Remieg Aerts
is Professor of Dutch History at the University of Amsterdam. He has published on the political and cultural history of the nineteenth century, particularly on parliamentary culture, citizenship and the social-cultural embeddedness of politics. His books include De letterheren. Liberale cultuur in de negentiende eeuw: het tijdschrift De Gids (1997) and Thorbecke wil het. Biografie van een staatsman (2020, winner of the Dutch Biography Award).
Hans Erich Bödeker
is Emeritus Senior Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen (1977–2006) and at the Max-Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin (2006–2009). His publications include the edited volume Begriffsgeschichte, Diskursgeschichte, Metapherngeschichte (Göttingen, 2002), with Martin Gierl, the edited volume Jenseits der Diskurse. Aufklärungspraxis und Institutionenwelt in europäisch komparativer Perspektive (Göttingen, 2007), and, with Philippe Büttgen and Michel Espagne, Die Wissenschaft vom Menschen in Göttingen um 1800 (Göttingen, 2008, 2010).
Wiep van Bunge
is Professor of the History of Philosophy at the Erasmus School of Philosophy (EUR). His books include Johannes Bredenburg (PhD, 1990), From Stevin to Spinoza (2001), Spinoza Past and Present (2012), and From Bayle to the Batavian Revolution (2019). He also (co)-edited several books, including the Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers (2003) and the Bloomsbury Companion to Spinoza (2014). In addition, he was a member of the team that published Pierre Bayle’s Correspondance (1999–2017).
Lisa Kattenberg
is a Research Fellow in History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. She holds a BA and Research MA in History from the University of Amsterdam and a MA in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History from the University of London. In 2018 she received her PhD (cum laude) from the University of Amsterdam, and she held a two-year lectureship at the same university. Her first book, The Power of Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, c. 1590–1650, is under contract with Cambridge University Press.
is Professor Emeritus of Modern Art and Cultural History at the University of Groningen. He published widely in the fields of art theory, historiography and political philosophy, with particular attention to the works of Johan Huizinga. He was also active as a translator of classic texts by Thomas Hobbes, G.E. Lessing, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill and Arthur Danto. His biography Hannema, museumdirecteur. Over kunst en illusie (Amsterdam, 2018) was one of the final nominations for the Netherlands Biography Prize in 2020.
Matthijs Lok
is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the European Studies Department of the University of Amsterdam. Recent publications include The Politics of Moderation in Modern European History (2019, with Ido de Haan), Eurocentrism in European History and Memory (2019, with Robin de Bruin & Marjet Brolsma), a themed IJCHM issue on the Global Counter-Enlightenment (2019, with Joris van Eijnatten) and Cosmopolitan Conservatisms: Countering Revolution in Transnational Networks, Ideas and Movements (c. 1700–1930) (2021, with Friedemann Pestel and Juliette Reboul). He is currently completing a monograph on ‘Counter-Revolution, Enlightenment and the Making of the European Past’.
Alessandro Metlica
is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Padua, Italy. His research is focused on the representation of power in early modern Europe, both as regards subversion (libertinism, free thinking) and containment (eulogy, praise literature, propaganda). In 2017 he obtained an ERC Starting grant for the project RISK (2018–2024) on the republican displays of state power in the Europe of absolute monarchies (late sixteenth–early eighteenth centuries). In 2020 he published the book Le seduzioni della pace. Giovan Battista Marino, le feste di corte e la Francia barocca (Bologna: Il Mulino).
Ida Nijenhuis
is Emeritus Senior Researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History and Culture of the Netherlands. She has published internationally on the contribution of early modern Dutch authors to transnational debates on commerce, agriculture, and republicanism. She is presently working on a monograph on the history of Dutch republicanism, 1600–1800.
Eleá de la Porte
is Lecturer in Dutch History at the University of Amsterdam and a Research Fellow at Teylers Stichting. In 2019 she completed her doctorate on the “Enlightened narrative” in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic. She studies the history of historiography and intellectual history of the Dutch Enlightenment.
obtained his PhD in History from the University of Amsterdam, with a dissertation titled Enlightened Pessimism: Republican Decline in Dutch Revolutionary Thought, 1780–1800 (2020). His main area of research is eighteenth-century intellectual history, with a focus on political and historical thought. Together with Jacques Bos, he has edited the collected volume The Long Quarrel: Past and Present in the Eighteenth Century (Brill, forthcoming).
Niek van Sas
is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam. His research has been mainly concerned with the political and cultural history of the Netherlands and Western Europe from the eighteenth until the twentieth century, with themes like state-building and nation-building, international relations, history, memory and identity. His books include: Onze Natuurlijkste Bondgenoot. Nederland, Engeland en Europa, 1813–1831 (1985); De metamorfose van Nederland. Van oude orde naar moderniteit, 1750–1900 (2004) and The burgher of Delft: A painting by Jan Steen (with Frans Grijzenhout; 2007). At present he is working on a survey of Dutch history during the “long” nineteenth century.
Freya Sierhuis
is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English and Related Literature of the University of York. She is interested in intellectual history and literary culture of seventeenth-century England and the Dutch Republic. She is the author of The Literature of the Arminian Controversy: Religion, Politics and the Stage in the Dutch Republic (Oxford University Press, 2015) and the co-editor of Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture (Ashgate, 2013), and Fulke Greville and the Culture of the English Renaissance (Oxford University Press, 2018). She is currently working on a book on Dutch playwright Joost van den Vondel.
Lina Weber
is a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. She works on the history of political and economic thought in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe. As well as publishing articles on political economy in various journals and collections, she has edited the economic writings of the Swiss philosopher Isaak Iselin and is preparing a book on the conceptualization of state finance in Great Britain and the Dutch Republic.