Month: May 2022
Workshop ‘Globalisation and Long-Run Development in Asia and Africa (ca. 1800-2000)’
On 23 and 24 June 2022, members of the N.W. Posthumus Institute Research Network ‘Globalisation, Inequality and Sustainable Development in Long-Term Perspective’ will organise a workshop on the theme ‘Globalisation and Long-Run Development in Asia and Africa (ca. 1800-2000)’. Keynote…
N.W. Posthumus Instituut, Huizinga Instituut en Onderzoeksschool Politieke Geschiedenis organiseren sessie Historicidagen 2022
~ because of scope, only in Dutch ~ Van 25 tot en met 27 augustus 2022 vinden in Rotterdam de KNHG Historicidagen plaats. Op het programma staat een rijke variatie aan sessies en presentaties; bij een aanzienlijk aantal van deze…
Posthumus staff welcomes Midas van de Weetering as student assistant
As of 16 May 2022, the staff of the N.W. Posthumus Institute will be temporarily (until June 2023) supported by student assistant Midas van de Weetering. Midas is currently in the second year of his BA in History at Utrecht…
Valedictory Speeches Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden – register before 1 June 2022
~ For Dutch version click here ~ On Wednesday 15 June at 15:00 Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden both will deliver a valedictory speech on the occasion of their retirement and as a conclusion of their thirty years…
Afscheidscolleges Maarten Prak en Jan Luiten van Zanden – registreer voor 1 juni 2022
~ For English version click here ~ Op woensdag 15 juni om 15:00 uur houden Maarten Prak en Jan Luiten van Zanden beiden een afscheidscollege ter gelegenheid van hun pensionering, na dertig jaar gezamenlijk hoogleraarschap Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis aan…
Lecture Professor Deepak Nayyar – ‘The Asian Miracle: Learning From a Half-century of Transformations’ – register before 13 June 2022
The Wageningen School of Social Sciences (WASS), the Section Economics of WUR and the N.W. Posthumus Institute jointly and cordially invite you to a lecture by Professor Deepak Nayyar (Emeritus Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), entitled…
Change in General Board N.W. Posthumus Institute
As of May 2022, Professor Hans Mol will be succeeded as representative of the Fryske Akademy in the General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute by Professor Hanno Brand. The N.W. Posthumus Institute board expresses its thanks to Professor Hans…
Valedictory Speech Professor Marjolein ‘t Hart
On 1 June 2022, Professor Marjolein ’t Hart (1955), Professor in the History of State Formation in Global Perspective at VU University Amsterdam and fellow of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, will deliver her valedictory speech, entitled ‘Inclusieve geschiedenis, kan dat?…
Round table and book launch ‘The early modern state’ preceding valedictory speech Professor Marjolein ‘t Hart
Preceding her valedictory speech, colleagues and friends will celebrate the work of Professor Marjolein ’t Hart by discussing her work and launching the book The early modern state: Drivers, beneficiaries and discontents (eds. Pepijn Brandon, Lex Heerma van Voss and…
Early Career Symposium ‘Hansards in the World: Continuity and Discontinuity on the Intellectual, Cultural, and Economic Frontiers of the Early Modern Hanse’
Hansards in the World gathers and promotes new histories of the Hanse, an association of European merchants and towns, and how they interacted with the wider world in the early modern period. Contributors explore novel perspectives and approaches on the…