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Curriculum vitae

Name and title Dr. Joris Oddens

Date and place of birth 15 oktober 1981, Utrecht

Mobile phone number +31618371091

Email address j.oddens@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Education

2007-2012 Doctorate in History, University of Amsterdam

Title dissertation: Pioniers in schaduwbeeld. Het eerste parlement van Nederland

1796-1798 [Pioneers in Silhouette: The First Dutch Parliament 1796-1798]

(supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wyger Velema and Prof. Dr. Niek van Sas)

2005-2007 Research MA in History, University of Amsterdam (cum laude)

Title thesis: Constantijn en Krimtataar. Gerard Hinlopen de Nederlandse ontdekking

van het Osmaanse Westen (1670-1671) [Constantine and Crimean Tatar. Gerard

Hinlopen and the Dutch Discovery of the Ottoman West (1670-1671)]

(supervisors: Dr. Frans Blom and Prof. Dr. Wyger Velema]

2003-2004 Erasmus exchange student, Università degli Studi di Firenze (55 ECTS)

2001-2005 BA in Dutch Language and Culture, University of Amsterdam (cum laude)

2001-2005 BA in European Studies, University of Amsterdam (cum laude)

1994-2000 Stedelijk Gymnasium (liceo classico) Utrecht

Language skills

Reading Listening Speaking Writing

Dutch Native Native Native Native

English Professional Professional Professional Professional

Italian Professional Professional Good Intermediate

French Professional Professional Good Intermediate

German Professional Professional Good Intermediate

Spanish Good Good Intermediate

Turkish Intermediate Intermediate Intermediate

Latin Sufficient

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Academic career

Research

2018-present University of Padova, Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari

Postdoctoral researcher in the program Republics on the Stage of Kings. Representing

Republican State Power in the Europe of Absolute Monarchies (late 16th – early 18th

century) (PI: Alessandro Metlica); conductor of the sub-project on the Dutch Republic

2015-2018 Leiden University, Institute for History, Dutch History Section

Postdoctoral researcher in the program The Persistence of Civic Identities in the

Netherlands, 1747-1848, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific

Research (PI’s: prof. dr. Judith Pollmann and prof. dr. Henk te Velde); conductor of

the self-designed sub-project ‘The Primacy of Local Belonging: Private Papers,

Petitioning and Periodical Press, 1747-1848’

2011 Royal Dutch Institute Rome

Oct-Dec Visiting fellow

Project title: Peripheral Coniferae. Towards a Comparative History of the

Revolutionary Sister Republics (ca. 1795-1800)

2009 Netherlands Institute in Turkey, Istanbul

May Visiting scholar

2007-2011 University of Amsterdam, History Department

Doctoral candidate in the research program The First Dutch Democracy. The Political

World of the Batavian Republic 1795-1801, funded by the Netherlands Organization

for Scientific Research (PI’s prof. dr. Wyger Velema and prof dr. Niek van Sas)

2006 Netherlands Institute in Turkey, Istanbul

Oct-Nov Visiting fellow

Teaching and supervision

2017-present Leiden University, Institute for History, Dutch history Section

Second supervisor of Dirk Alkemade MA, doctoral candidate, project title Dutch

Democratic Radicalism. Pieter Vreede and the Invention of Dutch Democracy (first

supervisor prof dr. Henk te Velde)

2017 Leiden University, Honours Academy

Instructor

2016-2018 Leiden University, Department of History and Department of International Studies

Instructor, Lecturer, thesis supervision in BA and MA

2015 Groningen University, Department of History

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Instructor

2009-2015 University of Amsterdam, Department of History

Instructor, Lecturer, thesis supervision in BA

Other relevant working experience (waged and unwaged)

2018-present Member of the team of authors for a Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic

Revolutions (edited by Wim Klooster). I will write the chapter about the Netherlands

and comment on the drafts of fellow contributors.

2018-present Member of the advisory board of the student history journal Skript.

