~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Op 20 juni 2025 vindt in Zutphen het Middeleeuwen Symposium 2025 plaats. Dit symposium wordt gezamenlijk georganiseerd door de Historische Vereniging Zutphen, Erfgoedcentrum Zutphen en Musea Zutphen, in nauwe samenwerking met de Radboud Universiteit en de Stichting Walburgiskerk. Het thema dit jaar is ‘Oorlog en Vrede in…

On 5-7 November 2025, the conference ‘The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade’ is jointly organised by the Museum Plantin-Moretus, University of Antwerp, KU Leuven, Utrecht University, and Northumbria University as part of the FWO research project ‘Partners in Innovation. Women Publishers as Knowledgeable Agents in the Low Countries’ Book Trade…

On 7 March 2025, Posthumus alumnus Jeroen van Veldhoven successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘Partijpolitiek en de verschuiving naar flexwerk in Nederland’ [‘Party politics and the shift towards flexible work in the Netherlands’] at Utrecht University. Supervisors were Professor Lex Heerma van Voss (Utrecht University) and Dr Jeroen Touwen (Leiden University). The Dutch labour market…

Pichayapat Naisupap and Melinda Susanto (both Leiden University and Posthumus alumni) are co-organising the online seminar ‘From Scribe to Screen: Sources and Approaches to Global History in the Digital Age’. Digital humanities and the digitisation of archives are ever-growing trends in academia. How will digitisation open up new opportunities and yet present new challenges to…

On 10 March 2025, Posthumus alumnus Dennis De Vriese successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘Selling New Ways of Selling. Legitimising Regulation and Deregulation in the Brussels Meat Market (1770-1860)’ at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Supervisor was Professor Wouter Rykbosch. From the late eighteenth century, the rise of free-trade thinking and economic liberalism, alongside the political…

Wieke Metzlar, member of the 2024 PhD cohort of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, has won the Volkskrant-IISG History Thesis Award. The Volkskrant-IISG Thesis Award is annually awarded to the best history-related Master’s thesis in the Netherlands. In the Master’s thesis, Wieke researched causes for excessive mortality rates in girls compared to boys in 19th-century Maastricht….

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, member of the General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, a VICI Grant for her research project ‘Care and Coercion. Patriarchy, (Forced) Labour and Caregiving in the Household in the Dutch Empire, c. 1750-Present’. Around the world, domestic and caregiving work are highly gendered…

The research group Cultures i Societats de l’Edat Mitjana (CiSEM) at the University of Valencia is organising the IV Doctoral School in Economic History of the Middle Ages, to be held from 30 June to 2 July 2025, which will be dedicated to ‘The Economy of Daily Life: Analysing Living Standards in Medieval Europe’. This…

On 23 June 2025, Posthumus alumna Robin Rose Southard will defend the PhD thesis ‘Biting the hand that feeds: contesting the food guilds in 18th-century Brussels’ at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Supervisor is Professor Wouter Ryckbosch (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). More info will follow in due time. The N.W. Posthumus staff wished Robin Rose a successful defence.

On 12 February 2025, Posthumus alumnus Stan Pannier successfull defended his PhD thesis ‘Enterprising Merchants in the Global Atlantic – Frederic Romberg and the Austrian Netherlands Trade with West and Central Africa, 1775-1795’ at KU Leuven. Promotors were Professor Maïka De Keyzer (KU Leuven) and Dr Torsten Feys (Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)). By examining the…