Boccaccio Intellectual History Programme -

arthur.weststeijn@eui.eu

European University Institute
Department of History and Civilisation
Via Boccaccio 121
50133 Firenze (Fi)
Italy

BBorn June 29, 1980, Amsterdam

Education

2009 (expected): PhD in History, European University Institute, Florence

2006: MRes, European University Institute, Florence

2005: MA (“Doctoraal”) in Philosophy of Humanities and Social Sciences ( cum laude ), University of Amsterdam

2004: MA (“Doctoraal”) in History ( cum laude ), University of Amsterdam

2001: Minor in Spanish and Latin American History, University of Seville

1992-1998: Barlaeus Gymnasium, Amsterdam

Research experience

2008: Visiting Research Student, University of Wisconsin at Madison

2004: Research at the Netherlands Institute Madrid, Spain

2003: Internship at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD), Amsterdam

Awards & fellowships

2008-2009: Dissertation scholarship, EUI Florence

2008: Scholarship for doctoral exchange EUI-University of Wisconsin at Madison

2007: Winner of the V Premio Internacional José Antonio De Maravall , awarded by the Universidad Complutense, Madrid

2005-2008: Scholarship from the Dutch Ministry of Education for doctoral research at the EUI

2003-2004: Final year grant (‘bonusbeurs') for talented students from the University of Amsterdam

2003-2004: Grant from the Johan Brouwer Fund for archival research in Madrid and Simancas, Spain

2000-2001: Erasmus scholarship for student exchange with the University of Seville

Papers & presentations

‘ Affectus pro effectu : Persuading the Passions in Radical Dutch Republicanism', to be presented at the ISIH conference ‘ Translatio Studiorum: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Bearers of Intellectual History', University of Verona, 25-27 May 2009

‘Motivating the Passions, Debating the Body Politic: Late Humanist Rhetoric and Radical Dutch Republicanism', to be presented at the RSA 55 th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 19-21 March 2009

‘Concord and Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age', presentation for the seminar ‘Intellectual History – Work in Progress', EUI Florence, 19 January 2009

‘Het tweesnijdend zwaard van de embleemfabel in Vondel en De la Court', presented at the conference ‘Woord en beeld als wapen: nieuws en propaganda in de zeventiende eeuw', University of Amsterdam, 30 August 2008

‘The Commercial Rhetoric of Two Dutch Hobbesians: Mercury's Double Appearance in the Republican Theory of the Brothers De la Court', presented at the RSA 54 th Annual Meeting, Chicago, 3-5 April 2008

‘The Power of “Pliant Stuff”: Political Fables and Parrhesia from Francis Bacon to the Brothers De la Court', presented at the symposium ‘Politics, Press and Public Debate in the 17 th Century', EUI Florence, 10-14 December 2007

‘Wise Merchants: Barlaeus and the Brothers De la Court on Commercial and Rhetorical Capability', presented at the conference ‘ Public Offices, Personal Demands: Capability in Governance in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic', Erasmus University Rotterdam, 28-29 June 2007

‘The Rhetoric of a Mercator Sapiens. The Representation of Emerging Capitalist Society in the Political Thought of the Brothers De la Court', presented at ‘GRACEH: New Histories of Politics', Central European University Budapest, 18-20 May 2007

‘The Two Faces of Mercury. Rhetoric and Commerce in the Political Thought of the Brothers De la Court', presented at a master class with Prof. Jonathan Israel in the The Hague Royal Library, 11 May 2007

Presentation of research at the summer school ‘Europa schreiben. Methoden, Perspektiven, Themen einer europäischen Geschichte der Neuzeit', BKVGE, Berlin, 31 August 2006

‘The Brothers De la Court and the Commercial Republic', presentation for the seminar ‘Republicanism and Religion', EUI Florence, 28 March 2006

Publications

‘From the Passion of Self-Love to the Virtue of Self-Interest. The Republican Morals of the Brothers De la Court', forthcoming in European Review of History 17, 1 (2010)

‘Mercury's Two Faces. Commercial Rhetoric and the Capability of Candour in the Dutch Golden Age', forthcoming in Jan Hartman et al. (eds.), Public Offices, Private Demands. Early Modern Views on Capability in Governance (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2009)

