Publications

• Dirk van Miert, review of Jan Hengstmengel, Jos Babeliowsky, C.L. Heesakkers (†), and H.J.H. Mooren (†) (eds), Gens Schotana IV.20 (2020), Early Modern Low Countries, 4:2, pp.272–274.
• Dirk van Miert, ‘De zonde der onzichtbaarheid’, blogpost on the website of the ‘Scholarly Vices: A Longue Durée History’ project at Leiden University, 16 December 2020.
• Teunie Rouwendal and Lars Punt, ‘Online datasprint CEMROL: successful public meeting and a look behind the scenes’, blogpost on SKILLNET project website, 27 August 2020.
• Maiah Letsch, ‘A Multitude of Networks’, blogpost on SKILLNET project website, 21 July 2020.
• Nienke van Doeselaar, ‘All about appearances and insults: Early modern biographies of scholars’, blogpost on SKILLNET project website, 12 March 2020.
• Manuel Llano, review of Hans Bots, De Republiek der Letteren: De Europese intellectuele wereld 1500-1760 (Nijmegen, 2018), History of the Humanities 4:2 (2019), pp. 477-489.
• Ellen van Heteren, ‘Peat, wine and side gigs: salaries and employee benefits in Dutch Latin schools’, blogpost on SKILLNET project website, 11 December 2019.
• Manuel Llano, ‘The Japanese gown as an unlikely Dutch scholarly symbol’, blogpost on SKILLNET project website, 14 November 2019.
• Manuel Llano, ‘The social structure of academia in the 17th century Dutch Republic’, presentation at the ‘IX Heloise atelier – European Network on Digital Academic History’, Leipzig University, 12 November 2019.
• Manuel Llano, ‘The Dutch Republic in the Republic of Letters: a quantitative overview’, presentation at ‘Worlding the Low Countries – 13th International Conference of the Association for Low Countries Studies’, University College London, 6 November 2019.
• Dirk van Miert, ‘The Disputation Hall in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic: An Urban Location of Knowledge’, in: Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, Andreas Weber and Huib Zuidervaart, eds, Locations of Knowledge in Dutch Contexts (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 211-231.
• Dirk van Miert, ‘Contested cultural citizenship of a virtual transnational community. Structural impediments for women to participate in the Republic of Letters (1400–1800)’, in: Rosemarie Buikema, Antoine Buyse and Ton Robben, eds, Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights (London: Routledge, 2019), pp. 196-214.
• Dirk van Miert, Jan Fongers, Anne Haak, Erell Smith, Tirreg Verburg and Chantal van der Zanden, ‘Buchelius’ Utrecht Republic of Letters’, blogpost on SKILLNET project website (Dutch version: ‘Buchelius’ Utrechtse Republiek der Letteren’), 11 October 2019.
• Dirk van Miert, Howard Hotson, and Thomas Wallnig, ‘I.2 What Was the Republic of Letters?’, in: Howard Hotson and Thomas Wallnig, eds, Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age: Systems, Standards, Scholarship (Göttingen: Göttingen University Press, 2019), pp. 23-40.
• Dirk van Miert et al., ‘II.3: Time’, in: Howard Hotson and Thomas Wallnig, eds, Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age: Systems, Standards, Scholarship (Göttingen: Göttingen University Press, 2019), pp. 97-117.
• Dirk van Miert and Elizabethanne Boran, ‘III.1 Assembling Metadata’, in: Howard Hotson and Thomas Wallnig, eds, Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age: Systems, Standards, Scholarship (Göttingen: Göttingen University Press, 2019), pp. 193-222.
• Dirk van Miert et al., ‘IV.3 Chronologies of the Republic of Letters’, in: Howard Hotson and Thomas Wallnig, eds, Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age: Systems, Standards, Scholarship (Göttingen: Göttingen University Press, 2019), pp. 243-269.
• Robin Buning, Barbara McGillivray, and Simon Hengchen, ‘IV.6.4 Topic Modelling: Hartlib’s Correspondence before and after 1650’, in: Howard Hotson and Thomas Wallnig, eds, Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age: Systems, Standards, Scholarship (Göttingen: Göttingen University Press, 2019), pp. 426-428.
• Tobias Winnerling, Dirk van Miert and Milo van de Pol, ‘The Correspondence of Adriaan Reland’, catalogue in Early Modern Letters Online, July 2019.
• Karen Hollewand, ‘CEMROL: The First Results’, blogpost on SKILLNET project website, 3 July 2019.
• Dirk van Miert and Milo van de Pol, ‘The Correspondence of Guilielmus Surenhusius’, catalogue in Early Modern Letters Online, July 2019.
• Koen Scholten and Asker Pelgrom, ‘Scholarly Identity and Memory on a Grand Tour: The Travels of Joannes Kool and his Travel Journal (1698–1699) to Italy’, Lias: Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources 46:1 (2019), pp. 93-136.
• Koen Scholten, ‘De Republiek der Letteren als de totale intellectuele wereld?’, review of Hans Bots, De Republiek der Letteren: De Europese intellectuele wereld 1500-1760 (Nijmegen, 2018), Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 131:4 (2018), pp. 713-714.
• Manuel Llano, ‘The correspondence network of Petrus Scriverius (1576-1660)’, presentation at the book launch of Petrus Scriverius Harlemiensis (1576-1660), Leiden University, 28 September 2018.
• Koen Scholten and Manuel Llano, ‘Rethinking the Republic of Letters: Two Perspectives on the Early Modern Learned Community’, blogpost on Shells and Pebbles, 26 September 2018.
• Dirk van Miert, ‘The Intricacies of Conceptual History: The 192 Republics of Letters in Latin’, blogpost on SKILLNET project website, 12 September 2018.
• Dirk van Miert, review of Hans Bots, De Republiek der Letteren: De Europese intellectuele wereld 1500-1760 (Nijmegen, 2018), Vooys 36:4 (2018), pp. 77-80.
• Dirk van Miert, review of Hans Bots, De Republiek der Letteren: De Europese intellectuele wereld 1500-1760 (Nijmegen, 2018), Early Modern Low Countries 2:2 (2018), pp. 278-281.
• Dirk van Miert, ‘Networking History: An Impression of the Sunbelt Conference 2018’, blogpost on SKILLNET project website, 3 July 2018.
• Manuel Llano, ‘Quantifying correspondence in Early Modern Europe: a preliminary survey’, presentation at the XXXVIII Sunbelt Conference in Social Network Analysis, Utrecht University, 1 July 2018.
• Dirk van Miert, ‘Chapter 17: Education’, in: Helmer J. Helmers and Geert H. Janssen, eds, The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 233-247.
• Samantha Sint Nicolaas, ‘The Correspondence of Anna Maria van Schurman’, catalogue in Early Modern Letters Online, May 2018.
• Dirk van Miert, ‘1417 – Het begin van zeshonderd jaar Republiek der Letteren’, in: Lex Heerma van Voss et al., eds, Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland (Amsterdam: Ambo/Anthos, 2018), pp. 143-148.
• Dirk van Miert, ‘Trommius’s travelogue: Learned memories of Erasmus and Scaliger and scholarly identity in the Republic of Letters’, Early Modern Low Countries 1:1 (2017), pp. 51-70.

