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Annual Report Research Institute of History, 2008 

Research Institute of History 

Annual Report 2008 

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Research Institute for History 

Annual Report 2008 

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© Research Institute for History, 2009 

history.leidenuniv.nl 

composition: José Birker, Peter Meel and Efy Matulessy 


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Introduction 4 

Boards and Committees 6 

The Unification of the Mediterranean World 7 

The Dynamics of European Identitiy, 1300-1700 19 

Political Culture and National Identities 52 

European Expansion and Globalisation 72 

Migration and Global Interdependence 98 

Graduate Seminars 123 

Research Master Programme 124 

PhD Programme 125 

Members 125 


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Introduction 


Introduction 

In 2008, the board of the Leiden Institute for 

History was involved in a number of important 

policy developments. These developments particularly 

pertained to the midterm evaluation of the 

Institute and the process of restructuring and reorganization 

that was commenced by the Faculty 

of Arts. Although the former primarily focused 

on the Institute’s past performance in the field 

of research and the latter on the construction of 

a new faculty-wide institutional framework, the 

two are closely interconnected since the outcome 

of both processes to a considerable degree determines 

the direction of the Institute in terms of 

policy, personnel and financial resources. 

But there is more to this. Since both operations 

were accompanied by serious budget cuts and 

staff reductions in the Faculty of Arts the need 

for the Institute for History to obtain funding 

outside Leiden University has significantly 

increased. Fortunately, the Institute succeeded 

in successfully acquiring substantial extra means 

for research again. The austerity arrangements 

have also clouded the financial prospects of the 

Institute and somewhat hampered its ambition 

to use its potential for growth and advance. Yet, 

despite this constraint and the growing work load 

of the Institute’s research and supporting staff the 

Institute managed to uphold its foremost position 

in the scholarly world. 

Midterm evaluation 

On 6 March 2008, the Institute for History 

welcomed the evaluation committee the Faculty 

of Arts had installed to assess the quality of the 


research carried out by the Institute’s staff. The 

committee consisted of Professor H. de Ridder- 

Symoens (Gent University), Professor emeritus L. 

de Blois (Radboud University Nijmegen), Professor 

M. Prak (Utrecht University) and Professor 

emeritus G.J. Schutte (Free University Amsterdam). 

In its evaluation report the committee 

stated that the establishment of a separate Institute 

for History in 2005 has been an appropriate 

decision. The fact that the junior and senior staff 

are part of a large disciplinary unit and physically 

housed in one building has created a fruitful 

and inspiring ambiance that can adequately be 

described as an academic community. 

According to the committee the five research 

specializations of the Institute differ in terms of 

size, but are administratively treated on an equal 

basis. Research funds are distributed over the specializations 

applying one single criterion: quality 

of research. Mutual trust among the Institute’s 

members ensures that this model works out most 

satisfactorily. The committee applauded the 

scope, the rich research output and the still growing 

corporate identity of the specializations, but 

held the opinion that their development could 

be further enhanced through a sharper focus on 

coherence, excellence, and internationalization. 

The committee asserted that the supervision of 

the research master and PhD students definitely 

meets the required standards and that the board 

of the Institute convincingly aims at improving 

the graduation of students in the allotted timeperiod. 

In this context the committee highly 

valued the Institute’s graduate seminar. Here all 

researchers meet and discuss each other’s work. 

In the opinion of the committee the seminar encourages 

graduate students to finish their studies 

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in time and staff members to deploy new initiatives. 

Measuring the research executed in the Institute 

the committee concluded that in terms of 

productivity, relevance, vitality and feasibility the 

output is high, particularly taking into account 

the limited research time awarded to the staff. 

The board of the Institute appreciated the findings 

of the evaluation committee and has already 

made ample use of its recommendations. In 

preparing for the 2011 evaluation of the Institute 

for History the report of the midterm evaluation 

committee will form the basis for the self evaluation 

report the board is expected to draw up. 

Restructuring and re-organization 

The process of restructuring and re-organization 

that started in 2008 self-evidently caught the 

attention of all employees in the Faculty of Arts. 

The first important change that came about has 

been the transformation of the Faculty of Arts 

into the Faculty of Humanities. The latter consists 

of four established institutes – the Institute for 

History being one of them – covering the field of 

arts, and three new institutes formerly constituting 

the faculties of religious studies, philosophy 

and applied arts. Another major adjustment 

has been the decision to attribute financial 

autonomy to each of the seven institutes. Decentralization 

has replaced centralization as the 

key principal in demarcating business run by the 

faculty and by the individual institutes. A third 

change pertains to the faculty-wide clustering of 

directions of studies and supporting staff in order 

to address the needs and aspirations of undergraduate 

and graduate students more efficiently 

and effectively. 

Most alterations have been implemented by the 

end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009. For the 

History Department these modifications so far 

have had several consequences. First of all, the 

Institute for History has become the basic unit 

of staff which was extended with colleagues from 

African Studies, Latin American Studies, Russian 

Studies and Practical Studies. Its members are on 

the payroll of the Institute and are outsourced 

to BA, MA and research master programs thus 

generating the credit points necessary to finance 

the Institute. Secondly, the management team of 

the Institute now has control over its own financial 

resources. Yet, as the faculty is simultaneously 

attempting to reduce a large budget deficit, 

the available means are limited and have slightly 

restricted the radius of action of the Institute. The 

inclusion of coordinators and secretaries of the 

Institute for History into one flexible faculty division 

in 2008 was still in its infant stage. 

Research funding 

In 2008, the Institute for History managed to 

gain substantial funding from the Dutch national 

science foundation (NWO) again. Four research 

proposals (two small programmes, one Rubicon 

project and one replacement project) were 

funded by NWO. This amounted to an additional 

research budget of close to one million euro’s. 

These are the projects awarded funding: 

Small programmes 

Prof. dr. P.C.M. Hoppenbrouwers/Prof. dr. J.A. 

Mol. ‘Twilight Zone: Party Strife, Factionalism, 

and Feuding in the Late Medieval Northern Low 

Countries’ . 

Funding: ÿ 462,432. 


Boards and Committees 

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Dr. J.Th. Lindblad 

‘State and Economy in Modern Indonesia’s 

Change of Regimes’ 


Rubicon project 

Dr. J.J. Wubs-Mrozewicz ‘Hollanders as ‘the 

Other’. Late Medieval Perceptions of Identity in 

Hanseatic sources’ 


Replacement project 

Dr. B.E. van der Boom 

‘Nicht gewusst? Popular opinion regarding the 

Holocaust during the German occupation of the 

Netherlands, 1940-1945’ 


Research output 

Staff members of the Institute in 2008 again contributed 

considerably to the publication record 

of the Institute. Their output included many 

monographs, edited volumes, journal articles and 

popular publications. The following contributions 

deserve special mention: the prizewinning 

PhD dissertation ‘Lichaam, eer en recht in middeleeuws 

Friesland. Een studie naar de Oudfriese 

boeteregisters by Han Nijdam and the acclaimed 

biography ‘Tjalie Robinson’. Biografie van een 

Indo-schrijver by Wim Willems and the overview 

of Dutch migration history Komen en Gaan. Immigratie 

en emigratie in Nederland vanaf 1550 by 

Herman Obdeijn and Marlou Schrover. 

Near future 

Late 2008 preparations were made for the reaccreditation 

of the research master programme 


in history and for participation in the so-called 

university profile areas, large multidisciplinary 

focal points of research. It is expected that in two 

profile areas entitled Global Interaction of People, 

Culture and Power and Political Legitimacy: 

Institutions and Identities, Leiden historians will 

play a preponderant part. 

Dr. P.J.J. Meel 

Director of Research 

Boards and Committees 

Board Department of History 

(Till 15 October 2008) 

Prof.dr. L. de Ligt (chairman) 

Dr. L.J. Touwen (secretary) 

Drs. A. Nobel (PhD Candidate member) 

Ms. L.J. Schouten (student-member) 

From 15 October 2008 

Prof.dr. H. te Velde 

Dr. J. Augusteijn 

Ms. drs. C.J. Laarman (PhD) 

Th. Sanders (student-member) 

Advisors 

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

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

manager) 

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MPhil Educational Review Committee 

(OLC) 

Staff-members 

Prof.dr. L.A.C.J. Lucassen 

Prof.dr. J.S. Pollmann 

Student-members 

H.H. Manders 

Y. Klaassen 

V. Maso 

C. Meijerman 

Advisors on behalf of the board 

Prof.dr. L. de Ligt 


Ms. drs. C.J. Laarman (PhD) 

Board of Examiners 

Dr. J. Augusteijn (chairman) 

Dr. M.A. Ebben 

Dr. F.G. Naerebout 

Ms. dr. M.L.J.C. Schrover 

Dr. L.J. Touwen (secretary) 

Dr. H.W. Wijsman 

Board of Admissions MPhil and PhD 

Prof.dr. P.C. Emmer 

Prof.dr. P.C.M. Hoppenbrouwers 




Prof.dr. M.E.H.N. Mout 

Ms. drs. C.J. Laarman 


Senate 

Section chairs 

Prof.dr. P.C.M. Hoppenbrouwers 


Prof.dr. R.T. Griffiths 

Prof.dr. L.de Ligt 


Full professors 

Prof.dr. W.P. Blockmans 

Prof.dr. H.W. van den Doel 

Prof.dr. A. Fairclough 


Prof.dr. P. Silva 

Prof.dr. W.H. Willems 

Office 

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

Ms. J.I. de la Bretonière 

Ms. T. Chao 

Drs. V. Rodriguez 

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

Ms. J. van Waterschoot 

Ms. R.J. Wensma 

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, 



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Christianity – was the first period in world history 

to witness the development of inter-local and 

later inter-regional networks of interaction. This 

occurred in the first instance in Mesopotamia 

and Egypt, and later also on the Indian subcontinent 

and in China. Later still, this phenomenon 

became visible in the Mediterranean Region. The 

Leiden section specializing in Ancient History 

concentrates on the study of Graeco-Roman cultures 

within the latter region, which culminated 

in the great empires of Alexander the Great and 

his successors. The appearance of these empires 

led to the development of an interaction network 

that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean in the 

West to Afghanistan in the East. Shortly afterwards, 

these Greek empires were incorporated 

into the Roman empire, the first (and last) pan- 

Mediterranean empire in world history. 

These processes of interaction and expansion 

brought along with them numerous transformations 

at local and regional level. As a result, all 

parties involved, including the conquerors, were 

forced to find a new equilibrium in the political, 

social, economic, ideological and religious domains. 

Many of these developments have parallels 

in the modern world. The results of modern globalization 

may well be new and unique, but the 

process as such can easily be compared with the 

integration and homogenization processes taking 

place in the Greek and Roman world. Themes 

such as local particularism versus 

uniformity, the economic effects of the appearance 

of ‘world empires’ and the tensions between 

cultural imperialism and the resistance to it have 

direct counterparts in the modern era. 

This does not mean that we can simply project 

our modern relations, concepts and problems 


onto the antique world. Rather, a detailed study 

of the Greek monarchies and the Roman empire 

reveals a number of differences compared to 

later periods that are at least as interesting as the 

similarities. It is undeniably true that the empires 

to be studied displayed a number of ‘modern’ features, 

such as a close network of cities, a complex 

social structure, a lively inter-regional trade, an 

advanced legal system and, particularly in Late 

Antiquity, a developing bureaucracy. In contrast 

to this, other features are less recognizably modern, 

for instance the great importance accorded 

to the accumulation of money and goods using 

political means, patronage networks and the high 

degree of freedom for local elites to appropriate 

for themselves primarily agrarian surpluses. 

If we consider the administrative aspects of the 

great Mediterranean empires, we find an intriguing 

mix of ambitious ideological claims and 

limited practical objectives. On the one hand, 

the rulers of ancient empires revered the ideal of 

an unlimited, universal dominion. On the other 

hand, in these empires, the exercise of power was 

based to a large extent on collaboration with local 

elites, who were granted a high degree of administrative 

freedom. Partially due to this fact, these 

empires provided room for a multitude of local 

laws, cultures and religions. From a modern perspective, 

the Roman exercise of power can thus 

be termed ‘extensive’. The economic, social and 

cultural transformation set in motion as a result 

of the interaction and integration processes mentioned 

earlier cannot be understood adequately 

unless we take into consideration these and 

other essential characteristics of ancient empires. 

Incidentally, the lack of a central administrative 

style in the great Graeco-Roman empires was also 

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‘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 self-government. 

Curiously, almost no research has so far 

been carried out into the origins and historical 

implications of these types of contrasts. 

The choice in favour of the research profile 

sketched above takes into consideration a number 

of methodological and technical assumptions 

which have contributed to the recent success 

of the Leiden Ancient History section. One of 

these assumptions is that the study of ancient 

societies must to a large extent be based on the 

comparative method. Secondly, the Ancient History 

section aims to study the ‘unification of the 

Mediterranean Region’ by making extensive use 

of inscriptions, papyri and legal texts. The Leiden 

expertise in this area is unique from a national 

perspective, and very rare, to say the least, worldwide. 

A third assumption is that in the 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) begun 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 ‘universalist 

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 



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expansion, migration and globalization. 

Staff 


Research 

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Conference organization 

October 31, 2008: commentator NASA (Netherlands 

American Studies Association) Conference 

“The Life and Legacy of Robert F. Kennedy,” 

Leiden University. 

Referee, advisory committees, editor etc. 

October 2, 2008, lecture David Perlmutter, University 

of Kansas, Leiden University. 

Publications 

L. de Ligt, ‘Provincial dediticii in the epigraphic 

Lex Agraria of 111 BC?’, Classical Quarterly n.s. 

58 (2008), 362-367. 

L. de Ligt, review of A. Lovato, Elementi di 

epigrafia giuridica romana (Bari 2006), in: 

Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis 76 (2008), 

180-181. 

L. de Ligt, review of D. Kehoe, Law and the Rural 

Economy in the Roman Empire (Ann Arbor 

2007), in: The Journal of Roman Studies 98 

(2008), 208-209. 

L. de Ligt, ‘Leger en politiek in de late Romeinse 

Republiek’ (n.a.v. Arthur Keaveney, The Army in 

the Roman Revolution, London 2007), in: Tijd- 


schrift voor Geschiedenis 121 (2008), 217-218. 

L. de Ligt (red.), Sparta (Lampas 41.2, themanummer) 

(Hilversum 2008) (87 pp.) ISSN 

0165-8204. 

L. de Ligt & S.J. Northwood (eds), People, Land, 

and Politics. Demographic Developments and the 

Transformation of Roman Italy, 300 BC-AD 14 

(Leiden 2008). 

L. de Ligt, ‘The population of Cisalpine Gaul in 

the time of Augustus’, in: De Ligt & Northwood 

(2008), 139-183. 



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Conference attendance 

Lectures: 

‘Orontes, Nile, Kefissos and Tiber: miscible or 

immiscible waters?’ Some thoughts on acculturation 

in the Roman Empire. 

‘The dreams of the learned’: 350 years of enquiry 

into ancient Greek and Roman dance, from the 

early 16th to the second half of the 19th century, 

illuminated on the basis of eight seminal works. 

Those archaeologists are at it again! An ancient 

historian registers his surprize at the ‘inherent 

pluralism’ of the conceptual apparatus of Roman 

archaeology. 

How do you like your Goddess? From the Galjub 

Hoard to a general Vision on Religious Choice in 

Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. 

Invited conferences 

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European Social Science History Conference 

27/2/2008, Instituto de Arte, University of Lissabon 

(Lisboa). 

Annual conference of the Classical Association, 

28/3/2008, Liverpool, as part of the panel ‘Dance 

reception’, organized by Tyler Jo Smith (University 

of Virginia, Charlottesville), Fiona MacIntosh 

(University of Oxford, Oxford), and Ruth Webb 

(Birkbeck, London). 

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference 18, 

5/4/2008, Amsterdam, as part of the panel ‘Acculturation 

or What? The Uses of Style in the Roman 

Mediterannean’, organized by Miguel John 

Versluys (Leiden). 

L’Égypte en Égypte. Présence isiaque en Egypte 

hellénistique et romaine. IVe colloque international 

sur les études isiaques, 27/11/2008 Liège 

(Luik). 

Conference organizations 

Panel titled ‘The other as neighbour. Alterity and 

acculturation in the ancient world’ organized 

for the Antiquity network, at the ESSHC Lissabon 

27/2 [cf. lecture nr 1 above] (participants: 

Miguel-John Versluys (Leiden), Greg Woolf (St. 

Andrews); chair: Onno van Nijf (Groningen)). 

Round Table discussing M.H. Hansen’s views on 

ancient demography, at the ESSHC Lissabon 1/3 

[cf. lecture nr 1 above] 

An international conference titled ‘Dance in Antiquity 

/ Antiquity in Dance’ organized jointly by 

Leiden University and the European Association 

of Dance Historians, Leiden 24-27/10/2008 

Lectures, symposia, colloquia, presentations 

31/10/2008 Full evening programme titled ‘Het 

symposium’ put on for theVereniging Holland- 

Hellas, Scheveningen (with the support of Kim 

Beerden). 

November 2008: illustrated lecture programme 

titled ‘Film en Oudheid’ in Filmhuis Den Haag, 

in the context of the second run of the play Odysseus 

by Theater De Appel, The Hague. 

Membership of boards and committees 

Member examing board of the Institute of History 

Advisory and coordinating activities 

Member of advisory committee Theater Instituut 

Nederland (Amsterdam) concerning the establishment 

of a canon of Dutch dance. 

Supervisor PhD research; membership PhD 

committee 

Supervising the following PhD-theses: 

Kim Beerden (Leiden), Divination in the ancient 

world. 

Carolyn de Greef (Leiden), Alterity in the ancient 

world. 

Amerso Psarrou (University of Athens), Archeos 

ellinikos choros: i epigrafikes martiries. 

Publications 

Naerebout, F.G. (2008) 

“Und jetzt ist der dumme Bengel gestorben”: 

Frederik Poulsen en Wilhelm Vollgraff, deel 2. 

Frons. Blad voor Leidse classici, 28 (1), pp. 23-28. 

(Article / Letter to editor) Naerebout, F.G. & 

Singor, H.W. (2008) 

De Oudheid. Grieken en Romeinen in de context 

van de wereldgeschiedenis, 11de druk. Amsterdam: 

Ambo. 

(Book (monograph)) Naerebout, F.G. & Singor, 



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Ambo. 

(Book (monograph)) Naerebout, F.G. (2008) 

Global Romans? Is globalisation a concept that is 

going to help us understand the Roman empire? 

Talanta, 38-39, pp. 149-170. 

(Article / Letter to editor) Naerebout, F.G. (2008) 

Imperator, Autokrator. Het Romeinse keizer 

schap, de keizercultus en Egypte. Groniek. Historisch 

Tijdschrift, 177, pp. 55-66. 


Sekse in de city. Week het antieke Sparta af van 

andere Griekse poleis waar het de relatieve positie 

van en de relaties tussen de seksen betreft? Lampas: 

Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse classici, 41, pp. 

164-180. 


The dance of the muses. Choral theory and ancient 

Greek poetics]. In: Mnemosyne, 61 (Book 

review) 

Naerebout, F.G. (2008). Global Romans? Is 

globalisation a concept that is going to help us 

understand the Roman empire? Talanta, 38-39, 

149-170. 

Naerebout, F.G. (2008). Sekse in de city. Week 

het antieke Sparta af van andere Griekse poleis 

waar het de relatieve positie van en de relaties 

tussen de seksen betreft? Lampas: Tijdschrift voor 

Nederlandse classici, (ISSN 0165-8204), 41, 164- 

180. 

Dr. H.W. Singor 


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Publications 

Naerebout, F.G. & Singor, H.W. (2008) 



Ambo. 

(Book (monograph)) Naerebout, F.G. & Singor, 

H.W. (2008) 



Ambo. 

(Book (monograph)) Singor, H.W. (2008) 

De klassieke Spartaanse opvoeding. Lampas: 

Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse classici, 41 (2), pp. 

131-148. 

(Article / Letter to editor) 

Dr. J.H.M. Strubbe 


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Lecture “Associations of youths in the Greek Cities” 

(invited lecture) 

University of Louvain, 19 april 2008 

Congres ‘Life course and mentality in Ancient 

History’. 


Anonymous referee for a grant (Greek Epigraphy) 

by NWO. 

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Member of the scientific committee of the ‘Association 

internationale d’épigraphie grecque et 

latine’ (AIEGL). 

Member of the board of directors of the ‘Landelijke 

Onderzoeksschool OIKOS’. 

Miscellaneous 

Gastcollege Universiteit Antwerpen (april 2008): 

“Jeugdverenigingen in de Oudheid”. 

Dr. L.E. Tacoma 


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Celtic Conference in Classics - University College 

Cork, 9-12 July 2008 Title lecture ‘Roman Elite 

Mobility’ (part of panel on aristocracies in the 

ancient world). 

Invited lecture ‘Moving Romans. Migration to 

Rome , London UCL, October 2008 (part of 

seminar series on urbanisation in the ancient 

world). 


Organisation Ancient History Network of the 

European Social Science History Conference in 

Lisbon, March 2008 together with prof.dr. H.W. 

van Wees (UCL). Network of 14 panels; 3 of 

which on Roman migration. Lecture ‘Graveyards 

for Rome. Migration to the city of Rome in the 

first two centuries A.D.’ 


Coordination MA- en MPhil-programme Ancient 

History Leiden. 

Coordination MA Ancient History Seminar 

Leiden. 


Network chair Ancient History Network European 

Social Science History Conference (Lisbon 

March 2008). 

Externally acquired funds 

Subsidy LUF en Instituut voor Geschiedenis to 

attend Cork Conference. 

Miscellaneous 

MA-student excursion to Athens March 2008 

MA-student exchange with University of St. 

Andrews. 

MA-student exchange with University College 

London. 

Publications 

Tacoma, L.E. (2008). Urbanisation and access to 

land in Roman Egypt. In R Alston & O van Nijf 

(Eds.), Feeding the ancient Greek city (pp. 

85-108). Leuven: Peeters (ISBN 978-90-429- 

2037-8). 

Dr. R.A. Tybout 


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Publications 

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

Supplementum Epigrapicum Graecum LV 

(Brill; Leiden-Boston 2008); XXXIII + 916 pp. 

PhD Candidates 

Ms. K. Beerden MPhil 


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Publications 

Beerden Beerden, K. (2008). Oracles, curses, and 

risk among the ancient Greeks [Bespreking van 

het boek Oracles, curses, and risk among the 

ancient Greeks]. Groniek. Historisch Tijdschrift, 

(ISSN 0169-2801), 179, 227-229. 

Beerden, K., Broek, A. van den, Duinmaijer, 

F., Nijs, R. de & Vernooij, H. (Eds.). (2008). 

Leidschrift. Historisch Tijdschrift, (ISSN 0923- 

9146), 23(2). 

Ms. drs. S.C. Hin 


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Research leave, home and abroad 

September 2007 – April 2008 Stanford University, 

Classics Department. 

Drs. J. Pelgrom 


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March 2008: Leiden (Graduate Seminar): Roman 

colonization and the unification of Italy (334-218 

BC.). 

Publications 

Pelgrom, J. (2008). Settlement Organization and 

Land Distribution in Latin Colonies before the 

Second Punic War. In L. de Ligt & S.J. Northwood 

(Eds.), People, Land and Politics. Demographic 

Developments and the Transformation 

of Roman Italy 300 BC-AD 14 (pp. 333-372). 

Leiden: Brill (ISBN 9789004171183). 

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‘Competition and privatization: comparative perspectives’, 

conference ‘The Italians on the land: 

Changing perspectives on Republican Italy then 

and now’, The University of Kent, Canterbury, 

UK, 11 October, 2008. 

‘Pressure on the land and the privatization of 

ager publicus’, Cardiff University research seminar, 

UK, 3 March, 2008, and the University of 

Newcastle upon Tyne research seminar, UK, 22 

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‘Competition and the privatization of ager publicus’, 

conference ‘Agricoltura e scambi nell’Italia 

tardo-repubblicana’, Rome, 25 January, 2008. 

28 April – 26 May, 2008: Research at the Royal 

Dutch Institute in Rome, Italy. 

21 February – 5 March, 2008: Visit to UK to discuss 

PhD thesis with advisors: J. Paterson (University 

of Newcastle upon Tyne), D. Rathbone 

(KCL), N. Morley (Bristol University), G. Bradley 

(Cardiff University). 

Publications 

Roselaar, S.T. (2008). Book review [Bespreking 

van het boek Colonie e municipi nello stato romano]. 

The Classical Review, (ISSN 0009-840X), 

58(1), 230-232. 

Roselaar, S.T. (2008). Sur quelques notices des arpenteurs 

romains [Bespreking van het boek ‘Sur 

quelques notices des arpenteurs romains]. 

External PhD Candidates 

Ms. drs. M. Jorna 

Research Master students 

S. Berger 

J. Bouterse 

Ms. Y. Klaassen 

R. Konijnendijk 

H.H. Manders 

S. Speksnijder 

Ms. M. Vallinga 

PhD Defences 

No PhD defences in 2008. 

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 much-discussed 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 

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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 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) (PhD-project Saskia Hin) 

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 

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of recruits available in particular years. The aim is 

to study these data with the help of demographic 

models, including comparative evidence concerning 

plausible rates of population growth. 

The Role of State-Owned Land in the Roman 

Economy (PhD-project Saskia Roselaar) 

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 early-modern 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 

archaeological record. Finally, many early survey 

reports rather simplistically tended to identify 

small sites as peasant farms and big sites as slave- 



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staffed 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 post-doctoral 

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 princi- 


pal 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 

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 

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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. 

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 administra- 

tors 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. 

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 

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liances 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 

between 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 

Prof.dr. W.P. Blockmans 


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Institutes, 20 October: Institutes for Advanced 

Study and their Merits, Comment. 

Invited lecture 

Freiburg, University, Graduierten Kolleg, 27 

January: State Integration by Elites? 

Ghent, University, 27 February: Staatsvorming in 

de Nederlanden, 1384-1581. 

Vancouver, University, 3 March: Exciting Neighbours. 

Interregional Trade as Factor of Dynamism. 

Den Haag, Euroclio, 23 April: The Relevance of 

European History. 

Nantes, Institut d’Etudes Avancées, 17 June: La 

Valeur Ajoutée. Méthodes d’évaluation au NIAS, 

Leiden, Global History Conference, 29 August : 

Intercontinental Trade in the Late Middle Ages, 

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Comment. 

Amsterdam, Historisch Café, 10 September: De 

Mislukking van Keizer Karel V, Invited lecture. 

Den Haag, Historische Kring, 8 September: Twee 

Krachtlijnen van de Nederlandse Geschiedenis: 

Politieke Medezeggenschap en Regionale Interactie. 

Lenzburg, Switzerland, Conference, 9 October: 

How to Control a Rich Periphery? Integration 

and resistance in the Habsburg Low Countries, 

1477-1581. 

Montpellier, Collège Paul Valéry, Thousand Years 

of European Integration. 

Paris, University Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2 

December: L’ Honneur des Villes au Moyen Age, 

Keynote lecture 

Montpellier, University, 16 October 2008: 

Origines de la Représentation Parlementaire en 

Europe. 

Strassbourg, Cleveringa lecture, 25 November: De 

oorsprong van de Constitutionele Monarchie in 

de Nederlanden. 


President, Comitato scientifico Istituto internazionale 

di storia Economica Francesco Datini, 

Prato. 

Program Committee ESOF Conference, Barcelona 

2008. 

Program Committee, Conference ‘The Splendour 

of Burgundy’, Bruges 2008. 


Chair, Panel SH6 (The Human Past), ERC 

Chair, Jury Odysseus Programme FWO, Brussels 

Member, Programmkommission der Exzellenz- 

initiative, DFG and Wissenschaftsrat, Germany 

Member, Gutachtergruppe Geisteswissenschaftliche 

Kollegs, Federal Ministry of Education and 

Research, Germany. 

Member, Selection Committee ICREA Special 

Research Grants, Catalonia. 

Member, External Review of the History Faculty, 

Oxford. 

Member of the editorial board of The Journal for 

Medieval History (1987-). 

Curatorium of two special chairs, Leiden 

Jury for ‘the best historical book’, Amsterdam. 


Foreign Member, Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences 

and Arts, 2004. 

Corresponding Fellow, The British Academy, 

2003. 

The Royal Historical Society, 1997 

Academia Europaea, 1996. 

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verfassungsgeschichte, 

1993. 

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

1990. 

Hollandsche Maatschappij voor Wetenschappen, 

1986. 


Advisory Council for Science and Technology 

Policy (AWT, The Hague). 

President, Network of European Institutes for 

Advanced Study, NetIAS. 

Academic Advisory Board and Members’ Assembly, 

Collegium Budapest. 

Board of the Institute for Advanced Study, 

Freiburg . 

Advisory Board, Institute for Advanced Studies in 

Externally Funded 

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the Humanities, Edinburgh. 

Beirat Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte, 

Münster. 


committee 

11-09-2008: G.A. Noordzij 

Supervision of seven PhD students (Leiden) 

External evaluator of a Habilitation Dossier at 

Paris I, of a PhD thesis at the University of York 

(U.K.), and one at the University of Ghent (Belgium). 

Miscellaneous 

Rector NIAS 

Publications 

Blockmans, W.P. (2008) 

Plus Ultra: Die Welt der Neuzeit. Festschrift für 

Alfred Kohler zum 65. Geburtstag. In: Edelmayer, 

F. & Kohler, A. (Eds.), pp. 37-52. Münster: 

Aschendorff. 

(Article in monograph or in proceedings) Blockmans, 

W.P. & Hoppenbrouwers, P.C.M. (2008) 

‘Eeuwen des onderscheids: een geschiedenis van 

middeleeuws Europa’. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij 

Bert Bakker. 

(Book (monograph)) Blockmans, W.P. (2008) 

Gent: de Pacificatiezaal. Eendrachtig in de Opstand. 

In: Tollebeek, J. (Ed.), België, een parcours 

van herinnering. dl I: Plaatsen van geschiedenis 

en expansie, pp. 110-123. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij 

Bert Bakker. 

(Part of book or chapter of book) Blockmans, 

W.P. (2008). 

Karel V: keizer van een wereldrijk 1500-1558. 

Kampen: Uitgeverij Omniboek. 


(Book (monograph)) Blockmans, W.P. (2008) 

Les Pouvoirs Publics dans des Régions de Haute 

Urbanisation. ‘Flandre’ et ‘Italie’ aux XIVe-XVIe 

Siècles. In: Lecuppre-Desjardin, E. & Crouzet-Pavan, 

É. (Eds.), Villes de Flandres et d’Italie (XIIIe- 

XVIe siècle). Les Enseignements d’une Comparaison 

(Studies in European Urban History), 12. , 

pp. 65-74. Turnhout: Brepols. 

(Part of book or chapter of book) Blockmans, 

W.P. (2008). 

The Medieval Origins of Constitutional Representation. 

Oxford, Europaeum Lecture February 

2007. 

(Conference lecture) Blockmans, W.P. (2008) 

Wissenschaft unter Beobachtung. Effekte und Defekte 

von Evaluationen. Leviathan Sonderheft 24. 

In: Matthies, H. & Simon, D. (Eds.), pp. 213-221. 

Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. 

(Article in monograph or in proceedings). 

Blockmans, W.P. (2008). Die Niederlande, das 

Haus Habsburg und das Reich in späten Mittelalter. 

Die Geschichte einer wechselvollen 

Beziehung. In F. Edelmayer & A. Kohler (Eds.), 

Plus Ultra: Die Welt der Neuzeit. Festschrift für 

Alfred Kohler zum 65. Geburtstag (pp. 37-52). 

Münster: Aschendorff (ISBN 978-3-402-06578- 

5). 

Blockmans, W.P. (2008). Karel V: keizer van een 

wereldrijk 1500-1558. Kampen: Uitgeverij Omniboek 

(ISBN 978-90-5977-4070). 

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28-02-2008: European Social Science History 

Conference in Lisbon. Lecture: ‘The multiplicity 

of the nobility. Methodological considerations on 

comparative research on the nobility in the Low 

Countries’. 


Chair Middle Ages (together with Ana Maria S.A. 

Rodrigues) of the European Social Science History 

Conference. Organisation of 8 sessions (24 

papers) for the congress in Lisbon, 26 February 

– 1 March 2008. 


Editor of the Annual Yearbook for Medieval History. 


committee 

Referee for “Tijdschrift voor sociale en economische 

geschiedenis’. 

