Curriculum Vitae – Dr. Werner Scheltjens
Personal data
Full Name: Werner Frans Yvonne Scheltjens
Grade:PhD
Date of birth: 1 December 1978 in Mortsel (BE)
Nationality: Belgian
E-mail address: w.f.y.scheltjens@rug.nl
Current position
2010 – present
Post-doctoral fellow (financed by Dutch Scientific Organisation NWO), Dept. of Early-Modern History, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen
Work experience
2008 – 2010
Post-doctoral fellow, French National Research Agency
(ANR Navigocorpus), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France.
2008
Pre-doctoral fellow, Marie Curie Economic History Research Training Network,
Paris School of Economics, France.
2004 - 2008
PhD programme, Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture (ICOG), University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
2002 – 2004
Research assistant, Dutch-Russian Archive Centre,
University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
2002 – 2004
Project assistant, Institute for Northern and Eastern European Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Education
2001
MA in Eastern European Languages and Cultures (with distinction - grote onderscheiding),
Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
2000
TORFL-3 (3rd Level – high proficiency) Certificate in Russian,
St. Petersburg State University, Russia.
2000
Russian Language and Culture' Semester programme, St. Petersburg State University, Russia.
1999
'Russian language, culture and history' Summer programme, Kazan State University, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.
Additional education
2011 Summer school and Young Researchers Forum 'Moving Objects and Knowledge Discovery' (University of Gent, Dept. of Geography, 22 - 26 August 2011)
2009
ESF-GlobalEuroNet, Summer School 'Growth and Globalization' (University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, 29 June – 2 July 2009)
Research allocations and grants
2009
Summer school participation grant, European Science Foundation (GlobalEuroNet)
2007
Conference participation grant, Groningen University Fund.
2007
Conference participation grant, Groningen University Fund.
2005
Research travel grant, Dutch Science Foundation (NWO).
2004 - 2008
Research allocation: Ubbo Emmius Foundation, University of Groningen
2004 - 2005
Research grant, Directory Board of Baltic Shipping and Trade, Amsterdam.
Teaching experience
2010-2011 (with Dr. J.W. Veluwenkamp) Research Master Course 'Dutch Glory', University of Groningen.
2009
Lecturer, Cours "Constitution des bases de données en histoire sociale et économique", Université de Nice, France.
2008-2009
Lecturer, Séminaires Navigocorpus, Ecole Normale Supérieure - Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université de Lyon, France
Academic Publications
Journal articles (peer-reviewed)
forthcoming (with S. Marzagalli, J.P. Dedieu and P. Pourchasse)
Navigocorpus, a database for shipping information. A methodological and technical introduction // International Journal of Maritime History, 2011, vol. 2.
2011
The influence of spatial change on operational strategies in early-modern Dutch
maritime shipping: a case-study on Dutch maritime shipping in the Gulf of Finland and on Archangel, 1703-1740 // International Journal of Maritime History, 2011, vol.1, 115-147.
2011 The volume of Baltic shipping at the end of the eighteenth century: a new estimation based on the Danish Sound Toll Registers // Scripta Mercaturae, XLIII, 2009, vol. 1, 73-100.
2006 De Nederlandse literatuur in Rusland 1956-2003. Een receptieonderzoek // Filter: tijdschrift over vertalen, 2006, jaargang 13, vol. 2, 64-76.
Book chapters (peer-reviewed)
forthcoming
(with Kurt Dopfer) Unified rule approach and the semantic enrichment of economic movement data // T. Podobnikar, M. Ceh (eds.), Towards a Universal Ontology of Geographic Space, IGI Global, 2011.
forthcoming
‘The operational structure of historical maritime shipping: a general review of knowledge discovery tools’ // A. Crespo Solana, David Garcia Alonso (eds.), Self-organising networks and trading cooperation: GIS tools in the visualization of the Atlantic economic expansion 1400-1800, Madrid, 2011.
Essays in edited volumes
2009
'Sources for the Study of Dutch trade in the Gulf of Finland, 1558-1780' //
Stadt und Meer im Ostseeraum während des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Seehandel, Sozialstruktur und Hausbau - dargestellt in historischen Informationssystemen
. Rostock, 2009.
2007 (with Natalia Popova) Van Kaas tot Coffeeshop // Otto Boele & Sjen Scheijen (eds.), De zwijgende kastelen op jouw heuvels: Nederland door Russische ogen, Amsterdam: Wereldbibliotheek, 2007, 150-159.
2006
'De vertaling an sich als vorm van receptie: een kwantitatief-institutionele benadering uitgewerkt aan de hand van de Nederlandse literatuur in Russische vertaling' // P. Broomans e.a. (eds.), Object: Nederlandse literatuur in het buitenland, Methode: onbekend, Groningen: Barkhuis publishing, 2006, pp.
71-92.
Books: authored
2009
Werner Scheltjens,
De invloed van ruimtelijke verandering op operationele strategieën in de vroeg-moderne Nederlandse scheepvaart: een case-study over de Nederlandse scheepvaart in de Finse Golf en op Archangel, 1703-1740 [The influence of spatial change on operational strategies of early-modern Dutch shipping: a case-study on Dutch shipping in the Gulf of Finland and on Archangel, 1703-1740].
