The Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University is looking for a PhD candidate for the project ‘PhD Institutional Change in the Organization of Care in the Netherlands’. This project explores how various forms of care arrangements have interacted and changed over time in the Netherlands during the long 20th century, and studies…

~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ De Werkgroep Stadsgeschiedenis organiseert in juni twee bijeenkomsten. Op donderdag 4 juni 2026 is er van 9:30 tot 12:30 uur in Leiden een bijeenkomst over ‘Nieuw onderzoek naar stadswording in de middeleeuwen en vroegmoderne tijd’. Op vrijdag 12 juni 2026 vindt er vanaf 10:30 uur een stadswandeling…

Open Science NL recently awarded the project ‘Chains of the Past: Open Infrastructure for the Global History of Dutch Slavery and Slave Trade’ with an Open Science Infrastructure Grant of 1.5 million euros. In this project, jointly organised by Radboud University, the International Institute of Social History (IISG) and the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast…

The Tilburg School of Economics and Management at Tilburg University is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher specialising in Economic History. The position is attached to the research project ‘The roots of prejudice in Europe: The role of World War II’, funded by the Dutch Research Council’s (NWO) Vidi Grant of Dr David Schindler. The Postdoctoral…

On 9 February 2026, the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW; The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities) has appointed its new members, among whom Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Professor of Economic and Social History at Utrecht University and member of the General Board and Executive Committee of the N.W. Posthumus Institute. The KHMW,…

The N.W. Posthumus Institute is currently looking for a new Coordinator for the Research Network ‘Societies in Context: Interactions between humans and rural-urban environments’, who will be coordinating this netwerk in close cooperation with fellow-coordinator Kate Frederick. The position is considered to be a great opportunity for networking, developing coordination skills, and mentoring the next…

In the most recent funding round, the netherlands eScience center awarded a substantial in-kind contribution to the project ‘From rags to riches: A pipeline for processing semi-structured handwritten texts’ (Rags2Riches) as a result of the Open eScience Call 2025. The team involved in this project consists of researchers from various universities: Dr Auke Rijpma, Dr…

Posthumus fellows Dr Ramona Négron and Dr Karwan Fatah-Black invite research paper proposals for the workshop ‘Reinterpreting the Caribbean age of revolutions: Slave revolts, their non-slave participants and proto-citizenship’, to be held on 23 October 2026 at the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden. Historians have found that in the…

Posthumus fellows Dr Ramona Négron and Dr Karwan Fatah-Black welcome graduate students working on topics related to early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation to participate in a one-day graduate seminar on 22 October 2026 at the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden, The Netherlands. The graduate workshop offers…

The IISH is hosting a workshop ‘Introduction to Nodegoat’ on Friday 20 March 2026, given by its developers, Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels. The workshop offers an introduction to Nodegoat, a web-based research environment for the humanities. Nodegoat allows users to create their own data models for persons, places, events, or artefacts, including their…