dr. A.C. Flipse

Expertise:

• History of modern universities in general and of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in particular
• History of science and religion
• History of Dutch neo-Calvinists
• Public history
• History of physics
• History of life sciences

Research and valorisation projects

• History of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: aspects of its transformation since the 1950s
• Spatial dimensions of knowledge institutions: university campuses since the 1950s
• War memorials at Dutch universities
• Religious diversity at modern universities
• History of science and religion in the Netherlands: late-nineteenth-century debates, and the twentieth-century creation-evolution debate
• Biography of the biologist Jan Lever (1922-2010)
• History of academic publishing (scientific journals, university newspapers, student press)
• GeheugenvandeVU.nl

Supervision of PhD projects

• Beyond Conflict: An Assessment of the Contribution of historian of science Reijer Hooykaas to the science-religion debate (Jelmer Heeren)
• Understanding the rise of New Public Management in Dutch and Flemish university governance, 1980-2020 (Floris van Berckel Smit)
• Divine Attributes and Suffering Animals in Historical Perspective, 1600-1961 (Piet Slootweg), defended November 17, 2022

Selected Publications (articles)

• 2023: 'Understanding organizational identity in universities: Unraveling autonomy, governance and leadership in the case of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam', with F. van Berckel Smit and Jeroen Huisman, Higher Education Quarterly.
• 2023: 'Shared Principles, Diverging Paths: Neo-Calvinism, neo-Thomism and the Natural Sciences, 1880–1960', in: J. Eglinton, & G. Harinck (eds.), Neo-Calvinism and Roman Catholicismp (Brill), 67-92.
• 2021: 'Religious Controversy in Comparative Context: Ulster, the Netherlands and South Africa in the 1920s', with Stuart Mathieson, History, May 2021
• 2017: ‘Jan Lever: Challenging the Role of Typological Thinking in Reformational Views of Biology’, with Harry Cook, Philosophia Reformata 82:1, 3-25.
• 2014: ‘The Low Countries’, with Stefaan Blancke & Johan Braeckman, in S. Blancke, H.H. Hjermitslev and P.C. Kjærgaard (eds.), The History of Creationism in Europe, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press), 65-84.
• 2012: ‘The Origins of Creationism in the Netherlands: The Evolution Debate among Twentieth-Century Dutch Neo-Calvinists’, Church History 81:1, 104-147.

Selected Publications (books)

• 2022: Edited: Jan Lever - Honderd: Terugblikken op leven en werk van VU-bioloog Jan Lever (1922-2010) (Amsterdam: HDC, 2022)
• 2021: Co-edited: VU Objects and Their Stories: 140 years of heritage at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Amsterdam: Clue+, 2021); also in Dutch.
• 2020: Co-edited: De universitaire campus. Ruimtelijke transformaties van de Nederlandse universiteiten sedert 1945 (Hilversum: Verloren 2020).
• 2016: Edited: Verder kijken. Honderdvijfendertig jaar Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in de samenleving - zesentwintig portretten (Amsterdam: VU University Press 2016).
• 2014: Christelijke wetenschap. Nederlandse rooms-katholieken en gereformeerden over de natuurwetenschap, 1880-1940 (Hilversum: Verloren, 2014).
• 2005: 'Hier leert de natuur ons zelf den weg'. Een geschiedenis van Natuurkunde en Sterrenkunde aan de VU, (Meinema Zoetermeer 2005).

Since 2015 I have developed and coordinated several courses and contributed lectures to other coures in the curriculum, including:

• Science and Religion: Views from History (VU Honours Programme - Coordinator of the course)
• History of knowledge for humanities students (Ba)
• Science and Society in Historal Perspective (Ma)
• Honours program Humanities (Ba)
• Medical and Health Humanities, mastertrack History, course coordinator
• Medicine and Society (MA)
• Medische geschiedenis voor Geneeskundestudenten, cursus Arts en Patient (Ba) [Medical History]
• Guest lecture Historisch Seminar (Ba)
• Guest lecture Civil Society (Ba; minor History of Religion)
• Pre-University Course Science and Religion (VWO)

Certificates

• University Teaching Qualification (BKO)
• English Language Proficiency Assessment C1
• Supervising PhD students

• ForumC | Amersfoort | Adviseur | 2011-03-01 - present

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