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NWO Veni Grant awarded to Tim Riswick
In July 2024, Dr Tim Riswick, Posthumus fellow and member of the Educational Committee of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, was granted a Veni Grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for his project ‘Unravelling Health Inequalities: The Historical Roots of Inequality in Death and Disease in West-European Port Cities, 1850-1950’. Social inequality in health is…
Read moreConference ‘The Netherlands a Tax Paradise? Complexities of Corporate Tax Avoidance’ (Rotterdam, 29 Nov. 2024) – register before 1 Nov. 2024
The local organising committee invites you to the international conference on corporate taxation and its avoidance at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam on 29 November 2024: ‘The Netherlands a Tax Paradise? Complexities of Corporate Tax Avoidance’. This conference is part of a larger international historical project financed by the German Volkswagen Foundation. The conference addresses…
Read moreNew PhD Representatives
At the General Board meeting of the N.W. Posthumus Institute of 24 September 2024 two new PhD representatives were welcomed. Silke Baas will take the place of her namesake Silke Geven. Silke Geven is now focusing on the completing of her PhD trajectory at the University of Antwerp. We thank Silke for her efforts for…
Read morePhD in the history of biological fieldwork and gender (Maastricht University) – deadline 31 October 2024
The History Department at Maastricht University is looking for a PhD candidate to conduct research into the gender dimensions of biological fieldwork in the second half of the 20th century. The focus will be on networks between women doing biological fieldwork. The position will consist of 85% research and 15% teaching. The candidate will combine…
Read moreEnvironmental History PhD Seminar (Roosevelt Institute, Middelburg) – Call for papers – deadline abstracts 30 November 2024
Opportunities for pursuing research in environmental history are expanding in the Netherlands and beyond. In the wake of accelerating climate change, many environmental historians are reflecting on how the environment changes their research practices and the implications of doing environmental historical research while inhabiting the era of climate change. To further promote and facilitate dialogue…
Read more2 PhD Positions NWO project ‘Boom to Dust’ (Leiden University) – deadline 15 November 2024
The African Studies Centre Leiden is looking for two PhD candidates (1.0 fte) for the NWO project ‘Boom to Dust: The Environmental History of Three Industrial Mining Centres in Southern Africa, 1870-2020’, led by Professor Jan-Bart Gewald. The project will investigate the environmental history of three industrial mining centres in southern Africa. The PhD candidates…
Read moreConference ‘Back to the Future: Thinking about Futures in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Beyond’
On 14 and 15 November 2024 the conference ‘Back to the Future: Thinking about Futures in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Beyond’ will be held in Antwerp and online. This conference is directly related to the ERC-funded project ‘Back to the Future: Future expectations and actions in late medieval and early modern Europe,…
Read moreMini-conference ’40 years of abortion legislation in the Netherlands’
Organisers Yuliya Hilevych, Karen Hollewand and Hanneke de Boer (all University of Groningen) will organise a mini-conference on the topic ’40 years of abortion legislation in the Netherlands’ Legal abortion access and provision cannot be taken for granted. While some states have made abortion illegal again today, there are also states that – on the…
Read moreNew: Online Lecture Series ‘An Introduction to Inequalities in Health using Historical Causes of Death’
This online lecture series is scheduled as part of the COST Project CA22116 – The Great Leapand is organised in co-operation with the N.W. Posthumus Institute. It is targeted at students and scholars at all levels interested in exploring major issues related to health inequalities from a historical point of view. There are four modules,…
Read moreGIS Tutorial and Project Presentation ‘(Re)Counting the Uncounted’ (IISH)
The researchers involved in the recently completed project ‘(Re)counting the Uncounted’ welcome you at the project presentation on 16 October 2024 at the International Institute of Social History. In this project, funded by the Dutch Research Council NWO, the researchers have taken on the challenge of replicating and testing the findings of four so-called cornerstone…
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