Author: René van Weeren
Symposium ‘Lives in slavery: Exploring the slave registers of Suriname and Curacao, 1830-1863’ – register before 16 March 2023
The research group Historical Database of Suriname and Curacao (HDSC) at Radboud University Nijmegen published the first releases of the Surinamese and the Curacao slave registers, in which the individual enslaved persons are linked between different series and owners. To…
Masterclass Dr Céline Regnard – ‘A place in the city. Migrant police, policy & housing in the 19th and 20th centuries’
The Centre for Urban History at the University of Antwerpin collaboration with the N.W. Posthumus Institute is hosting the masterclass ‘A place in the city. Migrant police, policy & housing in the 19th and 20th centuries’, delivered by Dr. Céline…
Work and Wellbeing in History FRESH Meeting
Work is central to human wellbeing, but job quality has received comparatively little attention in economic history and historical wellbeing studies. The inclusion of ‘decent work’ in the Sustainable Development Goals and the recent profusion of present-day job quality metrics…
Global Conference ‘Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour’ 3
Various departments of the Anton de Kom University of Suriname and the Directorate of Culture (Ministry of Education, Science and Culture), organisers of the third conference on the Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour welcome proposals for this Global Conference…
PhD Promotion Posthumus alumna Mayra Murkens
On 31 January 2023, Posthumus alumna Mayra Murkens succesfully defended her PhD thesis ‘Unequal paths to the grave? Time lags and inequalities in the Dutch health transition, the case of Maastricht, 1864-1955’ at the University of Maastricht. Mayra’s research focusses…
Conference ‘Food, Rules and the City’
On 16 and 17 November 2023, Posthumus alumni Dennis De Vriese (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Nicholas Brunmayr (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Robin Rose Southard (VUB) organise an international conference, entitled ‘Food, Rules and the City: Food Market Regulations and Their…
Conference ‘Making Households Count’
The organisers of the two-day conference ‘Making Households Count’ invite paper proposals. This conference is also the closing event for the ERC-funded project ‘Race to the bottom? Family labour, household livelihood and consumption in the relocation of global cotton manufacturing’,…
Symposium: ‘From science to society: evidence-based lessons for (cooperative) social enterprises’
Preceding the inaugural lecture by Professor Tine De Moor, the Research Team Institutions for Collective Action, based at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, organises the Symposium: ‘From science to society: evidence-based lessons for (cooperative) social enterprises’. The…
ERC Starting Grant awarded to Dr Fenneke Sysling
Dr Fenneke Sysling, one of the research directors of the Posthumus Research Network ‘Routes and Roots in Colonial and Global History’ was recently awarded an ERC Starting Grant for her research on what medical ethics was like in colonial times.…
Online History of Medicine and Health Seminar Series
The Groningen Centre for Health and Humanities and the Research Centre for Historical Studies of the University of Groningen jointly organise an online seminar series on ‘History of Medicine and Health’. The series consist of four separate online monthly seminars…