Posthumus Conference 2025
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Posthumus Conference 2025 in Nijmegen, 27-28 May 2025'The People vs Structures' - Updated Programme! |
The Posthumus Conference 2025 (27 and 28 May 2025, Radboud University Nijmegen) is drawing neigh and promises to be a well-visited and interesting event. The sessions, organised by the respective Research Networks of the N.W. Posthumus Institute in close cooperation with our PhD representatives, are complete now! Have a look at the website for the updated programme. Not registered yet? Please do so, there are still some places left (although the dinner is already fully booked...)!
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N.W. Posthumus Summer School 'Crises and History' (Utrecht, 30 June - 4 July 2025) - just a few places left - deadline 1 June 2025 |
From 30 June until 4 July 2025, the N.W. Posthumus Institute will organise the Summer School 'Crises and History', delivered and organised by Dr Jessica Dijkman. This one-week summer school familiarises the participants with recent research into some important historical crisis types with present-day parallels, such as epidemics and economic crises. They gain insight in the central academic debates related to the social, economic, political and cultural causes and consequences of these crises and in the factors determining the vulnerability and resilience of the societies that were confronted with them. Students discover the main methods and source types employed for an analysis of crises and acquire the skills to use them in their research. In short, the summer school stimulates students to develop their own research ideas on the topic of crises in history. For the final places in this 2-3 EC course, make sure to apply ultimately by 1 June 2025 via the Posthumus website.
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Call for abstracts ESTER RDC 2025 (Seville, 3-5 November 2025) open now - deadline 1 July 2025 |
The N.W. Posthumus Institute, as secretariat of the European graduate School for Training in Economic and social historical Research (ESTER), is happy to announce the 2025 ESTER Research Design Course will be held on 3-5 November 2025 in Sevilla (Spain) uner the guidance of Dr Germán Jiménez Montes (photo) of the University of Seville. The call for abstracts is open now: participants are asked to write a paper in which the design of their research will be discussed. The aim of this methodological reflection is to investigate the scientific procedures that historians use to reach scientific explanations and to combine all analytical elements into a synthetic and coherent historical account. In this paper, the participant will also prepare a detailed work plan for the dissertation. Abstracts (400-800 words) should be submitted ultimately 1 July 2025 via the Posthumus website.
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Succesful Seminar II Posthumus PhDs cohort 2024 at Eindhoven University of Technology |
| On 10 and 11 April 2025, Eindhoven University of Technology was the scene of the second seminar (‘Work in progress’) of the PhD Training Programme for the PhDs of cohort 2024. Thirty-two PhD students gathered to present their minor paper and provide each other with feedback, eighteen Posthumus fellows provided expert commentary. In the afternoon we walked under expert guidance through Strijp-S, the completely redeveloped Philips factory site and had dinner in a former engine room. We are very grateful to the TU/e team led by Frank Veraart who received us so hospitably. The next ‘stop’ for the students of the 2024 cohort will be the Posthumus Conference 2025 at Radboud University where this cohort will present their research projects through poster presentations. |
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ESEH 2025 Elections - deadline (self)nominations 30 April 2025
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The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) will soon hold elections for several positions (mentioned on ESEH’s website). The ESEH Nomination Committee invites everyone who wishes to dedicate time and energy to the Society to submit their candidacy. Candidates should send a 1-page CV and a statement of no more than 500 words by e-mail to Professor Marco Amiero, Chair of the Nomination Committee, ultimately 30 April 2025.
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IV Doctoral School in Economic History of the Middle Ages ‘The Economy of Daily Life: Analysing Living Standards in Medieval Europe’ (University of Valencia 30 June-2 July 2025) – deadline abstracts 30 April 2025 |
The research group Cultures i Societats de l’Edat Mitjana (CiSEM) at the University of Valencia is organising the IV Doctoral School in Economic History of the Middle Ages, to be held from 30 June to 2 July 2025, which will be dedicated to ‘The Economy of Daily Life: Analysing Living Standards in Medieval Europe’. Invited speakers (confirmed) are Robert Allen (New York University Abu Dhabi & University of Oxford), Posthumus fellow Alexandra de Pleijt (Wageningen University & Research), and Lluís To (University of Girona). In addition, senior professors and researchers from various Spanish universities involved in the School’s activities will also participate. The organisers encourage doctoral students and early-career researchers interested in the topic to submit their proposals. Submissions should be sent by 30 April 2025.