2017-present Initiator and advisor of a digitization project at the Dutch National Archives in The

Hague, which will result in the digitization of c. 17.000 petitions to the legislative

assemblies of the Batavian Republic (1796-1801).

2017-present Member of the supervisory committees of Jos de Jong (ongoing), Jan Postma

(finished), and Pim Waldeck (finished), all Leiden University.

2016-present Founding editor (and initiator) of the multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed, online open

access journal Early Modern Low Countries (www.emlc-journal.org)

2015-present Editorial board member of the Jaarboek Parlementaire Geschiedenis [Dutch Yearbook

of Parliamentary History]

2015 Advisor / text writer for a smartphone app and an exhibition that were developed at

the occasion of the celebration of two centuries Dutch Lower House

2014-2017 Editorial board member of the journal De Achttiende Eeuw [The Eighteenth Century]

2013-2018 Reviewer for the popular scientific history journal Geschiedenis Magazine [History

Magazine]: Selecting and reviewing 12 books annually in the field of cultural history

2013 Board Member of the Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

2013-2015 Coordinator / editor / co-author of the book project In dit Huis. Twee Eeuwen Tweede

Kamer [In this House. Two Centuries Dutch Lower House], published in 2015.

Radboud University Nijmegen, Centre for Parliamentary History

2012-2016 Managing Editor / Copy Editor (until 2015) / Editorial Board Member van Tijdschrift

voor Geschiedenis [Journal of History]

2012-present External referee for Journal of the History of Ideas, Social Science History (declined),

European Review of History, Quaerendo, De Achttiende Eeuw; De Negentiende Eeuw,

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Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, Tijdschrift voor Tijdschriftstudies, BMGN-Low Countries

Historical Review, Nieuwe Tijdingen, Amsterdam University Press

2012 Coordinator of the European Information and Research Network on Parliamentary

History: Managing the coordination between 17 European research institutes

(History of Parliament, London; Kommission für Geschichte des Parlamentarismus un

der politischen Parteien, Berlin; Institute for Parliamentary History, Jyväskyla,

Finland; Centre for Parliamentary History, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Biography and

Parliament, Leioa, Spain; Institute of Contemporary History, Prague, Comité d’histoire

parlementaire et politique, Vernouillet, France, et al.) Developing a common research

strategy, (co-)writing grant applications, organizing meetings and conferences.

Awards and publication grants

2016 Dirk Jacob Veegens Prize

The Dirk Jacob Veegens Prize is awarded biannually by the Stichting Fonds voor de

Geld- en Effectenhandel and the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der

Wetenschappen for an outstanding dissertation in the field of Dutch history. It is one

of the most prestigious prizes for historical research to be had in the Netherlands.

€ 12.500

2012 Dissertation of the Year Prize

Institute for Culture and History, University of Amsterdam

€ 250

2012 Grants for the publication of Pioniers in schaduwbeeld

Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Stichting Daendels, J.E. Jurriaanse Stichting, M.A.O.C.

Gravin van Bylandt Stichting, Stichting Fonds voor de Geld en Effectenhandel, Dr

Hendrik Muller’s Vaderlandsch Fonds

€ 13.350

2008-2009 Grants for the writing and publication of Een vorstelijk voorland (see list of

publications below)

Boekenfonds Elisabeth Grent / F.J.A.M. van der Helm, Dr. C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute

Stichting, J.E. Jurriaanse Stichting, M.A.O.C. Gravin van Bylandt Stichting, Kattendijke

/ Drucker Stichting, Stichting Dr. Hendrik Muller’s Vaderlandsch Fonds, Vereniging

Oud-Hoorn, Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde

€ 10.050

Involvement with grant applications

2018 Leiden University, internal call Profile Area Political Legitimacy

PI

Project: The Dutch Attitude towards Petitioning in a Comparative Perspective,

1566 to the Present

€ 19.976 (declined)

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2018 Arts and Humanities Research Council, Research Networking Scheme

Project Partner (PI: Dr. Henry Miller, Durham University; other PP: Dr. Brodie

Waddell, Birkbeck, University of London)

