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Selected list:

• 11 March, 2019 Antwerp, Elker-ick, Invited lecture 'Een leven in de woestijn? Eremieten, kluizenaars, en rondtrekkende predikers in de late oudheid en de middeleeuwen'.
• 18 September, 2018 Antwerp, Elker-ick, Invited lecture 'Verdrukte kwezels of vadsige matronen? Vrouwelijke religieuzen omstreeks het jaar 1000'.
• 21 March, 2018 Ghent, Liberaal Archief, 'Nacht van de Geschiedenis': public lecture 'Arme dutsen? Religieuze vrouwen in een mannelijke Kerk aan het einde van het eerste millennium'.
• 23 April, 2017 Ename, PAM Ename, Heritage Day: public lecture 'De monniken van Ename in het oog van de storm'.
• 21 October, 2015 Ghent, Ghent University (Belgium), book presentation of Albert Derolez’ The Making of the Liber Floridus: lecture ‘Albert Derolez en het Liber Floridus: een halve eeuw onderzoek’.
• 19 March, 2013 Ghent, Sint-Pietersabdij (Belgium), ‘Vulferusdag Gent’: ‘Hervorming als narratieve schaamlap. Een andere kijk op de ontwikkeling van het Vlaamse kloosterwezen omstreeks het jaar 1000’.
• 19 November, 2009 Stavelot (Belgium), ‘Wibald en questions. Un grand abbé Lotharingien du XIIe siècle’: ‘Kloosterwezen en maatschappij in de twaalfde-eeuwse Zuidelijke Nederlanden: erfenis en uitdagingen van Wibalds generatie’.

• Interview Belgian Radio 1 Nieuwe Feiten: crusaders, ethnic diversity and religious co-existence in the medieval Near East
• 29 August, 2018 Newspaper Tertio 'Kloosterleven staat nooit los van de samenleving'(https://www.tertio.be/magazines/968/artikels/“kloosterleven%20staat%20nooit%20los%20van%20samenleving”)
• 23 May, 2018 Newspaper De Morgen, 'Wat wij kunnen leren van middeleeuwse kloosternonnen' (https://www.demorgen.be/boeken/wat-wij-kunnen-leren-van-middeleeuwse-slotkloosternonnen-be5af57b/).
• 19 May, 2018 Belgian National Radio 1, Interne Keuken: 'Zondige Nonnen' (podcast on https://radio1.be/zondige-nonnen).

26 June, 2018 Geheugenissen Podcast series 'Dark Age Nunneries. The Secret Lives of Medieval Nuns' (https://soundcloud.com/user-711326240/dark-age-nunneries-the-secret-lives-of-medieval-nuns).

Consultancy for the evaluation of the Royal Library in Brussels, organized by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO)

• 2019- Chair, Commission for RDM-management of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy.
• 2015- Vice-chair of the Henri Pirenne-Institute for Medieval Studies.
• 2014- Member of various selection committees for professorial, pre- and postdoc, and administrative positions at Ghent University.
• 2013- Member of the Research Commission of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy.
• 2013- Board member of the Doctoral Schools in Humanities and Law.
• 2013- Board member of the Henri Pirenne-Institute for Medieval Studies.
• 2012- Chair of the Research Commission of the Department of History.
• 2012- Board member of the Department of History.
• 2012- Council member of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy.
• 2011-2012 Member of the Research Commission of the Department of History.
• 2011-2012 Co-author of self-evaluation report on research at the Department of History.
• 2010- Member of the library commission of the Department of History.
• 2010- Council member of the Department of History
• 2009- Council member of the Henri Pirenne-Institute for Medieval Studies.
• 2007-2009 Secretary of the examination commitee in History.
• 2005-2006 Board member of the Einhard Institute.
• 2001- Member of the Education Committee in History.
• 1998-2010 Council member of the Department of Medieval History.

Member of the advisory board of the Medieval Manuscripts in Flemish Collections project (2019-)

Member of the scientific board of the journal Novi Monasterii (2007-).