!Please note the more info link may temporarily not work properly due to massive energy failure in Spain and Portugal! |
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Call for paper and panel proposals - 44th Annual APHES Conference (Évora, Portugal, 14-15 November 2025) - deadline 15 May 2025
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The Associaçaõ Portuguesa de História Económica e Social (APHES) will have its 44th annual APHES Conference on 14–15 November 2025 at the University of Évora, fostering debate on the multiple intersections and applications of the concept of diversity. The organisers welcome proposals for papers or panels exploring diverse historical and geographical perspectives. Submissions must be sent by 15 May 2025.
!Please note the more info link may temporarily not work properly due to massive energy failure in Spain and Portugal! |
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Call for Practitioners' Labs - 10th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise (Rotterdam, 3-5 Nov. and Utrecht, 5-7 Nov. 2025) - deadline 17 June 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. An essential part of this conference are Practitioners' Labs, where practitioners can share their stories (in 5–10 minute presentations), and have an open discussion with other participants on issues they are facing. Abstracts and panel proposals for Practitioners' Labs should be submitted ultimately 17 June 2025.
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SGvdO Symposium 'Sociale zorg en lotsverbetering bij zeevarenden, 1700-1900' (Rotterdam, 1 mei 2025) |
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ De Stichting Geschiedenis van de Overheidsfinanciën (SGvdO) organiseert op 1 mei 2025 in het Belasting & Douane Museum te Rotterdam een symposium over sociale zorg en lotsverbetering bij zeevarenden, 1700-1900. De vier presentaties gaan over ziekenzorg op de oorlogsvloot en kaperschepen in de achttiende eeuw (Johan Francke), arbeidsvoorwaarden bij de Nederlandse marine, 1795-1813 (Hugo Landheer), het College Zeemans Hoop, opgericht in 1822 (Cor Scholten) en sociale strijd bij de Koninklijke Marine rond 1900 (Johan van der Worp). Opgeven voor de bijeenkomst kan via een mail aan de SGvdO.
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UUCEMS Lecture 2025 by Professor Jake Soll (Utrecht, 15 May 2025) - prior registration required |
On 15 May 2025, the Utrecht University Centre for Early Modern Studies (UUCEMS), in cooperation with Utrecht University’s Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities organises its annual lecture. This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor Jake Soll (University of Southern California) and is titled ‘Richard Price’s Prudence and the Unintentional Invention of Modern Capitalist Values (1758-1790)’. Attendance is free of charge, but prior registration is required
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Holland Dag 2025 (Rotterdam, 16 mei 2025) - registreer uiterlijk 6 mei 2025 |
~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Op 16 mei 2025 organiseert de Stichting Ontstaan van Holland in samenwerking met Archeologie Rotterdam de Holland Dag 2025. Het thema van deze bijeenkomst zal zijn ‘Stedelijke ontwikkeling in de middeleeuwen’. Tijdens deze bijeenkomst zullen diverse sprekers hun licht laten schijnen over de vroege geschiedenis en archeologie van het middeleeuwse graafschap Holland. Dagvoorzitter is dr. Roos van Oosten, universitair docent in middeleeuwse eb stedelijke archeologie aan de Universiteit van Leiden. Aanmelden voor deze dag is mogelijk tot en met 6 mei 2025; er geldt een entreeprijs.
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Parlementaire kronieken 1998-2023 online en doorzoekbaar |
| ~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Sinds 1998 publiceert het Centrum voor Parlementaire Geschiedenis jaarlijks een kroniek van de belangrijkste politieke gebeurtenissen van het Nederlandse parlementaire jaar. Die kronieken staan nu, gecombineerd in één pdf, online. De kronieken vormen een handig naslagwerk voor wie schrijft over de recente Nederlandse politieke geschiedenis. |
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Middeleeuwen Symposium 2025: ‘Oorlog en Vrede in de Middeleeuwen – Realiteit, Herinnering en Mythe’ (Zutphen, 20 juni 2025)
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~ because of scope in Dutch only ~ Op 20 juni 2025 vindt in Zutphen het Middeleeuwen Symposium 2025 plaats. Dit symposium wordt gezamenlijk georganiseerd door de Historische Vereniging Zutphen, Erfgoedcentrum Zutphen en Musea Zutphen, in nauwe samenwerking met de Radboud Universiteit en de Stichting Walburgiskerk. Het thema dit jaar is ‘Oorlog en Vrede in de Middeleeuwen – Realiteit, Herinnering en Mythe’, dagvoorzitter is prof. dr. Johan Oosterman, hoogleraar Oudere Nederlandse letterkunde aan de Radboud Universiteit. Het symposium besteedt aandacht aan recent onderzoek en richt zich op geschiedenisliefhebbers, professionals en studenten. De sprekers zijn werkzaam aan Nederlandse, Vlaamse en Britse universiteiten. Voor deelname aan het Middeleeuwen Symposium 2025 geldt een bijdrage, voor studenten geldt een gereduceerd tarief.
