S.C.J.R. (Sebastiaan) Broere MA
Faculty of Humanities
Geschiedenis
Visiting address
- Kloveniersburgwal 48
Postal address
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Postbus 1610
1000 BP Amsterdam
Contact details
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Profile
Sebastiaan Broere (1989) holds bachelor degrees in history and philosophy from Utrecht University and master degrees from Utrecht University (History and Philosophy of Science) and University of California, Los Angeles (History). Sebastiaan is primarily interested in the politics of knowledge, which he examines by looking at various historically situated fields of expertise. He has published on the history of agricultural science, race, psychiatry, asylum care, and veterinary medicine, often in contexts of colonization and decolonization. His PhD thesis, A Matter of Life or Death: Agriculture and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar Indonesia (1945-1967), delves into the history of agricultural development in Sukarno-era Indonesia.
Broere's master thesis (HPS) In and Out of Magelang Asylum: A Social History of Colonial Psychiatry in the Netherlands Indies, 1923-1942 has been awarded the 2017 Pieter van Foreestprijs and got the second award of the 2015 Volkskrant-IISG Thesis Award. This thesis was also shortlisted for the 2015 Huygens-Descartes Thesis Award.
His article ‘Picturing Ethnopsychology: A Colonial Psychiatrist’s Struggles to Examine Javanese Minds, 1910-1925’ was granted the Best Journal Article Award 2019 by the Society for the History of Psychology.
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Ancillary activities
Treasurer for Gewina, the Belgium-Dutch association for the history of science and universities.
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Publications
2022
- Broere, S. (2022). Framing Diseases of a ‘Noble Anachronism’: Elephants and Veterinary Medicine in the British Raj, c.1840–1900. In V. Lal (Ed.), Colonial State and Forms of Knowledge: The British in India (pp. 251-285). Primus Books. [details]
2021
- Broere, S. C. J. R. (Accepted/In press). Trajectories of the insane in the Netherlands Indies: State institutions, agricultural colonies, and the imaginary foundations of colonial psychiatric care, 1920-1940. In S. Nasir, J. Nourse, & H. Pols (Eds.), History of Medicine in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia: Current Trends and New Directions Singapore: NUS Press.
2020
Broere, S. (2020). Auto-activity: Decolonization and the Politics of Knowledge in Early Postwar Indonesia, ca.1920-1955. Lembaran Sejarah, 16(2), 143-164. https://doi.org/10.22146/lembaran-sejarah.59911 [details]- Broere, S., Fakih, F., Kuitert, L., Kortekaas, E., Raben, R., & Suwignyo, A. (2020). An Introduction to the Special Editions on Indonesian Knowledge Decolonization. Lembaran Sejarah, 16(2), 91-102. https://doi.org/10.22146/lembaran-sejarah.66954 [details]
2019
- Broere, S. (2019). Picturing Ethnopsychology: A Colonial Psychiatrist’s Struggles to Examine Javanese Minds, 1910-1925. History of Psychology, 22(3), 266-286. https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000094 [details]
2016
- Broere, S. C. J. R. (2016). Synthesis and Race: Barge, Buytendijk, and the "Rassenvraagstuk" of the 1930s. Studium, 9(4), 185-201.
2013
- Broere, S. C. J. R. (2013). Interpretaties van het verleden: De experimenten van Galileo Galilei. Skript: historisch tijdschrift, 35(3), 161-173.
2021
- Broere, S. (2021). Bespiegelingen van de Borobudur: De decentratie van Indonesisch erfgoed: [Boekbespreking van: M. Bloembergen, M. Eickhoff (2020) The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia: A Cultural History]. Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 133(4), 754-756. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGESCH2020.4.020.BROE [details]
2020
- Broere, S. (2020). [Review of: L. van Bergen (2019) The Dutch East Indies Red Cross, 1870-1950 : on humanitarianism and colonialism]. Social History of Medicine, 33(4), 1393-1394. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkaa023 [details]
2018
- Broere, S. (2018). [Review of: H. Pols (2018) Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies]. Health and History, 20(2), 136-138. https://doi.org/10.5401/healthhist.20.2.0136 [details]
- Broere, S. (2018). [Review of: L. Topp (2017) Freedom and the Cage: Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890-1914]. Isis, 1(109), 202-203. https://doi.org/10.1086/696669 [details]
- Broere, S. (2018). [Review of: L. van Bergen, L. Hesselink, J.P. Verhave (2017) The Medical Journal of the Dutch Indies 1852–1942. A Platform for Medical Research]. Health and History, 20(1), 157-159. https://doi.org/10.5401/healthhist.20.1.0157 [details]
- Broere, S. (Author). (2018). Indonesianizing Knowledge, or: The Postcolonial Invention of ‘Colonial Science’?. Web publication or website, German Historical Institute. https://historyofknowledge.net/2018/07/17/indonesianizing-knowledge-or-the-postcolonial-invention-of-colonial-science/ [details]
2017
- Broere, S. (2017). [Review of: H. Pols, C.M. Thompson, J.H. Warner (2017) Translating the Body: Medical Education in Southeast Asia]. Studium, 10(4), 222-224. https://doi.org/10.18352/studium.10162 [details]
2021
- Broere, S. C. J. R. (2021). Mohammad Sardjan en de eco-islam in het Indonesië van de jaren vijftig. ZemZem, 17(2).
