Category: Agenda
Symposium ‘Bracing for impact: Junior scholars on the Anthropocene’
On 27 June 2025, the Network for Environmental Humanities (NEH) celebrates the pioneering, socially engaged research being conducted by our junior scholars in the humanities with the Symposium ‘Bracing for imapct: Junior scholars on the Anthropocene’. The topics relate various…
PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Dániel Moerman
On 11 September 2025, Posthumus alumnus Dániel Moerman will defend the PhD thesis ‘A hydrosocial history of drought and societal resilience in the cities of Deventer and Zutphen, 1500-1900’ at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Supervisors are Professor Petra van Dam…
CLARIAH Summer School
From 30 June 30 to 2 July 2025, CLARIAH will host its annual Summer School at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. This event is designed for advanced MA students and researchers interested in digital heritage and humanities…
Bijeenkomst Werkgroep Stedengeschiedenis: ’Nieuw onderzoek uit Amsterdam: stedelijke ruimte, water en erfgoed’
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Op 10 oktober 2025 organiseert de werkgroep Stedengeschiedenis een bijeenkomst bij de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed onder de titel ‘Nieuw onderzoek naar Amsterdam: stedelijke ruimte, water en erfgoed’. Dagvoorzitter is dr.…
Call for applications Summer School ‘Slavery and Serfdom in Europe and the New World’ – deadline 15 June 2025
The Turin Humanities Programme and Fondazione 1563 are pleased to announce the Summer School ‘Slavery and Serfdom in Europe and the Americas in the Early Modern Period’, to be held 10-12 September 2025 in Turin, Italy. The Summer School aims…
Prof. Em. Carl Nightingale delivers lecture 2025 Raymond van Uytven Chair 2025 – register by 30 June 2025
The Centre for Urban History and the Urban Studies Institute of the University of Antwerp invite you to the public lecture of the 2025 Raymond van Uytven Chair for Urban History by Emeritus Professor Carl Nightingale, on Wednesday 2 July…
Talk and Film Screening on ‘Legacy and transitions: Rotterdam’s port in a global sustainability context’
On 2 June 2025, the Deep Transitions Lab (supported by UGlobe and the Strategic Theme Institutions for Open Societies of Utrecht University), organises an event on the theme ‘Legacy and transitions: Rotterdam’s port in a global sustainability context’, addressing both…
Successful PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Bas Spliet
On 14 May 2025, Posthumus alumnus Bart Spliet successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘The Demand of the Invisible Hand. The Consumer Revolution and Social Inequality in the (Pre)Modern Metropolis’ at the University of Antwerp. Supervisors were Professor Bruno Blondé (University…
Conference ‘How did we lift the burden? Infectious Disease Mortality in the Western and Non-Western World (1800-now)’
On 28 and 29 August 2025, the researchers involved in COST-Action network GREATLEAP, in collaboration with the Radboud University Nijmegen, the HiDo network, and the IUSSP Panel ‘Epidemics and Contagious Diseases: The Legacy of the Past’, organise the conference ‘How did we lift…
Farewell event and reception Professor Angelique Janssens
On the occasion of her retirement, the Radboud Group for Historical Demography and Family History is hosting a farewell event and reception for Professor Angélique Janssens on 29 August 2025. Angélique Janssens is endowed Professor of Historical Demography at Radboud…