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Posthumus Conference 2025 – REGISTRATION NOW OPEN – keynote lecture by Professor Tamara Herzog (Harvard University)
We are happy to announce registration for the Posthumus Conference 2025 website is now open! On 27 and 28 May 2025, the Posthumus Conference 2025 will be held in Nijmegen at Radboud University, hosted by Dr Dries Lyna and Dr Joris van den Tol. This year’s conference will be on the central theme ‘The People…
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Interdisciplinary Symposium in the Humanities ‘[ReMa]king Identity’ – register by 22 May 2025
The students of the Research Master’s programme in Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies at Radboud University invite students, postdocs and all others interestes humanistic research to join the Interdisciplinary Symposium in the Humanities on ‘[ReMa]king Identity’, to be held on 23 May 2025 at Radboud University. Identity is a fundamental concept in the humanities, shaping…
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Call for papers – 3rd ISRH Global Conference: ‘Migration in a World of Regions’ (webinar) – deadline 10 June 2025
The International Society for Regional History (ISRH) invites scholars to submit abstracts for the 3rd ISRH Global Conference, ‘Migration in a World of Regions’, to be held in September 2025. The conference will be held online as webinar. This conference will explore the complex, multi-faceted relationship between migration and regions across history, geography, and culture….
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Call for proposals and registrations Water Pasts and Futures Symposium
On 30 September 2025, the organisers behind the VU Amsterdam projects Coping with Drought and PerfectSTORM, in collaboration with the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute and the Drought in the Anthropocene network organise the symposium ‘Water Pasts and Futures Symposium’. This half-day symposium explores both historical and future droughts, the risks of cascading drought-to-flood events, and the…
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8th Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food – registration open now!
On 5 and 6 June 2025, the 8th Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food will take place at Allard Pierson, University of Amsterdam. The Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food is the bi-annual international point of assembly and an exchange of knowledge in the field of food history in the Netherlands. This year’s…
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N.W. Posthumus Summer School ‘Crises and History’ (Utrecht, 30 June – 4 July 2025) – apply for final places by 1 June 2025
From 30 June until 4 July 2025, the N.W. Posthumus Institute will organise the Summer School ‘Crises and History’, delivered and organised by Dr Jessica Dijkman. This one-week summer school familiarises the participants with recent research into some important historical crisis types with present-day parallels, such as epidemics and economic crises. They gain insight in…
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Call for abstracts ESTER RDC (University of Seville, 3-5 November 2025) – deadline 1 July 2025
On 3 to 5 November 2025 the 2025 edition of the ESTER Research Design Course (RDC) will be held. This year’s edition will be hosted by the University of Seville under the guidance of Dr Germán Jiménez Montes (photo). The N.W. Posthumus Institute (as secretariat of the ESTER Network) and the local organisers of the…
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Successful seminar Posthumus PhDs at Eindhoven University of Technology
On 10 and 11 April 2025, Eindhoven University of Technology was the scene of the second seminar (‘Work in progress’) of the PhD Training Programme for the PhDs of cohort 2024. Thirty-two PhD students gathered to present their minor paper and provide each other with feedback, eighteen Posthumus fellows provided expert commentary. In the afternoon…
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Fellowships Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum (sept. 2025- jan. 2026) – deadline 2 juni 2025
~ because of scope only in Dutch ~ Het Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum (BHIC) stelt twee maal per jaar twee fellowshipbeurzen van maximaal 5500 euro beschikbaar voor onderzoek naar het verleden van de provincie Noord-Brabant, dat in belangrijke mate leunt op de archieven en collecties van het BHIC. Op dit moment is de aanmeldprocedure geopend…
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Holland Dag 2025
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Op 16 mei 2025 organiseert de Stichting Ontstaan van Holland in samenwerking met Archeologie Rotterdam de Holland Dag 2025. Het thema van deze bijeenkomst zal zijn ‘Stedelijke ontwikkeling in de middeleeuwen’. Tijdens deze bijeenkomst zullen diverse sprekers hun licht laten schijnen over de vroege geschiedenis en archeologie…
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