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| NEWSLETTER JULY / AUGUST 2023
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| New version of PhD brochure out now!
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TThe staff of the N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to inform you that an updated and revised version of the PhD Training Programme oF the N.W. Posthumus Institute has just been released. In this brochure, (prospective) PhD participants will find all relevant info on both the Basis and the Advanced part of the Posthumus Training Programme. Feel free to download and distribute the brochure. If you want some printed copies to distribute, please contact the Posthumus secretariat by e-mail, stating your address and desired number of copies.
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| New Research Master brochure 2023-2024 out now!
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The N.W. Posthumus Institute is proud to present the new Research Master brochure with the info on the 2023-2024 Interuniversity Research Master courses. The full programme includes the courses Debates in Global Social and Economic History (November 2023-February 2024, IISH), Data Management for Historians (February-April 2024, online), Quantitative Methods for Historians (April-June 2024, Utrecht University) and the newly added Summer Course Crisis and History (1-5 July 2024, Utrecht University)
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Call for abstracts Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar 2024 - deadline 15 October 2023
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Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) will organise their seventh jointly-organized Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians on 12-18 May 2024, in Prato (Italy) on the theme of ‘Social and Geographical Mobility’. he topic of the seminar is closely related to the theme of the congress organized yearly by the “F. Datini” International Institute of Economic History, which in 2024 is devoted to ‘Social Mobility in pre-industrial societies: tendencies, causes and effects (13th-18th centuries)’.The call for abstracts is open until 15 October 2023.
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New publication (open access) by Posthumus members Elisabeth Heijmans and Sophie Rose
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Posthumus members Elisabeth Heijmans and co-editor Sophie Rose are the editors of Diversity and Empires Negotiating Plurality in European Imperial Projects from Early Modernity, published on 2 June 2023 with Routledge as an open-access book. Examining diversity as a fundamental reality of empire, this book explores European colonial empires, both terrestrial and maritime, to show how they addressed the questions of how to manage diversity. Taking an intersectional approach incorporating categories such as race, religion, subjecthood, and social and legal status, the contributions of the volume show how old and new modes of creating social difference took shape in an increasingly globalized early modern world, and what contemporary legacies these ‘diversity formations’ left behind. This volume shows diversity and imperial projects to be both contentious and mutually constitutive and highlights the multidimensionality and interconnectedness of diversity in imperial settings. This open access publication will be useful reading to students and scholars of the history of colonial empires, global history, and race.
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| In Memoriam: Professor Peter Hertner (1942–2023)
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Recently, we were informed that Professor Peter Hertner, member of the ESTER network, passed away on 26 April 2023. Born in 1942 in Ulm, Southern Germany, he studied in Heidelberg, Besançon, Basel, Strasbourg, Paris, and Marburg where he was awarded his diploma in Economics in 1968, and he also obtained his PhD in 1971, with a dissertation on the economic and social history of Strasbourg, 1650-1715. He was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Economic History in Marburg, from 1970 until 1977. From 1977 until 1981 he was a Junior Professor (Akademischer Rat) at the Institut für Geschichte der Technischen Hochschule in Darmstadt. He joined the European University Institute in 1981, first as a Research Assistant in the HEC Department until 1986, and subsequently as a full Professor until 1988, after he received his habilitation in Darmstadt in 1986, with a thesis on the German capital export to Italy and the development of the Italian economy, 1861-1894. Between 1981 and 1989 Hertner held various teaching positions in Italy, at the Università L’Orientale, Naples, the universities of Ancona and Genoa, and at the Bocconi Business School in Milan. He was named Director of the EUI library in 1988 until 1995 and remained as an external Professor in the EUI History Department. In April 1995, he was appointed Professor of Economic and Social History at the Martin-Luther-Universität in Halle-Wittenberg. He was a member of the editorial board and co-editor of Italian economic history journals, a member of the Scientific Board of the German Historical Institute in Rome, of the Comité pour l’histoire de l’electricité in Paris, of the Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte and of the European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH) both in Frankfurt and Main. On behalf of the ESTER network, the staff of the N.W. Posthumus Institute expresses its condolences to Professor Peter Hertner’s family, his colleagues and all that were close to him.
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Posthumus RDC at University of Vienna (25-27 September 2023)
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 The 2023 Posthumus Research Design Course (RDC) will be hosted on 25-27 September 2023 by the University of Vienna under the guidance of Professors Annemarie Steidl and Kirsten Wandschneider. This year's RDC, organised in close cooperation with partners from the ESTER network, comprises presentations by 45 PhD students (Posthumus as well as non-Posthumus PhDs) from all over Europe.
