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Call for abstracts 3rd Global Conference on the History of Risk and Insurance (Warsaw, Poland) – deadline 16 December 2024
On 3 and 4 July 2025, The Warsaw School of Economics will be hosting the Third Global Conference on the History of Risk and Insurance. This conference ...
Call for abstracts Jaarcongres De Moderne Tijd 2025 – deadline abstracts 21 november 2024
~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ Op 21 maart 2025 vindt in Amsterdam het jaarcongres 2025 van Werkgroep de Moderne Tijd plaats. In dit jaarcongres van ...
Lecture by Professor Jan de Vries (UC Berkeley) on ‘Climate, economy and society in the Netherlands, 1579-1800’
The organisers of the Economic and Social History seminar series at Utrecht University cordially invite you to the lecture ‘Climate, economy and ...
Boeklancering ‘Dochters van Lucy’
~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ Op 27 september 2024 zal de lancering van het nieuwste boek van emeritus professor Jan Luiten van Zanden, Dochters van ...
Call for Session Papers Rural History Conference 2025 – deadline 15 September 2024
The organisers of the session proposal ‘A Field of One’s Own? Long-Term Analyses of Female Landownership and Land Use’, to be proposed for the ...
Programme symposium of Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries (25-26 October 2024)
Keynote speaker is professor Richard Hoffmann, esteemed author of ‘The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries’ and ‘An ...
PhD Student in Economic History (Lund University) – deadline 1 October 2024
The Department of Economic History at Lund University is looking for a PhD student on the topic of ‘Socio-Spatial mobility, neighborhood policy and ...
Invitation book launch: ‘Since 1624 Taiwanese-Dutch connections’ (edited by Mila Davids, Eric Berkers, Ann Heylen en Tim Riswick)
Programme 16.00-16.30 Thee and snacks 16.30-16.40 Welcome 16.40-16.50 Book Introduction The Making of Since 1624: Taiwanese-Dutch Connections 16.50-17.50 ...
Workshop ‘Political Economy and Long-Run Development’ (WUR)
Daniel Gallardo-Albarrán and Pim de Zwart would like to cordially invite you to the one-day Workshop “Political Economy and Long-Run Development” to be ...
Posthumus account on X definitely cancelled, follow us on Mastodon!
Follow us on Mastodon Earlier this year, the N.W. Posthumus staff, supported by the General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, has decided to stop ...
Nominations KHMW Jan Brouwer Scriptieprijzen 2025 – deadline 4 October 2024
The Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW) annually awards the Jan Brouwer Scriptieprijzen (Jan Brouwer Thesis awards) to ...
Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar 2025: ‘Finance in History’ (deadline abstracts 15 October 2024)
The Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research ...
Invitation to first National Sector Plan Conference ‘Cultural Heritage and Identity’
The Organising Committee on behalf of the Assistant Professors involved in the Sector plan theme ‘Cultural Heritage and Identity’ is cordially ...
Posthumus PhD Seminar I to be held in Maastricht, 12-13 December 2024
The N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to announce that Seminar I, ‘My research in a nutshell’, to be attended by the PhDs enlisted in cohort ...
Danielle van den Heuvel appointed Full Professor in Social and Economic History at Utrecht University
Danielle van den Heuvel, current board member of the N.W. Posthumus Institute on behalf of the University of Amsterdam, has been appointed as Full ...