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Prof. dr. Thijs Weststeijn
Professor
Humanities
Research Institute for History and Art History
Art History
Art History
Humanities
Department of History and Art History
Art History
Art History
+31 30 253 6362
m.a.weststeijn@uu.nl
Drift 15
Drift 15
Kamer 1.01
3512 BR Utrecht
Prof. dr. Thijs Weststeijn
Professor
Art History
Art History
+31 30 253 6362
m.a.weststeijn@uu.nl
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Profile
Publications
Activities
In the media
Research
Teaching
Ancillary activities
Public outreach
Contact
Areas of expertise
Visual Art before 1850
Golden Age
Globalisation
China and Europe
Antiquarianism
Art Theory
Relation between Art Theory and the Painter's Practice
History of the History of Art
History of humanities
History of Art and Science
Early Modern Cultural History
Heritage Studies
Cultural Heritage
Research areas
Institutions for Open Societies (IOS)
Migration and Societal Change
Activities
2025
Rachel Ruysch: Nature into Art
Weststeijn, T.
(Organiser)
11 Feb 2025
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12 Feb 2025
Presentation NKJ74: Women. Female Roles in Art and Society of the Netherlands
Weststeijn, T.
(Speaker)
11 Feb 2025
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Rachel Ruysch: Nature into Art
2024
Panel 'Worldly Images and Images of the World in Netherlandish Art', Conference Historians of Netherlandish Art, Cambridge
Weststeijn, T.
(Organiser)
11 Jul 2024
Afscheidssymposium ter ere van Victor Schmidt
Weststeijn, T.
(Participant)
6 Jun 2024
Welke toekomst voor het verleden? Hoe klimaatverandering ons erfgoed bedreigt en wat daaraan te doen valt
Weststeijn, T.
(Speaker)
4 Jun 2024
The Future of the Past: Heritage and Climate. Keynote at 2and3d photography conference
Weststeijn, T.
(Speaker)
29 May 2024
The Future of the Past: Heritage and Climate
Weststeijn, T.
(Speaker)
29 May 2024
,
2and3D Photography 2024, Rijksmuseum
The Future of the Past: Heritage and Climate
Weststeijn, T.
(Speaker)
28 Mar 2024
,
NICAS Colloquium
The Dutch Global Age: Worldly Images and Images of the World in Netherlandish Art
Weststeijn, T.
(Speaker)
1 Mar 2024
,
Low Countries History Seminar van de University of London
Public lecture: The Future of the Past
Weststeijn, T.
(Speaker)
22 Feb 2024
2023
Johann Adam Schall von Bell as Mediator between the Qing Empire and the Dutch East India Company
Weststeijn, T.
(Speaker)
3 Dec 2023
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People, Objects, and Images of Maritime East Asia. International Colloquium
Kennisdelingssessie Erfgoedmanagement in het Carisbisch gebied
Weststeijn, T.
(Speaker)
14 Nov 2023
Erfgoedacademielezing: De toekomst van het verleden
Weststeijn, T.
(Speaker)
3 Nov 2023
De toekomst van het verleden
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
3 Oct 2023
,
Erfgoeddag Gemeente Utrecht
Art Histories in Dialogue: Heritage and Climate, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
21 Sept 2023
,
Art Histories in Dialogue
Johns Hopkins University
(External organisation)
Weststeijn, T.
(Chair)
6 Sept 2023
'Heeft ons verleden nog een toekomst?' Lezing voor ICOMOS-NL, Amsterdam
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
14 Jun 2023
,
ICOMOS-NL lezing
The future of the past: heritage and climate, Studium Generale Maastricht University
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
16 Mar 2023
,
Studium Generale
The Future of the Past: Heritage and Climate
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
16 Mar 2023
Urban Politics and Memory of Heritage: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the City as an Agent in Historical Culture
Weststeijn, T.
(Chair)
2023
Collège de France
(External organisation)
Weststeijn, T.
(Chair)
2023
Centre for Maritime History and Culture Research
(CMHCR),
Dalian Maritime University
(Publisher)
Weststeijn, T.
(Editor)
2023
Central European University Press
(Publisher)
Weststeijn, T.
(Editor)
2023
2022
Chinese Visitors to the Netherlands
(1600-1705)
and their Cultural Representation
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
11 Apr 2022
Writing the History of the World in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands and China
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
31 Mar 2022
,
Renaissance Society of America: Annual Meeting
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
(External organisation)
Weststeijn, T.
(Member)
2022
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2023
2021
Chinese visitors to the Netherlands and their Cultural Representation
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
3 Dec 2021
,
Inaugural Chamber of Young Snow Distinguished Visiting Scholars Programme Webinar Series
The Making of the Humanities IX
Weststeijn, T.
(Member of programme committee)
20 Sept 2021
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22 Sept 2021
The Cultural Dimension of Dutch Overseas Expansion
Weststeijn, T.
(Chair)
27 Aug 2021
The Cultural Dimension of Dutch Overseas Expansion
Weststeijn, T.
