SKILLNET – Sharing Knowledge in Learned and Literary Networks

SKILLNET – Sharing Knowledge in Learned and Literary Networks

Publications and Activities

Publications

2023

  • van Miert, D., Erdösi, P., Křížová, M., & Quirós Rosado, R. (2023). Chapter 1.1: Ideas of Europe in Early Modern History (ca. 1500-1800). In J. Hansen, J. Hung, J. Ira, J. Klement, S. Lesage, J. L. Semal, & A. Tompkins (Eds.), The European Experience. A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe (pp. 5-14). Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0323.01
  • van Miert, D., & Krasz, L. (2023). ‘Chapter 4.3: ‘Education and Knowledge Transfer in Early Modern History (ca. 1500-1800). In J. Hansen, J. Hung, J. Ira, J. Klement, S. Lesage, J. L. Semal, & A. Tompkins (Eds.), The European Experience. : A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe (pp. 597-606). Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0323.64
  • van Miert, D. (2023). ‘Regulating the Exchange of Knowledge: invoking the ‘Republic of Letters’ as a speech act. In F. J. Dijksterhuis (Ed.), Regulating Knowledge in an Entangled World (pp. 211-240). (Knowledge Societies in History). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429279928-15

2022

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

  • van Miert, D. (2022). The Curious Case of Isaac Casaubon’s Monstrous Bladder: the networked construction of learned memory within the 17th-c. Reformed world of learning. In K. Scholten, D. van Miert, & K. A. E. Enenkel (Eds.), Memory and Identity in the Learned World (pp. 307-341). (Intersections; No. 81). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004507159_010
  • van Miert, D. (2022). To the advantage of the Republic of Letters? Gulielmus Surenhusius’s Projects, Plans, and Collaborations Beyond the Mishnah. In P. van Boxel, K. MacFarlane, & J. Weinberg (Eds.), The Mishnaic Moment: Jewish Law among Jews and Christians in Early Modern Europe (pp. 359-377). (Oxford-Warburg Series). Oxford University Press.
  • van Miert, D., & Hollewand, K. (2022). The “Republic of Letters” in the correspondence of Scaliger and Casaubon. Bibliothèque d’humanisme et renaissance, 84(1), 17-45.
  • Scholten, K., van Miert, D., & Enenkel, K. A. E. (Eds.) (2022). Memory and Identity in the Learned World: Community Formation in the Early Modern World of Learning and Science. (Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture; Vol. 81). Brill. https://brill.com/view/title/61663

Populariserende publicaties

  • van Miert, D. (2022). 1641: Een Syrische christen in Holland. In L. Heerma van Voss, N. Bouras, M. ‘t Hart, M. van der Heijden, L. Lucassen, & M. Schillings (Eds.), Nog meer wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland (pp. 221-227). Ambo/Anthos.

2021

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

  • van Miert, D. (2021). A review of Marc Fumaroli, The Republic of Letters, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2018. Erudition and the Republic of Letters, 7(2), 331-336. https://doi.org/doi:10.1163/24055069-06030005

