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Workshop ‘Digital mapping for historians with QGIS’
A map can be an excellent way to visualize your research, but only a small percentage of people know how to make them. Have you been wanting to learn more about digital mapping for your research, but do not know where to start? Or struggle to make time to teach yourself? This workshop may be…
Read moreN.W. Posthumus Instituut, Huizinga Instituut en Onderzoeksschool Politieke Geschiedenis organiseren sessie Historicidagen 2022
~ because of scope, only in Dutch ~ Van 25 tot en met 27 augustus 2022 vinden in Rotterdam de KNHG Historicidagen plaats. Op het programma staat een rijke variatie aan sessies en presentaties; bij een aanzienlijk aantal van deze sessies en presentaties zijn studenten en / of fellows van het N.W. Posthumus Instituut betrokken….
Read morePosthumus staff welcomes Midas van de Weetering as student assistant
As of 16 May 2022, the staff of the N.W. Posthumus Institute will be temporarily (until June 2023) supported by student assistant Midas van de Weetering. Midas is currently in the second year of his BA in History at Utrecht University, taking part in the specialisation ‘Societal Challenges’ as well as in the Humanities Honours…
Read moreValedictory Speeches Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden – register before 1 June 2022
~ For Dutch version click here ~ On Wednesday 15 June at 15:00 Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden both will deliver a valedictory speech on the occasion of their retirement and as a conclusion of their thirty years of joint professorship in Social and Economic History at Utrecht University. Both valedictory speeches will…
Read moreAfscheidscolleges Maarten Prak en Jan Luiten van Zanden – registreer voor 1 juni 2022
~ For English version click here ~ Op woensdag 15 juni om 15:00 uur houden Maarten Prak en Jan Luiten van Zanden beiden een afscheidscollege ter gelegenheid van hun pensionering, na dertig jaar gezamenlijk hoogleraarschap Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis aan de Universiteit Utrecht. Deze afscheidscolleges vinden aaneengesloten plaats in de Domkerk te Utrecht, gevolgd door…
Read moreLecture Professor Deepak Nayyar – ‘The Asian Miracle: Learning From a Half-century of Transformations’ – register before 13 June 2022
The Wageningen School of Social Sciences (WASS), the Section Economics of WUR and the N.W. Posthumus Institute jointly and cordially invite you to a lecture by Professor Deepak Nayyar (Emeritus Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), entitled ‘The Asian Miracle: Learning from a Half-Century of Transformations’. This lecture is made possible by…
Read moreChange in General Board N.W. Posthumus Institute
As of May 2022, Professor Hans Mol will be succeeded as representative of the Fryske Akademy in the General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute by Professor Hanno Brand. The N.W. Posthumus Institute board expresses its thanks to Professor Hans Mol for his valuable contribution to the General Board of our institute over the past…
Read moreRound table and book launch ‘The early modern state’ preceding valedictory speech Professor Marjolein ‘t Hart
Preceding her valedictory speech, colleagues and friends will celebrate the work of Professor Marjolein ’t Hart by discussing her work and launching the book The early modern state: Drivers, beneficiaries and discontents (eds. Pepijn Brandon, Lex Heerma van Voss and Annemieke Romein), containing essays in her honour. The volume will be published by Routledge later…
Read moreEarly Career Symposium ‘Hansards in the World: Continuity and Discontinuity on the Intellectual, Cultural, and Economic Frontiers of the Early Modern Hanse’
Hansards in the World gathers and promotes new histories of the Hanse, an association of European merchants and towns, and how they interacted with the wider world in the early modern period. Contributors explore novel perspectives and approaches on the late life and afterlife of this association. How might we engage with the kinetic character…
Read moreNew issue TSEG out now!
Recently, the first 2022 issue of the The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History has been published. The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History is the Dutch-Flemish journal of social and economic history. It is an open access, peer-reviewed, scientific journal which was granted A status/ INT 1 by the European…
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