On 12 September 2023, Posthumus-alumna Weixuan Li successfully defended her PhD thesis Painters’ playbooks: Deep mapping socio-spatial strategies in the art market of seventeenth-century Amsterdam cum laude at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. Promotors were Professor Charles van den Heuvel and professor Julia Noordegraaf, co-supervision was provided by Dr Claartje Rasterhoff…

The Young Demographers, in cooperation with the Association for Young Historical Demographers (AYHD), the Geographical Institute and the Department of Demography and Geodemography of the Faculty of Science, Charles University, invite you to the 15th Conference of Young Demographers. The conference is scheduled for 7–9 February 2024, and will take place at the Faculty of…

The N.W. Posthumus Institute is proud to present the new Research Master brochure with the info on the 2023-2024 Interuniversity Research Master courses. New this year is the Summer School Crises and History, which will be hosted by Utrecht University on 1-5 July 2024. The full programme includes the following courses: Debates in Global Social…

~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Op 5 oktober 2023 vindt bij SPUI25 in samenwerking met de Werkgroep de Moderne Tijd en de Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen van de Universiteit van Amsterdam de 13e Jacob van Lenneplezing plaats. Spreker Rick Honings zal dan spreken over het onderwerp ‘De ontdekking van Insulinde: op reis in Nederlands-Indië…

The organisers of the workshop ‘Future Thinking and Practices in Premodern Economy, Society, and Culture’, to be held at the University of Antwerp on 23 and 24 November 2023, call for additional papers, exclusively for (max. 6) participants of Dutch National Research Schools (in addition to other participants already invited). This November, The ‘Back to…

The Italian Society of Historical Demography (Società Italiana di Demografia Storica; SIDeS) organises an online summer school on ‘Exploring Open Large-Scale Historical Demographic Databases’. The sessions are scheduled for 8 September, 15 September, 22 September, 29 September, 6 October 2023. All sessions will be held online from 3 pm until 5 pm (UTC+2). About the…

VUB research group HOST (Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes) in collaboration with the N.W. Posthumus Institute is hosting the masterclass ‘Actors and institutions in the pre-Modern Economy’ with Professor Thomas Safley on 2 October 2023. About the speaker Thomas Max Safley is Professor of Early Modern European History (Emeritus) at the University of Pennsylvania….

Recently, we were informed that Professor Peter Hertner, member of the ESTER network, passed away on 26 April 2023. Born in 1942 in Ulm, Southern Germany, he studied in Heidelberg, Besançon, Basel, Strasbourg, Paris, and Marburg where he was awarded his diploma in Economics in 1968, and he also obtained his PhD in 1971, with…

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The staff of the N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to inform you that an updated and revised version of the PhD Training Programme oF the N.W. Posthumus Institute has just been released. In this brochure, (prospective) PhD participants will find all relevant info on the current Posthumus PhD Training Programme. Feel free to download the…