Leemans, prof. dr. I. (Inger)
Head of NL-Lab
E-mail:
inger.leemans@huc.knaw.nl
Telephone:
020 224 68 00
Research group
NL-LabBiography
Inger Leemans is Head and Principal Investigator of NL-Lab, a research group founded by the Meertens Institute and the Huygens Institute, as well as Professor of Cultural History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Between 2022-2024 she served as Interim Director of the Meertens Institute. Leemans studied Dutch language and culture at Utrecht University, where she obtained her PhD in cultural history in 2002. The theme of her dissertation was radical ideas in pornographic novels in the Netherlands from 1670 to 1700. Her research now focuses on early-modern cultural history (1500-1850), the history of emotion and smell, the history of knowledge, the cultural economy and digital humanities.
Leemans has previously published works on the history of pornography, financial crises, the book market, translation machinery, imagineering and the early-modern novel. Since 2021 she has been project manager of Odeuropa: Negotiating Olfactory and Sensory Experiences in Cultural Heritage Practice and Research. Leemans is passionate about knowledge utilisation. She gives lectures for a variety of audiences and regularly appears on radio and television and in podcasts. For her, knowledge utilisation is not only about communicating research results, but also about developing new research in collaboration with private and public partners. In her research projects Leemans works together with the financial sector, the fragrance industry, the heritage sector and creative partners. As Principal Investigator of NL-Lab, Leemans brings together experts from different backgrounds to develop new research together – research that is at the heart of society.
Publications
- contribution to journal (article)
- contribution to edited volume
- contribution to conference
- book (author)
- book (editor)
- conference participation
- public engagement
- non textual
- other contribution
2023
Van Erp, M. Tullett, W. Christlein, V. Ehrhart, T. Hürriyetoğlu, A. Leemans, I. Lisena, P. Menini, S. Schwabe, D. Tonelli, S. Troncy, R. & Zinnen, M. (2023). More than the Name of the Rose. American Historical Review, 128(1), 335-369. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad141
2022
Verbeek, C. Leemans, I. & Fleming, B. (2022). How can scents enhance the impact of guided museum tours? towards an impact approach for olfactory museology. The Senses and Society, 17(3), 315-342. https://doi.org/10.1080/17458927.2022.2142012
Marx, L. Ehrich, S. C. Tullett, W. Leemans, I. & Bembibre, C. (2022). Making Whiffstory: A Contemporary Re-creation of an Early Modern Scent for Perfumed Gloves. American Historical Review, 127(2), 881-893. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhac150
Tullett, W. Leemans, I. Hsu, H. Weismann, S. Bembibre, C. Kiechle, M. A. Jethro, D. Chen, A. Huang, X. Otero-Pailos, J. & Bradley, M. (2022). Smell, History, and Heritage. American Historical Review, 127(1), 261-309. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhac147
Ehrich, S. Verbeek, C. Bembibre, C. Zinnen, M. Marx, L. & Leemans, I. (Accepted/In press). Towards and olfactory gaze for digital art history. Images Re-vues. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3064/mdk6.pdf
Leemans, I. Tullett, W. Bembibre, C. & Marx, L. (2022). Whiffstory: Using Multidisciplinary Methods to Represent the Olfactory Past. American Historical Review, 127(2), 849-879. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhac159
Leemans, I. & de Vries, W. (2022). Wind Trade: How the Concept of Wind Came to Embody Speculation in the Dutch Republic. Journal of Modern History, 94(2), 288-325. https://doi.org/10.1086/719448
2021
Elpers, S. M. van Duijvenvoorde, J. Jaffe-Schagen, J. Leemans, I. & Miłkowska, K. (2021). Geur in immaterieel erfgoed: Een deelonderzoek van Odeuropa. Volkskunde, 122(3), 445-450.
Korsten, F.-W. van der Haven, C. Leemans, I. Vanhaesebrouck, K. van Duijnen, M. & de Bruyn, Y. (2021). Imagineering, or what Images do to People: Violence and the Spectacular in the Seventeenth Century Dutch Republic. Cultural History, 10(1), 1-30.
