On 17 October 2024, Posthumus alumnus Ewout Hasken will defend his PhD thesis ‘From Rags to Riches: Changing Perceptions of Family Business in the Netherlands, 1945-2019’ at Utrecht University. Promotores are Professor Bas van Bavel and Professor Naomi Ellemers (both Utrecht University), co-promotor is Dr Gerarda Westerhuis, previously Assistant Professor at Utrecht University and currently…

The organisers of the Economic and Social History seminar series at Utrecht University cordially invite you to the lecture ‘Climate, economy and society in the Netherlands, 1579-1800’ by Jan de Vries, Ehrman Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley. The lecture will be held on 15 October 2024, 4-6 pm, at Janskerkhof 2-3, room 0.21. Jan de…

~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ Op 27 september 2024 zal de lancering van het nieuwste boek van emeritus professor Jan Luiten van Zanden, Dochters van Lucy, plaatsvinden te Utrecht. Dit boek, dat hij schreef in nauwe samenwerking met Posthumus-bestuurslid Sarah Carmichael, vertelt het verhaal van de macht en de onmacht van vrouwen…

Keynote speaker is professor Richard Hoffmann, esteemed author of ‘The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries’ and ‘An Environmental History of Medieval Europe’. If you would like to attend, flease fill out the form: Sign up!  

Follow us on Mastodon Earlier this year, the N.W. Posthumus staff, supported by the General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, has decided to stop using X, formerly known as Twitter, for new announcements. As we are not using X (formerly Twitter) account anymore and tweets still archived there are all outdated for quite some…

The Organising Committee on behalf of the Assistant Professors involved in the Sector plan theme ‘Cultural Heritage and Identity’ is cordially inviting participants to the very first National Sector Plan Conference ‘Cultural Heritage and Identity’ organised by the Dutch faculties in Arts and Humanities and hosted by Erasmus University Rotterdam. The conference is intended for…

The N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to announce that Seminar I, ‘My research in a nutshell’, to be attended by the PhDs enlisted in cohort 2024 of the N.W. Posthumus PhD Training Programme, will be hosted by Maastricht University on 12 and 13 December 2024 under the guidance of Dr Joris Roosen, Assistant Professor of…

Danielle van den Heuvel, current board member of the N.W. Posthumus Institute on behalf of the University of Amsterdam, has been appointed as Full Professor in Social and Economic History at Utrecht University, starting 1 September 2024. Danielle did her PhD at IISH/VU University, on Female entrepreneurs in the Dutch Republic, for which she received…

On 11 June 2024, Posthumus alumna Ingrid Schepers successfully defended the thesis ‘Mobilising labour: A spatial analysis of railway infrastructure, commuting flows and rural-urban relations in Belgium, 1846-1961’ at the University of Antwerp. Promotors were Professors Greet De Block and Ann Verhetsel (both University of Antwerp). The N.W. Posthumus staff congratulates Ingrid with the successful…

The PhD School of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts is offering the PhD course ‘The Versatile Interior’ on 27-29 November 2024. This PhD course aims to explore interiors as versatile, ambiguous and complex phenomena. Through architectural history, social history, design, art, and anthropology, multifaceted and even sometimes paradoxical aspects of interiors will be…