Project: Petitions and Petitioning from Medieval Times to the Present (funding for

the organization of workshops in Durham, Leiden, and London)

£ 34.868

2017 Leiden University, internal call Faculty of Humanities

PI (co-PI’s: Dr. Maartje Janse en Dr. Anne Petterson)

Project title: Languages of Citizenship. Conceptions of Politics and Discursive

Strategies in Petitions to Dutch Parliamentary Assemblies, 1796-1940

Granted, funding for two student-assistants between January and August 2018

2015 Leiden University, internal call profile area Political Legitimacy

Principal author (PI’s: Prof. Dr. Henk te Velde en Prof. Mr. Luc Verhey)

Project title: Traditions of Power and the Power of Tradition

€ 175.000

2014 Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) Free Competition

Co-applicant (PI’s: Prof. Dr. Henk te Velde and Prof. Dr. Judith Pollmann, Leiden

University)

Project title: The Persistence of Civic Identities in the Netherlands, 1747-1848

€ 721.802

2012 Radboud University Nijmegen, internal call Faculty of Humanities

Author and co-applicant

Conference grant for the conference The Europe of Parliaments (zie below)

€ 20.000

2012 NWO Internationalization in the Humanities

Co-PI and principal author (PI: Prof. Dr. Carla van Baalen, Radboud University

Nijmegen; project partners: Prof. Dr. Jean Garrigues, Orléans / Sciences Po; Prof. Dr.

Andreas Schulz, Kommission für Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der

politischen Parteien, Berlin; Prof. Dr. Pasi Ihalainen, Jyväskylä, Finland; Prof. Dr. Paul

Seaward, History of Parliament, London)

Project title: Towards a European History of Parliaments (1789-2009)

€ 32.600

Involvement with conference organization

2018 AHRC Research Network Petitions and Petitioning from the Medieval Period to the

Present

Second Workshop: Transitions and Continuities (Leiden University)

Co-organizer

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2018 AHRC Research Network Petitions and Petitioning from the Medieval Period to the

Present

First Workshop: Methods, Definitions, Concepts (University of Durham, UK)

Co-organizer

2018 Consortium on the Revolutionary Era

Annual conference (West Chester University, Philadelphia, USA)

Organizer of the panel “Petitionary Practices and Protests in the Age of Revolution:

Ruptures and Continuities” (participants: Prof. Dr. David Zaret, University of Indiana

BLoomington; Prof. Dr. Fara Dabhoiwala, Princeton; Prof. Dr. Janet Polasky,

University of New Hampshire; Phil Baltuskonis MA, University of Mississippi)

2017 Royal Dutch Historical Society (KNHG)

Nieuwe staat, nieuwe burgers? Burgerschap in de Lage Landen 1750-1850 [New

State, New Citizens? Citizenship in the Low Countries 1750-1850 (KNHG Spring

Conference, Amsterdam)

Co-organizer

2015 International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Opening markets (World Conference, Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Member of the Scientific Committee

2013 European Information and Research Network on Parliamentary History

The Ideal Parliament (International conference, Binnenhof, The Hague)

Co-organizer

2012 European Information and Research Network on Parliamentary History

The Europe of Parliaments (International expert meeting, Sciences Po, Paris)

Organizer

2012 Montesquieu Institute

Fifth annual symposium (City Hall, Nijmegen)

Organizer

2010 University of Amsterdam

The Political Culture of the Sister Republics (International workshop, participants

from the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, UK, US, and Finland)

Co-organizer

2010 Royal Dutch Historical Society (KNHG)

Politieke arena’s [Political Arenas] (KNHG Spring Conference, Royal Library The

Hague)

Co-organizer

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Publications

Books

Pioniers in schaduwbeeld. Het eerste parlement van Nederland 1796-1798 [Pioneers in Silhouette:

The First Dutch Parliament 1796-1798]. Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2012.

Een vorstelijk voorland. Gerard Hinlopen op reis naar Istanbul (1670-1671) [A Monarchical Prospect:

Gerard Hinlopen’s Journey to Istanbul (1670-1671)]. Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2009.

