List of Lectures, presentations, and debates
| 2015 | |
| December 3 | Lecture: 'Shut your Eyes and Drown the Body' at the Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen. |
| November 18 | Lecture: 'The sensory experience' at the Continuum, Kerkrade. |
| May 11 | Lecture: 'A Museum for the Senses' at Nationaal Militair Museum Soesterberg. |
| 2014 | |
| June 6 | Presentation: 'About video and exhibitions' at Loop Festival, Barcelona. |
| 2012 | |
| October 2 | Moderator public discussion about Games and Heritage, with Monobanda, studio Hubbub and Tempeest, Pausdam, Utrecht. |
| June 6 | Lecture: ‘Ideologie en intimiteit in fotografie’ (Ideology and Intimacy in Photography) at the Dutch Doc Award ceremony at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. |
| April 19 | Lectures, ArtPlay, Moskou, Symposium ‘Action in Culture’ and Tedx: - The Museum as Halfway Station: Products, Objects and Souvenirs - The One Room Museum - Cultural Navigation through Moscow - The National Vending Machine (Tedx) |
| April 2 | Presentation: ‘Opkomst en Ondergang van het NHM’ (Rise and Fall of the Museum of National History), Dept. of Cultural Studies, Universiteit of Amsterdam. |
| January 10 | Presentation: ‘Geschiedenis op televisie’ (History on Television), Rode Hoed, Amsterdam. |
| 2011 | |
| 2009-2011 | Numerous presentations on the Museum of National History, history and identity. |
| December 7 | Presentation: ‘Het ideale Museum’ (The Ideal Museum), Lakenhal, Leiden. |
| October 6 | Lecture: ‘De Stiltemetropool’ (The Quiet Metropole), Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam. |
| June 27 | Lecture: ‘The Museum of the 21st century’, Pierogi Sretenka, Moskou. |
| June 25 | Lecture: ‘Museums, Objects and Souvenirs’, Kulikovo Field, Russia. |
| June 24 | Lecture: ‘Tussen ornithologen en twitteraars’ (Between Tweeters and Ornithologists), Hendrik Muller Summer seminar, Leusden. |
| May 3 | Panel debate: ‘Hapklare geschiedenismusea’ (Attractive History Museums), DeBuren, Beursschouwburg, Brussels. |
| 2010 | |
| November 20 | Lecture: ‘Exhibiting the Nation’, NIAS, Wassenaar. |
| September 21 | Lecture: ‘Nationale geschiedenis en openbaarheid’ (National History and the Public Sphere), Atana, Amsterdam. |
| August 25 | Panel debate with Juergen Kocka about history museums, International Congress of Historical Sciences, Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam. |
| June 23 | Lecture: ‘De schatkamer en de espressobar’ (The Treasure Chest and the Espressobar), Hogeschool Zeeland, Vlissingen. |
| May 21 | Lecture: ‘Politiek en geschiedenis’ (Politics and History), Dept. of History, Leiden University. |
| April 14 | Panel debate (with Jan Marijnissen en Paul Scheffer), about the Museum of National History, Spui 25, Amsterdam. |
| March 22 | Lecture: ‘Archeologie en publiek: over goudschatten en tandenborstels’ (Archeology and the Public: About Gold Treasures and Tooth Brushes), Museum van Oudheden, Leiden. |
| 2009 | |
| November 13 | Lecture: ‘Skaters op de trap’ (Skaters on the Steps), Pietje Bell Lecture, Kunsthal Rotterdam. |
| November 9 | Lecture: ‘Nationale geschiedenis en netwerkmusea’ (National History and the Network Museum, Museumconference Drenthe, Hoogeveen. |
| November 9 | Lecture: ‘Het Nationaal Historisch Museum en de 18e eeuw: mobiele kabinetten’ (The National Museum and the 18th Century: Mobile Cabinets), Teylers Museum, Haarlem. |
| November 2 | Lecture: ‘National Narratives’, Symposium Prato, Italy. |
| October 30 | Panel Debate: ‘De Stad als Laboratorium: de kunst van het verheffen’ (The City as Laboratory: Art and Emancipation), RKS, Lantaren Venster, Rotterdam. |
| October 13 | Moderator Symposium ‘Alles voor de Kunst: over de rol en positie van bemiddelaars in de beeldende kunst’ (Everything for the Arts: About the Role and Position of Curators and Writers in the Visual Arts), The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam, Studio/K, Amsterdam. |
| October 9 | Moderator Symposium ‘Expanding Identities: de beeldende kunst voorbij’, Artez, Arnhem. |
| June 26 | Panel Debate about the Museum of National History, Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch genootschap (Royal Historical Society), Royal Library, The Hague. |
