From the prehistorical migrations to our globalized world, humankind has always been confronted with “others”, who are spontaneously compared to “us”. First, it usually implies a fascination for differences, often – but not always followed by a discovery of commonalities. Demographic thought has been, and still is, heavily influenced by the Malthusian discourse that insisted…

~ only available in Dutch ~ De Keetje Hodshon Prijs is ingesteld door de J.C. Ruigrok Stichting te Haarlem als aanmoedigingsprijs voor onderzoekers die in het jaar van toekenning niet langer dan vijf jaar zijn gepromoveerd, ter bekroning van oorspronkelijk onderzoek op het gebied van de geesteswetenschappen. De prijs wordt jaarlijks toegekend voor onderzoek op…

Up for a challenge? The N.W. Posthumus Institute offers three Research Master courses in the course of 2023: ‘Keys to the Treasure Trove’. Methods and Sources of Economic and Social History  (February – May 2023, Radboud University Nijmegen) Data Management for Historians (February – April 2023, Utrecht University) Quantitative Methods for Historians (April – June…

The organisers of the two-day conference ‘Making Households Count’ invite paper proposals. This conference is also the closing event for the ERC-funded project ‘Race to the bottom? Family labour, household livelihood and consumption in the relocation of global cotton manufacturing’, led by Professor Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (Utrecht University). The conference will be hosted by…

The Organising committee of the two-day conference (Posthumus board member Professor Pepijn Brandon (VU Amsterdam/IISH), Dr Niklas Frykman, Professor Marcus Rediker (both University of Pittsburgh), and Professor and activist Nandita Sharma (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa)) invite paper proposals. Papers can cover any period between roughly 1500 and the present, any group of people challenging…

Posthumus students Bram Hilkens (PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Sam Miske (PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), with support by the Posthumus Institute research network ‘Economy and Society of the Pre-Industrial Low Countries in Comparative Perspective’, the NWO-funded VIDI projects ‘Positively Shocking! The Redistributive Impact of Mass Mortality through Epidemic Diseases and Violent…

The call for applications for the fully funded PhD programme at the European University Institute (EUI) will open on 1 November 2022. The Department of History at the EUI offers exceptional opportunities to study the history of Europe in the World from the 15th century to the present, in Florence, Italy. Applications are open from…

Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) will organise their sixth jointly-organized Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians on 14-20 May 2023, in Prato (Italy) on the theme of “Economic Exchanges” The organisers ESTER, established in 1991, is an…

On 7 December 2022, the day after delivering the Annual Terra Incognita Lecture at Leiden University, Professor Kapil Raj will lead a masterclass at the Leiden University Institute of History Introduction How do we as humans relate to nature, and how did our understanding develop over time? How does our writing of history reflect our…