichte Online/European History OnlineEuropean 

History Online. 

Antunes, C.A.P. & Ribeiro da Silva, F.I. 

Finding the way: Lisbon Inquisition Index database. 

Lisbon: Arquivo Nacional Torre do Tombo. 

Antunes, C.A.P. (Ed.) 


Prof. Dr. J.L. Blussé van Oud Alblas 

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Publications 

Stolte, C.M. & Blussé van Oud Alblas, J.L. 

Studying Southeast Asia in Southeast Asia: an

interview with Anthony Reid. Itinerario, European 

Journal of Overseas History, 34 (2), pp. 7- 

18. 

‘Ver sacrum, Hoe het ‘t Verzuymd Brazil en ‘t 

Verwaerloosde Formosa verloren gingen in Maurits 

Ebben e.e. eds, Alle streken van het kompas, Maritime 

geschiedenis in Nederland. Zutphen: Walburg Pers 

2010, pp. 147-174. 

‘Overzeese verkenningen op het grensvlak van 

geschiedenis en sociologie’ in Jacques van Hoof 

e.a. eds, J.A.A. van Doorn en de Nederlandse 

sociologie, de erfenis, het debat en de toekomst. 

Amsterdam: Pallas Publications 2010. pp. 69-74. 

(Bao Leshi), Kandejiande Chengshi, Dongya san 

shanggang de shengshuai fuchenlu [Visible Cities], 

Hangzhou: Jejiang Daxue Chubanse 2010. 120 pp. 

Leonard Blussé & Cynthia Viallé, The Deshima 

Daghregisters, 1661-1670. Vol. 11, Intercontinenta 

Series XXIV, Leiden, 480 pp. 

2010 Nagazumi Yoko ed., Large and Broad, The 

Dutch Impact on Early Modern Asia, Essays in 

Honor of Leonard Blussé. Tokyo: The Toyo Bunko 


Prof. Dr. M.E. de Bruijn 

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January 20: Presentation paper at the 


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APAD conference ‘Mobile Communication: a new 

research field in media studies, what is the place of 

anthropology?’ Ouagadougou. 

February 14: Public presentation/lecture: 

‘Nomaden willen ook bereik, verandert Mobiele 

telefonie Afrika?’, Museum voor Volkenkunde, 


June 1-3: Connecting and change in African 

societies: An example of ‘linking analysis’ in 

anthropology. ‘Anthropological Connections: New 

Spaces and New Networks’, CASCA, Montreal 

Presentation paper, key-note. 

October 8-10: SANPAD meeting; starting 

workshop project on mobile telephony, 

University of Cape Town, South Africa. 

Dutch partner in this project. 

November 19: ‘Belonging in a mobile world; 

African cultures of mobility’. Presentation 

Migration workshop Dakar (IFAN/IMI Oxford). 

November 30: NOVIB-Oxfam, workshop in 

Niamey. Preparation of research and meeting with 

the team, project coordinator together with Kiky 

van Til. 


May 4-5: Presentation paper (on invitation, but 

due to illness not attended, paper will be 

published) ‘Mobile Phone Communication in the 

margins of Africa: continuity and change of 

communication patterns and society’ 

(Mirjam de Bruijn & Inge Brinkman) 

African Studies Centre, Leiden 

Conference ‘ICT: Africa’s Revolutionary Tools for 

the 21 st Century?’ Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

May 19: Presentation paper at the Maastricht 

conference ‘Mobility, political insecurity and the 

formation of identities (displacement cultures); a 

comparison between three conflict areas in Africa’. 

Mirjam de Bruijn, Inge Brinkman, Adamou 

Ahmadou, Djimet Seli. 

Displacement economies: Paradoxes of crisis and 

creativity in African contexts 

April 26-28: Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, 

Sweden. Discussant and observant. 

October: ‘Telephonie Mobile et societes en 

Afrique’, Presentation ecole doctorale lasdel, 

Niamey. Invited speaker and discussant of 

students’ work. 

ASC seminars: 

Land Tenure System Reform, the new capitalists 

and land grabbing in the Bamenda area of 

Cameroon by Tangie Fonchingong. Role: chair. 

Workshops Mobile Africa Revisited Program: 

January 11-15: Bamenda, Cameroon: ‘How to deal 

with research materials’. 

December 9 & 10: Leiden: ‘Mobile Phones, the new 

talking drums of everyday Africa’? 


Director of Research Master. 

Leader of theme group Connections and 

Transformations. 

WOTRO, integrated programmes committee 

APAD, general secretariat. 

CDP, steering committee, CODESRIA. 

Board Langaa research and publication centre 


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Bamenda, Cameroon. 

CRASH, member of board, research centre in 

Chad. 

AEGIS, Member editorial board for the series 

African studies. 

LASDEL, Niamey, scientific committee. 


committee 

Jonna Both, MaGW/NWO funded project that 

started in 2010, on post-conflict, children and 

social change in Uganda (with Prof. Dr. Ria Reis, 

ASSR.) 

Henrietta Nyamjoh, ICT and Diasporas in 

Washington and Cameroon, WOTRO/NWO, Part 

of Mobile Africa Project (with Prof Nyamnjoh) 

(started in May 2010) 

On-going: 

Evelyne Ntewusu, in the Volkswagenstiftung 

programme since 2009; ‘Material Culture, Mobility 

and social Change, a case study in the grassfields, 

Cameroon’. 

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). 

Imke Gooskens (ICT and Mobility in 

Angola/South Africa, WOTRO/NWO, Part of 

Mobile Africa research project (started in 2009) 

Fatima Diallo, ICT and Law in Senegal’, 

WOTRO/NWO (ASC funded, part of the Mobile 

Africa integrated programme) (with Prof Kante,

Saint Louis)(started in 2009). 

Walter Gam Nkwi, ‘History of Information and 

Communication technology in Anglophone 

Cameroon’, 2007-2010, ASC funding, to be 

defended in 2011. 

Ntewusu, Samuel, ‘From cattle ranch to lorry park, 

a social history of Accra Tudu Lorry Park 1920 to 

recent times’, ASC 2007-2010, to be defended in 

2011. 

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. 

Han van Dijk (ASC). 

Ousmanou Adama, ‘History of Islam in the Chad 

Basin’, University of Ngaoundere, Cameroon, 2006 

-2009 (with Dr. Saibou Iisa), to be defended in 

2011. 

Ellen Blommaert, ‘AIDS and youth in Kenya’, 

University of Amsterdam (2005-2008) (with Prof. 

Dr. Anita Hardon, ASSR). 

Lotte Pelckmans, ‘Remembering slavery: travelling 

hierarchies in transnational Fulbe societies in Mali 

and France’, ASC, Leiden. University, 2003-2010, 

(with Peter Pels, Leiden University, WOTRO/ 

NWO funding); to be defended in 2011. 

Kiky van Til ‘Pastoral Urbanites Socio-Cultural 

and Economic Transformations among Moors in 

Small Towns (Mauritania)’, ASC, Leiden 

University, 2003-2007, promotion envisaged for 

2010 (with Prof. Dr. Han van Dijk, Prof. Dr. Leo de 

Haan, WOTRO/NWO funding). 

Nakar Djindil ‘Food security in historical 

perspective: nutritional status and physical 


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development as indicators of the long term effects 

of crisis in the Sahel. The case of Chad’, 2004-2008, 

(with Prof. Dr.Han van Dijk, Wageningen 

University WOTRO/NWO funding, ). 

September 29: Margaret N. Matinga, University of 

Twente. ‘Experiences, Perceptions and responses 

to the energy-health nexus: A multi-level 

grounded ethnography’, member of 

reading/defence committee. 

November 8: Sandra Barasa, Leiden University, 

Humanities, ‘Language, Mobile Phones and 

Internet: A study of SMS texting, Email, IM and 

SNS Chats in Computer mediated Communication 

(CMC) in Kenya, member of reading/defence 

committee. 

December 2: Ms. Ir. C.I.M. Jacobs, Wageningen 

University, ‘Plurality of religion, plurality of 

justice, exploring the role of religion in disputing 

processes in Gorongosa, Central Mozambique’, 

member of reading/defence committee. 

Miscelleanous 

Several performances and interviews for journals. 

Worldservice: programme about publishing in 

Africa; several interviews about mobile telephony; 

interviews about situation Ivoorkust (radio 1, BNR 

radio). 

January and August: fieldwork and workshop in 

Cameroon; supervision students. 

February and September: 

Nigeria: NOVIB project and First visit cross river 

region; CDP workshop and steering committee 

meeting. 

May: Niger: Lasdel & Novib project meeting.


October: South Africa: SANPAD project meeting. Bruijn, M., F. Nyamnjoh & T. Angwafo 

Mobile Interconnections: Reinterpreting Distance 

and Relating in the Cameroonian Grassfields, 

Journal of African Media Studies 2(3), pp. 267-285. 

Publications 

Bruijn, M. & D. Merolla (eds) 

Researching Africa. Explorations of everyday African 

encounters. Leiden: African Studies Centre, African 

studies collection 26, 2010. 

Bruijn, M. de 

Africa connects: Mobile communication and social 

change in the margins of African society. The 

example of the Bamenda Grassfields, Cameroon, 

in Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol & Adela Ros Híjar 

(eds.) Communication Technologies in Latin America 

and Africa: A multidisciplinary perspective, Barcelona: 

IN3, pp. 167-191. 

Brinkman, I., S. Lamoureaux, D. Merolla and M. 

de Bruijn 

Local stories, global discussions: websites, politics 

and identity in African contexts. In: Herman 

Wasserman (ed.), Popular Media, Democracy and 

Development in Africa, Routledge. 

Bruijn, M. de & D. Merolla 

Introduction: Explorations of everyday African 

encounters: Research undertaken by students of 

Research Masters in African Studies, Leiden 

University, in M. de Bruijn & D. Merolla (eds.) 

Researching Africa. Explorations of everyday African 

encounters. Leiden: African Studies Centre, African 

studies collection 26, pp. 1-9. 

Bruijn, M. de & N. Djindil, 

The Silent victims of humanitarian crisis and 

livelihood security. A case study among migrants 

in two Chadian towns, JAMBA, Journal of Disaster 

Risk Studies 2(3): Neglected Disasters, pp. 253-272. 

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Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. 

Member of the Board of Governors of Clingendael 

Institute. 

Member of the Board of the Leiden Communicatiestad 

Foundation. 

Publications 


The Dutch Empire. An Essential Part of World 

History. Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de 

Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 125(2-3), 179-237. 


Not a bridge too far. The battle for the Moerdijk 

bridges, Dordrecht and Rotterdam. In: Amersfoort, 

H & Kamphuis, P (Eds.), May 1940. The battle for 

the Netherlands (History of Warfare), 57. , pp. 343- 

394. Leiden: Brill. 


Disputed Territory: the battle in the Dutch 

provinces of Limburg, Noord-Brabant and 

Zeeland. In: Amersfoort, H & Kamphuis, P (Eds.), 

May 1940. The battle for the Netherlands (History of

Warfare), 57. , pp. 205-260. Leiden: Brill. 


The Field Army Defeated. The battle for the 

Grebbe Line. In: Amersfoort, H. & Kamphuis, P. 

(Eds.), May 1940. The battle for the Netherlands 

(History of Warfare), 57. , pp. 261-320. Leiden: 

Brill. 


The emergence of the German threat. In: 

Amersfoort, H. & Kamphuis, P. (Eds.), May 1940. 

The battle for the Netherlands (History of 

Warfare), 57., pp. 13-34. Leiden: Brill. 


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Antwerp. 





November 4: Un holandés en la España de Felipe 

IV. Diario del viaje de Lodewijck Huygens, 1660- 

1661. Book presentation Fundación Carlos de 


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Amberes, Madrid: Viajeros extranjeros en la 

España del siglo XVII, Madrid, Spain. 







Antwerp. 







Editorial board: Dr. M.A. Ebben and R.H.A.M. 

Baron van Hövell tot Westerflier MCL. 

Board member of Vlaams-Nederlandse 

Vereniging voor Nieuwe Geschiedenis. (Flemish- 

Dutch Association for Early Modern History). 

Chairman of Fundación Jan Lechner at Leiden 

(Foundation to stimulate the study of Spanish and 

Portuguese history in relation to The Netherlands). 

Independent member of the reading committee of 

Hispania, Revista Española de Historia, CSIC. 

Member of the editorial staff of the website The 

Dutch Revolt (http://dutchrevolt.leidenuniv.nl/). 

Member of the editorial staff of Publication van de 

Vlaams-Nederlandse Vereniging voor Nieuwe 

Geschiedenis. 

Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD

committee 

Copromotor of dissertation: 

R. Dijk, Het Hoogheemraadschap Rijnland, 1550- 

1650. 

J. Besseling, Een sociale en bestuurlijke 

geschiedenis van een stad in Holland: Purmerend 




Budget: € 85.000 

Publications 

M.A. Ebben 

Espejo de España. La percepción de España y la 

confirmación de la nación holandesa. La embajada 

extraordinaria de la República de las Provincias 

Unidas en Madrid, 1660-1661. In: Crespo Solana, A 

(Ed.), Comunidades transnacionales. Colonias de 

mercaderes extranjeros en el Mundo Atlántico, 1500- 

1830, pp. 337-357. Aranjuez (Madrid): Ediciones 

Doce Calles. 

M.A. Ebben, Un holandés en la España de Felipe IV. 

