News
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 ...
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 ...
New publication by Peer Vries
Posthumus Fellow emeritus Professor Peer Vries and Annelieke Vries-Baaijens recently published their book The rise of the modern state in Europe, ...
New issue of TSEG – The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History out now
Recently, Leuven University Press has issued a new edition of TSEG – The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, the Dutch-Flemish ...
3 Postdoc positions on Dutch Colonial Social and Economic History (Utrecht University) – deadline 29 August 2025
For the NWO-funded Vici-project ‘Care and Coercion. Patriarchy, (Forced) Labour and Caregiving in the Household in the Dutch Empire, c. ...
Successful PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Heleen Blommers
On 2 June 2025, Posthumus alumna Heleen Blommers successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘Deconstructing the War on Poverty: why a failure narrative ...
Volkskrant-IISH Thesis prize 2025 for MA Students – deadline submissions 19 September 2025
The news magazine de Volkskrant and the International Institute of Social History (IISH) are welcoming submissions for the Volkskrant-IISH Thesis prize ...
CLARIAH Summer School – few places left
From 30 June 30 to 2 July 2025, CLARIAH will host its annual Summer School at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. This event is ...
Successful Posthumus Conference 2025 in Nijmegen!
On 27 and 28 May 2025, the Posthumus Conference 2025 was held in Nijmegen at Radboud University, hosted by Dr Dries Lyna and Dr Joris van den Tol and ...
Posthumus fellow Dr Daniel Gallardo Albarrán receives NWO XS Grant
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Dr Daniel Gallardo Albarrán, fellow of the N.W. Posthumus Institute and Assistant Professor at Wageningen ...
Posthumus fellow Dr Kristof Loockx receives FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) has awarded a FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship to Dr Kristof Loockx, fellow of the N.W. Posthumus Institute and ...
Posthumus fellow Dr Charris Desmet receives FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) has awarded a FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship to Dr Charris De Smet, fellow of the N.W. Posthumus Institute and ...
Posthumus fellow Dr Coen van Galen receives NWO XS Grant
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Dr Coen van Galen, fellow of the N.W. Posthumus Institute and Associate Professor researcher with the Radboud ...
Posthumus fellow Matthias Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge receives NWO XS Grant
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Dr Matthias Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, fellow of the N.W. Posthumus Institute and postdoc researcher with the ...
Nieuwe boekpublicatie van Posthumus fellow Patricia Van den Eeckhout
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Bij Uitgeverij Ertsberg is onlangs het boek Koks & Kelners 1750-1950 van emeritus professor Patricia Van den ...
Bijeenkomst Werkgroep Stedengeschiedenis: ’Nieuw onderzoek uit Amsterdam: stedelijke ruimte, water en erfgoed’
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Op 10 oktober 2025 organiseert de werkgroep Stedengeschiedenis een bijeenkomst bij de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel ...
Agenda
Middeleeuwen Symposium 2025: ‘Oorlog en Vrede in de Middeleeuwen – Realiteit, Herinnering en Mythe’
PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Robin Rose Southard
IV Doctoral School in Economic History of the Middle Ages ‘The Economy of Daily Life: Analysing Living Standards in Medieval Europe’ (University of Valencia)
N.W. Posthumus Summer School ‘Crises and History’ (Utrecht, 30 June – 4 July 2025)
CLARIAH Summer School – few places left
Prof. Em. Carl Nightingale delivers lecture 2025 Raymond van Uytven Chair 2025 – register by 30 June 2025
3rd Global Conference on the History of Risk and Insurance (Warsaw, Poland)
World Economic History Congress 2025 (Lund, Sweden)
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
Calls
- Call for application Tresaor Fellowship 2026 – deadline 7 November 2025
- Volkskrant-IISH Thesis prize 2025 for MA Students – deadline submissions 19 September 2025
- CLARIAH Summer School – few places left
- Call for proposals and registrations Water Pasts and Futures Symposium
- Call for abstracts ESTER RDC (University of Seville, 3-5 November 2025) – deadline 1 July 2025
- Call to support applications for the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 (CISPAC)
- Vragenlijst ontsluiting historische bronnen / Questionnaire unlocking historical sources (Huygens Instituut)
Positions
- Call for application Tresaor Fellowship 2026 – deadline 7 November 2025
- 3 Postdoc positions on Dutch Colonial Social and Economic History (Utrecht University) – deadline 29 August 2025
- PhD vacature Stadsgeschiedenis en/of Historische Geografie (Universiteit Antwerpen) – deadline 30 juni 2025