PhD defences 

Supervisor of the Phd. students A. van Steensel 

and V. Flammang in the framework of the NWOproject 

Burgundian nobility. Princely politics and 

Noble Families, c. 1430-c. 1530 together with dr. 

A. Janse and Prof. Dr. W.P. Blockmans (promotor). 

Publications 

Janse, A. & Damen, M.J.M. (2008) 

‘Adel in meervoud’. Methodologische beschouwingen 

over comparatief adelsonderzoek in 

de Bourgondische Nederlanden. Bijdragen en 

Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der 

Nederlanden, 123, pp. 517-540. 

(Article / Letter to editor) Damen, M.J.M. (2008) 

Amsterdam omstreeks 1500. In: Lammertse, F. 

& Giltaij, J. (Eds.), Vroege Hollanders. Schilderkunst 

van de late Middeleeuwen, pp. 180-182. 

Rotterdam: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. 

(Part of book or chapter of book) Damen, M.J.M. 

(2008). 

Dordrecht omstreeks 1500. In: Lammertse, F. 





(2008). 

Dynamiek in de delta. Het graafschap Holland 

en de schilderkunst in de late Middeleeuwen. In: 

Lammertse, F. & Giltaij, J. (Eds.), Vroege Hollanders. 

Schilderkunst van de late Middeleeuwen, 

pp. 11-22. 


(2008). 

Een vorst van glas. Filips de Schone op gebrandschilderde 

glazen in de Nederlanden. In: Fagel, 

R.P. & Geurts, J. (Eds.), Filips de Schone. Een 

vergeten vorst 1478-1506 (Publicaties van de 

Vlaams-Nederlandse Vereniging van Nieuwe 

Geschiedenis), 7. , pp. 95-100. Maastricht: Shaker 

Publishing. 


(2008). 

Haarlem omstreeks 1500. In: Lammertse, F. 





(2008). 

Leiden omstreeks 1500. In: Lammertse, F. & Gil- 



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van de late Middeleeuwen, pp. 210-212. Rotterdam: 

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. 

(Part of book or chapter of book) Boone, M. & 

Bijsterveld, A.J.A. & Damen, M.J.M. & Delinge, 

Chl. & Engen, H., van & Hoven van Genderen, 

A.J., van den & Howell, M. & Mol, J.A. & Trio, P. 

(2008). 

T.R. - Jaarboek voor Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis. 

Jaarboek voor Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis, 11 

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Invited lectures: 

12 March 2008: La Pérdida del Brasil Holandés. 

Grupos de poder en una república de la Edad 

Moderna. Coloquio de investigadores del Instituto 

de Historia, CSIC Madrid. 

3 April 2008: Comercio y diplomacia, la presencia 

económica y diplomática de las Provincias 

Unidas en España el la segunda mitad del siglo 

XVII. Coloquio Anual del Proyecto Naciones y 

Comunidades: perspectivas comparadas en la Europa 

atlántica, 1650-1830, 2-3 de Abril de 2008, 

Madrid. 

8 October 2008: La Perte du Brésil holandais et 

la politique étrangère de la République de Provinces 

Unies, 1625-1653. Ciclo de conferencias 

‘O Atlântico Ibero-Americano (secs. XVI-XVIII) 


Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de 

Lisboa, Lisboa. 

17 October 2008: El diario de Lodewijck Huygens, 

1660-1661. Un documento que permite 

conocer a los españoles y holandeses después de 

la Paz de Munster. Encuentros, desencuentros y 

reencuentros. Tercer Congreso de Hispanistas del 

BeNeLux, 16-18 Octubre de 2008, Gante, Bélgica. 

Vlaams-Nederlands Jaarcongres in Diest (Belgium) 

2008, Flemish-Dutch Annual Congres for 

Early Modern History at Diest (Belgium) 2008. 


A. Research in Madrid: 1 February- 6 April 2008 

as senior research professor at: 

Instituto de Historia, Centro de Ciencias Humanas 

y Sociales, CSIC, Madrid (Spain). 

At Instituto de Historia dr. Ebben participated as 

a senior researcher in the international research 

program Nations and Communities: comparative 

perspective in Atlantic Europe, 1650-1830 

(NACOM). This program consists of a comparative 

study by six European scholars of merchant 

communities of foreign origin settled in various 

European ports between 1650 and 1830. Within 

this project Ebben studies Dutch merchants in 

Seville/Cádiz, Málaga, Alicante and Bilbao in the 

late seventeenth century. The NACOM project is 

officially recognized and financially supported by 

the Spanish Ministry of Education, Science and 

Cultural Affairs. 

Archives and libraries consulted: 

Biblioteca Nacional, Salón General, Sala de 

Manuscritos Cervantes. 

Biblioteca Tomás Navarro y Tomás. 

Archivo Histórico Nacional, Consejos, Consejo 

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Archivo Municipal de la Villa de Madrid, Secretaría. 

B. Research in Seville and Cádiz: 7 April- 7 June 

2008 as a senior research professor at: 

Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, CSIC, 

Seville (Spain). 


Archivo Histórico Provincial de Cádiz, Protocolos 

notariales. 

Archivo Histórico Municipal de Cádiz, Actas 

Capitulares, Padrones y Censos. 

Archivo General de Indias de Sevilla, Indiferentes 

General, Series de Arribadas, Contratación, Consulados, 

Escribanía de Cámara. 

Archivo Histórico de Sevilla, Protocolos notariales. 

Biblioteca Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos, 

Sevilla. 


Independant member of the reading committee 

of Hispania, Revista Española de Historia, CSIC 


Alva-project: Collection of biographical articles 

on Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, third duke of 

Alba (to be published in 2010). Editorial board: 

dr. M.A. Ebben and R.H.A.M. Baron van Hövell 

tot Westerflier MCL 

Exhibition: Het vredesjaar 1609. Het Twaalfjarig 

Bestand, 1609-1621. Exhibition to commemorate 

the Twelve years truce, 1609-1621. Historical 

Museum, The Hague. Scientific committee: dr. 

M. van Baalen, dr. M.A. Ebben and prof. dr. S. 

Groenveld. 

Member of the editorial board of the website The 

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

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). 

Member of the reading committee of the dissertation: 

Jessica V. Roitman, Us and them: intercultural 

trade and the Sephardim, 1595-1640. 


committee 

Co-promotor of dissertation: 

R. Dijk, ‘Het Hoogheemraadschap Rijnland, 

1550-1650’. 

J. Besseling, ‘Een sociale en bestuurlijke geschiedenis 

van een stad in Holland: Purmerend’. 

Publications 

Ebben, M.A. (2008) 

Een unieke Nederlandse traditie? De Republiek 

als prototypisch poldermodel. Spiegel Historiael. 

Maandblad voor geschiedenis en archeologie, 43 

(2), pp. 8-13. 

(Article / Letter to editor). 

Dr. R.P. Fagel 


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Conference attendances 

Invited lecture, Conference of the Asociación de 

Hispanistas del Benelux, Ghent University, 17-10: 

La imagen de dos militares españoles decentes en 

el ejército del Duque de Alba en Flandes: Cristóbal 

de Mondragón y Gaspar de Robles. 

Invited lecture, Conference Historias con agua, 

10/11-10, Valladolid University, ‘Ganando tierras 

al mar’. Polders y canales en los Países Bajos 

durante el siglo XVI.. 

Invited lecture, Karel V, Keizer aan Beide Zijden 

van de Oceaan, Geert Grote Universiteit, Deventer, 

15-3: Karel V en Spanje. 


Dag van het onderzoek over ‘Vervoer en communicatie’ 

bij de Vlaams-Nederlandse Vereniging 

voor de Nieuwe Tijd, Antwerpen University, 28-3 

(co-organisor). 

Yearly Conference of the Vlaams-Nederlandse 

Vereniging bij the Nieuwe Tijd on “Verscheurd of 

verbonden? Adel in Noord en Zuid (1568-1648)”, 

Begijnhof Diest, 19-9 (co-organisor). 


Yes, but without registration. 


Editorial Board 3 Oktoberlezing. 

Editorial Board www.Dutchrevolt. 

President Vereniging Oud-studenten Geschiedenis 



committee 

Co-promotor of Liesbeth Geevers, Universiteit 

van Amsterdam, defending her thesis in 24-10- 

2008. 


Miscellaneous 

15-12-2008: Guest lectures Radboud University 

Nijmegen. 

Publications 

Fagel, R.P. & Geurts, J. & Limberger, M. (2008) 

‘Filips de Schone, een vergeten vorst. In: Fagel, 

R.P & Geurts, J. (Eds.), Filips de Schone. Een 

vergeten vorst 1478-1506 (Publicaties van de 

Vlaams-Nederlandse Vereniging voor Nieuwe 

Geschiedenis), 7. , pp. 3-9. Maastricht: Shaker 

Publishing. (Part of book or chapter of book) 

Fagel, R.P. (2008). 

De Spaanse zomerkoning. Filips de Schone als 

koning van Castilië. In: Fagel, R.P. & Geurts, J. 

(Eds.), Filips de Schone. Een vergeten vorst 1478- 

1506 (Publicaties van de Vlaams-Nederlandse 

Vereniging van Nieuwe Geschiedenis), 7. , pp. 

101-133. Maastricht: Shaker Publishing. 

(Part of book or chapter of book) Fagel, R.P. 

(2008). 

De hovelingen van Filips II: een nieuwe visie op 

de Spaanse politieke geschiedenis. La Monarquía 

de Felipe II: La casa del Rey]. In: Tijdschrift voor 

Geschiedenis, 121. 

(Book review) Fagel, R.P. & Geurts, J. & Limberger, 

M. (Eds.) (2008). 

Filips de schone. Een vergeten vorst (1478-1506). 

Maastricht: Shaker Publishing. 

(Book editorial) Fagel, R.P. (2008). 

Jeréz de la frontera en de grenzen tussen vreemd 

en vertrouwd. Fremde und Gemeinwohl. Integration 

und Ausgrenzung in Spanien im Uebergang 

vom Ancien Régime zum fruehen Nationalstaat]. 

In: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 121. 

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(Book review) Fagel, R.P. (2008). 

Varen om stokvis. Concurrentie en samenwerking 

in het Noorse Bergen. Traders, ties and tensions. 

The interaction of Luebeckers, Overijsslers 

and Hollanders in Late Medieval Bergen]. In: 

Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 121. (Book review). 

Prof. Dr. P.C.M. Hoppenbrouwers 


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Invited lecture: ‘ 

Lordship and rural communities in late medieval 

Holland’, Universidad de Girona (Spanje), 17 

October 2008. 


[With prof.dr. Thérèse de Hemptinne (Universiteit 

Gent)], organization Symposium ‘Holland/Zeeland 

en Henegouwen onder de Avesnes 

(1299-1345). Communicatie, bestuur en cultuur 

ten tijde van een multiculturele personele unie’ 

(Gent 5 september 2008). 


Editorial boards Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 

and The Medieval Countryside. Referee Economic 

History Review, Journal of Medieval History 

en Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische 

Geschiedenis. 


Member of the board of The Netherlands Research 

School for Medieval Studies (until June 

2008). 

Chairman advisory committee ‘H.F. van den 

Eerenbeemtfonds’. 

Member of the Committee for Research of the 

Leiden Faculty of Humanities. 

PhD defences 

PhD supervisor of mrs C. Weeda MA and mrs J. 

Smit MA (funded positions, University of Amsterdam), 

and of A. Kos MA, H. Kats MSc, J. 

Cox LLM [with prof.mr. F. Keverling Buisman] 

and J. Roodenberg MA [with prof. Dr. D.E.H. de 

Boer]), all non-funded positions. 

Member of PhD committees (‘promotiecommissies’) 

of Mrs. J. Wubs-Mrozewicz (University of 

Groningen), H.F. Boon (University of Amsterdam), 

C.A. Langedijk (University of Amsterdam), 

A. Noordzij (Leiden University) and R. Timmer 

(University of Amesterdam). 

Member of the board of opponents (‘oppositiecommissies’) 

of H. Lambooij (Leiden University) 

and H. Nijdam (Leiden University). 


NWO grant of euro 465.883,- for project ‘Twilight 

Zone: Party Strife, Factionalism, and Feuding 

in the Northern Low Countries in the Late 

Middle Ages’ (NWO-programme: Free Competition 

Humanities). Prof.dr. J.A. Mol (Leiden 

University/Fryske Akademy at Ljouwert) was the 

co-applicant. One of the project’s three subprojects 

will be executed, mainly at Ljouwert, under 

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Publications 

(Article in monograph or in proceedings) Blockmans, 

W.P. & Hoppenbrouwers, P.C.M. (2008) 

‘Eeuwen des onderscheids: een geschiedenis van 

middeleeuws Europa’. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Bert 

Bakker. 

Hoppenbrouwers, P.C.M. (2008). ‘Middeleeuwse 

medezeggenschap: een stand van zaken over standen 

en Staten’. In Eef Dijkhof & Michel van Gent 

(Eds.), Uit diverse bronnen gelicht. Opstellen 

aangeboden aan Hans Smit ter gelegenheid van 

zijn vijfenzestigste verjaardag (pp. 133-159). Den 

Haag: Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis 

(ISBN 90-5216-151-8). 

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Reviewer of NIAS-application. 

Member advisary board Virtus. Tijdschrift voor 

Adelsgeschiedenis. 


Member VENI-committee NWO. 

PhD defences 

Member committee H.Th. M. Lambooy, Sibrandus 

Leo en zijn abtenkronieken van de Friese premonstratenzerkloosters 

Lidlum en Mariëngaarde 

(defended 17 June 2009, prof.dr. J.A. Mol). 


Co-supervisor Alois van Doornmalen, Familie 

van Herlaar (supervisor: prof.drs. Hans Janssen); 

Rombert Stapel, Cronike van der Duytscher 

Oirden (supervisor: prof.dr. J.A. Mol); Arie 

van Steensel, Nobility in later medieval Zeeland 

(supervisor: W.P. Blockmans); Véronique Flammang, 

Nobility in later medieval Hainault (supervisor: 

W.P. Blockmans). 


Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, ÿ 45.000 (2007- 

2008), grant for writing a biography in the series 

Sleutelfiguren (‘key figures’). 

Publications 

Janse, A. & Damen, M.J.M. (2008) 

Adel in meervoud. Methodologische beschouwingen 

over comparatief adelsonderzoek in 

de Bourgondische Nederlanden. Bijdragen en 


Nederlanden, 123, pp. 517-540. 

(Article / Letter to editor) Janse, A. (2008) 

Annalen van Egmond. Annalen van Egmond. De 

Annales Egmundenses tezamen met de Annales 

Xantenses en het Egmondse leven van Thomas 

Becket en Het Chronicon Egmundanum]. In: 

Queeste. Tijdschrift over middeleeuwse letterkunde, 

15. (Book review) Janse, A. (2008) 

Politiek en persoonlijkheid. Een nieuwe biografie 

van Jacoba van Beieren. Biografie Bulletin, 2 (18), 

pp. 11-16. (Article / Letter to editor) 

Janse, M.J. (2008). Towards a history of civil society. 

De Negentiende Eeuw, (ISSN 1381-8546), 

32(2), 104- 121. 

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Publications 

Kuijpers, H.M.E.P. (2008). Stad van Immigranten. 

Amsterdam in de Gouden Eeuw. Geschiedenis 

Magazine, (ISSN 1872-0625), 43(8), 25-27. 

Kuijpers, H.M.E.P. (2008). Wanhoopsmigratie. 

Of wat tienduizenden migranten in de zeventiende 

eeuw naar Amsterdam bracht. Leidschrift. 

Historisch Tijdschrift, (ISSN 0923-9146), 23(2), 

43-62. 

Prof.dr. R.C.J. van Maanen 


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Chairman of the editorial staff of the Leids Jaarboekje 

(Jaarboekje voor geschiedenis en oudheidkunde 

van Leiden en omstreken). The special 

100th edition published 09-11-2008. 

Member of the committee for the Historische 

Canon van Leiden. Published 08-11-2008. 

Member of the editorial staff of some publications: 

*History of the youth relief, offered and facilitated 

by the foundation Heilige Geest- of Arme 

Wees- en Kinderhuis te Leiden, 14th-20th century, 

by drs. Kees van der Wiel. Expected publication 

2010. 

*Renate A. de Vries ed., Lorentzschool van A tot 

Z. Een beschrijving van 61 jaar Lorentzschool. 

Published 15-05-2009. 

*P.A.J. Otgaar a.o., Een oase van rust. 180 jaar 

R.K. Begraafplaats Zijlpoort. Published 19-11- 

2008. 

*History of the Faculty of Law of the Leiden University, 

by mr. C.J.D. Waal. 

*Member of the municipal committee of the city 

of Leiden for giving names in public space. 


Advisor of the foundation Het Kleine Leidse 

Woonhuis. 

Advisor of the foundation Stichting tot instandhouding 

van de begraafplaats Groenesteeg 



committee 

Presenting professor of graduating students for 

their doctor’s degree (supervisor): 

Drs. H.D. Tjalsma, Demografische patronen in 

de aanloop naar een moderne industriestad: De 

Leidse bevolking in de achttiende en negentiende 

eeuw. 

Drs. Agnes van Steen, De linkse beweging in 

Leiden in de jaren zeventig en tachtig [van de 

20ste eeuw]. 

Drs. Marijke van der Meij, Protestantse beeldcultuur 

in Hollands stedelijk milieu. Remonstranten 

rondom Rembrandt in Leiden. 

Miscellaneous 

Cooperation at a documentary film about Siege 

and Relief of Leiden for the Rumanian television 

station “Speranta TV”. 



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Publications 

Maanen, R.C.J., van (Ed.) (2008). 

Een oase van rust. 180 jaar R.K. Begraafplaats 

Zijlpoort. Leiden: Stichting R.K. begraafplaatsen 

voor Leiden. 

(Book editorial) Blom, J.C.H. & Maanen, R.C.J., 

van (Eds.) (2008). 

Historische canon van Leiden. Leiden: Stichting 

Geschiedschrijving Leiden. 

(Book editorial) Maanen, R.C.J., van (2008). 

Revolutie en rampspoed. Leiden rond 1800. Leids 

Jaarboekje voor geschiedenis en oudheidkunde 

van Leiden en omstreken, 100, pp. 181-215. 

(Article / Letter to editor) Maanen, R.C.J., van & 

Witkam-Van der Hoek, L.J. & Vlist, E.T., van der 

& Dröge, J.F. & Hartog, E., den & Lucassen, Leo 

& Schevenhoven, P.F. (2008). 

T.R. - Leids Jaarboekje voor geschiedenis en 

oudheidkunde van Leiden en omstreken. Leids 

Jaarboekje voor geschiedenis en oudheidkunde 

van Leiden en omstreken, 100. 


Prof.dr. J.A. Mol 


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Mol, J.A. (2008), ‘De seculiere clerus in Brugge, 

1411-1477. Comment on the research project of 

Hendrik Callewier’. Leuven, Graduate seminar of 

the Department of Medieval Studies, Universiteit 

Leuven, March 12. 


Mol, J.A. (2008), ‘Klöster und Landesentwicklung 

im Nordwesten Europas. Die 

Zisterzienser und die anderen Orden in 

Westfriesland’. Aurich, Forum Zisterzienser 

an Nord- und Ostsee, April 4. 

Mol, J.A. (2008), ‘Traitor to Livonia? The 

Teutonic Order’s land marshal Jasper van 

Munster and his actions at the outset of the 

Livonian crisis, 1554-1556’. Riga, Conference 

on the Dutch Baltic relations in a historical 

perspective, April 24. 

Mol, J.A. (2008), ‘Diking and Draining by 

the Cistercians in Frisia. A Reassessment with 

the Help of Property Reconstruction and 

GIS-tools’. Leeds, International Medieval 

Congres, July 10. 

Mol, J.A. (2008), ‘Das kulturelle Erbe des 

Deutschen Ordens in den heutigen Niederlanden’, 

Malbork, conference ‘Das kulturelle 

Erbe des Deutschen Ordens in Europa’, 

September 28. 

Mol, J.A. (2008), ‘De dynamiek van bedijking 

en ontwatering: de rol van het klooster Aduard 

in Middag-Humsterland’. Leeuwarden, 

Expert meeting ‘Coastal landscapes in the 

North’, November 21. 

Mol, J.A. (2008), ‘Moderne Devotie en de 

vernieuwing van het kloosterlandschap in 

Nederland’, Heusden, Symposium Monastiek 

observantisme en Moderne Devotie in de 

Noordelijke Nederlanden, December 12. 


Organization of an expert meeting on 

‘Coastal landscapes in the North’, Leeuwarden, 

Fryske Akademy, April 11. 

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Co-editor of the Yearbook for Medieval History 

Member of the Internationale Historische Kommission 

zur Erforschung des Deutschen Ordens. 

Member of the Historische Commissie van de 

Ridderlijke Duitsche Orde, Balije van Utrecht. 


Advisor of the project of prof.dr. Dries Tys of the 

Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Vectorisering en karakterisering 

nederzettingskernen op basis van 

het zgn. ‘Gereduceerd Kadaster’ (2007-2008). 

PhD Defences 

Lambooij, H.T.M. 

Nijdam, J.A. 


committee 

Promotor (Universiteit Leiden) of: 

Spanninga, H., De consolidatie van de politieke 

machtsverhoudingen in Friesland 1600-1640 

(2009). 

Roemeling, O.D.J, Parochies en priesters in middeleeuws 

Friesland (2010). 

P. Schoen, Friese zilversmeden en hun 

maatschappelijke positie in de zeventiende en 

achttiende eeuw (2010). 

Stapel, R., De Utrechtse kroniek van de Duitse 

Orde: een nader onderzoek en editie (2011). 

Gerrits, M., Partijstrijd en vetewezen in Friesland, 

1450-1550 (2013). 

Second promotor (Universiteit Tilburg) of: 

Otten, A., De Duitse Orde en de vrije heerlijkheid 

Gemert (2010). 

Member of the PhD committee of: 

Heere, E. (2008), GIS voor historisch landschaps- 

onderzoek; opzet en gebruik van een historisch 

GIS voor prekadastrale kaarten, Universiteit 

Utrecht, June 27. 

Bont, Chr. de (2008), Vergeten land; ontginning, 

bewoning en waterbeheer in de westnederlandse 

veengebieden (800-1350), Universiteit Wageningen, 

October 28. 

Academic publications 

Boone, M., Bijsterveld, A.J.A., Damen, M.J.M., 

Deligne, Chl., Engen, H. van, M.J.M., Hoven van 

Genderen, A.J. van den, Howell, M., Mol, J.A., 

en Trio, P. (Eds.). (2008). Jaarboek voor Middeleeuwse 


Mol, J.A. (2008), Frisians and Foreigners in the 

Hospitaller House of Sneek: Origins and Careers, 

in: V. Mallia-Milanes (Ed..), The Military Orders, 

Volume 3: History and Heritage (pp. 269-278). 

Aldershot: Ashgate. 

Mol, J.A. (2008), Die friesischen Johanniterklöster 

im Mittelalter, in: Hajo van Lengen 

(Ed.), Zur Geschichte des Johanniter-Ordens 

im friesischen Küstenraum und anschliessenden 

Binnenland. Beiträge des Johanniter-Symposiums 

vom 11. Bis 12. Mai 2007 in Cloppenburg-Stapelfeld 

(pp. 42-65). Cloppenburg. 

Mol, J.A. (2008), ‘Epiloog: de Moderne Devotie 

en de vernieuwing van het kloosterlandschap 

in Nederland’, in: Hildo van Engen en Gerrit 

Verhoeven (red.), Monastiek observantisme en 

Moderne Devotie in de Noordelijke Nederlanden 

(pp. 213-231). Hilversum: Verloren. 

Mol, J.A. & Smithuis J. (2008), ‘De Friezen als 

uitverkoren volk. Religieus-patriottische geschiedschrijving 

in vijftiende-eeuws Friesland’, 

Jaarboek voor Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis 11, pp. 

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Professional publications 

Ekamper, P., & J.A. Mol, (2008). De bevolking 

van Leeuwarden halverwege de negentiende 

eeuw. De volkstelling van 1839 in kaart gebracht 

met HISGIS Fryslân. Fryslân. Nieuwsblad voor 

Geschiedenis en Cultuur, 13(3) ( pp. 5-14). 

Mol, J.A. (2008), ‘Kruisvaarderstaten en de 

dialectiek van aanval en verdediging’, review 

of R. Ellenblum, Crusader Castles and Modern 

Histories (Cambridge 2007), in: Tijdschrift voor 

Geschiedenis 121 (pp. 351-352). 

Popular publications 

Mol, J.A. & Noomen, P.N.(2008), ‘De ontwikkeling 

van de parochiekerken’, in: D. Kooistra e.a. 

(Eds), Frieslands verleden. De Friezen en hun 

geschiedenis in vijftig verhalen (pp. 73-77). Leeuwarden: 

Bornmeer. 

Mol, J.A. (2008), ‘Kloosters in Westerlauwers 

Friesland’, in: D. Kooistra e.a. (Eds.), Frieslands 

verleden. De Friezen en hun geschiedenis in 

vijftig verhalen (pp. 78-83). Leeuwarden: Bornmeer. 

Mol, J.A. (2008), ‘Deelname aan de kruistochten’, 

in: D. Kooistra e.a. (Eds.), Frieslands verleden. 

De Friezen en hun geschiedenis in vijftig verhalen 

(pp. 84-88). Leeuwarden: Bornmeer. 

Mol, J.A. (2008), ‘De slag bij Staveren’, in: D. 

Kooistra e.a. (Eds.), Frieslands verleden. De 

Friezen en hun geschiedenis in vijftig verhalen 

(pp. 104-109). Leeuwarden: Bornmeer. 



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Conference attendance: 

25 January 2008: opening of the symposium ‘Material 

for Science: the instruments, collections, 

and illustrations in the production of natural 

knowledge (1500-1800)’, Koninklijk Nederlands 

Historisch Genootschap, Nationaal Archief, The 

Hague. 

3 April 2008: launching of the digital project 

‘Basisbibliotheek: 1000 sleutelteksten uit de cultuurgeschiedenis 

van de Lage Landen’, Leiden. 

16-17 May 2008: chairing the session ‘history and 

social sciences’, Balzan Symposium, Truth in 

science, the humanities, and religion, Lugano. 


Editor of the Series Studies in Medieval and Reformation 

Traditions, Brill Publishers, and referee 

for other books published by Brill. 

The Humanities Division, University of Oxford. 

Visiting scholarships, University of Antwerp. 

PhD programme for the humanities, Österreichische 

Akademie der Wissenschaften. 

Advisory Board of the journals Acta Comeniana 

and ‟Ceský ‟casopis Historický, both published by 

the Czech Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Advisory Board NIAS Fellowship Programme. 


President of the Conseil International pour l 

‘Edition des Oeuvres Complètes d’Erasme (sous 

le patronage de l’Union Académique Internationale). 

Vice-President of the Prize Committee, Fondazione 

Internazionale Balzan. 

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President of the Foundation Digitale Bibliotheek 

voor de Nederlandse letteren. 

President of the Foundation Bibliotheca Thysiana. 

Member of the Board, Legatum Stolpianum. 

Member of the Board, Fruin Fonds. 


Member of the Advisory Board, Instituut voor 

Nederlandse Geschiedenis. 

Member of the Advisory Board, Scaliger Instituut. 


committee 

13 February 2008: R. Bakker 

7 May 2008: Promotor of J. D. de Mooij (together 

with professor E.G.E. van der Wall) 

4 December 2008: Promotor of J.H.C. Kern ( dr 

C. Musterd co-promotor). 

Publications 

Book review. [Die Geburt der Republic. Staatsverständnis 

und Repräsentation in der frühneuzeitlichen 

Eidgenossenschaft]. In: Francia, 35 

Book review. [Wilhelm von Oranien (1533-1584). 

Fürst und “Vater” der Republik]. In: Historische 

Zeitschrift, 286 

Book review. [Untertanen, Herrschaft und Staat 

in Böhmen und im “Alten Reich”. Sozialgeschichtliche 

Studien zur Frühen Neuzeit]. In: 

English Historical Review, 123 

Book review. [Erasmus-Rezeption zwischen 

Politikum und Herzensangelegenheit. Dulce 

bellum und Querela pacis in deutscher Sprache 

im sechzehnten und siebzehnten Jahrhundert]. 

In: Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de 

Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 123, 137-138 

Book review. [A companion to Anabaptism 

and Spiritualism, 1521-1700]. In: ‘Bijdragen en 


Nederlanden’, 123. 

Ondrej Habervesl of Habernfeld and the Thirty 

Years’ War. His writings, the war and international 

politics. In: Urbanek, V. & Reznikova, 

L. (Eds.), Mezi Baltem a Uhrami. Komensky, 

Jednota Bratrska a svet stredoevropskeho protestantismu, 

pp. 149-165. Praag. (Part of book or 

chapter of book) 

Book review [Kollektive Freiheitsvorstellungen 

im frühneuzeitlichen Europa (1400-1850)]. In: 

Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis 

der Nederlanden, 123. 

Book review. [A Companion to Anabaptism 

and Spiritualism, 1521-1700]. In: Bijdragen en 


Nederlanden, 123. 

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‘The perplexities of peace. Dutch foreign policy at 

the turn of the 18th century’, 23/24 Pax Perpetua, 

international conference Universität Osnabrück 

23/24 October 2008 (invited). 

‘The interest of the whole of Europe’: William III 

and his continental policy’, (invited), The primacy 

of foreign policy in British history: From the 

Restoration to New Labour, Glasgow University, 



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27-29 March 2008. 

‘The construction of the Loevestein Party’, The 

emergence of political ideology in foreign policy 

in early modern Europe (1650-1720), 25/26 January 

2008, University of Utrecht. 


Main organisor ‘The emergence of political ideology 

in foreign policy in early modern Europe 

(1650-1720), 25/26 January 2008, University of 

Utrecht. 


Manuscript reviewed for Palgrave/MacMillan 

(2008). 

Co-Founder (2006-) and editor of Politics and 

Culture in North West Europe, 1650–1720, a 

series with Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 

Editing Board Member of Virtus. 

Editor of Transparant, historical magazine focusing 

on religious history (2002-). 

Editor of Holland, historical journal (2008-). 

Editor of Zeven Provinciën Reeks , series of 

monographs (2008-). 


Founding Board member (2002–) and secretary 

(2007–) of Vlaams-Nederlandse Vereniging voor 

Nieuwe Geschiedenis (Flemish-Dutch Society 

for Early Modern History). 

Founder of The Williamite Universe (2002), an 

international network of scholars of late 

seventeenth century history. 

Miscellaneous 

Founder of the Werkgroep Politieke Geschiedenis 

(2003), an informal network of junior 


historians of early modern political history. 

Secretary of Vrienden van het Instituut Geschiedenis 

VIGU (subsidies for students) (2007–) 

Radio interview on Mary Stuart, VPRO Radio 

OVT, 20 July 2008. 

Publications 

Onnekink, D.M.L. (2008) 

Bookreview [Amazing Grace. William Wilberforce 

and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery]. 

In: Transparant, 3. 

(Book review) Onnekink, D.M.L. (2008) 

Book review. [Religion Versus Empire? British 

Protestant Missionaries and Overseas Expansion, 

1700-1914]. In: Transparant, 1 (Book review) 

Onnekink, D.M.L. (2008). 

Book review. [The Forging of Races: Race and 

Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic. World, 1600- 

2000]. In: Transparant, 4. 

(Book review) Onnekink, D.M.L. (2008) 

The Contending. Kingdoms of France and England: 

1066–1904. In: Richardson, G. (Ed.), pp. 

161-177. Aldershot: Ashgate. 


Prof.dr. J. Pollmann 


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‘Voluntary religion in a ‘public’ church. The appeal 

of Calvinism in the Dutch Republic and its 

overseas possessions’. Symposium ‘Die Refor- 

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Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlijn, 

April 2008. 


Organisation Contactgroep Vijftiende en 

Zestiende Eeuw, meetings in Leiden (from June 

2008 with Peter Hoppenbrouwers). 

15-02-2008: Esther van Gelder (Leiden), Als 

wetenschap en patronage botsen. Een 16e eeuwse 

hoveling op jacht naar bergplantjes: Carolus 

Clusius (1526-1609). 

07-02-2008: Sabrina Corbellini (VU), De Bijbel 

en de leken. Bijbelvertalingen in sociaal-historisch 

perspectief (XIIIe-XVIe eeuw). 

