Thijs Weststeijn

Professor, Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Thijs Weststeijn is professor in the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, where he chairs the research project ‘Histories of Global Netherlandish Art, 1550-1750’. His latest book is Foreign Devils and Philosophers: Cultural Encounters between the Chinese, the Dutch, and Other Europeans, 1590-1800 (Leiden: Brill, 2020).

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Written by Thijs Weststeijn

Reflection of a structure in teal water with scattered leaves floating on the surface, creating abstract, wavy patterns.

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Architecture

Heritage at sea

Must we simply accept the loss of beloved buildings and cities to the floods and rising seas of the climate crisis?

Thijs Weststeijn