‘The Making of the Monster of Malmesbury', review of Jon Parkin, Taming the Leviathan , forthcoming in The Review of Politics 71, 1 (2009)

‘Tolstoy's Puppet Show. On the Use and Abuse of Literature for Life', in Eric de Haard et al. (eds.), Literature and Beyond. Festschrift for Willem Weststeijn , 2 vols. (Amsterdam: Pegasus, 2008), vol. II: 849-864

‘Antonio Pérez y la formación de la política española respecto a la rebelión de los Países Bajos, 1576-1579', Historia y Política 19, 1 (2008), 231-254

‘De Wiener Kreis in Nederland, 1934-1940', Geschiedenis van de Wijsbegeerte in Nederland 14 (2003-2005), 249-266

‘Over dronkenschap, betweters en vrouwenemancipatie. Nederlandse eigenaardigheden bezien door Spanjaarden', Armada. Tijdschrift voor wereldliteratuur 11, nr. 38 (March 2005), 64-69

‘Op zoek naar synthese. Filosofisch engagement in de jaren dertig', in M. de Keizer and S. Tates (eds.), Moderniteit. Modernisme en massacultuur in Nederland 1914-1940 (Zutphen: Walburg, 2004), 357-375

Languages

In order of fluency, from native to purely passive: Dutch, English, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Latin

Research interests

Broadly speaking, my main interest lies in the relation between politics and the art of writing, especially in early modern Europe, from Machiavelli to Tocqueville. More specifically, I'm specialized in the issues of rhetoric, republicanism and toleration in the Dutch Golden Age. I've also published on Spanish attitudes towards the Netherlands, on Tolstoy and Nietzsche and their critique of historicism, and on politically engaged philosophy in the 1930s.

Right now I'm setting up a new research project about the way in which the Dutch justified their colonial empire, with a particular focus on slavery and Dutch Brazil in the first half of the 17 th century. For this project I will not only look at political ideology in the narrow sense, but also at art and science as vehicles of colonial power and representation.


