~ 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…

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…

The Regional History Society of Southern African (RHSSA) is hosting a conference on the theme ‘Independences and post-colonialism in Southern Africa’. This year’s theme is closely related to the jubilee of independence of Mozambique and Angola. The organisers call for paper proposals for this conference. Abstracts (250 words max.) should be submitted ultimately 30 June…

Jens Aurich (junior researcher at the IISH), Koen van der Lijn (Johan Huizinga Fellow at Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) and Fresco Sam-Sin (founder and creative lead of the Things That Talk Foundation), both connected to the Contract Labourers and Collective Action project at IISG, organise the seminar ‘Sources, silence and the senses in the study of the…

At the Posthumus Conference 2025 in Nijmegen, the PhD students present who completed the Posthumus PhD Basic Training Programme received their diploma during the Conference Dinner. The N.W. Posthumus Institute congratulates these PhDs and also those who completed the programme but were not at the conference, with successfully completing the PhD Basic Training Programme! As…

From 16 until 21 June 2025, seven Posthumus PhD candidates gathered in Berne Abbey in Heeswijk-Dinther for the annual Writing Retreat of the N.W. Posthumus Institute. This five-day retreat offers students the opportunity to work on their dissertation or paper in progress with 8-10 of your colleagues in a quiet place, away from all the…

On 27 June 2025, the Network for Environmental Humanities (NEH) celebrates the pioneering, socially engaged research being conducted by our junior scholars in the humanities with the Symposium ‘Bracing for imapct: Junior scholars on the Anthropocene’. The topics relate various issues related to the Anthropocene – the overlapping climate, environmental and biodiversity crises. The NEH…

On 11 September 2025, Posthumus alumnus Dániel Moerman will defend the PhD thesis ‘A hydrosocial history of drought and societal resilience in the cities of Deventer and Zutphen, 1500-1900’ at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Supervisors are Professor Petra van Dam (VU Amsterdam), Dr Milja van Tielhof (Huygens Institute), and Dr Bob Pierik (VU Amsterdam). The…

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded several fellows of the N.W. Posthumus Institute an NWO XS Grant. This grant is awarded for ideas with a maximum budget of 50,000 euro that hold great promise and aim to enable proposals for curiosity-driven, innovative research in the research fields covered by the NWO Domain Social Sciences…