04-04-2008: Tim Soens (Universiteit Antwerpen), 

De lange weg naar een burgerlijke waterstaat. Een 

waterstaatkundige vergelijking tussen Holland en 

Vlaanderen in de late middeleeuwen. 

16-05-2008: Margit Thøfner (University of East 

Anglia), Ritual violence? The Antwerp ‘ommegang’ 

of Our Lady as performed in 1566. 

20 June Andrew Spicer (Oxford Brookes). The 

Temple of the Beggars: Reformed Worship and 

the Revolt, 1566. 

10-10-2008: Antheun Janse (UL), Een nieuwe 

biografie van Jacoba van Beieren (1401-1436) of: 

Het temperament in de middeleeuwse geschiedenis 

. 

14-11-2008: Judith Pollmann (UL), Wij, Israel. 

Katholieke identiteit in de Habsburgse Nederlanden, 

1520-1621. 

12-12-2008: Koen Jonckheere (UvA), Kunst na de 

Beeldenstorm in Antwerpen. Het decorumexperiment. 


Adviser on grant applications NWO, FWO, KU 

Leuven, NIAS. 

Refereed book manuscripts for Manchester UP, 

Brill, Atlas, Past and Present Society. 

Refereed articles for journals under 6. 


Editorial boards: 

June 2008-Member editorial board Past & Present. 

April 2008-Member editorial board 3 October 

lezingen. 

April 2008-Member editorial board tijdschrift 

Trajecta. 

April 2008-Editor Zeven Provinciën Reeks, uitgeverij 

Verloren. 

From 2006 onwards Member editorial board 

Oranjebiografieeën, uitgeverij Atlas. 

From 2006 onwards Member editorial board 

Church History and Religious Culture 

Governance. 

October 2008- Member supervisory board 

Gouden Eeuw Centrum, UvA. 

April 2008- Member board C.L. Thijssen-Schoute 

Stichting. 

March 2008- Member academic advisory board 

Scaliger Instituut. 

January 2008- Secretary academic advisory board 

KNIR. 

2007- Member program committee Culturele Dynamiek 

NWO. 

2007- Member curatorium ING/AUV bijzondere 

leerstoel bronontsluiting UvA. 

2006-Member academic advisory board Koninklijk 

Nederlands Instituut te Rome. 

2006- Member of the board, Instituut Nederlandse 

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Since October 2008 onwards: chair sectie vaderlandse 

geschiedenis, Instituut voor geschiedenis. 

Since October 2008: Member AAC Instituut voor 

Geschiedenis. 

Member OLC MPhil. 

Coordinator MA specialisation Medieval and 

Early Modern History. 

Designed Minor Europa in de Middeleeuwen en 

de Vroegmoderne tijd. 

Member working party BA Cultuurgeschiedenis 

Coordinator Contactgroep Vijftiende en 

Zestiende eeuw. 


committee 

Doctoral students: 

Monica Stensland, ‘Habsburg communication in 

the Dutch Revolt 1567-1609’, graduated Oxford 

University, UK, 2008 (with Steven Gunn). 

Corinna Streckfuss, ‘Propaganda for the regime 

of Mary Tudor in England and Europe’, Oxford 

University, to be completed 2009 (with Chris 

Haigh). 

Marianne Eekhout, ‘Community and memory. 

Mediating local memories of the Dutch Revolt, 

1566-1700, University Leiden, to be completed 

2013. 

Jasper van der Steen, ‘The politics of memory in 

the Low Countries, 1566-1700’, University 

Leiden, to be completed 2013. 

Member doctoral examination committees: 

Llewellyn Bogaers, ‘Aards, betrokken en zelfbewust. 

De verwevenheid van cultuur en religie in 

katholiek Utrecht, 1300-1600’, Vrije Universiteit 

Amsterdam 2008. 


Jack de Mooij, ‘Jona Willem te Water (1740- 

1822). Historicus en theoloog tussen traditie en 

Verlichting’ Universiteit Leiden 2008. 

Clazina Glaudemans, ‘Rap van tong, scherp van 

pen’. Literaire discussiecultuur in praatjespamfletten 

(ca. 1600-1750), Universiteit Utrecht 2008 

Aart Noordzij, ‘Gelre. Dynastie, land en identiteit 

in de late Middeleeuwen’, Universiteit Leiden 

2008. 

Michel Reinders, Printed Pandemonium. ‘The 

power of the public and the market for popular 

political publications in the early modern Dutch 

Republic’, EUR 2008. 

Violet Soen, ‘Par la voye de pacification et negotiation’. 

Verzet, verzoening en ‘vredehandel’ 

tijdens de Nederlandse Opstand, KU Leuven 2008 

Liesbeth Geevers, ‘Gevallen vazallen’. De integratie 

van Oranje, Egmont en Horn in de Spaans- 

Habsburgse monarchie, 1559-1567, UvA 2008 


Participant in the SURF foundation application 

Tales of the Revolt Collaboratory: Sharing, Enhancing, 

and Disseminating Sources, headed by 

UB Leiden. A subsidy of 80,000 EUR was granted 

to build a collaboratory for the VICI program 

Tales of the Revolt. 

Miscellaneous 

Masterclass Huizinga Instituut, 6 June 2008: 

‘Egodocumenten, religie en het reconstrueren van 

‘persoonlijke’ ervaring’. 

Historisch Café: debate on the Poldermodel with 

Herman Pleij, Amsterdam, 6 January 2009. 

3 Octoberlecture, Leiden 2008 , ‘Herdenken, herinneren, 

vergeten. Het beleg en ontzet van Leiden 

in de Gouden Eeuw’. 

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Publications 

Pollmann, J.S. (2008) 

Herdenken, herinneren, vergeten. Het beleg en 

ontzet van Leiden in de Gouden Eeuw. (3 Oktoberlezing, 

2008). Leiden: Primavera. 

(Book (monograph)) Pollmann, J.S. (2008) 

Het oorlogsverleden van de Gouden Eeuw. 

Leiden: Universiteit Leiden.p. 19. 

(Inaugural lecture) Pollmann, J.S. (2008) 

Respecteer de vleugelmuts. Verbittering en verdraagzaamheid 

in vroegmodern Europa. NRC 

Handelsblad Boeken, pp. 1-2. 

(Contribution for newspaper or weekly magazine) 

Pollmann, J.S. (2008). 

T.R. - Church history and religious culture. 

Church history and religious culture, 88 



T.R. - Past and Present: a journal of scientific 

history. Past and Present: a journal of scientific 

history. 



T.R. - Trajecta. Trajecta 

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Paper: ‘Protection costs and freight rates in the 

shipping business of the Low Countries in the 

XVIth century. Antwerp and Amsterdam compared’ 

(invited lecture) for 5th IMEHA International 

Congress of Maritime History, University 

of Greenwich, 23-27 June 2008 organised by 

IMEHA: International Maritime Economic History 

Association. 


Mini-symposium Beyond the Catch. Fisheries of 

the North Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic, 

900–1850 (Nieuw onderzoek naar de gevolgen 

van de pre-industriële zeevisserij). 

Snouck Hurgronjehuis, University Leiden, Thursday 

11 December 2008. 

Afterwards book presention. First copy for the 

ambassador of Iceland. 


Presentation at Bessensap: ontmoeting pers en 

wetenschap (organisation N.W.O). 

Location: Nemo, Amsterdam, 26 May 2008 

Lecture: ‘Zoektocht naar verloren schatten uit 

Noorwegen (in Nederland)’. 

(Item in Nieuwsbrief Universiteit Leiden, 3 June 

2008.). 

Lecture Historisch dispuut Merlijn, 5 maart 2008. 

‘De strijd om de bijl van Sint-Olaf. Een Noorse 

schat in de Nederlanden’. 


Member of the editoral board of the Tijdschrift 

voor Zeegeschiedenis, 2008. 

Member of the scientific committee of the Encuentros 

internacionales del medievo at Nájera, 

Spain 2008. 

Member of the scientific committee of Annales 



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Médiévales de l’Europe Atlantique 2008. 

Collaborator the Hansische Umschau in the Hansische 

Geschichtsblätter, 2008. 


Associated Member of the Revue du Nord, 2008. 

Member of the Dutch and French editoral boards 

of the website concerning the Dutch Revolt 

(Leiden University Library) (http://dutchrevolt. 

leidenuniv.nl), 2008. 

Member of the board of the Stichting Bevordering 

Middeleeuwse Studies, 2008. 

Member of Commissie voor Vaderlandse Geschiedenis 

en Oudheidkunde van de Nederlandse 

Maatschappij der Letterkunde, 2008. 


Director of Studies MA History. 

Member of the international study fund committee 

(LISF) of the Leiden University Fund (LUF) . 

Member of the Opleidingscommissie of the Instituut 

voor Geschiedenis. 


committee 

Member Doctorate Commitee Lincoln P. Paine, 

Middle Ages, Middle Seas: Eurasian Maritime 

Networks from the Seventh tot Thirteenth Centuries 

(promotor Leonard Blussé). 


Preparation for Fellowship for stay at NIAS, accepted. 

Miscellaneous 

Guest courses (BA and MA) at the University of 

Cantabria at Santander (Erasmus exchange pro- 


gramme) May 2008. 

Appearance in the media: 

Interview BNR Nieuwsradio 10 December 2008: 

on the occasion of the auction by Sotheby’s of a 

manuscript containing the story of Marco Polo’s 

travels. 

NRC Handelsblad, 11 December 2008 p. 8. 

Article on the occasion of the Beyond the Catch 

minisymposium and book presentation. 

NRC Next, 12 December 2008. Article on the occasion 

of the Beyond the Catch minisymposium 

and book presentation. 

Publications 

Sicking, L.H.J. (2008) 

Colonial Borderlands. France and the Netherlands 

in the Atlantic in the 19th Century. (History 

of international relations, diplomacy, and 

intelligence, 4). Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff 

Publishers. 

(Book (monograph)) Sicking, L.H.J. (2008) 

Marie de Hongrie. Politique et culture sous la 

Renaissance aux Pays-Bas. Actes du colloque 

tenu au Musée royal de Mariemont les 11 et 12 

novembre 2005. In: Fédérinov, B. & Docquier, 

G. (Eds.), pp. 68-79. Morlanwelz: Musée royal de 

Mariemont. 

(Article in monograph or in proceedings) Sicking, 

L.H.J. & Acda, G.M.W. & Brand, R.J.W.M. 

(2008) T.R. - Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis. 

Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 

Sicking, Louis & Reitemeier, Arnd (2008). West- 

Europa [Bespreking van het boek wetenschappelijke 

literatuur]. Hansische Geschichtsblätter, 

(ISSN 0073-0327), 126, 316-321. 

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Member of the University Board of Examiners 


committee 

Co-promotor: G.A. Noordzij 

Publications 

Stein, Robert M. ‘Engaging the unengaged voter: 

vote centers and voter turnout’. 

Stein, R. (2008). ‘List en bedrog?’ De verpanding 

van Holland en Zeeland in 1430-1431. In E. Dijkhof 

& M.J. van Gent (Eds.), Uit diverse bronnen 

gelicht. Opstellen aangeboden aan dr. J.G. Smit 

(pp. 309-330). Den Haag. 

Stein, R. (2008). The State’s officers. The Burgundian 

Netherlands in the middle of the fifteenth 

century. In Suntrup, R. & J.R. Veenstra 

(Eds.), Shaping the present and the future (pp. 

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21-23 August 2008: Participation in the international 

conference Early Modern Medievalism’s: 

The Interplay between Scholarly Reflection and 

Artistic Production, organized in Leiden by Alicia 

Montoya, Wim van Anrooij and Sophie van 

Romburgh. 

Paper delivered: The Taste for the Fourteenth 

Century at the Burgundian-Hapsburg Court 

around 1500. 

Chairing a session. 

2-5 September 2008: Participation in the international 

conference The Book in transition. The 

Printed Book in the Post-incunabula Age, 1500- 

1540 organized at the University of Saint-Andrews 

(Scotland) by Andrew Pettegree 

Invited lecture: Historiography and History in 

Transition. Production, Reception and Contextualisation 

of Enguerrand de Monstrelet’s Chroniques 

in Manuscript and Print (ca. 1450 – ca. 

1600). 

25-27 September 2008: Participation in the 

international conference Bourguignons en Italie, 

Italiens dans les pays bourguignons (XIVe-XVIe 

siècle) organized in Rome (Istituto Storico Italiano 

per il Medioevo) by the Centre Européen 

d’études bourguignonnes (Lausannes-Brussels). 

Chairing a session. 

21-22 November 2008: Participation in the conference 

Alterität des Mittelalters? Aufforderung 

zur Revision eines Forschungprogramms, organized 

in Munich by the Brackweder Arbeitskreis. 

Paper delivered: Buch- und Bibliotheksgeschichte 

als Zugang zur Alterität des Mittelalters? 


Lectures 

30 January 2008: Participation in the Graduate 

Seminar of the Institute for history of Leiden 

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Presentation: Problemen van de Renaissance. 

13 March 2008: Participation in the seminar Livre 

manuscrit et société at the Université de Paris I- 

Sorbonne – LAMOP, organized by Jean-Philippe 

Genet, Ezio Ornato, and Xavier Hermand 

Invited lecture: Les livres des Luxembourg. 

Manuscrits et ambitions d’une lignée à cheval 

entre France et Bourgogne (XIVe-XVe siècles). 

26 May 2008: Meeting of the Centre international 

de codicologie at the Royal Library of Belgium in 

Brussels. 

Invited lecture: David Aubert et les manuscrits 

à la cour de Philippe le Bon : quelques pistes et 

hypothèses. 

25 November 2008: Participation in the seminar 

(Oberseminar) of the Historical institute of the 

Universität Heidelberg. 

Invited lecture: Buch- und Bibliotheksgeschichte 

als Zugang zu den kulturellen Geschichte der 

Transformationen des XV. und frühen XVI. 

Jahrhunderts. 


Frequent (short) study trips to libraries and research 

institutions: 

January 2008: Belgium (Royal Library in Brussels) 

February 2008: France (Bibliothèque nationale de 

France, Paris; Institut de recherche et d’histoire 

des textes. Paris). 

June 2008: England (British Library in London; 

Bodleian Library in Oxford). 

September 2008: Scotland (University Library in 

Glasgow; University of Saint-Andrews). 

September 2008: Italy (Biblioteca Casanetense in 

Rome). 

October 2008: Belgium (Royal Library in Brussels). 


October 2008: France (Bibliothèque nationale de 

France, Paris; Institut de recherche et d’histoire 

des textes. Paris). 

November 2008: Germany and Switzerland 

(Bayerische Nationalbibliothek, Munich; Universitätsbibliothek, 

Stuttgart; Antiquariat Bibermühle, 

Ramsen). 


Member of the committee of the francophone 

medievalist portal website Ménestrel (www. 

menestrel.fr): responsible for the section Lieux 

et acteurs de la recherche, mapping medievalist 

research around the globe. 

Member of the executive committee of the Centre 

Européen d’études bourguignonnes (Lausanne- 

Bruxelles). 

Consultant for the Royal Library of Denmark 

concerning the acquisition of a medieval manuscript 

by this Library from a private collection 

(contact: Ivan Boserup, Head of the Special Collections 

Department). 

Member of the Centre international de codicologie 

(Brussels). 

Publications 

Images de la ville et urbanité des images. 

Quelques réflexions sur la représentation de 

l’espace urbain et la fonction des œuvres d’art aux 

Pays-Bas bourguignons. In: Crouzet-Pavan, Elisabeth 

& Lecoppre-Desjardin, Elodie (Eds.), Villes 

de Flandre et d’Italie : relectures d’une comparaison 

traditionnelle (Studies in European Urban 

History), 12. , pp. 247-258. Turnhout: Brepols. 

(Part of book or chapter of book). 

Marco Polo’s Boek over de wonderen van de 

wereld. Toelichtingen bij de miniaturen, de tekst 

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86 folio’s van het handschrift van het Livre des 

merveilles van Marco Polo bewaard in de Bibliothèque 

nationale de France te Parijs (manuscrit 

français 2810) door Jan de Klerk en Hanno Wijsman, 

met een inleiding en een nawoord over het 

handschrift en de historische context door Hanno 

Wijsman. ‘s-Hertogenbosch - Leuven: Stichting 

Erasmusfestival ‘s-Hertogenbosch & Peeters 

(Leuven). 

(Book (monograph)) Two Petals of a Fleur. The 

Copenhagen Fleur des histoires and the Production 

of Illuminated Manuscripts in Bruges 

around 1480. Fund og Forskning i Det Kongelige 

Biblioteks samlinger, 47, pp. 17-72. (Article / Letter 

to editor). 


Ms. drs. M.F.D. Eekhout 


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Ms. drs. V. Flammang 


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‘The role of the Nobility in the Power Structures 

of the County of Hainault (15th Century), Lisbon, 

ESSC, February 2008. 

‘Les présents de vin, reflets de l’évolution de la 

société ‘‘(Hainaut, 1400-1525), Najera (Spain), 

July 2008 (invited lecture). 

Publications 

Bessey, V. & Flammang, V.J.A. & Lebailly, E. & 

Paravicini, W. 

Comptes de l’argentier de Charles le Téméraire, 

duc de Bourgogne. 2 vol. (Recueil des historiens 

de la France. Documents financiers et administratifs, 

X). Paris: Diffusion de Boccard. 

(Book (monograph)) 

Partis en Hainaut? La place de la noblesse hainuyère 

dans la lutte entre Jacqueline de Bavière et 

Jean IV de Brabant (1424-1428). Bijdragen en 


Nederlanden, 123 (4), pp. 541-563. 


Drs. J. Müller 


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Vrienden Haags Historisch Museum, Den Haag 

21-06-2008. Title: ‘‘Weet gy niet dat alles wat gy 

hebt het gemene landt ende ons toecompt.’ Cornelis 

de Witt en het platteland’. 

*Stichtse Zomerschool, Driebergen 16-07-2008. 

Title: ‘‘Concordia res parvae crescunt.’ Politiek en 

bestuur tijdens de Gouden Eeuw’. 


*PhD candidate member of the Board Department 

of History, Leiden University. 

*Editor of Holland, Historisch Tijdschrift. 

*Member of the board of the Streekmuseum 

Hoeksche Waard. 


Advisor exhibition ‘Ambachtsheerlijkheid 

Cromstrijen’, Stadsarchief Dordrecht/DiEP-NLC 

Numansdorp. 

Publications 

‘Burgeroorlog vol verschrikkingen en verraad’ 

[review of: Nederlandse Historien. Een keuze uit 

het grote verhaal van de Nederlandse Opstand 

van P.C. Hooft, samengesteld, hertaald en toegelicht 

door Frank van Gestel, Eddy Grootes en Jan 

de Jongste (Amsterdam 2007)]. Reformatorisch 

Dagblad, p. 19. 


Book review. [Hollanders en het water. Twintig 

eeuwen strijd en profijt]. In: Tijdschrift voor 

Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 5. 

(Book review) Bijker, S. & Damsma, D. & Deen, 

F. & Drunen, M., van & Nobel, A. & Gaemers, C. 

T.R. - Holland. Historisch Tijdschrift. Holland. 

Historisch Tijdschrift, 40. 



Anema, M. & Bijker, S. & Deen, F. & 

Drunen, M., van & Nobel, A. 




Anema, M. & Bijker, S. & Bochove, C., van 

& Deen, F. & Nobel, Arjan. 




Drs. R.J. Stapel 


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Visited (no lectures given): 

„Das kulturelle Erbe des Deutschen Ordens 

in Europa“, Konferenz der Internationalen 

Historische Kommission zur Erforschung des 

Deutschen Ordens. Malbork (Poland), 25-28 September 

2008. 

„The Art of Persuasion. Persuasive Strategies 

in Texts, Images and Architecture”, 36e Promovendisymposium 

van de Onderzoekschool 

Mediëvistiek. Wassenaar (Netherlands), 11-13 

December 2008. 

Cronike van der Duytscher Oirden: editieproject. 

Den Haag, Studiemiddag `Trends en thema’s 

in de editiewetenschap’ (Huygens Instituut/ 

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Miscellaneous 

Member of editorial staff of the online journal 

“SIGNUM. Contactgroep voor sociaal-economische 

en institutioneel-juridische geschiedenis 

van geestelijke en kerkelijke instellingen in de 

Nederlanden in de middeleeuwen”. 

Publications 

Dixhoorn, A.C., van & Appelmans, J. & Pansters, 

K. & Speetjens, A. & Stapel, R.J. (2008) 

T.R. – Signum. Signum, 2008. 


Drs. A. van Steensel 


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Paper: “The Noble Population as a Social Group? 

Applying the Prosopographical Method to the 

Late Medieval Nobility of the County of Zeeland”, 

Lisbon, 28th February 2008, European 

Social Science History Conference. 


Organizer of the following sessions at the European 

Social Science History Conference 2008, 

Lisbon, with F. Buylaert, V. Flammang and M. 

Asenjo-González: 

1) “Elite Research in the Late Middle Ages: New 

Perspectives and Methodological Challenges I 

and II”. 

2) “The Intermediate Rulers: The Contribution 

of the Nobility to Urban Domination in the 

Medieval Spanish Kingdoms and the Burgundian 

Netherlands I en II”. 


General Board Member of het Promovendi 

Netwerk Nederland (the representative body of 

all PhD candidates in The Netherlands). 

Publications 

‘Edelen in het laatmiddeleeuwse graafschap Zeeland. 

Een analyse van hun politieke en sociaaleconomische 

positie rond het jaar 1475. Bijdragen 

en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis 

der Nederlanden, 123 (4)’, pp. 564-585. 


‘Cartularium van de heren van Veere uit het 

geslacht Borsele, 1282-1481, 1555’. In: Millennium 

: Tijdschrift voor Middeleeuwse Studies, 22. 

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7-10.07.2008 The pictorial and the logical Tree of 

Porphyry (invited lecture). 

International Medieval Congress. Leeds, Great- 

Britain. 

25.01.2008 Dissecting God’s creation: about 

stenching circumstances and the intellectual 

conception of anatomy (XIVth XVIth century) 

(invited lecture). 

Material for science: the use of instruments, 

collections and illustrations in early modern 

research. Royal Dutch Academy of History 

(KNHG) and Platform Material Culture of 

Science. National Archives, The Hague, The 

Netherlands. 


25.01.2008 International symposium ‘Material for 

Science: the use of instruments, collections and 

illustrations in the production of natural knowledge 

(1500-1800)’. 

In collaboration with the Royal Dutch Academy 

of History (KNHG) and National Archives, The 

Hague. 


12.12.2008 Colloquium 5 : The scientific book 

In collaboration with Biblioteca Thysiana (Dutch 

humanist library), Leiden. 

Miscellaneous 

Organisation of the platform Material culture of 

science. 


Publications 

‘Einen alten Baum verpflanzt man nicht. Die 

Metapher des Porphyrianischen Baums im Mittelalter’, 

I. Reichle, S. Siegel, A. Spelten (eds.), 

Visuelle Modelle, München [Wilhelm Fink] 2008, 

pp. 251-268. 

PhD Defences 

Drs. G.A. Noordzij 

H.T.M. Lambooij 

J.A. Nijdam 

R. Bakker 

External PhD. Candidates 

Drs. J. Besseling 

Drs. S. Bijker 

Drs. J. Brüsewitz 

Drs. W. Dral 

Drs. R. Dijk 

Ms. drs. E. van Gelder 

Drs. R.H. Kielman 

Drs. C.O. van der Meij 

Ms. drs. M. van der Meij-Tolsma 

Ms. drs. A. Peele 

Drs. A. Pol 

Drs. G. van Roon 

Drs. R. van Rossenberg 

Drs. G.P. Sanders 

Drs. A.A.J. Scheffers 

Drs. M.W. Serruys 

Ms. drs. J. Smithuis 

Drs. H. Spanninga 

Drs. E. Verbaan 

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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 individual 

memories will evolve in response to those 

of other people, or those that are promulgated 

in the public domain – thus contributing to the 

formation of group identity. Few scholars have so 

far tried to map the interaction between personal 

and public memory before 1800. The second aim 

of this project is to show that this is both possible 

and worthwhile. By exploring storytelling about 

the Revolt in memoirs, chronicles and many 

other sources, we will gauge the impact of different 

‘memory policies’ on early modern populations 

that shared the same past but that became 

politically and confessionally divided. This situation 

was not unique to the Netherlands, and the 

project aims to offer insights that can be applied 

to other parts of Europe, as well as a better under- 

standing of the differences between early modern 

and modern memory. 

Individual memory. Narrating the Revolt (postdoc 

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 

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struction of identity. What people remember, 

what they will tell about it, is largely determined 

by the normative frameworks and narrative 

schemes with which they grew up. Those frameworks 

and schemes will come to the fore when 

individual tales are compared with tales that have 

become popular in the public domain. The similarities 

in themes, style, form, interpretation etc 

reveals how much personal tales are fused with 

those from oral traditions, and what people have 

learned from other media. 

The way in which people were dealing with past 

experiences in the seventeenth century should 

have some elements in common with how people 

do this today. In historical literature, however, it 

is the differences that are often emphasised: the 

absence or rarity of introspection and self-reflection, 

for instance, the supposedly less developed 

sense of individuality and the strong collective 

consciousness of groups and communities. It is 

also often alleged that a very different meaning 

was attached to suffering, and that there was less 

appreciation for individual characteristics and 

authenticity. This project aims to test these assumptions. 

The following questions are central to this project: 

1 When and why did people narrate or write 

about their personal memories of episodes or 

experiences during the war? 

2 How and to what extent did the medial context, 

social identity, self reflection and contemporary 

notions of truth determine the content of narrated 

memory? 

3 Do early modern war memories differ in 

content, meaning and function from today’s war 

memories? If so, what exactly are the differences 


and how can we explain for them? 

4 Why did some personal stories reach a wider 

public and become part of the historical canon 

while others had a limited reach or remained 

private. 

Commemoration and Community. Mediating 

local memories of the Dutch Revolt in the Low 

Countries, 1566-1700 (PhD project) Marianne 

Eekhout 

The subproject Commemoration and Community 

focuses on local memories of the Dutch Revolt 

in the Dutch Republic and the Southern Netherlands. 

Memory cultures varied considerably 

from town to town. After the Revolt, some towns 

drew attention to their role as victims of the 

cruel Dutch or Spanish soldiers whereas others 

presented themselves as victors, or tried to cover 

up their part in the Revolt. This project seeks to 

chart both why and how such memory cultures 

came into existence, however, and under what 

conditions they could continue to survive and be 

deployed to support local identity or local political 

positions and reputations. There have been 

claims that local magistrates pursued an active 

memory policy and engaged in memory ‘management’, 

but whether they were the most important 

players is still unclear. Various other actors such 

as religious groups, families or guilds also had the 

ability and power to influence the decisions of 

which memories should be forgotten and which 

ought to be remembered. 

These uncertainties provoke other questions related 

to memory studies and especially to the way 

in which memories took shape in the seventeenth 

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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 

meanings that were attributed to this phenomenon, 

and c) the changing topical and intertextual 

traditions in which exile memories were modelled 

and articulated. 

Leaving behind their hometowns and local social 

networks which were held together by mechanisms 

of trust and reputation, exiles were forced 

to redefine themselves and to fashion identities 

that were acceptable and recognizable in the new 

society. Especially Southerners, who had fled to 

the Republic were immensely active in publishing 

pamphlets and other literature, in which they 

presented themselves as compatriots of their 

hosts, ‘Netherlanders’, who sought refuge for the 

sake of their faith. Whereas the inhabitants of the 

Low Countries had previously defined themselves 

by referring to local rather than to national 

identities, exiles began to appeal to ‘the common 

fatherland’ of all Netherlanders or to the unity of 

trans-local religious confessions. So far, the role 

exile memories played in the formation of new 

confessional and ‘proto-national’ constructions 

of Netherlandish identity has scarcely been examined. 

This study will do so, in the belief that this 

can offer valuable insights into the development 

of two distinct Netherlandish states and identities 

as well as the emergence of new confessional 

self-images. 

The politics of memory in the Low Countries 

(PhD project) Jasper van der Steen 

The Dutch Revolt tore apart the seventeen Netherlands 

and led to the formation of two states 

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1648. Long before 1648, however, it had already 

become evident that the division between North 

and South was likely to be permanent. Due to the 

rift between the two Netherlands, diametrically 

opposed views on the origin of the Revolt developed. 

Although there is an extensive literature 

on the political fissure between North and South, 

the process by which views on a shared history 

diverged and led to different interpretations of a 

common past has received less attention. Comparative 

studies that include both the Northern 

and Southern Netherlands are also lacking. 

This subproject offers a political and transnational 

perspective on the development and uses of 

public memories of the Revolt in the seventeenth 

century. It will supplement the local and individual 

perspectives studied by other members of 

the team, and will show how different memory 

environments influenced identity formation in 

the Northern and Southern Netherlands. By offering 

a comparison of public memory formation 

in a decentralised, Republican polity and a monarchical 

political system, it should also be able to 

contribute to a better understanding of the way 

in which political systems affected early modern 

memory formation in general. 

Accordingly, this project seeks to explore how 

and why different Netherlandish canons of the 

history of the Revolt came into being, how the 

contents and (political) uses of these narratives 

developed in the course of the seventeenth 

century; and the extent to which these narratives 

influenced the formation of new and irreconcilable 

self-images in the northern and southern 

provinces. How did memory and identity mutually 

influence one another in this process? 


Towards a new history of (early) modern 

memory, Judith Pollmann 

Most scholars who study memory believe that 

people in different cultures have different ways 

of remembering. This implies that it should be 

possible to write a history of memory. Outlines 

of such a history can be found in various modern 

theories of memory, which often contain a macro-historical 

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 

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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. 

Centralization or Particularism? The 

Development of National Identities in 

the Low Countries (1250-1585) 

Wim Blockmans 

Identities are never clear-cut. Each individual 

feels tied to different structures: family, professional 

group, neighbourhood, town, region and 

state. There is always a hierarchy of identities, 

and in some cases even a competition of identities. 

These can be based in social, religious or 

linguistic characteristics, but just as easily in institutional 

entities. Nation formation, the creation 

of national identities, is the topic of this research 

project whose emphasis will be the development 

of collective identities, as they are connected with 

larger political entities (kingdom, state). The 

political framework of this project is formed by 

the gradual integration of many kingdoms and 

lordships in the Netherlands into a new entity 

in the period between ca. 1250 and 1585. Adrian 

Hastings’ description of a nation is useful in this 

context: ‘A large human community, at once 

cultural and political’. 

For the purposes of this research, the confrontation 

between competing geographical levels of 

identity is sought: the inclination toward unity 

in the Netherlands, formed in large part by the 

Burgundian-Habsburg central government, 

versus the particularism of the principalities, 

which had known centuries of independence. The 

encompassing geographical entity is formed by 

the Netherlands, an area that can hardly be exactly 

delineated because the political boundaries 

on practically all sides have regularly shifted. The 

‘seventeen’ provinces, which were united under 

the Burgundian lordship in approximately 1475, 

give us idea of the territory under discussion. 

From an objective standpoint these Dutch provinces 

have scarcely known any form of unity. The 

political-feudal boundary between France and 

the German Empire as well as the French-Dutch 

language boundary divide the territory. The 

western parts partially developed into urbanised 

units, while the east maintained a more agrarian 

character. Due to this vast differentiation, the 

Netherlands form a fascinating casus for research 

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In addition, two subsections will concern the 

provinces of Brabant and Guelders. This choice 

necessitates an explanation. It is impossible to 

do justice to the linguistic, feudal, demographic, 

political and institutional pluriformity of the 

Dutch provinces in such a project as this. The 

political rivalry between Guelders and Brabant 

is the primary basis for this choice: both duchies 

formed polar opposites for centuries. Brabant fell 

almost silently into the hands of the Burgundian- 

Habsburg dynasty. The long-term existence of the 

court and of many central institutions guaranteed 

this duchy a place in the centre of political power. 

For a long time, Guelders maintained its hostility 

toward every form of incorporation in the Burgundian 

personal union, which is best symbolised 

in the many wars fought with Brabant and other 

principalities in the Netherlands since the end of 

the thirteenth century. 

There are other arguments justifying the choice of 

Brabant and Guelders. There also is an interesting 

contrast in the cohesion of these provinces. 

While the Duchy of Brabant presented itself 

as a political and territorial entity – its existing 

division into quarters had chiefly an administrative 

rationale – Guelders was divided into four 

obstinate quarters. In addition, Brabant was far 

more urbanised than Guelders and had a more 

modern administrative structure. Furthermore, 

there is the practical argument of the delineation. 