Member of the scientific council of the journal De medio aevo.

Member of the Scientific Board of the series Vita Regularis (LIT Verlag).

Review editor of the journal Speculum.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Centro di Studi sugli insediamenti monastici europei (Università Cattolica di Milano, CESIME).

Member of the scientific committee of the museum Ten Duinen 1138.

Member of the scientific committee of the series Corpus membranarum Capuanarum (Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane)

Member of the scientific steering committee of the Leverhulme Trust project 'The Literary Heritage of Anglo-Dutch Relations, c. 1050-c. 1550'.

Member of the Charles Homer Haskins Society (2012-).

Council member of the research community Episcopus (2013-2016).

2014-2015 Member of the organizing comittee of the International Medieval Congress in Leeds; coordinator of the special strand ‘Reform and Renewal’ in 2015.

2009-2014 PI and spokesman of the International Research Community ‘Conventus. Problems of religious communal life in the central middle ages’.

Member of the scientific board of the research project ‘The paradox of medieval Scotland: social relationships and identities before the wars of independence’ (University of Glasgow).

Member of the editorial board of The Medieval Review

Member of the jury of the PhD thesis by Matteo Antoniazzi, ‘Le monastique face au politique: L’émergence d’un nouveau modèle de pensée de pouvoir d’après les auteurs d’Histoire ecclésiastique du Ve siècle’, 6 December 2019, Université d’Angers.

Member of the jury of PhD by Jeroen de Gussem, 'Collaborative authorship in twelfth-century latin literature: a stylometric approach to gender, synergy and authority', 16 November 2019, UGent.

Member of the jury of the Phd by Krijn Pansters, ‘Spiritual Morality. The Religious Orders and the Virtues in Medieval Europe, 1050-1300, 10 January 2019, KU Leuven.

Member of the jury of the PhD by Jelle Lisson, 'Ut pastorem commodum eligatis. Bisschopszetels, verwantschap en lokale aristocratische netwerken in de kerkprovincie Reims in de 'lange' tiende eeuw (888-1049)', 21 December 2016, KU Leuven.

Member of the jury for the PhD by Ortwin Huysmans, ‘Tutor ac Nutritor. Episcopal agency, lordship and the administration of religious communities in the ecclesiastical province of Reims (c. 888-1073)’, 22 november 2016, KU Leuven.

Member of the jury of the PhD by Stefan Meysman, ‘Virilitas in tijden van verandering. Religieuze en profane mannelijkheden in de Nederlanden, ca. 1050-1300’, 10 November, 2016, UGent.

Member of the jury of the PhD ofJérôme Verdoodt, 'Une clôture hermétique? Isolement régulier et intérêts séculiers au monastère de Saint-Pierre de Lobbes (VIIe-XIVe siècles)', 24 October, 2016, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Membership of PhD Jury of Sara Moens ‘De horizonten van Guibertus van Gembloers (ca. 1124-1214). De wereld van een benedictijnse briefschrijver in tijden van een verschuivend religieus landschap’,  29 April 2014, UGent. 

Member of the jury of the PhD by Davy Herremans, ‘Holy vows, worldly manners. Monastic space, consumption practices and social identity in the Cistercian nunnery of Clairefontaine’, 24 June 2013, Ghent University.

Nicolas Louis, ‘L’exemplum en pratiques: production, diffusion et usages des recueils d’exempla latins aux XIIIe-XVe siècles’, defense held on 15 May, 2013 at University of Namur/Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.

Frederik Keygnaert, ‘Het interdict in het aartsbisdom Reims. De genese van een politiek-religieus wapen (Merovingische tijd-ca. 1140)’, defense held on 25 April, 2012 at the Catholic University of Leuven.

Bas Diemel, ‘Daer es leven sonder sterven. Memoria en gemeenschapsvorming in Windesheimer kringen uit de laatmiddeleeuwse Zuidelijke Nederlanden (1350-1550)’, defense held on 9 November 2011, at Ghent University.

