2012

The DJ Tiesto and Armin van Buuren of Hollands 1620s and 1630s. Songbooks and youth identity in the Dutch Golden Age

 

2009

'The Risk of Taking Risks. A Rite of Passage in Early Seventeenth-Century Dutch Youth Culture’ at the Society for the History of Children and Youth Conference, University of California, Berkeley.

2003

‘Emerging Youth Culture in Early Seventeenth-Century Holland’ at European History from Ancient to Modern, Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece. ‘The Sing Happy Youth of Holland: A New Consumer Product for Holland’s Affluent Youths of the 1620s and 1630s’ at Renaissance Leisure, University College of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.  ‘Civilizing Holland’s Youth in the Eighteenth Century.

2002

‘Tobacco and Immoral Role Models for Dutch Youths in the 1620s and 1630s’ at Sex, Drugs, but No Rock ’n’ Roll. The Moral Education of Youths in the Low Countries from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

2000

The Moral Advice Books of Jacob Cats for Dutch Youths in the Golden Age’ at ISCHE XXII. (International Standing Conference on the History of Education) theme ‘Books and Education’, Universidad de Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain.

1999

‘On Not Becoming a Delinquent. Raising Adolescents Boys in the Dutch Republic, 1600-1750’ at Becoming Delinquent: European Youth, 1650-1950, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.

1994

 ‘Affective Child-Parent Relations in Eighteenth-Century Holland’ at ISCHE XVI. (International Standing Conference on the History of Education) theme ‘Education and Cultural Transfer, 1500-1994’, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (8/1994). ‘Dutch Affective Child-Parent Relations: Catharina Backer and Her Parents’ at Third Carleton Conference on the History of the Family, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.