Currently there is research being done concerning 

identities in many other principalities (Flanders, 

Holland). Although the period and concrete 

hypotheses of the above proposed project greatly 

differ from these, it is not desirable to undertake 

new research in these areas at the moment. 

The chronological point of departure is situated 


around 1250. This year represents no real caesura 

from a political standpoint. One can only 

point out that the old territorial principalities 

had consolidated and that there was no tendency 

towards a political centralisation in the whole of 

the Netherlands. Nonetheless, it was around the 

middle of the thirteenth century that a number 

of important developments began. It was in this 

period that the vernacular broke through as the 

administrative and cultural language. In addition, 

a gradual development of the abstract institutions 

of the early state came off, which led to a 

radical change in the position of the dynasties. 

The endpoint is marked by a purely political occurrence: 

the fall of Antwerp in 1585 formed the 

introduction to the definitive separation of the 

Netherlands into new political entities. The influence 

of that occurrence on the national identities 

deserves further research but extends beyond the 

reach of this project. 

Burgundian Nobility. Princely 

Politics and Noble Families, 

c. 1430 - c. 1530 

Antheun Janse 

The project’s central aim is to examine the 

changes that took place with regard to the position 

of the nobility – high, average and low – in 

the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands, in the 

context of the process of state formation. We will 

concentrate on the Burgundian-Habsburg core 

territories, in the south (Flanders, Brabant, Hainault) 

as well as in the north (Holland, Zeeland), 

in the period between 1425 and 1525. We shall 

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examine the problems from a double perspective; 

in the first place that of the prince or state. 

Secondly, developments will be examined from 

the perspective of the noble family. 

As it is impossible to study the entire group of 

nobles in a period of a hundred years, we concentrate 

on some cross-sections of the noble society 

in some specific years: the first around 1425, 

shortly before the integration of Brabant, Holland-Zeeland 

and Hainault into the Burgundian 

state; the second around 1475 coinciding with 

Charles the Bold’s attempts to a systematic and 

rigid application of the system of feudal services, 

which resulted in a whole series of feudal registers; 

the third around 1525, during the regency of 

Margaret of Austria, just before the integration 

of Utrecht, Guelders and Friesland. A systematic 

comparison of these three ‘populations’ should 

enable us to draw conclusions on patterns and 

changes, on regional differences and structural 

developments in the Burgundian-Habsburg 

period. The (dis)connections between the crosssections 

can be established relatively easily by 

genealogical research. 

In Leiden we have a team of four investigators 

working on this project. Antheun Janse is working 

on the nobility of Holland, Arie van Steensel 

on Zeeland, Veronique Flammang on Hainault 

and Mario Damen focuses on the nobility of 

Brabant. We have close contacts with Frederik 

Buylaert in Ghent who is working on the nobility 

of Flanders. We will try to collect all relevant data 

in a relational database in MS-Access which will 

be published on the internet when the project is 

finished. 

Our data will shed new light on the grey-area 

between nobility and urban patriciate and the 

complexity of their relationship. This may be 

helpful to historians of art and literature, who 

are interested in the social context of cultural 

phenomena. The simple contradiction between 

‘noble’ and ‘bourgeois’ will certainly be replaced 

by a more complex and sophisticated model. 

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 

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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 centuries) 

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 

secondly 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. 

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 

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relation to one another. This step seems all the 

more obvious if, in thinking of politics, we think 

primarily of political culture: on the one hand, 

the cultural aspects of the political realm itself, 

and on the other hand the broad social-cultural 

and cultural-intellectual embedding of politics. 

In both respects, political culture has to a large 

extent developed in national contexts and, conversely, 

‘national identity’ is often simply another 

word for traditions in the field of political culture. 

Problematising ideas concerning national identity 

is also closely related to problematising the accepted 

assumptions about established politics. 

Leiden more than any other university offers an 

ideal environment for the study of this complex, 

due to the presence among its historians of so 

many country specialists and specialists in the 

history of the European Union. The parallel presence 

of these specialisations does not automatically 

lead to collaboration. Among historians, 

it has long been a habit to concentrate on one 

country and to study this country in its unique 

characteristics (The German Sonderweg, Great- 

Britain versus the Continent, l’exception française, 

The Netherlands as an exception to the general 

human pattern, American exceptionalism, 

etc.), while the study of the history of Europe and 

European unification was effected in a separate 

area of research. In recent decades, an increasing 

amount of criticism has been voiced concerning 

the 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. 

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Touraj Atabaki (ed), Historiography and Political 

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Invited lecture for conference in Loccum: Mit 

terroristen Reden? Vom Umgang mit Politischer 

Gewalt im Europa des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, 

title lecture: ‘Getting the IRA to the Table. Ending 

the Irish War of Independence, 1920-1921’ . 

Invited lecture on ‘The concept of decolonisation 

in the mind of the British’ for student trip to London 

19 February. 

Invited lecture on ‘Policing in Northern Ireland’ 

for fact finding mission of Dutch police commissioners 

to Belfast 26 September. 


Organisation of Symposium on Historical Terrorism 

with Leidschrift and VoGel 16 April. 


Referee for Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis and for 

Journal of British Studies. 


Editor Leidschrift, historical journal. 

Secretary Institute for History. 

Member of Faculty Council, Arts Faculty, Leiden 

University. 

Member of Faculty advice committee on Teaching 

. 


Member of faculty task-force on the improvement 

of student completion rates. 

Director of Teaching for the newly created Institute 

for History within the Faculty of Humanities 

Chair of the Examiners Board for the Institute of 

History. 

Secretary of a search committee for AGC positions. 


Project manager for the introduction of computer-aided 

teaching in first year. 

Advisor and participant to a delegation of Dutch 

police commissioners for a fact-finding trip to 

Northern Ireland October 2008. 

Coordinated investigations in completion rates in 

history seminars and in exam results for first year 

students. 

Miscellaneous 

Participant in student trip to London 6-9 March 

2008. 

Publications 

Politiek Geweld en de Moderne Staat. Leidschrift. 

Historisch Tijdschrift, 23 (1), pp. 7-16. 

(Article / Letter to editor) Augusteijn, J. & Bode, 

I., de & Faas, N. & Hoogeveen, M. & Vallinga, M. 

(2008) Political violence and the modern state. 

Mulready, Peter. The memoirs of John M. Regan, 

a catholic officer in the R.I.C. and R.U.C., 1909- 

48. 

The article reviews the book “The Memoirs of 

John M. Regan, a Catholic Officer in the R.I.C. 

and R.U.C., 1909-48,” edited by Joost Augusteijn. 

2008. 

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October 31, 2008: commentator NASA (Netherlands 

American Studies Association) Conference 

“The Life and Legacy of Robert F. Kennedy,” 

Leiden University. 


October 2, 2008, lecture David Perlmutter, University 

of Kansas, Leiden University. 

Publications 

An Innocent Abroad: Harry Truman en het begin 

van de Koude Oorlog. Een filosoof in het Witte 

Huis]. In: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 121. 

(Book review). 

An Innocent Abroad: Harry Truman en het begin 

van de Koude Oorlog. From Roosevelt to Truman: 

Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War]. 

In: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 121. (Book 

review). 

Denkend tussen Myrdal, Malcolm en Mozes: 

Hannah Arendts “Reflections on Little Rock”. 

Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 121 (3), pp. 326- 

336. (Article / Letter to editor). 

Een vrouw in het Witte Huis. AO, pp. 4-24. 


McCain versus Obama. AO, pp. 4-24. 


Bilt, E.F., van de (2008). 

‘Politieke partijen en hun achterban’. Kleio. 

Tijdschrift van de Vereniging van docenten in 

geschiedenis en staatsinrichting in Nederland. 



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Referee, advisory committees, editor, etc. 

Member committee of review subsidies granted 

under the ‘heritage of war- program Ministry of 

Health Welfare and Sport. 


Organizing committee celebration Liberation Day 

University Leiden. 

Dr. D. Bos 


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Membership of Board and Committees 

Member of BA/MA Opleidingscommissie (OLC) 

Geschiedenis. 

Member of the Committee of recommendation 

of Kritiek. Jaarboek voor socialistische discussie 

en analyse (Amsterdam: uitgeverij Aksant). 


Historical advisor for the NWO-funded research 

project ‘Historical Timeline Mining and Extrac- 



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tion’, Tilburg centre for Creative Computing 

(TiCC) / International Institute of Social History 

(IISH). 

Supervisor PhD research, membership PhD 

committee 

Co-promotor Minte Kamphuis. 

Co-promotor Adriaan van Veldhuizen. 

Miscellaneous 

Lecture ‘Voorbeeldige levens. De hagiografische 

traditie rondom de Parijse Commune van 1871’, 

ter gelegenheid van het afscheid van Dr. Johan 

Frieswijk, Friese Academie van Wetenschappen, 

Leeuwarden 5 juni 2008. 

Interviewed in OVT, VPRO-radio, zondag 16 

november 2008. 

Lecture ‘Vrouwenbeelden uit de Parijse Commune’, 

Genderwerkgroep NIOD, Amsterdam 9 

december 2008. 

Publications 

International Review of Social History. International 

Review of Social History, 53. 


Onvoltooid Verleden. Onvoltooid Verleden. 

Dr. P. Dassen 


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Member of a commission of the Faculty of Hu- 


manities of Leiden University. Assignment of this 

‘Task Force’: application for a grant for ‘Excellent 

students’ (Honours Program ‘Sirius’). 

Member of a commission within the Institute for 

History of Leiden University in order to improve 

the structure of the BA- and MA-programme (the 

recommendations are adopted by the board of 

the Institute for History). 


Coordinator of the Research-theme ‘Political 

Culture and National Identities’ of the Institute 

for History of Leiden University. 

Coordinator of the BA-Honours Class of the 

Institute for History of Leiden University (close 

cooperation with dr. J. Darwin of Oxford University). 

Miscellaneous 

Lecture at the ‘Vlaams Cultureel Centrum’ in 

Nijmegen, 17.11.2009 about Germany and the 

First World War. 

Assignment of the Open University to write 

a chapter (c. 70 pp.) for a new textbook titled 

‘Nationalism in Europe 1789-present’ about the 

period 1914-1945. 

Publications 

Van de barricaden naar de loopgraven. Oorlog 

en samenleving in Europa, 1789-1918. In: Dassen, 

P.G.C. & Groen, P.M.H. (Eds.), pp. 237-284. 

Amsterdam: Bert Bakker. 

(Article in monograph or in proceedings) Dassen, 

P.G.C. & Groen, P.M.H. (Eds.) (2008)Van 

de barricaden naar de loopgraven. Oorlog en 

samenleving in Europa, 1789-1918. Amsterdam: 

Bert Bakker. 

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(Book editorial) Van de barricaden naar de 

loopgraven. Oorlog en samenleving in Europa, 

1789-1918. In: Dassen, P.G.C. & Groen, P.M.H. 

(Eds.), pp. 9-31. Amsterdam: -Bert Bakker. 

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‘The Civil Rights Movement in Louisiana Forty 

Years Later’. University of Southwestern Louisiana, 

24 January 2008. Invited public lecture 

funded by Louisiana Endowment for Humanities. 

Discussant, Winner of the 2008 Outstanding 

Book Award. History of Education Society, St. 

Petersburg, Florida, 7 November 2008. Invited 

talk. 

‘Dr. King’s New York Helpers’. University of 

Nottingham, 8 December 2008. Invited talk. 

‘Too Many Communists, Too Many Guns, Too 

Much Time: How Revisionists Historians of the 

Civil Rights Movement Get it Wrong’. University 

of Heidelberg, 12 December 2008. Invited talk. 


Netherlands American Studies Association, 

‘Bobby: The Life and Legacy of Robert F. Kennedy’, 

Leiden University, 31 October 2008. 


Reader of article manuscripts: Journal of American 

History, Journal of American Studies. 

Reader of book manuscripts: UVA Press; University 

of Arkansas Press; University of Alabama 

Press; University of Florida Press. 


Chairman, Netherlands American Studies Association 

(NASA). 

Member, program committee, Southern Historical 

Association. 

Member, program committee, History of Education 

Society. 

Chairman, jury committee, Theodore Roosevelt 

History Award, Roosevelt Study Center. 

Advisor to HSVL, ‘End of Empire’ London visit. 


committee 

Supervisor of: 

Laura Maessen (AIO) 

Yvonne Ryan 

Joel Lentzner 

Marieke Harpe 

Peter de Jong. 


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Miscellaneous 

“America in Black and White: Two Nations or 

One Nation Indivisible?” Invited talk at teachers’ 

conference, Atlantic Commission, Utrecht, 30 

January 2008. 

Dr. J.C.G. Aguiar 

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Cities on edge: Conflicting policies and border 

practices at the Tri-border region, NALACS/ 

CEDLA International Conference Conflict, 

Fragmentation and Hope in the Neoliberal City 

Urban Space in Latin America, 6-7 November, 

Amsterdam. 

Pitazos, mordidas and madrinas. The ambivalent 

relation between law enforcers and illegal actors: 

piracy retail in Mexico, “Ambiguidades contemporâneas 

da segurança. Para um olhar de perto”, 

6th-7th May, University of Lisbon. 

Producing the State in the City. Geographies of 

Global Governance and the Informal Commerce: 

the case of Mexico, International Congress RE- 

DESFRO, 20th-23rd February, University of the 

Americas, Cholula. 


Organizer international conference: Conflict, 

fragmentation and hope in the neoliberal city: urban 

space in Latin American, October, RedNLA/ 


NALACS, 6-7- November 2008, Amsterdam. 


Research trip in the Tri-border region, South 

America. Stay at the cities Puerto Iguazú (Argentina), 

Foz do Iguaçu (Brazil), and Cuidad del Este 

(Paraguay). 9 July-8 August 2008. 


Editor for Etnofoor, anthropology journal, Amsterdam. 


Member of the advisory board Renglones, journal 

of social sciences, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios 

Superiores de Occidente Iteso, Mexico. 


committee 

José Luis López Ulloa, ‘Entre aromas de incienso 

y de pólvora. Los Altos de Jalisco, México, 1917- 

1940’, PhD dissertation in Latin American studies, 

5 November 2008, University of Leiden. 

Miscellaneous 

Public debate: ‘Children of the War’, organized 

by Amnesty International, 13th January 2008, 

Amsterdam. 

Media appareances: 

‘México: Resultados de Operación Limpieza se 

evidencian en detenciones’, El Nacional, Venezuela, 

30 November 2008. 

‘Mexico zit in totale drugsoorlog’, De Standaard, 

Belgium, 8 October 2008. 

TV debate show with Enrique Cárdenas, Centro 

de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias, Mexico, 22 February 

2008. 

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Conferences 

‘Model Europe: Which Europe?’ Lecture South 

African European Studies Association, Pretoria, 

February 2008. 

‘Europe’s Constitution: What now?’ Lecture University 

of Pretoria, February 2008. 

‘How can Higher Education contribute to the 

fight for Human Rights? A case study of Amnesty 

International’. Conference ‘Tracing Essential 

Documents, Moments and People in Human 

Rights history’, The Hague, April 2008. 

‘Netherlands Foreign Aid Policy 1967-1986. A 

model UN-Norm Country?’ Lecture Nobel Institute, 

Oslo April, 2008. 

‘European Identities’ The European Integration 

and the Sustainable Development of Northwest 

China, Conference, Xian, September 2008. 

‘The First Circle. EU Neighbourhood Policy in an 

International Perspective’. Conference Neighbours, 

but not Neighbourly? The EU’s relations 

with the Neighbourhood, Hague, October 2008 

(also conference organiser). 

‘Teaching the European Union’ Workshop 

Implementation of Professional development 

progress in the field of applied politics and political 

Administration at tertiary level, Moscow State 

University for the Humanities, November 2008. 

Publications: 

(with M. Wiesebron) ‘Processos de integração regional 

e cooperação intercontintental desda 1989’ 

UFRGS Publishing House; Posto Alegre, 2008. 

‘Os Círculos Concêntricos do Regime Comercial 

da União Européia de 1989 até os dias de hoje’ in 

M. Wiesebron and R.T Griffiths (eds) Processos 

de integração regional e cooperação intercontintental 

desda 1989 (eds with M. Wiesebron) 

UFRGS Publishing House; Posto Alegre, 2008, 

109-129. 

‘European Identities’ in Ma Xiaoqiang and G. 

Ying (eds) The European Integration and the 

Sustainable Development of Northwest China, 

World Book Publishing House, 2008, 3-16. 

‘Development Aid: Some Reference Points for 

Historical Research’ in H. Pharo and M. Pohle, 

The Aid Rush. Aid regimes in Northern Europe 

during the Cold War, Oslo UP 2008. 

‘The Landscape of European Studies in European 

Universities’ in M. Holland, S. Jora and P. Ryan, 

The Future of European Studies in Asia, 2008. 

Prof.dr. P.M.H. Groen 


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Publications 

‘Van de barricaden naar de loopgraven. Oorlog 

en samenleving in Europa, 1789-1918’. In: Dassen, 

P.G.C. & Groen, P.M.H. (Eds.), pp. 237-284. 

Amsterdam: Bert Bakker. 

(Article in monograph or in proceedings) Dassen, 

P.G.C. & Groen, P.M.H. (Eds.) (2008) ‘Van 

de barricaden naar de loopgraven. Oorlog en 

samenleving in Europa, 1789-1918’. Amsterdam: 

Bert Bakker. 

(Book editorial) ‘Van de barricaden naar de 



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loopgraven. Oorlog en samenleving in Europa, 

1789-1918’. In: Dassen, P.G.C. & Groen, P.M.H. 

(Eds.), pp. 9-31. Amsterdam: -Bert Bakker. 


Dr. M.J. Janse 


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‘A Different Kind of Abolitionism: The Complicated 

Relationship of Nineteenth-century European 

Antislavery Movements to British Abolitionism’, 

Visiting Scholars Seminar Minda de 

Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard 

University, 7 May 2008. 

‘Associational Mania: Organizing as Instrument 

in the Struggle for Recognition, 1820-1850’, 

Seminar Charles Warren Center for Studies in 

American History, Harvard University, 26 February 

2008. 

‘Associational Mania: New Perceptions of Organizing, 

1820-1850’, Brown Bag Series McNeill 

Center for Early American Studies, University of 

Pennsylvania, 23 January 2008. 


Visiting Fellow Charles Warren Center for Studies 

in American History, Harvard University. Van 

1 January -1 June 2008. 


Secretary Editorial Board Journal De Negentiende 


Eeuw. 

Board Member Stichting Reveil Archief. 

Chair Werkgroep Verenigingsgeschiedenis, Huizinga 

Instituut. 

Publications 

Aerts, R. & Tibbe, L. & Dongelmans, B.P.M. & 

Velde, H., te & Janse, M.J. & Koolhaas, E. (2008) 

De Negentiende Eeuw. De Negentiende Eeuw 


Janse, M.J. (2008). 

Towards a history of civil society. De Negentiende 

Eeuw, 32 (2), pp. 104-121. 

(Article / Letter to editor) Janse, M.J. (2008) 

Science and culture for members only. The Amsterdam 

Zoo Artis in the nineteenth century]. In: 

Gewina (Rotterdam), 30 


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


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January 20-22 Archives management. General introduction. 

Keynote/short course Arsip Nasional 

Republik Indonesia Jakarta. 

May 22, Doxis Seminar, Utrecht. Invited lecture: 

‘Een nieuwe waarderings- en selectiemethodiek 

voor archieven: vooraf aanwijzen of achteraf 

uitzoeken’. 

May 20, Dordrecht Municipality, invited lecture, 

‘De sluipende revolutie van het digitale informa- 

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verlopen’. 

June 3, Congress Koninklijke Vereniging van 

Archivarissen in Nederland, Utrecht, invited lecture: 

‘Worden we slapende rijk? Over waardering, 

selectie en acquisitie gesproken’. 

June 17, Erfgoedinspectie Den Haag, invited 

lecture, ‘Volledigheid van dossiers. Een erfgoedbenadering’. 

July 24, International Council on Archives: Congress, 

Kuala Lumpur, invited lecture: ‘Archives 

in Transition: the role of archives in periods of 

transition and regime change’. 

September 22, Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch 

Genootschap/Historisch Platform, Den Haag, 

invited lecture: ‘Waardering en selectie van archieven: 

overvloed en onbehagen’. 

November 20, Platform Particuliere Archieven, 

Den Haag, invited lecture: ‘Waardering & Selectie: 

de zin en onzin van het onderscheid tussen 

archieven van overheid en particulieren’. 

December 2, Congress Tradisi Lisan Wakatobi 

Indonesia, invited lecture ‘Towards a new age of 

orality’. 


Crashcourse Archival description and arrangement 

National Archives Surinam (Paramaribo). 

3d week of February, April 28-May 2, 3rd week of 

October. 


Member of the evaluation committee ‘Metamorfoze’ 

(the Netherlands’ national programme for 

the preservation of paper heritage). 


Member of the board ‘ Stichting ambachtsheerlijkheid 

Cromstrijen’ (safeguarding the heritage 

of the ‘ambachtsheerlijkheid’). 


Advisor Director of the National Archives on appraisal 

and selection of archives. 

Member of the advisory board ‘National Heritage 

Board’. 


committee 

Member of the Encompass Scholar ship Committee. 

Miscellaneous 

Director of the municipal archives Dordrecht. 

Publications 

Archives, Governance & Development. De 

waarde van het ICA-congres in Kuala Lumpur. 

Archievenblad, 7 (112), pp. 42-43. 


‘De canon en onze veranderende omgang met 

het verleden. Waar blijft de Dordtse canon? Oud 

Dordrecht’. Tijdschrift van de historische vereniging 

Oud-Dordrecht, 2 (26), pp. 34-39. 


‘Gewaardeerd Verleden. Bouwstenen voor een 

nieuwe waarderingsmethodiek voor archieven’. 

Archievenblad, 1 (112), pp. 18-21. 


‘Hoe houden we onze kennis en vaardigheden 

up-to-date?’ Archievenblad, 10 (112), pp. 24-27. 




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Conference attendance: 

25 January 2008: opening of the symposium ‘Material 

for Science: the instruments, collections, 

and illustrations in the production of natural 

knowledge (1500-1800)’, Koninklijk Nederlands 

Historisch Genootschap, Nationaal Archief, The 

Hague. 

3 April 2008: launching of the digital project 

‘Basisbibliotheek: 1000 sleutelteksten uit de cultuurgeschiedenis 

van de Lage Landen’, Leiden. 

16-17 May 2008: chairing the session ‘history and 

social sciences’, Balzan Symposium, Truth in 

science, the humanities, and religion, Lugano. 


Editor of the Series Studies in Medieval and Reformation 

Traditions, Brill Publishers, and referee 

for other books published by Brill. 

The Humanities Division, University of Oxford. 

Visiting scholarships, University of Antwerp. 

PhD programme for the humanities, Österreichische 

Akademie der Wissenschaften. 

Advisory Board of the journals Acta Comeniana 

and ‟Ceský ‟casopis Historický, both published by 

the Czech Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Advisory Board NIAS Fellowship Programme. 


President of the Conseil International pour l 

‘Edition des Oeuvres Complètes d’Erasme (sous 

le patronage de l’Union Académique Internationale). 


Vice-President of the Prize Committee, Fondazione 

Internazionale Balzan. 

President of the Foundation Digitale Bibliotheek 

voor de Nederlandse letteren. 

President of the Foundation Bibliotheca Thysiana. 

Member of the Board, Legatum Stolpianum. 

Member of the Board, Fruin Fonds. 


Member of the Advisory Board, Instituut voor 

Nederlandse Geschiedenis. 

Member of the Advisory Board, Scaliger Instituut. 


committee 

7 May 2008: Promotor of J. D. de Mooij (together 

with professor E.G.E. van der Wall). 

4 December 2008: Promotor of J.H.C. Kern ( dr 

C. Musterd co-promotor). 

Publications 

Book review. [Die Geburt der Republic. 

Staatsverständnis und Repräsentation in der frühneuzeitlichen 

Eidgenossenschaft]. In: Francia, 35 

Book review. [Wilhelm von Oranien (1533-1584). 

Fürst und “Vater” der Republik]. In: Historische 

Zeitschrift, 286. 

Book review. Untertanen, Herrschaft und Staat in 

Böhmen und im “Alten Reich”. Sozialgeschichtliche 

Studien zur Frühen Neuzeit]. In: 

English Historical Review, 123. 

Book review. Erasmus-Rezeption zwischen 

Politikum und Herzensangelegenheit. Dulce 

bellum und Querela pacis in deutscher Sprache 

im sechzehnten und siebzehnten Jahrhundert]. 

In: Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de 

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Book review. A companion to Anabaptism 

and Spiritualism, 1521-1700]. In: Bijdragen en 


Nederlanden, 123. (Book review). 

Ondrej Habervesl of Habernfeld and the Thirty 

Years’ War. His writings, the war and international 

politics. In: Urbanek, V. & Reznikova, 

L. (Eds.), Mezi Baltem a Uhrami. Komensky, 

Jednota Bratrska a svet stredoevropskeho protestantismu, 

pp. 149-165. Praag. (Part of book or 

chapter of book) . 

Kollektive Freiheitsvorstellungen im frühneuzeitlichen 

Europa (1400-1850)]. In: Bijdragen 

en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der 

Nederlanden, 123. (Book review). 

A Companion to Anabaptism and Spiritualism, 

1521-1700]. In: Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende 

de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 123 


Prof.dr. W. Otterspeer 


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A presentation on ‘ Nut en noodzaak van Literaire 

Tijdschriften’ , 18th April for Stimuleringsfonds. 

A presentation about ‘het Essay’, 8th May in Spui 

25. 

A presentation about Willem Frederik Hermans, 

21th May in Spui 25. 

Opening exhibition about ‘19th eeuwse gipsen’, 

12 June in Rijksmuseum voor Oudheden. 

Talk about Wittgenstein and Hermans, 23th September 

at the Bezige Bij. 

Radio interview in Goedemorgen for Aukelien 

van Hoytema, 10th October. 

Lecture about ‘de Biografie’, 28th October for 

Studium Generale in Utrecht. 

Speech at dinner for 50th anniversary of Praemium 

Erasmianum, 6th November. 

Cleveringa lecture on 28th November in Beijing 

and 26th November in Jakarta. 

Referee, advisory committees, editor ect. 

Member of the editorial board of De Gids. 

Member of the board of the Clusius Foundation. 

Member of the Board of Rijksmuseum van Oudheden. 

Reflections and critics for de Volkskrant, about 6 

times a year. 


committee 

Supervision of 6 Ph.D. theses. 

Publications 

‘Het bolwerk van de vrijheid’ (AUP), also published 

in English: ‘The Bastion of Liberty’. 

‘Verscheur die brief. Ik vertel veel te veel’. Letterexchange 

between Willem Frederik Hermans and 

Gerard Reve (Bezige Bij). 

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‘The Crisis of Historicism at Grass-Root Levels: A 

Dutch Case-Study, ‘European Social Science History 

Conference, Lisbon. February 27, 2008. 


‘Entretriens with Hayden White on History, Historiography, 

and the Novel’, Utrecht University, 

University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, May 

26-29, 2008. 


Visiting fellow, Catholic University Leuven, Department 

of History, June-August 2008 (8 weeks). 


Referee report for Brill. 

Membership 

Senior editor Leidschrift. 

Publications 

A Collapse of Trust: Reconceptualizing the Crisis 

of Historicism. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 

2, pp. 63-82. 


A Scholarly Character: Hayden White and the 

Epistemic Virtues of the Historical Discipline. 

Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 91, pp. 

801-817. 

(Article / Letter to editor) Paul, H.J. & Wallet, 

B.T. (2008). 

A Sun that Lost its Shine: The Reformation in 

Dutch Protestant Memory Culture, 1817-1917. 

Church history and religious culture, 88, pp. 35- 

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A Weberian Medievalist: Hayden White in the 

1950s. Rethinking History, 12, pp. 75-102. 


Book review. Gesamtausgabe des Briefwechsels 

von Leopold von Ranke, vol. 1]. In: Ellips, 282 


De oorsprong en het begin: filosofische reflecties 

aan de hand van Kafka. De Witte Raaf, 23 (134), 

pp. 1-2. 

Paul, H.J. & Wallet, B.T. (2008). Hl’adanie pôvodu 

a bitka o princípy: holandské pripomínanie 

si reformácie v 19. storoci. Forum Historiae, 2, 

1-20. 

Prof.dr. P. Silva 


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28-30 March 2008. Paper ‘Swimming Against the 

Wave?: The Chilean Social Democratic Model in 

Historical Perspective’ presented at the SLAS Annual 

Conference at the University of Liverpool, 

Liverpool, UK. 

17 March 2008: ‘Participatory Democracy in 

Santiago de Chile’, paper presented at the NWO 

Conference ‘Shifts in Governance’, Beurs van 

Berlage, Amsterdam. 

12 March 2008: FRIDE-Flacso Conference ¿Una 

agenda de paz y seguridad entre Europa y América 

Latina? Posibilidades y limitaciones’. Santiago 

de Chile. (invited lecture). 

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International Member of the CNA Accreditation 

Commission of the Universidad de Santiago de 

Chile (USACH), Santiago de Chile, 28 July– 1 

August 2008. 

Member of the Editorial Board of: 

Bulletin of Latin American Research (Blackwell, 

Oxford). 

Revista de Ciencia Política (Universidad Católica 

de Chile). 

Revista Bicentenario (Santiago de Chile); 

Revista Chilena de Estudios Regionales (Chile); 

Latin America Series of Brill Publishers (Leiden 

and Boston). 


Chairman of the Department of Latin American 

Studies (TCLA). 

Member of the Examination Board of the Department 

of Latin American Studies (TCLA). 

Chairman of the Centre for Latin American 

Research and Documentation (CEDLA), Amsterdam. 


Academic Coordinator Research Master Latin 

American and Amerindian Studies (LAAS). 

Member of the Honour Committee of the XV 

International AHILA Congress, Leiden, August 

2008. 

Coordinator Conference ‘Conflict, Fragmentation, 

and Hope in the Neoliberal City’. 6 November 

2008. NALACS, Amsterdam. 


committee 

Ph.D. Defences: 

José Joaquín Brunner ‘Educación superior en 

Chile: Instituciones, Mercados y Políticas Gubernamentales, 

1967-2007’. Defended (cum laude) 

at Leiden University, 4 December 2008. 

José Luis López Ulloa, ‘Entre aromas de incienso 

y pólvora: ’. Defended at Leiden University, 5 

November 2008. 

Member of Ph.D. Committee: 

Núñez Carrasco, Lorena, “Living on the Margins: 

Illness and Heathcare among Peruvian Migrants 

in Chile”. Leiden University, 16 September 2008 

(Referent). 

Denissen, Marieke, “Winning Small Battles, Losing 

the War: Police Violence, the Movimiento 

del Dolor and Democracy in Post-Authoritarian 

Argentina”. Utrecht University, 24 April 2008. 

Miscellaneous 

External Member of application committee Chinese 

Studies, April 2008. 

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Conference attendances 

Conference Neue Tradition: Europäische Architektur 

im Zeichen von Traditionalismus und 

Regionalismus, 10 October 2008, Technische 

Universität Dresden, Germany. Invited lecture: 

Eric Storm, ‘Die Ideologie des Regionalismus 

in den Architekturzeitschriften in Deutschland, 

Frankreich und Spanien, 1900-1925’. 



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Fellow-in-residence of the Netherlands Institute 

for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social 

Sciences, Wassenaar, September 2007-January 

2008. 

Membership of Board and Committees 

Member of BA/MA Opleidingscommissie (OLC) 

Geschiedenis. 

Miscellaneous 

Participation in an international research project 

titled Imaginarios nacionalistas e identidad nacional 

española en el siglo XX (2008-10), which is 

funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education. 

Publications 

Book review. Une Flandre à la française: l’identité 

régionale à l’épreuve du modèle républicain]. In: 

French History, 22. 

Book review. Architectural Regionalism: Collected 

Writings on Place, Identity, Modernity and 

Tradition]. In: European Architectural History 

Network Newsletter, 4. 

Don Quijote en el Ateneo de Madrid. In: Nuria 

Martínez de Castilla Muñoz, (Ed.), pp. 11-47. 

Madrid: Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones 

Culturales. 


Sources of Regionalism in the Nineteenth Century: 

Architecture, Art and Literature. In: Santvoort, 

L., van, Maeyer, J., De, Verschaffel, T 

(Eds.), pp. 160-182. Leuven: Leuven University 

Press. 