(Guest) Editorships of Edited Volumes and Special Issues of Journals

Submitted

(with Diederik Smit) Political Change and Civic Continuities in the Low Countries, 1780-1830. Special

Issue of Low Countries Historical Review, accepted for publication.

Published

(with Anne Bos, Jan Willem Brouwer, Hans Goslinga, Jan Ramakers, and Hilde Reiding) Het volk

spreekt. Jaarboek Parlementaire Geschiedenis 2017 [The Word to the People; Dutch Yearbook

Parliamentary History]. Amsterdam: Boom, 2017.

(with Anne Bos, Jan Willem Brouwer, Hans Goslinga, Jan Ramakers, and Hilde Reiding) Zonden in de

politiek. Jaarboek Parlementaire Geschiedenis 2016 [Political Sins. Dutch Yearbook Parliamentary

History]. Amsterdam: Boom, 2016.

(with Edwina Hagen) Self-Fashioning in the Eighteenth Century. Special Issue De Achttiende Eeuw

71:1 (2015).

(with Mart Rutjes and Erik Jacobs) The Political Culture of the Sister Republics: France, The

Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy, 1794-1806. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015.

(with Remieg Aerts, Carla van Baalen, Diederik Smit, and Henk te Velde) In dit Huis. Twee eeuwen

Tweede Kamer [In this House. Two Centuries Dutch Lower House]. Amsterdam: Boom, 2015.

(met Inger Leemans) ‘Alles is Verlicht. Nieuwe ontwikkelingen in het Verlichtingsonderzoek sinds

2000’ [Everything is Enlightened: New Developments in Enlightenment Research since 2000]. Special

issue Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 127:2 (2014).

Articles, contributions to edited volumes, book chapters

Submitted

‘The Experience of State Formation. Petitioning and Chronicling on the Dutch Island of Ameland (c.

1780-1815)’. Submitted to National Identities.

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(with Jane Judge) ‘Father Figures and Faction Leaders. Identification Strategies and Monarchical

Imagery among Ordinary Citizens of the Northern and Southern Low Countries (c. 1780-1820)’.

Submitted to Low Countries Historical Review, accepted for publication.

‘So Close and Yet So Far. Degrees of Proximity in Pauper Letters to Dutch National Power Holders

around 1800’. Submitted for an edited volume on ‘The personal and emotional dimension of

everyday and non-elite nationhood in modern European history’, to be published by Routledge,

edited by Maarten van Ginderachter et al. Accepted for publication.

‘Emotional Self-Fashioning in the Age of Revolution. Stoicism and Sensibility as Models of Emotional

Conduct’. Accepted, to be published in Selected papers of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era

2015.

Published

‘1782. Massaal op de bres voor de VS’ [1782. Petitioning for the Recognition of the USA] , in: Lex

Heerma van Voss e.a. (red.), Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland. Amsterdam: Ambo Anthos, 2018.

(with Ivo Nieuwenhuis) ‘Using Satire in Historical Research: Comments on the Practice of Petitioning

from the Dutch Age of Revolution (c. 1780-1800)’. Eighteenth-Century Studies 51:2 (2017) 219-233.

‘De Nederlandse revolutie in dorp en stad. Lokale geschiedschrijving over de patriots-Bataafse tijd,

1875 tot heden’ [The Dutch Revolution in Village and Town: Local History Writing on the Patriot-

Batavian Era, 1875 to the Present], Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 130:4 (2017) 565-592.

‘The Greatest Right of Them All. The Debate on the Right to Petition in the Netherlands from the

Dutch Republic to the Kingdom (c. 1750-1830)’, European History Quarterly 47:4 (2017) 634-656.

‘Verzoekschriften aan het Bataafse parlement. Een terreinverkenning’ [Petitions to the Batavian

Parliament: An Exploration], in: A. Bos et al. (eds.), Jaarboek Parlementaire Geschiedenis 2017. Het

volk spreekt, 19-30. Amsterdam: Boom, 2017.

