Presentations
27 September
Antonia gave a presentation to members of the team “Green and Healthy City” of the City of Amsterdam on the topic of green spaces as socially contested sites.
1 September 2022
Our project organized a panel on everyday mobilities at the EAUH conference on urban history. Bob, Marie and Antonia each presented a paper.
18 June 2022
At the final day of the Claiming the Streets Conference, Antonia presented a paper entitled “From a Liminal Place: Historical Research for Urban Futures”.
16 June 2022
Danielle, Marie, Bob and Antonia presented the key findings of the Freedom of the Streets project at the Claiming the Streets Conference, which took place in Amsterdam 16-18 June 2022 and marked the official end of the FOSGUS project as well as the launch of a new platform for exchanges between scholars and practitioners working on urban public spaces. Click here to visit the platform’s website.
7 May 2022
Antonia spoke at the Symposium Landscapes in the Making at Dumbarton Oaks Center for Garden and Landscape Studies (Harvard University) where she presented a paper entitled “A Garden of Scrawls and Scribbles: Amsterdam’s Notarial Records as Evidence of Everyday Landscape Creation in the 18th-century City.”
8 March 2022
Danielle spoke at the Rijksmuseum’s Symposium Women in the Museum.
16 November 2021
Bob presented a paper entitled “Sex in the city in the long eighteenth century: Space, sexual activity and privacy” at Cambridge University’s Gender and Sexuality workshop.
30 October 2021
Danielle and Bob spoke at the Nacht van de Geschiedenis at the Rijksmuseum as part of a panel on the theme of gender and labor in the 17th century.
28 October 2021
Bob presented a paper entitled "Sex in the city in the long eighteenth century: Space, sexual activity and privacy" at the invitation of the Gender and Work project at Uppsala University/
13 October 2021
At the Historisch Café, Danielle was interviewed on the subject of women’s work and how it features in the Freedom of the Streets project and our two case studies Amsterdam and Edo.
26 August 2021
Marie participated in the panel Imagining the Capitals at the 16th International Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies.
23 September 2020
Gamze presented and discussed her work on 3D reconstructions and visualizations at the CREATE Salon.
3 September 2020
Danielle gave a presentation at the Faculty’s opening ceremony for the 2020-2021 academic year. Watch her talk here.
4 June 2020
Bob gave an online presentation at Uppsala University entitled Life on the streets in early modern Amsterdam. From database to dissertation. The paper was given in the context of the Gender and Work project.
11 February 2020
Antonia gave a talk for members of the VVAO, a Dutch network organisation for women, on the topic of women and gardens.
14 December 2019
Marie presented a paper on Hasegawa Settan's illustration of Edo Meisho Zue at the conference of the Society of Urban & Territorial History in Tokyo. The annual meeting was held at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo.
15 November 2019
Marie presented a paper at the conference ‘Decentring the Flâneur: global histories of walking the early modern city’ which took place at the Courtauld Institute in London. Her paper was entitled Exploring urban space of Edo through Hasegawa Settan's illustrations of Edo Meisho Zue.
14 November 2019
Danielle gave a presentation entitled ‘'Work, space and gender in the early modern city’' at the KU Leuven as part of the workshop Working Women in Pre-Industrial Europe. Perspectives on the Gendering of Urban Labour Markets.
2 November 2019
As part of Amsterdam’s Museum Night, Antonia joined a panel discussion at the Hortus Botanicus on how to ‘Make Amsterdam Green Again’.
31 October 2019
Together with our collaborative partners from the Gender and Work Project (Uppsala University), our project team gave a presentation at the CREATE Salon on ‘Digital Social History and practice-based approaches’.
25 October 2019
Bob spoke at the annual congress of the Flemish-Dutch society for Early Modern History. His talk was Gender en mobiliteit. Vrouwen en mannen in de straten van vroegmodern Amsterdam (Gender and Mobility, Women and Men in the Streets of Early Modern Amsterdam).
2 October 2019
Antonia gave the keynote at the international ENCOUNTER conference on castles and countryhouses, together with Erik de Jong. Their talk was entitled ‘'The city a garden, the garden a city: shifting perspectives on city and countryside”. Click here for a video impression of the conference.
18 September 2019
As part of an evening devoted to discussing the future of life in Amsterdam in times of rapid climate change, Antonia gave a presentation on the history of green spaces and its lessons for the future.
23 August 2019
At the Historicidagen, Danielle presented our project's take on studying inclusion and exclusion in city streets as part of a panel on inclusivity in the city.
18 July 2019
At the 11th International Convention of Asian Scholars, Marie organized a panel entitled “Negotiating Gender and/through Visual Images: Female Bodies in Japan from the Early Modern to Present”. At the same conference, Danielle and Marie also presented in a panel on Everyday Life.
