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Participate in the TSEG -The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History essay prize!
Do the keys to understanding today’s complex world lie in the past? TSEG (Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History) challenges young ...
Towards New Horizons of Scholarly Publishing: National Meeting
Our goal for this event is to bring researchers together who care about the future of the academic publishing system and are motivated to make a positive ...
Workshop ‘Writing New Urban History’ (Brussels, 16 January 2026) – deadline registration 10 January 2026
The Centre for Urban History and the Centre of Excellence of the Antwerp Interdisciplinary Platform for Research into Inequality (AIPRIL) at Antwerp ...
STONEM Workshop: Connected by/with/to the Dutch (1900-2025) – prior registration requested
On 23 January 2026, the Research Team of the project ‘Sustainability Trade-offs in the Netherlands’ Entangled Modernization (STONEM) 1900-2020’ ...
Launch new ESTA data & TIDES / documentary screening Slave Island
The International Institute of Social History invites you to join the Exploring Slave Trade in Asia (ESTA) Database’s second data launch on 12 December ...
Postdoc ‘Social History of Capitalism (12th-20th centuries)’ (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) – deadline 31 January 2026
The Faculty of Languages and Humanities, Research Group SHOC (Social History of Capitalism) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel is looking for a postdoctoral ...
Fellowships Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde – deadline 7 januari 2026
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ De Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde (MNL) stelt jaarlijks twee fellowships beschikbaar aan onderzoekers aan het ...
Call for Writing Support Program 2026 (ESEH) – deadline 11 December 2025
ESEH NEXTGATe is launching the 6th round of the Writing Support Program for emerging scholars in Environmental History and the Environmental Humanities. ...
Publication ‘Frontiers of Finance’ from Posthumus fellow Alberto Feenstra to be published
On 18 December 2025, Brill Publishers will publish Frontiers of Finance: The Political Economy of Public Debt in the Dutch Republic, authored by Posthumus ...
Recent changes PhD Representatives N.W. Posthumus Institute
Recently, there have been some changes in the group of PhD Representatives of the N.W. Posthumus Institute. Hannelore Braeken will take the place of Dinos ...
PhD ‘Women in the Early Modern Language Sector’ (Leiden University) – deadline 15 February 2026
The Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University is offering a PhD position within the project LangPro: Professional Opportunities in the Early Modern ...
PhD position ‘Societies and Guilds in the Language Industry’ (Leiden University) – deadline 15 February 2026
The Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University is offering a PhD position within the project LangPro: Professional Opportunities in the Early Modern ...
Yearbook of Women’s History 2025 ‘Women and Ports’
Amsterdam University Press has just announced the upcoming publication of the 34th edition of the Yearbook of Women’s History. This year’s edition ...
LeidenGlobal course ‘Methodologies in the Social Sciences and Humanities’ (Feb-June 2026) – deadline 15 January 2026
The Leiden University Institute for Area Studies in collaboration with LeidenGlobal offers a twelve-week course ‘Methodologies in the Social Sciences ...
Blog ‘Historisch eten en koken’ van Posthumus fellows Patricia Van den Eeckhout en Peter Scholliers online
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Posthumus-fellows Patricia Van den Eeckhout en Peter Scholliers (emeriti hoogleraren Vrije Universiteit Brussel) zijn ...
Agenda
Conference ‘Becoming Local? Forgotten Lineages of Displaced Communities across the Indian Ocean World, 1650-1850’
Conference ‘Becoming Local? Forgotten Lineages of Displaced Communities Across the Indian Ocean World, 1650-1850’ – keynotes by Professors Sue Peabody and Jennifer L. Gaynor
Launch new ESTA data & TIDES / documentary screening Slave Island
Workshop ‘Writing New Urban History’ (Brussels, 16 January 2026) – deadline registration 10 January 2026
STONEM Workshop: Connected by/with/to the Dutch (1900-2025) – prior registration requested
Towards New Horizons of Scholarly Publishing: National Meeting
Workshop ‘Socio-economic inequalities in mortality over time’
Jaarcongres Werkgroep ‘De Nieuwe Tijd’ 2026
Workshop ‘Human Development and Its Outliers’
Call for papers – 2nd Workshop The Economic and Financial History of Colonialism – deadline 15 Dec 2025
Calls
- Participate in the TSEG -The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History essay prize!
- Fellowships Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde – deadline 7 januari 2026
- Call for Writing Support Program 2026 (ESEH) – deadline 11 December 2025
- Call for papers Workshop ‘Channeling Middle-Class Savings, 1850-1940’ (Antwerp, 29-30 June 2026) – deadline 5 January 2026
- Institute Gak-KNAW Award: Postdoc position ‘Social security and the labour market’ – deadline 5 January 2026
- Call for papers – 2nd Workshop The Economic and Financial History of Colonialism – deadline 15 Dec 2025
- Call for papers Special Issue ‘Blue Papers’ on Netherlands and the Caribbean – deadline 15 January 2026
- Voordrachten KHMW Interdisplinariteitsprijs 2026 – deadline 15 januari 2026
- Voordrachten D.J. Veekensprijs 2026 open – deadline 15 januari 2026
- Call for papers Historicidagen 2026 (Leiden, 27-29 August 2026) – deadline abstracts 31 January 2026
- Call for proposals 12th Tensions of Europe Conference (Eindhoven, 8-10 July 2026) – deadline 4 January 2026
Positions
- Postdoc ‘Social History of Capitalism (12th-20th centuries)’ (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) – deadline 31 January 2026
- PhD ‘Women in the Early Modern Language Sector’ (Leiden University) – deadline 15 February 2026
- PhD position ‘Societies and Guilds in the Language Industry’ (Leiden University) – deadline 15 February 2026
- Call for applications Rijksmuseum Fellowship Programme 2026-2027 – deadline 4 January 2026
- Fellowships BHIC voor recent afgestudeerde BA- en MA-studenten – deadline 12 januari 2026
- Institute Gak-KNAW Award: Postdoc position ‘Social security and the labour market’ – deadline 5 January 2026
- Collaborative Studentship PhD (LSE ESRC and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) – deadline 14 January 2026