Diario del viaje de Lodewijck Huygens, 1660-1661 

(Madrid 2010) 329 pp. Spaanse vertaling van M.A. 

Ebben, Lodewijck Huygens’ Spaans journaal. Reis naar 

het hof van de koning van Spanje, 1660-1661 

(Zutphen Walburg Pers, 2005) 384 pp. 

Ebben, M.A., H.J. den Heijer en J.C.A. 

Schokkenbroek, eds., 


Nederland. (Zutphen 2010). 

Heijer, H.J., den, M.A. Ebben en J.C.A. 

Schokkenbroek, ‘Woord vooraf’ in: M.A. Ebben, 


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H.J. den Heijer, J.C.A. Schokkenbroek eds., Alle 

streken van het kompas. Maritieme geschiedenis in 

Nederland (Zutphen 2010) 7-8. 

Dr. J.B. Gewald 

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November 18: Invited paper presenter at the 

African Studies Association, San Francisco, 

‘Hunting Witches: Kaleloze Guns and a Witchcraft 

Scare in Northern Rhodesia/Zambia 1954 – 60’. 

Invited guest lecture at the History Department, 

Basel University, Switzerland, ‘From Kaliloze to 

Karavina: The historical and current use and 

context of ‘Kaliloze witch guns’ in Western 

Zambia’, 26 October 2010. 

Invited paper at the ABORNE annual conference 

Basel Switzerland, 8 – 12 September 2010, ‘From 

Macdonald to Madona: Consumption, Labour 

Migrancy, Palpitation and the establishment of 

suzerainty on the Luapula Border, Northern 

Rhodesia Katanga 1904 – 1914’. 

Invited instructor and lecturer at the ABORNE 

Summer School Thurnau, Universität Bayreuth, 26 

– 30 July 2010, presented a paper entitled, ‘From 

MacDonald to Madonna: Consumption, Labour 

Migrancy, Palpitation and the establishment of 

suzerainty on the Luapula Border, Northern 

Rhodesia Katanga 1904 – 1914’.

Paper presenter at the European Social Science 

History Conference, held in Ghent, Belgium, 11 – 

14 April 2010. 


August 23-29: Co-organiser Central African 

Research Themes (CART) V conference, Lusaka 

Zambia. 

December 6-11: Co-organiser of the SEPHIS 

networking workshop ‘From League of Nations 

Mandates to Zones of Conflict in the Present: The 

Long Term Consequences of Mandates in the 

Global South: An International Comparative 

Perspective’ at the Ghana Institute of Linguistics, 

Literacy, and Bible Translation (GILLBT), Tamale 

and Accra, Ghana. 

Central African Research Themes 4 th Annual 

Conference. 

June 4-6: IBIS Gardens, Lusaka Zambia 


Research visit to South Africa with visits to 

Rhodes University and the Universities of Cape 

Town and the Witwatersrand, 1- 13 May 2010. 

Field research visit tracing trade routes from the 

West African coast inland to Accra, Cape Coast, 

Kumase and Tamale, Ghana, 1 – 10 March 2010. 


African Affairs, Brill Academic Publishers, History in 

Africa, International Review of Social History, Journal 

of African History, International Journal of African 

Historical Studies 


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Member of the Executive Committee of the 

European Science Foundation funded African 

Borderlands Research Network. 

Vice Executive Secretary of the International 

Network of Genocide Scholars. 

Africa Network chair for the European Social 

Science History Conference. 

Executive Committee member of the Network for 

Historical Research in Zambia. 

Member of the publications committee of the 

African Studies Centre. 

Member of the library committee of the African 

Studies Centre. 

Member of the seminar committee of the African 

Studies Centre. 

Jury member of the annual African Studies Centre 

masters thesis award. 


Chair of ICE in Africa: the relationship between people 

and the Internal Combustion Engine in Africa. A 

NWO research programme (2005 – 2011) involving 

5 researchers working on the relationship between 

ICE and people in the Sahel, Zambia, Ghana, and 

Burkina Faso. 

Co-Chair of From Muskets to Nokias: Technology, 

Consumption and Social Change in Central Africa from 

Pre-Colonial Times to the Present. A NWO 

Humanities open competition research 

programme (2008 – 2012) involving three postdocs, 

and four PhDs working on consumption and 

social change in Zambia, southern DRC and 

Malawi.

Lecturer and track coordinator of the African 

Studies Research Masters African Studies 

advanced track on ‘Patterns of Power’. 


committee 

PhD supervision: 

Current doctoral research projects: 

Ntewusu, Samuel Aniegye, Leiden 

University/ASC, Towards a Social History of Tudu 

Lorry Park, Accra, Ghana 1908 – 2008 Co-promotor. 

Sebastiaan Soeters, Leiden University/ASC, 

Towards a Social History of Tamale, Ghana 1900 – 

1981 Co-promotor. 

Mary Davies, Leiden University/ASC, A Social 

History of Rumphi District, Malawi, Co-promotor. 

Iva Pesa, Leiden University/ASC, A social and 

agricultural history of Mwinilunga, Zambia, Copromotor. 

Melle Leenstra, Leiden University/IS Academy, 

The instrumentalisation of the medical sector in 

Zambia, 1964 – 2008, Co-promotor 

Walter Nkwi, Leiden University/ASC, Social 

History of Buea, Cameroon, Co-promotor. 

Casper Erichsen, Leiden University, The causes and 

consequences of Namibia’s prisoners-of-war and 

concentration camps, 1904 – 1908, Co-promotor. 

Phd examinations: 

Rory Pilosoff, University of Sheffield, The 

Unbearable Whiteness of Being: White Farming Voices 

in Zimbabwe and Their Narration of the Recent Past, c. 

1970 – 2004, External Examiner, 23 September 



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Dutch counterpart for the successful South Africa 

Netherlands Paths for Alternative Development 

funding application entitled, ‘An Oral History of 

HIV/AIDS in KwaZulu-Natal:Life stories of 

pastoral agents, NGO workers and caregivers 

involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS. 2011 – 

2013. 

Miscellaneous 

Editorial board memberships: 

International Review of Social History, Cambridge 

University Press (2005 – 2010). 

Botswana Notes and Records, University of 

Botswana (2009 onwards). 

Publications 

‘Remote but in contact with history and the 

world’. In: PNAS: Proceedings of the National 

Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 

May 4 2010, vol. 107, no. 18, 2010. 

‘Gold, the true motor of West African history: An 

overview of the importance of gold in West Africa 

and its relations with the wider world’, in Cristina 

Panella (editor) Worlds of Debts: Interdisciplinary 

Perspectives on Gold Mining in West Africa, 

Amsterdam: Rozenberg 2010. 

Dr. J.J.L. Gommans 

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(Invited) lecture ‘The Great Convergence: Op zoek 

naar vroegmoderne conjunctures’ UHSKsymposium 

The Great Divergence: Het 

uiteenlopen van wereldculturen, Universiteit 

Utrecht (Utrecht 2 March 2010). 

(Invited) discussant at NIAS-symposium’The 

Reception of Netherlandish Art in the Indian 

Ocean Region and East Asia, and its Impact on 

Asian Cultures’ (Wassenaar 14/15 January 2010). 


Organization Studium General lecture series (9 

lectures) ‘Helden en Heldinnen in Zuid-Azië: Van 

de Boeddha tot Amitabh Bachchan’ (Leiden, 

September-November 2010). 

First Workshop on Cosmopolis The Roots and 

Routes of Asian Portcities (Leiden, Centre for 

International Heritage Activities (Leiden, 10 

November 2010) 


Editor Journal of the Economic and Social History of 

the Orient (Brill- 2010). 

Editor Sources on South Asia (Manohar Publishers – 


Peer-review Journal of Global History (November 


Peer-review Cambridge University Press re. 

bookpublication (October 2010). 

Peer-review NIAS-fellowship (May 2010). 


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Peer-review Journal of Early Modern History 

(February 2010). 

Peer-review Modern Asian Studies (January 2010) 


January – May 2010: LUF Internationaal 

Studiefonds Universiteit Leiden 

January – August 2010: Chair Department of 

Indian and Tibetan Studies (Talen en Culturen van 

India en Tibet) 

January – May 2010: Board Studium Generale, 

Leiden University 

Search Committee UB Maritime History (Autumn 

2010) 


Leiden coordinator of Europe-South Asia Maritime 

Heritage Project: Teaching Methodologies, Distance 

Learning and Multimedia Course Materials 

Development, Partner in EU-Asia Link Programme; 

see: http://www.jnu-esamhp.org/. 

Leiden coordinator of India-EU Study Centres 

Programme; see http://www.iescp.org./ 

Coordinator MA-track History of European 

Expansion and Globalization (2009): i.e. (R)MAselection 

committee; organization Graduate 

Seminars and Research Masterdays. 


committee 

Current PhD-supervision: Murari Kumar Jha 

(since 1-4-2009: AIO-Leiden University), Manjusha 

Kuruppath (since 1-10-2010; AIO-Leiden

University); Lennart Bes (Radboud University 

Nijmegen). 


Selected NWO-G program Eurasian Empires: 

Integration Processes and Identity Formations: A 

Comparative Program (with J. Duindam (UL), P. 

Rietbergen (RU Nijmegen) and M. van Berkel 

(UvA): € 2.000.000,- 

Miscellaneous 

Visiting teacher at Leiden University College The 

Hague (Autumn 2010). 

Lecture HOVO course Het Rijk van Philips III 

Publications 

Gommans, J.J.L., Bos, J. & Kruijtzer, G. 

Grote atlas van de Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie / 

Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch United East India 

Company, Deel VI: Voor-Indië, Perzië en het Arabisch 

Schiereiland / Part VI: India, Persia and the Arabian 

Peninsula (Voorburg: Asia Maior / Atlas Maior 

Publishers, 2010). Voorburg: Atlas Maior. 

Gommans, J.J.L. 

Empires and Emporia: The Orient in World 

Historical Space and Time: Introduction. Journal of 

the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 53(1), 3- 

19. 

Gommans, J.J.L. (Ed.). 

Empires and Emporia: The Orient in World Historical 

Space and Time (JESHO, 53,1). Leiden: Brill 

Academic Publishers. 

Gommans, J.J.L. & Diessen, R. van. 


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Grote atlas van de Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie / 

Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch United East India 

Company, Deel VII: Oost Azië, Birma tot Japan / Part 

VII: East Asia, Burma to Japan (Voorburg: Asia 

Maior/Atlas Maior Publishers, 2010). Voorburg: 

Atlas Maior. 


‘Limits of Empire’. In: Meena Bhargava (Ed.), 

Exploring Medieval India, Vol. 2 (pp. 509-546). Delhi: 

Orient Blackswan. 


Botsende beschavingen in premodern India 

[Bespreking van het boek F.B. Flood, Objects of 

Translation: Material culture and medieval Hindu- 

Muslim encounter]. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 

123(3), 453-455. 

Prof. Dr. H.J. den Heijer 

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May 13-14: Dutch – Flemish Congress, University 

of Leiden: ‘Van zeeheld tot zelfmoordterrorist’. 

September 23: Symposium Georg Marcgraf in 

Dutch Brazil, University of Leiden / Museum 

Boerhaave Leiden: ‘An unnoticed atlas of Dutch 

Brazil’. 

October 1: KNHG Congress ‘A New Imperial 

History’, KNHG, Royal Library, The Hague.

Invited lecture: ‘Eighteenth-century Surinamese- 

Dutch Migration Circuits’. 


March 16: Lecture: ‘Zo wijdt de wereld strekt’, 

University of Gent, Belgium. 

April 24: Lecture: ‘Kooplieden en kolonisten’, 

Historische Vereniging van Schokland, Schokland. 

April 27: Lecture: ‘De grote zeilvaart in de 

negentiende eeuw’, Sociëteit de Witte, The Hague. 

June 5: Lecture: ‘Nederlanders op Tobago’, 

Linschoten-Vereeniging, Vlissingen. 

September 26: Lecture: ‘Holland onder water. De 

logistiek achter het ontzet van Leiden’, 3 Oktober 

Vereniging, Leiden. 

October 5: Lecture: ‘De financiering der 

handelscompagnieën en het omgaan met het 

handelsrisico’, HOVO Erasmus University, 

Rotterdam. 

October 17: Lecture: ‘Maritieme databestanden, 

Stichting Nederlandse Kaap Hoorn Vaarders, 

Hoorn. 

October 26: Lecture: ‘De oorzaken van het verval 

der Europese handelscompagnieën, HOVO 

Erasmus University, Rotterdam. 

December 11: Lecture: ‘De organisatie achter het 

ontzet van Leiden, Alumnivereniging VOGel, 

University of Leiden. 


Chairman of the Linschoten-Vereeniging. 

Chairman of the jury of the Hoogendijk Award. 

Member of the advisory committee Stichting 

Marhisdata. 


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Member of the selection committee fellowships 

Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum. 


Editor of “Netwerk”, the yearbook of the 

National Fishery Museum, Vlaardingen. 


Co-project leader of the NWO project ‘Dutch 

Atlantic Connections’ of the University of Leiden, 

KITLV and the Free University of Amsterdam. 

Publications 

Heijer, H.J. den 

‘Een Afrikaan in Leids laken. De Nederlandse 

textielhandel in West-Afrika, 1600-1800’. In: M.A. 

Ebben, H.J. den Heijer & J.C.A Schokkenbroek 

(Eds.), Alle streken van het kompas. Maritieme 

geschiedenis in Nederland (pp. 277-294). Zutphen: 

Walburg Pers. 


