Month: November 2022
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Because of the rapidly approaching Christmas Holidays, the December issue of our Newsletter will appear a week earlier than usual. Do you have any news items, events, calls, or vacancies you want to share with our readers? Make sure to…
PhD defence Bas Machielsen
On 18 january 2023, Posthumus alumnus Bas Machielsen will defend his thesis ‘The Political Elite, Self-Interest and Democratization’, in which he examines the influence of self-interest on the decision-making of political elites. Literature has already documented various ways in which actions…
Maartens van Sevenhoven medal awarded to Rozemarijn Moes
At the Gelderse Landdag 2022, the 2022 edition of the annual meeting of Erfgoed Gelderland, the Maartens van Sevenhoven medal was awarded to Posthumus PhD Student Rozemarijn Moes for her research on the historical demography of Guelders from prehistorical times…
NEW DATE Maddison Lecture Professor William Easterly – ‘Western Development Efforts: Altruism vs Self-Interest
This event, originally scheduled for 27 October, has now been rescheduled to 15 December 2022 Annually, the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) organises the Maddison Lecture at the University of Groningen. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor…
Maritime solidarity: Past and present
The Organising committee of the two-day conference (Posthumus board member Professor Pepijn Brandon (VU Amsterdam/IISH), Dr Niklas Frykman, Professor Marcus Rediker (both University of Pittsburgh), and Professor and activist Nandita Sharma (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa)) invite paper proposals. Papers…
CLARIAH & NDE Annual Conference 2022
On Thursday 24 November 2022, CLARIAH and Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed (NDE) jointly organise their annual conference in Utrecht. This year’s theme will be ‘Heritage meets Digital Humanities’. The focus will be on the CLARIAH digital humanities infrastructure and its use…