Category: Agenda
13e Jacob van Lenneplezing – ‘De ontdekking van Insulinde: op reis in Nederlands-Indië in de negentiende eeuw’
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Op 5 oktober 2023 vindt bij SPUI25 in samenwerking met de Werkgroep de Moderne Tijd en de Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen van de Universiteit van Amsterdam de 13e Jacob van Lenneplezing plaats. Spreker Rick…
Workshop ‘Future Thinking and Practices in Premodern Economy, Society, and Culture’
The organisers of the workshop ‘Future Thinking and Practices in Premodern Economy, Society, and Culture’, to be held at the University of Antwerp on 23 and 24 November 2023, call for additional papers, exclusively for (max. 6) participants of Dutch…
Online Summer School ‘Exploring Open Large-Scale Historical Demographic Databases’
The Italian Society of Historical Demography (Società Italiana di Demografia Storica; SIDeS) organises an online summer school on ‘Exploring Open Large-Scale Historical Demographic Databases’. The sessions are scheduled for 8 September, 15 September, 22 September, 29 September, 6 October 2023.…
Masterclass with Thomas Safley: ‘Actors and institutions in the pre-Modern Economy’
VUB research group HOST (Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes) in collaboration with the N.W. Posthumus Institute is hosting the masterclass ‘Actors and institutions in the pre-Modern Economy’ with Professor Thomas Safley on 2 October 2023. About the speaker Thomas…
Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar 2024: ‘Social and Geographical Mobility
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…
Wageningen University – RHI Seminars – every 2nd Thursday of each month – registration appreciated
How and why have economies grown historically? Why and how did worldwide inequalities come into being? How have people all over the world in the past up to the present dealt with the issue of providing a living for themselves…
CAPASIA lectures on connected histories of capitalism (online / hybrid)
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…
Agrarian Capitalism in the Preindustrial Low Countries : Local, Regional, and Global Dimensions
Posthumus students Bram Hilkens (PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Sam Miske (PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), with support by the Posthumus Institute research network ‘Economy and Society of the Pre-Industrial Low Countries in Comparative Perspective’, the NWO-funded…
Workshop on Belief in Solidarity
On 11-13 December 2023, UCSIA, the Urban Studies Institute (University of Antwerp) and Centre Pieter Gillis (University of Antwerp) organise an academic workshop at the University of Antwerp on interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of religiously inspired solidarity in modernising…
Book launch – New publication by Posthumus alumna Janna Everaert – register before 24 May 2023
On 5 June 2023, Posthumus alumna Dr Janna Everaert, now affiliated as postdoc researcher with the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, will present the first copy of the book Macht in de metropool: Politieke elitevorming tijdens…