Scholarly output
On this page, applications, scholarly output and press coverage based on the Historical Database of Suriname project will be made available.
In English
Matthias Rosenbaum–Feldbrügge (23-5-2023). The Historical Database of Suriname and Curacao: Enhancing our Knowledge of Colonial Demography and Slavery. European Society of Historical Demography webinar (online).
Thunnis van Oort, Gerhard de Kok, Leon van Wissen (19-5-2023). Community building and crowd involvement. Citizen science, data collection and public engagement. Risky futures & other Business: The Risky Business Database Workshop, Genoa.
Prats López, M., Oort, T. van, Ganzevoort, W.B., Coen van Galen & Mourits, R.J. (8-2-2023). Engaging the Crowd: Civil Records Suriname. ESDG Seminar: online
Björn Quanjer & Matthias Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge (16-3-2023). The Historical Database Suriname and Curaçao: A Descriptive Study. Symposium: Lives in Slavery. Exploring the Slave Registers of Suriname and Curaçao, 1830-63. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, https://edu.nl/wcekp
Rick Mourits, Life Tables of the Curacaoan and Surinamese Enslaved Populations, 1830-63 (16-3-2023). Symposium: Lives in Slavery. Exploring the Slave Registers of Suriname and Curaçao, 1830-63. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, https://edu.nl/wcekp
Demi Vasquez Filho, Thunnis van Oort & Coen van Galen (16-3-2023). Applying Network Analysis to the Historical Database Suriname Curacao. Symposium: Lives in Slavery. Exploring the Slave Registers of Suriname and Curaçao, 1830-63. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, https://edu.nl/wcekp
Symposium (16-3-2023) Lives in Slavery. Exploring the Slave Registers of Suriname and Curaçao, 1830-63. Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen.
Galen, C.W. van, Oort, T. van, Quanjer, B., Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, M.T. & Kok, J. (2022, No-vember 1). Citizen Science & Data Manamagent. The Case of the Historical Database Suriname and Curacao. Hogeschool Utrecht, LCRDM Networking day Utrecht.
Galen, C.W. van, Quanjer, B., Mourits, R.J., Thunnis van Oort & Kok, J. (2022). No Man Is an Island. Colonialism, Inter-Caribbean Slave Trade and Maritime Maronage in Dutch Curacao (1839-1863). Social Science History Association Annual Meeting 2022: Chicago (2022, Novem-ber 17 - 2022, November 20).
Kok, J., Mourits, R., Quanjer, B., Thunnis van Oort & Galen, C. van (2022). Colonial registers and the historical demography of Curacao and Suriname. XIII International Congress of Histori-cal Sciences, POZNAŃ, session Colonial Populations: census-taking processes, health and urbani-zation (17th-20th centuries) (online): (2022, August 26 - 2022, August 26).
Workshop “Creating an audience for your citizen science projects” (1-9-2022). Vrije Universiteit Am-sterdam, Open Science Festival.
Course quantitative methods for students of the MA History at Anton de Kom University, Paramaribo (2022) taught by Björn Quanjer
Van Galen, C.W., Mourits, R., Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, M., A.B., M., Janssen, J., Quanjer, B., Van Oort, T. and Kok, J. (2022). Suriname Slave and Emancipation Registers Dataset Version 1.0. https://hdl.handle.net/10622/CSPBHO
Van Galen, C.W., Quanjer, B., Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, M., Langenfeld, E., Mourits, R., Van Oort, T. and Kok, J. (2022). Curacao Slave Registers Dataset Version 1.0. https://hdl.handle.net/10622/CSPBED
Kok, J., Mourits, R., Quanjer, B., Oort, T. van & Galen, C. van (2022). Colonial registers and the historical demography of Curacao and Suriname. XIII International Congress of Historical Sciences, POZNAŃ, session Colonial Populations: census-taking processes, health and urbanization (17th-20th centuries) (online): (2022, August 26 - 2022, August 26).
Oort, T. van, Galen, C.W. van & Mourits, R.J. (2022). Women of Colour in a Colonial City. Cre-ating Social Maps of Paramaribo (1846). EAUH: 15th Conference of the European Association for Urban History: Antwerp (2022, August 31 - 2022, September 3).