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PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Tessa de Boer (Leiden University, 7 May 2025) |
On 7 May 2025, Posthumus alumna Tessa de Boer will defend her PhD thesis ‘A Truth Universally Acknowledged. Dutch Investment in French Colonial Resources in the Eighteenth Century’ at Leiden University. Supervisors are Professor Cátia Antunes (Leiden University) and Dr Elisabeth Heijmans (University of Antwerp). Tessa’s dissertation focuses on Dutch investments in the French colonial empire in the eighteenth century. Dutch-supplied credit played an important role in the financial circuits of the French empire. The dissertation analyses the commercial, political and social strategies that effectuated these investments. On a broader scale, these prominent investments in the ‘empire of another’ (in this case France) prove that the Dutch involvement in the colonial past goes beyond the Dutch colonies alone. The N.W. Posthumus Institute staff wishes Tessa a successful defence!
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PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Bas Spliet (University of Antwerp, 14 May 2025) |
On 14 May 2025, Posthumus alumnus Bart Spliet will defend the PhD thesis ‘The Demand of the Invisible Hand. The Consumer Revolution and Social Inequality in the (Pre)Modern Metropolis’ at the University of Antwerp. Supervisors are Professor Bruno Blondé (University of Antwerp) and Professor Wouter Ryckbosch (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). Bas’ dissertation confronts two schools of thought in the literature on social and economic history of northwestern Europe in the early modern era: the consumer revolution and social inequality. In this thesis, Bas Spliet analyses consumer developments in the most important commercial metropoles of the era: in the first place Amsterdam, but also Antwerp and London. In the final analysis, Bas Spliet re-establishes increased choice – first emphasised by Jan de Vries – as a core defining characteristic of nascent consumer societies and concludes that the consumer revolution alleviated the social impact of augmented economic inequality – but only under the precondition of stable purchasing power. The N.W. Posthumus Institute staff wishes Bas a successful defence!
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PhD Defence Posthumus alumna Heleen Blommers (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2 June 2025) |
| On 2 June 2025, Posthumus alumna Heleen Blommers will defend the PhD thesis ‘Deconstructing the War on Poverty: why a failure narrative became entrenched in American political discourse, 1964–1974’ at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Supervisors are Professor Karel Davids (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Dr Dienke Hondius (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), and Professor Damian Pargas (Leiden University). Heleen’s dissertation focuses on the War on Poverty, a large-scale domestic anti-poverty program in the United States in the 1960s. Soon after the program was launched in 1964, it was criticized from both left and right and by the mid-1980s, the general narrative had become that the War on Poverty failed. Today, historians and economists argue that the anti-poverty program was actually quite effective in various ways. The dissertation answers the question why and how the failure narrative of the War on Poverty came into being in the United States. The N.W. Posthumus Institute wishes Heleen a successful defence! |
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Other future PhD defences of Posthumus alumni |
| 23 June 2025 - Robin Rose Southard (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) on the PhD thesis 'Biting the hand that feeds: contesting the food guilds in 18th-century Brussels’. Supervisor: Professor Wouter Ryckbosch (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). |
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| 25 August 2025 - Lena Walschap (KU Leuven) on a PhD thesis on peasant fishing on the late medieval English coasts as a coping strategy against climate-induced hazards. Supervisor: Professor Maïka De Keyzer (KU Leuven). |
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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.
- Emblem of ‘the plague. Book illustration (etching) by Jan Luyken for Christoph Weigel, Ethica Naturalis seu Documenta Moralia … (Neurenberg: Christoph Weigel, 1700). Collectie Rijksmuseum object RP-P-OB-44.867. Public Domain. |
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