Dr Pepijn Brandon, Research Director of the N.W. Posthumus Institute Research Network ‘Economy and Society of the Pre-industrial Low Countries in Comparative Perspective’ and affiliated with both the International Institute of Social History and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has been awarded a VIDI Grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for his project ‘Land Grabbing and…

The 19th World Congress will be held in Paris on July 25-29, 2022. The Congress will address “resources” as one of the main challenges of the contemporary world. The Congress will consider sessions on all the categories of resources, that is natural, material, immaterial and human (work and skill): water, air, energy, food products, raw…

As of 1 July 2021, the N.W. Posthumus Institute is hosted at Utrecht University, Department of History & Art History. This quinquennial change of the Institute’s home seat also means a change of staff: we are therefore happy to introduce to you Jessica Dijkman as new Scientific Director, Rogier van Kooten as new Educational Director…

The Economic and Social History research group of Utrecht University annually organises two series of seminars: one in spring and one in fall. Papers on a range of different topics related to economic and social history, from Antiquity to recent times, are presented by scholars from within and outside the Netherlands. Depending on the COVID-19…

On 25 January 2022 Posthumus alumna (cohort 2016)  Teuntje Vosters successfully defended her PhD thesis ‘NGOs and Refugees in European History: Assessing NGO influence on international refugee policy making, 1919-1979’ at Leiden University. The N.W. Posthumus Institute congratulates Teuntje with this achievement!