‘Een zeeheld voor een koninkrijk. Robert Fruin en 

de maritieme geschiedschrijving’. In: H. Paul & H 

.te Velde (Eds.), Het vaderlandse verleden. Robert 

Fruin en de Nederlandse geschiedenis (pp. 131-153). 



[Book review: Marine Insurance in the Netherlands 

1600-1870]. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 123(3), 447- 

448. 


'Pirates of the Caribbean'. Nederlandse kapers en 

piraten in de West. In: J. ter Brugge & J.C.A.

Schokkenbroek (Eds.), Kapers & piraten, schurken of 

helden? (pp. 57-67). Zutphen: Walburg Pers. 


Femme S. Gaastra: zeeman op het droge. In: M.A. 

Ebben, H.J. den Heijer & J.C.A. Schokkenbroek 

(Eds.), Alle streken van het kompas. Maritieme 

geschiedenis in Nederland (pp. 9-17). Zutphen: 

Walburg Pers. 


New insights into Dutch shipping and trade in the 

Atlantic in early modern history. In: M. de Groot & 

M. Wittenberg (Eds.), Driven by data, exploring the 

research horizon (pp. 25-27). Amsterdam: Pallas 

Publications. 


Vissers in de marge. Recente boeken over 

dagvissers op kust- en binnenwateren. In C.J. van 

Bochove, H.J. den Heijer, A.A. Poldervaart, A.P. 

van Vliet & J.P. van de Voort (Eds.), NETwerk. 

Jaarboek Visserijmuseum 2010 (pp. 47-52). 

Vlaardingen: Vereniging Vrienden van het 

Visserijmuseum. 

Heijer, H.J. den, Ebben, M.A. & Schokkenbroek, 

J.C.A 

Woord vooraf. In M.A Ebben, H.J den Heijer & 

J.C.A Schokkenbroek (Eds.), Alle streken van het 

kompas. Maritieme geschiedenis in Nederland (pp. 7- 

8). Zutphen: Walburg Pers. 

Heijer, H.J. den, Ebben, M.A. & Schokkenbroek, 

J.C.A (Eds.). 


Nederland. Zutphen: Walburg Pers. 

Bochove, C.J., Heijer, H.J. den, Poldervaart, A.A., 

Vliet, A.P. van & Voort, J.P. van de (Eds.). 


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NETwerk. Jaarboek Visserijmuseum 2010. 

Vlaardingen: Vereniging Vrienden van het 

Visserijmuseum. 


[Book review: Indianenverhalen. De vroegste 

beschrijvingen van Indianen langs de Hudsonrivier 

(1609-1680) & Petrus Stuyvesant. Een levensschets]. 

Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis, 29(1), 94-97. 


De Eerste West-Indische Compagnie (1621-1674). 

In: P.C. Emmer, H.J. den Heijer & L.H.J. Sicking 



(pp. 123-131). Zutphen: Walburg Pers. 


De Tweede West-Indische Compagnie (1674-1791). 

In P.C. Emmer, H.J. den Heijer & L.H.J. Sicking 



(pp. 187-197). Zutphen: Walburg Pers. 


Nederlandse vestigingen in West-Afrika. In P.C. 

Emmer, H.J. den Heijer & L.H.J. Sicking (Eds.), 


expansie naar het westen, 1500-1800 (pp. 177-185). 

Zutphen: Walburg Pers. 

Heijer, H.J. den, Emmer, P.C. & Sicking, L.H.J. 

(Eds.). 


expansie naar het westen, 1500-1800. Zutphen: 

Walburg Pers.

Prof. Dr. K.J.P.F.M. Jeurgens 

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January 4-8, Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia, 

Jakarta, Indonesia. Training archives systems used 

by Burgerlijke Openbare Werken and Algemene 

Secretarie, 19 th and 20 th century. 

November 5, Rotterdam national conference 

design, vormgevingserfgoed en -geschiedenis: 

Bewaar me/ Save me . Invited lecture: ‘Teveel om 

te bewaren. Waardering en selectie van archieven’. 

June 17, conference Zeeuws Archief Middelburg, 

The Netherlands, invited lecture ‘Het 

multiculturele archief. Mythe of werkelijkheid’. 


January 12-14: lecture: Empire of papers: the early 

Dutch colonial state in search for control. 

Conference Mumbai, India: Monsoon Asia in the 

Age of Revolutions (1780 – 1830): Changes of 

Regime and their Aftermath. 

April 28-30: Lecture ‘New solutions for an old 

problem? Appraisal between risk and choice’. 8th 

European Conference on Digital Archiving, 

International Council on Archives, Geneva, 

Switzerland. 

September 23-24: lecture, ‘Reading against and 

reading along the archival grain’ Workshop 

Europe in Asia during the Age of Revolutions, 

Nice, France. 


November 25, lecture ‘Research in VOC archives 

and colonial archives, Surabaya Air Langga 

University. 

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Member of the board ‘ Stichting ambachtsheerlijkheid 

Cromstrijen’ (safeguarding the 

heritage of the ‘ambachts-heerlijkheid’). 

Member of the scientific board of the Netherlands 

Institute for War Documentation. 

Member of the board of Koninklijk Nederlands 

Historisch Genootschap (since November 2010). 


committee 

Supervisor PhD-candidate Nadia F. Dwiandari on 

archives creation by the Dutch colonial 

government in Batavia, 1816-1890. 

Supervisor PhD candidate Michael Katrabinos on 

postcolonial archives Indonesia/Singapore/ 

Malaysia. 

Member of the Encompass Scholarship 

Committee. 

Miscellaneous 

Head of the program ‘Appraisal and selection’ at 

the Nationaal Archief in The Hague. 

Publications 

Jeurgens, K.J.P.F.M. 

[Book review Along the archival grain: epistemic 

anxieties and colonial common sense]. The 

International History Review, 32, 151-152. 

Jeurgens, K.J.P.F.M.

‘Waardering en selectie in de praktijk’. 

Archievenblad, 114(1), 24-25. 


‘Met het oog op de Islam. Informatieverzameling 

en archiefvorming in een koloniale context’. 

Archievenblad, 4(114), 27-29. 


‘Koloniale archieven in het licht van global 

history’. Archievenblad, 6(114), 32-34. 


‘De herinnering voorbij’. In: Oorlogsgetroffenen 

WO2. Terugkeer, opvang, nasleep (pp. 55-62). 

Amsterdam/Den Haag: Nederlands Instituut voor 

Oorlogsdocumentatie / Instituut voor Nederlandse 

Geschiedenis. 

Jeurgens, K.J.P.F.M., Hageman, R.J. & Yap, R. 

‘A new approach to appraisal: building blocks for 

a new appraisal method for archives’. In : 

COMMA. International Journal on Archives - Revue 

Internationale des Archives (pp. 125-132). 

International Council on Archives. 


‘Maken archivarissen geschiedenis? Waardering 

en selectie onder de loep’. Archievenblad, 114 (10), 

pp. 42-45. 

Dr. J.Th. Lindblad 

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January 14-15: Participant with paper in an 

international workshop on ‘Indonesian identity in 

the immediate post-colonial period’, Yogyakarta, 

Indonesia. 

May 5: Participant with keynote address at a 

workshop on ‘Historiography of Indonesian 

economic history’, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 

June 22-26: Participant with paper in the 21 st 

conference of the International Association of 

Historians of Asia, Singapore. 

December 3-4: Participant with paper in a 

workshop on ‘Colonial rule in the Netherlands 

Indies and Belgian Congo’, Utrecht. 


January 14-15: Co-organizer of an international 

workshop on ‘Indonesian identity in the 

immediate post-colonial period’, Yogyakarta, 

Indonesia. 


February 24: Lecture for the Historical Committee 

of the Association of Dutch Literature 

[Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde]. 

April (: Lecture on ecological history in Indonesia 

at Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren. 

June 16- till October 7: Guest lectures about the 

economy of Indonesia at Clingendael. 

November 15: Lecture about Indonesian 

decolonization for Rotary Bilthoven. 


August 2-9: Research in the National Archives of 

the Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.

August 16-20: Research in the Library of the 

University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 

October 8-12 and November 29-30: Research in the 

Metropolitan Archives of London. 


Referee for KITLV Press, Leiden, and various 

international journals. 


Member of Executive Board of the Royal 

Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and 

Caribbean Studies [Vereniging KITLV], Treasurer. 

Member of the Board of the Professor Teeuw 

Foundation, Treasurer. 


Coordinator of the research project ‘Economics, 

politics and culture in early post-independence 

Indonesia’ (sponsored by NWO jointly with the 

Australian Research Council). 

Coordinator of the research programme ‘State and 

economy in modern Indonesia’s change of 

regimes’(financed by NWO). 


committee 

Supervisor of Pham Van Thuy, Farabi Fakih and 

Esther Zwinkels (Leiden University). 

Co-supervisor of Abdul Wahid (University of 

Utrecht). 

March 15: External examiner for PhD thesis, 

School of Oriental and African Studies, University 

of London, United Kingdom. 


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Publications 

Lindblad, J.Th. 

‘Economic growth and decolonisation in 

Indonesia’. Itinerario, European Journal of Overseas 

History, 34(1), 97-112. 


‘In the shadow of decolonization; British capital 

investment in Indonesian estate agriculture’. In: 

J.Th. Lindblad & B. Purwanto (Eds.), Merajut 

sejarah ekonomi Indonesia; Essays in honour of Thee 

Kian Wie 75 years birthday (pp. 327-350). 

Yogyakarta: Ombak. 

Lindblad, J.Th. & Purwanto, B. (Eds.) 

Merajut sejarah ekonomi Indonesia; Essays in honour of 

Thee Kian Wie 75 years birthday. Yogyakarta: 

Ombak. 

Lindblad, J.Th. & Purwanto, B. 

‘Merajut sejarah ekonomi Indonesia’; Introduction. 

In: J.Th. Lindblad & B. Purwanto (Eds.), Merajut 


Kian Wie 75 years birthday (pp. 1-8). Yogyakarta: 

Ombak. 


‘The Indonesian economy in the early 

independence period’. Itinerario, European Journal 

of Overseas History, 34(1), 7-8. 

Drs. G. Macola 

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Macola, G. (2010). - Liberal Nationalism in Central 

Africa: A Biography of Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula , 

xvi + 224 pp. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 


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Chairman ‘Werkgroep Caraïbische Letteren’ 

(Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde). 

Member editorial board ‘Oso, Tijdschrift voor 

Surinamistiek’. 

Member editorial board ‘Bronnen voor de Studie 

van Suriname’(BSS). 

Member monitoring group ‘Overdracht 

Surinaamse Archieven’ (Nationaal Archief Den 

Haag). 


Coordinator Research Master in History. 

Coordinator PhD programme in History. 

Coordinator Australian Netherlands Research 

Collaboration (ANRC). 


committee 

Member opposition committee 

November 24: Cynthia Abrahams, University of 

Amsterdam. 

November 25: Alexander Heldring, Rijksuniversiteit 

Groningen. 


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Miscellaneous 

Advisor Suriname Desk, Direction Western 

Hemisphere, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The 

Hague. 

Member of the jury of the Surinamistiekprijs 2010. 

Monthly contribution to blogspot ‘Caraïbisch 

Uitzicht’. 

Publications 

Meel, P.J.J. 

‘Een beslissend jaar’. In: Leerdam, J. & Beyer, N. 

(Eds.), Suriname en ik. Persoonlijke verhalen van 

bekende Surinamers over hun vaderland, pp. 112-117. 

Amsterdam: Meulenhoff. 

Meel, P.J.J. 

[Bespreking van: De arbeiders zijn me heilig. Fred 

Derby, vakbondsleider en politicus. Een biografie]. 

In: OSO: Tijdschrift voor Surinamistiek, 29, pp. 362- 

365. 

Prof. Dr. G. Oostindie 

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January 15: ‘Suriname na het kolonialisme’, 

NRC/KIT, Amsterdam. 

January 28: ‘Over Indië en Ulbe Bosma’s 

Indiëgangers’, Spui/University of Amsterdam.

March 2: ‘Na de Max Havelaar: Van Lebak tot 

Uruzgan’, Max Havelaar-cycle, University of 

Amsterdam. 

May 20: ‘De monarchie, de koloniën en de laatste 

fase van de dekolonisatie’, Public Library 

Groningen. 

June 1: ‘Post-colonial sovereignty games: The case 

of the (Netherlands) Antilles, conference ‘Microstates 

in the margins of Europe’, University of 

Copenhagen. 

September 12: ‘Belgisch en Nederlands 

(post)kolonialisme’, symposium ‘Allez Congo’, 

Amsterdam, De Brakke Grond. 

September 25: ‘De moralisering van het koloniale 

verleden’, KNAW-SWR seminar, Enschede. 

October 4: ‘Postcolonial migrants, integration and 

identity politics in the Netherlands’, Metropolis 

conference, Museon The Hague. 

December 10: ‘De toekomst van het Koninkrijk’, 

Vereniging Antilliaans Netwerk, Amsterdam. 

Keynote lecture 

February 2: ‘Een toekomstvisie?’, symposium ‘De 

toekomst van het Koninkrijk’, The Hague, 

Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom relations. 

June 29-30: seminar 'The Impact of the Atlantic 

Revolutions on Curaçao, 1795-1800’, KITLV, 



Member Evaluation Committee Programmed 

Research, NWO-GW. 

Member task-force Asia studies, UL. 


