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New: Online Lecture Series ‘An Introduction to Inequalities in Health using Historical Causes of Death’
This online lecture series is scheduled as part of the COST Project CA22116 – The Great Leapand is organised in co-operation with the N.W. Posthumus Institute. It is targeted at students and scholars at all levels interested in exploring major issues related to health inequalities from a historical point of view. There are four modules,…
Read moreGIS Tutorial and Project Presentation ‘(Re)Counting the Uncounted’ (IISH)
The researchers involved in the recently completed project ‘(Re)counting the Uncounted’ welcome you at the project presentation on 16 October 2024 at the International Institute of Social History. In this project, funded by the Dutch Research Council NWO, the researchers have taken on the challenge of replicating and testing the findings of four so-called cornerstone…
Read moreMatthias Van Laer genomineerd voor de Scriptieprijs Brabantse Geschiedenis
Op donderdag 19 september wordt wederom de Scriptieprijs Brabantse Geschiedenis uitgereikt aan degene die de beste masterscriptie over de Brabantse geschiedenis schreef. Ook promovendus Matthias Van Laer (Uantwerpen en Posthumus alumnus) is één van de genomineerden met een scriptie getiteld: “Vermogensongelijkheid en leeftijd in België. Casus Borgerhout, 1856-1920”. Succes Matthias en de andere genomineerden! Meer…
Read moreDr Justyna Wubs-Mrozewycz new board member N.W. Posthumus Institute
Recently, Dr Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz has joined our General Board as representative of the University of Amsterdam. This position became vacant because Dr Danielle van den Heuvel has recently been appointed Professor of Social and Economic History at Utrecht University. Dr Wubs is Associate Professor in Medieval History at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests…
Read morePhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Ewout Hasken (Utrecht University)
On 17 October 2024, Posthumus alumnus Ewout Hasken will defend his PhD thesis ‘From Rags to Riches: Changing Perceptions of Family Business in the Netherlands, 1945-2019’ at Utrecht University. Promotores are Professor Bas van Bavel and Professor Naomi Ellemers (both Utrecht University), co-promotor is Dr Gerarda Westerhuis, previously Assistant Professor at Utrecht University and currently…
Read moreCall for abstracts 3rd Global Conference on the History of Risk and Insurance (Warsaw, Poland) – deadline 16 December 2024
On 3 and 4 July 2025, The Warsaw School of Economics will be hosting the Third Global Conference on the History of Risk and Insurance. This conference investigates insurance as crucial to social development, economic advances, finance globalisation, and general capitalism. It discusses risk and how people have coped with it from the early beginning…
Read moreCall for abstracts Jaarcongres De Moderne Tijd 2025 – deadline abstracts 21 november 2024
~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ Op 21 maart 2025 vindt in Amsterdam het jaarcongres 2025 van Werkgroep de Moderne Tijd plaats. In dit jaarcongres van Werkgroep de Moderne Tijd van 2025 staat de vraag centraal welke rol ‘de Toekomst’ speelde in de geschiedenis van Nederland en België, inclusief de koloniën in de…
Read moreLecture by Professor Jan de Vries (UC Berkeley) on ‘Climate, economy and society in the Netherlands, 1579-1800’
The organisers of the Economic and Social History seminar series at Utrecht University cordially invite you to the lecture ‘Climate, economy and society in the Netherlands, 1579-1800’ by Jan de Vries, Ehrman Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley. The lecture will be held on 15 October 2024, 4-6 pm, at Janskerkhof 2-3, room 0.21. Jan de…
Read moreBoeklancering ‘Dochters van Lucy’
~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ Op 27 september 2024 zal de lancering van het nieuwste boek van emeritus professor Jan Luiten van Zanden, Dochters van Lucy, plaatsvinden te Utrecht. Dit boek, dat hij schreef in nauwe samenwerking met Posthumus-bestuurslid Sarah Carmichael, vertelt het verhaal van de macht en de onmacht van vrouwen…
Read moreProgramme symposium of Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries (25-26 October 2024)
Keynote speaker is professor Richard Hoffmann, esteemed author of ‘The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries’ and ‘An Environmental History of Medieval Europe’. If you would like to attend, flease fill out the form: Sign up!
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