Ehrich, S. C. Verbeek, C. Zinnen, M. Marx, L. Bembibre, C. & Leemans, I. (2021). Nose-First. Towards an Olfactory Gaze for Digital Art History. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3064. https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.MDK.2021.6
Paijmans, M. Leemans, I. & et al. N. V. (2021). Pathways to agency: women writers and radical thought in the Low Countries, 1500-1800. Modern Intellectual History, 31(1), 51-71.
Korsten, F.-W. & Leemans, I. (2021). Zo gaat de molen: Nieuwe aanvliegroutes voor (nationaal) beeldvormingsonderzoek. Nederlandse Letterkunde, 26(2-3), 307-331. https://doi.org/10.5117/NEDLET.2021.2-3.012.KORS
2019
Leemans, I. B. (2019). The Sex Shop of Europe: Sex and Commerce in the Dutch Republic 1660-1720. Das Achtzehnte Jahrhundert, 42(2), 195-219. https://www.wallstein-verlag.de/9783835332744-das-achtzehnte-jahrhundert-42-2.html
2014
Oddens, J. & Leemans, I. (2014). Ontwikkelingen in het verlichtingsonderzoek sinds het jaar 2000. Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, 127(2), 183-187. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGESCH2014.2.0DDE
2010
Oddens, J. & Leemans, I. (2010). Ontwikkelingen in het Verlichtingsonderzoek sinds 2000: Ter Inleiding. Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, 127(2), 183-187. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGESCH2014.2.ODDE
2023
Leemans, I. (2023). De dagelijkse rente van de koe. In L. Cornips, M. Hendriksen, & G. Mak (Eds.), Kaas=NL? : Melk, koe, ras, kolonie, taal, kunst, mest en meer (pp. 167-177). Uitgeverij Sterck & De Vreese.
Tempelaars, R. & Leemans, I. (2023). Geheime geurwapens. In I. Leemans, C. Verbeek, M. van Erp, G. Dijksterhuis, A. Groot, F. Bloem, M. W. Dagnino, & J. de Groot (Eds.), Neuswijzer: Geuratlas van de Lage Landen (pp. 251-259). Boom.
Dijksterhuis, G. Verbeek, C. & Leemans, I. (2023). Geurpioniers. In I. Leemans, C. Verbeek, M. van Erp, G. Dijksterhuis, A. Groot, F. Bloem, M. W. Dagnino, & J. de Groot (Eds.), Neuswijzer: Geuratlas van de Lage Landen (pp. 259-264). Boom.
Leemans, I. & Verbeek, C. (2023). Geurwenswoorden: Verrijk je geurtaal. In I. Leemans, C. Verbeek, M. van Erp, G. Dijksterhuis, A. Groot, F. Bloem, M. W. Dagnino, & J. de Groot (Eds.), Neuswijzer: Geuratlas van de Lage Landen (pp. 189-194). Boom.
Verbeek, C. & Leemans, I. (2023). Inleiding: Waarom neuswijzer worden? In I. Leemans, C. Verbeek, M. van Erp, G. Dijksterhuis, A. Groot, F. Bloem, M. W. Dagnino, & J. de Groot (Eds.), Neuswijzer: Geuratlas van de Lage Landen (pp. 9-21). Boom.
Verbeek, C. & Leemans, I. (2023). Kroedwosj: Geur als afweer tegen onheil. In I. Leemans, C. Verbeek, M. van Erp, G. Dijksterhuis, A. Groot, F. Bloem, M. W. Dagnino, & J. de Groot (Eds.), Neuswijzer: Geuratlas van de Lage Landen (pp. 56-63). Boom.
Leemans, I. (2023). Muf en huim: Ode aan een Nederlands geurpalet. In I. Leemans, C. Verbeek, M. van Erp, G. Dijksterhuis, A. Groot, F. Bloem, M. W. Dagnino, & J. de Groot (Eds.), Neuswijzer: Geuratlas van de Lage Landen (pp. 149-153). Boom.
Leemans, I. (2023). Nostalgeuren: Wat zijn de historische geurlandschappen van Nederland? In I. Leemans, C. Verbeek, M. van Erp, G. Dijksterhuis, A. Groot, F. Bloem, M. W. Dagnino, & J. de Groot (Eds.), Neuswijzer: Geuratlas van de Lage Landen (pp. 21-47). Boom.
