Month: November 2024
Successful PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Charris De Smet
On 10 December 2024 Posthumus alumna Charris De Smet successfully defended her PhD thesis ‘Framing French costumers into citizens. A comparative discourse analysis of debates on luxury and consumption in French parliament and the press in the age of revolution…
Masterclass ‘Rich and Poor in Societies Past and Present’ with Professor Guido Alfani – deadline abstracts 16 December 2024
The Centre for Historical Research at University of Groningen, in collaboration with the N.W. Posthumus Institute, organises a masterclass by Professor Guido Alfani on the topic ‘Rich and Poor in Societies Past and Present’ on Wednesday 12 February 2025. The…
Introducing Foraging: a podcast in environmental humanities
The FORAGENCY project has developed a side-project called ‘Foraging. A Podcast in Environmental Humanities’. Its first season consists in in-depth interviews with four historians and anthropologists. The podcasts will be made available via the FORAGENCY website, Apple podcasts and Spotify.…
NWO XS Grant awarded to Posthumus fellow Felix Meier zu Selhausen
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Dr Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Posthumus fellow and alumnus, currently affiliated with the Department of History at Utrecht University, an XS Grant for the project ‘Colonial Origins of African Population Growth? Evidence from…
CEPR Workshop ‘Public Health Interventions in the Long Run: Causes and Consequences’
Daniel Gallardo-Albarrán, fellow of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, cordially invites paper proposals to express interest in attending the CEPR workshop ‘Public Health Interventions in the Long Run: Causes and Consequences’, which will take place on 27 and 28 March 2025…
Vragenlijst ontsluiting historische bronnen / Questionnaire unlocking historical sources (Huygens Instituut)
~ English version below ~ Het Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse geschiedenis en cultuur maakt bijzonder veel historische bronnen en literaire teksten digitaal toegankelijk. In de onderzoeksprojecten van het instituut wordt gewerkt aan en met allerlei verschillende bronnen uit de Nederlandse…
FRESH workshop ‘Empire and Economic Development’
On 28 February 2025, Utrecht University will host a FRESH workshop on Empire and Economic Development. Frontier Research in Economic and Social History (FRESH) meetings are aimed at researchers in any field of economic and social history. The purpose of…
Symposium ‘The Montreal Moment’ (RIAS and Utrecht University)
The Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) and Utrecht University are now welcoming papers for the jointly organized symposium ‘The Montreal Moment: Ozone Depletion and the Rise of International Environmental Governance’, which will be held in Middelburg from 5-6 June…