Author: René van Weeren
In Memoriam: Professor Peter Hertner (1942-2023)
Recently, we were informed that Professor Peter Hertner, member of the ESTER network, passed away on 26 April 2023. Born in 1942 in Ulm, Southern Germany, he studied in Heidelberg, Besançon, Basel, Strasbourg, Paris, and Marburg where he was awarded…
Tweets not showing due to changes Twitter
As you may have noticed, the Twitter feed on our homepage shows the message ‘Nothing to see here – yet’. It appears that recent changes in Twitters management and policy are the cause of this; many other websites experience the…
NEW: New version of PhD brochure out now!
The staff of the N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to inform you that an updated and revised version of the PhD Training Programme oF the N.W. Posthumus Institute has just been released. In this brochure, (prospective) PhD participants will find…
Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar 2024: ‘Social and Geographical Mobility
Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) will organise their seventh jointly-organized Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians on 12-18 May 2024, in Prato…
Wageningen University – RHI Seminars – every 2nd Thursday of each month – registration appreciated
How and why have economies grown historically? Why and how did worldwide inequalities come into being? How have people all over the world in the past up to the present dealt with the issue of providing a living for themselves…
NEW: PhD Cohort pages launched on Posthumus website
We are happy to announce the launch of the PhD cohort pages on our website. On these pages, you will find the PhDs currently following the PhD Training Programme of the N.W. Posthumus Institute. Thinking about joining this programme? Find…
New publication by Posthumus members Elisabeth Heijmans and Sophie Rose
Posthumus members Elisabeth Heijmans and co-editor Sophie Rose are the editors of Diversity and Empires Negotiating Plurality in European Imperial Projects from Early Modernity, published on 2 June 2023 with Routledge as an open-access book. Examining diversity as a fundamental…
CAPASIA lectures on connected histories of capitalism (online / hybrid)
European Research Council project CAPASIA – The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism is organising a series of online/hybrid lectures dedicated to the connected histories of capitalism. The series is jointly organised with the European Research Council project ECOINT – a…
Inaugural Lecture Professor Pepijn Brandon (VU Amsterdam)
On 26 May 2023 at 15:45 Professor Pepijn Brandon delivered his inaugural lecture as Professor of Global Economic and Social History in the Aula of the VU Amsterdam. The title of the inaugural lecture was: Elements of original accumulation: Dispossession,…
PhDs cohort 2021 succesfully completed Basic Training Programme
We are happy to inform you the recent Posthumus Conference in Antwerp also marked the completion of the Basic PhD Training Programme of the N.W. Posthumus Institute for most PhD students of cohort 2021. Those attending the conference were handed…