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Save the date: Posthumus Conference 2024 on 23-24 May 2024 in Leeuwarden
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 The local organisers at the Fryske Akademy are, in cooperation with N.W. Posthumus Institute staff, already making preparations for the Annual Posthumus Conference 2024, to be held on 23 and 24 May 2024 in Leeuwarden. More info will follow in due time, also via the Posthumus conference website, but already save these dates in your agenda!
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Save the date: Posthumus Writing Retreat 2024 scheduled for 24-29 June 2024!
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The annual Posthumus Writing Retreat 2023 took place from 12 - 17 June, this year in the beautiful Abbey of Berne in Heeswijk-Dinther in the province of North Brabant. Eught PhD-students worked undisturbed for a week on writing an article or a chapter of their thesis. One of them even managed to write more than 8000 words(!). For 2024 the retreat has been scheduled for 24-29 June, again in Heeswijk-Dinther. PhD-students in their second to fourth year, be sure to mark it in your agenda's! More info will follow in due time on the Posthumus website and via our Posthumus newsletter.
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Workshop 'Towards a Comparative History of Household Finance Before and After the Industrial Revolution' (Antwerp, 20-21 October 2023)
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In the Fall of 2023 the Department of History at the University of Antwerp will host the workshop 'Towards a Comparative History of Household Finance Before and After the Industrial Revolution'. The central questions in this workshop are very simple and empirical questions: how did households in the past organize their finances? How did people pay for food, clothing and housing? What did more affluent households do with the money they earned beyond what was needed for primary consumption? And for households living on the edge of subsistence: could they complement financial support from within their social networks with public welfare, private insurance, or more or less costly forms of credit?
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Conference ‘Food, Rules and the City’ (Brussels, 16-17 November 2023)
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On 16 and 17 November 2023, Posthumus alumni Dennis De Vriese (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Nicolas Brunmayr (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Robin Rose Southard (VUB) organise an international conference, entitled ‘Food, Rules and the City: Food Market Regulations and Their Social and Political Dynamics (15th-20th C.)’. Through its wide chronological and geographical scope, the conference seeks to confront different methodologies to study the ever-present matter of food market regulation as well as different approaches of various historical actors, institutions, and contexts in handling enduring concerns.
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Fully funded PhD spots V4 Summer School in Economic History, Prague - deadline 15 July
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The Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague in cooperation with the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and the University of Warsaw, jointly organise the V4 Summer School in Economic History, supported by the Visegrad Fund. It will take place from 27 August to 1 September 2023 in Villa Lanna, Prague, Czech Republic. At this moment, there are still some fully funded spots open for PhD students. The joint V4 Summer School will provide economic history students with a full understanding of the newest research trends in the field and offer a friendly atmosphere of picturesque historical Villa Lanna where students can discuss their research with their peers and distinguished international scholars. Applicants should submit their approved thesis proposal and a short CV ultimately 15 July 2023
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Lecture Andrea C. Mosterman on ‘Spaces of Enslavement and Resistance in Dutch New York’ (IISH, Amsterdam, 18 July 2023)
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On 18 July 2023, Andrea C. Mosterman, Joseph Tregle Endowed Professor in Early American History at the University of New Orleans, will deliver a guest lecture on ‘Spaces of Enslavement and Resistance in Dutch New York’ at the IISH in Amsterdam. In this lecture, she will explore how Dutch descendants in early New York used their dominance in homes, churches, and public spaces to control the people they enslaved, while enslaved people resisted such control by escaping or modifying these spaces and expanding their mobility and activities within them. Such close analysis of enslavement in these spaces reveals that slavery in Dutch New York was an advanced system of violence and control that in many ways resembled those of slave societies in the South. Attendance is free of charge, because of accomodation prior registration is requested.
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CfP Workshop 'Future Thinking and Practices in Premodern Economy, Society, and Culture' - deadline abstracts 15 August
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The organisers of the workshop 'Future Thinking and Practices in Premodern Economy, Society, and Culture', to be held at the University of Antwerp on 23 and 24 November 2023, call for papers. Researchers at all career stages and particularly early-career researchers are invited to apply. This workshop forms part of the ERC-funded research project 'Back to the Future. Future Expectations and Actions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, c.1400-c.1830' at the Centre for Urban History of the University of Antwerp. The aim of the workshop is to bring together cultural and socioeconomic perspectives on future orientations. In particular, the organisers want to exchange different methods, perspectives, sources, and data on the history of the time to come.
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CAPASIA lectures on connected histories of capitalism (online / hybrid)
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European Research Council project CAPASIA – The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism is organising a series of online/hybrid lectures dedicated to the connected histories of capitalism. The series is jointly organised with the European Research Council project ECOINT – a Twentieth-Century International Economic Thinking, and the Complex History of Globalization and the EUI Conversations on the New Histories of Capitalism Working Group. Download the poster via the button below to view the full program and access links to the respective lectures.
