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Posthumus board member Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk selected as new member KNAW

On its 217th anniversary, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has selected Professor Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, also Board member of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, as new Academy member. KNAW Academy members are selected from a large number of nominations by expert juries in each scientific and scholarly field based on their…

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Successful PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Tessa De Boer

On 7 May 2025 Posthumus alumna Tessa de Boer successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘A Truth Universally Acknowledged. Dutch Investment in French Colonial Resources in the Eighteenth Century’ at Leiden University. Supervisors were Professor Cátia Antunes (Leiden University) and Dr Elisabeth Heijmans (University of Antwerp). Tessa’s dissertation focuses on Dutch investments in the French colonial…

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Interdisciplinary Symposium in the Humanities ‘[ReMa]king Identity’ – register by 22 May 2025

The students of the Research Master’s programme in Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies at Radboud University invite students, postdocs and all others interestes humanistic research to join the Interdisciplinary Symposium in the Humanities on ‘[ReMa]king Identity’, to be held on 23 May 2025 at Radboud University. Identity is a fundamental concept in the humanities, shaping…

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Call for papers – 3rd ISRH Global Conference: ‘Migration in a World of Regions’ (webinar) – deadline 10 June 2025

The International Society for Regional History (ISRH) invites scholars to submit abstracts for the 3rd ISRH Global Conference, ‘Migration in a World of Regions’, to be held in September 2025. The conference will be held online as webinar. This conference will explore the complex, multi-faceted relationship between migration and regions across history, geography, and culture….

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Call for proposals and registrations Water Pasts and Futures Symposium

On 30 September 2025, the organisers behind the VU Amsterdam projects Coping with Drought and PerfectSTORM, in collaboration with the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute and the Drought in the Anthropocene network. This half-day symposium explores both historical and future droughts, the risks of cascading drought-to-flood events, and the social, political, and technological responses shaping (drinking) water…

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N.W. Posthumus Summer School ‘Crises and History’ (Utrecht, 30 June – 4 Junly 2025) – apply for final places by 1 June 2025

From 30 June until 4 July 2025, the N.W. Posthumus Institute will organise the Summer School ‘Crises and History’, delivered and organised by Dr Jessica Dijkman. This one-week summer school familiarises the participants with recent research into some important historical crisis types with present-day parallels, such as epidemics and economic crises. They gain insight in…

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