Storm, H.J. (2008). Julius Meier-Graefe, El Greco 


and the Rise of Modern Art. Mitteilungen der 

Carl Justi- Vereinigung, (ISSN 09646-2821), 

20, 113-133. (Article / letter to editor). 

Dr. L.J. Touwen 


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‘Managing migration and global interdependence’. 

Presentation at the N.W. Posthumus Instituut 

Workshop ‘A survey of current historical 

research on globalisation, technological change 

and economic development, 1870-present’ 

Utrecht, 24 October 2008. 

Comments (invited) on Thee Kian Wie, ‘The 

debates about economic policy in newly-independent 

Indonesia between Sjafruddin Prawiranegara 

and Sumitro Djojohadikusumo in the early 

1950s’, Conference “The Indonesian Economy in 

the Early Independence Period: Challenges and 

Achievements’, Leiden, 15-16 October 2008. 

‘Institutional Change in New Zealand, Sweden 

and the Netherlands in the 1980s and 1990s’, 

presentation at the International Network for 

Economic Research (INFER) Varieties of Capitalism 

Workshop at Sofia University, FEBA, Sofia, 9 

October 2008. 

Comments (invited); Conference ‘Change and 

Continuity in the small West European Countries’ 

Capitalisms’, Amsterdam: Universiteit van 

Amsterdam, 19-20 June 2008. 

‘Institutional change in New Zealand, Sweden 

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and the Netherlands in the 1980s and 1990s’. 

Paper presented at the European Social Science 

History Conference, Lissabon, 2008. 


Network co-chair (organisation of 12 panels on 

economic history) for the European Social 

Science History Conference 2008, Lissabon, 

together with prof. dr. Anne McCants (MIT) and 

prof dr. Jochen Streb (Hohenheim U.) 

Organizer of the conference session ‘Cooperation 

between employers and labour’, European Social 

Science History Conference 2008, Lissabon. 


Organisation of the Management Symposium 

2008 ‘Strategy and Culture’, Leiden, 28 March 

2008. 


External referee for Tijdschrift voor Sociale en 

Economische Geschiedenis. 


Co-chair of the Network ‘Economics’ of the 

European Social Science History Conference 2010 

(with prof.dr. A. McCants and prof.dr. J. Streb). 

Member (secretary) of the board of the Institute 

for History. 

Chair of the Examination Committee of the Institute 

for History. 

Member of advisory committees in the Faculty 

of Humanities on, Honours Classes, Budget & 

Planning. 

Member of the advisory committee ‘Facultaire 

Adviescommmissie Onderwijs’ in the Faculty of 

Humanities. 


Coordinator of the ‘Aansluitingsmodule Geschiedenis: 

Koelies in Deli’ for highschool students in 

cooperation with ICLON; supervision of student 

assistant for this project. 


committee 

Co-promotor of Drs. D. Oude-Nijhuis (PhD-defence 

expected in 2009). 


Contributions of Leiden University Fund (LUF) 

for conference visit to Sofia, Bulgary. 

Miscellaneous 

Research and teaching 

Touwen, L.J. & Konijnendijk, R. (2008) 

Het Honourstraject binnen de Opleiding Geschiedenis, 

Universiteit Leiden. Utrecht: IVLOS. 

(External research report). 

Publications 

Buitenlandse tijdschriften: ‘Van ‘big history’ tot 

koffiehuizen in Istanboel. De oogst van 2007 en 

de eerste helft van 2008’. Tijdschrift voor Sociale 

en Economische Geschiedenis, 5 (4), pp. 133-155. 


‘Listen verzinnen en nieuwe wegen inslaan’. Reactie 

op de commentaren van Marjolein ’t Hart en 

Jan Willem Drukker. Tijdschrift voor Sociale en 

Economische Geschiedenis, 5 (2). 


Voortbouwen op Braudel of Fogel? Een pleidooi 

voor interdisciplinaire economische geschiedenis 

in Nederland en Vlaanderen. Tijdschrift voor 

Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 5 (2), pp. 



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‘How does a coordinated market economy 

evolve? Effects of policy learning in the Netherlands 

in the 1980s. Labor History, 49 (4), pp. 

439-464. 

Touwen, L.J. & Konijnendijk, R. (2008). Het 

Honourstraject binnen de Opleiding Geschiedenis, 

Universiteit Leiden. IVLOS Mededeling (Ext. 

rep. 91). Utrecht: IVLOS. 

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‘Towns, Cities and the Imagined Community of 

the Dutch Nation’, invited lecture, conference: 

‘Nationalism and the Reshaping of Urban Communities 

in Europe, 1848-1914’ (Oxford, 26-27 

September 2008). 

‘Charismatic Leaders, Political Religion and 

Social Movements at the End of the 19th Century’, 

invited lecture, conference: ‘Charisma and 

Emergent Social Movements’ (Groningen 6-7 

November 2008). 

Closing Comments, invited lecture, conference: 

‘The Relevance of Dutch History’ (The Hague, 

Royal Netherlands Historical Society, 13-14 November 

2008). 


Referee for NWO and an academic publisher in 

Bielefeld. 



President of the Werkgroep Negentiende Eeuw, 

Maatschappij van Nederlandse Letterkunde. 

President of the committee for NVHC, the 

Netherlands Flanders Historical Conferences. 

President of the Jury of the Prix de Paris (1 year 

post-graduate scholarship in Paris). 

Member of the Board of KNHG, the Royal 

Netherlands Historical Society. 

Member of the SWR, Social Sciences Council of 

the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and 

Sciences. 

Member of the editorial board of De Negentiende 

Eeuw. 

Member of the Advisory Board of The European 

Review of History. 


committee 

Supervisor (first promotor) of Jouke Turpijn, 

Mannen van gezag. De uitvinding van de Tweede 

Kamer 1848-1888 (Amsterdam 2008), PhD promotion 

17 January 2008. 

Member of the Jury, Aalborg University Denmark, 

19 June 2008, PhD promotion Andrea 

Graw-Teebken, ‘Nationalisierte Grenzträume. 

Eine Untersuchung nationaler Diskurse über 

Ostfriesland und Schleswig, 1815 bis 1867’. 

Member of the Jury, European University Institute, 

Florence, 24 November 2008, PhD promotion 

Eleni Braat, ‘Security, neutrality, colonialism. 

Conflicting priorities in the Netherlands, 1921- 

1931’. 

Member of the Jury, Wim Coster, ‘Baron op 

klompen’. Mr. B.W.A.E. Baron van Sloet tot 

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October 2008. 

Miscellaneous 

Joint MA course on the history of political culture 

and debate with prof Marnix Beyen, University of 

Antwerp. 

Publications 

Velde, H. te (2008). Civil Society and Dutch History. 

De Negentiende Eeuw, (ISSN 1381-8546), 

32, 122-125. 

Velde, H. te (2008). De missing link van de nationale 

identiteit. 

Internationale Neerlandistiek, 46, 33-38. 

Velde, H. te (2008). Gezien vanuit Nederland. 

Opmerkingen over contemporaine geschiedenis 

bij het verschijnen van De Tuin van Heden. 

Revue belge de philologie et d’histoire/belgisch 

tijdschrift voor filologie en geschiedenis, 85, 881- 

891. 

Velde, H. te (2008). Het feest van de democratie 

in Nederland. De traditie van parlementaire 

vertegenwoordiging. Jaarboek Parlementaire 

Geschiedenis, (ISSN 1566-5054), 11-25. 

Velde, H. te (2008). Oranien zwischen Staatsrecht 

und Mythos. Zur politischen Geschichte 

des Königshauses. Jahrbuch Zentrum für Niederlande-Studien, 

18, 33-46. 

Velde, H. te (2008). The Organization of Liberty: 

Dutch Liberalism as a Case of the History of 

European Constitutional Liberalism. European 

Journal of Political Theory, 7, 65-79. 

Velde, H. te (2008). De partij van Oud en Wiegel. 

Leiderschap in de VVD en het primaat van 

het electoraat. In P. van Schie & G. Voerman 

(Eds.), Zestig jaar VVD (pp. 27-51). Amsterdam: 

Boom (ISBN 9789085065449). 

Velde, H. te (2008). Natie en democratie in Nederland 

rond 1900 in vergelijkend perspectief. In 

els witte (Ed.), Natie en democratie - Nation et 

démocratie. Acta van het interuniversitair colloquium 

(pp. 376-384). Brussel: KONINKLIJKE 

VLAAMSE ACADEMIE VAN BELGIË VOOR 

WETENSCHAPPEN EN KUNSTEN (ISBN 

9789065690319). 

Velde, H. te (21-11-2008). Waarom Maurits 

nooit getrouwd is. De Volkskrant. 

Velde, H. te (22-02-2008). Glans in de ogen, 

stoom uit de oren; Anet Bleich voltooide biografie 

van socialistisch staatsman en planningsadept. 

De Volkskrant, (ISSN niet SCI). 

Ms. M.L. Wiesebron 


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26-29, August 2008, Leiden, Participant of the 

Congress mentioned below: 

symposium A-58: 

O Brasil Colonial em fontes primárias: o Projeto 

Resgate e a série Mauritiana “O Projeto Resgate 

neerlandês”. 

30-9 till 3-10, 2008, Universidade de São Paulo 

Colóquio Internacional “Economia e Colonização 

na Dimensão do Império Português - historiografia 

e perspectivas de pesquisa”. 

‘Aspetos da economia e da sociedade do Brasil 

neerlandês a partir de documentos nos arquivos 



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dos Países Baixos’ (invited lecture). 

19, 20 & 21 November 2008, Salamanca: 

I Congresso de Estudiosos do Brasil na Europa 

20-11: Panel about International Relations and 

History. 

Theme: A insercão internacional do Brasil‟ 

Coordinator of panel; key-note speaker, 3 commentators 

and organizer of rest panel. 


Organization at Leiden, 26-29, August 2008, 

of the XV International AHILA congress: XV 

Congress of the Association of Latin American 

Historians in Europe. 


8-4-2008, Eindhoven 

Studium Generale of the TU Eindhoven 

Key-note speaker “van Portugese kolonie tot 

wereldmacht: de ontwikkeling van Brazilië in 

historisch perspectief”. 

9-6-2008, Porto Alegre, Brazil 

Guest lecture for the launching of the book : 

Processos de integração regional e cooperação 

intercontinental desde 1989”, organizada por 

Marianne Wiesebron e Richard Griffiths, Editora 

da UFRGS, 2008. 

20 & 21 October 2008, México D.F. 

20 October 2008; Colegio de México, 

Lunch – lecture for colleagues, specialists in international 

relations and history. 

“La política del Presidente Lula: continuidad o 

ruptura?‟ Exitos de su presidencia nacionales y 

internacionales“. 

21 October 2008 Universidad Iberoamericana, 

Postgraduate programme in history. 

Lecture: “La política económica y social de Lula 


en Brasil “ . 

11 december 2008, Brasília, Brazil, Universidade 

de Brasília. 

Department of history, Postgraduate programme 

in history. 

Invited conference: 

Aspectos da sociedade e da economia do Brasil 

neerlandês a partir dos documentos em arquivos 

dos Países Baixos. Uma avaliaçao da importância 

do projeto Resgate Holanda.” 


Member of Editorial Committee of journal 

Perspectiva: Reflexões sobre a Temática Internacional. 


Member of the exam-committee TCLA. 

Member scientific committee CNWS. 

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. Appointed by the Brazilian Ministry of 

Culture Coordinator of bilateral cooperation 

between Leiden University and Latin American 

universities. 

PhD Defences 

Co-promotor of the following external PhD’s: 

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Ingrid Bartels. 

2 . in co-operation with Prof. Dr. Gert Oostindie 

CAPES bursaal Bruno Miranda. 


Received external subsidies for the organisation 

the XV AHILA International Congress in Leiden. 

Received external subsidies for the project Brazil 

in the Dutch Archives in the 17th century. 

Received external subsidies for the Chair of Brazilian 

Studies Rui Barbosa. 

Prof.dr. E.J. Zürcher 


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Publication 

‘Turkey in the twentieth century : La Turquie au 

vingtieme siecle’. 

PhD. Candidates 

Drs. J.H.H. van den Berk 


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“Close encounters with the caudillos. American 

diplomats meet political bosses in Central 

America, 1933-1953”, HCA Spring Academy on 

American History, Culture, and Politics (Ruprecht-Karls 

Universität, Heidelberg, 21 April, 

2008). 


National Archives of the United States, College 

Park, Maryland, USA (August 30, 2008 – November 

15, 2008 & November 27, 2008 – December 

14, 2008). 

New Mexico State Archives, Santa Fe, New 

Mexico, USA (November 15, 2008 – November 

23, 2008). 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library 

and Museum, Hyde Park, New York, USA (November 

23, 2008 – November 27, 2008). 

Ms. drs. M. Kamphuis 


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Ms. drs. L. Maessen 


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7 March 2008: Presentation “Leadership and 

Social Change: Martin Luther King & Robert 

Moses” at the annual American Studies Day at 

the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. 

7 May 2008 : Guest Lecture “Martin Luther King, 



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Malcolm X, and Barack Obama” at the Radboud 

Universiteit Nijmegen (department: English Language 

and Culture). 


October 15 – November 3 2008: Washington DC 

research at Howard University and the Library of 

Congress. 

November 3 – November 28 2008: New York City 

research at the Schomburg Center for Research in 

Black Culture. 


Member NASA (Netherlands American Studies 

Association). 


29-5-2008: Awarded Fellowship from the Gilder 

Lehrman Institute of American History for the 

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 

in New York City, USA, for the period of November 

3-27, 2008 . Amount: $2,000. 

01-08-2008: Awarded Research Grant from the 

Roosevelt Study Center for stay at the Roosevelt 

Study Center in Middelburg, The Netherlands, 

for the period of August 25-29, 2008 Amount: 

ÿ 150. 

Drs. J.D. de Mooij 


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Publications 


Mooij, J.D. de (2008, mei 07). Jona Willem te 

Water (1740-1822). Historicus en theoloog 

tussen traditie en Verlichting. LEI Universiteit 

Leiden (352 pag.) (Leiden: Leiden University 

Press). 

Drs. A.P. van Veldhuizen 


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Board member at MB Foundation 

Historical Wiardi Beckmanstichting 

Miscellaneous 

Winner ‘Debating and column writing competition: 

Op zoek naar de nieuwe Maarten van Rossem’ 

during the national ‘History Night’, October 

18th. 

Radio interview ‘Het belang van Johan Huizinga’, 

October 23th. 

Lecture at ‘Historisch Cafe Amsterdam’, November 

12th. 

Several lectures given at different political parties 

on the history of Social-Democracy. 

Newspaper articles: 

NRC Next, ‘Waarom kent Nederland maar één 

publiek historicus’, 27-10-2008 . 

NRC Handelsblad, ‘Financiële crisis kan PvdA uit 

impasse halen’, 14-11-2008. 

Trouw, ‘PvdA’ers die met elkaar knokken: dat is 

traditie’, 5-6-2008. 

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Drs. D. Oude Nijhuis 


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Paper presentation at the European Social Science 

History Conference, ‘Revisiting the Role of Labor: 

Union Structure and the Development of Old- 

Age Pensions in the Netherlands and the United 

Kingdom. 


Coordinator of the minor European Union Studies. 

PhD Defences 

Drs. L.U. Baltzer 

Drs. J.P. den Hertog 

Drs. J.H.C. Kern, 

Drs. G. van der Ree 

Drs. J. de Mooij. 


Drs. F. Bloem 

Drs. P.M.M.A. Bronzwaer 

Ms. J. Dmitrova, MA 

E. Hanafi 

M. Harpe 

Drs. R. ‘t Hart 

Drs. M. van Hattem 

Drs. T.C.J. van Hengel 

Ms. drs. P. van der Hoeven 

Drs. J. de Jong 

J. Lentzner 

Drs. F.R. Loomeijer 

Drs. M. Melchers 

Drs. O. Mensink 

Drs. A.A. Poldervaart 

Y. Ryan 

Drs. S. van Schilt 

Drs. B. Schoenmaker 

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

Mr. R. Wegener Sleeswijk 


Ms. E. Baakman 

R. Boer 

G. Eley 

Ms. R. den Heijer 

J. de Jong 

J. Luiten 

R. van Nierop 

Ms. C. van de Wetering 

K. van Wijk 

European Expansion and 

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five hundred years is the phenomenon currently 

referred to as the process of globalisation. In this 

process, a central role has been played in the past 

by the phenomenon of Western European expansion, 

the various ways in which other continents 

responded to this and the developments resulting 

from this expansion. Globalisation means the 

emergence of a world economy, worldwide migration 

flows, the birth of nation states and many 

other phenomena. Central to this history are the 

early activities of the chartered trading companies, 

the rise of colonial empires and enterprises, 

resistance movements, wars of independence 

and decolonization, all of which have left us their 

archives whose unique character stems from the 

interaction between expanding and contracting 

Europe and the rest of the world. It is therefore 

no coincidence that this history has its own historiography 

and its own journals. Owing to the rich 

economic, anthropological and political data they 

contain, ‘colonial’ archives are also of inestimable 

value in the study of the autochthonous history 

of non-Western areas, as demonstrated by the 

success of the TANAP and ENCOMPASS projects 

which the history department of Leiden University 

is presently carrying out in close cooperation 

with academic institutions in Asia and South 

Africa. The scholarly and societal importance of 

studying the history of European expansion and 

global interaction cannot be overemphasized. 

The history department plays an important role 

in the study of global history. As early as 1902, 

Leiden University offered lectures on ‘colonial 

history’, but from the 1950s onwards turned 

towards ‘global history’. This concept should not 

be understood in the sense of the comparative 


method, but as an approach which focuses on the 

study of emerging global connections in history. 

As the American historian Patrick Manning put 

it: ‘Connection conveys the character of world 

historical analysis better than any other term. It 

acknowledges locality and uniqueness, yet also 

invokes broad patterns’. (Navigating World History: 

Historians Create a Global Past 2003). 

In this context, the history department of Leiden 

University centers 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 recognisable individual character. In this 

way, the history department has created a niche 

for itself in the field of global history focusing on 

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migration and transfer of people, beliefs, goods 

and ideas within and among the continents. 

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Workshop ‘Shift from the Baltic to the Atlantic’, 

Upssala University, Sweden: ‘Atlantic Entrepreneurship: 

cross-cultural business networks, 

1580-1776’. 

XV Congresso Internacional de AHILA: ‘1808- 

2008: Crisis y problemas en el Mundo Atlántico’, 

Leiden University, The Netherlands: ‘Investimento 

no Atlântico: redes multiculturais de negócio, 

1580-1776’. 

First Anglo-Dutch Workshop on Intellectual 

Relations between Portugal and Northern Europe, 

St. Peter’s College, Oxford University, UK: 

‘Amsterdam and the Portuguese ports, 1580- 

1640: business transactions, merchant networks 

and economic retardation’. 

European Science Foundation, Eurocores Programme 

TECT Joint-Project Workshop – Trust, 

reputation, defectors, and sustaining social 

norms: studying spatially complex cooperative relationships 

in ways that connect TECT projects’, 

University of Porto, Portugal: ‘Failing socio-economic 

networks, 1580-1776’. 

De Colónia a Império: a fuga da corte e a inde- 

pendência do Brasil, 1808-1831’, guest lecture, 

Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies, 

Yale University, USA. 


Fulbright Fellowship for Researchers, Department 

of History, Yale University, USA. Project: 

Atlantic Entrepreneurship: cross-cultural business 

networks, 1580-1776. (September 2007 till 

June 2008). 



TECT Joint-Project (reviewer) 

Publications 

Articulação do Sal Português aos circuitos mundiais. 

Antigos e novos consumos. The articulation 

of Portuguese salt with worldwide routes. 

Past and new consumption trends. , pp. 161-182. 

Porto: Instituto de História Moderna/Universidade 

do Porto. 


Book review. The dynamics of economic culture 

in the North Sea and Baltic region in the late 

Middle Ages and Early Modern period]. In: International 

Journal of Maritime History, 20. 

Book review. A History of Portuguese Expansion, 

1400-1668]. In: European History Quarterly. 

Globalisation in history and the history of 

globalisation: the application of a globalisation 

model to historical research. In: Modelski, G., 

Thompson, W., Devezas, T. (Eds.), Globalization 

as evolutionary process: modeling, simulating, 

and forecasting global change, pp. 244-268. New 

York: Routledge. 




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Portuguese Jews in Amsterdam: an insight on 

entrepreneurial behaviour in the Dutch Republic. 

In: Jarvis, Adrian & Lee, Robert (Eds.), Trade, 

migration and urban networks in port cities, c. 

1640-1940 (Research in Maritime History), 38. 

, pp. 15-31. St. John’s: International Maritime 

Economic History Association. 


The commercial relationship between Amsterdam 

and the Portuguese salt-exporting ports: 

Aveiro and Setubal, 1580-1715. Journal of Early 

Modern History, 12, pp. 25-53. 


Prof. dr. J.L. Blussé 


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Invited lecture: 

13 January Seminar Sastra dan Sejarah dalam Era 

VOC. Caught between the Regional and Global 

Perspective: the Challenge of Indonesian History 

Writing. 

17 March invited lecture University of London. 

Rivalry and Partnership in late 18th Century 

Monsoon Asia, the Role of the Americans. 

14-16 May, Orb or Sceptre Conferentie in honor 

of prof. Diogo Courto ‘Windows of Opportunity 

in the Cross-Cultural Trading Networks of East 

and Southeast Asia’. 

19-28 May, International Dutch Vietnamese 

Conference Hanoi, Vietnam. ‘The Japanese Connection 

in Tonkin and Hoian’. 


2 October, Blois, participation panel ‘Le systeme 

colonial hollandais’. 

16-18 October, Taipei,Academia Sinica, Zhongguo 

Haiyang Fazhanshi conference. Recent 

Trends in Maritime History. 

13-14 November, KNHG, The Hague, Relevance 

of Dutch History Congres, The Netherlands on 

the Global Stage. 

Keynote lecture: 

14-17 January, Encompass Conference Jakarta. 

Regime Changes in Monsoon Asia. 

Keynote speech: 

26-29 June World History Association Conference, 

London, Global Cities in the Early Modern 

age. 

14-16 December, Hainan University, Memorial 

Conference for the late Prof. Han Zhenhua; The 

Development of the Maritime Customs Office in 

Fujian: 


Encompass Conference, Jakarta 14-17 January 

2008 together with dr. Alicia Schrikker. 


Teaching and Research as extra ordinary professor 

at Nanyang Research Institute of Xiamen 

University. 17 November -4 December. 


Chairman Southeast Asian Studies Program (TC- 

ZOA). Until 1 December 2008. 

Committee member 2 extra ordinary chairs of 

Leiden University Foundation: Geschiedenis 

Europese Expansie, Prof. Dr. P.C. Emmer, Nederlandse 

historische linguïstiek, Prof. Dr. M. van 

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Director Encompass Program. 


committee 

Promotor with dr. A.A.P. Francken: A. Pos, ‘Het 

paviljoen van porselein: Nederlandse literaire 

Chinoiserie en het westerse beeld van China, 

1250-2007’, 24 June 2008. 

Promotor: Kogure Minori, National Prestige and 

Economic Interest. Dutch Policy towards Japan 

1850-1863, 25 September 2008. 

Promotor: W. Hugenholtz, De landrente belasting 

op Java 1812-1920, 25 September 2008. 

Promotor with Prof. dr. F.S. Gaastra: Chr. Nierstrasz, 

The Decline of the VOC; the relationship 

between Company and servant. 5 November 

2008. 


LUF subsidy Encompass project ÿ 100.000. 

Miscellaneous 

Member Koninklijke Hollandse Maatschappij der 

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12 March 2008: La Pérdida del Brasil Holandés. 

Grupos de poder en una república de la Edad 

Moderna. Coloquio de investigadores del Instituto 

de Historia, CSIC Madrid. 

3 April 2008: Comercio y diplomacia, la presencia 

económica y diplomática de las Provincias 

Unidas en España el la segunda mitad del siglo 

XVII. Coloquio Anual del Proyecto Naciones y 

Comunidades: perspectivas comparadas en la Europa 

atlántica, 1650-1830, 2-3 de Abril de 2008, 

Madrid. 

8 October 2008: La Perte du Brésil holandais et 

la politique étrangère de la République de Provinces 

Unies, 1625-1653. Ciclo de conferencias 

‘O Atlântico Ibero-Americano (secs. XVI-XVIII) 

Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de 

Lisboa, Lisboa. 

17 October 2008: El diario de Lodewijck Huygens, 

1660-1661. Un documento que permite 

conocer a los españoles y holandeses después de 

la Paz de Munster. Encuentros, desencuentros y 

reencuentros. Tercer Congreso de Hispanistas del 

BeNeLux, 16-18 Octubre de 2008, Gante, Bélgica. 

Conferences: 

Vlaams-Nederlands Jaarcongres in Diest (Belgium) 

2008, Flemish-Dutch Annual Congres for 

Early Modern History at Diest (Belgium) 2008. 



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A. Research in Madrid: 1 February- 6 April 2008 

as senior research professor at: 

Instituto de Historia, Centro de Ciencias Humanas 

y Sociales, CSIC, Madrid (Spain) 

At Instituto de Historia dr. Ebben participated as 

a senior researcher in the international research 

program Nations and Communities: comparative 

perspective in Atlantic Europe, 1650-1830 

(NACOM). This program consists of a comparative 

study by six European scholars of merchant 

communities of foreign origin settled in various 

European ports between 1650 and 1830. Within 

this project Ebben studies Dutch merchants in 

Seville/Cádiz, Málaga, Alicante and Bilbao in the 

late seventeenth century. The NACOM project is 

officially recognized and financially supported by 

the Spanish Ministry of Education, Science and 

Cultural Affairs. 


Biblioteca Nacional, Salón General, Sala de 

Manuscritos Cervantes. 

Biblioteca Tomás Navarro y Tomás. 

Archivo Histórico Nacional, Consejos, Consejo 

de Estado. 

Archivo Municipal de la Villa de Madrid, Secretaría. 

B. Research in Seville and Cádiz: 7 April- 7 June 

2008 as a senior research professor at: 

Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, CSIC, 

Seville (Spain). 

Archives and libraries consultation: 

Archivo Histórico Provincial de Cádiz, Protocolos 

notariales. 

Archivo Histórico Municipal de Cádiz, Actas 


Capitulares, Padrones y Censos. 

Archivo General de Indias de Sevilla, Indiferentes 

General, Series de Arribadas, Contratación, Consulados, 

Escribanía de Cámara. 

Archivo Histórico de Sevilla, Protocolos notariales. 

Biblioteca Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos, 

Sevilla. 


Independant member of the reading committee 

of Hispania, Revista Española de Historia, CSIC 


Alva-project: Collection of biographical articles 

on Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, third duke of 

Alba (to be published in 2010). Editorial board: 

dr. M.A. Ebben and R.H.A.M. Baron van Hövell 

tot Westerflier MCL. 

Exhibition: Het vredesjaar 1609. Het Twaalfjarig 

Bestand, 1609-1621. Exhibition to commemorate 

the Twelve years truce, 1609-1621. Historical 

Museum, The Hague. Scientific committee: dr. 

M. van Baalen, dr. M.A. Ebben and prof. dr. S. 

Groenveld. 

Member of the editorial board of the website The 

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

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). 

Member of the reading committee of the dissertation: 

Jessica V. Roitman, ‘Us and them: intercultural 

trade and the Sephardim, 1595-1640’. 

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Co-promotor of dissertation: 

R. Dijk, Het Hoogheemraadschap Rijnland, 1550- 

1650. 

J. Besseling, Een sociale en bestuurlijke geschiedenis 

van een stad in Holland: Purmerend 

Publications 

Ebben, M.A. (2008) 

‘Een unieke Nederlandse traditie? De Republiek 

als prototypisch poldermodel’. Spiegel Historiael. 

Maandblad voor geschiedenis en archeologie, 43 

(2), pp. 8-13. 




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Participation in a workshop ‘Four Centuries of 

Relations between the Netherlands and Vietnam 

in Hanoi, ‘May 19-21 2008 and contribution to: 

‘The Trading World of South East Asia and the 

VOC’s relation with Vietnam in the Seventeenth 

and Eighteenth Centuries’. 

Lecture: ‘De zoveelste schipvaart. De eerste reizen 

naar Indië en de Linschoten-Vereeniging’ on the 

occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Linschoten-Vereeniging 

at the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum, 

Den Haag, June 14, 2008. 

Paper presentation: ‘Recruiting and organising 

international shipping labour in the 17th -18th 

century in The Dutch East India Company’, 9th 

North Sea History Conference, Stavanger Maritime 

Museum, 5-7 september 2008, Stavanger. 

Lecture and workshop ‘De VOC en de economische 

en demografische ontwikkeling van de 

republiek in de 17de en 18de eeuw’. Historyday 

organized by ICLON on the theme ‘Dynamiek en 

stagnatie in de Republiek’ (continuing education 

for teachers), Leiden, 19 september 2008. 

Lecture: ‘Rijke handel en bulkhandel. De Nederlandse 

handel met Azië en met het Baltische 

gebied’. Contribution to the symposium ‘Baltic 

Connections’, Den Haag, Nationaal Archief, 

October 1, 2008. 


Chair, MA Seminaire Migration en Atlantique, 

Université de Nantes, May 28-30, 2008. 

Contribution to KNAW/IISG Seminar on Unfree 

Labour, Amsterdam, June 30- July 2, 2009. 

Contribution on Slavery and the Atlantic Slave 

Trade, Annual Meeting Academia Europaea, 

Liverpool September 18-21, 2008 


Referee Austrian “Wissenschaftsfonds”. 


Chair, Archaeology & History Section, Academia 

Europaea (London). 


Member Editorial Board of the Journal of Imperial 

and Commonwealth History (London), 

Jahrbuch für Geschichte von Staat, Wirtschaft 

und Gesellschaft Lateinamerikas (Cologne/Ham- 



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burg), Studien zur historischen Migrationsforschung 

(Osnabrück), Journal of Caribbean 

History (Kingston, Jamaica), Revue d’histoire 

maritime (Paris). 


committee 

Supervisor of Damian Pargas (slavery in the 19th 

century US), Filipa Ribeiro da Silva (The Dutch 

and Portuguese in West-Africa, 1600-1800) and 

Jessica Roitman (Sephardi Networks in the Atlantic, 

1590-1650). 

Ms. drs. N.C. Everts 


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‘Impressions of a Contact Zone: Some Reflections 

on the Representation of Indigenous Culture 

in the Documents of the Formosan Encounter 

Source Publication’, Conference of Taiwan 

Studies in the Netherlands & New Researches on 

Taiwan History, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia 

Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 3 December 2008. 

Prof.dr. F.S. Gaastra 


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Participation Workshop “British Asia and the 

British Atlantic, c. 1500-1820: Two Worlds or 

One?”, which is subsidized by the Social Science 

and Humanities Research Council of Canada 

(SSHRCC). 


In co-operation with the Nationaal Archief projectleader 

of ‘The European Labour market and 

the Dutch East India Company - a database of the 

personnel of the Dutch East India Company in 

the 18th century’ financed by NWO. 

Participation in the project ‘Dutch connections: 

the circulation of people, goods and ideas in the 

Atlantic world, 1680-1795’ financed by NWO. 

Projectleader is professor Gert Oostindie (University 

Leiden, KITLV-KNAW); other participants 

are professor Karel Davids (Vrije Universiteit 

Amsterdam) and Dr. Henk den Heijer 

(Universisty Leiden). 

President of the Commissie voor Zeegeschiedenis 

of the KNAW, 

President of the jury of the Hoogendijkprijs. 

Board Member of the ‘Vereniging het Nederlands 

Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam. 

Member of the ‘editorial board’ of the International 

Journal of Maritime History . 

Member of the editorial board of the Zeven Provinciën 

series. 

Member of the supervisory committees of the 

project ‘Dutch letters in the Public Record Office’ 

Sailing Letters) and the project , a database hosted 

by the Nederlands Instituut voor Geschiedenis in 

The Hague. 

Member of the Committee appointed to formulate 

a maritime-historical canon. 

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Supervision of the NWO research project “The 

European Labour market and the Dutch East India 

Company – a database of the personnel of the 

Dutch East India Company in the 18th century”. 


committee 

Joost Schokkenbroek: ‘Trying Out. An Anatomy 

of Dutch Whaling and Sealing in the Nineteenth 

Century, 1815-1885 (April 2, 2008)’. 

