Category: Agenda
Call for applications Postgraduate Summer School Fondazione 1563 (Turin, Italy, 17-19 Sep 2026) – EXTENDED deadline 16 June 2026
The Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura (hereinafter “Fondazione 1563”) welcomes applications for the Postgraduate Summer School ‘Needs, Justice, and the Wealth of Nations: The Moral and Material Foundations of Political Economy in the European World (1500-1800)’, that will…
Posthumus Summer School 2026 ‘Crises and History’: Theme and dates announced – EXTENDED deadline registration 15 June 2026
After two successful previous editions, the N.W. Posthumus Institute will once more offer the Posthumus Summer School on ‘Crises and History’ on 6-10 July 2026. Crises are not a new phenomenon: past societies also faced them. How these societies coped…
Call for abstracts ESTER RDC 2026 (KU Leuven, Belgium, 26-28 October 2026) – deadline abstracts 15 June 2026
On 26 to 28 October 2026 the 2026 edition of the ESTER Research Design Course (RDC) will be held. This year’s edition will be hosted by the KU Leuven under the guidance of Maïka De Keyzer (photo), head of the…
Moving Humanities Conference 2026 – Call for Proposals – deadline 31 July 2026
The organisers of the Moving Humanities Conference 2026 welcome proposals for presentations and expositions. On 26 and 27 November 2026, the Moving Humanities Conference 2026 will be hosted by Radboud University in Nijmegen. The conference is co-organised by Radboud University…
PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Cécile Bruyet
On 26 June 2026, Posthumus alumnus Cécile Bruyet will defend the PhD thesis ‘A Taste for Land: How Access to Land Shaped Access to Food in Late Medieval Antwerp (1430-1530)’ at the University of Antwerp. Supervisors are Preofessors Tim Soens…
Successful PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Max-Quentin Bischoff
On 10 June 2026, Posthumus alumnus Max-Quentin Bischoff successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘Merchants’ Futures: Plans and expectations in the Tucher family company, c.1520-c.1550′ at the FelixArchief. Supervisor was Jeroen Puttevils (University of Antwerp). Drawing on the annotation and analysis…
Posthumus website ‘frozen’ from 18 June
Please note that, because of the transfer of the N.W. Posthumus Institute to the new penholder Leiden University in July 2026, this website of the N.W. Posthumus Institute will remain ‘static’ after 17 June 2026 until the transfer has been…
Valedictory lecture Professor Leo Lucassen
On 28 September 2026, Professor Leo Lucassen, Professor of Global Labour and Migration History at the Leiden University Institute for History, director of the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam, and longstanding fellow of the N.W. Posthumus Institute,…
Call for papers and panels: MarxismNL Conference 2026: ‘Pulling the Emergency Brake’ – EXTENDED deadline 5 June 2026
On 8 and 9 October 2026, MarxismNL will organise its first conference. MarxismNL is a network of Marxist students, researchers, and teachers active in the Netherlandst, promoting both academic and non-academic events such as public lectures, societal and political debates,…
Successful PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Bram Hilkens
On 22 May 2026, Posthumus alumnus Bram Hilkens successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘Living off the Land? Land Inequality in Early Modern Holland, 1543–1708’ at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Supervisors were Dr Daniel R. Curtis (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Professor Angelique Janssens…