As you may have noticed, the Twitter feed on our homepage shows the message ‘Nothing to see here – yet’. It appears that recent changes in Twitters management and policy are the cause of this; many other websites experience the same problem. Want to keep updated? Then follow us directly via our Twitter account at…

Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) will organise their seventh jointly-organized Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians on 12-18 May 2024, in Prato (Italy) on the theme of ‘Social and Geographical Mobility’ The organisers ESTER, established in 1991,…

We are happy to announce the launch of the PhD cohort pages on our website. On these pages, you will find the PhDs currently following the PhD Training Programme of the N.W. Posthumus Institute. Thinking about joining this programme? Find all info about the programme here. You will find the cohort pages here: PhDs Cohort…

Posthumus members Elisabeth Heijmans and co-editor Sophie Rose are the editors of Diversity and Empires Negotiating Plurality in European Imperial Projects from Early Modernity, published on 2 June 2023 with Routledge as an open-access book. Examining diversity as a fundamental reality of empire, this book explores European colonial empires, both terrestrial and maritime, to show…

European Research Council project CAPASIA – The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism is organising a series of online/hybrid lectures dedicated to the connected histories of capitalism. The series is jointly organised with the European Research Council project ECOINT – a Twentieth-Century International Economic Thinking, and the Complex History of Globalization and the EUI Conversations on…

On 26 May 2023 at 15:45 Professor Pepijn Brandon delivered his inaugural lecture as Professor of Global Economic and Social History in the Aula of the VU Amsterdam. The title of the inaugural lecture was: Elements of original accumulation: Dispossession, war, and slavery in the history of capitalism. You can find recordings of the inaugural…

We are happy to inform you the recent Posthumus Conference in Antwerp also marked the completion of the Basic PhD Training Programme of the N.W. Posthumus Institute for most PhD students of cohort 2021. Those attending the conference were handed their certificate during the conference dinner, those who completed the programme at another event, will…

Recently, the CAPASIA (The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism) project has launched its new Research Website where you will find updates and highlights on the project’s activities. CAPASIA is a five-year ERC-funded project hosted at the European University Institute in Florence from 2022 to 2027. The project aspires to provide a polycentric history of early…

On 24 and 25 May 2023, the Posthumus Conference 2023 was held at the University of Antwerp. This year’s central theme was ‘Food Inequalities’, a thema that was also the main topic of two highly interesting keynote lectures, delivered by Dr Susan Flavin (Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin and Principal Investigator of the…

The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) has chosen the Great Leap Network, an ambitious research initiative led by Radboud University with Posthumus fellows Professor Angelique Janssens and Dr Tim Riswick as main proposers, as a COST-Action. Over the next four years, the network aims to unravel the historical origins and driving factors behind…