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The N.W. Posthumus Institute congratulates PhD Basic Training graduates
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…
Posthumus Writing Retreat in Abdij van Berne (Berne Abbey)
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…
Change of coordinators Posthumus Research Network ‘Roots and Routes in Colonial and Global History’
At the end of this academic year, Professor Ulbe Bosma (IISH) will complete his task in the coordinating team of the Posthumus Research Network ‘Roots and Routes in Colonial and Global History’. Ulbe was one of the founders and initiators…
PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Dániel Moerman
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…
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…
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…
New issue of TSEG – The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History out now
Recently, Leuven University Press has issued a new edition of TSEG – The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, the Dutch-Flemish academic journal on social and economic history. The latest edition contains a lot of interesting articles, some…
Successful PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Robin Rose Southard
On 23 June 2025, Posthumus alumna Robin Rose Southard successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘Biting the hand that feeds: contesting the food guilds in 18th-century Brussels’ at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Supervisor was Professor Wouter Ryckbosch (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). The N.W.…
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…
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…