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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Community Manager Colonial Contract Labor (IISH) – deadline 9 April 2025
For the research project Colonial Contract Laborers and Collective Action in the Dutch Empire, the International Institute for Social History (IISH, KNAW) ...
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 ...
Call for sessions EUAH 2026 Conference ‘City Networks in Europe and Beyond’ – deadline 15 April 2026
The Seventeenth Conference of the European Association for Urban History (EAUH) will be held in Barcelona from Wednesday 2 September to Saturday 5 ...
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’ – deadline abstracts 31 March 2025
On 5-7 November 2025, the conference ‘The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade’ is jointly organised by the Museum ...
PhD position ‘Food Protest in Early Modern Northern Italy’ (University of Amsterdam) – deadline 10 April 2025
The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years; 1ft). The PhD will work on the Italian ...
PhD position ‘Food Protest in the Early Modern Dutch Republic’ (University of Amsterdam) – deadline 10 April 2025
The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years; 1ft). The PhD will work on the Dutch ...
PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Jeroen van Veldhoven
On 7 March 2025, Posthumus alumnus Jeroen van Veldhoven successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘Partijpolitiek en de verschuiving naar flexwerk in ...
Online Seminar: From Scribe to Screen: Sources and Approaches to Global History in the Digital Age
Pichayapat Naisupap and Melinda Susanto (both Leiden University and Posthumus alumni) are co-organising the online seminar ‘From Scribe to Screen: ...
PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Dennis De Vriese
On 10 March 2025, Posthumus alumnus Dennis De Vriese successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘Selling New Ways of Selling. Legitimising Regulation and ...
Wieke Metzlar winner of Volkskrant-IISG History Thesis Award
Wieke Metzlar, member of the 2024 PhD cohort of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, has won the Volkskrant-IISG History Thesis Award. The Volkskrant-IISG Thesis ...
Agenda
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
Excursion and knowledge exchange Food and Agricultural History Network and Nederlands Openluchtmuseum
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)
Calls
- Posthumus Conference 2025 – REGISTRATION NOW OPEN – keynote lecture by Professor Tamara Herzog (Harvard University)
- Call for sessions EUAH 2026 Conference ‘City Networks in Europe and Beyond’ – deadline 15 April 2026
- Conference ‘Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade’ – deadline abstracts 31 March 2025
- Call for abstracts ESTER RDC (University of Seville, 3-5 November 2025) – deadline 1 July 2025
- Online Seminar ‘Designing Deserts? Een eeuw aan Kempense landschapsverandering, 1750-1850’
- Call for papers IV Doctoral School in Economic History of the Middle Ages ‘The Economy of Daily Life: Analysing Living Standards in Medieval Europe’ (University of Valencia) – deadline 30 April 2025
- 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 10th International Conference on the Middle Ages – deadline 30 April 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
- Community Manager Colonial Contract Labor (IISH) – deadline 9 April 2025
- PhD position ‘Food Protest in Early Modern Northern Italy’ (University of Amsterdam) – deadline 10 April 2025
- PhD position ‘Food Protest in the Early Modern Dutch Republic’ (University of Amsterdam) – deadline 10 April 2025
- Historicus (Hoogheemraadschap Hollands Noorderkwartier) – deadline 6 april 2025
- 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
