For best experience please turn on javascript and use a modern browser!
You are using a browser that is no longer supported by Microsoft. Please upgrade your browser. The site may not present itself correctly if you continue browsing.
Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Private Law ACT

Dr D.H. (Djoeke) van Netten

Early Modern History
Faculty of Humanities
Geschiedenis
Photographer: Greetje van der Werf
Visiting address
  • Kloveniersburgwal 48
  • Room number: C 0.04
Postal address
  • Postbus 1610
    1000 BP Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Profile

    Position

    • Associate Professor (UHD) Early Modern History

     

    Research Interests

    • Early Modern History with a Focus on the Dutch Republic and its Worldwide Connections
    • The Production, Dissemination and Reception of Books and Maps
    • Secrecy and Openness
    • Uncertainty
    • The Production and Dissemination of Knowledge
    • Dutch Overseas Companies (early companies, VOC and WIC)
    • Maritime History, Maritime Knowledge
    • Animal History, Human-Animal Encounters
    • (Early Modern) Cartography of Oceans, Coastlines and Ice
    • Gender at Sea
    • Early Modern Travel and Travel Journals
    • "The Dutch Golden Age" (with quotation marks)
    • Jacob van Heemskerck

     

     

    Education, previous positions, fellowships, other great things

    • Coordinator Research Group Early Modern Mobilities (since 2019)
    • Museum guide, National Maritime Museum Amsterdam (since 2011)
    • Board Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letteren (since 2019)
    • Editor Special Issue Journal for the History of Knowledge (2024)
    • Guest Editor-in-Chief Yearbook for Women's History (2022)
    • Board Vlaams-Nederlandse Vereniging voor Nieuwe Geschiedenis (since 2021)
    • Editorial Board Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis (since 2016)
    • Colloquium-grant, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (2022)
    • Vice-director Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (2021)
    • Chairperson Organization Scientiae Conference (Amsterdam virtual 2020)
    • Guest Curator National Maritime Museum, Amsterdam (2017)
    • NWO (Dutch Organization of Scientific Research) Veni Research Fellow (2015-2019)
    • Editorial Board Yearbook for Dutch Book History (2012-2019)
    • Visiting Lecturer (Erasmus+ programme), University of Reading (October 2014)
    • PhD ICOG/History, University of Groningen (2012)
    • Dr Ernst Crone Research Fellow, National Maritime Museum Amsterdam (2010-2011)
    • Lecturer History, University of Amsterdam (2009-2012)
    • Lecturer History / International Relations, University of Groningen (2008-2009)
    • MA (doctoraal) History, University of Groningen (cum laude) (2004)
    • Research Fellow Royal Dutch Institute in Rome (2003)
  • Teaching

    Courses 2024/2025

    * BA Geschiedenis: Wereldgeschiedenis (World History)

    * BA Global Arts, Culture, Politics: World Views

    * MA Militaire Geschiedenis. De Verbeelding van Oorlog (Military History. The Imagination of War)

     

    I am available for thesis supervision and tutorials regarding the Early Modern history of science/knowledge, secrecy, "Dutch Golden Age", travel, cartography, maritime history, book history, animal history.

    Do not hesitate to email me and discuss plans and ideas.

     

  • Publications

    2022

    • van Netten, D. (2022). Mapping travel knowledge: The use of maps on the first Dutch voyages to Asia. In A. L. Brock, G. van Meersbergen, & E. Smith (Eds.), Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World (pp. 23-42). (Hakluyt Society Studies in the History of Travel). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003195573-2 [details]

    2021

    2020

    2016

    • Krom, T., & van Netten, D. (2016). Geheymenissen en secreten: Denkbeelden over geheimhouding in Nederlandse pamfletten uit 1672. Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis, 23, 192-207. [details]

    2015

    • van Netten, D. (2015). Propaganda, public and pamphlets in the Dutch Golden Age - What else is new? Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis, 22, 208-221, 232-233. [details]

    2012

    2008

    • van Netten, D., & de Bruycker, A. (2008). 'Zodat mijn verbanning tegelijk jouw straf is.' Bloei, verval en migratie van wetenschap in de Republiek en de Spaanse Nederlanden. Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 123(1), 3-30. https://doi.org/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.6732

    2022

    • van Netten, D., Buchheim, E., Carmichael, S., van den Elzen, S., Hoegen, E., Kamphuis, K., Reichgelt, M., Schulte Nordholt, L., Shahid, S., Wyffels, H., & van der Zande, I. (Eds.) (2022). Gender at sea. (Yearbook of Women's History/Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis; No. 41). Verloren. [details]

    2016

    • van Netten, D. H. (2016). 'Nicolaus Mulerius’, ‘Petrejus Tiara’ and ‘Menelaus Winsemius'. In Nieuwe Encyclopedie van Fryslân Gorredijk: Uitgeverij Bornmeer.

    2014

    2012

    2011

    2010

    2023

    • van Netten, D. (2023). Beren en vossen in de vroegmoderne boekdrukkunst. In T. Dijkstra, R. Jagersma, & L. Kuitert (Eds.), Onder druk wordt alles chaos: Boekgeschiedenissen tussen orde en wanorde (pp. 68-75). Uitgeverij Armorica. [details]
      • Downloads

    2019

    • Vannieuwenhuyze, B., van der Vaart, L., van Netten, D., Rygl, S., Casteels, I., & Korver, I. (2019). Tussen Zuidzee en Noordzee: Twee hypothesen over een wandkaart van Nicholas de Fer uit 1713. De Boekenwereld, 35(2), 8-15. [details]

    2016

    2015

    2012

    2021

    2018

    • van Netten, D. (2018). 1594: Vele wegen naar Azië. In L. Heerma van Voss, M. 't Hart, K. Davids, K. Fatah-Black, L. Lucassen, & J. Touwen (Eds.), Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland (pp. 201-206). Amsterdam: Ambo|Anthos. [details]
    • van Netten, D. H. (2018). Aankoop van nationaal belang. Museumdirecteur vindt geldschieters voor unieke wereldkaart. Ons Amsterdam, 70(7/8), 52-55.