Nicolas Mazeure, ‘Ut ipsius privilegii testatur karta, quam etiam hic inscribere curavimus, uti tunc factam accepimus. Oorkondingspraktijk, archiefbeheer en benedictijnse abdijhistoriografie in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden (10de-12de eeuw)’, defense held on 21 May, 2008 at University of Antwerp.

Bilateral Exchange Fellowship, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan/Brescia, April 2017 (sponsored by the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium and the Accademia dei Lincei).

Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professorship, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Bristol (UK)

Visiting Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study at Indiana University, Bloomington (VS)

Fellow, Flemish Academic Centre (VLAC), Brussels (Belgium)

VNC-Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, Wassenaar (The Netherlands), 1 September, 2009 – 29 January, 2010.

Visiting Fellow of the Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte of the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany)

Member of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (USA)

Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall college, Cambridge University (UK)

Please download my cv at https://research.flw.ugent.be/nl/steven.vanderputten.

Please download my cv at https://research.flw.ugent.be/nl/steven.vanderputten.

2020 Panel member of the expert panel History and Archaeology of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I. P. (FCT) (Portugal)

Member of the expert panel Cult3: History and Archeology of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO)

Vice-chair of the expert panel Cult3: History, History of Arts and Archeology of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO).

Panel member, European University Institute (EUI) advisory committee of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO)

 2018 Peer review as external evaluator of a master's thesis at CEU (Hungary).

Please download by cv on this page: https://research.flw.ugent.be/nl/steven.vanderputten.

A selective list for the last three years: 

• • 29 February, 2020 Göttingen, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen: conference ‘Bischof und Diözese im Früh- und Hochmittelalter: Die ‘Episkopalisierung der Kirche‘ im europäischen Vergleich’: lecture ‘Episcopal Reformers in Tenth-Century Lotharingia and Reims: Between Tuitio, Correctio, and Hard-Boiled Politics’.
  • 28 November, 2019 Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf: workshop on the history of women religious in the Middle Ages: invited lecture ‘Encased in Silk. The Women Religious of Bouxières and Their Medieval Archives’.
  • 17 September, 2019 Brescia, Università degli Studi di Brescia, international conference 'Presenza-assenza. Meccanismi dell'instutizionalità nalla societas Christiana (secc IX-XIII)': lecture 'A la recherche d’alternatives pour le verbo et exemplo: La propagation continue de la réforme dans le monachisme aux 10e-11e siècles'.
  • 28 June, 2019 Manchester, John Rylands Library/John Haskins Society, international conference ‘Gender, Memory, and Documentary Culture, 900-1200’: keynote lecture ‘Encased in Silk. The Women Religious of Bouxières and Their Early Medieval Archives’.
  • 24 May, 2019, Ghent, Ghent University, international conference ‘Rethinking Reform. Towards a New Understanding of Religious Change, 900-1150’: ‘Deconstructing/Reconstructing Monastic Reform’.
  • 26 April, 2019 Ghent 'Ghent-Kent Research Day: Cross-Channel Exchanges in the Middle Ages': 'Tenth-century reforms and the problem of religious distinction in cross-channel perspective'.
  • 24 January, 2019 Hamburg, Universität Hamburg, Invited lecture 'The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800-1050'.
  • 8 January, 2019, Paris, Sorbonne, Invited seminar 'La dignité de nos corps et le salut de nos âmes. Scandales, pureté et visions de l'unité dans le monachisme à la fin du Xe siècle'.
  • 18 October, 2018 Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama, international conference ‘Religious Life, Elites, & Medieval Culture’, Lecture ‘From Elite Distinction to Distinct Elites: Ideals and Modalities of Monastic Reform in the Medieval West’.
  • 11 October, 2018, Poitiers, Université de Poitiers - CESCM, international conference 'Categorizing the Church II: Clerical and monastic communities in the Carolingian world (8th-10th centuries)/Ordonner l'église II: Communautés cléricales et communautés monastiques dans le monde carolingien (8e-10e s.)', Keynote lecture 'What did reformers want, and what did reform actually do? Perspectives on institutional and ideological change in 8th- to 10th-century monasticism'.
  • 19 February, 2018 St Andrews, University of St Andrews, Institute for Medieval Studies, invited seminar ‘The Dignity of Our Bodies and the Salvation of Our Souls. Scandal, Purity, and the Pursuit of Unity in Late Tenth-Century Monasticism’.
  • 18 January, 2018 Bristol, University of Bristol, international conference 'The Medieval Abbot: Expectations and Reality': 'Absentee archangels: abbots as spiritual and institutional leaders in the tenth to twelfth centuries'.

