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Call for Papers for session on History of Modern Waste Management at ESEH 2025
Yaron J. Balslev and Dmitrijs Porsnovs from theti University of Stavanger, Norway, invite scholars to present papers on various aspects of waste management ...
Call for collaborations KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory sessions at ESEH 2025
The KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory is looking to sponsor a series of discussions for the 2025 meeting of the European Society for Environmental ...
Financial History Workshop (Euronext, Brussels)
You can now register for the Financial History research workshop commemorating 200 years of stock trading in Brussels, which will take place on 5 November ...
Call for papers – Workshop ‘The Financial History of (De)Colonisation in the 19th and 20th Centuries’ (U. of Antwerp) – deadline abstracts 1 Dec. 2024
On 16 and 17 May 2025, the University of Antwerp and the University of Groningen will jointly organise a workshop dedicated to exploring the financial ...
Waiting list for ‘Debates in Global Social and Economic History’ Research Master course
(image: Henry Monnier, Une Queue (1828). Hand-colored lithograph, Collection The British Museum. Public domain image) For the first Research Master course ...
PhD student position for the project PRESERVARE (Huygens Institute / KNAW) – deadline 3 November 2024
The Huygens Institute (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) is looking for an interdisciplinary PhD candidate with a background in the history ...
Najaarsbijeenkomst SGvdO: ‘Blijvend belast. Openbare financiën, roof en rechtsherstel in en na de oorlog’
~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ De SGvdO (Stichting Geschiedenis van de Overheidsfinanciën) organiseert op 8 november 2024 haar najaarsbijeenkomst. Het ...
NWO Veni Grant awarded to Tim Riswick
In July 2024, Dr Tim Riswick, Posthumus fellow and member of the Educational Committee of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, was granted a Veni Grant by the ...
Conference ‘The Netherlands a Tax Paradise? Complexities of Corporate Tax Avoidance’ (Rotterdam, 29 Nov. 2024) – register before 1 Nov. 2024
The local organising committee invites you to the international conference on corporate taxation and its avoidance at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam ...
Postdoc Global History of Slavery (IISH) – deadline 13 October 2024
The International Institute of Social History (IISH) is searching a Postdoc Researcher (0.8-1.0 fte) for the research projects ‘Voices of ...
Junior Researcher HTR for Colonial Archives and Slavery Studies (IISH) – deadline 13 October 2024
The International Institute of Social History (IISH) is searching for a Junior Researcher (0,7 – 1,0 fte) for a coalition of research projects that tackle ...
New PhD Representatives
At the General Board meeting of the N.W. Posthumus Institute of 24 September 2024 two new PhD representatives were welcomed. Silke Baas will take the place ...
PhD in the history of biological fieldwork and gender (Maastricht University) – deadline 31 October 2024
The History Department at Maastricht University is looking for a PhD candidate to conduct research into the gender dimensions of biological fieldwork in ...
Environmental History PhD Seminar (Roosevelt Institute, Middelburg) – Call for papers – deadline abstracts 30 November 2024
Opportunities for pursuing research in environmental history are expanding in the Netherlands and beyond. In the wake of accelerating climate change, many ...
Moving Humanities Conference 2024 on ‘Resistance’ – registration non-presenting participants open now
The Moving Humanities Conference 2024, organised by Radboud University and Groningen University, will take place on 31 October and 1 November 2024. This ...
Agenda
Lecture by Professor Jan de Vries (UC Berkeley) on ‘Climate, economy and society in the Netherlands, 1579-1800’
GIS Tutorial and Project Presentation ‘(Re)Counting the Uncounted’ (IISH)
PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Ewout Hasken (Utrecht University)
First biennial symposium Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries
Programme symposium of Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries (25-26 October 2024)
Moving Humanities Conference 2024 on ‘Resistance’ – registration non-presenting participants open now
Mini-conference ’40 years of abortion legislation in the Netherlands’
Financial History Workshop (Euronext, Brussels)
Najaarsbijeenkomst SGvdO: ‘Blijvend belast. Openbare financiën, roof en rechtsherstel in en na de oorlog’
Conference ‘Commodities and Environments in Early Modern Global Asia, 1400 – 1800’
Calls
- Call for Papers for session on History of Modern Waste Management at ESEH 2025
- Call for collaborations KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory sessions at ESEH 2025
- Call for papers – Workshop ‘The Financial History of (De)Colonisation in the 19th and 20th Centuries’ (U. of Antwerp) – deadline abstracts 1 Dec. 2024
- Environmental History PhD Seminar (Roosevelt Institute, Middelburg) – Call for papers – deadline abstracts 30 November 2024
- Call for abstracts 3rd Global Conference on the History of Risk and Insurance (Warsaw, Poland) – deadline 16 December 2024
- Call for abstracts Jaarcongres De Moderne Tijd 2025 – deadline abstracts 21 november 2024
- Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar 2025: ‘Finance in History’ (deadline abstracts 15 October 2024)
- Call for nominations Thirsk-Feinstein PhD Dissertation Prize 2025 – deadline 31 December 2024
Positions
- PhD student position for the project PRESERVARE (Huygens Institute / KNAW) – deadline 3 November 2024
- PhD of Population Health Science (Roskilde University) – deadline 21 October 2024
- Postdoc Global History of Slavery (IISH) – deadline 13 October 2024
- Junior Researcher HTR for Colonial Archives and Slavery Studies (IISH) – deadline 13 October 2024
- PhD in the history of biological fieldwork and gender (Maastricht University) – deadline 31 October 2024
- Postdoc Medische geschiedenis van het Utrechtse koloniale verleden (UMC) – deadline 8 oktober 2024
- 2 PhD Positions NWO project ‘Boom to Dust’ (Leiden University) – deadline 15 November 2024
- PhD student position on ‘Finance and Inequality’ (University of Bonn) – deadline 13 October 2024