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Chairman Counselling Committee ‘Geschiedenis 

van de politie in Suriname en de Nederlandse 

Antillen’. 

Member Committee International Policy (KNAW). 

Member board and steering committee ‘The 

Atlantic World and the Dutch, 1500-2000’ (Erfgoed 

Nederland, Nationaal Archief, KITLV). 

Editor, New West Indian Guide. 

Editor, Island Studies. 


MemberAdvisory Board, Nationaal Archeologisch 

Antropologisch Museum, Curaçao. 

Member Advisory Board, Latin American and 

Caribbean Ethnic Studies. 


committee 

Drs. Luc Alofs, ‘Koloniaal bestuur op Aruba, 1815- 

1955’ (buitenpromovendus) 

Karwan Fatah-Black M.A., ‘Dutch Atlantic 

Connections: Nodal Point Paramaribo, 1670-1800’ 

(NWO) 

Drs. Han Jordaan, ‘Slavernij en vrijheid op 

Curaçao, 18e eeuw’ (promovendus ING/KITLV) 

Bruno Miranda M.A., ‘The military history of 

Dutch Brazil, 1630-1654’ (Braziliaanse CAPESbeurs). 

Miscellaneous 

November 6: Oostindie wins ‘Surinamistiek award 

2010’ (once in five years), presented at the IBS 

(Instituut ter Bevordering van de Surinamistiek)

colloquium ‘De wetten van de jungle’, 

Tropentheater van het KIT, Amsterdam. 

Several interviews for Dutch Media. 

Publications 

Oostindie, G.J. 

Verknocht aan Suriname. , Suriname en ik. 

Persoonlijke verhalen van bekende Surinamers over hun 

vaderland 


Lang afscheid van een tropisch wingewest. Elsevier 


Migratie tussen Indonesië en Nederland. Demos. 

Bulletin over bevolking en samenleving 


[Bespreking van: The International Slavery 

Museum [exhibition]]. In: NWIG : New West Indian 

Guide (Nieuwe West-Indische Gids) 


[Bespreking van: Mosquito Empires. Ecology and 

War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914]. In: 

Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 


[Bespreking van: Caribbean Migration to Western 

Europe and the United States: Essays on 

Incorporation, Identity, and Citizenship]. 

Prof. Dr. R.J. Ross 

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April 9-11: ‘Patterns of Participation in the Kat 

River Rebellion, 1851-1853’, Paper Presented to the 

North-eastern Workshop on Southern Africa, 

Burlington Vermont. 

April 7: ‘Material Culture and Consumption 

patterns: a Southern African Revolution’, Invited 

lecture, History Department, Brown University, 

Providence, Rhode Island and also given at the 

History Department, University of Pretoria, 

24.8.2010, and as opening address to Central 

African Research Themes IV, The History of 

Consumption and Social Change in Central Africa, 

1840-1960, Lusaka, Zambia, 27-29.8.2010 


August 27-29: Co-organiser Central African 

Research Themes IV, The History of Consumption 

and Social Change in Central Africa, 1840-1960, 

Lusaka, Zambia. 


August 17-25: Visiting Fellow, University of South 

Africa. 


Referent etc. for Cambridge University Press, 

Oxford University Press, Journal of Southern 

African Studies, South African Historical Journal, 

Kronos: Southern African Histories, Journal of 

African History. 

Membership of boards and committees

Board BA & MA Culturen van Afrika, Chair 

Examcommittee, ResMa African Studies. 


committee 

Member PhDcommittee L.A. Gberie, ‘From Chains 

to Neckties: The Liberated Africans and the Making 

of Modern Sierra Leone’, Free University of 

Amsterdam, February 2, 2010. 

Publications 

Ross, R.J. & Legassick, M.C. 

‘From Slave Economy to Settler Capitalism: The 

Cape Colony and Its Extensions, 1800–1854’. In: 

R.J. Ross, C.A. Hamilton & B.K. Mbenga (Eds.), 

Cambridge History of South Africa, volume I (pp. 253- 

318). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Ross, R.J. 

‘Khoesan and Immigrants: The Emergence of 

Colonial Society in the Cape, 1500–1800’. In: R.J. 

Ross, C.A. Hamillton & B.K. Mbenga (Eds.), 

Cambridge History of South Africa, volume I (pp. 168- 

209). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Ross, R.J., Hamilton, C.A. & Mbenga, B.K. 

‘The Production of Preindustrial South African 

History’. In: R.J. Ross, C.A. Hamilton & B.K. 

Mbenga (Eds.), Cambridge History of South Africa vol 

I (pp. 1-63). Cambridge: Cambridge University 

Press. 

Ross, R.J., Hamilton, C.A. & Mbenga, B.K. (Eds.). 

‘Cambridge History of South Africa, Volume I 

(Cambridge history of South Africa)’. Cambridge: 

Cambridge University Press. 

Ross, R.J. 


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‘De algemene geschiedenis is hem een onding; 

Fruin en de Wereldgeschiedenis’. In: H. Paul & H. 

te Velde (Eds.), Het Vaderlandse Verleden: Robert 

Fruin en de vaderlandse geschiedenis (pp. 175-194). 


Ms. Dr. A.F. Schrikker 

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Invited paper 

January 12-14: ENCOMPASS regime change 

conference II: Monsoon Asia in the age of revolutions: 

Changes of regime and their aftermath, Mumbai, 

India. Title: ‘When the empire falls apart: VOC 

people in Sri Lanka after the British take over in 

1796’. 

October 1: KNHG Conference: A new Dutch 

Imperial History. Title: ‘Dutch response to natureinduced 

disasters in 19 th century Indonesia’. 


January 12-14: Encompass regime change 

conference II: Monsoon Asia in the age of revolutions: 

Changes of regime and their aftermath. Mumbai, India 

in cooperation with: Mumbai University. 

October 1: together with Marieke Bloembergen 

(KITLV), Vincent Kuitenbrouwer (UvA/Vu), 

Remco Raben (UU) and Leonie de Goei (KNHG): 

KNHG Conference A new Dutch Imperial History, 

The Hague.


September 30: Masterclass Prof. Dr. Alan Lester 

(Univ. of Sussex), ‘Integrating colonial and 

Metropolitan Histories. Recent approaches to 

Space, Place and Agency in British Imperial 

History’. Leiden University, in cooperation with: 

Huizinga Instituut and Marieke Bloembergen 

(KITLV). 


committee 

From October 1st 2010 onwards: supervisor PhD 

research Ms. Nadeera Seneviratne ‘negotiating 

custom: the landraad in eighteenth-century Sri 

Lanka’. 


Publication grant book publication J.T. Lindblad 

and A. Schrikker (eds.) Het verre gezicht Politieke en 

culturele relaties tussen Nederland en Azië, Afrika en 

Amerika (Franeker: Van Wijnen 2011). 

*J.E. Jurriaanse Stichting: € 1.000. 

*Unger van Brero fonds: € 1.500. 

Miscellaneous 

Managing Editor Itinerario, journal for the history of 

European expansion and globalization (Cambridge 

University Press). 

Publications 

Schrikker, A.F. (2010). Dutch political attitudes in 

Asia: Diplomacy in Eighteenth century Ceylon as 

example. In M. Nishimura, M. Sato, M. Kimura & 

H. Okamoto (Eds.), Cultural reproduction on its 


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interface: from the perspectives of text, diplomacy, 

otherness and tea in East Asia (pp. 43-59). Kansai: 

Institute for Cultural Interaction Studies Kansai 

University. 

Ms. Drs. C.R.M.K.L. Viallé 

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September 1, 2009 till January 31, 2010: NIAS. 

Publications 

Vialle, C.R.M.K.L. 

‘Fit for Kings and Princes’: A Gift of Japanese 

Lacquer. In: Y. Nagazumi (Ed.), Large and Broad. 

The Dutch Impact on Early Modern Asia. Essays in 

Honor of Leonard Blusse (Toyo Bunko Research 

Library, 13) (pp. 188-222). Tokyo: The Toyo Bunko. 

Vialle, C.R.M.K.L. 

From Nanban shikki to Komo shikki: Japanese 

export lacquer, trade and taste. In : D. Couto & F. 

Lachaud (Eds.), Empires éloignés. L'Europe et le 

Japon (XVIe-XIXe siècle) (pp. 229-242). Paris: École 

Française d'Extrême-Orient. 

Ms. Dr. M.L. Wiesebron 

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Ms. Drs. A. Dirks 

October 14-15: Member of the Jury of the Bachelor 

Student Research Conference 2010, organized by 

Research 

VSNU, held in Leiden. 

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Member of Editorial Committee of journal 

Perspectiva: Reflexões sobre a Temática Internacional. 


Member of the exam-committee TCLA. 

President of the Executive Board of AHILA (2008- 

2011). 

Chairperson of the Task Force Latin America of 

the Coimbra Group. 


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. 

Coordinator of bilateral cooperation between 

Leiden University and Latin American 

universities. 


Ms. M. Davies 

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Ms. Drs. M. Erkelens 

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Ms. Drs. S. Feyder 

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F. Fakih MA 

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November 23-27: ESTER Design Research Course 

as part of the Posthumus Program, titled: 

Held in Vienna, Austria. 

Drs. K.J. Fatah-Black

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European Social Science and History Conference, 

14-4-2010 Ghent Belgium. ‘Paramaribo’s intercolonial 

connections’. 

Dutch Atlantic Connections, ‘Curacao in the Age 

of Revolutions’. 29-6-2010. ‘(Re)interpreting the 

Curacao Revolution of 1796’. 

Dutch Atlantic Connections, 30-6-2010, with Henk 

den Heijer, ‘The Dutch in the Atlantic, a shifting 

history from empire to networks and nodal 

points’. 

KNHG Najaarscongres, ‘A New Dutch Imperial 

History’, 1-10-2010, The Hague, Netherlands. 

‘Eighteenth Century Surinamese-Dutch Migration 

Circuits’. 


Reading Group Atlantic History, with Linda 

Rupert. Spring 2010, KITLV. 


Chair of PhD Council. 

PhD representative in the Management Team of 

the Institute for History. 

Landelijke evaluatie van Graduate Schools of the 

Humanities 


Expertmeeting ‘Armazoenen en cargazoenen: de 

impact van de trans-Atlantische handel op 


Nederland, 1600-1900. NiNsee and IISG, 10-10- 


Klankbordgroep Nationaal Archief. 

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M. Jha MA 

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January 12-14: 2nd Encompass Conference at 

Mumbai, India. 

Lectures, symposia, colloquia, presentations : 

January 12-14: 2nd Encompass Conference at 

Mumbai, India. Paper presentation: 

‘The Routes of Empire and the Route to Empire: 

The Old Gangetic Trunk Route and the New 

Military Road in Eastern India, c. 1600-1850’. 

Ms. M. Kuruppath MA 

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B.R.F. Miranda MA 

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September 4-7: III International Meeting of 

Colonial History. Culture, Powers and Sociability 

in the Atlantic World. Recife, Brazil. 

Title: Zielkopers, zielverkopers and other dealers: the 

recruitment of soldiers for the West India 

Company. 


Funding for participation in the III International 

Meeting of Colonial History: Instituut voor 

Geschiedenis: € 331,26; LUF (Leiden University 

Funds): € 662, 54. 

Miscellaneous 

Attended Dutch lessons at Academisch 

Talencentrum – Faculty of Humanities, University 

Leiden. Nederlands intensief, Level 4. (55 hours 

course). 

Ms. I. Pesa MA 

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August 27-29: CART IV conference: ‘The history of 

consumption and social change in Central Africa 

1840-1960’, Lusaka, Zambia – Title of talk: ‘Salt, 

soap & cloth – Cassava, rice & pineapples: Traders 

and trading stores in Mwinilunga District 1940-70’. 



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Research affiliation to the University of Zambia, 

Lusaka, during the period 6 December 2009 – 6 

December 2010. 

Publications 

Pesa, I. 

Serving in 'The Beloved Strip': A century of 

missionary activity in Mwinilunga District, 

Zambia. Unknown FGW, 6, 74-90. 

V.T. Pham MA 

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January 15-17: Participant with paper at the 

Encompass Conference, ‘Monsoon Asia in the age 

of revolution’, Mumbai, India. 

June 22-26: Participant with paper in the 21st 


Historians of Asia (IAHA), Singapore. 

November 22-27: Participant with paper at the 

Posthumus conference, Vienna, Austria. 


June 15 – August 13: Research at the National 

Archive of the Republic of Indonesia and the 

Archive of Bank Indonesia, Jakarta. 

August 23 – September 10: Research at the 

National Archives of the Socialist Republic of 

Vietnam, Hanoi

Ms. N.T. Seneviratne MA 

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S. Soeters 

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Conducting fieldwork in Ghana (02-09 to 05-09 

and 10-09 to 06-10). 


Member of the ASC PhD Group. 

Ms. C. Stolte MPhil 

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July 26-29: Mahendra Pratap‘s Pan-Asianism and 

the ideological flexibility of interwar 

internationalism. Bonn, Germany. European 

Council for Modern Asian Studies Conference. 


August 3: Internationalism from the Great War to 

the Cold War. Berlin, Germany, Workshop ZMO - 

Zentrum Moderner Orient. 

September 30-October 3: The Asiatic Hour’: New 

perspectives on the Asian Relations Conference (New 

Delhi 1947). Austin TX, Cold War Cultures 

Conference. 

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From 15 October onwards: President of the PhD 

Council; PhD member to the board of the Institute 

for History. 

Member editorial team of Itinerario. 

