Author: René van Weeren
Evenement ‘Collectieven en overheid: Genoeg geëxperimenteerd?!’
~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ Het onderzoeksteam achter het Kennisplatform Collectieve Kracht organiseert op 16 juni in Eindhoven een inspirerende dag waar burgercollectieven en overheid worden samengebracht. Beide partijen hebben in het verleden met elkaar samengewerkt, maar…
Summer School CityLab IX: ‘Cities and states: exploring a complicated relationship’
Please note the deadline for applications has passed on 15 May 2023. Antwerp Summer University welcomes applications for the Summer School CityLab IX: ‘Cities and states: exploring a complicated relationship’, to be organised at the University of Antwerp in July…
Kate Frederick awarded Keetje Hodshon Award 2023
Dr Katherine Frederick, one of the Research Directors of the Posthumus Research Network ‘Societies in Context: Interactions between humans and rural-urban environments’, has been awarded the Keetje Hodshon Award 2023. Kate receives this award for her PhD thesis Deindustrialization in…
PhD defence Posthumus alumnus Hugo La Poutré
On 5 June 2023, Posthumus alumnus Hugo La Poutré will defend his PhD thesis ‘English population 1086-1377: a modelling approach’ at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen. Population size, food production, and consumption are closely related. Hugo…
Workshop ‘Risk and Entrepreneurship – Old Discussions, Innovative Questions, New Insights’
Gijs Dreijer, Lewis Wade, Mallory Hope, Cátia Antunes and Maria Fusaro kindly invite participants to join the workshop ‘Risk and Entrepreneurship – Old Discussions, Innovative Questions, New Insights’, to be held at Leiden University on 7 and 8 June 2023.…
Conference ‘Gender discrimination in Modern Greece’
The organisers of the Conference ‘Gender discrimination in Modern Greece’ welcome proposals for this single-day conference, to be held at the Norwegian Institute at Athens. Recent research not only argues that female infanticide and the mortal neglect of female infants…
Workshop ‘Towards a Comparative History of Household Finance Before and After the Industrial Revolution’
In the Fall of 2023 the Department of History at the University of Antwerp will host the workshop ‘Towards a Comparative History of Household Finance Before and After the Industrial Revolution’. The central questions in this workshop are very simple…
Dutch Carribean Research Week
In the week of 26 June – 2 July 2023, NWO will organise the third Dutch Caribbean Research Week (DCRW 2023). The Dutch Caribbean Research Week 2023 is a free annual multiday conference aimed at providing a platform to bring…
Registration for Posthumus Conference 2023 open now!
The N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to announce that registration for the 2023 Annual Conference of the N.W. Posthumus Institute is open now. The 2023 conference will be held at and hosted by the University of Antwerp on 24 and…
Dr Peter Scholliers second keynote lecturer at Posthumus Conference 2023
The organisers are happy to announce that a second keynote speaker has been added to the programma of the Posthumus Conference 2023. In addition to Dr Susan Flavin, Associate Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin, a second keynote lecture…