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Posthumus Conference 2024 registration open now!
The N.W. Posthumus Institute and the Fryske Akademy are happy to jointly announce registration for the 2024 Posthumus Conference is open now! This ...
ESTER Research Design Course 2024 to be held in Münster (30 Sep – 2 Oct 2024) – Call for papers – deadline 1 June 2024
From 30 September until 2 October 2024 the ESTER Research Design Course (RDC) 2024 will be held at the University of Münster. The 2024 RDC will be hosted ...
BREAKING NEWS: Posthumus moves from X (previously Twitter) to Mastodon
Follow us on Mastodon Recently, the N.W. Posthumus staff, supported by the General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, has decided to stop using X, ...
PhDs Cohort 2022 completed Posthumus Basic Training Programme
No less than 31 Basic Training candidates, more than 1500 pages of documentation, 44 commentators, 6 days: the Individual Assessments cohort 2022 have been ...
Summer Training School ‘Research on health inequalities using longitudinal demographic data’ (Lund University) – deadline applications 1 April 2024
In collaboration with the European Society for Historical Demography, the COST-Action Great Leap organises a summer training school on ‘Research on health ...
Kick-off Meeting of the COST-Action ‘The Great Leap’
The network coordinators of the COST-Action initiative ‘The Great Leap. Multidisciplinary approaches to health inequalities, 1800-2022’, led by Radboud ...
Succesful PhD defence Posthumus alumna Ophelia Ongena
On 16 February 2024 Posthumus alumna Ophelia Ongena succesfully defended her PhD thesis ”Werk in eigen streek!’ Ontstaan en evolutie van een ...
Conference ‘Feeding the citizens? Urban land and landownership in past and present’ – registration for non-presenting participants open until 1 April 2024
On 11-12 April 2024, organisers Tim Soens, Cécile Bruyet (UAntwerp), Esther Beeckaert (STAM Ghent), Yves Segers (KULeuven), Thijs Lambrecht (Ghent ...
Book presentation and reading group ‘The World of Sugar’ by Ulbe Bosma
The Food and Agricultural History Network invites you to join the book presentation and reading group of The World of Sugar. How the Sweet Stuff ...
Middeleeuwen Symposium 2024: ‘Het onmisbare boek: handschriften en druk in de Late Middeleeuwen’
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Op 21 juni 2024 vindt in Zutphen het Middeleeuwen Symposium 2024 plaats. Dit symposium wordt gezamenlijk georganiseerd ...
PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Björn Quanjer
On 1 May 2024 Posthumus alumnus Björn Quanjer will defend his thesis ‘A Tale Of Tallness. A household perspective on early life determinants of male ...
Introducing new Confidential Advisor Torsten Feys
A few months ago, Heidi Deneweth announced her retirement, which also implied her farewell as Confidential Advisor (vertrouwenspersoon) for PhDs enrolled ...
4TU.History of Technology centre launched
From January 2024, the four technical universities (Eindhoven University of Technology, Wageningen University & Research (both institutions also ...
Introducing: New Research Network Coordinators ‘Life-Courses, Family, and Labour’
After having served successfully for several years as Research Network Coordinators of the Research Network ‘Life-Courses, Family, and Labour’, ...
Did you notice? Some changes on our homepage…
You may have noticed it already, but the appearance of our website has been slightly redesigned. Because of the number of news items and because some ...
Nicolas Brenninkmeijer new PhD Representative
We are happy to inform you that Nicolas Brenninkmeijer has agreed to join the group of PhD representatives of the N.W. Posthumus Institute. The PhD ...
PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Arlinde Vrooman (University of Groningen)
On 28 March 2024, Posthumus alumna Arlinde Vrooman will defend her thesis ‘Here to Heal? The Effect of Colonial Rule on Disease and Health Care in ...
Jaarcongres De Moderne Tijd 2024
~ because of scope, in Dutch only ~ Op 22 maart 2024 vindt het jaarcongres van De Moderne Tijd plaats over het thema ‘Water: beleving, beheer, beeldvorming ...