PhD Defences 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 2020-2021 PhD defence Anna-Luna Post (UU) Claiming Fame for Galileo: Reputation and Scholarly Credibility in Early Modern Italy 30 September 2020 | 09:15 - 10:15 PhD defence Caro Verbeek (VU) Ruiken aan de tijd 27 October 2020 | 13:45 - 14:45 PhD Defence Siri Driessen (EUR) Touching war. An ethnographic analysis of war tourism in Europe 11 December 2020 | 11:30 - 13:00 PhD defence Frederique Demeijer (VU) Over apostolisch-zijn gesproken... 16 December 2020 | 11:45 - 12:45 PhD defence Roland Bertens (UU) Guaranteeing Access to Dutch Health Care Under the Banner of Private Initiative, 1848-2015 7 January 2021 | 14:30 - 15:15 PhD defence Pieter Van den Heede (EUR/NIOD) Engaging with the Second World War through Digital Gaming 11 February 2021 | 15:30 - 17:00 PhD defence Sophie van den Elzen (UU) Antislavery in the Transnational Movement for Women's Rights, 1832-1914: A Study of Memory Work 19 March 2021 | 14:30 - 15:30 PhD defence David Veltman (RUG) 'Sterven in het bed waarin ik geboren ben' Een biografie van Felix de Boeck (1898-1995) 5 July 2021 | 16:15 - 17:15 2019-2020 PhD defence Jan Rotmans (UvA) Enlightened Pessimism: Republican Decline in Dutch Revolutionary Thought, 1780-1800. 23 April 2020 PhD defence Rena Bood (UvA) Between Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia: The Spanish Fascination in English and Dutch 17th-century Literature 1 May 2020 Share this page Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Email Earlier PhD defences PhD defences before 2017-2018 View earlier PhD defences