‘Spoken als handelswaar. Een pennenstrijd uit 1766 nader bekeken’ [Ghosts as Commodities: A

Closer Look at a 1766 Polemic], in: Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis 2017, 57-74.

Nijmegen, Vantilt, 2017.

‘Self-Fashioning and Revolutionary Portraiture. Jan van Hooff’s portraits historiés’, De Achttiende

Eeuw 47:1 (2015) 76-95.

(with Edwina Hagen) ‘Self-Fashioning in the Eighteenth Century’, De Achttiende Eeuw 47:1 (2015) 4-

8.

(with Mart Rutjes) ‘The Political Culture of the Sister Republics’, in: Joris Oddens, Mart Rutjes and Erik

Jacobs (eds.), The Political Culture of the Sister Republics: France, The Netherlands, Switzerland, and

Italy, 1794-1806, 17-32. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015.

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‘Making the Most of National Time: Accountability, Transparency and Term Limits in the First Dutch

Parliament (1796-1797)’, in: Joris Oddens, Mart Rutjes and Erik Jacobs (eds.) The Political Culture of

the Sister Republics: France, The Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy, 1794-1806, 115-125.

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015.

‘Zoeken naar eendracht. Parlementaire vertegenwoordiging tot 1815’ [Searching for Unity:

Parliamentary Representation until 1815], in: Remieg Aerts et al. (eds.), In dit Huis. Twee eeuwen

Tweede Kamer, 253-277. Amsterdam: Boom, 2015.

(with Mart Rutjes) ‘Scenario voor een voltooide revolutie. Jacob Hahns bewerking van Benjamin

Constants Des réactions politiques (1799)’ [Scenario for an Accomplished Revolution: Jacob Hahn’s

Adaptation of Benjamin Constant’s Des réactions politiques (1799)] , in: Frans Grijzenhout and Peter

Raedts (eds.), Deze lange eeuw. Metamorfosen van het vaderland 1780-1950: Opstellen voor Niek

van Sas, 50-63. Amsterdam: Prometheus Bert Bakker, 2015.

‘Martelaars van Staat. Bataafs stoïcisme en de politieke gevangenschap op Huis ten Bosch in 1798’

[State Martyrs: Batavian Stoicism and the Political Imprisonment on Huis ten Bosch in 1798], De

Negentiende Eeuw 38:4 (2014) 294-314.

(with Inger Leemans) ‘Ontwikkelingen in het verlichtingsonderzoek sinds het jaar 2000. Ter inleiding’

[Developments in Enlightenment Research since the Year 2000. An Introduction], Tijdschrift voor

Geschiedenis 127:2 (2014) 183-187.

‘Men in Black: The Silhouette Portraits of the Members of the First Dutch National Assembly’,

Rijkmuseum Bulletin 62:1 (2014) 24-47.

‘“Een lam republikeintje als ik”. Jacob Hahn, het achttiende-eeuwse gevoelsdenken en de

ordeverstoringen in de Nationale Vergadering’ [“A Lame Republican Such as Myself”: Jacob Hahn, the

Eighteenth-Century Cult of Sensibility and the Disruptions of the Order in the National Assembly], in:

Peter van Dam, Bram Mellink, and Jouke Turpijn (eds.), Onbehagen in de polder. Nederland in conflict

sinds 1795, 139-162. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2014.

‘The Primacy of Parliamentary Proceedings: The Members of the First Dutch National Assembly and

the Dagverhaal’, TS. Tijdschrift voor Tijdschriftstudies 34 (2013) 109-123.

‘“Representeerende het volk van Nederland”. Politieke vertegenwoordiging in Verlichting en

Revolutie’ [Representing the People of the Netherlands: Political Representation in Enlightenment

and Revolution], Kleio 54 (2013) 4-11.

‘Van museale waarde. Het eerste parlement van Nederland als politiek-bestuurlijk erfgoed’ [Of

Museal Value: The First Dutch Parliament as Administrative Heritage], Bestuurskundige berichten

27:3 (2013) 12-15.

‘No Extended Sphere: The Batavian Understanding of the American Constitution and the Problem of

Faction’, Early American Studies 10:2 (2012) 382-414.