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	Arthur Weststeijn arthur.weststeijn@eui.eu European University Institute Department of History and Civilisation Via Boccaccio 121 50133 Firenze (Fi) Italy BBorn June 29, 1980, Amsterdam Education 2009 (expected): PhD in History, European University Institute, Florence 2006: MRes, European University Institute, Florence 2005: MA (“Doctoraal”) in Philosophy of Humanities and Social Sciences ( cum laude ), University of Amsterdam 2004: MA (“Doctoraal”) in History ( cum laude ), University of Amsterdam 2001: Minor in Spanish and Latin American History, University of Seville 1992-1998: Barlaeus Gymnasium, Amsterdam Research experience 2008: Visiting Research Student, University of Wisconsin at Madison 2004: Research at the Netherlands Institute Madrid, Spain 2003: Internship at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD), Amsterdam Awards & fellowships 2008-2009: Dissertation scholarship, EUI Florence 2008: Scholarship for doctoral exchange EUI-University of Wisconsin at Madison 2007: Winner of the V Premio Internacional José Antonio De Maravall , awarded by the Universidad Complutense, Madrid 2005-2008: Scholarship from the Dutch Ministry of Education for doctoral research at the EUI 2003-2004: Final year grant (‘bonusbeurs') for talented students from the University of Amsterdam 2003-2004: Grant from the Johan Brouwer Fund for archival research in Madrid and Simancas, Spain 2000-2001: Erasmus scholarship for student exchange with the University of Seville Papers & presentations ‘ Affectus pro effectu : Persuading the Passions in Radical Dutch Republicanism', to be presented at the ISIH conference ‘ Translatio Studiorum: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Bearers of Intellectual History', University of Verona, 25-27 May 2009 ‘Motivating the Passions, Debating the Body Politic: Late Humanist Rhetoric and Radical Dutch Republicanism', to be presented at the RSA 55 th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 19-21 March 2009 ‘Concord and Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age', presentation for the seminar ‘Intellectual History – Work in Progress', EUI Florence, 19 January 2009 ‘Het tweesnijdend zwaard van de embleemfabel in Vondel en De la Court', presented at the conference ‘Woord en beeld als wapen: nieuws en propaganda in de zeventiende eeuw', University of Amsterdam, 30 August 2008 ‘The Commercial Rhetoric of Two Dutch Hobbesians: Mercury's Double Appearance in the Republican Theory of the Brothers De la Court', presented at the RSA 54 th Annual Meeting, Chicago, 3-5 April 2008 ‘The Power of “Pliant Stuff”: Political Fables and Parrhesia from Francis Bacon to the Brothers De la Court', presented at the symposium ‘Politics, Press and Public Debate in the 17 th Century', EUI Florence, 10-14 December 2007 ‘Wise Merchants: Barlaeus and the Brothers De la Court on Commercial and Rhetorical Capability', presented at the conference ‘ Public Offices, Personal Demands: Capability in Governance in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic', Erasmus University Rotterdam, 28-29 June 2007 ‘The Rhetoric of a Mercator Sapiens. The Representation of Emerging Capitalist Society in the Political Thought of the Brothers De la Court', presented at ‘GRACEH: New Histories of Politics', Central European University Budapest, 18-20 May 2007 ‘The Two Faces of Mercury. Rhetoric and Commerce in the Political Thought of the Brothers De la Court', presented at a master class with Prof. Jonathan Israel in the The Hague Royal Library, 11 May 2007 Presentation of research at the summer school ‘Europa schreiben. Methoden, Perspektiven, Themen einer europäischen Geschichte der Neuzeit', BKVGE, Berlin, 31 August 2006 ‘The Brothers De la Court and the Commercial Republic', presentation for the seminar ‘Republicanism and Religion', EUI Florence, 28 March 2006 Publications ‘From the Passion of Self-Love to the Virtue of Self-Interest. The Republican Morals of the Brothers De la Court', forthcoming in European Review of History 17, 1 (2010) ‘Mercury's Two Faces. Commercial Rhetoric and the Capability of Candour in the Dutch Golden Age', forthcoming in Jan Hartman et al. (eds.), Public Offices, Private Demands. Early Modern Views on Capability in Governance (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2009) ‘The Making of the Monster of Malmesbury', review of Jon Parkin, Taming the Leviathan , forthcoming in The Review of Politics 71, 1 (2009) ‘Tolstoy's Puppet Show. On the Use and Abuse of Literature for Life', in Eric de Haard et al. (eds.), Literature and Beyond. Festschrift for Willem Weststeijn , 2 vols. (Amsterdam: Pegasus, 2008), vol. II: 849-864 ‘Antonio Pérez y la formación de la política española respecto a la rebelión de los Países Bajos, 1576-1579', Historia y Política 19, 1 (2008), 231-254 ‘De Wiener Kreis in Nederland, 1934-1940', Geschiedenis van de Wijsbegeerte in Nederland 14 (2003-2005), 249-266 ‘Over dronkenschap, betweters en vrouwenemancipatie. Nederlandse eigenaardigheden bezien door Spanjaarden', Armada. Tijdschrift voor wereldliteratuur 11, nr. 38 (March 2005), 64-69 ‘Op zoek naar synthese. Filosofisch engagement in de jaren dertig', in M. de Keizer and S. Tates (eds.), Moderniteit. Modernisme en massacultuur in Nederland 1914-1940 (Zutphen: Walburg, 2004), 357-375 Languages In order of fluency, from native to purely passive: Dutch, English, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Latin Research interests Broadly speaking, my main interest lies in the relation between politics and the art of writing, especially in early modern Europe, from Machiavelli to Tocqueville. More specifically, I'm specialized in the issues of rhetoric, republicanism and toleration in the Dutch Golden Age. I've also published on Spanish attitudes towards the Netherlands, on Tolstoy and Nietzsche and their critique of historicism, and on politically engaged philosophy in the 1930s. Right now I'm setting up a new research project about the way in which the Dutch justified their colonial empire, with a particular focus on slavery and Dutch Brazil in the first half of the 17 th century. For this project I will not only look at political ideology in the narrow sense, but also at art and science as vehicles of colonial power and representation.