Category: Agenda
GIS Tutorial and Project Presentation ‘(Re)Counting the Uncounted’ (IISH)
The researchers involved in the recently completed project ‘(Re)counting the Uncounted’ welcome you at the project presentation on 16 October 2024 at the International Institute of Social History. In this project, funded by the Dutch Research Council NWO, the researchers…
Matthias Van Laer genomineerd voor de Scriptieprijs Brabantse Geschiedenis
Op donderdag 19 september wordt wederom de Scriptieprijs Brabantse Geschiedenis uitgereikt aan degene die de beste masterscriptie over de Brabantse geschiedenis schreef. Ook promovendus Matthias Van Laer (Uantwerpen en Posthumus alumnus) is één van de genomineerden met een scriptie getiteld:…
PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Ewout Hasken (Utrecht University)
On 17 October 2024, Posthumus alumnus Ewout Hasken will defend his PhD thesis ‘From Rags to Riches: Changing Perceptions of Family Business in the Netherlands, 1945-2019’ at Utrecht University. Promotores are Professor Bas van Bavel and Professor Naomi Ellemers (both…
3rd Global Conference on the History of Risk and Insurance (Warsaw, Poland)
On 3 and 4 July 2025, The Warsaw School of Economics will be hosting the Third Global Conference on the History of Risk and Insurance. This conference investigates insurance as crucial to social development, economic advances, finance globalisation, and general…
Lecture by Professor Jan de Vries (UC Berkeley) on ‘Climate, economy and society in the Netherlands, 1579-1800’
The organisers of the Economic and Social History seminar series at Utrecht University cordially invite you to the lecture ‘Climate, economy and society in the Netherlands, 1579-1800’ by Jan de Vries, Ehrman Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley. The lecture will…
Rural History Conference 2025
The 7th biennial conference of the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO) will be held in Coimbra, Portugal, from 9 to 12 September 2025, hosted by the University of Coimbra. CONFERENCE WEBSITE
Programme symposium of Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries (25-26 October 2024)
Keynote speaker is professor Richard Hoffmann, esteemed author of ‘The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries’ and ‘An Environmental History of Medieval Europe’. If you would like to attend, flease fill out the form: Sign up!
Invitation to first National Sector Plan Conference ‘Cultural Heritage and Identity’
The Organising Committee on behalf of the Assistant Professors involved in the Sector plan theme ‘Cultural Heritage and Identity’ is cordially inviting participants to the very first National Sector Plan Conference ‘Cultural Heritage and Identity’ organised by the Dutch faculties…
Posthumus PhD Seminar I to be held in Maastricht, 12-13 December 2024
The N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to announce that Seminar I, ‘My research in a nutshell’, to be attended by the PhDs enlisted in cohort 2024 of the N.W. Posthumus PhD Training Programme, will be hosted by Maastricht University on…
PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Ingrid Schepers (University of Antwerp)
On 11 June 2024, Posthumus alumna Ingrid Schepers successfully defended the thesis ‘Mobilising labour: A spatial analysis of railway infrastructure, commuting flows and rural-urban relations in Belgium, 1846-1961’ at the University of Antwerp. Promotors were Professors Greet De Block and…