Member editorial team of VN-Forum. 

Publications 

Stolte, C.M. & Blussé van Oud Alblas, J.L. 

‘Studying Southeast Asia in Southeast Asia: an 

interview with Anthony Reid’. Itinerario, European 

Journal of Overseas History, 34 (2), pp. 7-18. 

Stolte, C.M. 

‘Het Jaar van Afrika: 1960 herdacht’. VN Forum (2), 

pp. 2-4. 

Stolte, C.M. 

‘In de marge van het recht: India, UNHCR en 

vluchtelingen in Zuid-Azië’. VN Forum (1), pp. 55- 

57. 

A. Weber MA 

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January 13: Paper presentation: ‘Do local 

encounters matter? The life and career of the 

naturalist and colonial administrator C.G.C. 

Reinwardt (1773-1854)’ at the conference: Second 

ENCOMPASS Conference on the topic: Monsoon Asia 

in the Age of Revolutions, 1780-1830. Changes of 

regime and their aftermath. Mumbai, India. 

October 1: Paper presentation: ‘Forging New 

Connections: Adriaan David Cornets de Groot 

Junior (1804-1829) and the Mapping of the 

Javanese Language in the Early Nineteenth 

Century’ at the conference: A New Dutch Imperial 

History. Connecting Dutch and Overseas Pasts. 

Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap, 

The Hague. 

Miscellaneous 

One article and one interview. 

Publications 

Weber, A. & Schulte Nordholt, H. 

‘An Interview with Thee Kian Wie’. Itinerario, 

European Journal of Overseas History, 2010(1), 9-34. 

Weber, A. 

‚Sprache im 'Zwischenraum': Adriaan David 

Cornets de Groot jun. (1804-1829) als 

multilingualer Grenzgänger im zentraljavanischen 

Surakarta’. In: Mark Häberlein, & Alexander 

Keese, (Eds.), Sprachgrenzen - Sprachkontakte - 

kulturelle Vermittler. Kommunikation zwischen 

Europäern und Außereuropäern (16.-20. Jahrhundert) 

(Beiträge zur Europäischen Überseegeschichte), 97, 


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pp. 223-243. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 

Weber, A & Schulte Nordholt, H. 

An Interview with Thee Kian Wie (reprint). In 


sejarah ekonomi Indonesia: Essays in honour of Thee 


Ombak. 

PhD Defences 

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Drs. M.A. van Alphen 

Drs. J. Anten 

Supaporn Ariyasajsiskul 

Bae Yuh Jin 

I.M.M. Bartels 

A. van der Belt 

D.A. Buiskool 

E. Cai 

Weichung Cheng 

Drs. B. Consolini 

J. Dmitrova 

Drs. N. Everts 

C. Feddersen 

F.J. Goedeman 

F.D. Grant 

M. Harpe 

R. ‘t Hart 

P. de Jong 

H.R. Jordaan 

Bondan Kanumoyoso 

P. Kalenga

J. Lentzer 

F.R. Loomeyer 

B. Oyeniyi 

L.P. Paine 

Atewusu Samuel 

J. de Schmedt 

M. Serruys 

J. Schokkenbroek 

A. Suwigno 

J. Vangansbeke 

C. Viallé 

R. Verma 

S.J. van der Vliet 

Drs. W.B.S. de Vries 

Mr. R.S. Wegener-Sleeswijk 

Drs. B. Westenbroek 

Drs. P. van Wiechen 

Drs. M. Witteveen 


Pim van den Assum 

Liang de Beer 

Jan-Jacob Blussé van Oud Alblas 

Dave Boone 

Kate Ekama 

Bram Hoonhout 

Mark van Koppen 

Sara Kunkel 

Manjusha Kuruppath 

Gary Lim Jian Ming 

Carien Meijerman 

Erik Odegard 

Nick Ottens 

Hana Qugana 


Koen van Schie 

Nadeera Seneviratne 

Geert Stroo 

Cheng Zang 

Xu Xiadong 

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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. 

Encountering A Common Past in Asia 

(ENCOMPASS) 

Leonard Blussé, Wim van den Doel, Jos 


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Gommans and Alicia Schrikker 

August 2006 saw the inception of the ENCOM- 

PASS programme. ENCOMPASS is an education 

programme (BA/MA/MPhil) for Asian students 

which is part of the Department of History. The 

students learn the Dutch language in order to be 

able to study Dutch historical (colonial) sources 

and in this way contribute to Asian historiography. 

Approximately half the students are from 

Indonesia. The other students originate from 

countries such as Sri Lanka, India and China. All 

students are in possession of a BA degree and 

wish to study further for an MA or MPhil degree. 

Some of the students have additional work experience 

in the Arsip Nasional (National Archives) in 

Jakarta. The Ministry of Education, Culture and 

Science has made available a total of twelve yearly 

grants for Asian students for a two or three year 

stay in Leiden in the period from 2006 to 2011. The 

first year (BA) of the programme focuses primarily 

on the acquisition of the Dutch language; in 

addition, students follow a number of tutorials in 

which historical skills are practised and historical 

knowledge refreshed. After the first year, students 

join the regular MA programme in History, within 

which they follow either the European Expansion 

and Globalisation specialisation or the Historical 

Archival Sciences specialisation. The most 

promising students are given the opportunity to 

join the MPhil programme. By 2009, the 

ENCOMPASS programme should have extended 

to include a PhD track. 

Since the programme effectively only started in 

August 2006, the activities in the first months of

2006 were restricted to preparing and setting up 

the programme. This involved establishing collaboration 

with the three partner institutions in 

Indonesia, organising education for the first year 

and selecting the first group of students. In 

January, Peter Meel and Wim van den Doel went 

to Jakarta to visit the Arsip Nasional and the 

Universitas Indonesia. Selection of the Indonesian 

students is carried out in close collaboration with 

these two institutions as well as with the Universitas 

Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta. In early June 

2006, Charles Jeurgens made a visit to Yogyakarta, 

where he acted as the Leiden representative in the 

pre-selection of Indonesian candidates. The files of 

these students and of students from other Asian 

countries were then evaluated in Leiden by the 

ENCOMPASS scholarship committee, which made 

a final selection of ten students. In early 

September, ENCOMPASS was officially and 

festively launched in the presence of a large 

number of Dutch and foreign guests including the 

Director of the Arsip Nasional, Djoko Utomo and 

the Indonesian Minister of Administrative Reform, 

Taufik Effendi. For the occasion, a special brochure 

had been put together which both provided 

information on the programme and acted as a PR 

instrument for the ENCOMPASS programme. 

The ten students selected arrived in Leiden around 

15 August, and in the last week of August they 

began their intensive training in the Dutch 

language, which lasted four weeks and which was 

provided for by Yolande Spaans. The follow-up 

Dutch course started around 15 September and 

was given by René Wezel. In addition, the 


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students followed three history courses, given by 

Leonard Blussé and Piet Emmer, Charles Jeurgens 

and Alicia Schrikker. The results of the students so 

far are satisfactory, even though the level varies 

significantly between the students. Unfortunately, 

the student from Sri Lanka had to discontinue her 

studies due to her failure, despite repeated resits, 

to keep up with the Dutch language training. In 

2005, a research programme was developed 

covering the period from 2009 to 2017. Its aim is to 

offer the best students the possibility to continue 

their education in Leiden and in addition, to 

ensure the continuity and innovation of research 

on the Modern and Early Modern history of Asia. 

The emphasis in this research programme lies on 

the use of Dutch colonial sources. The proposal 

was submitted to NWO in the Spring of 2006, but 

was not awarded any financial means. The 

programme is now in the process of being rewritten 

and will be submitted again in the Spring 

of 2007. In June 2006, the Ministry of Foreign 

Affairs granted a sum of € 206,000 as a 

contribution to the costs of maintaining relations 

with the institutions in Asia and making possible 

the local recruiting of students. An expenditure 

plan for this sum was submitted to the Ministry in 

October. 

The spring of 2007 will be devoted to the recruitment 

and selection of the new students for the 

year 2007/2008. Applications have already been 

sent in from China, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and 

Indonesia. Active recruiting is being carried out on 

a continuous basis. The final selection for the class 

of 2007/2008 will take place in May. In September

2007, the first group of students will join the 

History MA Programme while the second class 

will begin the BA year. In the first semester, a 

number of students from the MA programme will 

be selected to join the MPhil programme. A 

maximum of five students can join the MPhil 

programme per class. At the same time, 

recruitment of new students for the academic year 

2008/2009 and the following years will continue, 

together with the setting up of the research 

programme. Early 2008, a pilot conference will be 

organised in Jakarta. Currently, there are plans for 

expanding the programme through an Erasmus 

Mundus collaboration with King’s College in 

London and the Universidad Nova in Lisbon. In 

addition, the Research School of Pacific and Asian 

Studies of the Australian National University 

(ANU) is also interested in exchange possibilities 

with the ENCOMPASS programme in the context 

of the recently concluded collaboration agreement 

between Leiden University and the ANU. 

‘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 

Ph.D. 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 


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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. 

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 Ph.D. 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 longdistance 

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. 

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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 interconnectedness 

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 

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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 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. 


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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. 

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Conferences through Call for Papers 

International Colloquium: ‘Portugal na 

confluência das rotas comerciais ultramarinas’, 

Centro de História de Além Mar, New University 

of Lisbon: ‘Managing Portuguese risk: the 

Amsterdam insurance market for Portuguese 

colonial interests, goods and markets, 1580-1715’. 

International Congress: ‘Negotiating Trade: 

commercial institutions and cross-cultural 

exchange in the medieval and Early Modern 

period’, Center for Medieval and Renaissance 

Studies (CEMERS), Binghamton University, New 

York: ‘Prosecuting the persecutor: commercial 

contracts, Jews and Inquisitors, 1580-1650’. 

International Conference: ‘From Iberian kingdoms 

to Atlantic Empires: Spain, Portugal and the New 

World, 1200-1700’, University of Notre Dame: ‘The 

Inquisition in Brazil: targeting and profiling a 

colonial society (1536-1821)’. 


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of Ghent, Ghent: ‘Agents of Globalization: Iberian 

ports within the European context, 17 th and 18 th 

centuries’. 

International Conference ‘The Impact of the 

Atlantic worlds on the ‘old worlds’ in Europe and 

Africa from the 15 th to the 19 th centuries’, 

Université de Nantes, Nantes: ‘The Western 

African trade and the slave trade in the business 

portfolio of Amsterdam’s entrepreneurs and 

businessmen, 1580s-1670s’. 


Ghent: ‘Cross-cultural and inter-faith business 

networks in the Atlantic, 1580-1776’. 


Workshop ‘Sound Toll Registers Online. First 

Proof’, University of Groningen: ‘The Baltic trade 

and the Portuguese Economy: an insight on Early 

Modern patterns 1580-1800’. 





Early Modern Times (1): Culture, Norms and 

Negotiations. 




Early Modern Times (2): Jews, Christians and 

Muslims.




Early Modern Times (3): Early Modern Europe and the 

Atlantic. 




Early Modern Times (4): in and around the Indian 

Ocean. 



of Ghent, Ghent: with Amélia Andrade (session 

organizers): Iberian transactions: medieval and early 

modern history in comparative perspective. 


Editorial Boards 


Evaluation Boards/Peer Review Pools 

European Science Foundation (ESF). 

European Research Council (ERC). 

The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies 

(NIAS). 

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). 


Coordinator MA-History: Europaeum Program 

European History and Civilization: Leiden- 

Oxford-Paris. 

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'An insight in European trade networks. The 

commercial relationship between Amsterdam and 

Lisbon, 1580-1710'. Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis, 

29 (2), pp. 44-67. 


‘Early Modern ports, 1500-1750’. EGO/Europaïsche 

Geschichte Online/European History OnlineEuropean 

History Online. 

Antunes, C.A.P. & Ribeiro da Silva, F.I. 

Finding the way: Lisbon Inquisition Index database. 

Lisbon: Arquivo Nacional Torre do Tombo. 

Antunes, C.A.P. (Ed.). 


Ms. Dr. C. van Eijl 

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January 14-15: ‘Deportability and migrant 

illegality in the Netherlands, 1945-1970’, 

Conference ‘The language of difference: 

mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion of 

migrants 1945-2005’, Leiden University. 

April 13-16, ‘Borderland. Constructions of migrant 

illegality in the Netherlands, 1945-1975’, European 

Social Science and History Conference, Gent, 

Belgium 

Lecture 

March 10: ‘Tussenland: Illegaliteit en migratie in 

Nederland’. Graduate Seminar, University Leiden.


January 14-15: Conference organization (with 

Marlou Schrover) ‘The language of difference: 


migrants 1945-2005’, Leiden University. 


Article refereed for TSEG. 


Member of the advisory body of the website 

project ‘Five centuries of migration’ (International 

Institute of Social History / 

Centre for the History of Migration). 


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February 2010: ‘Last best hope of earth or warning 

to us all? American democracy in historical 

perspective’. University of Amsterdam, ‘The 

American Dream’ lecture series. 


Reader of manuscript submissions to History of 

Education Quarterly; Journal of Policy History; Journal 

of the Civil War Era. Book reviewer for Journal of 

American History; Journal of Southern History. 


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Referee, American Council of Learned Societies; 

American Philosophical Society. 


Coordinator, MA American History. 


committee 

Supervisor of AIO’s Laura Maessen, Sabrina 

Otterloo, Mark de Vries. 

