On 16 and 17 November 2023, Posthumus alumni Dennis De Vriese (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Nicholas Brunmayr (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Robin Rose Southard (VUB) organise an international conference, entitled ‘Food, Rules and the City: Food Market Regulations and Their Social and Political Dynamics (15th-20th C.)’. Seeking to adopt such a long-term perspective and to…

~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ Het bestuur van de Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen maakt bekend dat de Dr. Elizabeth Schram-Mulley (ESM) Stichting met ingang van 2023 jaarlijks een prijs van € 10.000,- beschikbaar stelt ter bekroning van onderzoek met een bijzonder interdisciplinair karakter dat de grenzen tussen de klassieke alfa/bèta/gamma-wetenschapsgebieden overbrugt….

~ Because of required proficiency, in Dutch only ~ Het Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (IISG) is op zoek naar een promovendus voor onderzoek dat zich richt op de slavernijbetrokkenheid van de in Amsterdam gevestigde Assurantie Compagnie van 1771 en haar firmanten. Naar de rol van verzekeraars in de wereldwijde Nederlandse betrokkenheid bij slavenhandel en…

The section Economic and Social History of Utrecht University (UU) seeks to appoint an assistant professor focusing on historical inequality and technological change. Technological change in the broadest sense – from simple mechanization to advanced digital technologies – holds promises of increased productivity and consumption, but also influences social and economic inequalities and the sustainable…

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 peer-reviewed journal The History of the Family is soliciting special issue proposals on timely and understudied topics within family history and historical demography. By doing so, the journal editors hope to offer early- and mid-career scholars in particular the opportunity to showcase their research line, while at the same time play an important role…

Preceding the inaugural lecture by Professor Tine De Moor, the Research Team Institutions for Collective Action, based at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, organises the Symposium: ‘From science to society: evidence-based lessons for (cooperative) social enterprises’. The team has invited eleven fellow-scientists from various universities and different disciplines to talk about their…

The Department of History, European Studies and Religious Studies of the University of Amsterdam has a vacancy for a full professorship in Dutch History. The department is looking for candidates with an excellent track record in the field of Dutch History in a global perspective. With a focus on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this…

On 26 May 2023 at 15:45 Professor Pepijn Brandon will deliver his inaugural lecture as Professor of Global Economic and Social History in the Aula of the VU Amsterdam. The working title of the lecture is: Chief momenta of original accumulation: Dispossession, war, and slavery in the history of capitalism Full professors who want to…

The organisers of the Conference ‘Gender discrimination in Modern Greece’ welcome proposals for this single-day conference, to be held at the Norwegian Institute at Athens. Recent research not only argues that female infanticide and the mortal neglect of female infants was more common in Modern Greece than previously acknowledged, but also that Greek parents continued…