The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has launched a call for applications for the KNAW Trailblazers Fund. The purpose of the Fund is to support early-career first-generation academics (PhD candidates in the final 2 years, assistant professors without a permanent position, and postdoc researchers within the first three years after their promotion)…

The Department of Architecture (Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Heverlee Campus, KU Leuven) has vacancies for two postdoctoral researchers (36 months) for the ERC-funded project ‘URBAN-DELTA: Metropolises in the Mud. Innovation in Delta Building Technology in Europe and China before 1800’, directed by Professor Merlijn Hurx. URBAN-DELTA hypothesises that major advances in the history of water-related…

After two successful previous editions, the N.W. Posthumus Institute will once more offer the Posthumus Summer School on ‘Crises and History’ on 6-10 July 2026. Crises are not a new phenomenon: past societies also faced them. How these societies coped with crises, or why they failed to do so, is a topic that increasingly draws…

Professor Pepijn Brandon, fellow and also subsitute member of the General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, recently was awarded, together with three other researchers a Synergy Grant of 10 million euros to investigate these questions within the TASTADE (The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Development of Europe) project by the European Research Council (ERC)….

The Executive Board of Leiden University has appointed Dr Alicia Schrikker, fellow of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, as Professor of Dutch History in the World, effective 1 January 2026. The chair is based at the Institute of History (Faculty of Humanities). Alicia Schrikker is Director of Research at the Leiden University Institute for History. She…

On Thursday 23 April and Friday 24 April 2026, the section Economic, Social and Demographic History of Radboud University, supported by the N.W. Posthumus Institute, will host the international seminar and workshop on “Trust, institutions, and capitalism in early modern Europe”. The keynote lecture at this event will be delivered by Professor Craig Muldrew (University…

On 5 and 6 November, the Department of Economic History of the London School of Economics (LSE) and the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies will jointly organise the workshop ‘Swoing the Seeds VIII’; this workshop will also act as the 13th Annual Conference of the Research Group for Late Medieval Economic History. The…

The Unger Van Brero Foundation has established an endowed chair in Business History/Financial History at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The Chair aims to make connections between the business history, financial and economic history and broader developments in the economy and society. This endowed chair aims to further investigate the historical position of international business in this…

The SHOC Research Group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in association with the Medieval Caucasus Network and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, will organise the international conference ‘Studying Non-Elites in the Medieval Caucasus’ on 13 and 14 March 2026 at the premises of the VUB Campus in Elsene, Belgium. The conference can also…

The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) welcomes proposals for organising the 2026 ESEH Summer School in Environmental History. The ESEH Summer School is an annual gathering of post-graduate and early-career researchers, led by academics in the field of environmental history. Proposals for 2026 may focus on any theme in environmental history, including but not…