Conference papers, presentations (selection)

‘A Different Kind of Abolitionism: The Complicated Relationship of Nineteenth-century European Antislavery Movements to British Abolitionism’, Visiting Scholars Seminar Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, May 7, 2008.

‘Associational Mania: Organizing as Instrument in the Struggle for Recognition, 1820-1850’, Seminar Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, February 26, 2008.

‘Associational Mania: New Perceptions of Organizing, 1820-1850’, Brown Bag Series McNeill Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, January 23, 2008.

‘To relieve the suffering of others. Victims and their rescuers in the propaganda of 19th-century reform movements’, Internationaal congres Imagination and Commitment. Representations of the social question, 1870-1940, University of Groningen, May 10-11, 2007.

 ‘Abolitionism in the Netherlands: a failure? A new approach to Dutch Anti-slavery 1840-1863’, Abolitions, 1807-2007, University of York (UK), April 12-14, 2007.

‘Universal claims, transnational movements and political transfer: the case of the Dutch Antislavery and Temperance movements c. 1835-1865’, The Global Victorians: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Approaches to the Victorian Era, Annual Conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Calgary, November 2-4, 2006.

‘Pressiegroepen voor de periode van de massapolitiek’, Seminar van het Kossmann Instituut, Groningen, March 4, 2005.

‘“The great example given by Britain”. Dutch ambivalence towards the transfer of the single-issue organization from Great Britain’ – International Conference Political Transfer. The use of foreign examples in politics, ca. 1789-1960, Groningen, January 15, 2004.

‘Politieke single-issuebewegingen in Nederland 1840-1880’ - Vlaams-Nederlands Historisch Congres, Antwerpen, May 21, 2004.

‘The use of the concept of Conversion in the propaganda of the nineteenth-century Dutch Temperance Society’ – International Conference Cultures of Conversion, Groningen, May 21, 2003.

‘Single-issue organisaties. Verenigingen tot maatschappijhervorming en hun relatie tot ‘de politiek’ in Nederland, 1840-1890’ – International Conference Political Culture, Leuven, February 21, 2003.