Category: Agenda
Launch new ESTA data & TIDES / documentary screening Slave Island
The International Institute of Social History invites you to join the Exploring Slave Trade in Asia (ESTA) Database’s second data launch on 12 December 2025. Main organisers are Posthumus PhDs Britt van Duijvenvoorde and Pascal Konings. Since the launch of…
Workshop ‘Channeling Middle-Class Savings, 1850-1940’
On 29 and 30 June 2026 the University of Antwerp and the Paris School of Economics will host the workshop ‘Channeling Middle-Class Savings, 1850-1940’, exploring the investment of middle-class savings between the second half of the nineteenth-century and the Second…
Workshop ‘Networks in History’ (Huizinga Institute & N.W. Posthumus Institute)
The Huizinga Institute and the N.W. Posthumus Institute are offering a 3-day workshop on ‘Networks in History’, to be held on 21-23 January 2026 at the International Institute of History in Amsterdam. Description and aim Historical network analysis as a…
2nd Workshop The Economic and Financial History of Colonialism
On 26 and 27 March 20-26, the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Groningen and the University of Antwerp will jointly organise the second edition of the workshop series ‘The Economic and Financial History of Colonialism’ at…
Conference ‘Becoming Local? Forgotten Lineages of Displaced Communities Across the Indian Ocean World, 1650-1850’ – keynotes by Professors Sue Peabody and Jennifer L. Gaynor
On 10 and 11 December 2025, the international conference ‘Becoming Local? Forgotten Lineages of Displaced Communities Across the Indian Ocean World, 1650-1850’ will be held at Leiden University. Organisers are Dries Lyna and Pouwel van Schooten in cooperation with Sanayi…
Historicidagen 2026 (Leiden, 27-29 August 2026)
On 27-29 August 2026, the 2026 edition of the Historians’ Days [in Dutch: Historicidagen] will be jointly organised by the Royal Netherlands Historical Society (KNHG) and Leiden University in the city of Leiden. The Historians’ Days 2026 revolve around the…
Successful PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Alexander van der Meer
On 23 October 2025, Posthumus alumnus Alexander van der Meer successfully defended the thesis ‘Colonial Calvinism: Colonial Ideologies of Dutch Clergymen in Batavia, ca. 1700-1850’ at Leiden University. Supervisors were Dr Alicia Schrikker and Professor Jos Gommans (both Leiden University).…
Successful PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Philip Post
On 23 October 2025, Posthumus alumnus Philip Post succesfully defended the thesis ‘Constructing Colonial Legitimacy in the Moluccas, 1750-1870’ at Leiden University. Supervisors were Dr Alicia Schrikker and Professor Jos Gommans (both Leiden University). Philip’s dissertation examines how Dutch colonial…
Successful PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Vicky Vanruysseveldt
On 21 October 2025, Posthumus alumna Vicky Vanruysseveldt succesfully defended the thesis ‘Onderweg met amusement. Inkomensstrategieën en mobiliteit bij ambulante entertainers in Brabant (1750-1914)’ [transl. ‘On the road with entertainment. Income strategies and mobility among itinerant entertainers in Brabant (1750-1914)’…
Lezing Posthumus PhD Chris Vlam over opkomst Kruisverenigingen Noord-Holland en Utrecht, 1875-1945
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Historicus en Posthumus PhD Chris Vlam houdt op 30 november 2025 de lezing ‘Voor allen, door allen!’ over de opkomst van de kruisverenigingen in Noord-Holland en Utrecht tussen 1875 en 1945. Chris…