Miscellaneous 

Chair, Netherlands American Studies Association. 

Chair of jury, Theodore Roosevelt Association 

History Award 

Prof. Dr. R.Th. Griffiths 

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Ms. Dr. M.P.C. van der Heijden 

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Member editorial board Stadsgeschiedenis (Flemish- 

Dutch Journal on Urban History). 

Member editorial board of The Low Countries 

Journal of Social and Economic History (Tijdschrift

voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis), Dutch- 

Flemish journal. 

Member Advisory Board international journal 

Crime, History & Societies. 

Member editorial board Jaarboek der Sociaal- 

Economische Geschiedenis Leiden. 

Reviewer of NWO- research proposals, and 

articles submitted to the Journal of Social History, 

Social History, Journal of the History of Childhood 

and Youth, etc. 


Research director N.W. Posthumus research 

program ‘The Social History of Communities’. 

Member of the board of Stichting Geschiedenis van 

de Overheidsfinanciën. 

Member of the board of the Robert Fruin Award 

MA thesis History, University of Leiden. 

Member advisory board for education, the 

Institute for History (OLC), University of Leiden. 

Member advisory board NWO-project ‘The Town 

as a Body Social 1350-1650’, directed by Prof. Dr. 

Pim de Boer, University of Groningen. 


Member advisory board of the research project 

‘Rotterdam is vele dorpen’ of the Urban Archive of 

Rotterdam. 

Publications 

Heijden, Manon van der (Eds.) 

Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 

7(1-4). 



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Stadsgeschiedenis, 5(1-2). 


Jaarboek der sociale en economische geschiedenis van 

Leiden en omstreken, 2010. 

Heijden, Manon van der 

[Book review Charles H. Parker, Faith on the 

Margins. Catholics and Catholicism in the Dutch 

Golden Age]. Social History, 97-99. 

Heijden, Manon, van der 

Introduction : New Perspectives on Public Services 

in Early Modern Europe. Journal of Urban History, 

36 (3), pp. 271-285. 

Heijden, Manon, van der & Schmidt, A. 

Public Services and Women’s Work in Early 

Modern Dutch Towns. Journal of Urban History, 36 

(3), pp. 368-386. 

Heijden, Manon, van der & Nederveen Meerkerk, 

Elise & Vermeesch, G. 

Journal of Urban History, 36 

Dr. V.C. Lagendijk 

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April 28: ‘Transnationalising the TVA’, invited 

lecture at Economic and Social History seminar of 

the Free University of Amsterdam. 

June: ‘Two Rounds of Electricity Liberalisation’, 

Paper presentation at Tensions of Europe / 

Inventing Europe conference, Sofia.

June: Invited commentator to Session ‘Papyrus’ at 

Tensions of Europe / Inventing Europe conference, 

Sofia. 

August 25: Invited Panel member at ‘What Role 

for International Organizations in a Master 

Narrative of the Twentieth Century?’, at the Oslo 

Contemporary International History Network 

seminar at the Nobel Institute, Oslo. 

November 8: ‘TEN Energy Networks: Aims, 

Alternatives, and Focus’, invited guest lecture the 

course ‘Europe builds on infrastructure’, 

Eindhoven University of Technology. 

November 19: ‘The TVA: The Man, The Myth, The 

Mystery’, invited guest lecture at the Free 

University of Amsterdam. 

November 25-27: ‘Streams of Development: 

Comparing the Development of the Rhine, 

Tennessee and Mekong’, Paper presentation at 

Second Transnational Rhine Conference ‘The Coalbased 

Rhine Economy. Development of an 

Industrial Region from Basel to Rotterdam, 1850- 

1950’, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. 


Reviewed a proposal for an Exploratory 

Workshop for the European Science Foundation. 


Part of a humanities panel to engage with policy 

issues, as part of an Administration course 

facilitated by ROI, The Hague for policy makers 

working for the Dutch government. Discussion 

centred on issues related to water and climate 

change. 


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Member of the Travel Grant Committee of the 

Society for the History of Technology (chair in 



Awarded a travel grant worth $830 by the 

Committee on Research, Scholarship and 

Academic Relations of the Harry S. Truman 

Library Institute, November 2010. 

Publications 

Van der Vleuten, E.B.A. & Lagendijk, V.C. 

‘Interpreting Transnational Infrastructure 

Vulnerability: 4/11 and the Historical Dynamics of 

Transnational Electricity Governance’. Energy 

Policy, 38(4), 2053-2062. 

Van der Vleuten, E.B.A. & Lagendijk, V.C. 

‘Transnational Infrastructure Vulnerability: The 

Historical Shaping of the 2006 European Blackout’. 

Energy Policy, 38(4), 2042-2052. 

Lagendijk, V.C. 

Biography 1: An Electrifying Legacy: The Long 

Lilfe of the Oliven Plan. In A.W. Badenoch & A. 

Fickers (Eds.), In: A.W. Badenoch & A. Fickers 

(Eds.), Europe Materializing? Transnational 

Infrastructures and the Project of Europe. London: 

Palgrave MacMillan. 

Schipper, F., Lagendijk, V.C. & Anastasiadou, E. 

New Connections for an Old Continent: Rail, Road 

and Electricity in the League of Nations. 

Organisation for Communications and Transit. In: 

A. Fickers & A.W. Badenoch (Eds.), Materialising 

Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project 

of Europe (pp. 113-143). Basingstoke: Palgrave.


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January 14-15: Participant with paper in an 

international workshop on ‘Indonesian identity in 

the immediate post-colonial period’, Yogyakarta, 

Indonesia. 

May 5: Participant with keynote address at a 

workshop on ‘Historiography of Indonesian 

economic history’, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 

June 22-26: Participant with paper in the 21 st 


Historians of Asia, Singapore. 

December 3-4: Participant with paper in a 

workshop on ‘Colonial rule in the Netherlands 

Indies and Belgian Congo’, Utrecht. 


January 14-15: Co-organizer of an international 

workshop on ‘Indonesian identity in the 

immediate post-colonial period’, Yogyakarta, 

Indonesia. 


February 24: Lecture for the Historical Committee 

of the Association of Dutch Literature 

[Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde]. 

April (: Lecture on ecological history in Indonesia 

at Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren. 

June 16- till October 7: Guest lectures about the 

economy of Indonesia at Clingendael. 


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November 15: Lecture about Indonesian 

decolonization for Rotary Bilthoven. 


August 2-9: Research in the National Archives of 

the Republic of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia. 

August 16-20: Research in the Library of the 

University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 

October 8-12 and November 29-30: Research in the 

Metropolitan Archives of London. 


Referee for KITLV Press, Leiden, and various 

international journals. 


Member of Executive Board of the Royal 

Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and 

Caribbean Studies [Vereniging KITLV], Treasurer. 

Member of the Board of the Professor Teeuw 

Foundation, Treasurer. 


Coordinator of the research project ‘Economics, 

politics and culture in early post-independence 

Indonesia’ (sponsored by NWO jointly with the 

Australian Research Council). 

Coordinator of the research programme ‘State and 

economy in modern Indonesia’s change of 

regimes’(financed by NWO). 


committee 

Supervisor of Pham Van Thuy, Farabi Fakih and 

Esther Zwinkels (Leiden University).


Co-supervisor of Abdul Wahid (University of Prof. Dr. L.A.C.J. Lucassen 

Utrecht). 

March 15: External examiner for PhD thesis, 

Research 

School of Oriental and African Studies, University 

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of London, United Kingdom. 

Publications 


‘Economic growth and decolonisation in 

Indonesia’. Itinerario, European Journal of Overseas 

History, 34(1), 97-112. 


‘In the shadow of decolonization; British capital 

investment in Indonesian estate agriculture’. In: 



Kian Wie 75 years birthday (pp. 327-350). 

Yogyakarta: Ombak. 

Lindblad, J.Th. & Purwanto, B. (Eds.) 

Merajut sejarah ekonomi Indonesia; Essays in honour of 

Thee Kian Wie 75 years birthday. Yogyakarta: 

Ombak. 

Lindblad, J.Th. & Purwanto, B. 

‘Merajut sejarah ekonomi Indonesia’; Introduction. 

In: J.Th. Lindblad & B. Purwanto (Eds.), Merajut 



Ombak. 


‘The Indonesian economy in the early 

independence period’. Itinerario, European Journal 

of Overseas History, 34(1), 7-8. 

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June 21: ‘The mobility transition revisited. Invited 

lecture at the Cambridge Group 

on Population Studies, Cambridge University. 

November 12: ‘The potential development of a 

European curriculum for teaching migration 

history’, invited key note lecture at the 

international conference Exploring European History 

and Heritage of Euroclio in The Hague (Royal 

Library). 

November 17: 'The mobility transition revisited, 

1500-1900. What the case of Europe can offer to 

global history’, invited lecture at the University of 

Pittsburgh, Center for World History. 

Keynote lectures 

May 27-29: ‘Reflections on borders, border regions 

and boundaries: their usefulness for migration 

history’, Key note lecture at the conference 

Migrations, identités interculturelles et/en espaces 

fontalières (XIX-XXe siècles), Universiteit Leuven/ 

Campus Kortrijk. 

June 10-11: ‘Why comparisons through time and 

history matter: migration history as a social 

science’, key note lecture at the conference 

Multiculturalism, immigration and identities: a 

transatlantic comparison, Ecole Normale Supérieure 

Lyon.

December 3: ‘Migration history and cross-cultural 

contacts’, key note lecture at the conference People 

on the move. Culture and knowledge in motion, TU 

Dortmund. 

Public lectures 

February 13: ‘Van homo sapiens tot wereldburger. 

Migratiegeschiedenis in comparatief perspectief’, 

public lecture for the Alumnidag van het LUF, 


February 26: ‘Polarisatie: een historische reflectie’, 

Public lecture in the series Polarisatie, organised by 

Forum and the RMO in the Geldmuseum at 

Utrecht. 

March 13: ‘Gastarbeid als uitzondering in de dans 

van arbeid en kapitaal. Arbeidsmigratie naar 

Nederland 1600-2010’, lecture at the meeting of the 

Sociaal-Wetenschappelijke Raad (SWR) of the 

KNAW, Leusden. 

March 26: ‘De integratie van migranten in 

Nederland sinds de 17e eeuw: parallellen en 

verschillen’, Public lecture at the University of 

Tilburg/ Palet Babylon. 

April 16: ‘Roundtable on The mobility transition 

revisited’, European Social Science Conference, 

Ghent. 

May 18: ‘Workshop of the authors for the Oxford 

Handbook of Global Cities’ (ed. Peter Clark), 

Helsinki University. 

May 26, ‘Een blinde vlek. De betekenis van 

migratie voor de wording van Nederland’, Lecture 

at the Rijnlands Architectuur Podium, Leiden. 


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June 3: ‘Politics and anti-immigrant rhetoric in 

Western Europe: then and now ‘, lecture for the 

Europaeum congres, Leiden University. 

October 5: Chair and organiser of the plenary 

session on ‘The right to the city’ on the 15 th 

International Metropolis Conference, Justice and 

Migration: paradoxes of belonging, Den Haag. 

October 15: ‘Introduction’ to the round table on 

the book launch of Migration History in World 

History (edited by Jan Lucassen, Leo Lucassen and 

Patrick Manning). Leiden University. 

October 20: Public lecture by the municipal archive 

of Den Bosch, ‘Dat gaat naar Den Bosch toe: 

migratie en integratie toen en nu vergeleken’, at 

Avond voor de Geschiedenis. 

November 26: ‘Verassende inzichten uit de 

Nederlandse migratiegeschiedenis’, Public lecture 

at the Spoorwegmuseum in Utrecht at the official 

launch of the website vijfeeuwenmigratie.nl. 


The monthly seminars on Global Interactions at 

Leiden University (every first Friday of the 

month). 


NWO 

FWO 

DFG 

Amsterdam University Press (IMISCOE). 

Member of the Editorial Board of the serie World 

Migration History, University of Illinois Press. 

Member of the Editorial Board van H-Migration 

(University of Michigan).

Member of the Advisory Board of the Belgisch 

Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis (BTNG). 

Member of the Editorial Committee of IMISCOE 

(Network of Excellence in the domain of 

International Migration, Integration and Social 

Cohesion. 

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Centre 

for the History of Intercultural Relations (CHIR) (KU 

Leuven/Kortrijk). 

Member of the Advisory Board of the Encyclopedia 

of Migration (Springer Pers, New York). 


Member of the Centrum voor de Geschiedenis van 

Migranten. 


Coordinator of the ‘Global Interactions’ profile 

area of Leiden University. 

Co-director of the Center for Modern Urban Studies 

(MUS), Campus The Hague. 

Member of the Steering Committee of the 

Metropolis Conference The Hague 2010. 

Publications 

Lucassen, Leo & Lucassen, Jan 

‘The mobility transition in Europe revisited, 1500- 

1900. Sources and methods’ (IISH Research Papers, 

46). Amsterdam: IISG. 

Lucassen, Leo 

‘Op het breukvlak van individu en gemeenschap. 

Europese sociaaldemocraten en een 'brave new 

world' in de twintigste eeuw’. In: Jan Kok & Jan 

van Bavel (Eds.), De levenskracht der bevolking. 


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Sociale en demografische kwesties in de Lage Landen 

tijdens het interbellum (pp. 285-320). Leuven: 

Universitaire Pers Leuven. 

Lucassen, Jan, Lucassen, Leo & Manning, Patrick 

(Eds.). 

‘Migration History in World History.’ 

