Month: December 2023
PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Sietske van der Veen
On 31 May 2024, Posthumus alumna Sietske van der Veen successfully defended the thesis ‘Novel Opportunities, Perpetual Barriers: Patterns of Social Mobility and Integration among the Jewish Dutch Elite, 1870-1940’ at Utrecht University. Promotores were Professor Lex Heerma van Voss…
Public lecture Professor Nigel Penn on ‘Rough Treatment: Slavery and unfree labour in the Cape Colony 1750-1900′
On 9 January 2024, Professor Nigel Penn (University of Cape Town) will deliver the public lecture ‘Rough Treatment: Slavery and unfree labour in the Cape Colony 1750-1900’. This lecture is organised by the multidisciplinary research group Colonial Relations and Structures…
FRESH Workshop ‘Institutions, human capital, and long-term development: lessons from pre-modern Europe’ (UC Louvain)
On 24 and 25 June 2024, LIDAM at UCLouvain will host a FRESH workshop on ‘Institutions, human capital, and long-term development: lessons from pre-modern Europe’. The purpose is to create the opportunity for graduate students and early-stage researchers to present…
PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Eva van der Heijden
On 21 March 2024, Posthumus alumna Eva van der Heijden successfully defended her thesis ‘Educational Endeavors: Children of immigrants in education in the Netherlands, 1980-2020’ at Leiden University. Promotor was Professor Leo Lucassen (Leiden University), co-promotor Professor Helga de Valck…
Save the date: SZW Wetenschapsdag 2024
~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ Het Ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid (SZW) streeft naar beleid dat daadwerkelijk bijdraagt aan werk en bestaanszekerheid voor iedereen, gebaseerd op feiten en state of the art kennis. Gedegen onderzoek –…
PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Damion Bunders
On 15 March 2024, Posthumus alumnus Damion Bunders will defend his thesis ‘Gigs of their Own: can platform cooperatives become resilient?’ at the Erasmus Research Institute of Management of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Damion’s dissertation is about platform cooperatives as an…
International Workshop ‘The Fragmented City in Premodern Europe’
On 25 January 2024, the Centre for Urban History of the University of Antwerp, supported by the N.W. Posthumus Institute, will host the International Workshop ‘The Fragmented City in Premodern Europe’. Organisers are Posthumus PhD Bente Marschall and Posthumus fellow…
PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Patrick Naaktgeboren
On 11 January 2024, Posthumus alumnus Patrick Naaktgeboren successfully defended his PhD thesis ‘Private partnerships in early modern Antwerp (1621–1791) at Maastricht University. Promotores were Professor Bram Van Hofstraeten (Maastricht University) and Professor Jeroen Puttevils (University of Antwerp). Patricks dissertation…