Posthumus alumnus Dr Sam Geens (University of Antwerp) received the pre-1800 PhD Dissertation Prize 2025 at the 2025 World Economic History Congress (WEHC) in Lund. He received this award for his thesis ‘A Golden Age for labour? Income and wealth before and after the Black Death in the Southern Low Countries and the Republic of Florence,…

The Health & Society group of Wageningen University & Research invites paper proposals for a one-day workshop, supported by GREATLEAP COST Action. There is evidence that the relationship between socioeconomic status and health, particularly mortality, is not constant. Depending on the context, inequalities in mortality have emerged, widened, or decreased over the past two centuries….

Onlangs ontvingen we het bericht dat op 12 juli 2025 Boudien de Vries (1951-2025) is overleden . Boudien de Vries was oorspronkelijk opgeleid als sociaal-economisch historica en in die hoedanigheid in het verleden dan ook meerdere jaren nauw betrokken bij het N.W. Posthumus Instituut. Vanaf de jaren 90 van de vorige eeuw gold Boudien als…

~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Recent is uit een lijst van 370 historische boeken de longlist met de tien genomineerden voor de Libris Geschiedenis Prijs 2025 bekend gemaakt. Onder de genomineerde auteurs bevinden zich liefst twee Posthumus fellows: Janna Coomans is genomineerd voor haar boek Dievenland, Patricia Van Den Eeckhout voor haar…

~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ De werkgroep De Moderne Tijd organiseert op 20 maart 2026 in Amsterdam een jubileumcongres met als thema ‘Feest! Jubilea en herdenkingen, 1780-1940’. Deze editie markeert het vijftigjarig bestaan van de werkgroep, eerder ook bekend onder de Werkgroep De Negentiende Eeuw. Feesten, jubilea en herdenkingen vormen een rode…

As of the start of the academic year 2025-2026, Bart Lambert will conclude his valuable work as a coordinator of our Research Network ‘Inclusion, Exclusion, and Mobility’. We thank Bart for his successful efforts in coordinating this network over the past years! We are happy to announce Bart will hand over his tasks as coordinator…

The members of the DiplomatiCon Project (Power in History: Centre for Political History, and Centre for Urban History), in cooperation with the Research Network ‘Routes and Roots in Colonial and Global History’ of the N.W. Posthumus Institute are glad to announce the two-day interdisciplinary workshop on ‘Spaces of formal and informal diplomacy in the Premodern…

The Regional History Society of Southern African (RHSSA) is hosting a conference on the theme ‘Independences and post-colonialism in Southern Africa’. This year’s theme is closely related to the jubilee of independence of Mozambique and Angola. The organisers call for paper proposals for this conference. Abstracts (250 words max.) should be submitted ultimately 30 June…

Jens Aurich (junior researcher at the IISH), Koen van der Lijn (Johan Huizinga Fellow at Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) and Fresco Sam-Sin (founder and creative lead of the Things That Talk Foundation), both connected to the Contract Labourers and Collective Action project at IISG, organise the seminar ‘Sources, silence and the senses in the study of the…

At the Posthumus Conference 2025 in Nijmegen, the PhD students present who completed the Posthumus PhD Basic Training Programme received their diploma during the Conference Dinner. The N.W. Posthumus Institute congratulates these PhDs and also those who completed the programme but were not at the conference, with successfully completing the PhD Basic Training Programme! As…