Visiting senior fellowships and guest professorships: (sponsored by Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte) Gordon Blennemann (UMontréal, 2018), Kriston Rennie (UQueensland, 2015); Jay Diehl (ULong Island, 2013); Jörg Sonntag (UDresden, 2012); Diane Reilly (UIndiana, 2010); (sponsored by Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium/Accademia dei Lincei) Nicholangelo d'Acunto (Cattolica Milano, 2017) ; (sponsored by Humboldt Foundation en FWO) Ben Pohl (UBristol, 2015); (sponsored by VLAC) Andrew Turner (UMelbourne, 2011-2012).

Predoctoral fellowships: John Glasenapp (Fulbright), Sean Sapp (Fulbright), Lydia Walker (Fulbright), Brianne Dolce (BAEF).

C1-CEFR level (Common European Framework of Reference) certificaat via the Interuniversity Test of Academic English (ITACE) for Lecturers (http://www.itace.be/lecturers/EN/testprincipes.html).

1. Research Projects

• 2020-2024 FWO-research project 'The Quest for Otherness. Uncovering Narratives of Religious Distinction in the Long Tenth Century'. Funding: 222.000 Euro.
• (as co-applicant) 2018-2023 Ghent University, Interdisciplinary Research Consortium ‘Pirenne Consortium for Medieval Studies’. Funding: 75.000 Euro + 5 FTE.
• (as co-applicant with PAM Ename) 2016-2017 Flemish Government, Departement Cultuur, Jeugd, Sport en Media - Afdeling Cultureel Erfgoed: Subsidy for outreach project on the Crosier of Ename.
• 2015-2019 FWO-research project: ‘Re-evaluating female monasticism’s ‘ambiguous identity’ in the ninth- to eleventh-century West’. Funding: 260.000 Euro.
• 2013-2017 FWO-research project: ‘The Peace as an instrument of social competition: Towards a non-homeostatic interpretation of political relations in the Central Middle Ages (Western Europe, late tenth-early twelfth centuries)’. Funding: 247.000 Euro.
• 2013-2015 BOF-research project: ‘Ritual scripting as work in progress: codifying rituals of conflict and reconciliation in the medieval West (tenth-twelfth centuries)’. Funding: 96.000 Euro.
• 2011-2014 FWO-research project: ‘Monastic leadership in the post-charismatic age: constructing a new paradigm for the study of reforms before the emergence of the great Orders (Western Europe, tenth-early twelfth centuries)’. Funding: 250.000 Euro.
• 2011-2014 BOF-research project: ‘Monastic leadership as post-charismatic ‘routinisation’? An enquiry into the impact of second-generation reformers on the development of medieval monastic communities (Western Europe, tenth-early twelfth century)’. Funding: 170.000 Euro.
• 2010-2013 HERCULES-research project: ‘Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (SMLC). A Multiple Database System for the Launch of Diplomata Belgica and for a Completely Updated Version of Narrative Sources’. Funding: 200.000 Euro.
• 2005-2010 BOF-research project: ‘Oral communication and the consolidation of the unwritten past in medieval monastic communities. An inquiry into the meaning and the use of the spoken work in a literate context (10th-late 12th centuries)’. Funding: 165.000 Euro.