Groningen: Barkhuis publishing, 2009, 320 pp.
Edited Inventories
2003 Werner Scheltjens, Hans van Koningsbrugge (eds.),
Van onze reporter ter plaatse: neerlandica in de Sint-Petersburgse Tijdingen 1728-1775 [From our man on the spot: neerlandica in The St. Petersburg Times 1728-1775]
. Groningen: NRAC, 2003, 404 pp. (NRAC Inventories 3).
2003
Werner Scheltjens / Verner Schelt'ens, Bibliografie van de Nederlandse literatuur in Russische vertaling / Bibliografija niderlandskoj literatury na russkom jazyke, St. Petersburg: Aletejja, 2003, 299 pp.
Posters
2009
Operational Knowledge Clusters and the development of maritime shipping: a study in historical maritime economics 1500-1850. Presented at: World Economic history Congress (Utrecht, 3-8 August 2009).
Working papers
2010
“Functional classification of shipmasters’ domiciles as a tool for visual analysis of the structure of Baltic shipping in the eighteenth century”. Soundtoll online Working Paper.
2008
"
Logistics in early-modern Europe: A discussion of specialization, flexibility and efficiency in the activities of the Dutch shipping community in the eighteenth century,"Paris School of Economics Working Paper 2008-11.
2006
"
When Nyen became St. Petersburg: Patterns of specialization in Dutch shipping in the eastern Gulf of Finland in the first half of the eighteenth century," MPRA Paper 7686.
Conference presentations
forthcoming (with J.W. Veluwenkamp) The World at our doorstep. Entanglements of regions in a global world in past and present times. Interdisziplinäre Ringvorlesung (University of Oldenburg, Germany, 2012)
forthcoming FRESH Meeting on Economic growth and development before 1900 (Antwerp Frontier Research in Economic and Social History meeting, University of Antwerp, Belgium, 28 October 2011)
2011 (with J.W. Veluwenkamp) Digital Collaboratory for Cultural Dendrochronology (DCCD) in the Low Countries, Final Symposium (Cultural Heritage Agency, Amersfoort, The Netherlands, 1 September 2011)
2011 Young Researchers Forum (University of Gent, 24 August 2011)
2011
Business History Conference, 2011 Annual Meeting (St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 31 March – 2 April 2011)
2011
Workshop ‘European External Trade Statistics’ (Lille, France, 11-12 March 2011)
2011
International Workshop ‘Gateways and Hinterlands (University of Venice, Italy, 28-29 January 2011)
2010
2nd Soundtoll online Workshop (Tresoar Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, 28-29 October 2010)
2010
21st International Congress of the Historical Sciences (Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 22-26 August 2010)
2010
13th AGILE international conference on Geographic information Science (Guimaraes, Portugal, 9-14 May 2010)
2009
Journée d'études "Les petits ports et leurs marchés" (Université d'Aix-en-Provence, France, 12-13 November 2009)
2009
World Economic History Congress (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, 3-7 August 2009)
2008
IXth International Conference on Urban History (Université de Lyon, Lyon, France, 27-30 August 2008).
2008
Atelier Simiand - Economic History Seminars (Paris School of Economics, France, 7 April 2008).
2008
Navigocorpus Conference (Sophia Antipolis University, Nice, France, 7-8 March 2008).
2007
4th Workshop of “The Dynamics of Economic Culture in the North Sea and Baltic Region ca. 1200-1700” project. (Södertörns högskola, Stockholm, Sweden, 14-15 December 2007).
2007
“Globalization - Long-Run Perspectives” 27th Congress of the Portuguese Economic and Social History Association. (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, 16-17 November 2007).
2007
Meeting of the Association of Business Historians and the Centre for the History of Retail and Distribution: Business Links: Trade, Distribution and Networks. (University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, 29-30 June 2007).
2006
Second Flemish-Dutch Conference “Economic History of the Low Countries before 1850”. (University of Antwerp, Belgium, 20-21 April 2006).
2005
“Stadt und Meer im Ostseeraum während des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Seehandel, Sozialstruktur und Hausbau - dargestellt in historischen Informationssystemen” (Stralsund, Germany, 8-9 September 2005).
2003
Days of Dutch Culture. (Biblioteka im. A. Bloka and Netherlands Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, 18 September 2003).
Organization of academic meetings
2010 (jointly with Dr. P. Pourchasse) Maritime transport and its actors in early-modern Europe: from the North Sea to the Mediterranean. I
nternational conference, University of Western Brittanny, 14-15 October 2010.
2009
(jointly with prof.dr. Kurt Dopfer) Why is economic history not an evolutionary science? Session at the World Economic History Congress, Utrecht, 2009.
Memberships
2009 - present
Member of Association de doctorants et jeunes docteurs actifs dans la recherche du littoral et maritime
2009 - present
Member of Groupe d'Intérêt Scientifique d'Histoire Maritime
2008 – present
Participant, The Sound Toll Registers Online Project (Groningen).
2007 - present Member of the Association of Business Historians
2007 – present
Member of Future Research in Economic and Social History Meetings Group
