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10th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise
The EMES International Research Network, in partnership with the Rotterdam School of Management of Erasmus University Rotterdam and Utrecht University announces the 10th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise on the theme ‘Scaling Through Communities: The Role of Social Entrepreneurs and Social Enterprises in Boosting Societal Transitions’. The conference will take place from 3-7…
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Parlementaire kronieken 1998-2023 online en doorzoekbaar
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Sinds 1998 publiceert het Centrum voor Parlementaire Geschiedenis jaarlijks een kroniek van de belangrijkste politieke gebeurtenissen van het Nederlandse parlementaire jaar. Die kronieken staan nu, gecombineerd in één pdf, online. De kronieken vormen een handig naslagwerk voor wie schrijft over de recente Nederlandse politieke geschiedenis. De kronieken…
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Symposium ‘Sociale zorg en lotsverbetering bij zeevarenden, 1700-1900’
~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ De Stichting Geschiedenis van de Overheidsfinanciën (SGvdO) organiseert een symposium over sociale zorg en lotsverbetering bij zeevarenden, 1700-1900. Zeelui werkten en leefden in een bijzondere omgeving. Gevaar lag constant op de loer en ze waren soms weken of zelfs maanden met elkaar opgescheept, zonder dat ze van…
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PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Heleen Blommers
On 2 June 2025, Posthumus alumna Heleen Blommers will defend the PhD thesis ‘Deconstructing the War on Poverty: why a failure narrative became entrenched in American political discourse, 1964–1974’ at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Supervisors are Professor Karel Davids (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Dr Dienke Hondius (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), and Professor Damian Pargas (Leiden University). Heleen’s…
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UUCEMS Lecture 2025 by Professor Jake Soll – ‘Richard Price’s Prudence and the Unintentional Invention of Modern Capitalist Values’
On 15 May 2025, the Utrecht University Centre for Early Modern Studies (UUCEMS), in cooperation with Utrecht University’s Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities organises its annual lecture. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor Jake Soll (University of Southern California) and is titled ‘Richard Price’s Prudence…
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Middeleeuwen Symposium 2025: ‘Oorlog en Vrede in de Middeleeuwen – Realiteit, Herinnering en Mythe’
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Op 20 juni 2025 vindt in Zutphen het Middeleeuwen Symposium 2025 plaats. Dit symposium wordt gezamenlijk georganiseerd door de Historische Vereniging Zutphen, Erfgoedcentrum Zutphen en Musea Zutphen, in nauwe samenwerking met de Radboud Universiteit en de Stichting Walburgiskerk. Het thema dit jaar is ‘Oorlog en Vrede in…
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Conference ‘Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade’
On 5-7 November 2025, the conference ‘The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade’ is jointly organised by the Museum Plantin-Moretus, University of Antwerp, KU Leuven, Utrecht University, and Northumbria University as part of the FWO research project ‘Partners in Innovation. Women Publishers as Knowledgeable Agents in the Low Countries’ Book Trade…
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PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Jeroen van Veldhoven
On 7 March 2025, Posthumus alumnus Jeroen van Veldhoven successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘Partijpolitiek en de verschuiving naar flexwerk in Nederland’ [‘Party politics and the shift towards flexible work in the Netherlands’] at Utrecht University. Supervisors were Professor Lex Heerma van Voss (Utrecht University) and Dr Jeroen Touwen (Leiden University). The Dutch labour market…
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Online Seminar: From Scribe to Screen: Sources and Approaches to Global History in the Digital Age
Pichayapat Naisupap and Melinda Susanto (both Leiden University and Posthumus alumni) are co-organising the online seminar ‘From Scribe to Screen: Sources and Approaches to Global History in the Digital Age’. Digital humanities and the digitisation of archives are ever-growing trends in academia. How will digitisation open up new opportunities and yet present new challenges to…
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PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Dennis De Vriese
On 10 March 2025, Posthumus alumnus Dennis De Vriese successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘Selling New Ways of Selling. Legitimising Regulation and Deregulation in the Brussels Meat Market (1770-1860)’ at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Supervisor was Professor Wouter Rykbosch. From the late eighteenth century, the rise of free-trade thinking and economic liberalism, alongside the political…
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