Author: René van Weeren
Posthumus fellow Selin Dilli one of speakers at Betweterfestival 2023
Posthumus Fellow and member of our Education Committee Selin Dilli is one of the invited speakers at the annual Betweterfestival. The Betweterfestival is an annual event, organised by Utrecht University in close cooperation with numerous partner organisations and is open…
Changes of PhD representatives
At the General Board meeting of 19 September 2023, Jasper Segerink, Samantha Sint Nicolaas and Karoline da Silva Rodrigues ended their positions as PhD representatives. The N.W. Posthumus Institute and its staff thank Jasper, Samantha and Karoline very much for…
Cum laude PhD defence alumna Weixuan Li
On 12 September 2023, Posthumus-alumna Weixuan Li successfully defended her PhD thesis Painters’ playbooks: Deep mapping socio-spatial strategies in the art market of seventeenth-century Amsterdam cum laude at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. Promotors were Professor…
15th Conference of Young Demographers
The Young Demographers, in cooperation with the Association for Young Historical Demographers (AYHD), the Geographical Institute and the Department of Demography and Geodemography of the Faculty of Science, Charles University, invite you to the 15th Conference of Young Demographers. The…
NEW: Research Master brochure 2023-2024
The N.W. Posthumus Institute is proud to present the new Research Master brochure with the info on the 2023-2024 Interuniversity Research Master courses. New this year is the Summer School Crises and History, which will be hosted by Utrecht University…
13e Jacob van Lenneplezing – ‘De ontdekking van Insulinde: op reis in Nederlands-Indië in de negentiende eeuw’
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Op 5 oktober 2023 vindt bij SPUI25 in samenwerking met de Werkgroep de Moderne Tijd en de Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen van de Universiteit van Amsterdam de 13e Jacob van Lenneplezing plaats. Spreker Rick…
Workshop ‘Future Thinking and Practices in Premodern Economy, Society, and Culture’
The organisers of the workshop ‘Future Thinking and Practices in Premodern Economy, Society, and Culture’, to be held at the University of Antwerp on 23 and 24 November 2023, call for additional papers, exclusively for (max. 6) participants of Dutch…
Online Summer School ‘Exploring Open Large-Scale Historical Demographic Databases’
The Italian Society of Historical Demography (Società Italiana di Demografia Storica; SIDeS) organises an online summer school on ‘Exploring Open Large-Scale Historical Demographic Databases’. The sessions are scheduled for 8 September, 15 September, 22 September, 29 September, 6 October 2023.…
Masterclass with Thomas Safley: ‘Actors and institutions in the pre-Modern Economy’
VUB research group HOST (Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes) in collaboration with the N.W. Posthumus Institute is hosting the masterclass ‘Actors and institutions in the pre-Modern Economy’ with Professor Thomas Safley on 2 October 2023. About the speaker Thomas…
Save the date: Posthumus Writing Retreat 2024 scheduled for 24-29 June 2024!
The annual Posthumus Writing Retreat 2023 took place from 12 – 17 June, this year in the beautiful Abbey of Berne in Heeswijk-Dinther in the province of North Brabant. Eught PhD-students worked undisturbed for a week on writing an article…