Category: Agenda
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman in Conversation with the Next Gen on Global Challenges and Local Solutions
The Dutch Central Bank (DNB), in collaboration with Universiteit van Nederland, SSH-raad, EHERO-EUR, and The Regional Science Academy invites university students from across the Netherlands to submit their innovative ideas on critical economic and political issues. This student competition forms…
Conference ‘Growing Humanities: Flourishing Futures in Challenging Times’ – Call for Papers (deadline 15 May 2026)
On 29 June 2026, the Royal Historical Society organises the conference ‘Growing Humanities: Flourishing Futures in Challenging Times’, to be held at the University of Westminster (London, UK). Across the UK and internationally, Humanities disciplines are navigating a period of…
Research Workshop ‘Mortality, Morbidity, and Medicine: Historical Health and Demography across the Atlantic’ – deadline 30 April 2026
On 8 June 2026, preceding the PhD Defence by Posthumus alumnus Dinos Sevdalakis, Dinos will organise the Research Workshop ‘Research Workshop ‘Mortality, Morbidity, and Medicine: Historical Health and Demography across the Atlantic’ at the Academy Building of the University of…
RIAS-POSTHUMUS PhD Workshop: From Research to Publication (Middelburg, 8 May 2026) – deadline 1 May 2026
The Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) and the research network ‘Societies in Context’ of the Posthumus Institute (research network) invite PhD candidates to an afternoon workshop focused on a core question of doctoral life: how to build and use…
PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Dinos Sevdalakis
On 8 June 2026, Posthumus alumnus Dinos Sevdalakis will defend the thesis ‘Tracing the roots of population growth: Fertility and mortality transitions in West Africa (1880-1980)’ at the University of Groningen. Supervisors are Professor Hilde Bras and Dr Adrien Remund…
Public Lecture ‘Project 1834’ by Dr Kate Ekama
On 24 June 2026, Dr Kate Ekama (Stellenbosch University) will deliver a public lecture on the brand-new ‘Project 1834’, which relates to Stellenbosch University’s broader transformation policy and efforts toward research, restitution, and social justice. Dr Kate Ekama is a…
Masterclass ‘Social Histories of Dutch Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World’ with Professor Nigel Worden
On 24 June 2026, the research groups ‘Colonial Relations and Structures’ and the ‘Radboud Group for Historical Demography and Family History’ (both Radboud Institute for Culture and History), in cooperation with the N.W. Posthumus Institute, organise the masterclass Masterclass ‘Social Histories…
Symposium ‘Facing Crisis: Interdisciplinary Symposium in the Humanities ‘ (Nijmegen, 16 April 2026)
Continuing a tradition that started only last year, the students of Radboud University’s Research Master in Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies will be organising another symposium this year. The symposium, titled ‘Facing Crisis: Interdisciplinary Symposium in the Humanities’, will take…
Valedictory lecture Professor Jan Kok
On 25 June 2026, Jan Kok, Professor of Economical, Social and Demographic History at the Faculty of Arts, Radboud University, and longstanding member of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, will deliver a valedictory lecture (in Dutch), titled ‘Homo Dipisiensis: Over de…
Book workshop (Leiden, 4 June 2026) – deadline applications 1 May 2026
On 4 June 2026, the N.W. Posthumus Institute, organises a book workshop, to be led by initiator Viola Müller, postdoc researcher and lecturer within the Economic and Environmental History Group at Wageningen UR. Aim of the workshop This workshop aims…