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Successful PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Tessa De Boer

On 7 May 2025 Posthumus alumna Tessa de Boer successfully defended the PhD thesis ‘A Truth Universally Acknowledged. Dutch Investment in French Colonial Resources in the Eighteenth Century’ at Leiden University. Supervisors were Professor Cátia Antunes (Leiden University) and Dr Elisabeth Heijmans (University of Antwerp). Tessa’s dissertation focuses on Dutch investments in the French colonial…

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Interdisciplinary Symposium in the Humanities ‘[ReMa]king Identity’ – register by 22 May 2025

The students of the Research Master’s programme in Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies at Radboud University invite students, postdocs and all others interestes humanistic research to join the Interdisciplinary Symposium in the Humanities on ‘[ReMa]king Identity’, to be held on 23 May 2025 at Radboud University. Identity is a fundamental concept in the humanities, shaping…

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3rd ISRH Global Conference: ‘Migration in a World of Regions’ (webinar)

The International Society for Regional History (ISRH) invites scholars to submit abstracts for the 3rd ISRH Global Conference, ‘Migration in a World of Regions’, to be held in September 2025. The conference will be held online as webinar. This conference will explore the complex, multi-faceted relationship between migration and regions across history, geography, and culture….

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Call for proposals and registrations Water Pasts and Futures Symposium

On 30 September 2025, the organisers behind the VU Amsterdam projects Coping with Drought and PerfectSTORM, in collaboration with the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute and the Drought in the Anthropocene network organise the symposium ‘Water Pasts and Futures Symposium’. This half-day symposium explores both historical and future droughts, the risks of cascading drought-to-flood events, and the…

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ESTER RDC (University of Seville, 3-5 November 2025)

On 3 to 5 November 2025 the 2025 edition of the ESTER Research Design Course (RDC) will be held. This year’s edition will be hosted by the University of Seville under the guidance of Dr Germán Jiménez Montes (photo). The N.W. Posthumus Institute (as secretariat of the ESTER Network) and the local organisers of the…

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Successful seminar Posthumus PhDs at Eindhoven University of Technology

On 10 and 11 April 2025, Eindhoven University of Technology was the scene of the second seminar (‘Work in progress’) of the PhD Training Programme for the PhDs of cohort 2024. Thirty-two PhD students gathered to present their minor paper and provide each other with feedback, eighteen Posthumus fellows provided expert commentary. In the afternoon…

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Holland Dag 2025

~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Op 16 mei 2025 organiseert de Stichting Ontstaan van Holland in samenwerking met Archeologie Rotterdam de Holland Dag 2025. Het thema van deze bijeenkomst zal zijn ‘Stedelijke ontwikkeling in de middeleeuwen’. Tijdens deze bijeenkomst zullen diverse sprekers hun licht laten schijnen over de vroege geschiedenis en archeologie…

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