News
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 ...
N.W. Posthumus Summer School ‘Crises and History’ (Utrecht, 30 June – 4 July 2025) – apply for final places by 1 June 2025
From 30 June until 4 July 2025, the N.W. Posthumus Institute will organise the Summer School ‘Crises and History’, delivered and organised by ...
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 ...
Gerda Henkel Foundation awards grant to project ‘Economies of Trust’
The Gerda Henkel Foundation has awarded a grant of 253k euro to ‘Economies of Trust? A New Digital Infrastructure on the Urban Poor in the Cape ...
Successful PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Bas Spliet
On 14 May 2025, Posthumus alumnus Bart Spliet successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘The Demand of the Invisible Hand. The Consumer Revolution and ...
Conference ‘How did we lift the burden? Infectious Disease Mortality in the Western and Non-Western World (1800-now)’
On 28 and 29 August 2025, the researchers involved in COST-Action network GREATLEAP, in collaboration with the Radboud University Nijmegen, the HiDo ...
Farewell event and reception Professor Angelique Janssens
On the occasion of her retirement, the Radboud Group for Historical Demography and Family History is hosting a farewell event and reception for Professor ...
Publicatie boek ‘Dievenland: overleven in de middeleeuwen’ van Posthumus fellow Janna Coomans
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Onlangs is bij Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij het boek Dievenland: overleven in de middeleeuwen van de hand van Janna Coomans, ...
Posthumus board member Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk selected as new member KNAW
On its 217th anniversary, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has selected Professor Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, also Board member ...
Pop-up Exposition and Conversation Piece – The Circle redrawn, Women at Work
From 7 until 22 May 2025, a temporary exhibition can be seen in the University Library at the Drift: The Circle redrawn, Women at Work. This exposition is ...
Successful PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Tessa De Boer
On 7 May 2025 Posthumus alumna Tessa de Boer successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘A Truth Universally Acknowledged. Dutch Investment in French ...
Interdisciplinary Symposium in the Humanities ‘[ReMa]king Identity’ – register by 22 May 2025
The students of the Research Master’s programme in Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies at Radboud University invite students, postdocs and all ...
Call for papers – 3rd ISRH Global Conference: ‘Migration in a World of Regions’ (webinar) – deadline 10 June 2025
The International Society for Regional History (ISRH) invites scholars to submit abstracts for the 3rd ISRH Global Conference, ‘Migration in a World ...
Call for proposals and registrations Water Pasts and Futures Symposium
On 30 September 2025, the organisers behind the VU Amsterdam projects Coping with Drought and PerfectSTORM, in collaboration with the Amsterdam ...
8th Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food – registration open now!
On 5 and 6 June 2025, the 8th Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food will take place at Allard Pierson, University of Amsterdam. The Amsterdam ...
Successful seminar Posthumus PhDs at Eindhoven University of Technology
On 10 and 11 April 2025, Eindhoven University of Technology was the scene of the second seminar (‘Work in progress’) of the PhD Training ...
Fellowships Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum (sept. 2025- jan. 2026) – deadline 2 juni 2025
~ because of scope only in Dutch ~ Het Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum (BHIC) stelt twee maal per jaar twee fellowshipbeurzen van maximaal 5500 euro ...
Holland Dag 2025
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Op 16 mei 2025 organiseert de Stichting Ontstaan van Holland in samenwerking met Archeologie Rotterdam de Holland Dag ...
Agenda
Pop-up Exposition and Conversation Piece – The Circle redrawn, Women at Work
Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar 2025: ‘Finance in History’ (deadline abstracts 15 October 2024)
Workshop ‘The Financial History of (De)Colonisation in the 19th and 20th Centuries’ (U. of Antwerp)
Holland Dag 2025
Interdisciplinary Symposium in the Humanities ‘[ReMa]king Identity’ – register by 22 May 2025
Posthumus Conference 2025 – REGISTRATION NOW OPEN – keynote lecture by Professor Tamara Herzog (Harvard University)
International Conference ‘Old wealth uncovered’
PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Heleen Blommers
Symposium ‘The Montreal Moment’ (RIAS and Utrecht University)
8th Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food – registration open now!
Calls
- Posthumus Conference 2025 – REGISTRATION NOW OPEN – keynote lecture by Professor Tamara Herzog (Harvard University)
- Call for papers – 3rd ISRH Global Conference: ‘Migration in a World of Regions’ (webinar) – deadline 10 June 2025
- 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
- 44th Annual APHES Conference – Call for paper and panel proposals – deadline 15 May 2025
- Call to support applications for the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 (CISPAC)
- Vragenlijst ontsluiting historische bronnen / Questionnaire unlocking historical sources (Huygens Instituut)
