Month: September 2023
Workshop ‘The Histories of (Post-)Colonial Universities in the Netherlands’ (WUR)
On 29 and 30 August 2024, the Workshop ‘The Histories of (Post-)Colonial Universities in the Netherlands’ will be held at Wageningen University & Research. This workshop and the keynote is made possible thanks to the generous funding of Wageningen University…
PhD Career Day 2023
latest update: 20 October 2023, 2:20pm N.W. Posthumus Institute, the Huizinga Institute, the Research School Political History and the Research School for Medieval Studies jointly would like to invite their PhD candidates and recently promoted PhDs to the PhD Career…
N.W. Posthumus Annual Report 2022 available
The General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to present you the N.W. Posthumus Institute Annual Report 2022. The report provides you with an overview of activities, results and developments regarding the N.W. Posthumus Institute in 2022, the…
Phd Defence Posthumus alumnus Mark van de Water
On 20 September 2023, Posthumus alumnus Mark van de Water defended his PhD thesis ‘The road to drain or gain’ at the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University. Supervisors were Professor David Henley and Dr Thomas Lindblad, promotores were Professor…
Changes in General Board N.W. Posthumus Institute
Recently, the composition of the General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute has changed. Professor Hein Klemann, representative of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), has resigned as Board Member because of forthcoming retirement. Professor Ben Wubs from now on is the…
Posthumus fellow Selin Dilli one of speakers at Betweterfestival 2023
Posthumus Fellow and member of our Education Committee Selin Dilli is one of the invited speakers at the annual Betweterfestival. The Betweterfestival is an annual event, organised by Utrecht University in close cooperation with numerous partner organisations and is open…
Changes of PhD representatives
At the General Board meeting of 19 September 2023, Jasper Segerink, Samantha Sint Nicolaas and Karoline da Silva Rodrigues ended their positions as PhD representatives. The N.W. Posthumus Institute and its staff thank Jasper, Samantha and Karoline very much for…
Cum laude PhD defence alumna Weixuan Li
On 12 September 2023, Posthumus-alumna Weixuan Li successfully defended her PhD thesis Painters’ playbooks: Deep mapping socio-spatial strategies in the art market of seventeenth-century Amsterdam cum laude at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. Promotors were Professor…
15th Conference of Young Demographers
The Young Demographers, in cooperation with the Association for Young Historical Demographers (AYHD), the Geographical Institute and the Department of Demography and Geodemography of the Faculty of Science, Charles University, invite you to the 15th Conference of Young Demographers. The…
NEW: Research Master brochure 2023-2024
The N.W. Posthumus Institute is proud to present the new Research Master brochure with the info on the 2023-2024 Interuniversity Research Master courses. New this year is the Summer School Crises and History, which will be hosted by Utrecht University…