Category: Agenda
CAPASIA lectures on connected histories of capitalism (online / hybrid)
European Research Council project CAPASIA – The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism is organising a series of online/hybrid lectures dedicated to the connected histories of capitalism. The series is jointly organised with the European Research Council project ECOINT – a…
Agrarian Capitalism in the Preindustrial Low Countries : Local, Regional, and Global Dimensions
Posthumus students Bram Hilkens (PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Sam Miske (PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), with support by the Posthumus Institute research network ‘Economy and Society of the Pre-Industrial Low Countries in Comparative Perspective’, the NWO-funded…
Workshop on Belief in Solidarity
On 11-13 December 2023, UCSIA, the Urban Studies Institute (University of Antwerp) and Centre Pieter Gillis (University of Antwerp) organise an academic workshop at the University of Antwerp on interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of religiously inspired solidarity in modernising…
Book launch – New publication by Posthumus alumna Janna Everaert – register before 24 May 2023
On 5 June 2023, Posthumus alumna Dr Janna Everaert, now affiliated as postdoc researcher with the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, will present the first copy of the book Macht in de metropool: Politieke elitevorming tijdens…
Workshop ‘Epidemics in Medieval and Early Modern Western Europe’ (hybrid)
Preceding the PhD defence by Hugo La Poutré, the Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture (ICOG) and the Scientific Network for Historical Demography (HiDo:) jointly organise the hybrid workshop ‘Epidemics in Medieval and Early Modern Western Europe’. This…
Workshop ‘Pioneers of Capitalism in the Low Countries’
On 30 June 2023, the Center for Urban History of the University of Antwerp and the Antwerp Interdisciplinary Platform for Research into Inequality (AIPRIL), in cooperation with the N.W. Posthumus Institute, will host a workshop that is dedicated to the…
Evenement ‘Collectieven en overheid: Genoeg geëxperimenteerd?!’
~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ Het onderzoeksteam achter het Kennisplatform Collectieve Kracht organiseert op 16 juni in Eindhoven een inspirerende dag waar burgercollectieven en overheid worden samengebracht. Beide partijen hebben in het verleden met elkaar samengewerkt, maar…
Summer School CityLab IX: ‘Cities and states: exploring a complicated relationship’
Please note the deadline for applications has passed on 15 May 2023. Antwerp Summer University welcomes applications for the Summer School CityLab IX: ‘Cities and states: exploring a complicated relationship’, to be organised at the University of Antwerp in July…
PhD defence Posthumus alumnus Hugo La Poutré
On 5 June 2023, Posthumus alumnus Hugo La Poutré will defend his PhD thesis ‘English population 1086-1377: a modelling approach’ at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen. Population size, food production, and consumption are closely related. Hugo…
Workshop ‘Risk and Entrepreneurship – Old Discussions, Innovative Questions, New Insights’
Gijs Dreijer, Lewis Wade, Mallory Hope, Cátia Antunes and Maria Fusaro kindly invite participants to join the workshop ‘Risk and Entrepreneurship – Old Discussions, Innovative Questions, New Insights’, to be held at Leiden University on 7 and 8 June 2023.…