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).

Coen van Galen and Björn Quanjer, From Historical Database of Curaçao to Caribbean Migration Database (poster presentation) Dutch Caribbean Research Week, 16 Juni 2022.

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.

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