2020
- Broere, S. C. J. R. (2020). Door de zijdeur weer naar binnen? Neokolonialisme en Nederlandse technische hulp aan Indonesië in de jaren vijftig. Wonderkamer: Magazine voor Wetenschapsgeschiedenis, 1(1), 8-13.
- Broere, S. C. J. R. (Author). (2020). Mohammad Sardjan dan Islam Hijau. Web publication or website, Historia.id.
- Broere, S. C. J. R., & Theeuwen , T. (2020). Overzeese stemmen uit een psychiatrisch verleden. Wonderkamer: Magazine voor Wetenschapsgeschiedenis, 1(1), 99-103.
2016
- Broere, S. C. J. R. (Author). (2016). Framing Elephant Disease: John Henry Steel’s A Manual of the Diseases of the Elephant and of his Management and Uses (1885). Web publication or website http://www.shellsandpebbles.com/2016/10/17/framing-elephant-disease-john-henry-steels-a-manual-of-the-diseases-of-the-elephant-and-of-his-management-and-uses-1885/#more-1451
2014
- Broere, S. C. J. R. (2014). Immorele getuigen: Over het morele potentieel van de herinnering aan de Holocaust. Aanzet, 30(1), 56-66. https://aanzet.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/aanzet-30-1-final-1.pdf
- Broere, S. C. J. R. (Author). (2014). How to Diagnose their Ills?. Web publication or website http://www.shellsandpebbles.com/2014/11/10/how-to-diagnose-their-ills/
Talk / presentation
- Broere, S. (speaker) (25-8-2021). Exploring Alternative Modes of Development in Postwar Southeast Asia, International Convention of Asian Scholars (12) 2021, Kyoto.
- Broere, S. (speaker) & Raben, R. (speaker) (10-11-2020). Indonesian Visions on Knowledge across Decolonization, Utrecht University, History Department.
- Broere, S. (speaker) (20-10-2020). "Progressive Knowledge": Communist Practices of Decolonizing Knowledge in Guided Democracy Indonesia, 1959-1965, Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Utrecht University.
- Broere, S. (speaker) (6-2-2020). The Right Kind of Peasant: Agricultural Extension and the Politics of Knowledge in Indonesia during the 1950s, The Construction of Indonesian Knowledge Cultures since Independence, Yogyakarta.
- Broere, S. (speaker) (25-11-2019). Raising the Standard? Nutritional Science and Ideologies of Independence in Postcolonial Indonesia (1930-1960), Vossius Seminar, Amsterdam. https://vossius.uva.nl/content/events/symposia/2019/11/vossius-seminar-sylvia-pauw-and-sebastiaan-broere.html
- Broere, S. (speaker) (15-11-2019). "Freedom means Rice": Food, Agriculture, and Independence in Sukarno-era Indonesia, Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food: (Post)colonial foodways, Amsterdam . http://bijzonderecollectiesuva.nl/foodhistory/freedom-means-rice/
- Broere, S. (speaker) (12-7-2019). Four Times "A Matter of Life or Death": Contested Agricultural Development during Indonesia's First Decade of Independence, 1945-1955, Euroseas conference, Berlin, Berlin. https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/pathways-to-agricultural-development-in-postcolonial-southeast-asia
- Broere, S. (speaker) (21-6-2019). Knowledge in Times of Decolonization: Agriculture and the Making of Sukarno-Era Indonesia, 1945-1967, 8th Gewina Meeting of Historians of Science in the Low Countries.
- Broere, S. (speaker) (14-6-2019). Peasants, Extension, Independence: Lessons from the Early History of Agricultural Development in Indonesia, Institut Pertanian Bogor.
- Broere, S. (speaker) (28-6-2018). Individuals? Asylum Care in the Netherlands Indies, 1910-1940, First Joint Meeting of the Asian Society of the History of Medicine and History of Medicine in Southeast Asia, Jakarta.
- Broere, S. (speaker) (12-5-2018). Reading Psychiatric Case Files in East and Southeast Asia: New Methodological Approaches, American Association for the History of Medicine, Los Angeles.
- Broere, S. (speaker) (27-2-2017). A Noble Anachronism: The Production of Veterinarian Expertise on Elephants in Colonial India, 1840-1900, History of Science Graduate Student Meeting 2017, Los Angeles.
- Broere, S. (speaker) (28-6-2016). Engelhard’s Ethno-Psychology: Measuring Minds in Central-Java, 1916-1925, ESHHS-CHEIRON Joint Meeting, Barcelona.
- Broere, S. (speaker) (28-8-2015). A Mental Health System in the Colonies? The Case of the Dutch East Indies, Euroseas Conference, Vienna.
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Ancillary activities
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Broere, S. (2020). Auto-activity: Decolonization and the Politics of Knowledge in Early Postwar Indonesia, ca.1920-1955. Lembaran Sejarah, 16(2), 143-164.