Presentations

  • Ingeborg van Vugt and Liliana Melgar, ‘SKILLNET – Het delen van kennis in het heden én verleden,’ webinar series ‘Toegankelijkheid organiseren’, Kennisnetwerk Informatie en Archief, 15 December 2020.
  • Dirk van Miert, ‘De impact van besmettelijke ziektes op de geleerde wereld in de 17de-eeuwse Nederlanden’, webinar series ‘Gewina gaat viraal’, 6 June 2020.
  • Ingeborg van Vugt, ‘CEMROL: Collecting Epistolary Metadata of the Republic Of Letters’, pitch held at the online plenary meeting ‘CIAW: Networking in the Ancient World’, University of Groningen, 1 May 2020.
  • Ingeborg van Vugt, ‘The balance-keeper: Antonio Magliabechi and the Republic of Letters’, presentation held at the Utrecht Cultural History Seminar, Utrecht University, 19 February 2020.
  • Ingeborg van Vugt, ‘CEMROL: het crowdsourcen van brieven uit het web van de Republiek der Letteren’, presentation held at the Utrecht Centre for Early Modern Studies Publieksdag ‘Het wereldwijde web: kennisverspreiding in de vroegmoderne tijd’, Utrecht University, 25 January 2020.
  • Ingeborg van Vugt, ‘Workshop on working with Nodegoat’ given at a Nodegoat workshop organized by the Huygens ING, Amsterdam, 16 January 2020.
  • Ingeborg van Vugt, CEMROL workshop given to the students of the Research MA History of the Humanities, Leiden University, 7 January 2020.
  • Ingeborg van Vugt, ‘Workshop Historical Network Analysis’ given at the ‘CREATE salon and Digital History Workshop: Network Analysis in Humanities,’ University of Amsterdam, 28 November 2019.
  • Dirk van Miert, ‘What to reassemble?’, presentation held at the book presentation of Howard Hotson and Thomas Wallnig (eds), Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age (Göttingen: Göttingen University Press, 2019), TORCH, University of Oxford, 29 October 2019.
  • Dirk van Miert, ‘Belle van Zuylen: een burger van de Republiek der Letteren?’, presentation held at the ‘Symposium Belle van Zuylen: haar brieven online!’, Utrechts Archief, 26 October 2019.
  • Dirk van Miert and Karen Hollewand, ‘Invoking the Republic of Letters in Casaubon’s Correspondence’, paper presented at the international colloquium ‘Isaac Casaubon, de la République de Genève à la République des lettres’, Université de Genève, Geneva, 15 October 2019.
  • Ingeborg van Vugt, ‘Are you in or out? An introduction to historical network analysis’, workshop given at the International Summer School ‘Reflections on Code’, Mainz, 10 October 2019.
  • Ingeborg van Vugt, commentator on the panel ‘Competitive Concurrence? Netzwerke und ihre Mehrfachnutzung’, Frühneuzeittage Universität Rostock, 21 September 2019.
  • Ingeborg van Vugt, ‘Balance-keeping in Early Modern Society’, paper presented at the Digital Humanities Benelux Conference, Liège, 11 September 2019.
  • Koen Scholten, ‘Scholarly Identity in Early Modern Europe: A Quantitative Approach to Early Modern Collective Vitae of Learned Men and Women’, invited speaker at the conference ‘Constructing the “Public Intellectual” in the Premodern World’, Manchester, 6 September 2019.
  • Koen Scholten, ‘Text-Mining Early Modern Collective Lives of Scholars for Scholarly Virtues’, invited speaker at the History of Science Society annual meeting: ‘Telling the Stories of Science’, Utrecht, 25 July 2019.
  • Karen Hollewand, ‘Text Mining and the Conceptual History of the ‘Republic of Letters’, History of Science Society annual meeting: ‘Telling the Stories of Science’, Utrecht, 25 July 2019.
  • Dirk van Miert, ‘Telling Histories of the Republic of Letters in the 18th century. “History of Learning” as expression of growing self-awareness of an international community of scholars and scientists’, History of Science Society annual meeting: ‘Telling the Stories of Science’, Utrecht, 24 July 2019.
  • Karen Hollewand, ‘Collecting the Epistolary Metadata of the Republic of Letters’, Gewina Woudschoten Meeting for Historians of Science in the Netherlands: Towards a History of Knowledge, Zeist, 22 June 2019.
