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Posthumus Conference 2022 drawing closer...
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 We are looking forward to meet you at the forthcoming Posthumus Conference 2022, which will be held on 30 June-1 July 2022 and will be hosted by the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam. On the website, next to practical info and the programme, you will find info about the Conference Hosts as well as the keynote of this event, Professor Deirdre McCloskey. The info on the website will be updated frequently, please check the website regularly.
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Posthumus staff welcomes Midas van de Weetering as student assistant
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As of 16 May 2022, the staff of the N.W. Posthumus Institute will be temporarily (until June 2023) supported by student assistant Midas van de Weetering. Midas is currently in the second year of his BA in History at Utrecht University, taking part in the specialisation ‘Societal Challenges’ as well as in the Humanities Honours Programme. His main interest lies with social and economic history, mainly because of the unique perspectives it offers on the long-term development of societies. As student assistant, Midas will be supporting the regular staff in administrative issues as well as in the preparation and practicalities of events such as the annual Posthumus Conference. The Posthumus staff welcomes Midas and is looking forward to a fruitful cooperation.
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Change in General Board N.W. Posthumus Institute
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As of May 2022, Professor Hans Mol will be succeeded as representative of the Fryske Akademy in the General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute by Professor Hanno Brand (photo). The N.W. Posthumus Institute board expresses its thanks to Professor Hans Mol for his valuable contribution to the General Board of our institute over the past years and welcomes Hanno Brand as his successor!
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Writing Retreat new element in Posthumus PhD Training Programme
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Over the past few years, many students experienced the effects the pandemic had on their personal life. To offer the PhD students a 'home away from home' for a few days in order to be able to focus fully on writing their thesis, chapter, article etc., the N.W. Posthumus Institute offered a Writing Retreat. Based on the experiences of the participants and at the specific request of the PhDs, the N.W. Posthumus Institute now offers this opportunity as option within the regular PhD Training Programme. The 2022 edition (application procedure has closed) will be held from 12 to 17 June 2022 at the premises of Meeting and Conference Centre Soeterbeeck, a former monastery in Ravenstein, close to Nijmegen.
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Valedictory speeches Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden on 15 June 2022 - register before 1 June 2022
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On Wednesday 15 June at 15:00 Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden both will deliver a valedictory speech on the occasion of their retirement and as a conclusion of their thirty years of joint professorship in Social and Economic History at Utrecht University. Both valedictory speeches will be delivered at the same event in the Dom Church, followed by a reception in the adjacent Universtity Hall (Academiegebouw) and Pandhof. If you wish to attend these valedictory speeches, make sure to register ultimately by 1 June 2022.
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Call for papers: ESTER Research Design Course 2022 to be held in Lund, Sweden, 23-26 October 2022 - deadline abstracts 1 June 2022
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The N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to announce that the 2022 ESTER Research Design Course will be hosted by Lund University (Sweden) on 23-26 October 2022. The European graduate School for Training in Economic and social historical Research (ESTER) is a European platform for postgraduate teaching, involving over 60 universities throughout Europe and offering high-level research training for PhD candidates in an international context. Part of the ESTER programme is its annual Research Design Course (RDC) for economic and social historians.The call for applications is available from the event page (see button).
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Valedictory speech, round table workshop and book launch Marjolein 't Hart (VU Amsterdam)
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On 1 June 2022, Professor Marjolein ’t Hart (1955), Professor in the History of State Formation in Global Perspective at VU University Amsterdam and fellow of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, will deliver her valedictory speech, entitled ‘Inclusieve geschiedenis, kan dat? Een verhaal over een oorlog’ [‘Inclusive history, is it possible? A story about a war’]. The lecture can also be followed online via a livestream. The speech will be preceded by a round table workshop and the book launch of The early modern state.
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Save the date: Inaugural Lecture by Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (Utrecht University) on 8 Sept.
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On 8 September 2022, Professor Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, professor of Economic and Social History with the Department of Economic and Social History of Utrecht University, specialized in the history of labour relations, notably women’s and children’s work, and also member of the General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, will deliver her inaugural lecture in Utrecht. More info will follow in due time, but please do save this date already!
