Month: June 2025
Change of Coordinator Research Network ‘Inclusion, Exclusion, and Mobility’
As of the start of the academic year 2025-2026, Bart Lambert will conclude his valuable work as a coordinator of our Research Network ‘Inclusion, Exclusion, and Mobility’. We thank Bart for his successful efforts in coordinating this network over the…
Workshop ‘Spaces of Formal and Informal Diplomacy in the Premodern Mediterranean’ – pre-registration requested
The members of the DiplomatiCon Project (Power in History: Centre for Political History, and Centre for Urban History), in cooperation with the Research Network ‘Routes and Roots in Colonial and Global History’ of the N.W. Posthumus Institute are glad to…
4th Regional History Society of Southern Africa Conference
The Regional History Society of Southern African (RHSSA) is hosting a conference on the theme ‘Independences and post-colonialism in Southern Africa’. This year’s theme is closely related to the jubilee of independence of Mozambique and Angola. The organisers call for…
Seminar ‘Sources, silence and the senses in the study of the history of global Chinese Labour’
Jens Aurich (junior researcher at the IISH), Koen van der Lijn (Johan Huizinga Fellow at Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) and Fresco Sam-Sin (founder and creative lead of the Things That Talk Foundation), both connected to the Contract Labourers and Collective Action project…
The N.W. Posthumus Institute congratulates PhD Basic Training graduates
At the Posthumus Conference 2025 in Nijmegen, the PhD students present who completed the Posthumus PhD Basic Training Programme received their diploma during the Conference Dinner. The N.W. Posthumus Institute congratulates these PhDs and also those who completed the programme…
Posthumus Writing Retreat in Abdij van Berne (Berne Abbey)
From 16 until 21 June 2025, seven Posthumus PhD candidates gathered in Berne Abbey in Heeswijk-Dinther for the annual Writing Retreat of the N.W. Posthumus Institute. This five-day retreat offers students the opportunity to work on their dissertation or paper…
Change of coordinators Posthumus Research Network ‘Roots and Routes in Colonial and Global History’
At the end of this academic year, Professor Ulbe Bosma (IISH) will complete his task in the coordinating team of the Posthumus Research Network ‘Roots and Routes in Colonial and Global History’. Ulbe was one of the founders and initiators…
Symposium ‘Bracing for impact: Junior scholars on the Anthropocene’
On 27 June 2025, the Network for Environmental Humanities (NEH) celebrates the pioneering, socially engaged research being conducted by our junior scholars in the humanities with the Symposium ‘Bracing for imapct: Junior scholars on the Anthropocene’. The topics relate various…
PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Dániel Moerman
On 11 September 2025, Posthumus alumnus Dániel Moerman will defend the PhD thesis ‘A hydrosocial history of drought and societal resilience in the cities of Deventer and Zutphen, 1500-1900’ at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Supervisors are Professor Petra van Dam…
Several Posthumus fellows receive NWO-XS Grant
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded several fellows of the N.W. Posthumus Institute an NWO XS Grant. This grant is awarded for ideas with a maximum budget of 50,000 euro that hold great promise and aim to enable proposals…