Author: René van Weeren
PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Damion Bunders
On 15 March 2024, Posthumus alumnus Damion Bunders will defend his thesis ‘Gigs of their Own: can platform cooperatives become resilient?’ at the Erasmus Research Institute of Management of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Damion’s dissertation is about platform cooperatives as an…
International Workshop ‘The Fragmented City in Premodern Europe’
On 25 January 2024, the Centre for Urban History of the University of Antwerp, supported by the N.W. Posthumus Institute, will host the International Workshop ‘The Fragmented City in Premodern Europe’. Organisers are Posthumus PhD Bente Marschall and Posthumus fellow…
PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Patrick Naaktgeboren
On 11 January 2024, Posthumus alumnus Patrick Naaktgeboren successfully defended his PhD thesis ‘Private partnerships in early modern Antwerp (1621–1791) at Maastricht University. Promotores were Professor Bram Van Hofstraeten (Maastricht University) and Professor Jeroen Puttevils (University of Antwerp). Patricks dissertation…
Conference ‘Commodities and Environments in Early Modern Global Asia, 1400 – 1800’
The organisers of the international conference ‘Commodities and Environments in Early Modern Global Asia, 1400–1800’ call for papers. This conference is organised under the auspices of the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant Project, CAPASIA ‘The Asian Origins of Global…
Levend Archiefprijs 2023 awarded to Heidi Deneweth
The Levend Archief organisation, the association of supporters of the City Archives of Bruges, has awarded Posthumus board member Dr Heidi Deneweth the Levend Archiefprijs (‘Living Archives Award’), a quintennial award, for her publication Goede muren maken goede buren. Verbouwingen…
Workshop ‘The Histories of (Post-)Colonial Universities in the Netherlands’ (WUR)
On 29 and 30 August 2024, the Workshop ‘The Histories of (Post-)Colonial Universities in the Netherlands’ will be held at Wageningen University & Research. This workshop and the keynote is made possible thanks to the generous funding of Wageningen University…
PhD Career Day 2023
latest update: 20 October 2023, 2:20pm N.W. Posthumus Institute, the Huizinga Institute, the Research School Political History and the Research School for Medieval Studies jointly would like to invite their PhD candidates and recently promoted PhDs to the PhD Career…
N.W. Posthumus Annual Report 2022 available
The General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to present you the N.W. Posthumus Institute Annual Report 2022. The report provides you with an overview of activities, results and developments regarding the N.W. Posthumus Institute in 2022, the…
Phd Defence Posthumus alumnus Mark van de Water
On 20 September 2023, Posthumus alumnus Mark van de Water defended his PhD thesis ‘The road to drain or gain’ at the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University. Supervisors were Professor David Henley and Dr Thomas Lindblad, promotores were Professor…
Changes in General Board N.W. Posthumus Institute
Recently, the composition of the General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute has changed. Professor Hein Klemann, representative of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), has resigned as Board Member because of forthcoming retirement. Professor Ben Wubs from now on is the…