  • Dirk van Miert, ‘Was there ever a Hebrew or a Jewish Republic of Letters?’, Oxford Chabad Society, Oxford, 12 June 2019.
  • Koen Scholten, ‘Exemplary Figures in the Republic of Letters: From Erasmus as Phoenix Europae to Scaliger as Aquila inter aves’, invited speaker at the Saint-Omer International Colloquium ‘The Literary Exchanges and Intellectual Encounters of Humanists in the Northern Provinces during the Renaissance’, Saint-Omer, 8 June 2019.
  • Dirk van Miert, ‘There was no Hebrew Republic of Letters: Christian Hebraism and conceptual history and theory of citizenship’, David Patterson Lecture, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, 20 May 2019.
  • Dirk van Miert, ‘The life and network of Wilhelm Surenhusius’, Seminar Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford, 7 May 2019.
  • Karen Hollewand, ‘The launch of CEMROL: charms and challenges of developing an academic crowdsourcing platform’, invited speaker at the EnetCollect (European Network for Combining Language Learning with Crowdsourcing Techniques) Annual Meeting, Lisbon, 14 March 2019.
  • Koen Scholten, ‘Joannes Kool’s Experience of the Transnational Republic of Letters, 1698-1699’, invited speaker at the conference ‘Foreign Eyes on the Republic: European Perspectives on the Republic and the Dutch in the Long Eighteenth Century’, Nijmegen, 21 February 2019.
  • Karen Hollewand, ‘Verbannen en vergeten: Hadriaan Beverland en zijn ideeën over seks en zonde’, presentation held at the Utrecht Centre for Early Modern Studies Publieksdag ‘Vrijheid en Vervolging: Tolerantie in Vroegmodern Europa’, Utrecht University, 16 February 2019.
  • Dirk van Miert, ‘Was there a 19th-c. Republic of Letters?’, MEFRIM symposium, Royal Dutch Institute in Rome, 9 November 2018.
  • Dirk van Miert, ‘Towards a Conceptual History of the Republic of Letters in the Modern Period’, Cultural History Seminar, Utrecht University, 1 November 2018.
  • Dirk van Miert, ‘De Republiek der Letteren: een verhaal van vriendschap en tolerantie’, Orde van den Prince, afdeling Den Haag, 5 September 2018.
  • Dirk van Miert, ‘Digital humanities in studying German Idealism: social network analysis, text mining, and author recognition’, HOPOS Conference, Groningen, 12 July 2018.
  • Dirk van Miert, ‘Reassembling the Republic of Letters, 1400-1800’,  XXXVIIIth International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Utrecht, 28 June 2018.
  • Dirk van Miert, ‘Regulating the exchange of knowledge – The Regime of the Republic of Letters’, invited speaker for the NIAS research theme group, 20 June 2018.
  • Dirk van Miert, ‘The via media between the Hardies and the Softies’,  invited speaker at the University of Cambridge, 14 June 2018.
  • Dirk van Miert, ‘Kennisdeling, kosmopolitisme en kwaadsprekerij: 600 jaar Republiek der Letteren (6 juli 1417-9 maart 2018)’, acceptance of the first copy of Hans Bots, De Republiek der Letteren. De Europese intellectuele wereld 1500-1760 (Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2018), Boekhandel Roelants, Nijmegen, 9 March 2018.
  • Dirk van Miert, public response at the presentation of Arjan van Dixhoorn et al., eds, The Knowledge Culture of the Netherlandish Rhetoricians, special issue of Renaissance Studies 32:1 (2018), Royal Library, The Hague, 2 March 2018.
  • Dirk van Miert, ‘The cataloguing of scholarly correspondence held in Dutch libraries: 1918-2018’,  presentation delivered at the conference ‘L’epistolografia di antico regime’, Viterbo, 16 February 2018.
  • Dirk van Miert, ‘Open Acces in historisch perspectief’, Utrecht, Historicidagen 2017, 25 August 2017.

Public Outreach

Visiting Research Fellowships

  • Dirk van Miert, Polonsky/Plumer fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies/St Anne’s College, Oxford, May-June 2019.
  • Koen Scholten, visiting researcher at the Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut, Florence, 18 March-25 May 2019.
  • Koen Scholten, visiting researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, March-June 2018.