Author: René van Weeren
Inaugural lecture Chair Francqui 2024-2025 delivered by Posthumus fellow Professor Jan Dumoulyn
On 12 March 2025, Posthumus fellow Jan Dumoulyn, Professor of History at Ghent University, will deliver the inaugural lecture for the Chaire Francqui 2024-2025 at the University of Namur. The lecture will be titled ‘Een canon, een verhaal en de…
Posthumus Course ‘Quantative Methods for Historians and Social Scientists’ currently fully booked
In April, the course ‘Quantative Methods for Historians and Social Scientists’ of the N.W. Posthumus Institute will start at Utrecht University. Although the final deadline for registration was set on 15 March 2025, the number of participants for this course…
Lecture Dr Maanik Nath at Seminar Series Radboud University
On Monday 17 February 2025 the Department of International Economics at Radboud University will host Dr Maanik Nath (Utrecht University) for a lecture entitled ‘Drivers of Agricultural Growth in British India’ in the departmental seminar lecture series. All those interested…
Seminar series Micro-Global Histories of Slavery: Sources and Approaches
Linked to the combined research team of slavery projects at the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam) and Radboud University (Nijmegen), researcher of both institutions jointly organise a hybrid seminar series ‘Micro-Global Histories of Slavery: Sources and Approaches’. As a…
PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Ramona Negrón
On 19 March 2025, Posthumus alumna Ramona Negrón will defend the PhD thesis ‘Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas, 1580-1700’ at Leiden University. Supervisors are Professor Cátia Antunes (Leiden University) and Dr Susana Münch Miranda (Universidade Nova de Lisboa). Ramona’s…
3rd Conference on Frisian Humanities
The Fryske Akademy, the Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, the Professorship Multilingualism and Literacy of NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, the department of Frisian Studies of the University of Groningen, and the department Language, Technology…
10th International Conference on the Middle Ages
The Institute of Medieval Studies (FCSH; Nova University, Lisbon) and the City Council of Castelo de Vide will host the X International Conference on the Middle Ages which will be held from 2nd to 4th October 2025 under the theme…
PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Jasper Segerink
On 14 February 2025, Posthumus alumnus Jasper Segerink (cohort 2020) successfully defended his thesis ‘The Lodging House and the City. Accommodating Migrants in Urban Space, Antwerp, 1850-1914’ to obtain his PhD from the University of Antwerp at the Felixarchief in…
KHMW Brouwer Vertrouwensprijs awarded to Team Collectieve Kracht
The jury of the KHMW Brouwer Vertrouwensprijs [KHMW Brouwer Trust Award] has awarded the Brouwer Vertrouwensprijs 2025 to the knowledge platform CollectieveKracht, initiated by Posthumus fellow Tine De Moor, Professor Social Enterprises and Institutions for Collective Action at the research…
GECORRIGEERDE DATUM – Workshop Nederlandsch Economisch-Historisch Archief (NEHA) over economische ongelijkheid
De bijeenkomst van 4 februari 2025 vervangt de origineel voor 14 november 2024 geplande workshop die in verband met de landelijke actiedag tegen de bezuinigingen op hoger onderwijs was uitgesteld. ~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ In het…