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Workshop ‘Future Thinking and Practices in Premodern Economy, Society, and Culture’
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…
Online Summer School ‘Exploring Open Large-Scale Historical Demographic Databases’
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.…
Masterclass with Thomas Safley: ‘Actors and institutions in the pre-Modern Economy’
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…
In Memoriam: Professor Peter Hertner (1942-2023)
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…
Tweets not showing due to changes Twitter
As you may have noticed, the Twitter feed on our homepage shows the message ‘Nothing to see here – yet’. It appears that recent changes in Twitters management and policy are the cause of this; many other websites experience the…
NEW: New version of PhD brochure out now!
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…
Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar 2024: ‘Social and Geographical Mobility
Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) will organise their seventh jointly-organized Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians on 12-18 May 2024, in Prato…
NEW: PhD Cohort pages launched on Posthumus website
We are happy to announce the launch of the PhD cohort pages on our website. On these pages, you will find the PhDs currently following the PhD Training Programme of the N.W. Posthumus Institute. Thinking about joining this programme? Find…
New publication by Posthumus members Elisabeth Heijmans and Sophie Rose
Posthumus members Elisabeth Heijmans and co-editor Sophie Rose are the editors of Diversity and Empires Negotiating Plurality in European Imperial Projects from Early Modernity, published on 2 June 2023 with Routledge as an open-access book. Examining diversity as a fundamental…
CAPASIA lectures on connected histories of capitalism (online / hybrid)
European Research Council project CAPASIA – The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism is organising a series of online/hybrid lectures dedicated to the connected histories of capitalism. The series is jointly organised with the European Research Council project ECOINT – a…