The rector magnificus of the Erasmus University Rotterdam announces that Professor Tine De Moor, appointed as professor of Social Enterprises and Institutions for Collective Action at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) will publicly accept her appointment on Friday 17 February 2023 with an inaugural lecture entitled Shakeholder society? Social Enterprises, citizens and collective…

On 23 January 2023, Posthumus alumnus Sam Geens succesfully defended his doctoral thesis Een Gouden Eeuw voor arbeid? Inkomen en rijkdom voor en na de Zwarte Dood in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden en de Florentijnse Republiek (1275-1550). Supervisors were Professors Tim Soens, Bruno Blondé, and Peter Stabel The Black Death and subsequent plague waves killed millions…

Dr Daniel Gallardo Albarrán (Wageningen UR) and Professor Jutta Bolt (University of Groningen and Lund University) were awarded a research grant of c. 400,000 euro by the Swedish Research Council for their project proposal ‘Unhealthy development: the origins of health inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1900-1960’. Co-applicant was Dr Jeanne Cillier of Lund University. Millions of…

The Utrecht University Focus Area Migration & Societal Change welcomes proposals for a panel or an individual paper for the conference ‘Migration and Societal Change’, to be held on 22 and 23 June 2023. The Focus Area promotes interdisciplinary collaboration between Utrecht University researchers, students, and societal stakeholders. Thematically, the focus is on various topics…

On 26-28 June, 2023, Leiden University’s Institute for History will host a summer school on Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-19th centuries, in collaboration with the N.W. Posthumus Institute and the Global Diplomacy Network. The summer school will bring together approximately 10-15 advanced students or young academics and a team of experts at the…

Posthumus fellow Dr Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz (University of Amsterdam) and emeritus Professor Stuart Jenks (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) are the editors of Message in a Bottle: Merchants’ letters, merchants’ marks and conflict management in 1533-34. A source edition, published this fall with Brepols. The publication is based on a batch of merchants’ letters to be delivered from Antwerp…

Posthumus fellow emeritus Professor Kees Mandemakers, professor of Large Historical Databases at Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, will present his public valedictory lecture on Friday 20 January 2023, entitled ‘“You Really Got Me”. Development and Future of Historical Databases with Microdata’. The ceremony will begin at 16:00 hours promptly in the Aula, Erasmus…

Posthumus fellows Emeritus Professors Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten Zanden have published a new book with Princeton Universiyt Press, entitled Pioneers in Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000-1800. The Netherlands was one of the pioneers of capitalism in the Middle Ages, giving rise to the spectacular Dutch Golden Age while ushering in an era of unprecedented, long-term…

From the prehistorical migrations to our globalized world, humankind has always been confronted with “others”, who are spontaneously compared to “us”. First, it usually implies a fascination for differences, often – but not always followed by a discovery of commonalities. Demographic thought has been, and still is, heavily influenced by the Malthusian discourse that insisted…

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