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PhD Geschiedenis ‘Dynamieken van historische narratieven in tijden van crisis’ (Universiteit Utrecht) – deadline 26 oktober 2025

~ because of required proficiency in Dutch only ~ Het Adapt!-project over de dynamiek van historische narratieven in tijden van crisis en conflict zoekt, in samenwerking met het TerInfo-programma van de Universiteit Utrecht, een promovendus. De promovendus onderzoekt hoe historische narratieven over crises functioneren en hoe deze kunnen bijdragen aan het begrijpen van hedendaagse uitdagingen….

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Angelique Janssens and Björn Quanjer receive ESHD awards

Two Posthumus affiliates, both members of the Radboud Group for Historical Demography and Family History, were awarded a prize by the European Society of Historical Demography (ESHD) at the 6th ESHD conference in Bologna on 12 September 2025. Emeritus Professor Angélique Janssens, former Scientific Director and long-standing board member of the N.W.Posthumus Institute was awarded…

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Posthumus affiliates runners-up in Dutch / Flemish Paleography contest

On 4 October, the Dutch / Flemish Paleography Contest 2025 was held at the Academiezaal in Sint-Truiden (Belgium). This contest is organised every second year by the archival institutions behind the online paleography platform ‘Wat staat daer?’. At this contest, about 40 finalists from the Netherlands and Flanders competed on transcribing three archival texts. Two…

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Five Posthumus PhDs awarded FWO PhD Fellowships

On 3 October 2025, the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen (FWO; Fund Scientific Research Flanders) announced the awarding of the annual FWO PhD Fellowships. Through these fellowships, the FWO aims to support early-stage researchers in their development into independent researchers by giving them the opportunity to carry out their own scientifically challenging and innovative research…

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PhD positie project ‘Beschuldigingen en smaad op de dorpsvergadering’ (VUB/UGent) – deadline 20 oktober 2025

~ because of required proficiency in Dutch only ~ De onderzoeksgroep Social History of Capitalism aan de Vrije Universiteit Brussel en de Vakgroep Geschiedenis aan de Universiteit Gent zoeken een doctoraatsonderzoeker voor het FWO-project ‘Beschuldigingen en smaad op de dorpsvergadering: rurale perspectieven op sociale controle in Vlaanderen, ca. 1400–1600’. Over de drijfveren en de historische…

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PhD Career Day 2025 – register before 1 November 2025

The Research School Political History, the N.W. Posthumus Institute, the Huizinga Institute, and the Research School for Medieval Studies warmly invite PhD candidates and recent graduates to the PhD Career Day 2025. This event will be at the IISH in Amsterdam. This day offers an inspiring programme with speakers who all hold a PhD in…

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Successful PhD defence Posthumus alumnus Alberto Concina

On 29 September 2025, Posthumus alumnus Alberto Concina successfully defended the thesis ‘Tilting the scale of life: A multidimensional study of living standards between peasant and rural market societies in North-Western Italy, 1650-1800’ [transl.: ‘Herkalibratie van de weegschaal van het leven. Een multidimensionele studie van de levensstandaarden in rurale “peasant” en markteconomieën in Noord-West-Italië, 1650-1800’]…

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