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

• Robin Buning, Dirk van Miert, Teunie Rouwendal, and Ingeborg van Vugt, CEMROL Public Meeting, Utrecht University, 3 July 2020.
• Lars Punt and Ingeborg van Vugt, CEMROL Public Interface, 22 June 2020.
• Robin Buning and Ingeborg van Vugt, eds, ‘Newsletter CEMROL May 2020’ (Dutch version: ‘Nieuwsbrief CEMROL mei 2020’), 29 May 2020.
• Robin Buning and Ingeborg van Vugt, eds, ‘Newsletter CEMROL December 2019’ (Dutch version: ‘Nieuwsbrief CEMROL december 2019’), 19 December 2019.
• Robin Buning and Karen Hollewand, eds, ‘Newsletter CEMROL April 2019’ (Dutch version: ‘Nieuwsbrief CEMROL april 2019’), 30 April 2019.
• Manuel Llano, ‘Portraying the Republic of letters: the album amicorum of Petrus Schenck’, presentation at the conference ‘Arts and artists in the Republic of Letters’, Tel Aviv University, 31 December 2018.
• Dirk van Miert, interview on Dutch radio programme Utrecht is Wakker of RTV Utrecht about SKILLNET’s crowdsourcing platform CEMROL(from 08:36 onwards), 14 December 2018.
• Samantha Sint Nicolaas and Manuel Llano, ‘Studenten ontdekken meer over band Van Schurman met Franeker’, interview in the Leeuwarder Courant, 13 June 2018.
• Dirk van Miert, ‘Met wie schreef de beroemde 17de-eeuwse student Anna Maria van Schurman?’, interview on the home page of Utrecht University, May 2018.
• Dirk van Miert, interview on Dutch radio programme Nieuws and Co about Anna Maria van Schurman and her network, 7 May 2018.

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.