Category: Agenda
Afscheidscollege Wybren Verstegen
~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ Na bijna 34 jaar als Universitair Docent Economische en Sociale Geschiedenis verbonden te zijn geweest aan de VU, gaat Wybren Verstegen in mei met pensioen. Graag nodigen Wybren Verstegen en Pepijn Brandon…
Voorjaarsbijeenkomst SGVDO: Heeft de verzorgingsstaat nog een toekomst?
~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ De voorjaarsbijeenkomst van de Stichting Geschiedenis van de Overheidsfinanciën (SGVDO)staat in het teken van de verzorgingsstaat en of deze nog een toekomst heeft. De sprekers zijn: dr. Dennie Oude Nijhuis , verbonden…
Symposium ‘Grenzen en grienden. Sociaal-ecologische en andere aspecten van de geschiedenis van rivieren- en kanalenlandschappen’
~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ De Vereniging voor Waterstaatsgeschiedenis organiseert in samenwerking met het Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam het symposium ‘Grenzen en grienden. Sociaal-ecologische en andere aspecten van de geschiedenis van rivieren-…
Symposium De Hanze: handel, communicatie en conflict ~ Koersen op rijkdom, laveren langs risico
On 30 June 2023, various organisations will jointly organise the Symposium De Hanze: handel, communicatie en conflict ~ Koersen op rijkdom, laveren langs risico (transl.: The Hanseatic League: commerce, communication and conflict ~ setting course for wealth, navigating along risks).…
Workshop (PhD/RMA) ‘The Longue Durée Perspective’
This workshop aims to bring together historians who apply a longue durée perspective in their research or are contemplating starting a longue durée project. It primarily focusses on the particularities of doing longue durée research and invites the participants to…
Lecture Prof. Marjoleine Kars: ‘Multiple Crossings: Black Biographies in the Dutch Atlantic’
On 28 February Marjoleine Kars, emerita Professor at MIT, will hold a lecture at the IISH. Professor Kars is composing a biography of two African men, Accara and Gousarie, who were caught up in Dutch slavery and colonialism during the…
Workshop ‘Framing Statistics? Medical History meets Historical Demography’
On 10 March 2023, the History Health and Healing network will organise a workshop where the networks meets with historical demography. Professor Jan Kok, Professor of Economic, Social and Demographic History will be the host of the event, the keynote…
PhD defence Luc Bulten (Radboud University Nijmegen)
On 20 April 2023, Posthumus alumnus Luc Bulten will publicly defend his dissertation titled ‘Reconsidering Colonial Registration. Social Histories of Lives, Land, and Labour in Eighteenth-Century Sri Lanka’. The ceremony will be held at the Auditorium of the Radboud University,…
Symposium ‘Lives in slavery: Exploring the slave registers of Suriname and Curacao, 1830-1863’ – register before 16 March 2023
The research group Historical Database of Suriname and Curacao (HDSC) at Radboud University Nijmegen published the first releases of the Surinamese and the Curacao slave registers, in which the individual enslaved persons are linked between different series and owners. To…
Masterclass Dr Céline Regnard – ‘A place in the city. Migrant police, policy & housing in the 19th and 20th centuries’
The Centre for Urban History at the University of Antwerpin collaboration with the N.W. Posthumus Institute is hosting the masterclass ‘A place in the city. Migrant police, policy & housing in the 19th and 20th centuries’, delivered by Dr. Céline…