News
Call for abstracts ESTER RDC (University of Seville, 3-5 November 2025) – deadline 1 July 2025
On 3 to 5 November 2025 the 2025 edition of the ESTER Research Design Course (RDC) will be held. This year’s edition will be hosted by the University ...
Call for applications EHES Gino Luzatto Dissertation Prize 2025 – deadline 30 June 2025
The European Historical Economics Society (EHES) will also this year organise the Gino Luzzatto Dissertation Competition for PhDs who successfully ...
Seminar ‘Sources, silence and the senses in the study of the history of global Chinese Labour’ – deadline 3 July 2025
Jens Aurich (junior researcher at the IISH), Koen van der Lijn (Johan Huizinga Fellow at Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) and Fresco Sam-Sin (founder and creative ...
The N.W. Posthumus Institute congratulates PhD Basic Training graduates
At the Posthumus Conference 2025 in Nijmegen, the PhD students present who completed the Posthumus PhD Basic Training Programme received their diploma ...
Posthumus Writing Retreat in Abdij van Berne (Berne Abbey)
From 16 until 21 June 2025, seven Posthumus PhD candidates gathered in Berne Abbey in Heeswijk-Dinther for the annual Writing Retreat of the N.W. Posthumus ...
Symposium ‘Bracing for impact: Junior scholars on the Anthropocene’
On 27 June 2025, the Network for Environmental Humanities (NEH) celebrates the pioneering, socially engaged research being conducted by our junior scholars ...
PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Dániel Moerman
On 11 September 2025, Posthumus alumnus Dániel Moerman will defend the PhD thesis ‘A hydrosocial history of drought and societal resilience in the ...
Several Posthumus fellows receive NWO-XS Grant
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded several fellows of the N.W. Posthumus Institute an NWO XS Grant. This grant is awarded for ideas with a ...
New publication by Peer Vries
Posthumus Fellow emeritus Professor Peer Vries and Annelieke Vries-Baaijens recently published their book The rise of the modern state in Europe, ...
New issue of TSEG – The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History out now
Recently, Leuven University Press has issued a new edition of TSEG – The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, the Dutch-Flemish ...
Successful PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Robin Rose Southard
On 23 June 2025, Posthumus alumna Robin Rose Southard successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘Biting the hand that feeds: contesting the food guilds in ...
3 Postdoc positions on Dutch Colonial Social and Economic History (Utrecht University) – deadline 29 August 2025
For the NWO-funded Vici-project ‘Care and Coercion. Patriarchy, (Forced) Labour and Caregiving in the Household in the Dutch Empire, c. ...
Successful PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Heleen Blommers
On 2 June 2025, Posthumus alumna Heleen Blommers successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘Deconstructing the War on Poverty: why a failure narrative ...
Volkskrant-IISH Thesis prize 2025 for MA Students – deadline submissions 19 September 2025
The news magazine de Volkskrant and the International Institute of Social History (IISH) are welcoming submissions for the Volkskrant-IISH Thesis prize ...
CLARIAH Summer School – few places left
From 30 June 30 to 2 July 2025, CLARIAH will host its annual Summer School at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. This event is ...
Successful Posthumus Conference 2025 in Nijmegen!
On 27 and 28 May 2025, the Posthumus Conference 2025 was held in Nijmegen at Radboud University, hosted by Dr Dries Lyna and Dr Joris van den Tol and ...
Agenda
Symposium ‘Bracing for impact: Junior scholars on the Anthropocene’
IV Doctoral School in Economic History of the Middle Ages ‘The Economy of Daily Life: Analysing Living Standards in Medieval Europe’ (University of Valencia)
N.W. Posthumus Summer School ‘Crises and History’ (Utrecht, 30 June – 4 July 2025)
CLARIAH Summer School – few places left
Prof. Em. Carl Nightingale delivers lecture 2025 Raymond van Uytven Chair 2025 – register by 30 June 2025
3rd Global Conference on the History of Risk and Insurance (Warsaw, Poland)
World Economic History Congress 2025 (Lund, Sweden)
Seminar ‘Sources, silence and the senses in the study of the history of global Chinese Labour’ – deadline 3 July 2025
Conference ‘How did we lift the burden? Infectious Disease Mortality in the Western and Non-Western World (1800-now)’
Farewell event and reception Professor Angelique Janssens
Calls
- Call for applications EHES Gino Luzatto Dissertation Prize 2025 – deadline 30 June 2025
- Seminar ‘Sources, silence and the senses in the study of the history of global Chinese Labour’ – deadline 3 July 2025
- Call for application Tresoar Fellowship 2026 – deadline 7 November 2025
- Volkskrant-IISH Thesis prize 2025 for MA Students – deadline submissions 19 September 2025
- CLARIAH Summer School – few places left
- Call for proposals and registrations Water Pasts and Futures Symposium
- Call for abstracts ESTER RDC (University of Seville, 3-5 November 2025) – deadline 1 July 2025
- Call to support applications for the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 (CISPAC)
- Vragenlijst ontsluiting historische bronnen / Questionnaire unlocking historical sources (Huygens Instituut)
Positions
- Stageplek Recensieredacteur Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis (BA/MA student) – deadline 7 juli 2025
- Call for application Tresoar Fellowship 2026 – deadline 7 November 2025
- 3 Postdoc positions on Dutch Colonial Social and Economic History (Utrecht University) – deadline 29 August 2025
- PhD vacature Stadsgeschiedenis en/of Historische Geografie (Universiteit Antwerpen) – deadline 30 juni 2025
