The Gerda Henkel Foundation has awarded a grant of 253k euro to ‘Economies of Trust? A New Digital Infrastructure on the Urban Poor in the Cape Colony’. This project, administered by Radboud University, is a two-year project led by  Dr Dries Lyna (assistant professor at the Radboud Institute for Culture and History and member of…

On 14 May 2025, Posthumus alumnus Bart Spliet successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘The Demand of the Invisible Hand. The Consumer Revolution and Social Inequality in the (Pre)Modern Metropolis’ at the University of Antwerp. Supervisors were Professor Bruno Blondé (University of Antwerp) and Professor Wouter Ryckbosch (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). Bas’ dissertation confronts two schools of…

On 28 and 29 August 2025, the researchers involved in COST-Action network GREATLEAP, in collaboration with the Radboud University Nijmegen, the HiDo network, and the IUSSP Panel ‘Epidemics and Contagious Diseases: The Legacy of the Past’, organise the conference ‘How did we lift the burden? Infectious Disease Mortality in the Western and Non-Western World (1800-now)’ . Keynote speaker…

On the occasion of her retirement, the Radboud Group for Historical Demography and Family History is hosting a farewell event and reception for Professor Angélique Janssens on 29 August 2025. Angélique Janssens is endowed Professor of Historical Demography at Radboud University Nijmegen. Her chair, located at Maastricht University, was devoted to topics relating to gender…

~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Onlangs is bij Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij het boek Dievenland: overleven in de middeleeuwen van de hand van Janna Coomans, Posthumus fellow en coördinator van ons onderzoeksnetwerk ‘Economy and Society of the Pre-industrial Low Countries in Comparative Perspective’ verschenen. Op basis van tot nu toe onontdekte dievenbekentenissen…

On its 217th anniversary, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has selected Professor Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, also Board member of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, as new Academy member. KNAW Academy members are selected from a large number of nominations by expert juries in each scientific and scholarly field based on their…

From 7 until 22 May 2025, a temporary exhibition can be seen in the University Library at the Drift: The Circle redrawn, Women at Work. This exposition is organised by an interdisciplinary group of researchers (among whom Dr Sara Carmichael, substitute Board Member of the N.W. Posthumus Institute and Sophie Vries MA, participant of the…

On 7 May 2025 Posthumus alumna Tessa de Boer successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘A Truth Universally Acknowledged. Dutch Investment in French Colonial Resources in the Eighteenth Century’ at Leiden University. Supervisors were Professor Cátia Antunes (Leiden University) and Dr Elisabeth Heijmans (University of Antwerp). Tessa’s dissertation focuses on Dutch investments in the French colonial…

We are happy to announce registration for the Posthumus Conference 2025 website is now open! On 27 and 28 May 2025, the Posthumus Conference 2025 will be held in Nijmegen at Radboud University, hosted by Dr Dries Lyna and Dr Joris van den Tol. This year’s conference will be on the central theme ‘The People…

The students of the Research Master’s programme in Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies at Radboud University invite students, postdocs and all others interestes humanistic research to join the Interdisciplinary Symposium in the Humanities on ‘[ReMa]king Identity’, to be held on 23 May 2025 at Radboud University. Identity is a fundamental concept in the humanities, shaping…