Thunnis van Oort, Enslaved in the City: The Spatial Configuration of Paramaribo’s Population (1846), CREATE Salon, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 7-4-2022.
Thunnis van Oort, Rick Mourits en Coen van Galen, Hybrid indexation. Combining the strengths of HTR and crowdsourcing. Madrid, 4th Conference European Society of Historical Demography, 3-3-2022.
Rick Mourits, Björn Quanjer, Thunnis van Oort, Coen van Galen, en Jan Kok, Life tables of the entire Surinamese enslaved population, 1848-1863: insights in the enslaved lives and population dynamics in a tropical, colonial society. Madrid, 4th Conference European Society of Historical Demography, 3-3-2022.
Rick Mourits, Creating life course datasets from historical population sources: the case of Suriname 1830-1950, ODISSEI Community Conference, 18-11-2021.
Thunnis van Oort, Women of Colour and Their Environment: Creating Social Maps of Paramaribo (1846), online panel European Association for Urban History Conference, 2-9-2021.
Coen van Galen, Rick Mourits, Thunnis van Oort, Jan Kok, Legacies of bondage: Towards a Database of Life Courses in the Dutch West Indies (1830-1950). Leiden (online), Digital Humanities Benelux, 3-6-2021.
Galen, C.W. van, B. Quanjer, M. Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge & M. Kraijo (2021). ‘Endless Digging and Endless Picking. Sex Ratios and Gendered Labour in Surinamese Plantations, 1830–1863’. Historical Life Course Studies 10 (March):46-52. doi: 10.51964/hlcs9566.
Galen, C.W. van (2019). ‘Creating an audience: Experiences from the Surinamese slave registers crowdsourcing project’, Historical Methods 52 (3), 178-194. doi: 10.1080/01615440.2019.1590268.
Galen, C.W. van & M.S. Hassankhan (2018) ‘A research–note on the slave registers of Suriname, 1830–1865’, The History of the Family, 23 (3), 503-520. doi: 10.1080/1081602X.2018.1507917.
In Dutch
Coen van Galen (3-5-2023). Erfgenamen van Esperanza. Expeditie Next, Middelburg, https://expeditienext.nl/activiteit/erfgenamen-van-esperanza/
Erfgenamen van Esperanza: Een beeldend verhaal over wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar slavernij op Curaçao. https://erfgenamenvanesperanza.com/
Oort, T. van, Mourits, R.J., Quanjer, B., Galen, C.W. van & Kok, J. (2021). ‘Sterfte in Suriname. Hoe databases een nieuw licht werpen op het leven van slaafgemaakten, Ex Tempore, 40 (3), 116-123.
Galen, C.W. van (2020). ‘Een archivaal panopticum: het slavenregister en andere bronnen over de laatste fase van slavernij op Curaçao (1839-1863)’ in: E. Gibbes, H. Maduro-Molhuijsen, M. Scriwanek and J. Vos (eds.) Lantèrnu 25. Op het terras - Met verhalen uit de Curaçaose geschiedenis (Willemstad: Nationaal Archief Curaçao) 221-227.
Galen, C.W. van (2020). ‘De nieuwe database van de Surinaamse slavenregisters (1830-1863)’, Wi Rutu 20 (1), 49-55.
Galen, C.W. van (2019). ‘‘Wat zal er met ons gebeuren als wij geen slaven meer hebben?’ De EBG en de Surinaamse slavenregisters, 1830-1863', in: J. Egas and J. van Heijst (eds.) Hernhutters in beweging, 250 jaar grote kerkzaal (Utrecht: Boekencentrum) 95-110.
Galen, C.W. van (2018) ‘Een boekhouding van mensen. Het slavenregister’, in: L. Dalhuisen and M.S. Hassankhan (eds.) Geschiedenis van Suriname (Zutphen: Walburg Pers) 48.
Galen, C.W. van (2016) ‘De Surinaamse slavenregisters als publiek erfgoed’, OSO Tijdschrift voor Surinamistiek en het Caraïbisch gebied 35,1-2: 148-161.
Galen, C.W. van (2016) ‘Een database van de Surinaamse slavenregisters’, Wi Rutu. Tijdschrift voor Surinaamse genealogie 16,2: 46-50.