Author: René van Weeren
Publication ‘Frontiers of Finance’ from Posthumus fellow Alberto Feenstra published
On 18 December 2025, Brill Publishers published ‘Frontiers of Finance: The Political Economy of Public Debt in the Dutch Republic’, authored by Posthumus fellow Alberto Feenstra. In this book, Alberto analyses the political economy of provincial public debt within the…
Recent changes PhD Representatives N.W. Posthumus Institute
Recently, there have been some changes in the group of PhD Representatives of the N.W. Posthumus Institute. Hannelore Braeken will take the place of Dinos Sevdalakis. Dinos is now focusing on the completion of the PhD trajectory at the University…
Yearbook of Women’s History 2025 ‘Women and Ports’
Amsterdam University Press has just announced the upcoming publication of the 34th edition of the Yearbook of Women’s History. This year’s edition focuses on the role of women in the maritime sector. Diverting from the image of women passively waiting…
LeidenGlobal course ‘Methodologies in the Social Sciences and Humanities’ (Feb-June 2026) – deadline 15 January 2026
The Leiden University Institute for Area Studies in collaboration with LeidenGlobal offers a twelve-week course ‘Methodologies in the Social Sciences and Humanities’. This course will allow beginning scholars to develop a critical understanding of methodologies in the social sciences and…
Blog ‘Historisch eten en koken’ van Posthumus fellows Patricia Van den Eeckhout en Peter Scholliers online
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Posthumus-fellows Patricia Van den Eeckhout en Peter Scholliers (emeriti hoogleraren Vrije Universiteit Brussel) zijn gestart met een blog over de geschiedenis van de eetcultuur in West-Europa sedert de late 18e eeuw, ‘Historisch…
Nieuwe publicatie Posthumus fellow Dries Lyna : ‘Slavernij en de koloniale ketens van ‘s-Hertogenbosch’
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Posthumus-fellow en -bestuurslid Dries Lyna schreef samen met co-auteurs Kim Lempereur en Joris Martens het boek Vergeten verhalen: Slavernij en de koloniale ketens van ’s-Hertogenbosch, onlangs verschenen bij Radboud University Press. Stap…
Workshop ‘Channeling Middle-Class Savings, 1850-1940’
On 29 and 30 June 2026 the University of Antwerp and the Paris School of Economics will host the workshop ‘Channeling Middle-Class Savings, 1850-1940’, exploring the investment of middle-class savings between the second half of the nineteenth-century and the Second…
Workshop ‘Networks in History’ (Huizinga Institute & N.W. Posthumus Institute)
The Huizinga Institute and the N.W. Posthumus Institute are offering a 3-day workshop on ‘Networks in History’, to be held on 21-23 January 2026 at the International Institute of History in Amsterdam. Description and aim Historical network analysis as a…
2nd Workshop The Economic and Financial History of Colonialism
On 26 and 27 March 20-26, the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Groningen and the University of Antwerp will jointly organise the second edition of the workshop series ‘The Economic and Financial History of Colonialism’ at…
Conference ‘Becoming Local? Forgotten Lineages of Displaced Communities Across the Indian Ocean World, 1650-1850’ – keynotes by Professors Sue Peabody and Jennifer L. Gaynor
On 10 and 11 December 2025, the international conference ‘Becoming Local? Forgotten Lineages of Displaced Communities Across the Indian Ocean World, 1650-1850’ will be held at Leiden University. Organisers are Dries Lyna and Pouwel van Schooten in cooperation with Sanayi…