Boccaccio Intellectual History Programme -

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

Education

2004- PhD candidate at the European University Institute, Florence

Dissertation title: Poets, Playwrights and Pamphleteers. Political Culture and the Stage in The Dutch Republic, 1610-1638 . (for the abstract, see : http://www.eui.eu/Personal/VanGelderen/Theses/FreyaSierhuisThesis.shtml )

• University of Cambridge , History Department, Mphil Intellectual History and History of Political Thought. Supervisor: Prof dr. Q.R.D. Skinner.

Mphil thesis: The Concept of humanitas in Humanist Pedagogical Thought (distinction)

1994-1999 University of Amsterdam , Department of History. Supervisor: Dr. C.P.H.M Tilmans. MA thesis: Franciscus Goethals' De Foelici et Infoelici Republica: ‘Respublica' in Bruges on the Eve of the Revolt (cum laude)

Work and teaching experience

January 2008 Joint seminar on history and literature, with Katja Haustein and Anastasia Stouraiti European University Institute, Florence.

December 2007 Co-organised the EUI Winter School “Politics, Press and Public Debate in the Seventeenth Century. Anglo-Dutch Perspectives”. 10-14 December 2007, European University Institute, Florence

October 2003 Co-organised the symposium “Legitimacy and Political Stability in Early Modern Political thought and Practice”, Department of History, University of Amsterdam .

2002-2003 Joint seminar with Dr.W.R.E. Velema on the production and consumption of art at the Early Modern court.

April 2002 Co-organised the workshop “Cultural Nationalism on the Balkans”, hosted by the Huizinga institute for Cultural History in collaboration with students from CEU, Budapest and New University , Sofia .

2001-2002 Editor for the Bijdragen en Mededelingen Betreffende de Geschiedenis de Nederlanden , a periodical on Dutch History.

• Assistant for the Conceptual History Network, co-editor of the Conceptual History Newsletter.

• Research assistant to Dr. C.P.H.M. Tilmans

Other activities

Research Programme Resources and Techniques for the Study of Renaissance and Early Modern Culture , January 2005, Warburg Institute, London

Atelier Multimédia EUI multimedia and internet resources training programme

Founded the EUI working group Passions and Virtues in Early Modern Political Thought

Conference papers

“The Academy and the Alehouse. Anti-clerical Satire and the Arminian Controversy” , paper presented at the EUI winter school Politics, Press and Public Debate in the Seventeenth Century. Anglo-Dutch Perspectives December 13, 2007

“Revenge Tragedy and the Mirror for Magistrates. An Uneasy Alliance?” , paper presented at the XVth Utrecht Renaissance Colloquium, January 23, 2006.

“The Root of the Dutch Wars. Rhetoric and Toleration in the Political Works of D.V. Coornhert”, paper presented at the Social Science History Conference in Berlin , 28 March 2004

“Ligueur Violence and Royalist Reaction. Droit Divin and the Pacification of Paris” presented at the Huizinga symposium on Legitimacy and Political Stability in Early Modern political Thought and Practice, 25 October 2003.

Publications

“The City as Moral Community: Respublica in Flanders , 1500- 1567” , due to appear in: Republic , M. van Gelderen & W.R.E. Velema, eds.

Language skills

Dutch (mother tongue); English (near native) Italian (good) French (good) German (good passive knowledge)

Research interests

Conceptions of human nature and the role of the passions in early modern political culture; Rhetoric, scepticism and toleration; rhetoric and moral ambiguity in sixteenth and seventeenth century drama .


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	Freya Sierhuis freya.sierhuis@eui.eu European University Institute Department of History and Civilisation Via Boccaccio 121 50133 Firenze (Fi) Italy Education 2004- PhD candidate at the European University Institute, Florence Dissertation title: Poets, Playwrights and Pamphleteers. Political Culture and the Stage in The Dutch Republic, 1610-1638 . (for the abstract, see : http://www.eui.eu/Personal/VanGelderen/Theses/FreyaSierhuisThesis.shtml ) • University of Cambridge , History Department, Mphil Intellectual History and History of Political Thought. Supervisor: Prof dr. Q.R.D. Skinner. Mphil thesis: The Concept of humanitas in Humanist Pedagogical Thought (distinction) 1994-1999 University of Amsterdam , Department of History. Supervisor: Dr. C.P.H.M Tilmans. MA thesis: Franciscus Goethals' De Foelici et Infoelici Republica: ‘Respublica' in Bruges on the Eve of the Revolt (cum laude) Work and teaching experience January 2008 Joint seminar on history and literature, with Katja Haustein and Anastasia Stouraiti European University Institute, Florence. December 2007 Co-organised the EUI Winter School “Politics, Press and Public Debate in the Seventeenth Century. Anglo-Dutch Perspectives”. 10-14 December 2007, European University Institute, Florence October 2003 Co-organised the symposium “Legitimacy and Political Stability in Early Modern Political thought and Practice”, Department of History, University of Amsterdam . 2002-2003 Joint seminar with Dr.W.R.E. Velema on the production and consumption of art at the Early Modern court. April 2002 Co-organised the workshop “Cultural Nationalism on the Balkans”, hosted by the Huizinga institute for Cultural History in collaboration with students from CEU, Budapest and New University , Sofia . 2001-2002 Editor for the Bijdragen en Mededelingen Betreffende de Geschiedenis de Nederlanden , a periodical on Dutch History. • Assistant for the Conceptual History Network, co-editor of the Conceptual History Newsletter. • Research assistant to Dr. C.P.H.M. Tilmans Other activities Research Programme Resources and Techniques for the Study of Renaissance and Early Modern Culture , January 2005, Warburg Institute, London Atelier Multimédia EUI multimedia and internet resources training programme Founded the EUI working group Passions and Virtues in Early Modern Political Thought Conference papers “The Academy and the Alehouse. Anti-clerical Satire and the Arminian Controversy” , paper presented at the EUI winter school Politics, Press and Public Debate in the Seventeenth Century. Anglo-Dutch Perspectives December 13, 2007 “Revenge Tragedy and the Mirror for Magistrates. An Uneasy Alliance?” , paper presented at the XVth Utrecht Renaissance Colloquium, January 23, 2006. “The Root of the Dutch Wars. Rhetoric and Toleration in the Political Works of D.V. Coornhert”, paper presented at the Social Science History Conference in Berlin , 28 March 2004 “Ligueur Violence and Royalist Reaction. Droit Divin and the Pacification of Paris” presented at the Huizinga symposium on Legitimacy and Political Stability in Early Modern political Thought and Practice, 25 October 2003. Publications “The City as Moral Community: Respublica in Flanders , 1500- 1567” , due to appear in: Republic , M. van Gelderen & W.R.E. Velema, eds. Language skills Dutch (mother tongue); English (near native) Italian (good) French (good) German (good passive knowledge) Research interests Conceptions of human nature and the role of the passions in early modern political culture; Rhetoric, scepticism and toleration; rhetoric and moral ambiguity in sixteenth and seventeenth century drama .