Institute for History Annual Report 2010 - O - Universiteit 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.
Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD
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.
Augusteijn, J.
Patrick Pearse. The Making of a Revolutionary.
Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
Augusteijn, J.
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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
0.15 fte
Conference attendance
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’.
Conference organization
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