On 9 June 2023, Posthumus alumnus Dr Davide Cristoferi, FWO Senior Postdoctoral researcher at the History Department of Ghent University organises an online seminar on his FWO research project Socio-Economic Inequalities during the Crisis of the Fourteenth Century: Reality and Perceptions (Italy and Europe, 1270-1330). Economic inequality together with the so-called conjucture du 1300 –…

~ because of required proficiency, in Dutch only ~ Amsab-ISG is op zoek naar een voltijdse publieksmedewerker voor 1 jaar vanaf september 2023 met mogelijke verlenging. De beoogde medewerker beschikt over een masterdiploma, daarmee gelijkgesteld onderwijs of gelijkwaardig door ervaring en heeft aantoonbare kennis van en affiniteit voor het brede cultureel-erfgoedveld en voeling met de…

Applications are invited for a fully funded 3-year PhD programme at the University of York on perceptions of and responses to rats in one or more North-Western European countries between c.1650 and c.1850. The studentship is part of Rattus: Rats and the Archaeology of Trade, Urbanism, and Disease in Past European Societies, a 5-year project…

On 26 May 2023 at 15:45 Professor Pepijn Brandon delivered his inaugural lecture as Professor of Global Economic and Social History in the Aula of the VU Amsterdam. The title of the inaugural lecture was: Elements of original accumulation: Dispossession, war, and slavery in the history of capitalism. You can find recordings of the inaugural…

The N.W. Posthumus Institute participates in the European graduate School for Training in Economic and social historical Research (ESTER), a European platform for postgraduate teaching, involving over 60 universities throughout Europe and offering high-level research training for PhD candidates in an international context. Part of the ESTER programme is its annual Research Design Course (RDC)…

We are happy to inform you the recent Posthumus Conference in Antwerp also marked the completion of the Basic PhD Training Programme of the N.W. Posthumus Institute for most PhD students of cohort 2021. Those attending the conference were handed their certificate during the conference dinner, those who completed the programme at another event, will…

Recently, the CAPASIA (The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism) project has launched its new Research Website where you will find updates and highlights on the project’s activities. CAPASIA is a five-year ERC-funded project hosted at the European University Institute in Florence from 2022 to 2027. The project aspires to provide a polycentric history of early…

~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ Op 22 maart 2024 vindt het jaarcongres van De Moderne Tijd plaats over het thema ‘Water: beleving, beheer, beeldvorming in de lange negentiende eeuw’. Water is een grillig en fascinerend fenomeen in de lange negentiende eeuw. De strijd tegen het water werd onderdeel van de Nederlandse nationale…

On 24 and 25 May 2023, the Posthumus Conference 2023 was held at the University of Antwerp. This year’s central theme was ‘Food Inequalities’, a thema that was also the main topic of two highly interesting keynote lectures, delivered by Dr Susan Flavin (Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin and Principal Investigator of the…

The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) has chosen the Great Leap Network, an ambitious research initiative led by Radboud University with Posthumus fellows Professor Angelique Janssens and Dr Tim Riswick as main proposers, as a COST-Action. Over the next four years, the network aims to unravel the historical origins and driving factors behind…