9 July 2019
Bob and Danielle together with Ivan Kisjes (CREATE) presented a paper at the Digital Humanities Conference 2019. They were part of a panel focused on the Amsterdam Time Machine and gave a paper on the project's methodology
10 June 2019
Bob contributed to the Social History Society’s annual conference in Lincoln with a paper called ‘Gendered everyday mobility and street use in 18th century Amsterdam’.
22 May & 5 June 2019
Project members presented their ongoing research as part of a series developed together with the No Hero Museum to accompany the exhibition “Women in Japan”.
16 May 2019
Antonia gave a presentation at Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University) entitled ‘Nosce te Ipsum: The garden as a locus of gendered knowledge and identity in German and Dutch printed discourse, 1650-1800’.
3 May 2019
As one of two speakers at the 40th Amsterdam NerdNite, Bob tok the audience through the streets of 18th century Amsterdam and showed how he is unearthing historical street cultures.
7 February 2019
Danielle gave a talk on the Freedom of the Streets project at the Early Modern World History Seminar at the University of Cambridge
16 January 2019
Bebio and Marie gave a talk entitled ‘Kinsei ni okeru toshi nai deno hitono ido ni kansuru kenkyu Amsterdam/Edo’ (Research on the Early Modern Intra City Mobility: Amsterdam and Edo), Exploring the Possibilities of Maps for the Urban Historical Studies at the Research Center for Edo-Tokyo Studies at Hosei University
20 December 2018
Bob gave a talk entitled “Paradoxen van patriarchale macht: Geslachtspolitiek in de Republiek” (Paradoxes of patriarchal power: Politics of geslacht in the Dutch Republic) as part of a symposium on the occasion of the departure of professor Mieke Aerts.
6 December 2018
Bob and Danielle presented a paper at the History Research Seminar at the UvA, in which they shared their methods for capturing everyday mobility in historic cities.
15 November 2018
Marie gave a paper entitled “Making A New Art Historiography: Karl With’s Style Analysis of Buddhist Art and its Reception in Japan”at ‘The Making of Humanities VII’' conference hosted by the Society for the History of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam.
12 November 2018
Marie organized and moderated an artist talk by Kazuma Obara, entitled ‘The Shape of the War: In Memory of Silent Histories’ together with with Marga Rotteveel (director of the Docking Station) at the University of Amsterdam.
2 October 2018
We presented our project to the volunteers who work on the notary records of Amsterdam (Alle Amsterdamse Akten).
25 September 2018
Project members travelled to Uppsala University to meet with the Gender & Work Team (https://gaw.hist.uu.se/). On the afternoon of the 25th we presented our project's aims and methodology at a seminar in the History Department.
1 September 2018
Antonia presented a paper entitled Gender and Urban Gardening in Berlin and Amsterdam c.1700-1800 at the International Conference on Urban History, organized by the EAUH in Rome between August 29 and September 1 2018.
28 June 2018
Visiting fellow Lisa Hellman gave a talk at the seminar of the Amsterdam Centre for Urban History entitled: “This house is not a home: European everyday life in 18th-century canton and Macao”.
14 June 2018
Danielle introduced the Freedom of the Streets project at the CREATE Salon. This salon is entirely devoted to the Amsterdam Time Machine (ATM) project developed and led by CREATE researchers Julia Noordegraaf and Claartje Rasterhoff.
7 June 2018
Danielle gave a keynote lecture at the second installment of the International Women, Money and Markets conference. Find out more via the conference website.
4 April 2018
We organized two sessions on "Gender in the Global City" at the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) in Belfast, where all of our team members also presented discussing the current status of their research.
30 October 2017
We presented our project to members of the Ito Lab of Tokyo University and discussed approaches to the history of the built environment and social practices. Read our report here.
28-29 October 2017
Together with the Global History Collaborative and Linking Cloth Clothing Globally, the Freedom of the Streets project co-organized a conference entitled "Gender, Space and City in Global History" at the University of Tokyo. Read the full report here.
15 October 2017
Bébio gave a talk entitled "Usage of Christian Cemeteries and Crosses in Early Modern Japan" at the International Conference on East Asian Architectural Culture, hosted by Tianjin University in Tianjin, China.
22 September 2017
Bob presented the first results of his research on gendered mobility in pre-modern Amsterdam at UvA's CREATE.
4 September 2017
Antonia gave a talk at Spring House, Amsterdam, entitled 'Eve and the Urban Paradise'
17 June 2017
Danielle spoke at the Universiteitsdag 2017 ‘Inspiring Generations’, University of Amsterdam.
31 May 2017
Danielle introduced the project at the Basler Vormodernekolloquium, University of Basel.
19 May 2017
Danielle spoke at the Low Countries Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
18 May 2017
Project launch at the Seminar of the Amsterdam Centre for Urban History, University of Amsterdam.
3-6 April 2017
Danielle spoke at CityFoods. Lessons from people on the move. New York University. (click here for conference report)
