The FORAGENCY project has developed a side-project called ‘Foraging. A Podcast in Environmental Humanities’. Its first season consists in in-depth interviews with four historians and anthropologists. The podcasts will be made available via the FORAGENCY website, Apple podcasts and Spotify. The first episodes scheduled concern: Episode 1.01. Diogo De Carvhalo Cabral on history beyond the…

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Dr Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Posthumus fellow and alumnus, currently affiliated with the Department of History at Utrecht University, an XS Grant for the project ‘Colonial Origins of African Population Growth? Evidence from Missionary Church Registers in Tanzania’. The scale and rapidity of Africa’s population growth is unprecedented…

~ English version below ~ Het Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse geschiedenis en cultuur maakt bijzonder veel historische bronnen en literaire teksten digitaal toegankelijk. In de onderzoeksprojecten van het instituut wordt gewerkt aan en met allerlei verschillende bronnen uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis: van de brieven van Johan de Witt, archieven van de VOC, de resoluties van…

On 28 February 2025, Utrecht University will host a FRESH workshop on Empire and Economic Development. Frontier Research in Economic and Social History (FRESH) meetings are aimed at researchers in any field of economic and social history. The purpose of the meetings is to enable scholars to present their ongoing research at an early stage…

Dr Pim de Zwart, Posthumus fellow and research director of our research network ‘Globalisation, Inequality and Sustainability in Long-Run Perspective’,  received a Vidi Grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for his project entitled: ‘Tragedy of the Tropics: Colonialism, Commodities, and Commons in Southeast Asian Deforestation since 1850’. Halting tropical deforestation is central to combat…

~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Vanwege het emeritaat van emeritus professor Eric Vanhaute (Universiteit Gent), in het verleden vele jaren tevens betrokken bij het N.W. Posthumus Instituut, hebben redacteuren Robrecht Declercq and Hanne Cottyn, beiden voormalige promovendi van professor Vanhaute het boek Energie, emigratie en ecologie. (On)zin van Wereldgeschiedenis samengesteld, dat onlangs…

On Friday 6 December, the establishment of the new 4TU Centre History of Technology will be celebrated with a kick-off event on Environmental Histories of Technology in a Digital Age. The 4TU Centre History of Technology aims to identify and explore resonances, joint concerns, possible synergies and identify opportunities to collaborate in research, teaching and…

The General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to present you the N.W. Posthumus Institute Annual Report 2023. The report provides you with an overview of activities, results and developments regarding the N.W. Posthumus Institute in 2023. DOWNLOAD (PDF, 4.5 MB)

The 2025 annual International Conference of Young Demographers will be held at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague on 5-7 February 2025. The conference organisers aim to create a relaxed and welcoming environment where especially early career researchers can share their work in progress and thoughts with their peers. The conference is supported…

As follow-up of the publication ‘Since 1624: Taiwanese-Dutch Relations’ (2024), this workshop will delve into the historical influence of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) on Taiwan, focusing on how this period continues to shape academic inquiry. Scholars will engage in discussions about contemporary and future research approaches that explore Taiwan’s social, economic, and cultural…