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Registration for Posthumus Conference 2023 open now!
The N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to announce that registration for the 2023 Annual Conference of the N.W. Posthumus Institute is open now. The 2023 conference will be held at and hosted by the University of Antwerp on 24 and…
Dr Peter Scholliers second keynote lecturer at Posthumus Conference 2023
The organisers are happy to announce that a second keynote speaker has been added to the programma of the Posthumus Conference 2023. In addition to Dr Susan Flavin, Associate Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin, a second keynote lecture…
Afscheidscollege Wybren Verstegen
~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ Na bijna 34 jaar als Universitair Docent Economische en Sociale Geschiedenis verbonden te zijn geweest aan de VU, gaat Wybren Verstegen in mei met pensioen. Graag nodigen Wybren Verstegen en Pepijn Brandon…
New publication
Posthumus fellow Professor Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (Utrecht University) and Dr Rolf Bauer (University of Vienna / Central European University ) are the editors of the newly published Open Access publication Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st…
Voorjaarsbijeenkomst SGVDO: Heeft de verzorgingsstaat nog een toekomst?
~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ De voorjaarsbijeenkomst van de Stichting Geschiedenis van de Overheidsfinanciën (SGVDO)staat in het teken van de verzorgingsstaat en of deze nog een toekomst heeft. De sprekers zijn: dr. Dennie Oude Nijhuis , verbonden…
Symposium ‘Grenzen en grienden. Sociaal-ecologische en andere aspecten van de geschiedenis van rivieren- en kanalenlandschappen’
~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ De Vereniging voor Waterstaatsgeschiedenis organiseert in samenwerking met het Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam het symposium ‘Grenzen en grienden. Sociaal-ecologische en andere aspecten van de geschiedenis van rivieren-…
Symposium De Hanze: handel, communicatie en conflict ~ Koersen op rijkdom, laveren langs risico
On 30 June 2023, various organisations will jointly organise the Symposium De Hanze: handel, communicatie en conflict ~ Koersen op rijkdom, laveren langs risico (transl.: The Hanseatic League: commerce, communication and conflict ~ setting course for wealth, navigating along risks).…
Workshop (PhD/RMA) ‘The Longue Durée Perspective’
This workshop aims to bring together historians who apply a longue durée perspective in their research or are contemplating starting a longue durée project. It primarily focusses on the particularities of doing longue durée research and invites the participants to…
Lecture Prof. Marjoleine Kars: ‘Multiple Crossings: Black Biographies in the Dutch Atlantic’
On 28 February Marjoleine Kars, emerita Professor at MIT, will hold a lecture at the IISH. Professor Kars is composing a biography of two African men, Accara and Gousarie, who were caught up in Dutch slavery and colonialism during the…
Workshop ‘Framing Statistics? Medical History meets Historical Demography’
On 10 March 2023, the History Health and Healing network will organise a workshop where the networks meets with historical demography. Professor Jan Kok, Professor of Economic, Social and Demographic History will be the host of the event, the keynote…