PhD Defences 2024-2025 PhD defence Pauline Dirven (UU) Embodied Performances of Forensic Expertise: Epistemic Virtues, Emotions, and Gender in British Forensic Culture 1920-1980 6 September 2024 | 10:15 - 11:15 PhD defence Irene Geerts (OU) Family matters. The Dutch family movement in mental health care, 1960-2000 25 October 2024 | 16:00 - 17:00 PhD defence Alie Lassche (UL) Information Dynamics in Low Countries’ Chronicles (1500-1860). A Computational Approach 5 November 2024 | 16:00 - 17:00 PhD defence Daniella Zaidman (UvA) Plague and piety. Yiddish medical literature in early modern Europe 20 November 2024 | 11:00 - 12:30 PhD defence Antonia Weiss (UvA) The City of Nature: Women and the Making of Green Space in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam and Berlin 31 January 2025 | 11:00 - 12:00 PhD defence Lotte van Hasselt (UvA) Deserving Refugees? The Evolution of a Concept in the Dutch Republic (1570-1730s) 31 January 2025 | 14:00 - 15:00 2023-2024 PhD defence Sabine Waasdorp (UvA) Shaping Spanishness. Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in England and the Netherlands, c. 1554-1621 18 September 2023 | 14:00 - 15:30 PhD defence Paul Hulsenboom (RU) As boorish as a Dutchman and as wild as a Pole? How Polish and Dutch people perceived and conceptualised each other in the seventeenth century 24 October 2023 | 14:30 - 15:30 PhD defence Sara Serrano Martínez (UU) The Infanticide Article under Franco, 1937–1963. ‘Leniency’, judicial discretion and forensic knowledge 3 November 2023 | 10:15 - 11:15 PhD defence Mirte Liebregts (RU) Behind the Red and the Green: Unraveling the history of the Loeb Classical Library (1911-1939) 7 November 2023 | 14:30 - 15:30 PhD defence Mathijs Boom (UvA) A Diluvial Land. Earth Histories in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1550-1830 29 November 2023 | 16:00 - 17:30 PhD defence Lise Zurné (EUR) Performing contested pasts: An ethnography of historical re-enactments of war and revolution 13 December 2023 | 13:00 - 14:00 PhD defence Hans Wallage (UvA) Humanitaire hulpverlening in de Republiek tijdens buitenlandse vervolgingen van joden, 1600-1750 13 December 2023 | 14:00 - 15:00 PhD defence Nathanje Dijkstra (UU) Making up incapacity for work? How government officials, medical experts and disabled workers brought incapacity for work into being in the first Dutch social security law (1901-1967) 12 January 2024 | 12:15 - 13:15 PhD defence Debby Esmeé de Vlugt (UL/RIAS) A New Feeling of Unity: Decolonial Black Power in the Dutch Atlantic (1968-1973) 8 May 2024 | 16:15 - 17:15 PhD defence Willemijn van Noord (UvA) Materialising China: Material culture and perceptions of China in the late seventeenth-century Dutch Republic 19 June 2024 | 11:00 - 12:30 2022-2023 PhD defence Lucas van der Deijl (UvA) A New Language for the Natural Light. Translating the New Philosophy in the Dutch Early Enlightenment (1640-1720) 29 September 2022 | 16:00 - 17:00 PhD defence Steije Hofhuis (UU) Qualitative Darwinism: An Evolutionary History of Witch-hunting 30 September 2022 | 14:15 - 15:15 PhD defence Laura van Hasselt (UvA) Geld, geloof en goede vrienden. Piet van Eeghen en de metamorfose van Amsterdam, 1816-1889 11 November 2022 | 11:00 - 12:00 PhD defence Anne-Lise Bobeldijk (UvA/NIOD) Entangled narratives of terror: Maly Trostenets and Blagovshchina forest in history and memory 17 February 2023 | 11:00 - 12:00 PhD defence Vincent Baptist (EUR) Pleasure near the Port: Spaces and Legacies of Notorious Entertainment Culture in 20th-Century Rotterdam 31 March 2023 | 13:00 - 14:00 PhD defence Adriaan Duiveman (RU) Nature Triumphed: Disasters, Solidarity, and Identity in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic 4 April 2023 | 14:30 - 15:30 PhD defence Koen Scholten (UU) Rethinking the Republic of Letters: Memory and Identity in Early Modern Learned Communities 24 May 2023 | 10:15 - 11:15 PhD defence Marleen Reichgelt (RU) Revisioning Colonial Childhoods. A Photographic History of Papuan Children in Missionary Networks, 1890-1930 20 June 2023 | 16:30 - 17:30 2021-2022 PhD defence Jacolien Wubs (RUG) 'To Proclaim, to Instruct and to Discipline: The Visuality of Texts in Calvinist Churches in the Dutch Republic' 14 October 2021 | 14:30 - 16:00 PhD defence Victor Guanmian Xu (UL) Pepper to Sea Cucumbers. Chinese Gustatory Revolution in Global History, 900-1840 10 November 2021 | 16:15 - 17:15 PhD defence Carlotta Capurro (UU) Digitalisering van de Europese cultuur. Europeana en de overheid van digitaal cultureel erfgoed 26 November 2021 | 14:15 - 15:15 PhD defence Larissa Schulte Nordholt (LU) Africanising African History 1 December 2021 | 16:15 - 17:00 PhD defence Christoph van den Belt (VU) Eigentijds en eigenzinnig 16 December 2021 | 13:45 - 14:45 PhD defence Céline Zaepffel (UL) Vers une hégémonie lafontainienne 16 December 2021 | 13:45 - 14:30 PhD defence Berrie van der Molen (UU) Talking XTC; Drug discourse in post-war Dutch newspaper and radio debates 17 January 2022 | 16:15 - 17:15 PhD defence Renée Vulto (UGent) Singing Communities. Politics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch Revolutionary Period (1780-1815) 4 February 2022 | 14:00 - 16:00 PhD defence Cora van de Poppe (UU) Werkwoordspel - Een literair-taalkundig perspectief op werkwoordvariatie in vroegmodern Nederlands proza 11 February 2022 | 10:15 - 11:30 PhD defence Bob Pierik (UvA) Urban Life on the Move. Gender and Mobility in Early Modern Amsterdam 11 February 2022 | 11:00 - 12:00 PhD defence Tim Vergeer (UL) The Theatre of Emotions: Spanish Drama in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries 6 April 2022 | 13:45 - 14:30 PhD defence Jon Verriet (RU) Representing the Healthy Lifestyle: Contested Ideas about Nutrition and Physical Exercise in the Netherlands, 1940–2020 22 June 2022 | 10:30 - 11:30 PhD defence Renske Hoff (RUG) Involving Readers: Practices of Reading, Use, and Interaction in Early Modern Dutch Bibles (1522-1546) 23 June 2022 | 12:45 - 13:45 PhD defence Fons Meijer (RU) Verbonden door rampspoed. Rampen en natievorming in negentiende-eeuws Nederland 28 June 2022 | 14:30 - 15:30 Share this page Share on Facebook Share on X (Twitter) Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Email Earlier PhD defences PhD defences before 2017-2018 View earlier PhD defences