    2017

    • van Netten, D. H. (2017). De wereld volgens Blaeu. Geschiedenis Magazine, 52-53.

    Prize / grant

    • van Netten, D. (2017). ASH Valorisation Award.

    Talk / presentation

    • van Netten, D. (speaker) & Vannieuwenhuyze, B. (speaker) (28-10-2023). Wereldkaarten en wereldbeeld, Nacht van de Geschiedenis, Amsterdam.
    • van Netten, D. (invited speaker) (15-6-2021). Issues of (Dutch) pilot guides 1584-ca.1700, RUTTER-project, Lisbon.
    • van Netten, D. (keynote speaker) (29-4-2021). The landscape and the ship. Mapping a seventeenth-century naval battle, Maps and society series, London.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (20-4-2021). Speaking about maps. Text and images in atlases and pilot guides, RSA Virtual 2021.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (15-1-2021). Sea-mirrors. How early english pilot guides show what maps were and how they were used, Maps and mapping, Paris.
    • van Netten, D. (invited speaker) (6-11-2020). The order between land and sea and the use of colours, Maps and colours, Hamburg.
    • van Netten, D. (invited speaker) (4-3-2020). Magic Maps. Blaeu's disenchanting cartography and some reenchantment, Farewell Conference Klaas van Berkel, Groningen.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (14-12-2019). Land and/or sea in text and image, Lines on a map, London.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (6-9-2019). BorderLInes. Straddling land and sea in early modern atlases, Rethinking power in maritime encounters, Leiden.
    • van Netten, D. (keynote speaker) (14-7-2019). Reading maps in golden age Amsterdam and beyond, The International Conference on the History of Cartography, Amsterdam.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (4-6-2019). Knowledge communication and secrecy on Dutch East India ships, Scientiae 2019, Belfast, Belfast.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (10-4-2019). "Secrets" and secrecy in the Dutch East India Company, Secrecy and openness in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, New York.
    • van Netten, D. (invited speaker) (21-3-2019). Secrecy and privacy in the Dutch context. With a case study of ships, PRIVACY-project , Copenhagen.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (8-3-2019). Geheimen van de VOC, Geschiedenis Magazine LIVE-dag, Utrecht.
    • van Netten, D. (invited speaker) (7-12-2018). How to present a sea-battle. Newsprints and nachleben of the Battle at Gibraltar (1607), The battlefield after the battle, Lille.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (16-11-2018). Old maps on old maps. Early modern history of cartography, Making of the Humanities VII, Amsterdam.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (27-9-2018). To publish or not to publish, Isaac Beeckman in Context: Science, the Arts, and Culture in the Early Dutch Republic, Middelburg.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (19-7-2018). Maps and Navigation. On the Use of Maps during the Early Dutch Voyages to the East, ICHG 2018 Warsaw, warsaw.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (23-6-2018). The Company resorts to Print. The secret and the public in a pamphlet war regarding the Dutch East India Company (1622-1625), 11th St Andrews Book Conference 'Print and Power, St Andrews.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (1-6-2018). Secrets in the Dutch Golden Age and Where to Find Them, Low Countries History Seminar, London, Institute of Historical Research.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (1-3-2018). Lost on the map, Forgetting Knowledge, Berlin.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (24-11-2017). Secret instructions, secret resolutions, secret committees, and other not so secret secrecy in the VOC-archive, Symposium Rethinking the VOC.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (12-9-2017). Maps on ships and ships on maps, Hakluyt Society Symposium.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (26-8-2017). Schrijven over geheimen. De paradox van weten en niet weten, Congres Werkgroep Zeventiende Eeuw 2017: Geheime Praktijken.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (24-6-2017). Maps in the museum. A 21st century analysis of 20th century acquisition of 17th century geographical knowledge, Zevende Tweejaarlijke Gewina-conferentie (Woudschoten VII), Zeist.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (6-2017). Blaeu's wereld in kaart, Vrije Academie.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (21-4-2017). Treasures, lights and mirrors. How to use an early modern pilot guide?, Scientiae 2017, Padua.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (31-3-2017). Counterfeiting the World. Truth and secrecy surrounding the first Dutch travels to the East, Renaissance Society of America, Chicago.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (8-9-2016). A certain navigation to China and Cathay, Entangled Cultural Histories. Encounters between China 1600-1900, Shanghai.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (7-7-2016). Knowledge Control in the Dutch East India Company, Scientiae 2016, Oxford, Oxford.
    • van Netten, D. (speaker) (8-4-2016). Collecting and guarding information just before and after the establishment of the Dutch East India Company (1602), Treasuries of Knowledge, Cambridge.

    Others

    2021

    • Foncke, M. E. (2021). Water's worth: Urban society and subsidiarity in seventeenth-century Holland. [Thesis, externally prepared, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]

    2012

    • van Netten, D. H. (2012). Koopman in kennis. De uitgever Willem Jansz Blaeu (1571-1638) in de geleerde wereld van zijn tijd.
    This list of publications is extracted from the UvA-Current Research Information System. Questions? Ask the library or the Pure staff of your faculty / institute. Log in to Pure to edit your publications. Log in to Personal Page Publication Selection tool to manage the visibility of your publications on this list.
  • Ancillary activities
    • VNVNG
      Bestuurslid
    • Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde
      Bestuurslid, jury fellowship
edit contact information   edit profile page