Albert van der Belt: ‘Het VOC-bedrijf op Ceylon. 

Een voorname vestiging van de Oost-Indische 

Compagnie in de 18de eeuw’. April 10, 2008. 

Ruud Paesie: ‘Lorrendrayen op Africa’. De illegale 

goederen- en slavenhandel op West-Afrika tijdens 

het achttiende-eeuwse handelsmonopolie van de 

West-Indische Compagnie, 1700-1734 (April 17, 

2008). 

Chris Nierstrasz: (together with prof. Blussé) 

‘Lubbert Jan Van Eck en de Nederlandse particuliere 

handel in Azië in de 18de eeuw’. (November 

5, 2008). 

Others: 

Michel Serruys: ‘Stedelijke netwerken in beweging’. 

De invloed van de Zuid-Nederlandse 

verkeerspolitiek op de handelsstromen tussen 

de Republiek en de Oostenrijkse Nederlanden 

(1713-1789). 

External PhD-students: 

Drs. J. Anten, ‘De Nederlandse onderzeedienst 

als slagvloot’. Onderzeestrategie versus slagvlootstrategieën 

1912 -1942. (with Prof G. Teitler). 

Lincoln Paine, ‘Middle Ages, Middle Seas: Eurasian 

Maritime Networks in the Seventh to Thir- 

teenth Centuries’ (with Prof. dr J.L. Blussé). 

Drs. M.A. van Alphen, ‘Het oorlogsschip als varend 

bedrijf’ (with Prof. J. Hoffenaar). 

Drs. Eerde Beulakker, ‘Watersport in de twintigste 

eeuw’ (with Prof. Y. Kuiper, Groningen). 

Jan P.M. van Heeswijk, S.C. Nederburgh (1762- 

1811): VOC’s Last Hope (with Prof. J.L. Blussé). 

T.J.C. van Hengel, ‘F.A. Vening Meinesz (1887- 

1966), “gentleman-scientist” in de 20ste eeuw’ 

Drs. B. Westenbroek, ‘Banda en de nootmuskaat’. 

Member of the committee for Ismail Hakki 

Kadi, ‘Natives and Interlopers’. Competition between 

Ottoman and Dutch merchants in the 18th 

century (Promotion: 3 dec 2008, Promotor Prof. 

dr. E.J. Zürcher). 

Publications 

‘Taco Hayo Milo (1906-1960). De inspirator’, 

Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis, jrg. 27, no. 1 

(maart 2008) 41-45. 

‘De Kamer Rotterdam van de VOC’, Zeemagazijn, 

jrg. 35, n. 2 (april 2008) p. 16-17. 

‘De Linschoten-Vereeniging 1908-2008’in: Henk 

den Heijer en Cees van Romburgh (eds.), Reizen 

door de eeuwen heen. 100 jaar Linschoten-vereeniging 

(1980-2008) (Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 

11-58, 135-140. 

‘From Crisis to Prosperity. Dutch Shipping 1860- 

1913’, in: Lars U. Scholl and David M. Williams 

(eds.), Crisis and Transition. Maritime sectors in 

the North Sea Region 1790-1940 (Deutsche Maritime 

Studien, 5; Bremen: Verlag H.M. Hauschild 

GmbH, / Bremerhaven: Deutsches Schiffartsmuseum, 

2008) 75- 88. 

‘Een verstoteling in een armoedige staat. Jacob 

Nicolaas Michel over Batavia in 1794’, in E. 



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van der Doe, P. Moree en D.J. Tang (eds.) , De 

dominee met het stenen hart en andere overzeese 

briefgeheimen (Zutphen: Walburg Pers 2008) 

113-118. 

‘Een kist ligt hier altijd klaar’. Met de VOC naar 

Batavia. Kleio. Tijdschrift van de vereniging van 

docenten in geschiedenis en staatsinrichting in 

Nederland, 49 (8), pp. 16-19. 

(Article / Letter to editor) Gaastra, F.S. (2008). 

Dr. J.J.L. Gommans 


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Annual meeting of American Association of 

Asian Studies at Atlanta (April 2008) – no paper. 


Convener of the conference on Empires and Emporia: 

The Orient in World-historical Space and 

Time (at the occasion of the 50th anniversary of 

the Journal of the Economic and Social History of 

the Orient), Leiden., August 2008. 


Visiting Professor at The College of William and 

Mary, Virginia USA (January-June 2008). 


Advice re. proposals for the Netherlands Institute 

for Advanced Studies (2 x) and NWO (1x); 

External referee for the Journal of Early Modern 


History and Journal of Asian Studies; Advice on 

Mughal military technology for History Channel 

(Wild Dream Films); Advice on Asia collection 

building at IISG (Amsterdam);. 


Board member Studium Generale Leiden. 


Leiden coordinator Project “Europe-South Asia 

Maritime Heritage Project: Teaching Methodologies, 

Distance Learning and Multimedia Course 

Materials Development” (Partner in Asia Link 

Programma, European Commission). 

Coordinator MA-track History of European Expansion 

and Globalization. 

Leiden Track-director of the Hermann-Goetz. 

Leiden-Heidelberg Exchange Programme on the 

History of Modern South Asia. 

ENCOMPASS program-committee Institute for 

History UL . 


committee 

Co-promotor: 

Stephan van Galen: “Arakan and Bengal: The rise 

and decline of the Mrauk U kingdom 

(Burma) from the fifteenth to the seventeenth 

century AD” (CNWS, Leiden). March 2008. 

Gijs Kruijtzer, “Indian xenophobias: Progressions 

of consciousness in the seventeenth-century 

Deccan” (University of Arizona, USA). March 

2008. 

Janet Kamphorst: “In praise of death: War and 

the warrior in medieval Marwar (South Asia)” 

(CNWS, Leiden). April 2008. 

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N.W. Posthumus Institute, Leiden University 

Fund, J. Gonda Foundation (c. ÿ 15.000). 

Contribution to ENCOMPASS A Dutch-Asian 

multilateral Educational and Historical Research 

Project. 

Miscellaneous 

Radio-interview at “Met het oog op morgen” 

(Mumbai attacks November 2008). 

Publications 

Zurndorfer, H.T. & Gommans, J.J.L. (2008) 

Roots and Routes of Development in China and 

India. In: Zurndorfer, H.T. & Gommans, J.J.L. 

(Eds.), pp. ix-xxxix. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 


Zurndorfer, H.T. & Gommans, J.J.L. (Eds.) 

(2008). 

Roots and Routes of Development in China and 

India. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 

(Book editorial). 

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the 

Orient. Journal of the Economic and Social History 

of the Orient, 51. 

Dr. H.J. den Heijer 


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Congress Association of Caribbean Historians. 

11-16 May 2008, Paramaribo, Suriname. 

Invited lecture: To ransack a colony: Cassard’s 

raid on Surinam in 1712 and its effects on marronage. 


Organisation symposium: Verleden, heden en 

toekomst van het reisverhaal. Honderd jaar Linschoten-Vereeniging. 

3 November 2008, Maritime Museum, Rotterdam. 

Lectures 

“Oog in oog met Afrika” de eerste contacten 

tussen Nederlanders en Afrikanen, 17 February 

2008, Africa Museum, Cadier en Keer. 

‘De carrière van Michiel Adriaensz de Ruyter’, 6 

March 2008, Historical shipyard Batavia, Lelystad. 

‘Nederlanders in het Atlantisch gebied’, 19 May 

2008, Anton de Kom University, Paramaribo, 

Suriname. 

‘Handel in mensen en goederen’, 19 September 

2008, ICLON, Leiden University, Leiden,. 

‘Nederlandse contacten met Zuid-Amerika’, 19 

October 2008, Stichting Nederlandse Kaap Hoorn 

Vaarders, Hoorn. 

‘De West-Indische Compagnie’, 21 October 2008, 

Arendsdorp, Den Haag. 

‘Denken over slavenhandel en slavernij in Nederland’, 

19 November 2008, HOVO, Leiden University, 


‘Handel in mensen en goederen’, 22 November 

2008, Leiden University, Leiden. 


Chairman of the Linschoten-Vereeniging. 



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Member of the advisory committee of “The 

Atlantic World and the Dutch, 1500- 2000” 

(AWAD). Project of the KITLV, Nationaal Archief, 

Gemeentearchief Amsterdam, Koninklijke 

Bibliotheek, Universiteit Leiden, Erasmus Universiteit. 


committee 

Co-promotor of E. Jagdew, Vredesverdragen met 

marrons (promotor prof.dr. G. Oostindie). 

Co-promotor of K. Fatah-Black, Paramaribo as 

a Dutch nodal point in the Atlantic (promotor 

prof.dr. G. Oostindie). 

Co-promotor of R. Paesie, ‘Lorrendrayen op 

Africa’. De illegale goederen- en slavenhandel op 

West-Afrika tijdens het achttiende-eeuwse handelsmonopolie 

van de West-Indische Compagnie, 

1700-1734 (17 April 2008, Leiden University, 

promotor prof.dr. F. Gaastra). 

Member of PhD committee 

J. Schokkenbroek, Trying-out. An Anatomy of 

Dutch Waling and Sealing in the Nineteenth Century, 

1815-1885 (2 April 2008, Leiden University, 

promotor prof. dr. F. Gaastra). 

A. van der Belt, Het VOC-bedrijf op Ceylon. Een 

voorname vestiging van de Oost-Indische Compagnie 

in de 18de eeuw (10 April 2008, Leiden 

University, pomotor prof.dr. L. Blussé). 

A. de Witt, Leven, werken en geloven in zeevarende 

gemeenschappen. Schiedam, Maassluis en 

Ter Heijde in de zeventiende eeuw (4 September 

2008, Leiden University, promotor prof.dr. J. 

Bruijn). 

C. Nierstrasz, In the Shadow of the Company. 


The VOC and its Servants in the Period of 

Decline, 1740-1796 (5 November 2008, Leiden 

University, promotor prof.dr. L. Blussé). 

Miscellaneous 

Editor of “Netwerk”, the yearbook of the National 

Fishery Museum, Vlaardingen. 

Organization exhibition Reizen door de eeuwen 

heen, December 2008 – January 2009, Library of 

Leiden University, Leiden. 

Inventory of collection research notes by the late 

R. Baesjou, Library of Leiden University, Leiden. 

Publications 

Bookreview. [Review: Een Spaanse Groninger in 

Marokko. De levens van Johan Willem Ripperda 

(1682-1737)]. In: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 

121. 

Book review. [Review: Bouweteelt. Tien Scheveningse 

verhalen]. In: Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis, 

1. 

Michael Georg de Boer (1867-1958). De schoolmeester. 

Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis, 1 (27), 

pp. 25-30. (Article / Letter to editor) 

Heijer, H.J., den & Romburgh, C., van (Eds.) 

(2008). 

‘Reizen door de eeuwen heen’. 100 jaar Linschoten-Vereeniging. 

Zutphen: Walburg Pers. 

(Book editorial). 

Heijer, H.J., den & Acda, G.M.W. & Vliet, A., van 

(2008). 

‘Twee eeuwen maritieme geschiedschrijving in 

Nederland’. Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis, 1 

(27), pp. 3-17. (Article / Letter to editor). 

Heijer, H.J., den & Romburgh, C., van (2008). 

Werken van de Linschoten-Vereeniging. ‘Reizen 

door de eeuwen heen’. 100 jaar Linschoten-Ver- 

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Heijer, H.J., den & Romburgh, C., van (2008). 

Woord vooraf. , Reizen door de eeuwen heen. 100 

jaar Linschoten-Vereeniging, pp. 5-6. Zutphen: 

Walburg Pers. (Part of book or chapter of book) 

Book review. The Slave Ship. A Human History]. 

In: Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis, 27 (Book 

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Session chairman and commentator at the First 

Encompass Conference on Regime Change in 

Indonesia, Jakarta, 15-17 January. 

Lecture for ‘Indische school’ at Pasar Malam, The 

Hague, 29 May. 

Lectures on economic globalization at the International 

Programme of South East Asia (IPSEA) 

intensive course on ‘Globalization and Localization 

in Southeast Asia’, Naples 18-20 June. 

Commentator at the workshop on ‘Mengisi 

kemerdekaan’ [‘Substantiating independence’] at 

Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, 11 August. 

Paper ‘Economic growth and decolonization in 

Indonesia’, at the international workshop on ‘The 

Indonesian economy in the early independence 

period’, Leiden, 15-16 October. 

Lecture ‘Economic decolonization in Indonesia’ 

at Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschie- 

denis (IISG), Amsterdam, 25 November. 


Organizer of ‘The Indonesian economy in the 

early independence period’, Leiden, 15-16 October. 


Book launch of Bridges to new business; The 

economic decolonization of Indonesia, Leiden, 15 

October. 


Research at National Archives of Indonesia, Jakarta, 

21 January – 15 February. 

Visit to Research School of Pacific and Asian 

Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, 

31 March – 4 April. 

Selection of Encompass students at Gadjah Mada 

University, Yogyakarta, 20-22 May. 


Anonymous referee Bulletin of Indonesian Economic 

Studies. 


Treasurer of Koninklijk Instituut voor Land-, 

Taal- en Volkenkunde (KITLV), Leiden. 


committee 

Co-promotor of D. Marks, Accounting for services; 

The economic development of the Indonesian 

service sector, 1900-2000 (University of 

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Internationalization programme of N.W.O., 

entitled ‘Economics, politics and culture in early 

post-independence Indonesia’, in co-operation 

with the Australian National University: ÿ 67,400. 

Publications 

Lindblad, J.Th. (2008) 

Bridges to new business; The economic decolonization 

of Indonesia. Leiden: KITLV Press. 

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‘Anton de Kom and the Formative Phase of 

Surinamese Decolonization’, 40th Conference of 

the Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH), 

Paramaribo, Suriname, May 11-15, 2008 (invited 

lecture). 

‘Wij slaven van Suriname: a sui generis essay on 

politics and engagement’, 6th Caribbean Reasonings 

Conference, Kingston, Jamaica, June 11-13, 

2008 (invited lecture). 


Organization Panel ‘Resistance and Pacification 

in the Caribbean. The Continuing Relevance of 

a Research Approach’, 40th Conference of the 

Association of Caribbean Historians (ACH), 

Paramaribo, Suriname, May 11-15, 2008. 



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). 


Coordinator MPhil in History. 

Coordinator PhD in History. 

Coordinator Australian Netherlands Research 

Collaboration (ANRC). 

Member Encompass Scholarship Committee. 

Miscellaneous 

Advisor Suriname Desk, Direction Western 

Hemisphere, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The 

Hague. 

Academic publications 

Rosemarijn Hoefte, Peter Meel en Hans Renders 

(red.), Tropenlevens. De (post)koloniale biografie 

(Amsterdam/Leiden: Boom/KITLV Uitgeverij). 

275p. 

‘Inleiding’ (met Rosemarijn Hoefte) in: Rosemarijn 

Hoefte, Peter Meel en Hans Renders 

(red.), Tropenlevens. De (post)koloniale biografie, 

pp. 11-15. Amsterdam/Leiden: Boom/ 

KITLV Uitgeverij. 

‘Henck Arron. De politicus’ in: Rosemarijn 

Hoefte, Peter Meel en Hans Renders (red.), 

Tropenlevens. De (post)koloniale biografie, pp. 

171-194. Amsterdam/Leiden: Boom/KITLV 

Uitgeverij. 

‘Terughoudende staat, opkomende natie. Surinaamse 

helden en heldinnen’ in: Rosemarijn 

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Tropenlevens. De (post)koloniale biografie, pp. 

236-262. Amsterdam/Leiden: Boom/KITLV 

Uitgeverij. 

Review of Olwyn M. Blouet, ‘The Contemporary 

Caribbean. History, Life and Culture since 1945’ 

and Gad Heuman, ‘The Caribbean’, Itinerario. 

International Journal on the History of European 

Expansion and Global Interaction XXXII (2) 162- 

165. 

Prof.dr. G. Oostindie 


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G. Oostindie, ‘Had Rudolf van Lier het zo willen 

vertellen?’, paper, Van Lier-lecture Ruben Gowricharm, 

Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde, 

Caraïbische Werkgroep Letteren, Leiden 8 

February. 

‘The costly benefits of non-sovereignty’, Conference 

‘Reflections on Independence; British Policy 

in the Caribbean for the 21st century’, Institute of 

Commonwealth Studies, London, 18-19 March. 

‘History brought home; Postcolonial migrations 

and the Dutch rediscovery of slavery’, Conference 

of the Association of Caribbean Historians, 

Paramaribo, 13 May. 

‘History brought home: postcolonial migrations 

and the Dutch rediscovery of slavery’, Sixth Biennial 

MESEA Conference, Leiden, 25-28 June. 

‘Inleiding’, ‘De dag van het slavernijverleden’, 

NiNsee, 6 September. 


G. Oostindie, ‘Dutch Colonialism, Migration and 

Cultural Heritage’, University of Stellenbosch, 

South Africa, 25-28 March. 

(with Ulbe Bosma en Jan Lucassen), Workshop 

‘Postcolonial Immigration and Identity Formation 

in Europe since 1945; Towards a Comparative 

Perspective’, IISG, 7-8 November. 


G. Oostindie, ‘Koloniale geschiedenis, migratie 

en cultureel erfgoed’, lecture booklaunch Dutch 

colonialism, migration and cultural heritage, 

Museum Maluku, Utrecht, 31 October. 

‘De Koninkrijksrelaties in vijf stellingen’, Institute 

Clingendael, 4 November. 

‘Dutch Atlantic Colonialism, 1600-1830’, University 

of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, 

13 November. 

‘The Dutch in the Caribbean: Unfinished Business?’, 

University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, 

Trinidad, 14 November. 


Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme 

(Parijs), 15 September - 31 October 2008. 

Eric Remarque Institute for European Studies van 

New York University, 17 November - 5 December 

2008. 


Member Evaluations Committee Programmed 

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Member task-force Asia studies, UL. 



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Professor Caribbean History, Universiteit Leiden 

(parttime). 

Member Committee International Policy 

(KNAW). 

Member Board Centre for Holocaust and 

Genocide Studies (Universiteit van Amsterdam/ 

KNAW). 

Editor New West Indian Guide. 

Chairman Board ‘The Atlantic World and the 

Dutch, 1500-2000’ (KITLV). 

Editor, Island Studies. 

Member Board Center for Migrants History. 


Member Advisory Board, Centre for Caribbean 

Studies, University of Warwick. 

Member Advisory Board, Nationaal Archeologisch 

Antropologisch Museum, Curaçao. 

Member Advisory Board, Pensamiento Proprio; 

Revista Bilingüe de Ciencias Sociales del Gran 

Caribe. 

Member Advisory Board, Latin American and 

Caribbean Ethnic Studies. 


Bringing History Home (KITLV project) 

NWO/KNAW 

ÿ 652.000 

Period: 2005 - 2009. 

AWAD (KITLV project) 

HGIS (Homogene Groep Internationale Samenwerking) 

funds from the Ministry of the Interior, 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Education 

and Science. 

ÿ 280.000 

Period: 2004-2008. 


Dutch Colonialism, Migration and Cultural Heritage 

(KITLV project) 

Ministry of Education and Science 

ÿ 150.000 

Period: 2007-2008. 

The History of the Police in Suriname and the 

Netherlands (KITLV project) 

Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Justice, 

KLPD, KMAR, Police Academy, Police Force 

Amsterdam-Amstelland, Haaglanden and Utrecht 

ÿ 365.000. 

Period: 2008 - 2010. 

The Governors of the Netherlands Antilles since 

1815 (KITLV project) 

Ministry of the Interior 

ÿ 90.000 

2008-2009 

Subsidy: third funding. 

Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1670-1800 (University 

Leiden) 

NWO 

ÿ 550.000 

Period: 2009-2013. 

Miscellaneous 

Several mediadebates. 

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Invited lecture “Dutch political attitudes in Asia: 

diplomacy in eighteenth century Ceylon as example”. 

At the 1st International Academic Forum 

for the Next Generation: “Cultural Reproduction 

on its Interface: From the Perspectives of Text, 

Diplomacy, Otherness, and Tea in East Asia.” 

Organized by the Institute for Cultural Interaction 

Studies (ICIS), Kansai University Osaka 13th 

– 14th Dec 2008. 


Organization Encompass Pilot Conference: 

“Transitions of Regime in Asia - 1650-1960”. 

Jakarta 15 – 17 January 2008. Organized in cooperation 

with ARSIP Nasional Republik Indonesia 

Organization of a Masterclass by Prof. Sanjay 

Subramaniam entitled ‘Violence and Its Memory 

in South Asia: The Pre-colonial Past’. The Masterclass 

was organized for the Gonda Foundation, 

in connection to the Gonda Lecture given by 

Prof. Subramaniam that year. Date 25th November 

2008, Trippenhuis, Koninklijke Nederlandse 

Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW). 


committee 

Member of the promotiecommissie Wouter Hugenholz 

thesis title: “Landrente belasting op Java 

1812-1920” (defense date: 25 september 2008). 


Fundraising: Raised funds for Encompass PhD 

research. a) LUF/Campagne voor Leiden con- 

tribution of ÿ 100.000 to Encompass research 

2009-2017. b) NWO contribution of ÿ 550.000 

to Encompass PhD research 2009 – 2014. 

NWO publication subsidy ÿ 2500. 

Miscellaneous 

Managing editor Itinerario. International Journal 

on the History of European Expansion and 

Global Interaction. 

Ms. drs. C.R.M.K.L. Viallé 


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Tenth International Conference on Thai Studies, 

9-11 January 2008, Thammasat University, 

Bangkok, Thailand. 

Panel: ‘Thailand in Asian Trade and Diplomacy: 

Views from Foreign Sources’. 

Paper: ‘Court Orders for Japanese Lacquerware; 

the Dutch East India Company’s Role in the Siamese-Japanese 

Trade’. 


Le Regard Éloigné. L’Europe et le Japon – XVIe– 

XIXe siècle, 16-17 October 2008, Centre Culturel 

Calouste Gulbenkian, École Pratique des Hautes 

Études and École Française d’Extrême-Orient, 

Paris, France. 

Paper: ‘From Nanban Shikki to Komo Shikki: 

Japanese Export Lacquer, Trade and Taste’. 

Invited keynote lecture: 



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Japanese Export Lacquer: 400 Years of East-West 

Cultural Exchange, 8 November 2008, Kyoto 

National Museum, Kyoto, Japan. 

Paper: ‘From Nanban Shikki to Komo Shikki: 

Japanese Export Lacquer, Trade and Taste’ 

(slightly different and longer version of the paper 

in Paris). 

Seminar ‘The Reception of Netherlandish Art in 

Asia in the Early Modern Period’, 28-29 March 

2008, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. 

Invitation to participate by Professor Thomas 

DaCosta Kaufmann. 


Research in the India Office Records, British 

Library, London, 24-29 September 2008. 

Miscellaneous 

Translation of Volume XIII of The Deshima Dagregisters, 

1660-1670. 

Editing of three volumes of the Tanap Monographs 

on the History of Asian-European Interaction, 

published by Brill Publishers: 

a. Chiu Hsin-hui, The Colonial ‘Civilizing Process’ 

in Dutch Formosa, 1624-1662. 

b. Ghulam A. Nadri, Eighteenth-Century Gujarat: 

The Dynamics of Its Political Economy, 1750- 

1800. 

c. Muridan Widjojo, The Revolt of Prince Nuku: 

Cross-cultural Alliance-making in Maluku,1780- 

1810 . 

Editing and proofreading of various other publications. 


Ms. drs. A. Dirks 


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Seventh European Social Science History Conference, 

Lisboa, Portugal, February 2008. Paper 

presentation in the ‘Crime and Police’ panel. 

Title: Re-educating Islamic juvenile delinquents: 

the establishment of state reformatories in the 

Netherlands Indies, 1918-1942. 

Leiden, 15-16 oktober 2008 commenter on paper 

Robert Cribb. During conference ‘The Indonesian 

economy in the early independence period: 

Challenges and achievements’. 

Part of international project ‘Economics, politics 

and culture in early post-independence Indonesia’ 

(financed by NWO and the Australian 

Research Council). 


Assistant-editor Itinerario Magazine, Leiden 

University. 


Organizer and secretary of informal discussion 

group about Late Colonial Society and Culture, 

meeting once a month to discus each others 

papers/chapters/articles. Members from different 

Dutch universities. 


Research leave in Indonesia in December subsi- 

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Lecture on Atlantische Dag, “Military Daily 

Life in Dutch Brazil (1630): Daily Life of WIC- 

Soldiers”, NiNsee (Nationaal Instituut Nederlands 

Slavernijverleden en Erfenis)/Amsterdam, 

06/13/2008. 


Since December 2007: CAPES, Ministry of 

Education, Brazil, PhD scholarship, the annual 

amount is ÿ 16 800. 

Miscellanous 

Volunteer researcher on “Projeto Resgate Barão 

Rio Branco – O Brasil em arquivos neerlandeses” 

(Rescue Project – Barão Rio Branco – Brazil in 

Dutch Archives). From May/2008 to May/2009. 

The research focused on the West Indian Company 

Archive stored at the National Archive, The 

Hague. 

Attended Dutch lessons at Volksuniversiteit, 

Leiden – Nederlands intensief 4/ Level 4. (36 

hours course). 

Attended on Seventeenth century Dutch reading 

lessons (College Zeventiende-eeuws Nederlands), 

offered by Dr. A. J. E. Harmsen (Faculteit der 

Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for Cultural Disciplines, 

Oude Nederlanddse L&C). The lessons 

took place on the first semester of 2008. 

Attended on Seventeenth century Dutch reading 

lessons (College Zeventiende-eeuws Nederlands), 

offered by the AIO’s J. Nobels and T. Simons, 

under supervision of Dr. M. J. van der Wal. 

Drs. J.C. Nierstrasz 


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Pargas, D.A. (2008). Boundaries and Opportunities: 

Comparing Slave Family Formation in the 

Antebellum South. Journal of Family History, 

(ISSN 0363-1990), 33(3), 316-345. 

Ms. drs. J.V. Roitman 



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“Group Augmentation Among the Sephardim, 

1595-1640,” presented at the Trust, Reputation, 

Defectors, and Sustaining Social Norms: Studying 

spatially complex cooperative relationships 

in ways that connect TECT projects conference 

organized by the European Science Foundation 

and the Faculty of Letters, University of Porto, 

Porto, Portugal: 26-29 March 2008. 


Selma Ruben Fellowship at the Katz Center for 

Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania 

(Philadelphia, USA) 

$15,000 for four months. 

Ms. F. Silva 


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“The role of Brazil in the Dutch and the Portuguese 

Slave Trade (1580s-1670s)”, XV Congreso 

Internacional de AHILA: 1808-2008: Crisis Y 

problemas en el Mundo Atlántico, Leiden University, 

Faculty of Humanities, Department of 

Latin-American Studies, Leiden, The Netherlands, 

26-29 August 2008. 

Ms. drs. C. Stolte 


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Global History Workshop, Geneva, January 2008 

(workshop participant). 

European Conference for Modern South Asian 

Studies, Manchester, June 2008 (workshop participant). 


Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India 

(as affiliated researcher). October 2008-January 

2009. 


Commissie Wetenschapsoefening (Faculty Committee 

for Academic Research, up to September). 


Advisor Encompass programme (February-May) 

during Dr. Schrikkers’ maternity leave. 


LUF/CWB grant of ÿ 1006 for the conduction of 

fieldwork in India. 

Publications 

Book review. Al-Mukha - The Transoceanic 

Trade of a Yemeni Staple Town as Mapped by 

Merchants of the VOC (1614-1640): Coffee, 

Spices and Textiles]. In: Itinerario, European 

Journal of Overseas History, 32. 

Morlang, C. & Stolte, C.M. (2008) 

Hochschulabschluesse für den Wiederaufbau. 

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Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit, 49 (3), pp. 

103-105. 



Tertiary Refugee Education in Afghanistan: vital 

for reconstruction. Forced Migration Review 

(30), pp. 62-64. 


Stolte, C.M. & Buruma, T.M.D. & Runhardt, R. & 

Smits, F.M. (Eds.) (2008) 

The Future of the European Union. Leiden: Sidestone 

Press. 

(Book editorial) . 

Transoceanic Trade: The Reconstruction of al- 

Mukha through VOC Records: An interview with 

C.G. Brouwer. Itinerario, European Journal of 

Overseas History, 32 (2), pp. 7-18. 



University Degrees for the Benefit of Reconstruction. 

Development and Cooperation International 

Journal, 35 (3), pp. 103-105. 


Drs. A. Weber 


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Encompass conference, 16 - 17 January 2008, 

Jakarta, ‘Science and Empire’ – Naturalists as 

Mediators of Knowledge in an Expanding Dutch 

Empire, 1815-1850. 

Language barriers, linguistic contacts and cul- 

tural brokers in the history of Europe’s encounter 

with the extra-European world, 16 – 18 May 

2008, Bamberg, Sprache als Werkzeug kolonialer 

Expansion im frühen 19. Jahrhundert: Die Erschließung 

des Javanischen am Beispiel Adriaan 

David Cornets de Groots (1804-1829). 

Local encounters and the global circulation of 

knowledge, 1750-1850. 9 June 2008, Leiden, A 

kingdom and its ‘imagined’ colony? – The Malay 

Archipelago in the eyes of the naturalist C.G.C. 

Reinwardt (1773-1854). 

Three Societies Conference (triennial), 4-6 July 

2008, Oxford, Naturalists as mediators of knowledge 

in an expanding Dutch colonial empire, 

1815-1850. 

Research Colloquium, 2 December 2008, Fern- 

Universität Hagen, Die wissenschaftliche Erschließung 

Niederländisch-Ostindiens im frühen 

19. Jahrhundert – (deutsche) Naturforscher im 

Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft und kolonialer 

Expansion. 


Workshop: Local Encounters and the global 

circulation of knowledge, 1750-1850, Leiden, 9 

June 2008, co-organized with prof. Lissa Roberts 

(University Twente). 


Research stay in Indonesia, January – February 

2008, ARSIP Nasional Jakarta and Yogyakarta. 


Since February 2007: Studienstiftung des 

deutschen Volkes, PhD scholarship, the annual 

amount is ÿ 13 800. 

January 2008: Studienstiftung des deutschen Vol- 



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kes, travel grant for stay in Indonesia, 800 Euro 

14 March 2008, Research Institute for History, 

Leiden, warrantysubsidy for workshop: Local encounters 

and the global circulation of knowledge, 

1750-1850, ÿ 800. 

April 2008, LUF Leiden, warrantysubsidy for 

workshop: Local encounters and the global circulation 

of knowledge, 1750/1850, ÿ 800. 

PhD Defences 

A. Pos 


Drs. M.A. van Alphen 

Drs. J. Anten 

Drs. Eerde Beulakker 

A. van der Belt 

Cha Hsin 

Cheng, Wei-Chung 

Chiu, Hsin-hui 

Drs. B. Consolini 

Drs. F.J.L. van Dulm 

Drs. I. Saroda Cosijn-Mitrasing 

Ms. drs. N. Everts 

K. Fatah-Black 

F.J. Goedeman 

T.J.C. van Hengel 

Drs. C. Hoogendijk 

L.J.W. Ingason 

A. Miranda 

Drs. Th. Niemeyer 

R. Paesie 

A. Pos 

J. Schokkenbroek 

Supaporn Ariyasajsiskul 


Drs. W.B.S. de Vries 

A. Weber 

Mr. R.S. Wegener-Sleeswijk 

Drs. B. Westenbroek 

Drs. P. van Wiechen 

Drs. M. Witteveen 


Ms. N.F. Dwiandari 

F. Fakih 

M.K. Jha 

M. van Koppen 

Ms. H. Lommerse 

Ms. C. Meijerman 

B. Moore 

Pham Van Thuy 

A. Wahid 

Ms. W. Li 

Ms. D. van Zyl 


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 

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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 

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 

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cal 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 spe- 


cial 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 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 ÿ 206,000- as a contribution to 

the costs of maintaining relations with the insti- 

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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 Universitade 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. 

Nations and Communities: 

A Comparative Perspective in 

Atlantic Europe, 1650-1830 

Maurits Ebben 

This project consists of a comparative study of 

foreign merchant communities settled in various 

port cities in Europe between 1650 and 1830. 

