News
In memoriam: Harry Linderts (1949-2025)
Recentelijk ontving het N.W. Posthumus Instituut het droeve bericht dat emeritus hoogleraar prof.dr.ir. Harry Lintsen op dinsdag 12 augustus 2025 op ...
Call for Research Assistants (MA students; Wageningen University) – deadline 10 October 2025
The Environmental and Economic History Group at Wageningen University is looking for motivated master students with expertise in economic history and/or ...
Call for papers Workshop ‘Socio-economic inequalities in mortality over time’ – deadline 1 October 2025
The Health & Society group of Wageningen University & Research invites paper proposals for a one-day workshop, supported by GREATLEAP COST Action. ...
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 ...
Call for applications CollectieveKracht Master’s Thesis Award 2025 – deadline 31 October 2025
The CollectieveKracht platform is calling for applications for the CollectieveKracht Thesis Award 2025, a prize for the best MA thesis that contributes to ...
Studiemiddag HisGIS 1832: verbeterde opzet, voortgang, en rurale geschiedenis
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ De Vereniging voor Landbouwgeschiedenis en het Humanities Cluster van de KNAW organiseren op 12 november een ...
Save the date: Inaugural lecture Professor Danielle van den Heuvel
On 20 November 2025 Professor Danielle van den Heuvel, former board member of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, will deliver her inaugural lecture as Professor ...
Successful PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Lena Walschap
On 26 August 2025, Posthumus alumna Lena Walschap successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘All is fish that comes to the net. Peasant fishing on the ...
WEHC pre-1800 dissertation prize awarded to Posthumus alumnus Sam Geens
Posthumus alumnus Dr Sam Geens (University of Antwerp) received the pre-1800 PhD Dissertation Prize 2025 at the 2025 World Economic History Congress (WEHC) ...
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 ...
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 ...
Agenda
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
Call for proposals and registrations Water Pasts and Futures Symposium
10th International Conference on the Middle Ages
Bijeenkomst Werkgroep Stedengeschiedenis: ’Nieuw onderzoek uit Amsterdam: stedelijke ruimte, water en erfgoed’
10th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise
ESTER RDC (University of Seville, 3-5 November 2025)
Calls
- Call for applications CollectieveKracht Master’s Thesis Award 2025 – deadline 31 October 2025
- Studiemiddag HisGIS 1832: verbeterde opzet, voortgang, en rurale geschiedenis
- Call for Research Assistants (MA students; Wageningen University) – deadline 10 October 2025
- Call for papers Workshop ‘Socio-economic inequalities in mortality over time’ – deadline 1 October 2025
- Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar 2026: ‘From craft guilds to unions’ (deadline abstracts 15 October 2025)
- KHMW Jan Brouwer Scriptieprijzen voor masterstudenten – deadline nominaties 3 oktober 2025
- Call for papers – Jaarcongres Werkgroep ‘De Nieuwe Tijd’ 2026 – deadline 30 september 2025
- Call for application Tresoar Fellowship 2026 – deadline 7 November 2025
- Volkskrant-IISH Thesis prize 2025 for MA Students – deadline submissions 19 September 2025
- Call for proposals and registrations Water Pasts and Futures Symposium