2. Research Networks

• 2019 Ghent University - University of Kent, funding for a collaborative workshop (as co-applicant). Funding: 1000 Pounds Sterling.
• 2016 Leverhulme International Network Grant (as co-applicant with colleagues from the universities of Leeds, York, Mainz, Paris, and Leuven). Funding: 87.000 Pounds Sterling.
• 2016 Ghent University - University of Kent, funding for a collaborative workshop (as co-applicant). Funding: 1000 Pounds Sterling.
• 2013 DAAD U4 Mobility Grant: 246 Euro.
• 2012 Pirenne Consortium for Medieval Studies (as co-applicant). Funding: 4 FTE and 100.000 Euro.
• 2009-2014 FWO-International Research Community ‘Conventus. Problems of religious communal life in the central middle ages’. Funding: 64.000 Euro.
• 2009-2010 Co-applicant to the research project ‘‘Flandria Sacra’. Répertoire bibliographique des établissements religieux médiévaux de la Flandre et des principautés périphériques (dans les limites de la France actuelle, 700-1200)’ (University of Lille 3). Funding: 4.000 Euro.

Please donwload my cv at https://research.flw.ugent.be/nl/steven.vanderputten.

Selection from the last five years:

• Ghent/Ename, 19-20 September 2019, masterclass 'Interuniversitaire masterclass Cultuur & Religie: Materiële cultuur' (with Anne-Laure van Bruaene).
• Ghent, 24-25 May, 2019 International conference ‘Rethinking Reform. Towards a New Understanding of Religious Change, 900-1150’ (with University of Leeds).
• Ghent, 26 April, 2019 'Ghent - Kent Research Day: Cross-Channel Exchanges in the Middle Ages" (with the University of Kent).
• Lyon 3, 28-29 March, 2019, 'La réforme grégorienne, une "révolution totale"? Etat comparatif de la recherche dans les espaces francophones et germanophones. Atelier de jeunes chercheurs' (scientific committee only).
• Lille (France), Université de Lille III, 13-14 September, 2018, 'Mémoire et communautés au haut Moyen Âge (VIe-XIIe siècle). Colloque International' (with Université de Lille III).
• Leeds (United Kingdom), Leeds University, 5-6 July, 2017, ‘International Medieval Congress 2015’: organization of six sessions (with Johan Belaen, Jirki Thibaut, and Anne-Marie Helvétius).
• Hempstead NY (USA), Hofstra University, 2 June, 2017, 'The Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities': organization of one session.
• Ghent (Belgium), Ghent University, 15-16 December, 2016: 'The Abbot as ‘Human Resource’ in the Medieval West, 9th–12th Centuries'.
• Bruges/Ghent (Belgium), KU Leuven/Ghent University, 24-25 November, 2016: 'Bishops in the ‘Century of Iron’.
Episcopal Authorities in France and in Lotharingia, 900-1050' (with KU Leuven).
• Brussels (Belgium), Royal Academy/Ghent University, 1-2 September, 2016: 'Horizontal learning in medieval monastic communities.'
• Antwerp (Belgium), University of Antwerp, 10-11 September, 2015: ‘Fourth Masterclass ‘Cultuur en Religie'’ (with KU Leuven and University of Antwerp).
• Leeds (United Kingdom), Leeds University, 6-9 July, 2015: ‘International Medieval Congress 2015’: coordination of the Special Strand ‘Reform and Renewal’ (220+ sessions), and organization of the keynote lectures and one round table.
• Ghent (Belgium), Ghent University, 28 May, 2015: ‘Study Day: Medieval Studies as Academic Discipline’ (as co-organizer, Henri Pirenne-Institute for Medieval Studies).
• Leuven (Belgium), KU Leuven, 21-22 May, 2015: ‘Lectio Chair and Doctoral Seminar of Rosamund McKitterick’ (with Catholic University of Leuven and University of Antwerp).