On December 10-11, the Forgotten Lineages research project, featuring Posthumus fellow Dries Lyna and PhD students Pouwel van Schooten and Sanayi Marcelline will organise the two-day conference ‘Becoming Local? Forgotten Lineages of Displaced Communities across the Indian Ocean World, 1650-1850’ in Leiden. Confirmed keynote speakers are Jennifer L. Gaynor (University at Buffalo SUNY) and Sue…

The University of Groningen will be hosting a special event on 17 April 2025 to celebrate the career of Professor Herman de Jong ahead of his planned retirement at the end of the current academic year. The event will involve two parts: The first will be a workshop between 11:00 and 15:00 hours with short…

On 12 March 2025, Posthumus fellow Jan Dumoulyn, Professor of History at Ghent University, will deliver the inaugural lecture for the Chaire Francqui 2024-2025 at the University of Namur. The lecture will be titled ‘Een canon, een verhaal en de kritiek – La vulgarisation de l’histoire “nationale” en Belgique et en Flandre’ [‘A canon, a…

In April, the course ‘Quantative Methods for Historians and Social Scientists’ of the N.W. Posthumus Institute will start at Utrecht University. Although the final deadline for registration was set on 15 March 2025, the number of participants for this course has already reached its maximum. Registrations between now and the deadline of 15 March will…

On Monday 17 February 2025 the Department of International Economics at Radboud University will host Dr Maanik Nath (Utrecht University) for a lecture entitled ‘Drivers of Agricultural Growth in British India’ in the departmental seminar lecture series. All those interested are welcome to join the seminar. For more info you may contact Dr Vincent Delabastita.

Linked to the combined research team of slavery projects at the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam) and Radboud University (Nijmegen), researcher of both institutions jointly organise a hybrid seminar series ‘Micro-Global Histories of Slavery: Sources and Approaches’. As a global turn in slavery studies urges us to bring together the study of histories of…

On 19 March 2025, Posthumus alumna Ramona Negrón will defend the PhD thesis ‘Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas, 1580-1700’ at Leiden University. Supervisors are Professor Cátia Antunes (Leiden University) and Dr Susana Münch Miranda (Universidade Nova de Lisboa). Ramona’s dissertation shows that Dutch entrepreneurs, notably Amsterdam’s influential Coymans family, played a crucial role in…

The Fryske Akademy, the Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, the Professorship Multilingualism and Literacy of NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, the department of Frisian Studies of the University of Groningen, and the department Language, Technology and Culture of UG/Campus Fryslân have announced the Third Conference on Frisian Humanities. This year’s…

On 14 February 2025, Posthumus alumnus Jasper Segerink (cohort 2020) successfully defended his thesis ‘The Lodging House and the City. Accommodating Migrants in Urban Space, Antwerp, 1850-1914’ to obtain his PhD from the University of Antwerp at the Felixarchief in Antwerp. Jaspers dissertation studies the lodging house sector and its relation to changes in migration…

The jury of the KHMW Brouwer Vertrouwensprijs [KHMW Brouwer Trust Award] has awarded the Brouwer Vertrouwensprijs 2025 to the knowledge platform CollectieveKracht, initiated by Posthumus fellow Tine De Moor, Professor Social Enterprises and Institutions for Collective Action at the research group Business-Society Management at the Rotterdam School of Management. CollectieveKracht is the knowledge exchange platform…