Category: Agenda
Summer school Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-19th centuries – Call for papers – deadline abstracts 15 February 2023
On 26-28 June, 2023, Leiden University’s Institute for History will host a summer school on Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-19th centuries, in collaboration with the N.W. Posthumus Institute and the Global Diplomacy Network. The summer school will bring…
Valedictory speech Professor Kees Mandemakers
Posthumus fellow emeritus Professor Kees Mandemakers, professor of Large Historical Databases at Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, will present his public valedictory lecture on Friday 20 January 2023, entitled ‘“You Really Got Me”. Development and Future of Historical…
5th Conference Of The European Society Of Historical Demography
From the prehistorical migrations to our globalized world, humankind has always been confronted with “others”, who are spontaneously compared to “us”. First, it usually implies a fascination for differences, often – but not always followed by a discovery of commonalities.…
PhD defence Bas Machielsen
On 18 january 2023, Posthumus alumnus Bas Machielsen will defend his thesis ‘The Political Elite, Self-Interest and Democratization’, in which he examines the influence of self-interest on the decision-making of political elites. Literature has already documented various ways in which actions…
NEW DATE Maddison Lecture Professor William Easterly – ‘Western Development Efforts: Altruism vs Self-Interest
This event, originally scheduled for 27 October, has now been rescheduled to 15 December 2022 Annually, the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) organises the Maddison Lecture at the University of Groningen. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor…
Maritime solidarity: Past and present
The Organising committee of the two-day conference (Posthumus board member Professor Pepijn Brandon (VU Amsterdam/IISH), Dr Niklas Frykman, Professor Marcus Rediker (both University of Pittsburgh), and Professor and activist Nandita Sharma (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa)) invite paper proposals. Papers…
CLARIAH & NDE Annual Conference 2022
On Thursday 24 November 2022, CLARIAH and Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed (NDE) jointly organise their annual conference in Utrecht. This year’s theme will be ‘Heritage meets Digital Humanities’. The focus will be on the CLARIAH digital humanities infrastructure and its use…
Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar 2023: ‘Economic Exchanges’
Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) will organise their sixth jointly-organized Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians on 14-20 May 2023, in Prato…
Save the date! Inaugural Lecture Professor Hilde Bras
On 26 May 2023, Professor Hilde Bras, Professor of Economic and Social History, with special attention to Global Demography and Health at the History Department of the University of Groningen, will deliver her inaugural lecture. More details will follow in…
Terra Incognita Lecture by Professor Kapil Raj – Circulation as Relational History (Leiden, 6 December 2022)
On 6 December 2022, the day before Professor Kapil Raj’s masterclass at the Institute for History at Leiden University, Professor Raj will deliver the Annual Terra Incognita Lecture, entitled ‘Circulation as Relational History’. This lecture will be open to all…