| June 16 | Panel debate ‘Sire: er zijn geen Nederlanders?’ (Sire, are there no Belgians?), DeBuren, Beursschouwburg, Brussels. |
| May 7 | Keynote lecture: ‘Zien is geloven’ (Seeing is Believing) on John Calvin, Grote Kerk, Dordrecht. |
| April 28 | Key note: ‘Regionalism and Museums’, Lviv, Oekraine. |
| 2008 and before | |
| 2002-2008 | Numerous presentations about the renovation of the Zeeuws Museum, regionalism, culture and museums. |
| October 20, 2008 | Panel Debate about collectioning, Mondriaan Stichting, Conservatorium, Amsterdam. |
| February 19, 2008 | Panel Debate about cultural diversity and heritage, Erfgoed Nederland and Mondriaan Foundation, Utrecht. |
| September 24, 2007 | Moderator, debate about National Funding for the Arts, Arnhem. |
| December 8, 2006 | Moderator banking interview Zeeland Business, Goes. |
| May 8, 2006 | Lecture: ‘Ethnic fashion’, Academy, Fashion Dept., Ghent, Belgium. |
| November 20, 2005 | Lecture: ‘Local Secrets, Global Messages’, Centraal Museum, Utrecht. |
| July 1, 2005 | Chair, panel Industrial Heritage, Scheldeterrein, Vlissingen. |
| June 20, 2005 | Panel Round Table about Cultural Policy, Mondriaan Stichting, SICA, Felix Meritis, Amsterdam. |
| January 21, 2005 | Moderator Symposium Dutch Eyes, Foundation for Photography in the Netherlands and the Huizinga Instituut, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. |
| 2003-2005 | Initiator and Moderator Zeeuws Museum Culture Debates (14 debates). |
| 2003-2004 | Talkshow host Film by the Sea, Vlissingen (8 shows). |
| October 21, 2004 | Moderator TRACER –“Go for Soft Institutions”, Centre for Contemporary Art, Tent. Rotterdam. |
| October 15, 2004 | Moderator “Define Yourself”, a program about industrial heritage and the visual arts, Centre for the Visual Arts, Deventer. |
| September 10, 2004 | Moderator TRACER – “Rhizomatic Cities”, Centre for Contemporary Art, Tent. Rotterdam. |
| June 22, 2004 | Presentation and chair Regional History Multimedia Program meeting, ERNACT, London. |
| October 9, 2003 | Moderator (with Jeroen Boomgaard) ‘Why do we do it in the Road? (no one will be watching us)’, debate on social art in public space, Rietveld academie, SKOR, UvA, in: Galerie Ellen de Bruyne Projects, Amsterdam. |
| May 23, 2003 | Lecture: ‘Gescheiden paden van wetenschap en museum’, (Separate Paths of Scholarship and Museums), Research School Art History, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. |
| May 16, 2003 | Moderator debate about art and the Internet, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussel. |
| October 10, 2002 | Initiator and moderator debate ‘Fotografie in de museumwereld’ (Photography in Museums), Dutch Museum Association, Noorderlicht Festival, Leeuwarden. |
| September 12, 2002 | Moderator debate ‘Critici en de Documenta 11’ (Critics and the Documenta 11), Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam. |
| 2001-2002 | Initiator and moderator debates Witte de With (8). |
| November 8-10, 2001 | Lecture: ‘National Identity and the Visual Arts’, Zagreb, Rijeka en Sisak, Kroatië. |
| November 3, 2000 | Lecture: ‘Heroes among Burghers: Portrait Galleries in 19th-century New York’, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. |
| June 2, 2000 | Initiator and moderator debate about company collections, galeries and museums, Nederlandse Museumvereniging, KunstRai, Amsterdam. |
| October 18, 2000 | Presentation on thematic exhibitions, Curatorial Training Programme, De Appel, centrum voor hedendaagse kunst, Amsterdam. |
| May 22, 1997 | Lecture: ‘The Death of the Public Full-Length: John Neagle's Henry Clay’, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. |
| October 25, 1996 | Lecture: ‘Portrait Politics in Antebellum Philadelphia’, Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware. |
| August 27, 1996 | Lecture: ‘Public, Private and Printed Galleries’, Smithsonian Institution: Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. |
| February 14, 1996 | Lecture: ‘The Washington Portraits’, The Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, Philadelphia. |
| November 11, 1995 | Lecture: ‘The Jackson Figurehead: Making National Faces’, American Studies Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh. |