Research School for Economic and Social History

Month: December 2024

Call to support applications for the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 (CISPAC)

The Centro de Investigación Interuniversitario das Paisaxes Atlánticas Culturais – Interuniversity Research Centre for Atlantic Cultural Landscapes (CISPAC) is launching a call to support applications for the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025, with estimated publication and submission dates in April and…

Successful Seminar I in Maastricht

On Thursday 12 and Friday 13 December the N.W. Posthumus Institute had the pleasure of time welcoming 35 new PhD students of cohort 2024 (the largest cohort ever) in our PhD programme. We thank director Nico Randeraad and deputy director…

Symposium ‘Colonial Archives and Meaningful Digital Infrastructure’

On 24 January 2025, preceding the inaugural lecture of Professor Matthias van Rossum, the symposium ‘Colonial Archives and Meaningful Digital Infrastructure’ will take place at Radboud University. This symposium brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss the challenges and opportunities…

Inaugural lecture Professor Matthias van Rossum

On 24 January 2025 Posthumus fellow and Posthumus course coordinator Matthias van Rossum will deliver his inaugural lecture as Professor by special appointment Global Histories of Labour and Colonialism at Radboud University. Matthias was appointed on 1 February 2024 to…

NWO XS Grant awarded to Posthumus fellow Swantje Falcke

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Dr Swantje Falcke, Posthumus fellow, currently affiliated with the Department of History at Utrecht University, an XS Grant for the project ‘Environmental change and migration patterns in the Netherlands: A long term view’.…