Verbeek, C. Leemans, I. Rahman, F. Peeters, N. & Glow, B. (2023). Speculeren over speculaas: Deconstructie van een 'typisch Nederlands' koekje. In I. Leemans, C. Verbeek, M. van Erp, G. Dijksterhuis, A. Groot, F. Bloem, M. W. Dagnino, & J. de Groot (Eds.), Neuswijzer: Geuratlas van de Lage Landen (pp. 79-90). Boom.
2022
Leemans, I. & Koopman, J. (2022). 1721. Koloniale snuffelaars. In L. Heerma van Voss, N. Bouras, M. 't Hart, M. van der Heijden, & L. Lucassen (Eds.), Nog meer wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland (pp. 296-302). Ambo|Anthos.
Leemans, I. & Tullett, W. (2022). Geur/Reuk. In W. Frijhoff, C. Secretan, & A. Nijenhuis-Bescher (Eds.), De Gouden Eeuw in 500 portretten, taferelen & analyses (pp. 479-484). Van Wijnen.
2021
Leemans, I. (2021). Commercial desires in a web of interest: Dutch discourses on (self-)interest, 1600-1830. In C. Zabel (Ed.), Historicizing Self-Interest in the Modern Atlantic World (pp. 141-163). Routledge.
Leemans, I. (2021). De vertaalmachine. 1700-1800. In D. Schoenaers, T. Hermans, I. Leemans, C. Koster, & T. Naaijkens (Eds.), Vertalen in de Nederlanden. Een cultuurgeschiedenis. (pp. 285-334). Boom.
Leemans, I. & Mak, G. (2021). Identity. In M. Grever, S. Berger, E. Klein, B. Bevernage, E. Wang, & T. Loughran (Eds.), Bloomsbury History: Theory and Methods: Bloomsbury History Series Bloomsbury Publishing.
2020
Johannes, G. J. & Leemans, I. (2020). En hier vliegt hy, om de klucht: Bilderdijk en de luchtreis per vlieger. In R. Honings, & G. J. Johannes (Eds.), Een sublieme nalatenschap: De erfenis van Willem Bilderdijk (pp. 73-83). Leiden University Press.
Leemans, I. (2020). New Plays resemble Bubbles, we must own: Staging the Stock Market - 1719/1720. In J. Goggin, & F. De Bruyn (Eds.), Pieter Langendijk's Quincampoix, or the Wind Traders and Harlequin Stock Jobber (pp. 181-203). University of Liverpool Press.
Leemans, I. & Korsten, F.-W. (2020). Oranjegevoel of Onenigheid? De bal op de stip voor de Neerlandistiek. In F. Blom, & et al. (Eds.), Voltreffer! Populariteit en popularisering van de historische Nederlandse letterkunde: Bijdragen ter gelegenheid van het emeritaat van Lia van Gemert (pp. 95-100).
Leemans, I. (2020). The science of sex. In G. Paganini, J. C. Laursen, & M. C. Jacob (Eds.), Passions and desires in Dutch clandestine circles, 1670-1720 (pp. 163-192). (UCLA Clark Memorial Library). University of Toronto Press. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85089169125&partnerID=8YFLogxK
2017
Leemans, I. (2017). The economics of pain: Pain in Dutch stock trade discourses and practices, 1600-1750. In The hurt(ful) body: Performing and beholding pain, 1600-1800 (pp. 273-299). Manchester University Press.