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NWO Veni Grant awarded to Posthumus alumnus Dr Joris van den Tol
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Posthumus alumnus Dr Joris van den Tol was recently awarded a Veni Grant by the Dutch Research Organisation (NWO). Dr Joris van den Tol’s project will investigate how it is possible that while the ‘Golden Age’ came to an end after about 1670, the share of the colonial processing industry in the economy quadrupled. This project looks beyond the role of merchants and traders in the economy, but focuses on the role of production (nijverheid) and processing industry (traffieken). Joris is currently a Marie Curie Fellow at Cambridge University and Postdoctoral Research Associate at Queens’ College, Cambridge and from September 2022 Assistant Professor of Economic History at Radboud University. The N.W. Posthumus staff congratulates Joris with this achievement!
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COVID19-effects on Posthumus activities
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| Recently, in several countries restrictions related to the effects of the COVID-pandemic have been fully or partially lifted. However, COVID-pandemic and measures taken by governments and institutions may still affect activities organised by or in cooperation with the N.W. Posthumus Institute. We will keep our website updated on this, but in case of any uncertainties, contact the local organisers of the event.
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Lecture Professor Deepak Nayyar – ‘The Asian Miracle: Learning From a Half-century of Transformations’ – register before 13 June 2022
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The Wageningen School of Social Sciences (WASS), the Section Economics of WUR and the N.W. Posthumus Institute jointly and cordially invite you to a lecture by Professor Deepak Nayyar (Emeritus Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), entitled ‘The Asian Miracle: Learning from a Half-Century of Transformations’. This lecture is made possible by inter alia financial support through the Dutch Research Council (NWO). If you want to join for this lecture, please send an email ultimately by 13 June 2022 to the organiser, Dr Pim de Zwart.
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Workshop ‘A Tapestry of Rules: Institutions and Cloth Industries in Global Comparative Perspective, 1750-2000'
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On 30 June and 1 July 2022, Dr Kate Frederick, affiliated with the Research Group Economic and Social History at Utrecht University and Professor Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, General Board member of our institute, will organise the Workshop ‘Tapestry of Rules: Institutions and Cloth Industries in Global Comparative Perspective, 1750-2000’ at Utrecht University. This workshop specifically explores the role of formal and informal institutions – the social, economic, political, and cultural “rules of the game” – in influencing textile manufacturing in different world regions over time, with particular reference to the interlinking relationships between institutions and other explanatory variables.
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| Workshop ‘Globalisation and Long-Run Development in Asia and Africa (ca. 1800-2000)’
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On 23 and 24 June 2022, members of the N.W. Posthumus Institute Research Network ‘Globalisation, Inequality and Sustainable Development in Long-Term Perspective’ will organise a workshop on the theme ‘Globalisation and Long-Run Development in Asia and Africa (ca. 1800-2000)’. Keynote speaker at this event will be Professor Deepak Nayyar, Emeritus Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. The workshop will be hosted by Wageningen University and Research. More info will follow in due time.
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| Expert Meeting 'Sport, Migration, Citizenship, ‘Race’ and National Identity: Towards a new research agenda'
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| Historicidagen/Historians' Days 2022 - 'Grenzeloze Geschiedenis/History Beyond Borders'
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From 25 until and including 27 August 2022, the annual Historicidagen/Historians' Days will be held in Rotterdam. The event showcases the many diverse and dynamic ways of doing history. Through a wide spectrum of lectures, debates and workshops, the Historians’ Days tackles issues and challenges on the frontline of historical research and public debates. Keywords of the conference include networking, inspiration, orientation, career and relaxation. The Historians’ Days 2022 evolve around the theme of History Beyond Borders, and actively promote diversity within participants, audience, program, stories, methods and presentations.
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XIX World Economic History Congress (Paris, 25-29 July 2022
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The 19th World Economic History Congress will be held in Paris on July 25-29, 2022. The Congress will address “resources” as one of the main challenges of the contemporary world. The Congress will comprise sessions on all the categories of resources, that is natural, material, immaterial and human (work and skill): water, air, energy, food products, raw materials, labour, capital, patents etc.The program will involve a large set of approaches in economic history including social history, urban and rural history, history or economics of finance, sciences and technologies, gender history, cultural history, etc. as well as crossovers with other disciplinary fields. The call for papers has already been closed, but registration as non-presenting participant is also possible. A participation fee applies.
