Author: René van Weeren
Platform Digital Infrastructure SSH awards grants to Posthumus Board member Jan Kok and Posthumus fellow Auke Rijpma
There is a strong desire in the SSH field to assign part of the resources intended for the SSH Sector Plan of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) to a domain wide digital SSH plan. For this purpose,…
In memoriam: Prof. dr. Joh. de Vries (1927-2021)
Prof. dr. Joh. de Vries (1927-2021) Op 13 oktober 2021 overleed prof. dr. Joh. (Hans) de Vries. Hij werd 94 jaar. Hij was vijfentwintig jaar hoogleraar Economische Geschiedenis in Tilburg en wordt in Nederland gezien als wegbereider van bedrijfsgeschiedenissen die…
Ewout Frankema appointed as new Chair of the General Board
At the latest General Board meeting of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, chair of the General Board Professor Hilde Greefs announced the completion of her period as chair person. The General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute wants to express thanks…
DATINI-ESTER Advanced Seminar 2022
Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) will organise their sixth jointly-organized Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians on 8-13 May 2022, in Prato…
Annual Report N.W. Posthumus Institute 2020 online
The N.W. Posthumus Institute presents you its Annual Report over 2020. The report describes the activities, events, and results of both the N.W. Posthumus PhD Training Programme as well as the courses delivered within the Research Master programme of the…
Workshop ‘Methods and data for longitudinal analysis of Institutions for Collective Action’ (The Hague, 8-10 Dec.)
The Research Group ‘Institutions for Collective Action’ at the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam organises a specialised workshop dedicated to the study of institutions for collective action (ICAs), or institutional arrangements that are formed by groups of…
4th Conference European Society of Historical Demography
The 4th ESHD conference leading theme is ‘Human–environmental nexus in the past: understanding links between demographic variability, ecology and disease’. Participants are encouraged to engage with and link across three different streams of historical social science analysis: the diversity of…
Introducing the new Posthumus staff members
With the regular quinquennial transfer of the seat of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, now hosted by the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University, we also would like to introduce to you the new staff members of the…
Pepijn Brandon receives VIDI Grant
Dr Pepijn Brandon, Research Director of the N.W. Posthumus Institute Research Network ‘Economy and Society of the Pre-industrial Low Countries in Comparative Perspective’ and affiliated with both the International Institute of Social History and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has been awarded…
WEHC 2022 Paris
The 19th World Congress will be held in Paris on July 25-29, 2022. The Congress will address “resources” as one of the main challenges of the contemporary world. The Congress will consider sessions on all the categories of resources, that…