From 30 September until 2 October 2024 the ESTER Research Design Course (RDC) 2024 will be held at the University of Münster. The 2024 RDC will be hosted by Dr Christine Fertig and her colleagues in close cooperation with the N.W. Posthumus Institute. ESTER is the acronym of the European graduate School for Training in…

Posthumus alumnus Dr Sam Geens (University of Antwerp) was one of the two laureates receiving the Thirsk-Feinstein PhD Dissertation Prize 2024 at the 2024 annual conference of the Economic History Society (EHS). He received this award for his thesis ‘A Golden Age for labour? Income and wealth before and after the Black Death in the…

Project supervisors Professors Roberta Biasillo, Roel Frakking, and co-supervisors Professors Ido de Haanand Liesbeth van de Griftare looking for a PhD candidate on ‘Colonial Environmental History (19th Century Dutch East Indies)’. The PhD candidate will be working on a project titled ‘Conservation before conservationism: Resilient environments in Dutch East Indies in the 19th century’ funded…

The Institute for History at the University of Leiden invites applications for a postdoc position (0.8 fte, 30 months) on the history of international ageing policies within the project ‘Human Development and Its Outliers’ This project envisions a broad evaluation of 20th-century models of human development over the life course (ontogenesis, human constitution), including socialist…

~ because of scope and required proficiency in Dutch only ~ Op het Instituut van Geschiedenis van de Universiteit Leiden wordt in het kader van het NWA-project Collaborative learning from loneliness (COLLELO). A transdisciplinary approach to understand and reduce loneliness together with people with mild intellectual disabilities) de komende jaren transdisciplinair onderzoek verricht naar de…

~ because of scope and required proficiency in Dutch only ~ Op het Instituut van Geschiedenis van de Universiteit Leiden wordt in het kader van een Startersbeurs-project ‘Human Development and Its outliers: A Global Microhistory’ (o.l.v. dr. Isaac Scarborough, dr. Paul van Trigt en dr. Evelien Walhout), de komende jaren een wetenschappelijk onderzoek verricht naar…

On 30 and 31 May 2024, the (In)Equality Platform of Institutions for Open Societies at Utrecht University will organise a conference on ‘Recolonising Empires during the Cold War: Transitional Social Movements and Social Policy in Post-Colonial Areas’. Main organisers are Professor Marco van Leeuwen (Utrecht University) and Dr Michele Mioni (University of Bamberg). You can…

Posthumus Fellow and Assistant Professor at Utrecht University Dr Maanik Nath was awarded the First Monograph Prize in Economic and Social History by the Economic History Society (EHS) for his book Capital shortage: Credit and Indian economic development, 1920–1960. The prize was awarded at EHS’s Annual Conference dinner on 6 April 2024. Books published within…

~ because of scope and required proficiency in Dutch only ~ Het Nederlands Openlucht Museum is op zoek naar een kandidaat met academisch denk- en werkniveau, bij voorkeur blijkend uit een afgeronde master op het gebied van geschiedenis, cultuurwetenschappen of culturele antropologie voor de positie van wetenschappelijk medewerker. De wetenschappelijk medewerker verricht toegepast wetenschappelijk onderzoek…

No less than 31 Basic Training candidates, more than 1500 pages of documentation, 44 commentators, 6 days: the Individual Assessments cohort 2022 have been completed. Congratulations to the PhD-candidates on obtaining their Basic Training degree! We warmly invite them to the diploma ceremony during dinner at the Posthumus Conference in Leeuwarden. Our special thanks go…