Multidisciplinary approaches (Studies in Global 

Social History, 3). Leiden and Boston: Brill. 

Lucassen, Leo 

‘De mythe van de linkse kerk. Immigratie en 

polarisatie. De Groene Amsterdammer. (number 25 

/ 23-06-2010). 

Lucassen, Leo 

‘Das Heiratsverhalten von deutschen Migranten 

in den Niederlanden (1860-1940). Die Bedeutung 

von Ethnie, Religion, Klasse und Geschlecht. 

Historische Zeitschrift, 290(2), 321-346. 

Lucassen, Leo 

‘A brave new world: the left, social engineering, 

and eugenics in twentieth-century Europe’. 

International Review of Social History, 55, 265-296. 

Lucassen, Leo 

Southeast Europe and the need for a comparative 

history of migration and membership. In: 

Konrad, Helmut, & Benedik, Stefan, (Eds.), 

Mapping contemporary History II. 25 Jahre 

Zeitgeschichte an der Universität Graz, pp. 123-144. 

Wien, Köln, Weimar: Böhlau. 

Lucassen, Leo 

Towards a comparative history of migration and 

membership in Southeast Europe (1500-1900). In: 

Roth, Klaus & Hayden, Robert (Eds.), Migration 

in, from, and to Southeastern Europe, pp. 11-41. 

Münster: LIT.

Dr. C.G. Quispel 

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Social Science History Conference in Chicago 

18/11-21/11. Lecture on ‘Urban Marginality in 

Chicago and Amsterdam; The Case of the Robert 

Taylor Homes and the Bijlmer’. 


Advisory committee, Faculty of Humanities 


committee 

Member Reading Commission for the PhD of A. 

Dirks, ‘For the Youth: Juvenile Delinquency, 

Colonial Civil Society and the Late Colonial State 

in the Netherlands Indies, 1872-1942’. 

Dr. F. Schipper 

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June 17-20: ‘The neo-functionalist interpretation of 

European integration revisited:’ with Johan Schot. 

Tensions of Europe Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria. 


Organizer session ‘Governing infrastructures in 

Europe, 1850-2010’, with Johan Schot and 

Christian Henrich-Franke. 

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Referee Transfers: New Mobility Studies. 

Member editorial board Tijdschrift voor Sociale en 

Economische Geschiedenis. 

Lecture 

October 14: Eindhoven University of Technology, 

Technology Innovation & Society Seminar. 

‘Securing ‘the priceless service of the beneficent 

Genius of Electricity’: ‘Negotiating Telegraph 

Tariffs (1885-1914)’. 

October 21: Column website Next Generation 

Infrastructures ‘Pigs in space’. 

January 21: Université de Paris I Panthéon- 

Sorbonne, Séminaire ‘Histoire de la Mobilité’. 

‘Mobilités européennes et expertises’ (in French). 

January 5: ‘Infracide’. 

February 24: ‘Back to the future’. 

March 29: ‘The return of the godwit’. 

May 17: ‘Immobile | I(’)mmobile | I’m mobile’. 

June 29 : Columns website Next Generation 

Infrastructures. ‘Sympathetic infrastructure’. 

Publications 



and Electricity in the League of Nations. 


A.W. Badenoch & A. Fickers (Eds.),


Europe Materializing? Transnational Infrastructures Prof. Dr. M.L.J.C. Schrover 

and the Project of Europe. London: Palgrave 

MacMillan. 

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and Electricity in the League of Nations’ 




A. Fickers & A.W. Badenoch (Eds.), Materialising 

January 22: ‘Migratie in de laatste 50 jaar, Stichting 

Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project 

Boeg Utrecht. 

of Europe (pp. 113-143). Basingstoke: Palgrave. 

March 3: Private pain and public interest: 

Schipper, F. 

problematisation and child cases, Sheffield. 

Mobilizing Europe's Capital. In: A.W. Badenoch & 

A. Fickers (Eds.), Materialising Europe: 

Lectures 

Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe 

January 14-15: Introduction and closing comments: 

(pp. 178-181). Basingstoke: Palgrave. 

The language of difference: mechanisms of 

Schipper, F. 

inclusion and exclusion of migrants 1945-2005, 

[Bespreking van het boek Mobile Cities. Dynamiken 


weltweiter Stadt- und Verkehrsentwicklung]. 

January 28: Volksuniversiteit Amsterdam, migratie 

Geschichte.Transnational. 

in een historisch en vergelijkend perspectief. 

March 4: Islamisation and the backlash of 

multiculturalism (The Netherlands 1945-2010) 

Ms. Dr. A. Schmidt 

presentation Lucis Leiden University. 

June 5: Het Utrechts Archief, Oral history. 

NW Posthumus 

June 10: Migration websites. Antwerp, Belgium. 

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November 18-21: Creating problems, having 

problems, forgetting problems: Bertha Hertogh, 

Conference of the American Social Science History 

Publications 

Association in Chicago, U.S.A. 

Heijden, Manon, van der & Schmidt, A. 

December 2: ‘What is the problem?’ Discourse 

Public Services and Women’s Work in Early 

analyses and frame analyses in historical 

Modern Dutch Towns. Journal of Urban History, 36 

migration and integration research illustrated by 

(3), pp. 368-386. 

the case of the deportation of Germans from the 

Netherlands 1946-1948, Studiedag Historische 

Demografie, Leuven, Belgium. 

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January 14-15: Organisation of the international 

conference: The language of difference: 


migrants 1945-2005, Leiden University. 


May 19 : LIMS (Leiden International Migration 

Seminar). Organisation LIMS day with Catharine 

Rassiguier, Anthony Taylor and Carol Bohmer, 


Co-organiser of the Graduate Seminar Leiden 

University (monthly). 


Editor in chief of Tijdschrift voor Sociale en 

Economische Geschieden (2004-2010) (Aksant). 

Member Editorial board Continuity and Change 

External referee Journal of Urban Affairs; Journal of 

Ethnic and Migration Studies, Stadsgeschiedenis, 

Migrantenstudies. 

External referee: AUP, IMICOE, Swiss National 

Science Foundation. 

Member of the board: NWO Mozaïek (2009-2010). 


Chair of the committee funding UL (2008-2009, 

2009-2010). 

Member of the board NW Posthumus (National 

Graduate School). 

Co-Chair of the Migration and Ethnicity Network 

of the European Social Science History conference 

(since 2000). 


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Member of the executive committee of the Social 

Science History Association (2006-2009). 

Moderator of H-migration (since 2002). Hmigration 

is part of H-Net, an organisation in the 

US. 

Moderator of Website History of International 

Migration. 

Jury of the Winter prize 2009. 

Member of the board of CGM (Centre of the 

history of migrants). 

Publications 

Schrover, Marlou & Faassen, Marijke van 

‘Invisibility and selectivity. Introduction to the 

special issue on Dutch overseas migration in the 

nineteenth and twentieth century’. Tijdschrift voor 

Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 7(2), 3-31. 

Schrover, Marlou & Yeo, Eileen Janes (Eds.) 

Introduction: Moving the Focus to the Public 

Sphere. In: Marlou Schrover & Eileen, Janes Yeo 

(Eds.), Gender, Migration and the Public Sphere 1850- 

2005 (pp. 1-13). New York: Routledge. 

Schrover, Marlou & Yeo, Eileen Janes (Eds.) 

Gender, Migration and the Public Sphere 1850-2005. 

New York: Routledge. 

Schrover, Marlou 

Pillarization, Multiculturalism and Cultural 

Freezing, Dutch Migration History and the 

Enforcement of Essentialist Ideas. BMGN, 125(2/3), 

329-354. 

Schrover, Marlou 

Why Make a Difference? Migration Policy and 

Making Differences Between Migrant Men and 

Women (The Netherlands 1945–2005). In: Marlou

Schrover & Eileen Janes Yeo (Eds.), Gender, 

Migration and the Public Sphere 1850-2005 (pp. 76- 

96). Routledge. 

Schrover, Marlou (2010). Sinterklaas, de kerstboom 

en vijf eeuwen migratie. In T Ang (Ed.), The 

unwanted land (pp. 33-44). 

Dr. P. Tammes 

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‘Occupational structure, status and mobility of 

Jews in Amsterdam, 1851-1941’. Social Science 

History Association (Chicago, Illinois, 18-21 

November, 2010). 

‘Differentials in family structure among Jewish 

families in Amsterdam, 1880-1940’. Dag van de 

Sociologie, 10 juni 2010, Universiteit Groningen 

‘Differentials in family structure among Jewish 

families in Amsterdam, 1880-1940’. Third Contact 

Day Jewish Studies on the Low Countries, 

University of Antwerp, 11 May 2010. 

‘Assimilation and secession from Judaism in 

prewar Amsterdam’. European Social Science 

History Conference, Gent, 13-16 april. 

‘The chance of survival of Jews in Dutch 

municipalities 1940-1945: theory and method of 

analysis’. Workshop Prosocial Behaviour in 

Interdisciplinary perspective, Universiteit 

Bochum, 14-15 januari. (invited lecture) 


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Organizer session ‘Assimilation of Jews’ at the 

European Social Science History Conference 2010, 

Gent. 


Referee Tijdschrift Sociale en Economische 

Geschiedenis 

Publications 

Tammes, P.J.R. 

Jewish-Gentile intermarriage in pre-war 

Amsterdam. History of the Family (The): An 

International Quarterly, 15(3), 298-315. 


Het kunstenaarsechtpaar Else Berg en Samuel 

'Mommy' Schwarz: een levensschets. Misjpoge, 

23(2), 44-50. 


Demografische ontwikkeling van joden in 

Nederland vanaf hun burgerlijke gelijkstelling tot 

aan de Duitse bezetting. In: Matthijs, K., van de 

Putte, B., Kok, J., Bras, H. (Eds.), Leven in de Lage 

Landen. Historisch-demografisch onderzoek in 

Vlaanderen en Nederland. Jaarboek 2010., pp. 239-270. 

Acco Uitgeverij. 

Poppel van, F. & Tammes, P.J.R. & Schenk, N. 

Opgroeien in de stad en op het platteland. 

Verschillen in de gezinssituatie van kinderen in de 

late negentiende en vroegtwintigste eeuw. In: 

Matthijs, K., van de Putte, B., Kok, J., Bras, H. 

(Eds.), Leven in de Lage Landen. Historischdemografisch 

onderzoek in Vlaanderen en Nederland.

Jaarboek 2010., pp. 53-72. Acco Uitgeverij. 

(Part of book or chapter of book) 


Achtergronden van vertrouwen in de regering. 

In: P. Dekker (Ed.), Meten wat leeft? 

Achtergrondstudie bij het continue onderzoek 

burgerperspectieven (pp. 91-103). SCP. 

Dr. L.J. Touwen 

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April 13-16: ‘Paradigm or hyperbole? Categories of 

institutional change and the changing priorities in 

post-war economies’. Paper presented at the 

European Social Science History Conference, 

Ghent. 

April 20-21: Discussant for ‘Revealing productivity 

gaps: industrial performance in 

Europe prior to World War I: Posthumus Work in 

Progress (minor paper)’ by Joost Veenstra, 

Posthumus Seminar II, Amsterdam. 

May, 21: Discussant in the session of the Research 

Programme ‘Evolution of National Business 

Systems’ at the N.W. Posthumus Conference, 



April 13-16: Organization of 10 sessions as network 

chair economics at the European Social Science 

History Conference, Ghent (with Prof. Dr. Anne 


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McCants, MIT & Prof. Dr. Jochen Streb, 

Hohenheim U.). 

May 21: N.W. Posthumus Conference, Leiden. 

Main organizer, together with R. Wensma. 


January, 21: Lecture at the Stafseminar sectie ESG. 


Scientific director of the Research School N.W. 

Posthumus Institute. 

Chair of the Education Committee of the Faculty 

of Humanities. 

Secretary of the Exam Committee of the Institute for 



Advisor to the Project Trendanalyse 1975-2005 

Domein Economie (Trend Research Project, domain 

Economics) of the National Archive. 


Fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for 

Advanced Studies (NIAS), Spring Semester 2011, € 

12.500 

NWO Graduate Programme subsidy, for the N.W. 

Posthumus Institute in collaboration with Leiden 

University, Research MA History: Four PhD 

positions, 2013-2017, € 800.000. 

Miscellaneous 

Aansluitingsmodule Geschiedenis ‘Koelies in Deli’ i.s.m. 

ICLON: E-learning course for Dutch high schools 

(VWO): ‘Coolies in Deli’ (twice per year,

supervision of student assistant during Spring 

Semester and Fall Semester: Hanneke Verbeek, 

Mandy Hacker). 

Publications 

Touwen, L.J. 

Varieties of Capitalism and Institutional Change in 

New Zealand, Sweden and the Netherlands in the 

1980s and 1990s. In H Egbert & C Esser (Eds.), 

Aspects in Varieties of Capitalism: Dynamics, 

Economic Crisis, New Players (pp. 171-202). 

Saarbruecken: Lambert Academic Publishing. 

Touwen, L.J. 

‘Wie in de politiek gaat verloochent niet zijn 

achterban. Over de historische invloed van de 

confessionelen.’ Besprekingartikel naar aanleiding 

van Paul E. Werkman en Rolf E. van de Woude, 

red., Wie in de politiek gaat is weg? Protestantse 

politici en de christelijk-sociale beweging 

(Hilversum, Verloren 2009). Openbaar Bestuur, 

20(8), 13-17. 

