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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…
Inaugural Lecture Professor Pepijn Brandon (VU Amsterdam)
On 26 May 2023 at 15:45 Professor Pepijn Brandon delivered his inaugural lecture as Professor of Global Economic and Social History in the Aula of the VU Amsterdam. The title of the inaugural lecture was: Elements of original accumulation: Dispossession,…
PhDs cohort 2021 succesfully completed Basic Training Programme
We are happy to inform you the recent Posthumus Conference in Antwerp also marked the completion of the Basic PhD Training Programme of the N.W. Posthumus Institute for most PhD students of cohort 2021. Those attending the conference were handed…
Launch research website CAPASIA Project
Recently, the CAPASIA (The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism) project has launched its new Research Website where you will find updates and highlights on the project’s activities. CAPASIA is a five-year ERC-funded project hosted at the European University Institute in…
Successful Posthumus Conference 2023 in Antwerp
On 24 and 25 May 2023, the Posthumus Conference 2023 was held at the University of Antwerp. This year’s central theme was ‘Food Inequalities’, a thema that was also the main topic of two highly interesting keynote lectures, delivered by…
Project Great Leap Network Radboud University selected as COST-Action
The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) has chosen the Great Leap Network, an ambitious research initiative led by Radboud University with Posthumus fellows Professor Angelique Janssens and Dr Tim Riswick as main proposers, as a COST-Action. Over the…
FWO Grant awarded to Stef Espeel
On 24 May 2023, Posthumus alumnus and fellow Stef Espeel was awarded a FWO Research Grant for junior postdoc researchers. Stef Espeel, having obtained his PhD from the University of Antwerp in 2021 with a dissertation entitled “Prices and Crises.…
In Memoriam: em. o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Josef Peter Ehmer (1948–2023)
We are sad to have received the notice that Josef Peter Ehmer, emeritus university professor at the University of Vienna and former member of the ESTER network, passed away on 10 May 2023 at the age of 74. Born on…
Agrarian Capitalism in the Preindustrial Low Countries : Local, Regional, and Global Dimensions
Posthumus students Bram Hilkens (PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Sam Miske (PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), with support by the Posthumus Institute research network ‘Economy and Society of the Pre-Industrial Low Countries in Comparative Perspective’, the NWO-funded…
Workshop on Belief in Solidarity
On 11-13 December 2023, UCSIA, the Urban Studies Institute (University of Antwerp) and Centre Pieter Gillis (University of Antwerp) organise an academic workshop at the University of Antwerp on interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of religiously inspired solidarity in modernising…