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‘Soep na de maaltijd. Transfer en transformatie van een Turks toetje’ [Soup after the Meal: Transfer

and Transformation of a Turkish Dessert], in: A.H. van Baal (ed.), Istanbul: City of Contrasts. Cultural

Transfer Between Europa and Turkey, 20-25. Amsterdam: Huizinga Instituut, 2011.

‘De burger bedankt. Lastposten in de Nationale Vergadering (1796-1797) [Reluctant Citizens: The

National Assembly and Public Office]’, De Achttiende Eeuw 44:1 (2010) 315-331.

(with Jouke Turpijn) ‘Waarheid en gezond verstand in het parlement rondom 1798 en 1848’ [Truth

and Common Sense in Parliament around 1798 and 1848], Jaarboek Parlementaire Geschiedenis 12

(2010) 23-35.

‘Menistenstreken in het strijdperk. Het eerste parlement van Nederland en de mythe van de

Moderate middenpartij’ [Mennonite Intrigues on the Battlefield: The First Dutch Parliament and the

Myth of the Moderate Centre], Doopsgezinde Bijdragen, new series 35/36 (2010) 337-361.

‘De reis en het rampjaar. Een inwoner van Hoorn in het Ottomaanse Rijk’ [The Journey and the Year

of Disaster: A Citizen of Hoorn in the Ottoman Empire], Oud Hoorn 32:3 (2010) 96-102.

‘De basis van ons onderwijs. Instructie dienend tot handleiding voor de commissie om te arbeiden

aan een nieuwe canon van Nederland’ [Fundamental Teachings: An Instruction for the Commission

that is to Design a New Historical Canon for the Netherlands], in: A.H. van Baal (ed.), Cultural

Transfer. Russia and Europe since 1650, 49-56. Amsterdam: Huizinga Instituut, 2009.

‘‘Rooms rot’ of goed patriot. Het antikatholieke geweld van september 1747’ [Popish Rot or Good

Patriot. The Anti-Catholic Violence of September 1747], Skript 28 (2006) 46-51.

‘Marcus van Vaernewijck en de Gentse beeldenstorm’ [Marcus van Vaernewijck and the Iconoclastic

Riots in Ghent], Skript 27 (2006) 38-48.

Book Reviews

Review of James Kennedy, A Concise History of the Netherlands. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 2017. In: European History Quarterly 48:2 (2018) 370-371.

Review of Janet Polasky, Revolutions Without Borders. The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World. New

Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. In: Early Modern Low Countries 1:1 (2017).

Review of Marc Lerner, A Laboratory of Liberty: The Transformation of Political Culture in Republican

Switzerland, 1750-1848. Leiden [etc.]: Brill: 2012. In: German History 33:2 (2015) 293-294.

Review of Brecht Deseure, Onhoudbaar verleden. Geschiedenis als politiek instrument tijdens de

Franse periode in België. Leuven: Universitaire Pers Leuven, 2014. In: Belgisch Tijdschrift voor

Nieuwste Geschiedenis 44:2/3 (2014) 270-271.

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Review of Erie Tanja, Goede politiek. De parlementaire cultuur van de Tweede Kamer, 1866-1960.

Amsterdam: 2011. In: De Negentiende Eeuw 37:2 (2013) 170-171.

Review of Peter Altena, Gerrit Paape (1752-1803). Levens en werken. Nijmegen: 2012. In: Tijdschrift

voor Geschiedenis 126:2 (2013) 275-76.

Review of Jaap van Rijn, De eeuw van het debat. De ontwikkeling van het publieke debat in Nederland

en Engeland 1800-1920. Amsterdam: 2010. In: De Negentiende Eeuw 36:3 (2012) 230-231.

Review of İsmail Hakkı Kadı, Ottoman and Dutch Merchants in the Eighteenth Century. Leiden: 2012.

In: Südost-Forschungen 71(2012) 537-539.