(Chair)
27 Aug 2021
Discussant, Roundtable on Early Modern art history in the Netherlands
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
10 Jun 2021
HNA Conference in Amsterdam
(Historians of Netherlandish Art)
Weststeijn, T.
(Organiser)
2 Jun 2021
,
HNA Conference in Amsterdam (Historians of Netherlandish Art)
Committee member PhD defence Pao-Yi Yang, Leiden University
(Event)
Weststeijn, T.
(Chair)
26 May 2021
,
Committee member PhD defence Pao-Yi Yang, Leiden University
Tsinghua University
(External organisation)
Weststeijn, T.
(Chair)
2021
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2020
Studia Rosenthaliana
(Journal)
Weststeijn, T.
(Peer reviewer)
2020
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Committee for promotion to full professorship, Yale University
(Event)
Weststeijn, T.
(Member)
2020
,
Committee for promotion to full professorship, Yale University
2019
The Chinese Challenge to Dutch Ideas about the Age and Shape of the Earth in the Seventeenth Century
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
8 Dec 2019
,
Reordering the Natural World: Animals, Plants, and the Natural Environment in Early Modern China
Just Like Zhou: Early Chinese Visitors to the Netherlands, 1601-1704
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
17 Jul 2019
,
International Convention of Asia Scholars 11
Ideals and Practices of Pictography in the Seventeenth Century – Between Kircher and Comenius
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
1 Apr 2019
,
Wissen auf den ersten Blick. Illustrierte Buch-Anfänge in der Frühen Neuzeit
The Chinese Impact: Images and Ideas of China in the Dutch Golden Age
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
1 Feb 2019
,
Making Worlds: Art, Materiality, and Early Modern Globalization, Conference 2: Material Flows
Netherlands yearbook for history of art
(Journal)
Weststeijn, T.
(Editorial board member)
2019
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History of Humanities
(Journal)
Weststeijn, T.
(Editorial board member)
2019
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Amsterdam University Press
(Publisher)
Weststeijn, T.
(Editorial board member)
2019
→ …
2018
Global Netherlandish Art: Chinese Impact on the Low Countries in the 17th Century
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
8 Nov 2018
,
CHIP Annual Lecture
Netherlandish Art and the World: Opening Remarks
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
26 Oct 2018
,
Netherlandish Art and the World: A Conference on Global Art History
Beelden van China
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
10 Oct 2018
,
Betweter festival 2017
A Global Perspective on Samuel van Hoogstraten's Visible World
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
18 Jul 2018
,
Expanding the Field of Rembrandt Studies
Shining a Global Light on the Visible World
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
20 Jun 2018
,
Expanding the Field of Rembrandt Studies
Yale University, Tenure Committee
(External organisation)
Weststeijn, T.
(Member)
2018
Uitgeverij Verloren
(Publisher)
Weststeijn, T.
(Editorial board member)
2018
The Making of Humanities VII
Weststeijn, T.
(Organiser)
2018
NWO Vernieuwingsimpuls
(External organisation)
Weststeijn, T.
(Member)
2018
Netherlands yearbook for history of art
(Journal)
Weststeijn, T.
(Editorial board member)
2018
Netherlandish Art and the World: A Conference on Global Art History
Weststeijn, T.
(Chair)
2018
History of Humanities
(Journal)
Weststeijn, T.
(Editorial board member)
2018
Amsterdam University Press
(Publisher)
Weststeijn, T.
(Editor)
2018
2017
Een wereldse kunst
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
27 Sept 2017
Rubens's Portrait of the Chinese Merchant Yppong
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
13 Sept 2017
Introductory lecture on the occasion of the premiere performance of Joost van den Vondel's Zungchin
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
31 Jul 2017
De eerste Chinese bezoekers aan Nederland
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
18 May 2017
,
Show me China
De eerste Chinese bezoekers aan Nederland
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
10 May 2017
,
Het beeld van China in de Gouden Eeuw
Opening speech at the exhibition "Barbaren en Wijsgeren"
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
24 Mar 2017
,
Barbaren en Wijsgeren: het beeld van China in de Gouden Eeuw
Vermeer's Painted Porcelain
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
21 Jan 2017
The Chinese Impact: Images and Ideas of China in the Dutch Golden Age
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
18 Jan 2017
The Chinese Impact: Images and Ideas of China in the Dutch Golden Age
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
13 Jan 2017
The Making of the Humanities VI
Weststeijn, T.
(Member of programme committee)
2017
2016
Peer review report on fellowship application
Weststeijn, T.
(Advisor)
29 Dec 2016
Referee for Jurgen Muller's presentation on Rembrandt's Aristotle
Weststeijn, T.
(Invited speaker)
14 Dec 2016
Peer review report on funding application
Weststeijn, T.
(Advisor)
10 Nov 2016
The Making of the Humanities V
Weststeijn, T.
(Organiser)
5 Sept 2016
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7 Sept 2016
History of Humanities
(Journal)
Weststeijn, T.
(Editorial board member)
1 Jan 2016
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1 Jan 2017
2015
Netherlands yearbook for history of art
(Journal)
Weststeijn, T.
(Editorial board member)
2015
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