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Workshop: Socio-Economic Inequalities in Mortality Over Time
Call for Papers GREATLEAP-COST Action Workshop: Socio-Economic Inequalities in Mortality Over Time 27 February 2026 | Akoesticum, Ede, the Netherlands ...

Summer Holidays
During the Summer Holidays (July-August) the N.W. Posthumus Institute will be out of office. Our mail box will be checked on a regular basis, but we will ...

Workshop ‘Spaces of Formal and Informal Diplomacy in the Premodern Mediterranean’ – pre-registration requested
The members of the DiplomatiCon Project (Power in History: Centre for Political History, and Centre for Urban History), in cooperation with the Research ...

In memoriam: Boudien de Vries (1951-2025)
Onlangs ontvingen we het bericht dat op 12 juli 2025 Boudien de Vries (1951-2025) is overleden . Boudien de Vries was oorspronkelijk opgeleid als ...

Publicaties Posthumus fellows op long-list Libris Geschiedenis Prijs 2025
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Recent is uit een lijst van 370 historische boeken de longlist met de tien genomineerden voor de Libris Geschiedenis ...

Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar 2026: ‘From craft guilds to unions’ (deadline abstracts 15 October 2025)
The Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research ...

PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Lena Walschap
On 26 August 2025, Posthumus alumna Lena Walschap will defend the PhD thesis ‘All is fish that comes to the net. Peasant fishing on the English South ...

KHMW Jan Brouwer Scriptieprijzen voor masterstudenten – deadline nominaties 3 oktober 2025
~ only available in Dutch ~ De Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW) heeft de inschrijving geopend voor nominaties voor de KHMW Jan ...

Call for papers – Jaarcongres Werkgroep ‘De Nieuwe Tijd’ 2026 – deadline 30 september 2025
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ De werkgroep De Moderne Tijd organiseert op 20 maart 2026 in Amsterdam een jubileumcongres met als thema ‘Feest! ...

Change of Coordinator Research Network ‘Inclusion, Exclusion, and Mobility’
As of the start of the academic year 2025-2026, Bart Lambert will conclude his valuable work as a coordinator of our Research Network ‘Inclusion, ...

4th Regional History Society of Southern Africa Conference
The Regional History Society of Southern African (RHSSA) is hosting a conference on the theme ‘Independences and post-colonialism in Southern ...

Seminar ‘Sources, silence and the senses in the study of the history of global Chinese Labour’
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 ...

Change of coordinators Posthumus Research Network ‘Roots and Routes in Colonial and Global History’
At the end of this academic year, Professor Ulbe Bosma (IISH) will complete his task in the coordinating team of the Posthumus Research Network ...

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 ...
Agenda
World Economic History Congress 2025 (Lund, Sweden)

Seminar ‘Sources, silence and the senses in the study of the history of global Chinese Labour’

PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Lena Walschap

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

Rural History Conference 2025

Call for applications Summer School ‘Slavery and Serfdom in Europe and the New World’ – deadline 15 June 2025

PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Dániel Moerman

3rd ISRH Global Conference: ‘Migration in a World of Regions’ (webinar)

Workshop ‘Spaces of Formal and Informal Diplomacy in the Premodern Mediterranean’ – pre-registration requested