Migration, as well as the settling and formation 

of different mercantile communities in main 

urban centres related to the international economic 

expansion are a historical phenomenon 

that affected the political, cultural and ideological 

evolution of Atlantic European societies throughout 

the early Modern Age and even up to contemporary 

times. Migration and the settlement of 

foreign mercantile communities played a primary 

role in the economic integration of regions within 

Europe and in its overseas dependencies. From a 

political and ideological point of view migration, 

foreign presence and international contacts had a 

marked effect on the formation and consolidation 

of Atlantic European countries. With the clear 

purpose of reinforcing the complex international 

historiographical debate on this theme, this 

project is directed at the study of the nature of 

foreign merchant communities in the European 

Atlantic world, of their internal historical 

processes and of several other aspects, some of 

which require a more detailed specific approach. 

Research will be performed from an international 

point of view, on a multidisciplinary and 

comparative basis. 

The aim of this program is to establish an analytical 

outline in order to define the study of the 

role played by the socio-economic agents, both 

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factors in the evolutionary process of the fo-reign 

merchant communities and their relations with 

the outside world, both at the regional and international 

level. Social-cultural and ecnomic integration 

as well as the influences of the mercantile 

networks of the Modern Age in the ideological 

transition from the Ancient Regime to the Age of 

Liberalism will be dealt with. Several questions 

will be outlined, such as the possible relationship 

between the mercantile activity and the 

changes that took place in the economic structures 

of markets and regions. On the other hand, 

a sociological study of the different groups will be 

carried out, especially in questions related to local 

integration, national feeling and identity, as well 

as their ideological and political implications. 

Six senior researchers of four different European 

countries, specialized in the history of European 

commercial networks, are involved in this 

project. They study foreign merchant communities 

in several European ports within the common 

theoretical framework of the project. 

Apart from the Leiden representative, the participants 

in this project are dr. Ana Crespo Solana 

(Instituto de Historia, Madrid), dr. María Paz 

Aguiló Alonso (Instituto de Historia, Madrid), dr. 

Arnaud Bartholomei (Université de Aix-Marselle 

I), dr. Klaus Weber (Universität Hamburg) and 

dr. Vicente Montojo Montojo (Universidad de 

Murcia). 

The European Labour Market and 

The Dutch East India Company 

(VOC) 

Femme Gaastra 

The aim of this project is to complete a data- 


base of the servants – sailors, soldiers and others 

– of the VOC and to make these data available 

for further research via internet. The personal 

administration of the Company is still in tact for 

the 18th century, comprising the administration 

and salary accounts of circa 655,000 persons who 

left the Netherlands on board of VOC ships from 

1700 to 1795. 

The VOC was, no doubt, the largest private 

employer of the world in the seventeenth and 

eighteenth century. The often cited data on the 

numbers of sailors, soldiers and others that sailed 

in the service of the VOC to Asia demonstrate the 

impressive size of its workforce: between 1602 

and 1795, nearly one million men went overseas, 

only one third of them returned. These figures are 

also an indication of the impact of the Company 

on the demographic development of the Dutch 

Republic. The local and national labour market 

was far too small to provide sufficient workers for 

the Company and many sailors and soldiers – at 

least 40 per cent – were of foreign origin. Many 

came from Germany, but there were also many 

VOC-servants from Scandinavia, the Southern 

Netherlands, France and England. 

The impact of the great demand for personnel 

by the VOC in the 17th and 18th century on the 

labour market of the Dutch Republic, on the 

demographic developments in the Netherlands 

as well as on the labour migration from the 

European hinterland to Holland and Zeeland is 

analyzed in a number of historical studies. These 

studies are all based on a few samples taken from 

the VOC-administration. Within the traditional 

research methods the limits are reached and new 

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or more detailed research questions require a new 

approach. The so-called ‘scheepssoldijboeken’ 

or ships’ pay-ledgers are a unique source, well 

suited to a serial approach. A database of personal 

data taken from these ships-ledgers will provide 

possibilities for new research. For this purpose, 

a database has already been made of the VOCpersonnel 

of the Chamber Zeeland and the four 

smaller Chambers (Delft, Rotterdam, Hoorn, 

Enkhuizen) in the 18th century. This database 

contains half of the number of VOC servants of 

this period, circa 320,000 persons. Linking up 

to this initiative, this project was designed 1) to 

complete the database by entering the data for the 

personnel of Amsterdam and 2) to improve the 

research possibilities and facilities for the existing 

database. The project is carried out in co-operation 

with the National Archives in the Hague. See 

also the website: 

http://vocopvarenden.nationaalarchief.nl/. 

PhD Defences 

A. Pos 

Kogure Minori 

W. Hugenholtz 

Chr. Nierstrasz 

Migration and Global Interdependence 

Description 

An important current topic of historical research 

is the global interdependence that came about 

since the Early Modern period. The widening, 

deepening and acceleration of worldwide inter- 

connectedness is known as globalisation. This 

affects all aspects of social life, from the cultural 

to the criminal, the financial to the spiritual. In 

this research theme we focus on the social and 

economic responses to increasing interconnectedness. 

Globalisation has many dimensions and can 

be studied by distinguishing between extensity, 

intensity, velocity and impact. Key themes in 

this research cluster are international contacts, interaction 

and the effects of interdependencies on 

society and economy. We distinguish between the 

movement of goods, services, capital, people and 

ideas. Geographical emphasis is on Europe and 

the United States, but also on the Middle East, 

Central Asia and Southeast Asia. What impact did 

global connections have on cultures, state formation, 

economies and societies? We examine how 

people have coped with global interdependence 

and how people attempted to control and manage 

these processes. This includes the study of 

individual (migration) and collective reactions 

(institutions, states, EU, multinationals). The research 

within this research theme can be divided 

into three sub-themes: (a) migration, membership 

regimes and cities; (b) state formation and 

frontiers; (c) political economy, networks, and 

the role of institutions. 

Migration, membership regimes and 

cities 

Research in the field of migration history includes 

the mobility of people, settlement processes of 

migrants, and, finally, the effects of migration 

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ties. 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. 

State formation and fronties 

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, 

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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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Workshop ‘Shift from the Baltic to the Atlantic’, 

Upssala University, Sweden: ‘Atlantic Entre- 

preneurship: cross-cultural business networks, 

1580-1776’. 

XV Congresso Internacional de AHILA: ‘1808- 

2008: Crisis y problemas en el Mundo Atlántico’, 

Leiden University, The Netherlands: ‘Investimento 

no Atlântico: redes multiculturais de negócio, 

1580-1776’. 

First Anglo-Dutch Workshop on Intellectual 

Relations between Portugal and Northern Europe, 

St. Peter’s College, Oxford University, UK: 

‘Amsterdam and the Portuguese ports, 1580- 

1640: business transactions, merchant networks 

and economic retardation’. 


TECT Joint-Project Workshop – Trust, 

reputation, defectors, and sustaining social 

norms: studying spatially complex cooperative relationships 

in ways that connect TECT projects’, 

University of Porto, Portugal: ‘Failing socio-economic 

networks, 1580-1776’. 

‘De Colónia a Império: a fuga da corte e a independência 

do Brasil, 1808-1831’, guest lecture, 

Department of Spanish & Portuguese studies, 

Yale University, USA. 


Fulbright Fellowship for Researchers, Department 

of History, Yale University, USA. Project: Atlantic 

Entrepreneurship: cross-cultural business networks, 

1580-1776 (sept. 2007- June 2008). 



TECT Joint-Project (reviewer). 

Publications 

Articulação do Sal Português aos circuitos mun- 



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diais. Antigos e novos consumos. The articulation 

of Portuguese salt with worldwide routes. 

Past and new consumption trends. , pp. 161-182. 

Porto: Instituto de História Moderna/Universidade 

do Porto. 


Book review. The dynamics of economic culture 

in the North Sea and Baltic region in the late 

Middle Ages and Early Modern period]. In: International 

Journal of Maritime History, 20. 

Book review. A History of Portuguese Expansion, 

1400-1668]. In: European History Quarterly. 

Globalisation in history and the history of 

globalisation: the application of a globalisation 

model to historical research. In: Modelski, G., 

Thompson, W., Devezas, T. (Eds.), Globalization 

as evolutionary process: modeling, simulating, 

and forecasting global change, pp. 244-268. New 

York: Routledge. 


Portuguese Jews in Amsterdam: an insight on 

entrepreneurial behaviour in the Dutch Republic. 

In: Jarvis, Adrian & Lee, Robert (Eds.), Trade, 

migration and urban networks in port cities, c. 

1640-1940 (Research in Maritime History), 38, 

pp. 15-31. St. John’s: International Maritime 

Economic History Association. 


The commercial relationship between Amsterdam 

and the Portuguese salt-exporting ports: 

Aveiro and Setubal, 1580-1715. Journal of Early 

Modern History, 12, pp. 25-53. 


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‘Faire la police dans l’espace urbaine. Les gardes 

civiques et la police à Amsterdam, 1780-1830’, 

Circulation des Savoirs policiers, Lille, France, 6 

December 2008 ; invited lecture. 

‘Submissive or independent? The Netherlands 

in the Napoleonic Era’, International Conference 

Napoleonic Empire and the New European 

Political Culture, Madrid, Spain, 2-6 April 2008; 

invited lecture. 

Publications 

Book review. Burgers, broeders en bazen. Het 

maatschappelijk middenveld van ’s-Hertogenbosch 

in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw]. In: 

Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 

5. 

Constructie van het Koninkrijk Holland. In: 

Meeuwse, K. (Ed.), Lodewijk Napoleon: de Hollandse 

jaren. Een reis door het leven van onze 

eerste koning, pp. 37-38. Amsterdam: Karakter. 


Transferts culturels franco-bataves et formation 

de l’Etat à l’époque napoléonienne. Geschichte. 

Transnational. 


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Member of the advisory body of the website project 

‘Five centuries of migration’ (International 

Institute of Social History / Centre for the History 

of Migration). 


Acquired a subsidy of ÿ 150.000 from the SNS 

REAAL Fonds for the website project ‘Five centuries 

of migration’ (International Institute of 

Social History / Centre for the History of Migration). 

Publications 

Book review. Vrijheid in het verschiet. Nederlandse 

emigratie naar Amerika 1840-1940]. In: 

Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 

5. 

Book review. Vijftien ladders en een dambord. 

Contacten van Italiaanse migranten in Nederland 

1860-1940]. In: Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende 

de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 123. 

Book review. ‘Staat, markt en migrant’. De regulering 

van arbeidsmigratie naar Nederland 1945- 

2006]. In: Recht der Werkelijkheid, 29 

‘Illegal migration and gender in a global and historical 

perspective’. In: Schrover, Marlou, Leun, 

J., van der, Lucassen, Leo, Quispel, Chris (Eds.), 

pp. 39-56. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University 

Press. 




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Participation in a workshop ‘Four Centuries of 

Relations between the Netherlands and Vietnam 

in Hanoi, ‘May 19-21 2008 and contirubution to: 

‘The Trading World of South East Asia and the 

VOC’s relation with Vietnam in the Seventeenth 

and Eighteenth Centuries’. 

Lecture: ‘De zoveelste schipvaart. De eerste reizen 

naar Indië en de Linschoten-Vereeniging’ on the 

occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Linschoten-Vereeniging 

at the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum, 

Den Haag, June 14, 2008. 

Paper presentation: ‘Recruiting and organising 

international shipping labour in the 17th -18th 

century in The Dutch East India Company’, 9th 

North Sea History Conference, Stavanger Maritime 

Museum, 5-7 september 2008, Stavanger. 

Lecture and workshop ‘De VOC en de economische 

en demografische ontwikkeling van de 

republiek in de 17de en 18de eeuw’. Historyday 

organized by ICLON on the theme ‘Dynamiek en 

stagnatie in de Republiek’ (continuing education 

for teachers), Leiden, 19 september 2008. 

Lecture: ‘Rijke handel en bulkhandel. De Nederlandse 

handel met Azië en met het Baltische 

gebied’. Contribution to the symposium ‘Baltic 

Connections’, Den Haag, Nationaal Archief, 

October 1, 2008. 


Chair, MA Seminaire Migration en Atlantique, 

Université de Nantes, May 28-30, 2008. 

Contribution to KNAW/IISG Seminar on Unfree 

Labour, Amsterdam, June 30- July 2, 2009. 

Contribution on Slavery and the Atlantic Slave 



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Trade, Annual Meeting Academia Europaea, 

Liverpool September 18-21, 2008. 


Referee Austrian “Wissenschaftsfonds” 


Chair, Archaeology & History Section, Academia 

Europaea (London). 


Member Editorial Board of the Journal of Imperial 

and Commonwealth History (London), Jahrbuch 

für Geschichte von Staat, Wirtschaft und 

Gesellschaft Lateinamerikas (Cologne/Hamburg), 

Studien zur historischen Migrationsforschung 

(Osnabrück), Journal of Caribbean 

History (Kingston, Jamaica), Revue d’histoire 

maritime (Paris). 


committee 

Supervisor of Damian Pargas (slavery in the 19th 

century US), Filipa Ribeiro da Silva (The Dutch 

and Portuguese in West-Africa, 1600-1800) and 

Jessica Roitman (Sephardi Networks in the Atlantic, 

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‘The Civil Rights Movement in Louisiana Forty 

Years Later’. University of Southwestern Louisiana, 

24 January 2008. Invited public lecture 

funded by Louisiana Endowment for Humanities. 

Discussant, Winner of the 2008 Outstanding 

Book Award. History of Education Society, St. 

Petersburg, Florida, 7 November 2008. Invited 

talk. 

‘Dr King’s New York Helpers’. University of Nottingham, 

8 December 2008. Invited talk. 

‘Too Many Communists, Too Many Guns, Too 

Much Time: How Revisionists Historians of the 

Civil Rights Movement Get it Wrong. University 

of Heidelberg, 12 December 2008. Invited talk. 


Netherlands American Studies Association, 

‘Bobby: The Life and Legacy of Robert F. Kennedy 

‘, Leiden University, 31 October 2008. 


Reader of article manuscripts: Journal of American 

History, Journal of American Studies. 

Reader of book manuscripts: UVA Press; University 

of Arkansas Press; University of Alabama 

Press; University of Florida Press. 


Chairman, Netherlands American Studies Association 

(NASA). 

Member, program committee, Southern Historical 

Association. 

Member, program committee, History of Education 

Society. 

Chairman, jury committee, Theodore Roosevelt 

History Award, Roosevelt Study Center. 

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Adviser to HSVL, “End of Empire” London visit. 


committee 

Supervisor of: 

Laura Maessen (AIO) 

Yvonne Ryan 

Joel Lentzner 

Marieke Harpe 

Peter de Jong. 


US Embassy ÿ 1.000. 

Miscellaneous 

“America in Black and White: Two Nations or 

One Nation Indivisible?” Invited talk at teachers’ 

conference, Atlantic Commission, Utrecht, 30 

January 2008. 

Prof.dr. R.Th. Griffiths 


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“Model Europe: Which Europe?” Lecture South 

African European Studies Association, Pretoria, 

February 2008. 

“Europe’s Constitution: What now?” Lecture 

University of Pretoria, February 2008. 

“How can Higher Education contribute to the 

fight for Human Rights? A case study of Amnesty 

International.” Conference Tracing Essential 

Documents, Moments and People in Human 

Rights history, Hague, April 2008. 

“Netherlands Foreign Aid Policy 1967-1986. A 

model UN-Norm Country?” Lecture Nobel Institute, 

Oslo April, 2008. 

“European Identities” The European Integration 

and the Sustainable Development of Northwest 

China, Conference, Xian, September 2008. 

“The First Circle. EU Neighbourhood Policy in 

an International Perspective” Conference Neighbours, 

but not Neighbourly? The EU’s relations 

with the Neighbourhood, Hague, October 2008 

(also conference organiser). 

“Teaching the European Union” Workshop 

Implementation of Professional development 

progress in the field of applied politics and political 

Administration at tertiary level, Moscow State 

University for the Humanities, November 2008. 

Publications 

(with M. Wiesebron) Processos de integração regional 

e cooperação intercontintental desda 1989 

UFRGS Publishing House; Posto Alegre, 2008. 

“Os Círculos Concêntricos do Regime Comercial 

da União Européia de 1989 até os dias de hoje” in 

M. Wiesebron and R.T Griffiths (eds) Processos 

de integração regional e cooperação intercontintental 

desda 1989 (eds with M. Wiesebron) 

UFRGS Publishing House; Posto Alegre, 2008, 

109-129. 

“European Identities” in Ma Xiaoqiang and G. 

Ying (eds) The European Integration and the 

Sustainable Development of Northwest China, 

World Book Publishing House, 2008, 3-16. 

“Development Aid: Some Reference Points for 

Historical Research” in H. Pharo and M. Pohle, 



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The Aid Rush. Aid regimes in Northern Europe 

during the Cold War, Oslo UP 2008. 

“The Landscape of European Studies in European 

Universities” in M. Holland, S. Jora and P. Ryan, 

The Future of European Studies in Asia, 2008. 

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


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Invited paper for the third Flemish-Dutch conference 

on Preindustrial Economy and Society, 

Antwerp, January 31, 2008. Title paper: ‘Civil 

Society and Public Services in the Early Modern 

Netherlands’. 

Paper for the Urban History Conference, Lyon, 

July 30th-August 3rd, 2008. Title paper: ‘Conflict 

or consensus? Public Services in the Early Modern 

Netherlands’. 

Keynote lecture for the conference for Dutch History 

Education, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, 

Onderwijsmuseum, October 3rd, 2008. Title: 

‘Gedeelde verantwoordelijkheid: publieke diensten 

in de Republiek’. 


Organization session on the Urban History Conference 

with Jelle Haemers (Ghent University) 

and Griet Vermeesch (Vrije Universiteit Brussels) 

Lyon, July 3th – August 3rd. Urban Politics and 

Public Services in Early Modern Europe’. 

Organization fourth Flemish-Dutch Conference 


on Preindustrial Economy and Society, January 

29-30, Leiden University. 

Organization of the sessions 1. Social Capital 2. 

Migration, N.W. Posthumus Conference, Groningen, 

May 22-23, 2008. 


Organization workshop ‘De organisatie van 

armenzorg op de lange termijn’ N.W. Posthumus 

research school of Social and Economic History, 

The Hague, National Archive, December 9th, 

2008. 

Coordination and organization of the Masterclasses 

for PhD-students of the research group 

Social History of Communities, N.W. Posthumus 

Institute for Social and Economic History: 

Masterclass Urban History for PhD students of 

the NWP was given by prof. Lynn Lees at the 

University of Leiden on March 23, 2008, Leiden 

University. 


Peer reviewer for NWO research proposals. 

Advisory Board of the journal Crime, History and 

Societies. 

Member of editorial board of the Dutch-Flemish 

journal ‘Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische 

Geschiedenis’. 

Peer reviewer of articles for various international 

and national journals, such as Social History, 

Journal of Social History, Intam Review, BMGN, 

Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis. 


Board member of ‘Stichting Geschiedenis van de 

Overheidsfinanciën’. 

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Board member of the commission for PhD exams 

of the N.W. Posthumus Research School of Social 

and Economic History. 

Member advisory board of the NWO research 

project ‘The town as a body social’ of prof. Dick 

de Boer and prof. Bart Ramakers, University of 

Groningen. 


Research director of Social History of Communities, 

research group of the N.W. Posthumus 

Institute of Social and Economic History. 

Advisor of the research project of prof.dr. Malcolm 

Feeley and Hadar Avrim on Gender and 

Crime in Early Modern Europe, University of 

California, Berkeley, USA. 

Referee of the 1st year Ph.D papers of the N.W. 

Posthumus Institute of Social and Economic History. 


committee 

Jeannette Schults, PhD student of A.J. Bijsterveld, 

University of Tilburg. 


VIDI grant by NWO, 2005-2010, ÿ 600.000. 

Miscellaneous 

Director of the NWO granted research project 

‘Civil Services and Urban Communities 1500- 

1800’. Coordination and guidance of the research 

of two post-docs and one research assistant 

within the research project. 

Member international workshop on Marriage 

and Law in Europe, coordinated by Silvana Seidel 

Menchi, University of Pisa, Italy. 

The making of a general handbook Social and 

Economic History for 1st year-students with 

colleagues from Leiden University, Vrije Universiteit 

Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, and 

International Institute of Social History. 

Publications 

Book review. Family Feuds: Wollstonecraf, Burke, 

and Rousseau on the Transformation of the Family]. 

In: INTAMS Review, 14. 

(Book review) Heijden, Manon, van der (2008) 

Publieke voorzieningen in de Republiek: gedeelde 

verantwoordelijkheid. Leidschrift. Historisch 

Tijdschrift, 23 (2), pp. 77-95. 

(Article / Letter to editor) Schrover, Marlou & 

Sanders, Huub & Damme, Ilja, Van & Deploige, 

Jeroen & Gerwen, Jacques, van & Heijden, 

Manon, van der (2008). 

Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis. 

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Session chairman and commentator at the First 

Encompass Conference on Regime Change in 

Indonesia, Jakarta, 15-17 January. 

Lecture for ‘Indische school’ at Pasar Malam, The 



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Hague, 29 May. 

Lectures on economic globalization at the International 

Programme of South East Asia (IPSEA) 

intensive course on ‘Globalization and Localization 

in Southeast Asia’, Naples 18-20 June. 

Commentator at the workshop on ‘Mengisi 

kemerdekaan’ [‘Substantiating independence’] at 

Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, 11 August. 

Paper ‘Economic growth and decolonization in 

Indonesia’, at the international workshop on ‘The 

Indonesian economy in the early independence 

period’, Leiden, 15-16 October. 

Lecture ‘Economic decolonization in Indonesia’ 

at Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis 

(IISG), Amsterdam, 25 November. 


Organizer of ‘The Indonesian economy in the 

early independence period’, Leiden, 15-16 October. 


Book launch of Bridges to new business; The 

economic decolonization of Indonesia, Leiden, 15 

October. 


Research at National Archives of Indonesia, Jakarta, 

21 January – 15 February. 

Visit to Research School of Pacific and Asian 

Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, 

31 March – 4 April. 

Selection of Encompass students at Gadjah Mada 

University, Yogyakarta, 20-22 May. 


Anonymous referee Bulletin of Indonesian Eco- 

nomic Studies. 



Treasurer of Koninklijk Instituut voor Land-, 

Taal- en Volkenkunde (KITLV), Leiden. 


committee 

Co-promotor of D. Marks, Accounting for services; 

The economic development of the Indonesian 

service sector, 1900-2000 (University of 

Utrecht). 


Internationalization programme of N.W.O., 

entitled ‘Economics, politics and culture in early 

post-independence Indonesia’, in co-operation 

with the Australian National University: ÿ 67,400. 

Publications 

Lindblad, J.Th. (2008) 

Bridges to new business; The economic decolonization 

of Indonesia. Leiden: KITLV Press. 

(Book (monograph). 

Drs. H.L.J. Looijestein 


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Keynote lectures 

‘Polen zijn geen Turken. De huidige arbeidsmigratie 

in historisch perspectief’’. Lecture at the 

Studiedag MOE-landers, organized by the Vereniging 

van Nederlandse Gemeenten (VNG) and the 

Vereniging voor Internationale Arbeidsbemiddelaars 

(VIA) in Leiden (2 April 2008) and Roosendaal 

(3 April). 

‘Leiding in de stad’, lecture at the symposium 

‘De stad als beschavingsmachine’, Internationale 

School voor de Filosofie in Leusden, 6 April 2008. 

‘Concluding remarks’ at the congress ‘Family 

constructions of foreigness and migration in 20th 

century Western Europe’, Katholieke Universiteit 

van Leuven, 15-16 May 2008. 

‘Denken over de onderklasse en migratie: ideologieën 

en beleid in de Lage Landen in vergelijkend 

perspectief (1900-1940)’, Lecture at the congress 

‘Tussen Markt en Moraal. Bevolkingskwesties in de 

Lage Landen tijdens het Interbellum’, Brussels 29 

May 2008 

‘Op naar Holland! Arbeidsmigratie toen en nu 

vergeleken’, Lecture at the Tweede Polentop, 

Koninklijke Schouwburg Den Haag, 19 June 2008. 

‘Slechts één handdruk’: de gebroeders de Witt 

en de multiculturele wortels van de vaderlandse 

geschiedenis’, third Johan de Witt lecture, Haags 

Historisch Museum, 24 August 2008. 

‘Migration in Early modern Europe: concluding 

remarks’, IX International Conference on Urban 

History, Lyon 27-20 August 2008. 

‘The Great transformation’ in historical perspec- 

tive: migration ratios in Europe 1500-1900’, 

Jewish transmigrants from Eastern Europe in 

Germany, Britain, Scandinavia and other countries 

1860-1929, Hamburg 13-15 September 2008, 

Institute for the History of Jews in Germany. 

‘The discomfort of religion. Integration of post 

war immigrants in Western Europe compared 

with the U.S., Lecture for the Baldy Center of the 

Universiteit of Buffalo, Buffalo, 22 October 2008. 

“European Migration History”. Lecture at the 

Catholic University of Leuven, Campus Kortrijk, 

December 17, 2008. 

‘Why religion is more salient than race: immigration, 

decolonisation and intermarriage in 

post-war Western Europe’, lecture at the Barnard 

College/Columbia University, New York 21 October 

2008. 

‘Waarom Polen geen Turken zijn. Arbeidsmigratie 

in historisch perspectief’, Lecture at the Stichting 

Mercatus, Luttelgeest 20 November 2008. 

‘Membership Regimes in Global Migration History 

(5000 BCE)’, Introduction lecture for the 

congres ‘The archeology of Culture Contact’, 

Leiden, 24 November 2008. 

‘The social and cultural dimension of migration’, 

Key note address at the Convention on International 

Law and Politics, Sankt-Gallen (Switserland), 

28 November 2008. 


Panelist at the Presidential Session “Time in 

Migration History: Explorations through Various 

Mediums”. Annual Meeting of the Social Science 

History Association in Miami, 23 October 2008. 

Discussant at the session “Legal Status and Economic 

Mobility among Immigrants in the Early 

21st Century”. Annual Meeting of the Social 



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Science History Association in Miami, 24 October 

2008. 

Discussant at the Author meets critics session 

“Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, 

from the Freedmen’s Bureau to Workfare” by 

Chad Goldberg, Annual Meeting of the Social 

Science History Association in Miami, 25 October 

2008. 


Member of the Editorial Board of the series 

World Migration History, published by the 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 Wissenschaftliche Beirat of the 

IMIS Beiträge, University of Osnabrück 

Member of the Editorial Committee of IMISCOE 

(Network of Excellence in the domain of International 

Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion, 

financed by the European Committee). 

Member of the editorial board of the Leids Jaarboekje. 

Referee for NWO (Netherlands), DFG (Germany) 

and NFO (Belgium). 

Chairman of the NWO VICI grants committee 

for the Humanties . 

Director together with prof. Wim Willems of the 

Centre for Modern Urban Studies (MUS), Campus 

Den Haag. 

Member of the advisory committee Oorlog in 

verscheidenheid (NIOD). 

Member educational committee of the N.W. 

Posthumus Onderzoeksschool (National Research 

School for Social and Economic History). 



Member of the Centrum voor de Geschiedenis 

van Migranten (CGM). 

Member of the MPhil educational committee of 

the History Department, Leiden. 

Member of the Klankbordgroep van het Nutshuis 

in Den Haag. 


committee 

Gijs Kruijtzer (promotor Dirk Kolff) , Leiden Letteren, 

12 March 2008. 

Stephan van Gaalen (promotor Dirk Kolff), 

Leiden Letteren, 13 March 2008. 

Melody Chia-Wen Lu (promotores Axel 

Schneider en Carla Risseeuw), Leiden FSW, 15 

May 2008. 


NWO subsidy in the programme Urbanisatie en 

Stadscultuur, 40.000 euro (with Wim Willems). 

Miscellaneous 

Co-editor of the theme ‘Mobility’ of the Enzyklopädie 

der Neuzeit (J.B. Metzler Verlag) (16 

volumes 2005-2012). 

Professional publications 

Between Hobbes and Locke. Gypsies and the 

limits of the modernization paradigm. Social 

History, 33 (4), pp. 324-441. (Article / Letter to 

editor) . 

Leo Lucassen and Wim Willems, ‘Een kort 

lontje? Reflecties over veiligheid in de stad’, in: 

Anita Böcker, Tetty Havinga, Paul Minderhoud, 

Hannie van de Put e.a. (red.), Migratierecht en 

Rechtssociologie, gebundeld in Kees’ studies. 

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Migration Law and Sociology of Law, collected 

essays in honour of Kees Groenendijk, Liber Amicorum 

Prof.mr. C.A. Groenendijk (Nijmegen: 

Wolf Legal Publishers 2008) 231-238. 

Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen, ‘Leibeigenschaft: 

Migrationsaspekte’, in: Friedrich Jaeger (red.), 

Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit (Stuttgart en Weimar 

2008) deel 7, 813-815 

‘Scheffers ongemakkelijke dans met het verleden’, 

Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 212 (2008) 2, 198- 

201. 

Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen, ‘Migration: 

Europe’, in: Peter N. Stearns (ed.),. The Oxford 

Encyclopedia of the Modern World (New York: 

Oxford University Press 2008) pp. 184-187. 

(with Marlou Schrover, Joanne van der Leun & 

Chris Quispel, eds.), Illegal Migration and Gender 

in a Global and Historical Perspective (Amsterdam, 

Amsterdam University Press, 2008). 

Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen, ‘Land-Stadt 

Wanderung’, in: Friedrich Jaeger (red.), Enzyklopädie 

der Neuzeit (Stuttgart en Weimar 2008) 

deel 7, 451-455. 

Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen, ‘Millet, in: 

Friedrich Jaeger (red.), Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit 

(Stuttgart en Weimar 2008) deel 8, 535-538. 

Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen, ‘Migrantenkirche’, 

in: Friedrich Jaeger (red.), Enzyklopädie 

der Neuzeit (Stuttgart en Weimar 2008) deel 8, 

483-486. 

Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen, ‘Mobilität’, in: 

Friedrich Jaeger (red.), Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit 

(Stuttgart en Weimar 2008) deel 8, 224-244. 

‘Between Hobbes and Locke. Gypsies and the 

limits of the modernization paradigm’, Social 

History 33 (2008) no. 4, 423-441. 

Ms. dr. E.J.V. van Nederveen Meerkerk 


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Presentation ‘Female labour market participation 

in the Dutch Republic (c.1600-1800). Suggestions 

for methodologies and making estimates’, COST- 

Workshop Methodologies for reconstructing the 

female activity rate in historical Europe, Barcelona 

(11 January 2008). 

Invited lecture ‘De spil of de klos? Vrouwen in de 

textiel in Den Bosch (17e/18e eeuw)’, Studiedag 

Bossche historie (18 January 2008). 

Invited lecture ‘Working in the margins? Female 

labour force participation in the Dutch Republic, 

c. 1600-1800’, International Institute of Social 

History, Amsterdam (19 February 2008). 

Paper ‘How to untangle colonial entanglements? 

Child labour in the Netherlands and the Netherlands 

Indies, c. 1800-1950’, European Social 

Science History Conference, Lisbon (29 February 

2008). 

Paper ‘Sociaal kapitaal, sociale netwerken en 

sekse’, NW Posthumus Conferentie, Goningen 

(22 May 2008). 

Paper ‘Counting women in. Female labour market 

participation in the Dutch textile industry, 

c. 1600-1800’, 14th Berkshire Conference on the 

History of Women, Minneapolis (13 June 2008). 

Paper [with Griet Vermeesch] ‘Reforming relief. 

Changes in urban provisions for the poor in the 

Northern and Southern Netherlands (c. 1500- 

1800)’, IXth International Conference on Urban 

History, Lyon (30 August 2008). 



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Invited lecture ‘Vrije vrouwen? De sociale en 

economische positie van vrouwen in de Republiek’, 

Nascholingsdag geschiedenis, Utrecht (31 

October 2008). 

Invited lecture [with Griet Vermeesch], ‘Veranderingen 

in stedelijke armenzorgvoorzieningen 

in de Lage Landen, ca. 1500-1800’, Workshop De 

organisatie van de sociale zorg 1500-1900, Den 

Haag (9 December 2008). 


Organization of discussion panel on early modern 

labour markets at the European Social 

Sience History Conference, Lisbon, Feb.-March 

2008. 


Member of the editorial staff of ‘Textielhistorische 

Bijdragen’. 


Chairman Labour-Network ESSHC. 

Member of the IREWOC. 

Miscellaneous 

Workshop ‘Vrije vrouwen? De sociale en economische 

positie van vrouwen in de Republiek’, 

Geschiedenisdag ICLON, Leiden (19 September 

2008). 