Touwen, L.J. 

Book review of J. van Gerwen en F. de Goey, 

Ondernemers in Nederland. Variaties in ondernemen 

(Bedrijfsleven in Nederland in de twintigste eeuw 

1); Amsterdam: Boom, 2008) [Bespreking van het 

boek Ondernemers in Nederland. Variaties in 

ondernemen (Bedrijfsleven in Nederland in de 

twintigste eeuw 1]. BMGN, 125(4), 145-147. 



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October 14-15: Member of the Jury of the Bachelor 

Student Research Conference 2010, organized by 

VSNU, held in Leiden. 


Member of Editorial Committee of journal 

Perspectiva: Reflexões sobre a Temática Internacional. 


Member of the exam-committee TCLA. 

President of the Executive Board of AHILA (2008- 

2011). 

Chairperson of the Task Force Latin America of 

the Coimbra Group. 


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. 

Coordinator of bilateral cooperation between 

Leiden University and Latin American 

universities. 

Prof. Dr. W.H. Willems 

Research 

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Ms. Drs. N. Bouras 

Research 

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Drs. D. Klein Kranenburg 

Research 

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April 14-17: European Social Science History 

Conference, Ghent, Belgium. Paper, ‘Social 

divisions in the Schilderswijk of The Hague, 1920- 

1939’. 

November 18-21: Social Science History 

Association, Chicago, U.S.A. 

Session organization and paper presentation 

Name of session: Revisiting the Urban Village: Case 

studies of twentieth century working-class 

neighborhood communities. 

Name of paper: ‘Because None of Us Had Anything’ 

Social-Economic Differences and their Consequences in 

a Working-Class Neighbourhood in The Netherlands, 

1920-1960 


May 21: NW Posthumus Conference. 



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PhD-representative NW Posthumus. 

Ms. Drs. C.J. Laarman 

Research 

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Editorial board ‘Jaarboek voor 

Vrouwengeschiedenis’. 

Publications 

Laarman, C.J., Blok, G., Buchheim, E., Gouda, F., 

Jonker, E., Rasterhoff, C., Muller, A. & Vos, M de 

(Eds.). (2010). Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis, 30. 

Drs. T. Walaardt 

Research 

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Paper prepared for a conference at the University 

Leiden called: The language of difference: 


migrants 1945-2005, Leiden University, 14-15 

January 2010. Paper called: From protest heroes to

true Christians. Labelling Christian Turks as 

refugees in the 1970s. 

Paper prepared for the Conference of the 

American Social Science History Association in 

Chicago, 18-21 November 2010. Paper called: Try, 

try, try, and if necessary try again. The asylum 

procedure of Tamils and Iranians in the 

Netherlands in the early 1980s. 

PhD Defences 

-- 


D. Engelhard 

N. Everts 

M. Harpe 

P. de Jong 

Drs. O. Lansen 

J. Lentzner 

Ms. Drs. A.P.W. van Steen 

Drs. H.D. Tjalsma 

M. van der Mey-Tolsma 


Samuela Etosi 

Martine van Leeuwen 

Simon van Koppen 

Michiel Messink 

Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson 

Aniek Smit 


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Civil Services and Urban Communities, 

The Netherlands 1500-1795 

Manon van der Heijden 

This research project started in January 2005 at the 

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and was moved to 

the Department of History of Leiden University in 

September 2006. Manon van der Heijden is 

coordinator and principal researcher of the project. 

Griet Vermeesch is postdoc-researcher. In June 

2007, Elise Nederveen van Meerkerk will be 

appointed as post doc-researcher as well. 

The main aims of the project are twofold: 

1. We wish to investigate 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 government, 

citizens and church in the transition from private 

to public. 

2. We wish to investigate the interaction between the 

idea of citizenship and the practical allocation of 

civil services between church, government and 

citizens. Central to this study will be the long-term 

process between 1500 en 1800 from city citizen to 

national citizen and the effects of 

bureaucratization on the ideal of citizenship and 

the involvement of citizens in civil services. The 

project has a website: 

www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/csuc/

Differences That Make All The Difference. 

Gender and Migration (The Netherlands 

1945-2005) 

Marlou Schrover 

Over the past decades, dozens of publications 

have appeared that start out by saying that the 

field 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 migration gave 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 


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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 outmarriage, 

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

oundary as to what is morally acceptable. Outmarrying 

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 nonmigrants, 

but which were usually bad for 


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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 


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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. 

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 

above-mentioned 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. 


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Transnational Ties with the Country of 

Origin: Moroccan Migrants and Their 

Descendants 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 (PhDproject) 

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 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 postwar 

involvement in wage bargaining and the 

development of redistributive policies in the 

Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United 


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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. 

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 2010: 58. 

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 


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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 a 

practical 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 44. Besides, 

there are 100 PhD candidates affiliated to the 

institute but mostly having their working place 

elsewhere.

Graduate Seminars 

February 10, 2010 

Chair: Marlou Schrover 

Presentation: Luuk de Ligt 

Commentary: Leo Lucassen en Nadia Bouras 

Topic: 'The Population of Cisalpine Gaul in the 

time of Augustus' 

March 10, 2010 


Presentation: Corrie van Eijl 

Commentary: Anne Tijsseling and Robert Ross 

Topic: ‘Tussenland. Illegaliteit en migratie in 

Nederland’. 

April 14, 2010 

Chair: Thomas Lindblad 

Presentation: Carolien Stolte 

Commentary: Dennis Bos and Rombert Stapel 

Topic: 'To draw closer together the exploited 

Workers of the East’: Indian trade unionism and 

the competition for Asia, 1920-1937' 

May 12, 2010 

Chair: Patrick Dassen 

Presentation: Adriaan van Veldhuizen 

Commentary: Patricio Silva and Anne Petterson 

Topic: 'Emotionele politiek en politieke emoties in 

de partijcultuur van de SDAP' 

September 15, 2010 

Chair: Judith Pollmann 

Presentation: Jeroen Duindam 


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Commentary: Henk den Heijer and Hana Qugana 

Topic: ‘Eurasian empires: integration processes 

and identity formations. A comparative program’ 

October 13, 2010 

Chair: Herman Paul 

Presentation: Laura Visser-Maessen 

Commentary: José Aguiar and Bram Hoonhout 

Topic: 'Don't We Need A Lot of Leaders?': Robert 

Parris Moses & SNCC and the Role of 

Organizational Leadership in the Production of 

Social Change during the Civil Rights Movement, 

1960 -1965’ 

November 10, 2010 

Chair: Antheun Janse 

Presentation: Matthijs Gerrits 

Commentary: Constant Hijzen and Maartje Janse 

Topic: ‘Vete. Hermeneutische praktijk en 

antropologische theorie’ 

December 10, 2010 


Presentation: Diederick Klein Kranenburg 

Commentary: Dennis Bos and Marianne Eekhout 

Topic: 'Sociale geschiedenis van de Schilderswijk, 

1920-1980’

Members 


Lecturer 

Theme: European Expansion and Globalisation 

Theme: Migration and Global Interdependence 


Lecturer 

Theme: Political Culture and National Identities 

Ms. Dr. N.N.W. Akkerman 

Postdoctoral Researcher 

Theme: The Dynamics of European Identity, 1300- 

1700 

Ms. Drs. K. Beerden 

PhD candidate 

Theme: The Unification of the Mediterranean 

World 

Drs. J.H.H. van den Berk 

PhD candidate 


Dr. E.F. van de Bilt 

Lecturer 


Prof. Dr. W.P.Blockmans 

Professor 


1700 


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Ms. Drs. A. Bloemendal 

PhD candidate 


Prof. Dr. J.L. Blussé van Oud Alblas 

Professor 


Dr. B.E. van der Boom 

Lecturer 


Ms. Drs. C.Y.E. Boot MA 

PhD candidate 


Dr. D. Bos 

Lecturer 


Ms. Drs. N. Bouras 

PhD candidate 


Mrs. Prof. Dr. M.E. de Bruijn 

Professor 


Dr. M.J.M. Damen 

Post-doctoral researcher 


1700

Dr. P.G.C. Dassen 

Lecturer 


Ms. M. Davies 

PhD candidate 


Ms. Drs. A. Dirks 

PhD candidate 



Professor 



Prof. Dr. J.F.J. Duindam 

Professor 


1700 


Lecturer 


1700 


Ms. Drs. M.F.D. Eekhout 

PhD candidate 


1700 

Ms. Dr. C.J. van Eijl 


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Dr. G. Eisenloeffel 

Lecturer 

European Union Studies 

Ms. Drs. M. Erkelens 

PhD candidate 


Dr. R.P. Fagel 

Lecturer 


1700 


Professor 



F. Fakih MA 

PhD candidate 


Drs. K.J. Fatah-Black 

PhD candidate 


Ms. Drs. S. Feyder 

PhD candidate 

Theme: European Expansion and Globalisation


Prof. Dr. A.W.M. Gerrits 

1700 

Professor 

Theme: Political Culture and National Identities Ms. Dr. M.P.C. van der Heijden 

Lecturer 


Drs. Gerrits, M. MA 

PhD candidate 


1700 

Dr. J.B. Gewald 

Postdoctoral researcher 


Dr. J.C. Gomez Aguiar 

Lecturer 


Prof. Dr. J.J.L. Gommans 

Professor 


Prof. Dr. R.T. Griffiths 

Professor 



Ms. M. Groen-Vallinga MPhil 

PhD candidate 


World 

Dr. D. Haks 

Lecturer 


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Prof. Dr. H.J. den Heijer 

Professor 


Ms. A. Heyer MA 

PhD candidate 


Drs. C. Hijzen 

PhD candidate 



Professor 


1700 

Dr. A. Janse 

Lecturer 


1700 

Ms. Dr. M.J. Janse 



M.K. Jha, MA 

PhD candidate


Theme: European Expansion and Globalisation Dr. V.C. Lagendijk 

Post doctoral researcher 


Prof. Dr. K.J.P.F.M. Jeurgens 

Professor 


Ms. Drs. M. Kamphuis 

PhD candidate 


Dr. J.H.C. Kern 

Lecturer 


Drs. D. Klein Kranenburg 

PhD candidate 


J.F. de Kort 

Lecturer 


Ms. Dr. H.M.E.P. Kuijpers 

Lecturer/post doctoral researcher 


1700 

Ms. M. Kuruppath MA 

PhD candidate 


Ms. Drs. C.J. Laarman 

PhD candidate 


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Professor 


World 


Lecturer 




Professor 


Dr. G. Macola 




Lecturer 


B.R.F. Miranda MA 

PhD candidate 


Prof. Dr. J.A. Mol 

Professor 


1700

Prof. Dr. M.E.H.N. Mout 

Professor 


1700 


J.M. Müller, MPhil 

PhD candidate 


1700 


Lecturer 


World 

Dr. C.A. Nakamura 



Dr. G.A. Noordzij 



1700 

Dr. D. Onnekink 

Lecturer 


1700 

Prof. Dr. G.J. Oostindie 

Professor 



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Ms. S. Otterloo MA 

PhD candidate 


Prof. Dr. W. Otterspeer 

Professor 


Dr. H.J. Paul 

Lecturer 


Ms. I. Pesa MA 

PhD candidate 


V.T. Pham MA 

PhD candidate 


Ms. Prof. Dr. J. Pollmann 

Professor 


1700 

Dr. G.C. Quispel 

Lecturer 


Prof. Dr. R.J. Ross 

Professor 

Theme: European Expansion and Globalisation

Dr. F. Schipper 

Lecturer 


Ms. Dr. A. Schmidt 

Lecturer 


Ms. Dr. A.F. Schrikker 

Lecturer 


Ms. Prof. Dr. M.L.J.C. Schrover 

Professor 


Prof. Dr. G. Scott-Smith 

Professor 


Ms. N.T. Seneviratne MA 

PhD candidate 



Lecturer 


1700 


Professor 


Dr. H.W. Singor 


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Lecturer 


World 

Ms. A.X. Smit MA 

PhD candidate 


D.E.J. Smit MA 

PhD candidate 


Ms. Drs. J. Smithuis 

PhD candidate 


1700 

S. Soeters MA 

PhD candidate 


R. Stapel MA 

PhD candidate 


1700 

J. van der Steen MA 

PhD candidate 


1700 

Dr. A. van Steensel 

Postdoctoral researcher 

Theme: The Dynamics of European Identity, 1300-

1700 

Dr. R. Stein 

Lecturer 


1700 

Ms. C. Stolte MPhil 

PhD candidate 



Lecturer 



Lecturer 


World 

Dr. P. Tammes 



Dr. L.J. Touwen 

Lecturer 


A. al Tuma MA 

PhD candidate 


Dr. R.A. Tybout 




World 

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Ms. S. Valdivia Rivera MA 

PhD candidate 



Professor 


Drs. A.P. van Veldhuizen 

PhD candidate 


Ms. Drs. C.R.M.K.L. Viallé 

Research assistant 


Ms. Drs. L.G.M. Visser-Maessen 

PhD candidate 


M.L. de Vries MA 

PhD candidate 


Drs. T. Walaardt 

PhD candidate 


G. Waling MA 

PhD candidate 

Theme: Political Culture and National Identities

A. Weber MA 

PhD candidate 



Lecturer 



Dr. H.W. Wijsman 



1700 

Prof. Dr. W.H. Willems 

Professor 


Ms. Dr. J. Wubs-Mrozewic 



1700 

Ms. E.P.M. Zwinkels MA 

PhD candidate 



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