On 5 June 2023, Posthumus alumnus Hugo La Poutré will defend his PhD thesis ‘English population 1086-1377: a modelling approach’ at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen. Population size, food production, and consumption are closely related. Hugo La Poutré concentrates on this relationship in his doctoral research. He shows by the use…

Gijs Dreijer, Lewis Wade, Mallory Hope, Cátia Antunes and Maria Fusaro kindly invite participants to join the workshop ‘Risk and Entrepreneurship – Old Discussions, Innovative Questions, New Insights’, to be held at Leiden University on 7 and 8 June 2023. The keynote lecture will be delivered by  Professor Anthony Hopkins, Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth…

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…

In the Fall of 2023 the Department of History at the University of Antwerp will host the workshop ‘Towards a Comparative History of Household Finance Before and After the Industrial Revolution’. The central questions in this workshop are very simple and empirical questions: how did households in the past organize their finances? How did people…

In the week of 26 June – 2 July 2023, NWO will organise the third Dutch Caribbean Research Week (DCRW 2023). The Dutch Caribbean Research Week 2023 is a free annual multiday conference aimed at providing a platform to bring researchers from the Caribbean science community together and will be held online mostly, in order…

The N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to announce that registration for the 2023 Annual Conference of the N.W. Posthumus Institute is open now. The 2023 conference will be held at and hosted by the University of Antwerp on 24 and 25 May 2023. Keynote lectures on the central theme ‘Food Inequalities’ will be delivered by…

The organisers are happy to announce that a second keynote speaker has been added to the programma of the Posthumus Conference 2023. In addition to Dr Susan Flavin, Associate Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin, a second keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr Peter Scholliers, Emeritus Professor with the Department of History at…

~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ Na bijna 34 jaar als Universitair Docent Economische en Sociale Geschiedenis verbonden te zijn geweest aan de VU, gaat Wybren Verstegen in mei met pensioen. Graag nodigen Wybren Verstegen en Pepijn Brandon u hierbij uit voor zijn afscheidscollege “Onze boeren zijn slaven”. “Onze slaven zijn boeren”: De…

Posthumus fellow Professor Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (Utrecht University) and Dr Rolf Bauer (University of Vienna / Central European University ) are the editors of the newly published Open Access publication Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century, published by Brill publishers in its Studies in Global Histories series. This publication, made…

~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ De voorjaarsbijeenkomst van de Stichting Geschiedenis van de Overheidsfinanciën (SGVDO)staat in het teken van de verzorgingsstaat en of deze nog een toekomst heeft. De sprekers zijn: dr. Dennie Oude Nijhuis , verbonden aan de Universiteit Leiden dr. Arthur van Riel, verbonden aan de Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het…