On Thursday 12 and Friday 13 December the N.W. Posthumus Institute had the pleasure of time welcoming 35 new PhD students of cohort 2024 (the largest cohort ever) in our PhD programme. We thank director Nico Randeraad and deputy director Joris Roosen of FASoS Research Institute and Sociaal Historisch Centrum voor Limburg for their hospitality…

On 24 January 2025, preceding the inaugural lecture of Professor Matthias van Rossum, the symposium ‘Colonial Archives and Meaningful Digital Infrastructure’ will take place at Radboud University. This symposium brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss the challenges and opportunities of working with digitized colonial records. The symposium explores challenges, questions, and examples surrounding digital…

As per 1 January 2025, Pim de Zwart will be succeeded as coordinator of the Research Network ‘Globalisation, Inequality, and Sustainability in Long-Term Perspective’ of the N.W. Posthumus Institute by his colleague Daniel Gallardo Albarrán. The N.W. Posthumus Institute is very grateful to Pim voor his efforts for the Research Network and for the N.W….

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…

On 14 January 2025 the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) is organising a masterclass with Dr. Gisela Carrasco-Miró (Escola Massana, Autonomous University of Barcelona) on the topic of ‘Decolonizing Feminist Futures: What kind of economies do we want?’ Please note that this masterclass is closely related to the book talk ‘Decolonizing Feminist Economics:…

On 13 January 2025 the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) is organising a book talk with Dr Gisela Carrasco-Miró (Escola Massana, Autonomous University of Barcelona) on Gisela’s forthcoming publication Decolonizing Feminist Economics: Possibilities for Just Futures (Bristol University Press, March 2025). What are the power dynamics of what we are theorizing as feminist…

On 24 January 2025 Posthumus fellow and Posthumus course coordinator Matthias van Rossum will deliver his inaugural lecture as Professor by special appointment Global Histories of Labour and Colonialism at Radboud University. Matthias was appointed on 1 February 2024 to this special chair, jointly established by Radboud University and the International Institute of Social History….

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Dr Swantje Falcke, Posthumus fellow, currently affiliated with the Department of History at Utrecht University, an XS Grant for the project ‘Environmental change and migration patterns in the Netherlands: A long term view’. Swantje’s project investigates the long-term relationship between environmental change and migration in the Netherlands from…

From February until May 2025 the N.W. Posthumus Institute organises the Research Master Course ‘Data Management for Historians’. This 5 EC online research course will be supervised by Dr Rick Mourits (IISH) and will consist of a series of online sessions with a final closing session at the IISH. The course will allow master students…

On 10 December 2024 Posthumus alumna Charris De Smet successfully defended her PhD thesis ‘Framing French costumers into citizens. A comparative discourse analysis of debates on luxury and consumption in French parliament and the press in the age of revolution (1789-1848)’ at the University of Antwerp. Promotors were Professor Ilja Van Damme and Professor Marnix…