Posthumus Conference 2025
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Posthumus Conference 2025 in Nijmegen, 27-28 May 2025'The People vs Structures'
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We are pleased to announce the Posthumus Conference 2025 will take place on 27 and 28 May 2025 at Radboud University Nijmegen. The theme of his year's edition will be 'The People vs Structures'. What does it mean for someone to be enslaved, to live in an early-modern empire, to have property rights, to do business surrounded by uncertainty, to experience environmental change, to move from the countryside to the city, or to work in a coal mine that is closed down? The theme of the conferences allows a reflection on how legal systems, institutions, and practices have influenced social and economic conditions, as well as how people have influenced these legal regimes. Our hosts will be Dries Lyna and Joris van der Tol. We are looking forward to meeting you there, keep a close eye on the conference website and our newsletters!
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Keynote speaker Posthumus Conference 2025: Professor Tamar Herzog (Harvard University)
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We are proud to inform you that the keynote at the Posthumus Conference 2025 in Nijmegen will be delivered by Professor Tamar Herzog, Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs at Harvard University and Affiliate Professor of the Harvard Law School. As a legal historian, her work is always embedded in economic and social historical developments. She demonstrates a strong interest in how individuals and communities experienced and interacted with day-to-day realities of legal, governmental, and cultural structures. Her published work combines different geographic scales – from cities to continents – and different time periods between the fifteenth and the twentieth centuries. In her keynote at the Posthumus conference she will demonstrate why legal history matters for economic and social history.
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Final places for our Research Master Course ‘Data Management for Historians’ available – register before 10 January 2025 |
From February until May 2025 the N.W. Posthumus Institute organises the Research Master Course ‘Data Management for Historians’. This 5 EC online research course will be supervised by Dr Rick Mourits (IISH) and will consist of a series of online sessions with a final closing session at the IISH. The course will allow master students within economic and social history to process their own rudimentary data and enable reuse according to the FAIR data principles and instructs them on the basics of quantitative data management. It introduces the quantitative research cycle, programming in R and SPARQL, and how to report on data questions. Registration is still open until 10 January 2025 to all Research Master students via our online form. Interested but not a Research Master student? Do contact us via e-mail and we will talk about the options.
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PhD students cohort 2024 started at Seminar I in Maastricht
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| On Thursday 12 and Friday 13 December the N.W. Posthumus Institute had the pleasure of time welcoming 35 new PhD students of cohort 2024 (the largest cohort ever) in our PhD programme. We thank director Nico Randeraad and deputy director Joris Roosen of FASoS Research Institute and Sociaal Historisch Centrum voor Limburg for their hospitality and commitment. We are also grateful for the assistance and support of PhD representatives Dinos Sevdalakis and Silke Baas and many Posthumus fellows who, from as far as Groningen, joined the seminar and provided comments on one or more papers. The next seminar will be held on on 10 and 11 April 2025 at the Eindhoven University of Technology. |
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Inaugural lecture Matthias van Rossum as Professor Global Histories of Labour and Colonialism at Radboud University |
On 24 January 2025 Posthumus fellow and Posthumus course coordinator Matthias van Rossum will deliver his inaugural lecture as Professor by special appointment Global Histories of Labour and Colonialism at Radboud University. Matthias was appointed on 1 February 2024 to this special chair, jointly established by Radboud University and the International Institute of Social History. The chair focuses on the history of slavery, forced labour and resistance in relation to colonial expansion. The chair aims to gain new insights into the Dutch and European colonial past by studying sources and perspectives from below. Attendance is possible on location after prior registration or online via a livestream. The N.W. Posthumus Institute congratulates Matthias with this appointment!
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NWO XS Grant awarded to Posthumus fellow Swantje Falcke
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The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Dr Swantje Falcke, Posthumus fellow, currently affiliated with the Department of History at Utrecht University, an XS Grant for the project ‘Environmental change and migration patterns in the Netherlands: A long term view’. Swantje’s project investigates the long-term relationship between environmental change and migration in the Netherlands from 1812 to 2023. The central question to the project is who migrates in response to environmental change, and why. The findings aim to inform policy interventions to protect vulnerable populations and advance the academic understanding of environmental migration. The N.W. Posthumus Institute staff congratulates Swantje with this award!