2022
Menini, S. Paccosi, T. Tonelli, S. Van Erp, M. Leemans, I. Lisena, P. Troncy, R. Tullett, W. Hürriyetoglu, A. Dijkstra, G. Gordijn, F. Jürgens, E. Koopman, J. Ouwerkerk, A. Steen, S. Novalija, I. Brank, J. Mladenić, D. & Zidar, A. (2022). A Multilingual Benchmark to Capture Olfactory Situations over Time. 1-10. Paper presented at 3rd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, LChange 2022, Dublin, Ireland. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.lchange-1.1
Lisena, P. Schwabe, D. van Erp, M. Troncy, R. Tullett, W. Leemans, I. Marx, L. & Ehrich, S. (2022). Capturing the Semantics of Smell: The Odeuropa Data Model for Olfactory Heritage Information. In The Semantic Web: ESWC 2022 (pp. 387-405). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13261). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06981-9_23
Tullett, W. Menini, S. & Leemans, I. (2022). Sweete Flowers and Odoriferous Beds of Spice: Sensory Mining Techniques to Trade Olfactory Orientalism. In Proceedings of Digital Humanities Conference 2022 (Vol. 712). Atlantis Press. https://dh-abstracts.library.virginia.edu/works/11979
2021
Lisena, P. van Erp, M. Bembibre, C. & Leemans, I. (2021). Data mining and knowledge graphs as a backbone for advanced olfactory experiences. Paper presented at Smell, taste, and temperature interfaces, Yokohama, Japan. https://stt21.plopes.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/STT2021_Odeuropa.pdf
Ehrich, S. Verbeek, C. Bembibre, C. Zinnen, M. Marx, L. & Leemans, I. (2021). Nose-First. Towards an Olfactory Gaze for Digital Art History. Paper presented at First International Workshop on Multisensory Data & Knowledge.
Leemans, I. (2021). Odeuropa: Olfactory Heritage & Sensory Mining. Paper presented at Osmocosm.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAHgspcbI3E&t=1002s
Leemans, I. Bembibre, C. Verbeek, C. & Troncy, R. (2021). The Odeuropa Project: Olfactory Heritage - Sensory Mining - Olfactory Museology. Paper presented at Salon International des musées, des lieux de culture et de tourisme: équipement, valorisation &i innovation. https://www.sitem.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Introduction-to-the-Odeuropa-project-by-Inger-Leemans.pdf
2019
Kroeze, R. Leemans, I. van Berckel Smit, F. & Dankers, J. (2019). Making sense of financial crises in the Netherlands. Financial and Cultural bubbles 1637-2008. Paper presented at European Business History Association Annual Congress 2019.
2024
Bembibre, C. Leemans, I. & Elpers, S. M. (Eds.) (2024). The Olfactory Heritage Toolkit. Odeuropa. https://zenodo.org/records/10700211
2023
Leemans, I. Verbeek, C. van Erp, M. Dijksterhuis, G. Groot, A. Bloem, F. Dagnino, M. W. & de Groot, J. (Eds.) (2023). Neuswijzer: Geuratlas van de Lage Landen. Boom.
2023
Cecilia Bembibre, Inger Leemans, S.M. Elpers, Matija Strlic, Nancy Bell, Alison Heritage, Jane Henderson (2023). Poster: Smells with cultural value. 18-09-2023. (20th ICOM-CC Triennial Conference)
Inger Leemans, Victoria-Anne Michel, William Tullett, George Alexopoulos, Mathias Zinnen, Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen (2023). Uncommon Senses IV. 04-05-2023. (Uncommon Senses IV)
Inger Leemans (2023). Zintuigelijk erfgoed: De geur van het Utrechts Landschap. 04-04-2023.
Inger Leemans (2023). Over. 01-03-2023.
2022
Inger Leemans (2022). The Odeuropa project: Olfactory Heritage & Sensory Mining. 23-11-2022.
Inger Leemans (2022). The Odeuropa Project: Olfactory Heritage & Sensory mining. 06-11-2022.
Inger Leemans, William Tullett (2022). Olfactory Heritage: How can we represent and document heritage (and why would we)?. 05-10-2022. (Memory of Scent)
Inger Leemans (2022). Whiffstory: How can cultural historians learn to follow their noses (and why should they)?. 23-09-2022.
Inger Leemans (2022). Museums and Smells: How to Enhance the Impact of Cultural Heritage Collections through Olfactory Storytelling. 22-09-2022.
Inger Leemans (2022). Nederlanders als koloniale snuffelaars. 21-09-2022.
Antia Wiersma, Inger Leemans (2022). Beter goed ''geleend'' dan zelf slecht bedacht. 26-08-2022. (Historicidagen 2022)
Inger Leemans, Marieke van Erp (2022). Een geur van hoger honing. DBNL als goudmijn voor sensory & emotion mining. 01-08-2022. (21e colloquium neerlandicum)
Inger Leemans, Sofia Ehrich (2022). The Impact of Smell in Museums: Towards a Descriptive and Evaluative Model for Olfactory Museum Tours. 01-05-2022.
