Newsletter November / December 2023
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New PhD cohort starting on 7 and 8 December 2023
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The N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to welcome no less than 26 new PhD students for cohort 2023 of the PhD Basic Training Programme. The Training Programme will kick off with the two-day Seminar I: 'My research in a nutshell' on 7 and 8 December 2023 in the city centre of Utrecht. We gladly welcome all new PhD students and hope to offer them an interesting and successful programme for the next two years!
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Successful Career Day 2023 |
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N.W. Posthumus Institute, the Huizinga Institute, the Research School Political History and the Research School for Medieval Studies jointly organised the PhD Career Day 2023 for their PhD students. About 30 PhD students visited this day and enjoyed the keynote by independent researcher and historian Suze Zijlstra. Many of them also took the opportunity to discuss their CVs and other issues in speed-dates with speakers from various sectors in society. The Career Day was chaired by historian Henk Looijesteijn. The participating reserach schools intend to have this Career Day every other year.
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International Workshop ‘The Fragmented City in Premodern Europe’ - University of Antwerp, 25 January 2024 - deadline abstracts 15 December 2023
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On 25 January 2024, the Centre for Urban History of the University of Antwerp, supported by the N.W. Posthumus Institute, will host the International Workshop ‘The Fragmented City in Premodern Europe’. Organisers are Posthumus PhD Bente Marschall and Posthumus fellow Professor Peter Stabel. This workshop wants to explore the notion of the fragmented city. It can be defined as urban settlements with multiple and often various political, legal, cultural or social entities operating in the same space, in which the local (urban) government lacked control over the entire territory or did not encompass all social relations within the city limits. By analysing patterns of fragmentation, the workshop aims to bring together early career and advanced scholars to trace the effects of these divisions on urban cohesion and urban agency. Those interested to participate in this workshop should submit a title and short abstract in English (ca. 250 words) before 15 December 2023 to Bente Marschall.
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Workshop 'Feeding the citizens? Urban land and landownership in past and present' (Antwerp, 10-12 April 2024)
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On 10-12 April 2024, organisers Tim Soens, Cécile Bruyet (UAntwerp), Esther Beeckaert (STAM Ghent), Yves Segers (KULeuven), and Thijs Lambrecht (Ghent University) welcome you at the workshop 'Feeding the citizens? Urban land and landownership in past and present', to be held at the premises of STAM Ghent City Museum. Crossing present-day debates on land-based food supplies with different configurations of urban land and landownership in the past, this workshop welcomes contributions from different geographic regions and differenttime periods, as well as papers on present-day experiences of urban land and landownership, and how such experiences might find inspiration in the past. Deadline for abstracts has passed on 1 December 2023. |
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Workshop 'Belief in Solidarity' (Antwerp, 11-13 December 2023) - registration open until 10 December 2023
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On 11-13 December 2023, 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. 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. Confirmed keynotes are Anne Birgitta Pessi (Professor of Church and Social Studies, University of Helsinki), Sigrun Kahl (Assistant Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Yale University) and Joan Stavo-Debauge (Associate Researcher, University of Lausanne). Public lectures on 11 December are accessible free of charge (registration requested). For the workshop on 12-13 December a registration fee applies.
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PhD Defence Posthumus alumnus Patrick Naaktgeboren (Maastricht University, 11 January 2024)
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On 11 January 2024, Posthumus alumnus Patrick Naaktgeboren will defend his PhD thesis 'Personenvennootschappen in vroegmodern Antwerpen (1621–1791)' ['Private partnerships in early modern Antwerp (1621–1791)'] at Maastricht University. Promotores are Professor Bram Van Hofstraeten (Maastricht University) and Professor Jeroen Puttevils (University of Antwerp). Patricks dissertation investigates private partnerships in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Antwerp (1621–1791) from both a legal historical and a socioeconomic perspective. The PhD defense will also be broadcasted as livestream, the URL will be announced later. The N.W. Posthumus staff wishes Patrick a successful defense.
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/Conference ‘Commodities and Environments in Early Modern Global Asia, 1400–1800’ (EUI, 13-15 November 2024) - deadline proposals 20 February 2024
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The organisers of the international conference ‘Commodities and Environments in Early Modern Global Asia, 1400–1800’ call for papers. This conference is organised under the auspices of the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant Project, CAPASIA ‘The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism’, and will be hosted at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy on 13-15 November 2024. The conference explores the relationship between environments and commodities in early modern Global Asia between 1400 and 1800. It investigates the environmental consequences in these regions of the extraction, production and trade in commodities. Proposals from scholars at all career stages, including early career researchers, are welcome and should be submitted ultimately 20 February 2024. |
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Image credits: Numbers of starting line track, photograph by Santeri Viinamäki, used under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed.
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