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Just a few places left for Posthumus Course ‘Quantative Methods for Historians and Social Scientists’
In April, the course ‘Quantative Methods for Historians and Social Scientists’ of the N.W. Posthumus Institute will start at Utrecht ...

Posthumus Conference 2025 website launched – keynote lecture by Professor Tamara Herzog (Harvard University)
We are happy to announce the launch of the Posthumus Conference 2025 website! On 27 and 28 May 2025, the Posthumus Conference 2025 will be held in Nijmegen ...

Two PhD Positions available for NWO Vidi Project ‘Tragedy of the Tropics’ (Wageningen UR) – deadline 31 March 2025
Pim de Zwart, postdoc researcher in the NWO Vidi-project entitled ‘Tragedy of the Tropics: Colonialism, Commodities and Commons in Southeast Asian ...

Lecture Dr Maanik Nath at Seminar Series Radboud University
On Monday 17 February 2025 the Department of International Economics at Radboud University will host Dr Maanik Nath (Utrecht University) for a lecture ...

Seminar series Micro-Global Histories of Slavery: Sources and Approaches
Linked to the combined research team of slavery projects at the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam) and Radboud University (Nijmegen), ...

PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Ramona Negrón
On 19 March 2025, Posthumus alumna Ramona Negrón will defend the PhD thesis ‘Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas, 1580-1700’ at ...

PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Tessa De Boer
On 7 May 2025 Posthumus alumna Tessa de Boer will defend her PhD thesis ‘A Truth Universally Acknowledged. Dutch Investment in French Colonial ...

Call for proposals 3rd Conference on Frisian Humanities – deadline 16 March 2025
The Fryske Akademy, the Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, the Professorship Multilingualism and Literacy of NHL ...

PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Jasper Segerink
On 14 February 2025, Posthumus alumnus Jasper Segerink (cohort 2020) will defend his thesis ‘The Lodging House and the City. Accommodating Migrants ...

KHMW Brouwer Vertrouwensprijs awarded to Team Collectieve Kracht
The jury of the KHMW Brouwer Vertrouwensprijs [KHMW Brouwer Trust Award] has awarded the Brouwer Vertrouwensprijs 2025 to the knowledge platform ...

Postdoctoral researcher in the field of Spatial History (University of Antwerp) – deadline 1 March 2025
The Department of History in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Antwerp is looking for a full-time (100%) postdoctoral researcher in the field of ...

GECORRIGEERDE DATUM – Workshop Nederlandsch Economisch-Historisch Archief (NEHA) over economische ongelijkheid
De bijeenkomst van 4 februari 2025 vervangt de origineel voor 14 november 2024 geplande workshop die in verband met de landelijke actiedag tegen de ...

NWO XS Grant awarded to Posthumus fellow Corinne Boter
In the 3rd round of the NWO Open Competition SSH XS, NWO has granted an XS Grant to Posthumus fellow and former Posthumus research network coordinator Dr ...

Module 2 Online Lecture Series ‘An Introduction to Inequalities in Health using Historical Causes of Death’ open for registration – deadline 28 February 2025
Registration has opened for Module 2 of the Online Lecture Series ‘An Introduction to Inequalities in Health using Historical Causes of Death’. This online ...

Change of Coordinator Research Network ‘Inclusion, Exclusion, and Mobility’
Recently, Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson concluded her valuable work as a coordinator of our Research Network ‘Inclusion, Exclusion, and Mobility’. We thank ...

Jaarcongres De Moderne Tijd 2025 – registreer uiterlijk 14 maart 2025
~ 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 ...

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
On 28 and 29 August 2025, the COST-Action network GREATLEAP, in collaboration with the Radboud University Nijmegen, the HiDo network, and the IUSSP ...
Agenda
Masterclass ‘Rich and Poor in Societies Past and Present’ with Professor Guido Alfani – deadline abstracts 16 December 2024

PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Jasper Segerink

Lecture Dr Maanik Nath at Seminar Series Radboud University

FRESH workshop ‘Empire and Economic Development’

PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Ramona Negrón

Jaarcongres De Moderne Tijd 2025 – registreer uiterlijk 14 maart 2025

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

PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Tessa De Boer
