Category: Agenda
PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Hanna te Velde
On 27 January 2027, Posthumus alumnus Hanna te Velde will defend the PhD thesis ‘Women and the Making of the Dutch Colonial World. Everyday Strategies, Agency and Differences in Work, Family and Finance, c. 1700-1800’ at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.…
Winterschool Migration in the Margins of Europe
Netherlands Institute at Athens In the last decade, the flows of refugees have been intensified as a result of the widerpolitical changes in the middle East, Asia and Africa while Europe is facing one of themost challenging periods of its…
Call for Papers
People, Practices, and Knowledge of the Proximal Senses across the Mediterranean conference, University of Liège, March 25–26, 2027 Please submit a paper or poster title, an abstract (maximum 2000 characters includingspaces), and a short biographical note using this form by…
CLARIAH Community Connect 2026 – What Are You Looking For?
3 December 2026 What will be the research topics of tomorrow, how will humanities methods evolve, what data types and sources will be tapped into, what questions will be asked? As a director or coordinator of a Humanities Research/Graduate school,…
Professor Dagomar Degroot to Give a Public Lecture on Climate and History
What can we learn from the past about today’s climate change? On Tuesday afternoon, October 20, professor and environmental historian Dagomar Degroot will give a public lecture on this topic at the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. As part of the Huygens…
PhD Defense Mark Raat
Mark Raat hopes to receive his Ph.D. on October 15, 2026, at 2:30 p.m. at the University of Groningen. The title of his dissertation is Historische landschapspolitiek in het Friese Veenweidegebied: een breuk met het verleden? Promotores are Professors A.M.…
Het Huis Oranje-Nassau en de koloniale geschiedenis
Op 5 november organiseert de Stichting Geschiedenis van de Overheidsfinanciën een studiemiddag over het onderzoek naar de rol van het Huis Oranje-Nassau en de Nederlandse koloniale geschiedenis. Christiaan van Bochove (financieel historicus en universitair hoofddocent bij Universiteit Utrecht) bespreekt de…
KB Onderzoeksdag
Op vrijdag 6 November 2026 organiseert de KB, nationale bibliotheek, een onderzoeksdag voor promovendi en research master studenten. Op de Onderzoeksdag vertellen collectiespecialisten en conservatoren van de KB over hun (fysieke en digitale) collecties, van middeleeuwse handschriften en oude drukken…
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…