The organisers of Session 19 on “Cross disciplinary approaches to domestic cultures in premodern cities in Europe and beyond, 13th-17th centuries” at the 17th conference of the European Association for Urban History (EAUH) (Professor Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard University), Professor Juan Vicente García Marsilla (Universitat de València) and Dr Julie De Groot (University of Antwerp))…

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 Development and Its Outliers: A Global Microhistory’, funded by a starters’ grant of the Dutch…

The CollectieveKracht platform is calling for applications for the CollectieveKracht Thesis Award 2025, a prize for the best MA thesis that contributes to understanding or strengthening collective civic initiatives. The three best entries will receive a cash prize and professional support in making their work accessible and impactful, by having the opportunity to collaborate with…

~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ De Vereniging voor Landbouwgeschiedenis en het Humanities Cluster van de KNAW organiseren op 12 november een studiemiddag bij het Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (IISG) over het gebruik van HisGIS voor onderzoek naar het platteland in het (ook verdere) verleden. De KNAW spant zich momenteel in, gesteund…

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 the context, inequalities in mortality have emerged, widened, or decreased over the past two centuries….

The Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) announce their 11th jointly organised Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians on 11-17 May 2026, in Prato (Italy). The topic of the 2026 seminar is ‘From craft guilds to unions’ and…

~ only available in Dutch ~ De Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW) heeft de inschrijving geopend voor nominaties voor de KHMW Jan Brouwer Scriptieprijzen 2026. De KHMW keert, daartoe in staat gesteld door het Jan Brouwer Fonds, sinds 2015 jaarlijks scriptieprijzen uit voor de geestes- en maatschappijwetenschappen. In 2026 zijn prijzen van elk 3.000…

~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ De werkgroep De Moderne Tijd organiseert op 20 maart 2026 in Amsterdam een jubileumcongres met als thema ‘Feest! Jubilea en herdenkingen, 1780-1940’. Deze editie markeert het vijftigjarig bestaan van de werkgroep, eerder ook bekend onder de Werkgroep De Negentiende Eeuw. Feesten, jubilea en herdenkingen vormen een rode…

Tresoar and the Friends of Tresoar stimulate a new generation of researchers of Frisian history, literature, culture and/or literature. Together they established the Tresoar Fellowship. Every year a stipend is made available to a young academic from home or abroad. This allows an innovative research project of up to three months to be supported. Candidates…

The news magazine de Volkskrant and the International Institute of Social History (IISH) are welcoming submissions for the Volkskrant-IISH Thesis prize 2025. The prize of 1,500 euros is annually awarded to a student who, according to the jury, has written the most innovative master’s thesis at a Dutch university. For the 2025 edition, Master theses…