The Department of History in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Antwerp is looking for a full-time (100%) postdoctoral researcher in the field of Spatial History for the project DiplomatiCon – A Connected history of Medieval Mediterranean Diplomacy: The Mamluk Sultanate, Italy and the Crown of Aragon (14th-15th century). Part-time commitment for at…

De bijeenkomst van 4 februari 2025 vervangt de origineel voor 14 november 2024 geplande workshop die in verband met de landelijke actiedag tegen de bezuinigingen op hoger onderwijs was uitgesteld. ~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ In het licht van de groeiende maatschappelijke belangstelling voor inkomensongelijkheid en de verdeling van winsten, organiseert het…

In the 3rd round of the NWO Open Competition SSH XS, NWO has granted an XS Grant to Posthumus fellow and former Posthumus research network coordinator Dr Corinne Boter for her research proposal, entitled ‘Technological change and gender inequality: A comparison between a Dutch and an Italian textile company, 1870-1920’. The technological advancements of the…

~ currently only available in Dutch ~ Het Unger-Van Brerofonds stelt aan de VU Amsterdam een bijzondere leerstoel in voor de geschiedenis van de ingewikkelde  problematiek van het omgaan van de mens met de aarde vanuit een reflectief lange-termijn en global perspective, Global History of Sustainable Development, met grote aandacht voor de global exchange van…

The University of Groningen is looking for a PhD candidate on the topic of ‘Financial Economics of Slavery’ within the NWO-funded project ‘Collateral damage: The financial economics of slavery’, supervised by Professor Abe de Jong (University of Groningen), in cooperation with Dr Tim Kooijmans (RMIT University) and Professor Peter Koudijs (New York University). The PhD…

Registration has opened for Module 2 of the Online Lecture Series ‘An Introduction to Inequalities in Health using Historical Causes of Death’. This online lecture series is scheduled as part of the COST Project CA22116 – The Great Leapand is organised in co-operation with the N.W. Posthumus Institute. It is targeted at students and scholars…

Recently, Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson concluded her valuable work as a coordinator of our Research Network ‘Inclusion, Exclusion, and Mobility’. We thank Liesbeth very much for her contribution over the past years! We are happy to announce we have found a suitable successor in the person of Dr Swantje Falcke. Swantje Falcke is an Assistant Professor…

~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ Op 21 maart 2025 vindt in Amsterdam het jaarcongres 2025 van Werkgroep de Moderne Tijd plaats. In dit jaarcongres van Werkgroep de Moderne Tijd van 2025 staat de vraag centraal welke rol ‘de Toekomst’ speelde in de geschiedenis van Nederland en België, inclusief de koloniën in de…

On 28 and 29 August 2025, the 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’. The conference serves as a closing event of the NWO-funded research project ‘Lifting the burden of disease. The modernisation of health in the Netherlands: Amsterdam,…

The rector magnificus of the Erasmus University Rotterdam announces that Dr A. (Arthur) van Riel, appointed as endowed Professor of Historical Political Economy at Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, on behalf of Stichting Erasmus Trustfonds, will publicly accept his appointment on Friday, 24 January with an inaugural lecture entitled ‘The welfare state as…