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Assistant Professor in Global Economic and Social History (VU Amsterdam, tenure track) – deadline 7 June
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| The Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam is looking for an Assistant Professor (tenure track) to teach global environmental history from an economic and social history perspective. Candidates with a strong research-profile in the modern environmental history of Africa are especially invited to apply. When hired, you will play a central role in teaching the courses offered in the programs Environmental and Water History and Global Economic and Social History (GESH). You can also be asked to teach general History and History and International Studies courses. Applications should be submitted via the application system of VU Amsterdam ultimately 7 June 2022
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| 2 Postdoc positions ‘Lifting the Burden of Disease’ (Radboud University) – deadline 23 May 2022
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| These postdoctoral job opportunities are part of a project called ‘Lifting the Burden of Disease. The Modernisation of Health in the Netherlands: Amsterdam 1854-1926’. This project aims to understand the substantial improvements in life expectancy prior to the 1930s as a result of the decline of infectious diseases, and the principal determinants driving this development, based on individual-level cause-of-death registers for the city of Amsterdam between 1854 and 1926. Applications are due by 23 May 2022.
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3 Postdoc Positions Project ‘Dilemma’s of Doing Diversity (DIDI)’ (diverse locaties – deadline 29 mei 2022)
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| ~ because of required proficiency, only in Dutch ~ Voor het NWA (Nationale WetenschapsAgenda) project ‘Dilemma’s of doing Diversity’ (DIDI) worden drie postdocs gezocht. Promovendi en postdocs binnen dit project werken nauw samen maar worden aangenomen bij verschillende instellingen (Universiteit Leiden, EUR, TU Delft of NIDI). Binnen het project, dat 1 september 2022 van start gaat, wordt kritische bekeken hoe en welke keuzes in ‘doing diversity’ in heden en verleden tot stand zijn gekomen en wat dat ons leert voor de toekomst. Sollicitaties verlopen via het online portal van de Universiteit Leiden en dienen uiterlijk 29 mei binnen te zijn.
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| Postdoc ‘Colonial Entanglements and Long-term Legacies’ (Wageningen UR) – deadline 31 May 2022
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| Wageningen University & Research is looking for a postdoctoral researcher in the field of history in the project Colonial Entanglements and Long-term Legacies: Tracing the Footprints of Wageningen University in Indonesia and Suriname, 1876-present. The postdoc will investigate the activities, connections and legacies of Wageningen University and Research (WUR) in Indonesia and Suriname during and after the period of Dutch colonial rule. Applications are due by 31 May 2022.
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2 Postdoc Positions GOA Project ‘Lordship and Agrarian Capitalism in the Low Countries, c. 1350-1650’ (Ghent University) – deadline 31 July 2022
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| In the context of the GOA (Geconcerteerde Onderzoeksactie) funding scheme of Ghent University, a five-year research project will be launched in September 2022 by Professor Frederik Buylaert (promotor-spokesperson), Professor Thijs Lambrecht, Professor Dirk Heirbaut and Dr Jim van der Meulen (promotors). Bringing together the expertise of historians and legal scholars, this project engages with the ongoing debate on political economy in the Low Countries. For this project, 2 Postdoc positions are available: one for 48 months and one for 36 months. Applications are due by e-mail by 31 July 2022; interviews of selected candidates has been scheduled for 12 August 2022.
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4 Phd Positions Project ‘Dilemma’s of Doing Diversity (DIDI)’ (diverse locaties – deadline 29 mei 2022)
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| ~ because of required proficiency, only in Dutch ~ Voor het NWA (Nationale WetenschapsAgenda) project ‘Dilemma’s of doing Diversity’ (DIDI) worden vier PhD studenten gezocht. Promovendi en postdocs binnen dit project werken nauw samen maar worden aangenomen bij verschillende instellingen (Universiteit Leiden, EUR, TU Delft of NIDI). Binnen het project, dat 1 september 2022 van start gaat, wordt kritische bekeken hoe en welke keuzes in ‘doing diversity’ in heden en verleden tot stand zijn gekomen en wat dat ons leert voor de toekomst. Sollicitaties verlopen via het online portal van de Universiteit Leiden en dienen uiterlijk 29 mei binnen te zijn.
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2 Phd Positions ‘Environmental Histories of Resource Extraction in Africa’ (University of Groningen) – deadline 31 May 2022
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| Applications are invited for two fully funded, four-year PhD positions within the research project Environmental Histories of Resource Extraction in Africa: Understanding Cultural and Political Responses to Environmental Transformation, financed by the European Research Council (ERC) and led by Dr Iva Peša. Applications are due by 31 May 2022.
