Author: René van Weeren
New publication on occasion of Professor Angelique Janssens’ retirement
On 29 August 2025, Professor Angelique Janssens retired from her chair in historical demography at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University and the Department of Economic, Social and Demographic History at Radboud University. At the symposium,…
In memoriam: Harry Lintsen (1949-2025)
Recentelijk ontving het N.W. Posthumus Instituut het droeve bericht dat emeritus hoogleraar prof.dr.ir. Harry Lintsen op dinsdag 12 augustus 2025 op 76-jarige leeftijd is overleden. Professor Lintsen was de grondlegger van de ontwikkeling van het vakgebied techniekgeschiedenis in Nederland. Vanaf…
Successful PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Lena Walschap
On 26 August 2025, Posthumus alumna Lena Walschap successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘All is fish that comes to the net. Peasant fishing on the English South Coast in the turbulent late Middle Ages’ at the KU Leuven. Supervisors were…
In memoriam: Boudien de Vries (1951-2025)
Onlangs ontvingen we het bericht dat op 12 juli 2025 Boudien de Vries (1951-2025) is overleden . Boudien de Vries was oorspronkelijk opgeleid als sociaal-economisch historica en in die hoedanigheid in het verleden dan ook meerdere jaren nauw betrokken bij…
Publicaties Posthumus fellows op long-list Libris Geschiedenis Prijs 2025
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Recent is uit een lijst van 370 historische boeken de longlist met de tien genomineerden voor de Libris Geschiedenis Prijs 2025 bekend gemaakt. Onder de genomineerde auteurs bevinden zich liefst twee Posthumus…
Change of Coordinator Research Network ‘Inclusion, Exclusion, and Mobility’
As of the start of the academic year 2025-2026, Bart Lambert will conclude his valuable work as a coordinator of our Research Network ‘Inclusion, Exclusion, and Mobility’. We thank Bart for his successful efforts in coordinating this network over the…
Workshop ‘Spaces of Formal and Informal Diplomacy in the Premodern Mediterranean’ – pre-registration requested
The members of the DiplomatiCon Project (Power in History: Centre for Political History, and Centre for Urban History), in cooperation with the Research Network ‘Routes and Roots in Colonial and Global History’ of the N.W. Posthumus Institute are glad to…
4th Regional History Society of Southern Africa Conference
The Regional History Society of Southern African (RHSSA) is hosting a conference on the theme ‘Independences and post-colonialism in Southern Africa’. This year’s theme is closely related to the jubilee of independence of Mozambique and Angola. The organisers call for…
Seminar ‘Sources, silence and the senses in the study of the history of global Chinese Labour’
Jens Aurich (junior researcher at the IISH), Koen van der Lijn (Johan Huizinga Fellow at Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) and Fresco Sam-Sin (founder and creative lead of the Things That Talk Foundation), both connected to the Contract Labourers and Collective Action project…
The N.W. Posthumus Institute congratulates PhD Basic Training graduates
At the Posthumus Conference 2025 in Nijmegen, the PhD students present who completed the Posthumus PhD Basic Training Programme received their diploma during the Conference Dinner. The N.W. Posthumus Institute congratulates these PhDs and also those who completed the programme…