What Nadine’s doing next:
23 September – ‘Johan de Witt & The Stuarts,’ Kasteel Duivenvoorde, Voorschoten
7 October – ‘Elizabeth Stuart, brieven van de Hartenkoningin,’ Geschiedenisfestival, Haarlem
9 October – one of the 25 ‘top scientists’, with Lotte Fikkers, at Avond van de Wetenschap, Pieterskerk, Leiden (by invitation only)
3 November – ‘Beyond Invisibility – The Quest for Historical Women in Sources and Archives,’ Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library, Antwerp – National Research School Huizinga
7 December – ‘title tba’, Koninklijke Industrieele Groote Club (IGC), Amsterdam
2024
11 April – Keynote [with Pete Langman] ‘The Cryptological Practices of Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662), Electress Palatine of the Rhine and sometime Queen of Bohemia’, Heidelberg Castle.
Nadine has appeared at several literary festivals, including the Hay Festival, Edinburgh Spy Week and Althorp, and also given talks at institutions including Google UK and Lincoln’s Inn. She has acted as historical consultant to several exhibitions, including Ben Jonson at the Bodleian Library, Oxford; Privacy in the Early Modern Period hosted by the DWDD pop-up museum at Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam; Courtly Rivals at the Haag Historisch Museum.
These are the events you’ve missed!
2023
29 June – ‘From Winter Queen to Queen of Hearts: A New Reading of Elizabeth Stuart’, Institute of Historical Research, London
20 May – ‘Queen of Hearts: Elizabeth Stuart’, The 1st Marquis of Montrose Society and The Scottish Society for Northern Studies, Edinburgh
17 May – ‘title tba’, Jesus College, Oxford
9 February – The Lisa Jardine Memorial Lecture, Jesus College, Cambridge
2022
17 November – Online at SSWR. Book your place here.
15 March – ‘The Biographer’s Tale’, The Christopher Durston Memorial Lecture, at Plymouth University
25 February – Low Countries Seminar, at IHR, London – ‘Three Courts for Three Widows in The Hague; and a Palace for my Butcher, 1632-62’
Date TBA – Women as Agents: a History of Female Intelligencers at Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) in Whitehall
Date TBA, Cambridge Intelligence Seminar
2019
29 May 2019, ‘Nadine Akkerman in conversation with journalist Georgina Godwin’, a discussion of Invisible Agents, Hay Festival [recorded for ‘the Hay player’]
28 May 2019, Lecture on Invisible Agents, Blackwell’s Oxford
16 May 2019, Lecture on Invisible Agents, Stewart Society, Caledonian Club London
8 May 2019, Lecture on Invisible Agents, Chipping Camden Literature Festival
1 May 2019, Spymaster John Thurloe, Black Books Society Lecture, Lincoln’s Inn London
12 April 2019 Edinburgh Spy Week – see their facebook page
2018
29 December 2018, Friends of the Bodleian Library
9 December 2018, HistFest
10 October 2018, Guildford Book Festival
14 October 2018, Ilkley Literature Festival
6 October 2018, In conversation with Leanda de Lisle at Althorp Literary Festival
27 September 2018, GOOGLE
15 September 2018, Women Spies in the English Civil War – Gloucester History Festival
26 June 2018, European Parliament, Brussels, ‘Cultural historian Nadine Akkerman and author of Invisible Agents sharing the stage with Carlos Coelho, the chairman of the Temporary committee on the Echelon Interception System’, “Espionage in Europe throughout the ages”
18 June 2018, Uylenbeck lecture, NIAS, Amsterdam