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Change of coordinators Research Network ‘Globalisation, Inequality, and Sustainability in Long-Term Perspective’ |
As per 1 January 2025, Pim de Zwart will be succeeded as coordinator of the Research Network ‘Globalisation, Inequality, and Sustainability in Long-Term Perspective’ of the N.W. Posthumus Institute by his colleague Daniel Gallardo Albarrán, also affiliated with Wageningen University & Research. The N.W. Posthumus Institute is very grateful to Pim voor his efforts for the Research Network and for the N.W. Posthumus Institute over the past years and of course welcomes Daniel as new coordinator.
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Change of coordinators Research Network ‘Economy and Society of the Pre-industrial Low Countries in Comparative Perspective’ |
Also per 1 January 2025, Pepijn Brandon will be succeeded as coordinator of the Research Network ‘Economy and Society of the Pre-industrial Low Countries in Comparative Perspective’ of the N.W. Posthumus Institute by Janna Coomans, affiliated with Utrecht University. The N.W. Posthumus Institute is very grateful to Pepijn for his efforts for the Research Network and for the N.W. Posthumus Institute over the past years and of course welcomes Janna as new coordinator.
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Annual Report N.W. Posthumus Institute 2023 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 2023. The report provides you with an overview of activities, results and developments regarding the N.W. Posthumus Institute in 2023. |
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MISSED THIS? Changes curriculum PhD Training Programme |
In the most recent board meeting, the General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute agreed to implement some changes in the PhD Training Programme. We already announced these changes in the previous newsletter but in case ou missed this please visit our website about this!
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On 28 February 2025, Utrecht University will host a FRESH workshop on Empire and Economic Development. Frontier Research in Economic and Social History (FRESH) meetings are aimed at researchers in any field of economic and social history. The purpose of the meetings is to enable scholars to present their ongoing research at an early stage to an audience of interested peers. Keynote speaker of this particular meeting will be Tirthankar Roy, Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics. Organisers of the meeting are Posthumus fellows and alumni Maanik Nath (Utrecht University) and Sandra de Pleijt (Frontier Research in Economic and Social History series organiser) in cooperation with John Tang (Utrecht University. This meeting is made possible thanks to funding made available by the European Historical Economics Society (EHES) and the N.W. Posthumus Institute. Abstracts submisssion closed 13 December 2024.
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Conference of Young Demographers (Charles University, Prague, 5-7 February 2025)
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The 2025 annual international Conference of Young Demographers will be held at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague on 5-7 February 2025. The conference organisers aim to create a relaxed and welcoming environment where especially early career researchers can share their work in progress and thoughts with their peers. The conference is supported by the Research Network 'Life-courses, Family, and Labour' of the N.W. Posthumus Institute.
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8th Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food (Amsterdam, 5-6 June 2025) – deadline abstracts 15 January 2025
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On 5 and 6 June 2025, the 8th Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food will take place at Allard Pierson, University of Amsterdam. This year’s topic is: Food and the City. This year’s symposium will mark a special edition because it takes place in the 750th anniversary year of the city of Amsterdam. The 2025 symposium seeks to highlight the transformative power of cities within the history of food, and the crucial role of urban foodways in shaping the historical trajectory of urban environments. It invites new perspectives on the environmental, logistical, social, and cultural challenges posed by food production, retail, consumption, and promotion in cities. Abstracts for papers should be submitted ultimately 15 January 2025.
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Symposium 'Colonial Archives and Meaningful Digital Infrastructure' (Nijmegen, 24 January 2025) - registration required
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| On 24 January 2025, preceding the inaugural lecture of Professor Matthias van Rossum, the symposium 'Colonial Archives and Meaningful Digital Infrastructure' will take place at Radboud University. This symposium brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss the challenges and opportunities of working with digitized colonial records and explores challenges, questions, and examples surrounding digital access and enrichment of shared resources related to the colonial past. The symposium is free of charge, but registration is required. The symposium can be attended on-site as well as online. |
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Aanvraagronde Instituut Gak-KNAW Award 2025 gestart - deadline aanvragen 14 februari 2025
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~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ De Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) en Instituut Gak hebben sinds 2019 een prijs voor wetenschappers: de Instituut Gak-KNAW Award. Met deze award willen beide organisaties jong talent kansen bieden en maatschappelijke vraagstukken op het terrein van sociale zekerheid en arbeidsmarkt helpen oplossen. Daarom is de prijs bedoeld voor postdocs met die specialisatie. Hun onderzoek dient verband te hebben met het werkgebied van Instituut Gak en de onderzoeksagenda van het KNAW-gastinstituut, bijvoorbeeld door samenwerking met onderzoekers van het gastinstituut. Postdocs dienen niet langer dan vijf jaar geleden te zijn gepromoveerd of uiterlijk in april 2025 te zullen promoveren, en vernieuwend onderzoek doen dat relevant is voor inzicht in de ontwikkeling van sociale zekerheid en arbeidsmarkt in Nederland. Onderzoek vindt plaats aan een KNAW-instituut. Aanvragen dienen uiterlijk 14 februari 2025 ontvangen te zijn.