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5th Conference of the European Society on Historical Demography (Nijmegen, 30 August-2 September 2023)
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From 30 August until and including 2 September 2023, Radboud University Nijmegen will be hosting the 5th Conference of the European Society on Historical Demography. Demographic thought has been, and still is, heavily influenced by the Malthusian discourse that insisted on the differences be-tween Europeans and the others, and the superiority of the former over the latter. Conversely, almost two centuries later the nuclear hardship theory suggested a greater efficiency of the complex family systems over the nuclear model predominant in Europe. It is now time for new approaches that challenge the past narratives. New approaches that, instead of binary oppositions and hypothetical hierarchies, consider equally similarities and dissimilarities, recognize the ambiguity of borders, reciprocal influences, and the importance not only of external but also internal diversity within the compared populations. With this in mind, the 5th ESHD conference leading theme is ‘The Challenge of Comparing Across Space and Time’.
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Conference 'Maritime solidarity: Past and present' (IISH, Amsterdam, 22-23 September 2023)
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On 22 and 23 September 2023, the two-day conference 'Maritime solidarity: Past and present' will be held in Amsterdam by organisers Professor Pepijn Brandon (VU Amsterdam/IISH; Posthumus board member), Dr Niklas Frykman, Professor Marcus Rediker (both University of Pittsburgh), and Professor and activist Nandita Sharma (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa). While there is a thriving literature on the many historic examples of solidarity at sea, and between people ashore and afloat, there is still a lack of research that investigates concretely how, under what conditions, and with what lasting effects such solidarity comes about. This conference aims to bring together papers that focus on concrete histories of maritime solidarity, whether on board early modern slave ships or twentieth-century supertankers, in traditional sailor towns or contemporary container ports, and everywhere in between.
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Workshop on Belief in Solidarity (Antwerp, 11-13 December 2023)
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On 11-13 December 2023, UCSIA, the Urban Studies Institute (University of Antwerp) and Centre Pieter Gillis (University of Antwerp) organise an academic workshop at the University of Antwerp on interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of religiously inspired solidarity in modernising and post-secular contexts. The organisers of this workshop aim to discuss the role of faith and religious inspiration in organizing solidarity in contemporary superdiverse and post-secular urbanized societies as well as in secularising societies from the nineteenth century on by proceeding from the observation that religiously inspired or faith-based organizations have played and continue to play a significant role in offering social support and protection to vulnerable groups.
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Jaarcongres Werkgroep De Moderne Tijd (Amsterdam, 22 maart 2024) - deadline abstracts 22 september 2023
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(because of scope, in Dutch only) Het congres van de Werkgroep de Moderne Tijd zal in 2024 op 22 maart plaatsvinden en heeft als thema: 'Water: beleving, beheer, beeldvorming in de lange negentiende eeuw'. Wat waren de wateropgaven in deze lange negentiende eeuw? Hoe bepaalde het water de economie, de handel en het toerisme? Op welke manier was het een bron van inspiratie voor ingenieurs, wetenschappers of kunstenaars? Kortom, welke rol speelde het water in de cultuur en identiteit van de snel veranderende samenleving van de lage landen tijdens de lange negentiende eeuw? Aan de hand van deze vragen beoogt het congres stil te staan bij de veelzijdige culturele betekenis van water en de maatschappelijke, wetenschappelijke en artistieke vragen in de Lage landen. De call for abstracts is open tot uiterlijk 22 september 2023.
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| Our presence during Summer Holidays
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 Although the N.W. Posthumus Institute will not close entirely during the Summer Holidays, please note that our presence will be reduced between 10 July and the end of August. Responses to your mails may therefore take some more time than usual. Also, in August there will be no newsletter, the next newsletter is scheduled to be sent by mid-September.
We of course wish you all pleasant, safe, and careless Summer Holidays!
(image: Image of ice cream seller De Haan with his ice cream cart called "De IJsbeer" ("The Polar Bear") of the Vereenigde Banketbakkers van Utrecht en Omstreken (Association of Confectioners in Utrecht and surrounding area), with some children, photographed in the Willem de Zwijgerstraat, Utrecht, about the crossing with the Mauritsstraat. The photograph has been made in the 1920s by an unknown photographer. Source: Image 600250, Het Utrechts Archief)
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Twitter's new policy causes feed on website to be temporarily out of order
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As you may have noticed, the Twitter feed on our homepage shows the message ‘Nothing to see here – yet’. This is caused by unannounced recent changes in Twitter's policy. We hope this will be solved soon; many other websites experience the same problem. In the meantime, you can follow us directly via our Twitter account. Logging in may be required as a result of Twitter’s new policy.
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