The COVID-19 situation unfortunately urged us to turn the first seminar of the Basic Training into an online event. Notwithstanding this disappointment, sixteen PhD students, seven fellows and two PhD representatives joined the online two-day seminar with interesting presentations and fruitfull discussions. On Thursday, after introductions by Rogier van Kooten (Education Programme Director) and Jasper…

~ because of scope, only in Dutch ~ Recent is in de Home Academy-reeks de podcast ‘De Great Divergence‘ van prof. dr. Peer Vries verschenen, een zesdelig hoorcollege over dit historisch economisch uiteengroeien . De meeste experts zijn het erover eens dat de Great Divergence ergens in de achttiende en negentiende eeuw ontstond, toen voor…

There is a strong desire in the SSH field to assign part of the resources intended for the SSH Sector Plan of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) to a domain wide digital SSH plan. For this purpose, the SSH Council – which represents the SSH field – initiated the Platform for Digital…

Prof. dr. Joh. de Vries (1927-2021) Op 13 oktober 2021 overleed prof. dr. Joh. (Hans) de Vries. Hij werd 94 jaar. Hij was vijfentwintig jaar hoogleraar Economische Geschiedenis in Tilburg en wordt in Nederland gezien als wegbereider van bedrijfsgeschiedenissen die voldoen aan de normen van wetenschappelijke geschiedschrijving. In 1992 ging hij met emeritaat en in…

At the latest General Board meeting of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, chair of the General Board Professor Hilde Greefs announced the completion of her period as chair person. The General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute wants to express thanks to Hilde for her successful time as chair. The General Board is also proud to…

Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) will organise their sixth jointly-organized Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians on 8-13 May 2022, in Prato (Italy) on the theme of “Economic Innovations” The organisers ESTER, established in 1991, is an international…

The N.W. Posthumus Institute presents you its Annual Report over 2020. The report describes the activities, events, and results of both the N.W. Posthumus PhD Training Programme as well as the courses delivered within the Research Master programme of the N.W. Posthumus Institute over 2020. You can download the Annual Report 2020 via the button…

With the regular quinquennial transfer of the seat of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, now hosted by the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University, we also would like to introduce to you the new staff members of the N.W. Posthumus Institute. Scientific Director: Dr Jessica Dijkman Jessica Dijkman (1960) is an associate professor…

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…