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| NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2023
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N.W. Posthumus Institute Annual Report 2022 available
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The General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to present you the N.W. Posthumus Institute Annual Report 2022. The report provides you with an overview of activities, results and developments regarding the N.W. Posthumus Institute in 2022, the first ‘regular’ year after the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on society.
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Successful PhD defence Mark van de Water
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On 20 September 2023, Posthumus alumnus Mark van de Water defended his PhD thesis ‘The road to drain or gain: Dutch private investment and economic development in late colonial and early independent Indonesia’ at the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University. Supervisors were Professor David Henley and Dr Thomas Lindblad, promotores were Professor Henley and Dr Jeroen Touwen. We congratulate Mark with obtaining his PhD.
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Cum laude PhD Defence Weixuan Li
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On 12 September 2023, Posthumus-alumna Weixuan Li defended her PhD thesis 'Painters’ playbooks: Deep mapping socio-spatial strategies in the art market of seventeenth-century Amsterdam' cum laude at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. Promotors were Professor Charles van den Heuvel and Professor Julia Noordegraaf, co-supervision was provided by Dr Claartje Rasterhoff and Dr Marten Jan Bok. We congratulate Weixuan with obtaining her PhD.
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Change of PhD Representatives and Board Members
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 At the General Board Meeting of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, three of our PhD representatives, Jasper Segerink, Samantha Sint Nicolaas and Karoline da Silva Rodrigues took their leave as PhD Representatives. We thank Jasper, Samantha and Karoline very much for their inspiration and efforts over the past years. We are glad to announce we also did welcome two new PhD representatives: Cécile Bruyet and Silke Geven will join Dinos Sevdalakis as PhD representatives, representing the PhDs affiliated with the Posthumus PhD Training Programme.
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| Recently, the composition of the General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute has also changed. Professor Hein Klemann, representative of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), has resigned as Board Member. Professor Ben Wubs from now on is the acting representative of the EUR, Dr Jeroen Euwe taking Ben’s place as substitute board member. Professor Herman de Jong, representative of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen (RUG), also resigned as regular Board Member. Professor Jutta Bolt now is the new regular Board Member on behalf of the Faculty of Economics and Business of RUG, Professor Abe de Jong the substitute board member on behalf of this faculty. Third, Professors Erik van de Vleuten and Mila Davids have changed their positions, Dr Mila Davids now being the regular Board Member on behalf of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Professor Erik van der Vleuten now acting as substitute member on behalf of TU/e. The N.W. Posthumus Institute expresses its gratitude to all new, current and former Board Members for their efforts for the N.W. Posthumus Institute.
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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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Research Schools organise Career Day for PhDs
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On 10 November 2023, the N.W. Posthumus Institute, the National Research School Political History, the Huizinga Institute and the Research School for Medieval Studies jointly organise a Career Day for their PhDs. This first joint Career Day will take place at Utrecht Science Parc. The day programme will comprise several speakers (most alumni) who will deliver a talk about their life 'after the PhD'; speakers are from institutions both inside as well as outside academia.
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Masterclass ‘Actors and institutions in the pre-Modern Economy’ with Professor Thomas Safley (Brussels, 2 October 2023)
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VUB research group HOST (Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes) in collaboration with the N.W. Posthumus Institute is hosting the masterclass ‘Actors and institutions in the pre-Modern Economy’ with Professor Thomas Safley on 2 October 2023. The masterclass offers PhD candidates and early career researchers the opportunity to present and discuss their work with an expert in the field. It focusses on the actors (specifically merchants and families) and institutions (the state/authorities and households) that shaped the pre-modern economy of the Low Countries. During the masterclass a maximum of 6 participants will offer 10-minute presentations based on a pre-submitted project outline such as a paper/chapter abstract. Afterwards, Professor Safley and the participants will be able to provide detailed feedback on the presentation/proposal and discuss the topic. The goal is to help the researcher as well as the other participants in shaping/developing an argument or theory.
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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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Workshop 'Future Thinking and Practices in Premodern Economy, Society, and Culture' (Antwerp, 23-24 November 2023)
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On 23 and 24 November 2023 the workshop 'Future Thinking and Practices in Premodern Economy, Society, and Culture', will be held at the University of Antwerp on 23 and 24 November. 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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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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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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15th Conference of Young Demographers – Call for papers – deadline 20 October 2023
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The Young Demographers, in cooperation with the Association for Young Historical Demographers (AYHD), the Geographical Institute and the Department of Demography and Geodemography of the Faculty of Science, Charles University, invite you to the 15th Conference of Young Demographers. The conference is scheduled for 7–9 February 2024, and will take place at the Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 6, Prague 2. If you are interested in participating, please submit the title of your work, a short abstract in English (maximum 250 words) and 3–5 keywords. Proposals for both posters and oral presentations are welcome.
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13e Jacob van Lennep-lezing (SPUI25, Amsterdam, 5 October 2023)
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(because of scope, in Dutch only)
Op 5 oktober 2023 vindt bij SPUI25 in samenwerking met de Werkgroep de Moderne Tijd en de Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen van de Universiteit van Amsterdam de 13e Jacob van Lenneplezing plaats. Spreker Rick Honings zal dan spreken over het onderwerp ‘De ontdekking van Insulinde: op reis in Nederlands-Indië in de negentiende eeuw’. De lezing is vrij toegankelijk, maar aanmelding vooraf via de website van SPUI25 is gewenst. De Jacob van Lennep-lezing keert jaarlijks op de eerste donderdag van oktober terug en beoogt de Nederlandse literatuur en cultuur van de negentiende eeuw onder de publieke aandacht te brengen.
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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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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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Twitter (now: X)'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 recent changes in Twitter (now: X)'s policy. We are evaluating our position on these developments and its consequences. In the meantime, you can follow us directly via our Twitter account. Logging in may be required as a result of X’s new policy.
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| Image credits: Hand shake image made by Spot Us and used under Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0 license. Leeuwarden image: fragment of city plan of Leeuwarden in the book Beschrijving van Heerlijkheydt van Friesland, authored by Bernardus Schotanus à Sterringa, published in 1664 (Public domain). Volcano image: Sumbing Volcano on Java, fragment of image made in 1854, presumably by Carl Wilhelm Mieling after an earlier drawing by Frans Wilhelm Junghuhn (Public domain, Collection Rijksmuseum, object RP-P-1904-3883).
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