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Workshop: Socio-Economic Inequalities in Mortality Over Time

Call for Papers GREATLEAP-COST Action Workshop: Socio-Economic Inequalities in Mortality Over Time 27 February 2026 | Akoesticum, Ede, the Netherlands There is evidence that the relationship between socio-economic 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. It is…

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In memoriam: Boudien de Vries (1951-2025)

Onlangs ontvingen we het bericht dat op 12 juli 2025 Boudien de Vries (1951-2025) is overleden . Boudien de Vries was oorspronkelijk opgeleid als sociaal-economisch historica en in die hoedanigheid in het verleden dan ook meerdere jaren nauw betrokken bij het N.W. Posthumus Instituut. Vanaf de jaren 90 van de vorige eeuw gold Boudien als…

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Publicaties Posthumus fellows op long-list Libris Geschiedenis Prijs 2025

~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Recent is uit een lijst van 370 historische boeken de longlist met de tien genomineerden voor de Libris Geschiedenis Prijs 2025 bekend gemaakt. Onder de genomineerde auteurs bevinden zich liefst twee Posthumus fellows: Janna Coomans is genomineerd voor haar boek Dievenland, Patricia Van Den Eeckhout voor haar…

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Summer Holidays

During the Summer Holidays (July-August) the N.W. Posthumus Institute will be out of office. Our mail box will be checked on a regular basis, but we will only respond to urgent messages that cannot await reply. Our next newsletter is scheduled for 25 September 2025. Feel free to submit your news items to posthumus@uu.nl.The staff of…

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PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Lena Walschap

On 26 August 2025, Posthumus alumna Lena Walschap will defend the PhD thesis ‘All is fish that comes to the net. Peasant fishing on the English South Coast in the turbulent late Middle Ages’ at the KU Leuven. Supervisors are Professor Maïka De Keyzer (KU Leuven) and Professor Tim Soens (University of Antwerp). The N.W….

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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 announce the two-day interdisciplinary workshop on ‘Spaces of formal and informal diplomacy in the Premodern…

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