On 24 June 2026, the research groups ‘Colonial Relations and Structures’ and the ‘Radboud Group for Historical Demography and Family History’ (both Radboud Institute for Culture and History), in cooperation with the N.W. Posthumus Institute, organise the masterclass Masterclass ‘Social Histories of Dutch Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World’. Keynote speaker at this masterclass will be…

Continuing a tradition that started only last year, the students of Radboud University’s Research Master in Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies will be organising another symposium this year. The symposium, titled ‘Facing Crisis: Interdisciplinary Symposium in the Humanities’, will take place on 16 April 2026 on the campus of Radboud University. Approaching ‘crisis’ through the…

The TSEG – The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History recently published a special issue on the theme ‘Pioneers in Migration History’. This special edition is dedicated to Marlou Schrover and Leo Lucassen, both retiring in the course of 2026. Marlou Schrover and Leo Lucassen are both widely recognised as pioneers in migration…

On 25 June 2026, Jan Kok, Professor of Economical, Social and Demographic History at the Faculty of Arts, Radboud University, and longstanding member of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, will deliver a valedictory lecture (in Dutch), titled ‘Homo Dipisiensis: Over de historische demografie van ontheemden’. The lecture can be attend in-person, in that case pre-registration is…

The N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to welcome you at the Posthumus Conference 2026, to be held on 21 and 22 May 2026 at the International Institute of Social History (IISG/IISH) in Amsterdam. This year’s theme will be ‘Global Capitalism’. The conference will be hosted by the IISH team under the guidance of Professor Ulbe…

On 4 June 2026, the N.W. Posthumus Institute, organises a book workshop, to be led by initiator Viola Müller, postdoc researcher and lecturer within the Economic and Environmental History Group at Wageningen UR. Aim of the workshop This workshop aims to bring together a community of researchers struggling with similar issues, e.g. writing for a…

The editorial board of the Journal for the History of Environment and Society (JHES), among whom a large number of Posthumus fellows, invites submissions for its 2026 Special Issue, dedicated to exploring the role of the Low Countries as both a place and an actor in global environmental history. Welcomed are contributions that illuminate how…

The Université Lumière Lyon 2 is looking for a PhD Candidate on the topic of ‘Environmental History in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Knowledge, Transformations, and Societies’. This doctoral project focuses on environmental history in the 19th and 20th centuries. It examines how relationships between societies and environments were shaped by industrialisation, imperial expansion, technological…

On 27 March 2026, Posthumus alumna Alessandra De Mulder (University of Antwerp) successfully defended the thesis ‘Embedding a consumer revolution: Shifting values in the language of London auction advertisements, c. 1730-1830’ at the FelixArchief in Antwerp. Supervisors were Professor Bruno Blondé and Professor Ilja Van Damme (both University of Antwerp. Alessandra’s dissertation examines the emergence…

The Tensions of Europe Early Career Scholars Network welcomes applications from both PhDs and Postdocs for the Summer School ‘Tensions of Europe 2026’ on 6-7 July 2026, which is organised in connection to the XII Tensions of Europe Conference ‘The meaning of the past in sustainable futures’, which will be held on the next days…