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Questionnaire unlocking historical sources (Huygens Instituut) |
The Huygens Institute for Dutch history and culture provides digital access to numerous historical sources and literary works. The Huygens Institute aims to provide access to such sources to both academics as well as to the general public as much as possible. Through the project ‘Werk aan Uitvoering’ [‘Work in Progress’], the institute strives to improve inter-linkage between these various sources, to make them searchable, and to provide context and access to these sources to all persons interested. The Huygens Institute therefore calls upon researchers who make use of historical sources (be it either for study, research, or out of hobbyism) to help improving the unlocking of these sources! Please use the button below and fill out a short (5-7 min.) questionnaire, available in Dutch and English.
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NIEUWE DATUM: Workshop Nederlandsch Economisch-Historisch Archief (NEHA) over economische ongelijkheid (IISG, Amsterdam, 5 februari 2025)
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~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ In het licht van de groeiende maatschappelijke belangstelling voor inkomensongelijkheid en de verdeling van winsten, organiseert het NEHA op 5 februari 2025 bij het IISG in Amsterdam een workshop die deze urgente thema’s onder de loep neemt. Deze workshop is bedoeld om verschillende perspectieven te verkennen en inzichten te delen over inkomensongelijkheid en winstverdeling, zowel op nationaal als internationaal niveau. Ook de rol van banken in deze kwesties komt uitgebreid aan bod. Drie van de vijf sprekers komen vanuit de academische wereld (onder wie Posthumus-alumnus Amaury de Vicq), de andere twee vanuit het maatschappelijke veld. De verschillende sprekers zullen elk verschillende aspecten van economische ongelijkheid belichten. De workshop is vrij toegankelijk. Deze workshop was oorspronkelijk op 14 november 2024 maar vanwege de geplande onderwijsacties destijds uitgesteld. |
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Call for abstract and panel proposals - 10th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise (Rotterdam, 3-5 Nov. and Utrecht, 5-7 Nov. 2025) - deadline 6 April 2025
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The EMES International Research Network, in partnership with the Rotterdam School of Management of Erasmus University and Utrecht University announces the 10th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise on the theme 'Scaling Through Communities: The Role of Social Entrepreneurs and Social Enterprises in Boosting Societal Transitions' to be held in two different cities: Rotterdam (3-5 November 2025) and Utrecht (5-7 November 2025). The conference seeks to explore the strategies, innovations, partnerships and contexts that enable Social Entrepreneurs and Social Enterprises to drive systemic change while scaling its impact across diverse contexts, rooted in the historical resilience seen in institutions for collective action, spanning a millennium and highlighting the potential of community self-governance as both a scalable and sustainable model. Abstract and panel proposals should be submitted ultimately 6 April 2025.
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Because of the December Holidays, the N.W. Posthumus Institute will be closed from 21 December 2024 and reopen on 6 January 2025. The N.W. Posthumus Institute staff wishes you good December Holidays and all the best for 2025!
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Already following us on Mastodon? |
As of 1 March 2024, the N.W. Posthumus Institute has started using Mastodon as social medium, following the decision to stop using X, formerly known as Twitter, actively for new announcements, as a result of the current developments surrounding the X platform. Do sign up with Mastodon and follow our account to keep updated frequently with new items and developments. Join us on Mastodon!
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Image credits: Gezicht op Nijmegen vanuit het noorden [View on Nijmegen from the North], picture by Jan Ruyter (I), created 1738. Collection Rijksmuseum object RP-P-AO-4-28-1. Public Domain. 'Books statue' photo by Rogier van Kooten
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