Inger Leemans, Jorg Hempenius (2022). What did 1672 smell like?. 22-04-2022. (Bloed, kruit en tranen)
Inger Leemans (2022). Speurneus: hoe kunnen we meer te weten komen over geuren en medische reuktechnieken uit het verleden?. 29-01-2022. (Algemene ledenvergadering Nederlandse Vereniging Medische Geneeskunde)
Inger Leemans, Sofia Ehrich, Marieke Hendriksen, Maaike de Kleijn (2024). How to engage with contested objects through embodied learning?', A nose-on workshop. 07-11-2024.
Inger Leemans, Cecilia Bembibre (2024). Sensory heritage / Patrimoine sensorial: smell as cultural heritage. 07-11-2024.
Inger Leemans (2024). The scent of happiness. 07-11-2024.
2021
Inger Leemans (2021). Osmocosm.. 01-10-2021. (Osmocosm. )
Inger Leemans (2021). Introduction to the Odeuropa Project. 01-09-2021. (Salon International des musées, des lieux de culture et de tourisme: équipement, valorisation &i innovation)
Inger Leemans, Cecilia Bembibre, Caro Verbeek, Raphaël Troncy (2021). the Odeuropa project: Olfactory Heritage - Sensory Mining - Olfactory Museology. 01-09-2021. (Salon International des musées, des lieux de culture et de tourisme: équipement, valorisation &i innovation)
Inger Leemans, William Tullett, Marieke van Erp, Raphael Troncy, Caro Verbeek (2021). Panel: Olfactory Heritage: Sensory Mining and Olfactory Taxonomies. 06-05-2021. (Uncommon Senses III)
Inger Leemans, William Tullett, Marieke van Erp, Raphaël Troncy, Caro Verbeek (2021). Uncommon Senses III. 01-05-2021. (Uncommon Senses III)
Inger Leemans (2021). The Odeuropa project: lessons learned. 01-03-2021. (Horizon Europe Thematic Launch Events)
Inger Leemans (2021). Odeuropa: Olfactory Heritage & Sensory Mining. 04-02-2021. (Lunchlezing NL-Lab)
Inger Leemans (2021). Exploring the Field of Digital Humanities & Text Mining. 15-01-2021. (Historisches Seminar der LMU)
Inger Leemans (2021). Making Sense of Finance in the Early Modern Period: How wind and air research helped to understand share trading and speculation. 14-01-2021. (Perspektiven der Wissenschaftgeschichte)
Inger Leemans, Marieke van Erp (2024). NeusWijzer: brainstorm for a Dutch Olfactory Dictionary. 07-11-2024.
2020
Inger Leemans (2020). From the Toes to the Heart: Mining Embodied Emotions on the Dutch Stage 1600-1800. 02-04-2020. (Annual Meeting RSA 2020, Philadelphia)
2023
Inger Leemans (2023). Ode aan een Nederlands geurpalet. 12-10-2023. (Odorama)
2021
Inger Leemans (2021). The Odeuropa project: lessons learned. 23-03-2021. (Horizon Europe Thematic Launch Events)
2023
Hendriksen, M. Cornips, L. Mak, G. Leemans, I. van Kalmthout, A. B. G. M. Huysman, I. Helmers, H. Lamal, N. & van den Hemel, E. (2023). Nederland is.... Digital or Visual Products https://open.spotify.com/show/4QWyI8cV206YDPbI4BTJGg
2022
Leemans, I. (2022). The Commercial Castle of the World: Imagineering Commercial Desires in the Dutch Republic. Digital or Visual Products https://mediacentral.princeton.edu/media/Session+5_The+NetherlandsA+Culture+and+Global+History/1_b9b3c7cu
2023
Wiersma, A. Grever, M. van Miert, D. Leemans, I. Brandon, P. & Lucassen, L. (2023, Feb 15). Open Brief: Maak van geschiedenis voor álle leerlingen een eindexamenvak. NRC Handelsblad. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/02/15/maak-geschiedenis-voor-alle-leerlingen-een-eindexamenvak-a4157219