Review of Raymond Kubben, Regeneration and Hegemony. Franco-Batavian Relations in the

Revolutionary Era, 1795-1803. Leiden en Boston: 2011. In: Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis 124:3 (2011)

413-14.

Review of Nicholas Dew, Orientalism in Louis XIV’s France. Oxford: 2009. In: De Zeventiende Eeuw

27:1 (2011) 112.

Review of Jonathan I. Israel, Verlichting onder vuur. Filosofie, moderniteit en emancipatie, 1670-1752,

Ruben Buys e.a. Vert. Franeker: 2010. In: Openbaar bestuur 21:4 (2011) 27-28.

Review of Eveline Koolhaas-Grosfeld, De ontdekking van de Nederlander in boeken en prenten rond

1800. Zutphen: 2010. In: De Boekenwereld 26 (2010) 315-16.

Review of Gerrit Verhoeven, Anders reizen? Evoluties in vroegmoderne reiservaringen van Hollandse

en Brabantse elites (1600-1750). Hilversum: 2009. In: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 123:2 (2010) 291-

92.

Review of Claudette Baar-De Weerd, Uw sekse en de onze. Vrouwen en genootschappen in Nederland

en in ons omringende landen (1750-ca.1810). Hilversum: 2009. In: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 122:4

(2009) 576-77.

Review of Pieter van Wissing (ed.), Stookschriften. Pers en politiek tussen 1780 en 1800. Nijmegen:

2008. In: De Boekenwereld 24 (2009) 311.

Review of Peter Buijs, De eeuw van het geluk. Nederlandse opvattingen over geluk ten tijde van de

Verlichting, 1658-1835. Hilversum: 2007. In: Skript 29 (2008) 87-88.

Review of David Hess, Hollandia Regenerata, Joost Rosendaal (ed.) Nijmegen: 2007. In: De

Boekenwereld 24 (2008) 41.

Review of Rietje van Vliet, Elie Luzac (1721-1796): boekverkoper van de Verlichting. Nijmegen: 2005.

In: Skript 28 (2006) 46-51.

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Lectures (since 2016)

September 2018

‘Not on Behalf of Others. Collective Petitioning in the Batavian Republic (1795-1806)’

Leiden University, AHRC Research Network Petitions Workshop

July 2018

‘What are petitions, or what are petitions and petitioning used for, and by whom? A functional

approach’

University of Durham, AHRC Research Network Petitions Workshop

February 2018

‘The Petitioning Industry. Petitions for Jobs, Delegated Writing, and Patronage in the Batavian

Republic’

West Chester University, Philadelphia, Consortium on the Revolutionary Era Annual Conference

October 2017

‘Insular subalternity. Dutch state formation around 1800 as seen from the island of Ameland’

Antwerpen University, International Conference Subaltern Political Knowledges, c. 1750 - c. 1950

July 2017

‘Citizenship in the Netherlands around 1800 through the Example of Petitioning’

University of Frankfurt a/d Oder, International Conference Neuständische Gesellschaft? Anwendung

eines heuristischen Konzeptes auf die historische Wirklichkeit um 1800

May 2017 (with Jane Judge)

‘“Ik hebt noeg noiet van giene moenaerk iet gaet”. Armenbrieven aan de soeverein in Noord en Zuid,

c. 1780-1830’ [Pauper Letters to the Sovereign in the Northern and Southern Netherlands, c. 1780-

1830]

KNHG Amsterdam, Spring Conference Nieuwe Staat. Nieuwe burgers? Burgerschap in de

Nederlanden 1750-1850

June 2016

‘Spoken verkopen. Een letterkundige sensatie uit 1766 nader bekeken’ [Selling Ghosts. A Literary

Sensation of 1766].

Leiden University, Annual Conference Nederlandse Boekhistorische Vereniging

June 2016

‘Petitioning as a form of civic engagement. Some thoughts and questions’

Leiden University, expert meeting The persistence of civic identities in the Netherlands, 1747-1848

May 2016

‘The debate on the right to petition in the Netherlands, c. 1750-1830’

Groningen University, Agricola Seminar for Early Modern History and Culture