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Several Posthumus fellows receive NWO-XS Grant

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…

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New publication by Peer Vries

Posthumus Fellow emeritus Professor Peer Vries and Annelieke Vries-Baaijens recently published their book The rise of the modern state in Europe, 1450-1914. Whereas the current world consists of states with their own, demarcated, usually contiguous territory, and recognised authority, in the Late Middle Ages legitimacy of government authority was not based on institutionalised participation by…

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3 Postdoc positions on Dutch Colonial Social and Economic History (Utrecht University) – deadline 29 August 2025

For the NWO-funded Vici-project ‘Care and Coercion. Patriarchy, (Forced) Labour and Caregiving in the Household in the Dutch Empire, c. 1750-Present’, the research group of Economic and Social Historyis hiring three postdoctoral researchers, who will study the intricate relations between care and coercion in households in the Dutch Empire. The positions are divided in three different…

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Successful PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Heleen Blommers

On 2 June 2025, Posthumus alumna Heleen Blommers successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘Deconstructing the War on Poverty: why a failure narrative became entrenched in American political discourse, 1964–1974’ at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Supervisors were Professor Karel Davids (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Dr Dienke Hondius (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), and Professor Damian Pargas (Leiden University). Heleen’s…

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CLARIAH Summer School – few places left

From 30 June 30 to 2 July 2025, CLARIAH will host its annual Summer School at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. This event is designed for advanced MA students and researchers interested in digital heritage and humanities approaches that are broadly applicable in various fields: history, heritage studies, oral history, media studies,…

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Successful Posthumus Conference 2025 in Nijmegen!

On 27 and 28 May 2025, the Posthumus Conference 2025 was held in Nijmegen at Radboud University, hosted by Dr Dries Lyna and Dr Joris van den Tol and visited by c. 140 participants. This year’s conference was on the central theme ‘The People vs Structures’ with a reflection on how legal systems, institutions, and…

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Posthumus fellow Dr Daniel Gallardo Albarrán receives NWO XS Grant

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Dr Daniel Gallardo Albarrán, fellow of the N.W. Posthumus Institute and Assistant Professor at Wageningen University and Research, an NWO XS Grant. These grants are 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…

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Posthumus fellow Dr Kristof Loockx receives FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) has awarded a FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship to Dr Kristof Loockx, fellow of the N.W. Posthumus Institute and postdoctoral researcher a the University of Antwerp. This fellowship is awarded to selected researchers who have completed their PhD a few years ago to further specialise in their research discipline. With the…

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