On 6 December 2022, the day before Professor Kapil Raj’s masterclass at the Institute for History at Leiden University, Professor Raj will deliver the Annual Terra Incognita Lecture, entitled ‘Circulation as Relational History’. This lecture will be open to all interested. About the keynote speaker Professor Kapil Raj, Research Professor at École des Hautes Études…

A day before Professor Beat Kümin’s Masterclass at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Professor Kümin will deliver a public lecture there, entitled ‘”To dear posterity”: Managing Memory through Tower Ball Deposits in the German Lands’. About the lecture Since the late Middle Ages, urban and rural communities of different confessions have marked the completion of prominent…

~ because of scope only in Dutch ~ Op zaterdag 29 oktober a.s. om 15.00 uur in Boekhandel Blokker, Binnenweg 138, 2101 JP Heemstede, vindt de presentatie plaats van het boek Oorlog en Ongelijkheid. Een inclusieve geschiedenis van de Gouden Eeuw, verschenen bij Uitgeverij Boom Amsterdam van Posthumus fellow emerita professor Marjolein ’t Hart. Roelof…

The VUB research group Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes (HOST) in collaboration with the N.W. Posthumus Institute and the Fernandes Fellowship scheme of the University of Warwick is hosting the masterclass ‘Remembering From Below: New Directions in Memory Studies’ delivered by Professor Beat Kümin (University of Warwick, UK) on 11 November 2022. About the…

Dr Frank Veraart (Eindhoven University of Technology), one of the directors of the Posthumus Research Network ‘Globalisation, Inequality and Sustainability in Long-Term Perspective’, together with PIs Professorr Jan-Pieter Smits (also Eindhoven University of Technology) and Professor Johan Schot (Utrecht University) (in cooperation with Wageningen University and Research, Statistics Netherlands (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek) and…

Posthumus General Board member Professor Erik van der Vleuten (TUE), together with Professor Jacqueline Broerse and Dr Evelien de Hoop (both VU Amsterdam) and Professor Claiton M. da Silva (Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul, Brazil) was recently awarded funding by NWO in the Open Competition for the international 5-year project project ‘SOY STORIES: Connected sustainability…

On 4 November 2022, Professor Jutta Bolt, member of the General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, will deliver her inaugural lecture as Professor in Global Economic History at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen, entitled ‘Living standards and wellbeing in Africa, an economic history perspective’. The lecture will also…

The IASC has been shaping the debate on alternative development pathways by way of putting the commons center stage. In times of profound crises, we have seen states being caught up in emergency mode. This unfolds, among others, in a tendency to respond within national borders, and it has brought the importance of building genuine…

Although we generally do not include book offers in our website or newsletters, we thought it wise to make an exception for two book offers we received recently, because of their relevance for Posthumus affiliates. Please note that all contact regarding these offers are between you and the supplier, the N.W. Posthumus Institute is no…

On 7 October 2022 the Nature & Nurture-workshop ‘Exploring the Links between Genetics and Historical Demography’ will take place in Leuven, Belgium. This workshop is made possible by funding from the HiDo Scientific Network for Historical Demography. The full program can be found here (pdf). Participation, either at location or online, in the workshop is…