Nederveen Meerkerk, E.J.V. van (2008). Textile 

workers, gender, and the organization of production 

in the pre-industrial Dutch Republic. In 

M.E. Cassidy-Welch & P. Sherlock (Eds.), Practices 

of gender in late medieval and early modern 

Europe (pp. 215-234). Turnhout: Brepols. 

Nederveen Meerkerk, E.J.V. van (2008). Werken 

om te leren? De arbeid van jongens en meisjes 


in de Leidse textielnijverheid in de zeventiende 

eeuw. Jaarboek Dirk Van Eck-stichting, 

2007/2008(19/20), 79-103. 

Dr. C.G. Quispel 


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Participated in the International Social Science 

History Congress in Miami, October 2008. Paper 

presentation combined with a presentation about 

‘Urban Marginality, a comparison between the 

Roger Taylor Homes in Chicago and the Bijlmermeer 

in Amsterdam’. 


committee 

Supervisor of Damian Pargas PhD research project 

‘ Weathering Different Storms’. 

Miscellaneous 

Commentator for Dutch television during the 

American presidential elections. Several radio 

interviews. 

Publications 

Schrover, Marlou & Leun, J.P., van der & Lucassen, 

Leo & Quispel, G.C. (Eds.) (2008). 

Illegal migration and gender in a global and 

historical perspective. Amsterdam: Amsterdam 

University Press. 

(Book editorial) Schrover, Marlou & Leun, J.P., 

van der & Lucassen, Leo & Quispel, G.C. (2008) 

Introduction: Illegal Migration and gender in a 

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global and historical perspective. In: Schrover, 

Marlou, Leun, J.P., van der, Lucassen, Leo, Quispel, 

G.C. (Eds.), Illegal Migration and Gender in 

a Global and Historical Perspective (Imiscoe), pp. 

9-37. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 




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February 25 till March 2, ESSHC, Lisbon, Migration 

policy and media-hypes, the Netherlands 

1945-2000. 

May 15-16, Leuven, Vulnerability and constructions 

of family and gender. Paper prepared for 

the conference: Families, construction of foreignness 

and migration in 20th century West Europe, 

May 22-23, Posthumus Conference, Groningen, 

‘Gender en migratie‘. 

June 24-26, Mesea Conference Leiden, ‘Making a 

difference’. 

‘How and why migration policy is different for 

men and women. Paper prepared for the conference: 

Migration matters; immigration, homelands, 

and border crossings in Europe and the 

Americas. 

October 12, Tumult, Utrecht, Migratie en Utrecht 

October 13, KNAW, The Hague, ‘Wij willen 

alles’. Reading at the KNHG meeting ‘Wat willen 

historici van archieven?’ 

October 23-26, SSHA, Miami, ‘Who counts?’ 

Differences in numbers between women and men 

in European immigration, 19th and 20th century 

Paper prepared for the Conference of the American 

Social Science History Association at Miami 

29-10, workshop Antwerpen, Integration, ethnicity 

and intersectionality. 

November 13-14, KNHG The Hague, Paper prepared 

for the KNHG conference ‘The Relevance 

of Dutch History’: Migration history. 

November 24, Tumult, Utrecht, Gender en Migratie. 

December 3, European Parliament Brussels, Differences 

between current and past migration. 


ESSHC 25-2/ 2-3 2008 in Lisbon. Organisation 

of the Migration and Ethnicity Network. The 

Migration and Ethnicity Network is the largest 

network within this conference with 160 papers 

in 40 sessions. 

LIMS (Leiden International Migration Seminar), 

March 13 2008, Leiden. The seminar organises 

migration researchers at Leiden University. On 

March 13 the first annual conference took place. 


29-6 presentation of the book: Marlou Schrover, 

Judith ten Broeke and Ronald Rommes, Migranten 

bij de Demka-staalfabrieken in Utrecht 

(1915-1983) (Utrecht 2008) to the major of 

Utrecht Aleid Wolfsen at the World festival in 

Utrecht. The book is part of a larger project that 

included an exhibition, play, film, discussions in 

various neighbourhoods and a project for school 

children. 

10-10 presentation of the book: Herman Obdeijn 

and Marlou Schrover, Komen en gaan. Immigratie 

en emigratie in Nederland vanaf 1550 (Am- 



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sterdam Bert Bakker 2008) to Sadik Harchaoui, 

Raad van bestuur van Instituut voor multiculturele 

Ontwikkeling Forum, Amsterdam. 

17-12 presentation of the book: Marlou Schrover, 

Joanne van der Leun, Leo Lucassen and Chris 

Quispel (eds.), Illegal migration and gender in 

a global and historical perspective (Amsterdam 

2008) to mr. Nebahat Albayrak, junior minister 

of Justice. 

Co-organizer Graduate Seminar (Leiden Institute 

for History). 


Reviewer Committee NWO toptalent . 

Editor in chief TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en 

Economische Geschiedenis). 

Editorial board Continuity and Change. 

External referee Journal of Ethnic and Migration 

Studies. 


Co-Chair Migration and Ethnicity Network of 

the European Social Science History conference 

Elected member executive committee Social 

Science History Association. 

Moderator H-migration. H-Net is the network of 

migration historians. It started in 2002. H-migration 

is one of the largest networks within H-net. 

Moderator Website History of International 

Member daily board NW Posthumus 

Board member CGM (Centrum voor Geschiedenis 

van Migranten). 

Coordinator Werkgezelschap migratie. 

Chair Committee Tweede Geldstroom (UL). 


committee 


Promotor of: 

Tycho Walaardt 

Charlotte Laarman 

Nadia Bouras. 

Co-promotor: Leen Sterkx (promotor Bram de 

Swaan). 

Publications 

Marlou Schrover, Joanne van der Leun, Leo Lucassen 

and Chris Quispel (eds.), Illegal migration 

and gender in a global and historical perspective 

(Amsterdam 2008). 

‘Verschillen die verschil maken: inleiding op het 

themanummer over gender, migratie en overheidsbeleid 

in Nederland en België in de periode 

1945-2005’, Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische 

Geschiedenis 1 (2008) 2-22. 

Herman Obdeijn en Marlou Schrover, ‘Komen 

en gaan.’ Inmmigratie en emigratie in Nederland 

vanaf 1550 (Amsterdam 2008). 

Marlou Schrover, Judith ten Broeke en Ronald 

Rommes, ‘Migranten bij de Demka-staalfabrieken 

in Utrecht (1915-1983)’. (Utrecht 2008). 

Marlou Schrover, ‘De historische wortels van het 

multiculturele drama’, Eutopia. Internationaal 

venster op politiek, cultuur en kunst. Thema- 

nummer ‘De gedroomde stad’, nr. 20 (December 

2008) 45-50. 

Dr. P. Tammes 


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Dag van de Historische Demografie. An initiative 

of the Wetenschappelijke Onderzoeksgemeenschap 

Historische Demografie. Gent (B), 4 December 

2008. Paper presentation: The Demography 

of Jews in the Netherlands on the eve of the 

Shoah. 


External referee TSEG. 

Publications 

Flap, H.D. & Tammes, P.J.R. 

‘De electorale steun voor de Nationaal Socialistische 

Beweging in 1935 en 1939’. Mens en 

Maatschappij, 83 (1), pp. 23-46. 

(Article / Letter to editor) Gesthuizen, M. & 

Tammes, P.J.R. (Eds.) 

De sterke kanten van Nederland. NSV-Actualiteitencollege 

2007. Den Haag: Sociaal en Cultureel 

Planbureau / Nederlandse Sociologische 

Vereniging. 

(Book editorial) ‘Het ondernemersleven van 

Salomon Frenk (1915-1999)’. In: Bent, E.A.G, 

van den & Akveld, L.M. (Eds.), Rotterdams Jaarboekje 

2008. 


‘Hoe dacht men toen over nu?’ In: Schnabel, P. 

(Ed.), Vroeger was het beter. SCP-nieuwjaarsuitgave 

2008 Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau. 


Salomon Frenk (1915-1999), Rotterdamse telg uit 

een handelaars- en bestuurdersfamilie. Misjpoge, 

21 (4). 


Toekomstvisioen. In: Dekker, P. & Veldheer, v. 

(Eds.), lls kn krtr [alles kan korter]. 60 i-columns. 

Uitgave ter gelegenheid van de zestigste ver- 

jaardag van Paul Schnabel, 17 juli 2008. 




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‘Managing migration and global interdependence’. 

Presentation at the N.W. Posthumus Instituut 

Workshop ‘A survey of current historical 

research on globalisation, technological change 

and economic development, 1870-present’ 

Utrecht, 24 October 2008. 

Comments (invited) on Thee Kian Wie, ‘The 

debates about economic policy in newly-independent 

Indonesia between Sjafruddin Prawiranegara 

and Sumitro Djojohadikusumo in the early 

1950s’, Conference “The Indonesian Economy in 

the Early Independence Period: Challenges and 

Achievements’, Leiden, 15-16 October 2008. 

‘Institutional Change in New Zealand, Sweden 

and the Netherlands in the 1980s and 1990s’, 

presentation at the International Network for 

Economic Research (INFER) Varieties of Capitalism 

Workshop at Sofia University, FEBA, Sofia, 9 

October 2008. 

Comments (invited); Conference ‘Change and 

Continuity in the small West European Countries’ 

Capitalisms’, Amsterdam: Universiteit van 

Amsterdam, 19-20 June 2008. 

‘Institutional change in New Zealand, Sweden 

and the Netherlands in the 1980s and 1990s’. 



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Paper presented at the European Social Science 

History Conference, Lissabon, 2008. 


Network co-chair (organisation of 12 panels on 

economic history) for the European Social 

Science History Conference 2008, Lissabon, 

together with prof. dr. Anne McCants (MIT) en 

prof dr. Jochen Streb (Hohenheim U.) 

Organizer of the conference session ‘Cooperation 

between employers and labour’, European Social 

Science History Conference 2008, Lissabon. 


Organisation of the Management Symposium 

2008 ‘Strategy and Culture’, Leiden, 28 March 

2008. 


External referee for Tijdschrift voor Sociale en 

Economische Geschiedenis. 


Co-chair of the Network ‘Economics’ of the 

European Social Science History Conference 2010 

(with prof.dr. A. McCants and prof.dr. J. Streb). 

Member (secretary) of the board of the Institute 

for History. 

Chair of the Examination Committee of the Institute 

for History. 

Member of advisory committees in the Faculty 

of Humanities on, Honours Classes, Budget & 

Planning. 

Member of the advisory committee ‘Facultaire 

Adviescommmissie Onderwijs’ in the Faculty of 

Humanities. 



Coordinator of the ‘Aansluitingsmodule Geschiedenis: 

Koelies in Deli’ for highschool students in 

cooperation with ICLON; supervision of student 

assistant for this project. 


committee 

Co-promotor of Drs. D. Oude-Nijhuis (PhD-defence 

expected in 2009). 


Contributions of Leiden University Fund (LUF) 

for conference visit to Sofia, Bulgary. 

Miscellaneous 

Research and teaching. 

Touwen, L.J. & Konijnendijk, R. (2008) 

Het Honourstraject binnen de Opleiding Geschiedenis, 

Universiteit Leiden. Utrecht: IVLOS. 

(External research report) 

Publications 

Buitenlandse tijdschriften: Van ‘big history’ tot 

koffiehuizen in Istanboel. De oogst van 2007 en 

de eerste helft van 2008. Tijdschrift voor Sociale 

en Economische Geschiedenis, 5 (4), pp. 133-155. 


Listen verzinnen en nieuwe wegen inslaan. Reactie 

op de commentaren van Marjolein ’t Hart en 

Jan Willem Drukker. Tijdschrift voor Sociale en 

Economische Geschiedenis, 5 (2). 


Voortbouwen op Braudel of Fogel? Een pleidooi 

voor interdisciplinaire economische geschiedenis 

in Nederland en Vlaanderen. Tijdschrift voor 

Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 5 (2), pp. 

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evolve? Effects of policy learning in the Netherlands 

in the 1980s. Labor History, 49 (4), pp. 

439-464. 

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Spring 2008: Lectures at the Campus Den Haag 

about ‘De krachtige stad; voorbij de dreiging.’ 

Oude en nieuwe migranten vergeleken’. 

Course: ‘Spoorzoekers in de stad’. 

Supervisor PhD research 

Drs. D. Klein Kranenburg: ‘De Schilderswijk. 

Patronen van sociale cohesie in een Haagse arbeidersbuurt, 

1920-1985’. 

Publications 

Tjalie Robinson. Biografie van een Indo-schrijver. 

Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, Amsterdam 2008. 592 pp. 

(2e druk 2008). 

Leo Lucassen and Wim Willems, ‘Een kort lontje? 

Reflecties over baldadigheid in de stad’, in : Anita 

Böcker e.a. (red.). Migratierecht en rechtssociologie 

gebundeld in Kees’studies. Radboud Universiteit, 

Nijmegen 2008, 231-238. 

‘Anak Tjalie’. De wonderboy van de familie Boon 

, ’Indische Letteren, juni 2008, no. 2. 90-101. 

‘Tjalie Robinson, De verheffer’, : Rosemarijn 

Hoefte e.a. (red.), Tropenlevens. De 

[post]koloniale biografie. Uitgeverij Boom/ 

KITLV, Meppel/Leiden 2008, 34-57. 

Smrtelná past etnicitiy. History studia Cikánu, in: 

Marek Jakoubek (ed.), Cikáni a etnicita. Triton 

2008, 48-72. 

Wim Willems (sam. en inl.), ‘Dossier. Het land 

van aankomst door Paul Scheffer. Een journalistieke 

studie over politiek en wetenschap’, 

Stadsgeschiedenis no. 2, 3de jrg., 2008, 163-186. 

Miscellaneous 

De geschiedenis van een plek. Serie in de AD/ 

Haagsche Courant. Tweewekelijkse bijdrage van 

september 2007 tot en met juni 2009. 

VROM, NL., Magazine over ruimte en milieu, 

wonen, wijken en integratie. Tweemaandelijkse 

column, vanaf september tot heden. 

Prof.dr. E.J. Zürcher 


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Presentations 

Nadia Bouras: Transnationalism and gender: 

Moroccan migrants and their descendants in the 

Netherlands, 1960-2006 LIMS studiedag March 

13 2008. 

Nadia Bouras ‘An Era of Disorganization’. Moroccan 

Immigrant Organizations in the Netherlands, 

Transnationalism and Gender, 1974-1994, 

Social Science History Association Conference 

October 2008 Miami. 

Nadia Bouras, Moroccan Immigrant Organizations 

in the Netherlands, Transnationalism and 

Gender, 1974-1994, Moroccan Migration in Europe 

Conference, University of Sussex, November 

2008. 

Publications 

Nadia Bouras and Mostafa Hilali, ‘Private archives 

on migration in the Netherlands’, Revue 

Migrance, 2008 1er trimestre. 

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PhD representative, Executive Board Institute for 

History, Leiden University 

PhD representative, General Board NW Posthumus 

Institute. 

Miscellaneous 

Editorial board ‘Jaarboek voor vrouwengeschiedenis’. 

Ms. drs. L.G.M. Maessen 


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7 March 2008: Presentation “Leadership and 

Social Change: Martin Luther King & Robert 

Moses” at the annual American Studies Day at 

the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. 

7 May 2008 : Guest Lecture “Martin Luther King, 

Malcolm X, and Barack Obama” at the Radboud 

Universiteit Nijmegen (department: English Language 

and Culture). 


October 15 – November 3 2008: Washington DC 

research at Howard University and the Library of 

Congress. 

November 3 – November 28 2008: New York City 

research at the Schomburg Center for Research in 

Black Culture. 


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Lehrman Institute of American History for the 

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 

in New York City, USA, for the period of November 

3-27, 2008 . Amount: $ 2,000. 

01-08-2008: Awarded Research Grant from the 

Roosevelt Study Center for stay at the Roosevelt 

Study Center in Middelburg, The Netherlands, 

for the period of August 25-29, 2008 Amount: 

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Paper presentation at the European Social Science 

History Conference, ‘Revisiting the Role of Labor: 

Union Structure and the Development of Old- 

Age Pensions in the Netherlands and the United 

Kingdom. 


Coordinator of the minor European Union Studies. 


Funded by the Jurriaanse stichting and Gravin 

van Bylandt Stichting for publication of my 

thesis. 

Drs. D.A. Pargas 


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Publications 

Pargas, D.A. (2008). Boundaries and Opportunities: 

Comparing Slave Family Formation in the 

Antebellum South. Journal of Family History, 

(ISSN 0363-1990), 33(3), 316-345. 

Drs. T. Walaardt 


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Participant ESSHA Conference, Lisbon, February 

26-March 3: ‘The Trojan Horse”. Asylum seekers 

from Eastern Europe in the Netherlands, 1950- 

1955. 

Participant SSHA Conference, Miami 23-26 October 

2008: The Good Old Days of the Cold War. 

Arguments used in the Dutch asylum procedure, 

1957-1967. 

April 15, 2008: Graduate Seminar Leiden University 

‘Zoeken naar speelruimte’. Pleitbezorgers in 

de Nederlandse asielprocedure (1945-1994). 

March 13, 2008: Presentation during a conference 

of LIMS. De Nederlandse asielprocedure 

van 1945 tot 2000 en de invloed van gender LIMS 

studiedag (March 13 2008). 

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D. Engelhard 

Drs. O. Lansen 

Ms. Y. Ryan 

Ms. drs. A.P.W. van Steen 

Drs. H.D. Tjalma 


Ms. M. van Es 

Ms. A. Smit 

Ms. C. Zickgraf 


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 postdoc-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 

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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 gender-less terms. Models were largely 

based on male experience and similar mechanisms 

were assumed to influence the migration 

decisions of both men and women. Women were 

‘added’ later, but without applying gender as an 

analytical category, and hence without systematically 

explaining differences between migrant 

men and women. Many of the studies on migration 

that did include women focused on women 

only, rather than comparing men and women. Of 

course these studies did add greatly to our understanding 

of the gendered nature of migration, but 

the added value of an approach that compares 

men to women is widely acknowledged. 

Some of the contemporary literature on migration 

sees the migration of women as a recent phenomenon 

and speaks of a feminisation of migration. 

As Zlotnik has shown women have however 

also migrated in large numbers in previous eras. 

Whether the migration of women has recently 

increased or whether women have only become 

more visible, is still debated. Recently, research 

on migration is more gender-aware and this has 

resulted in excellent and important studies. Three 

points in the literature can be highlighted. 

In the first place, there is the gendered nature 

of belonging. Immigrant men are often seen as 

belonging to a nation of origin, while immigrant 

women are given – rather paradoxically - key 

roles as the guardians of ethnicity and of ethnic 

nations. These ideas on belonging are reflected 

in studies on mixed marriages. Out-marriage of 

women, more than out-marriage of men, is seen a 

priori as problematic. Women are warned against 

out-marriage, whereas men are not. After marriage, 

women are assumed to cross over to the 

culture of their partner, even if their partner is 

the one who belongs to a minority. Out-marrying 

women are described in sexually laden disapproving 

terms even if they are in a stable monogamous 

relationship, implying that by crossing 

one boundary – ethnic – they have also crossed 

the boundary as to what is morally acceptable. 

Out-marrying women are accused of adultery, 

where the betrayed party is not a (potential) 

husband, but the group she is felt to belong to. 

Out-marrying women are seen as being lost to 

their original community, whereas out-marrying 

men are not. Women are seen as objects of loss 

and gain, whereas men are seen as conquerors. 

Families and ethnic groups feel they need to be 

protected against this kind of ‘losses’. At the same 

time, however, women could generally more 

easily acquire a new nationality through marriage 

than men could. Marriages of women outside 

their primordial group are also seen as a threat to 

the group. After marriage, women are no longer 

considered to belong to their original ‘group’ 

emotionally (and often also juridically). 

Secondly, in the discussions on gender and migration 

Susan Okin’s article ‘Is multiculturalism 

bad for women?’ has played an important role. 

It has led to studies and debates on the extent to 

which the so-called multi-cultural policies, which 

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bad for women. This policy ‘allowed’ immigrants 

to be different. A debate has erupted over how 

this policy has created, stressed and maintained 

differences between immigrant men and women. 

As part of this policy frequent reference was made 

to family, portraying all immigrant women as 

wives and mothers. Defences for certain practices 

(such as honour killings or forced marriages) 

were based on tradition. Immigrants were granted 

group rights, which were different from those 

of non-migrants, but which were usually bad for 

immigrant women (and profitable for men). This 

multi-cultural policy is considered to have been 

bad for immigrant women since stress on cultural 

difference and traditional values often implied restricted 

rights for women. Furthermore, because 

they were seen as backward and traditional (especially 

when they came from Islamic countries), 

policy makers for a long time thought it best to 

reach immigrant women via men. 

In the third place, one of the most important 

issues in the discussion on gender and migration 

is the trafficking of women. It is as trafficked 

women that women migrants gain a high 

visibility in academic, public and political discourse. 

Men are more often regarded as being 

smuggled, women as being trafficked. The definition 

of trafficking emphasises that people are 

transferred against their will, while the definition 

of smuggling not only implies consent but also 

payments. In debates, trafficking is often used as a 

synonym for prostitution. The gendered discourse 

about abuse is applied to women only. The 

assumption that women are more often trafficked 

leads to a stronger monitoring of migrant women, 

as opposed to men. It also leads to all migrant 


women being portrayed as (potential) victims of 

rape and other sexual harassment. 

Although differences between migrant men and 

women have been noted, they have not been 

described systematically over an extended period 

of time. Several authors have stressed the need 

for such an approach and for more research on 

migration from a gender perspective. 

The hypothesis underlying our research is that 

some of the differences can be explained by the 

different ways in which the vulnerability of (potential) 

migrant women and men are constructed. 

Migrants themselves, their families, immigrant 

communities, employers, lawyers, governments, 

organisations 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 

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restriction of the migration of women, but do 

cause women to migrate via different routes, with 

different agency. They are submitted to more 

social monitoring and they seek to avoid (perceived) 

risks. Immigrant women are (perceived to 

be) more at risk and are (perceived to have) less 

capacity to cope with hazards. The result is that 

they are (perceived as) more vulnerable. Rights 

and opportunities are different, as are the safety 

nets to fall back on. As a result they set up and 

make use of different networks than men. 

The four projects that are part of this research are 

described in more detail below. 

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 



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defend male and female asylum seekers during 

different periods. 

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 transnationalism 

for both first en second generation Moroccan 

men and women will be considered. I will 

first explore the role migrant men and women 

of the first generation play in the maintenance of 

transnational ties, in which the gendered differences 

over time will be explained. Secondly, 

I will examine how these transnational linkages 

differ from the ties second generation Moroccans 

maintain. 

Ethnically Mixed Relationships in a Postcolonial 

Context, 1945-2000 (PhD-project Charlotte 

Laarman) 

My research focuses on mixed relationships of 


immigrants from former colonies of the 

Netherlands from a gender perspective. I will 

look at how boundaries are drawn between ‘us’ 

and ‘them’, between the Dutch and immigrants 

from former colonies, and how and why this is 

different for men and women. These boundaries 

are constructed or invented in public and political 

debates relating to mixed.relationships in the 

Netherlands. Furthermore I will use a historical 

perspective which will shed light on changes in 

ideas on what is ‘mixed’. The Dutch government 

set out a policy concerning mixed relationships 

in the Dutch East Indies which was different 

from the policy in Suriname and the 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. 

Graduate Seminars 2008 

30 January 2008 

Chair: Judith Pollmann 

Presentation: Hanno Wijsman 

Commentary: Kim Beerden and Bart van der 

Boom 

Topic: ‘Problemen’ van de Renaissance 

5 March 2008 

Chair: Rens Tacoma 

Presentation: Jeremia Pelgrom 

Commentary: Rogier van Nierop and David Onnekink 

Topic: Roman colonization and the unification of 

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16 April 2008 

Chair: Patrick Dassen 

Presentation: Touraj Atabaki 

Commentary: Charlotte Laarman and Herman 

Paul 

Topic: Disgruntled Guests: Migrant Labour and 

Subaltern on the Margins of the Tsarist Empire 

14 May 2008 

Chair: Marlou Schrover 

Presentation: Nadia Bouras 

Commentary: Luuk de Ligt and Tienke de Vries 

Topic: Transnationalism and Gender Moroccan 

Migrant Women and Men in The Netherlands 

and Their Ties With Their Country of Origin, 

1967 – 2007 

17 September 2008 

Chair: Marlou Schrover 

Presentation: Charlotte Laarman 

Commentary: Laura Maessen and Peter Meel 

Topic: Discussing mixed relationships. Gender, 

class and ethnicity in postcolonial migrant 

communities. A case study of the Netherlands, 

1945-2005. 

15 October 2008 

Chair: Patrick Dassen 

Presentation: Richard Griffiths 

Commentary: Robert Stein and Carina van de 

Wetering 

Topic: Netherlands Foreign Aid Policy 1967- 

1989. A Model UN-Norm Country? 

12 November 2008 

Chair: Jos Gommans 

Presentation: Andreas Weber 

Commentary: Eduard v.d. Bilt and Murari Kumar 

Jha 

Topic: A kingdom and its ‘imagined’ colony? - 

The Malay Archipelago in the eyes of the naturalist 

C.G.C. Reinwardt (1773-1854). 

10 December 2008 

Chair: Judith Pollmann 

Presentation: Maartje Janse 

Commentary: Hans Mol and Ylva Klaassen 

Topic: Associational Mania in the United States. 

The Struggle for Recognition and the Transformation 

of Politics, 1820-1850. 

Research Master Programme 

The Research Master 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’s 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 Pro- 



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gramme in the first year include a literature 

seminar, a research seminar and a seminar on 

historical methodology 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 class with the writing 

of a substantial research masters thesis based on 

original source research and in principal worthy 

of elaboration into a PhD dissertation. 

The number of students enrolled in the Research 

Masters programme: 

The total number of research master students in 

the Institute for History in 2008: 36. 

PhD Programme 

The PhD programme in history is characterized 

by a strong international orientation, a broad 

variety of disciplinary perspectives, a focus on the 

use of primary sources and an incorporation into 

a humanities faculty which is the only such faculty 

in The Netherlands to provide the opportunity 

to study the languages and cultures of Africa, 

Asia and America. 

PhD candidates primarily focus on conducting 

research and writing their dissertation under the 

guidance of their supervisor. In addition, they 

take a range of courses relevant to their field of 

research, which are offered by the Institute for 

History and other institutions, including national 

research schools in the field of history. PhD 

candidates are also involved in teaching history. 


To prepare them for these teaching tasks the 

candidates follow a practical educational course. 

Finally, the PhD programme provides a timely 

orientation towards a career after completion of 

the PhD. 

The number of regular PhD candidates currently 

employed in the Institute for History is 32. Besides, 

there are 70 PhD candidates affiliated to the 

institute but mostly having their working place 

elsewhere. 

Members 


Lecturer 

Theme: European Expansion and Globalisation 


Lecturer 

Theme: Political Culture and National Identities 

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 


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Prof. dr. W.P.Blockmans 

Professor 

Theme: The Dynamics of European Identity, 

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Prof. dr. J.L. Blussé van Oud Alblas 

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Lecturer 


Dr. D. Bos 

Lecturer 


Ms. drs. N. Bouras 

PhD candidate 

Theme: Migration and Global Interdependence 

Dr. M.J. van der Burg 

Post-doctoral researcher 


Dr. M.J.M. Damen 



1300-1700 

Dr. P.G.C. Dassen 

Lecturer 


Ms. drs. A. Dirks 

PhD candidate 


Prof. dr. H.W. van den Doel 

Professor 



Lecturer 


1300-1700 

Ms. drs. M.F.D. Eekhout 

PhD candidate 


1300-1700 

Ms. dr. C.J. van Eijl 



Prof. dr. P.C. Emmer 

Professor 


Ms. drs. N.C. Everts 

PhD candidate 


Dr. R.P. Fagel 

Lecturer 


1300-1700 

Prof. dr. A. Fairclough 

Professor 


Drs. K.J. Fatah-Black 

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Ms. drs. V. Flammang 

PhD candidate 


1300-1700 

Prof. dr. F.S. Gaastra 

Professor 


Ms. drs. E. van Gelder 

PhD candidate 


1300-1700 

Dr. J.C.Gomez Aguiar 

Lecturer 


Dr. J.J.L. Gommans 

Lecturer 


Prof. dr. R.T. Griffiths 

Professor 


Prof. dr. P.M.H. Groen 

Professor 


Drs. J.P. den Hertog 

PhD candidate 


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


Lecturer 


Dr. H.J. den Heijer 

Lecturer 


Ms. drs. S.C. Hin 

PhD candidate 


World 

Prof. dr. P.C.M. Hoppenbrouwers 

Lecturer 


1300-1700 

Dr. A. Janse 

Lecturer 


1300-1700 

Ms. dr. M. Janse 



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

Professor 


Ms. drs. M. Kamphuis 

PhD candidate 


Dr. J.H.C. Kern 

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PhD candidate 


Ms. dr. H.M.E.P. Kuipers 

Lecturer/post doctoral researcher 


1300-1700 


PhD candidate 


Prof. dr. L. de Ligt 

Professor 


World 


Lecturer 


Dr. H.L.J. Looijestein 

Post doctoral researcher 


Prof. dr. L.A.C.J. Lucassen 

Professor 


Prof. dr. R.C.J. van Maanen 

Professor 


Ms. drs. L.G.M. Maessen 

PhD candidate 



Lecturer 


B. Miranda 

PhD candidate 


Prof. dr. J.A. Mol 

Professor 

Theme: The Dynamics of European Identity, 1300- 

1700 

Drs. J.D. de Mooij 

PhD candidate 


1700 

Prof. dr. M.E.H.N. Mout 

Professor 


1700 


Lecturer 


World 

Ms. dr. E.J.V van Nederveen Meerkerk 



Drs. J.C. Nierstrasz 

PhD candidate 


Drs. A. Nobel 



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PhD candidate 


1300-1700 

Drs. G.A. Noordzij 

PhD candidate 


1300-1700 

Dr. D. Onnekink 

Lecturer 


1300-1700 

Prof. dr. G.J. Oostindie 

Professor 


Prof. dr. W. Otterspeer 

Professor 


Drs. D. Oude Nijhuis 

PhD candidate 


Drs. D. Pargas 

PhD candidate 


Dr. H.J. Paul 

Lecturer 


Drs. J. Pelgrom 

PhD candidate 


World 


Ms. prof. dr. J. Pollmann 

Professor 


1300-1700 

Dr. G.C. Quispel 

Lecturer 


Ms. drs. Ph. Ribeiro da Silva 

PhD candidate 


Ms. drs. J.V. Roitman 

PhD candidate 


Ms. drs. S.T. Roselaar 

PhD candidate 


World 

Ms. dr. A.F. Schrikker 

Lecturer 



Lecturer 


Drs. M.W. Serruys 

PhD candidate 


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Lecturer 


1300-1700 

Prof. dr. P. Silva 

Professor 


Dr. H.W. Singor 

Lecturer 


World 

Drs. R. Stapel 

PhD candidate 


1300-1700 

Drs. J. v.d. Steen 

PhD candidate 


1300-1700 

Drs. A. van Steensel 

PhD candidate 


1300-1700 

Dr. R. Stein 

Lecturer 


1300-1700 

Dr. H.J. Storm 

Lecturer 


Dr. J.H.M. Strubbe 

Lecturer 


World 

Dr. L.E. Tacoma 

Lecturer 


World 

Dr. P. Tammes 




Lecturer 


Dr. R.A. Tybout 



World 

Prof. dr. H. te Velde 

Professor 


Ms. drs. A.R. Verboon 

PhD candidate 


1300-1700 

Drs. A.P. van Veldhuizen 

PhD candidate 


Ms. drs. C.R.M.K.L. Viallé 



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Research assistant 


Dr. C. de Voogd 

Lecturer 


Drs. T.Walaardt 

PhD candidate 


A. Weber MA 

PhD candidate 


Ms. M.L. Wiesebron 

Lecturer 


Ms. dr. Th.F. Wijsenbeek-Olthuis 

Lecturer 



Post-doctoral researcher/Lecturer 


1300-1700 

Drs. H.A.T. Wilbrink 

PhD candidate 


Prof. dr. W.H. Willems 

Professor 


Prof. dr E.J. Zürcher 


Professor 

Theme: Political Culture and National Identities

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