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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ESEH Elections – deadline for (self)nominations 30 April 2025
The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) will soon hold elections for several positions (mentioned on ESEH’s website). The ESEH ...

Postdoc ‘Effect of Societal Transitions in History on Living Standards’ (Utrecht University) – deadline 6 May 2025
Utrecht University’s economic and social history group is looking to recruit a postdoctoral researcher to reconstruct changes in living standards during ...

PhD ‘Rise of Oligarchic Tendencies in Western-European History’ (Utrecht University) – deadline 12 May 2025
Utrecht University’s economic and social history group has a PhD position open on the topic ‘Rise of Oligarchic Tendencies in Western-European ...

Holland Dag 2025 – registreer uiterlijk 6 mei 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 ...

Chair in ‘Foundations of Sustainability’ (Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University) – deadline 6 May 2025
The Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development is looking for a full-time chair in Foundations of Sustainability. The study of the Foundations of ...

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 10th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise – Call for abstract and panel proposals – deadline 21 April 2025
The EMES International Research Network, in partnership with the Rotterdam School of Management of Erasmus University Rotterdam and Utrecht University ...

Parlementaire kronieken 1998-2023 online en doorzoekbaar
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Sinds 1998 publiceert het Centrum voor Parlementaire Geschiedenis jaarlijks een kroniek van de belangrijkste politieke ...

Symposium ‘Sociale zorg en lotsverbetering bij zeevarenden, 1700-1900’
~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ De Stichting Geschiedenis van de Overheidsfinanciën (SGvdO) organiseert een symposium over sociale zorg en ...

PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Heleen Blommers
On 2 June 2025, Posthumus alumna Heleen Blommers will defend the PhD thesis ‘Deconstructing the War on Poverty: why a failure narrative became ...

UUCEMS Lecture 2025 by Professor Jake Soll – ‘Richard Price’s Prudence and the Unintentional Invention of Modern Capitalist Values’
On 15 May 2025, the Utrecht University Centre for Early Modern Studies (UUCEMS), in cooperation with Utrecht University’s Descartes Centre for the ...

Middeleeuwen Symposium 2025: ‘Oorlog en Vrede in de Middeleeuwen – Realiteit, Herinnering en Mythe’
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Op 20 juni 2025 vindt in Zutphen het Middeleeuwen Symposium 2025 plaats. Dit symposium wordt gezamenlijk georganiseerd ...

Excursion and knowledge exchange Food and Agricultural History Network and Nederlands Openluchtmuseum
On 23 April 2025, the Food and Agricultural History Network of the Netherlands is organising an excursion and knowledge exchange with the Nederlands ...

Conference ‘Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade’
On 5-7 November 2025, the conference ‘The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade’ is jointly organised by the Museum ...
Agenda
Symposium ‘Sociale zorg en lotsverbetering bij zeevarenden, 1700-1900’

PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Tessa De Boer

Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar 2025: ‘Finance in History’ (deadline abstracts 15 October 2024)

UUCEMS Lecture 2025 by Professor Jake Soll – ‘Richard Price’s Prudence and the Unintentional Invention of Modern Capitalist Values’

Workshop ‘The Financial History of (De)Colonisation in the 19th and 20th Centuries’ (U. of Antwerp)

Holland Dag 2025 – registreer uiterlijk 6 mei 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)
