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Posthumus Conference 2025 – REGISTRATION NOW OPEN – keynote lecture by Professor Tamara Herzog (Harvard University)
We are happy to announce registration for the Posthumus Conference 2025 website is now open! On 27 and 28 May 2025, the Posthumus Conference 2025 will be ...
ESTER RDC to be held in Sevilla, 3-5 November 2025
The N.W. Posthumus Institute, as secretariat of the European graduate School for Training in Economic and social historical Research (ESTER), is happy to ...
Posthumus Course ‘Quantative Methods for Historians and Social Scientists’ currently fully booked
In April, the course ‘Quantative Methods for Historians and Social Scientists’ of the N.W. Posthumus Institute will start at Utrecht ...
Student-assistenten (jobstudenten) voor invoeren financiële bronnen in database (online, Universiteit Antwerpen)
~ because of required proficiency one in Dutch ~ Binnen het FWO-Odysseus project ‘The Social History of Finance’ bestaan momenteel vacatures voor een ...
PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Robin Rose Southard
On 23 June 2025, Posthumus alumna Robin Rose Southard will defend the PhD thesis ‘Biting the hand that feeds: contesting the food guilds in ...
2 Phd Positions on the history of early childcare in Central and Eastern Europe (Leiden University ) – deadline 11 April 2025
Leiden University is looking for two PhD candidates performing research on the history of early childcare in Central and Eastern Europe, with a focus on ...
Successful PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Stan Pannier
On 12 February 2025, Posthumus alumnus Stan Pannier successfull defended his PhD thesis ‘Enterprising Merchants in the Global Atlantic – Frederic ...
Call for papers Conference ‘Becoming Local? Forgotten Lineages of Displaced Communities across the Indian Ocean World, 1650-1850’ – deadline 30 March 2025
On December 10-11, the Forgotten Lineages research project, featuring Posthumus fellow Dries Lyna and PhD students Pouwel van Schooten and Sanayi ...
Valedictory lecture and preceding workshop Professor Herman de Jong
The University of Groningen will be hosting a special event on 17 April 2025 to celebrate the career of Professor Herman de Jong ahead of his planned ...
Inaugural lecture Chair Francqui 2024-2025 delivered by Posthumus fellow Professor Jan Dumoulyn
On 12 March 2025, Posthumus fellow Jan Dumoulyn, Professor of History at Ghent University, will deliver the inaugural lecture for the Chaire Francqui ...
Two PhD Positions available for NWO Vidi Project ‘Tragedy of the Tropics’ (Wageningen UR) – deadline 31 March 2025
Pim de Zwart, associate professor and PI of the NWO Vidi-project entitled ‘Tragedy of the Tropics: Colonialism, Commodities and Commons in Southeast ...
Lecture Dr Maanik Nath at Seminar Series Radboud University
On Monday 17 February 2025 the Department of International Economics at Radboud University will host Dr Maanik Nath (Utrecht University) for a lecture ...
Seminar series Micro-Global Histories of Slavery: Sources and Approaches
Linked to the combined research team of slavery projects at the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam) and Radboud University (Nijmegen), ...
PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Ramona Negrón
On 19 March 2025, Posthumus alumna Ramona Negrón will defend the PhD thesis ‘Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas, 1580-1700’ at ...
PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Tessa De Boer
On 7 May 2025 Posthumus alumna Tessa de Boer will defend her PhD thesis ‘A Truth Universally Acknowledged. Dutch Investment in French Colonial ...
Call for proposals 3rd Conference on Frisian Humanities – deadline 16 March 2025
The Fryske Akademy, the Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, the Professorship Multilingualism and Literacy of NHL ...
PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Jasper Segerink
On 14 February 2025, Posthumus alumnus Jasper Segerink (cohort 2020) successfully defended his thesis ‘The Lodging House and the City. Accommodating ...
KHMW Brouwer Vertrouwensprijs awarded to Team Collectieve Kracht
The jury of the KHMW Brouwer Vertrouwensprijs [KHMW Brouwer Trust Award] has awarded the Brouwer Vertrouwensprijs 2025 to the knowledge platform ...
Agenda
FRESH workshop ‘Empire and Economic Development’
Inaugural lecture Chair Francqui 2024-2025 delivered by Posthumus fellow Professor Jan Dumoulyn
PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Ramona Negrón
Jaarcongres De Moderne Tijd 2025 – registreer uiterlijk 14 maart 2025
European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) 2025
CEPR Workshop ‘Public Health Interventions in the Long Run: Causes and Consequences’
Symposium ‘Archeologie en de stad’ – registreer uiterlijk 28 maart 2025
Valedictory lecture and preceding workshop Professor Herman de Jong
PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Tessa De Boer
Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar 2025: ‘Finance in History’ (deadline abstracts 15 October 2024)
Calls
- Posthumus Conference 2025 – REGISTRATION NOW OPEN – keynote lecture by Professor Tamara Herzog (Harvard University)
- Call for papers Conference ‘Becoming Local? Forgotten Lineages of Displaced Communities across the Indian Ocean World, 1650-1850’ – deadline 30 March 2025
- Call for proposals Conference ‘Britain’s Return to the Gold Standard in 1925 Revisited’ – deadline 28 February 2025
- Call for proposals 3rd Conference on Frisian Humanities – deadline 16 March 2025
- Call for proposals 10th International Conference on the Middle Ages – deadline 30 April 2025
- Module 2 Online Lecture Series ‘An Introduction to Inequalities in Health using Historical Causes of Death’ open for registration – deadline 28 February 2025
- Call for Papers – Conference ‘How did we lift the burden? Infectious Disease Mortality in the Western and Non-Western World (1800-now)’ – deadline 31 March 2025
- Call to support applications for the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 (CISPAC)
- 10th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise – Call for abstract and panel proposals – deadline 6 April 2025
- Vragenlijst ontsluiting historische bronnen / Questionnaire unlocking historical sources (Huygens Instituut)
Positions
- Student-assistenten (jobstudenten) voor invoeren financiële bronnen in database (online, Universiteit Antwerpen)
- 2 Phd Positions on the history of early childcare in Central and Eastern Europe (Leiden University ) – deadline 11 April 2025
- Two PhD Positions available for NWO Vidi Project ‘Tragedy of the Tropics’ (Wageningen UR) – deadline 31 March 2025
- Postdoctoral researcher in the field of Spatial History (University of Antwerp) – deadline 1 March 2025
