Month: June 2026
Vacature: 2 Student Assistenten ‘Voicing the Document’ (KNAW Humanities Cluster) – deadline 15 september 2026
~ because of required proficiency in Dutch only ~ Het KNAW Humanities Cluster zoekt 2 student-assistenten voor het NWO-project Voicing the Document, waarin het streven is bestaande grote open weights AI machine learning modellen beter bruikbaar te maken voor de…
Posthumus website ‘frozen’ from 18 June
Please note that, because of the transfer of the N.W. Posthumus Institute to the new penholder Leiden University in July 2026, this website of the N.W. Posthumus Institute will remain ‘static’ after 17 June 2026 until the transfer has been…
Vacancy: Professor of Europe in a Global Context (University of Amsterdam) – deadline 12 August 2026
The Department of History, European Studies, Religious Studies, and CEDLA-Latin American Studies of the University of Amsterdam is looking to appoint a full Professor of Europe in a Global Context. This professorship in European Studies focuses on Europe and its…
Valedictory lecture Professor Leo Lucassen
On 28 September 2026, Professor Leo Lucassen, Professor of Global Labour and Migration History at the Leiden University Institute for History, director of the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam, and longstanding fellow of the N.W. Posthumus Institute,…
Vacancy: Historical Data Specialist for research infrastructure ‘Chains of the Past’ (Radboud University) – deadline 21 June 2026
The Faculty of Arts of Radboud University is looking for a Historical Data Specialist for the project ‘Chains of the Past’. ‘Chains of the Past’ sits at the frontier of digital historical research. By processing thousands of historical handwritten documents,…
Posthumus alumnus Rosa Kösters winner Instituut Gak-KNAW Award 2026
On 1 June 2026, Posthumus alumnus Rosa Kösters, postdoc researcher at the Interantional Institute of Social History, was awarded the Instituut Gak-KNAW Award 2026 for her research proposal ‘Van onderen! Sociale zekerheid tussen burgerinitiatief en innovatie, 1960–2025’. The Instituut Gak-KNAW…
Call for papers and panels: MarxismNL Conference 2026: ‘Pulling the Emergency Brake’ – EXTENDED deadline 5 June 2026
On 8 and 9 October 2026, MarxismNL will organise its first conference. MarxismNL is a network of Marxist students, researchers, and teachers active in the Netherlandst, promoting both academic and non-academic events such as public lectures, societal and political debates,…
Call for applications Tresoar Fellowships 2027 – deadline 6 November 2026
Tresoar and the Friends of Tresoar welcome applications for the Tresoar Fellowships 2027. Every year a stipend is made available to a young academic from home or abroad. This allows an innovative research project of up to three months to…