Category: Agenda
PhD Career Day 2025 – register before 1 November 2025
The Research School Political History, the N.W. Posthumus Institute, the Huizinga Institute, and the Research School for Medieval Studies warmly invite PhD candidates and recent graduates to the PhD Career Day 2025. This event will be at the IISH in…
Successful PhD defence Posthumus alumnus Alberto Concina
On 29 September 2025, Posthumus alumnus Alberto Concina successfully defended the thesis ‘Tilting the scale of life: A multidimensional study of living standards between peasant and rural market societies in North-Western Italy, 1650-1800’ [transl.: ‘Herkalibratie van de weegschaal van het…
Jaarsymposium Vereniging Gelre ‘Maakbare boeren en boerinnen?’ – deadline aanmelding 22 oktober 2025
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Op vrijdag 31 oktober organiseert de Vereniging Gelre haar jaarlijkse symposium. Met dit symposium wil Vereniging Gelre historische context bieden bij de huidige debatten over de landbouwsector. Het thema van dit jaar…
Najaarsbijeenkomst 2025 SGvdO in teken 80-jarig bestaan FIOD
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Op 4 november 2025 organiseert de Stichting Geschiedenis van de Overheidsfinanciën (SGvdO) de Najaarsbijeenkomst 2025, die in het teken zal staan vanm het tachtigjarig bestaan van de Fiscale Inlichtingen- en Opsporingsdienst (FIOD).…
NEHA Symposium ‘Naar een meer inclusieve economische- en bedrijfsgeschiedenis’
Op 28 november 2025 organiseert het Nederlands Economisch-Historisch Archief (NEHA), in samenwerking met de Stichting Bedrijfsgeschiedenis (BSG), een bijeenkomst met als thema ‘Naar een meer inclusieve economische en bedrijfsgeschiedenis’. Deze bijeenkomst vindt plaats bij het Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis…
Workshop ‘Human Development and Its Outliers’
The organisers of the Workshop ‘Human Development and Its Outliers’ welcome abstract for papers to be presented at this workshop, to be held on 26 and 27 March 2026 at Leiden University. The workshop forms part of the project ‘Human…
Workshop ‘Socio-economic inequalities in mortality over time’
The Health & Society group of Wageningen University & Research invites paper proposals for a one-day workshop, supported by GREATLEAP COST Action. There is evidence that the relationship between socioeconomic status and health, particularly mortality, is not constant. Depending on…
Workshop ‘Spaces of Formal and Informal Diplomacy in the Premodern Mediterranean’ – pre-registration requested
The members of the DiplomatiCon Project (Power in History: Centre for Political History, and Centre for Urban History), in cooperation with the Research Network ‘Routes and Roots in Colonial and Global History’ of the N.W. Posthumus Institute are glad to…
4th Regional History Society of Southern Africa Conference
The Regional History Society of Southern African (RHSSA) is hosting a conference on the theme ‘Independences and post-colonialism in Southern Africa’. This year’s theme is closely related to the jubilee of independence of Mozambique and Angola. The organisers call for…
Seminar ‘Sources, silence and the senses in the study of the history of global Chinese Labour’
Jens Aurich (junior researcher at the IISH), Koen van der Lijn (Johan Huizinga Fellow at Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) and Fresco Sam-Sin (founder and creative lead of the Things That Talk Foundation), both connected to the Contract Labourers and Collective Action project…