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| PhD position in historical business finance (University of Antwerp) – deadline 30 June 2022
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| The Department of History in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Antwerp is offering a full-time PhD position in historical business finance. The PhD position is linked to the research project The Social History of Finance. As PhD candidate you will study the development of financial markets in Antwerp and by extension Belgium between 1795 and 2020. You will investigate the size and functioning of capital and money markets and assess their use by local firms and households. Applications are due by 30 June 2022, first interviews are scheduled for the week of 4 July 2022.
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| PhD position in historical household finance (University of Antwerp) – deadline 30 June 2022
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| The Department of History in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Antwerp is offering a full-time PhD position in historical household finance. The PhD position is linked to the research project The Social History of Finance. As PhD candidate you will work on the creation of the Hisfindex – a historical version of the Global Findex that measures financial inclusion in the world today. The aim is to find out which financial services were used by households between 1920 and 2020. Applications are due by 30 June 2022, first interviews are scheduled for the week of 4 July 2022.
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| Phd positie Project ‘Buitenstaanders en Justitie’ (Universiteit Gent) – deadline 30 juni 2022
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| ~ because of required proficiency, only in Dutch ~ De onderzoeksgroep ‘Sociale geschiedenis na 1750’ (Universiteit Gent, Vakgroep Geschiedenis) is op zoek naar een PhD student als onderzoeker-historicus voor het project ‘Buitenstaanders en justitie. Strafrechterlijke trajecten in het negentiende-eeuwse België’, welk project gefinancierd door het Federale Wetenschapsbeleid, past in een interdisciplinair BRAIN-programma en in nauwe samenwerking met het Gentse Rijksarchief (onder leiding van Paul Drossens) wordt uitgevoerd. Sollicitaties dienen uiterlijk 30 juni 2022 per e-mail ontvangen te zijn.
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3 PhD Positions GOA Project ‘Lordship and Agrarian Capitalism in the Low Countries, c. 1350-1650’ (Ghent University) – deadline 31 July 2022
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| n the context of the GOA (Geconcerteerde Onderzoeksactie) funding scheme of Ghent University, a five-year research project will be launched in September 2022 by Professor Frederik Buylaert (promotor-spokesperson), Professor Thijs Lambrecht, Professor Dirk Heirbaut and Dr Jim van der Meulen (promotors). Bringing together the expertise of historians and legal scholars, this project engages with the ongoing debate on political economy in the Low Countries. For this project, 3 PhD positions are available. Applications are due by e-mail by 31 July 2022; interviews of selected candidates has been scheduled for 12 August 2022.
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| Docent Sociaal-economische Geschiedenis (Radboud Universiteit) – deadline 2 juni 2022
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| ~ because of required proficiency, only in Dutch ~ De expertisegroep Economische, Sociale en Demografische Geschiedenis van het departement Geschiedenis, Kunstgeschiedenis en Oudheid is op zoek naar een specialist op het gebied van sociale en economische geschiedenis om studenten te trainen in sociaal- en economisch-historisch onderzoek en het onderwijsprofiel van de opleiding Geschiedenis binnen de Faculteit der Letteren van de Radboud Universiteit te verrijken. Kandidaten dienen ten minste te beschikken over een masterdiploma op het gebied van sociaal-economische geschiedenis. Je kunt solliciteren tot en met uiterlijk 2 juni 2022 via de sollicitatieportal van de Radboud Universiteit.
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| Position for Student Assistant early modern history (KNAW Humanities Cluster) – deadline 1 June 2022
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| For the editorial project The Correspondence of Cristofforo Suriano (1616-1623), the Humanities Cluster of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) is currently recruiting a Student Assistant (0.4 fte for 3 or 6 months) in the field of early modern history. The student assistant will contribute to the creation of a modern, annotated digital edition (with English-language abstracts) of the letters of Christofforo Suriano, the Venetian representative in The Hague, and will assist the editor in various tasks, including general editorial work and historical research on persons, books, and events mentioned in the letters. Applications are due by 1 June 2022 through the KNAW Application page.
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Fellowships voor BA/MA-studenten Brabantse Geschiedschrijving (BHIC, deadline 1 juni 2022)
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| ~ because of scope, only in Dutch ~ Het Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum (BHIC) biedt fellowships aan voor recent afgestudeerde BA/MA-studenten. Een BHIC fellowship biedt de student de kans om tegen een vergoeding voor de duur van maximaal vijf maanden onderzoek te doen in de collectie van het BHIC, relevante werkervaring op te doen en een netwerk op te bouwen. BHIC zoekt momenteel twee fellows voor september 2022 t/m januari 2023; aanmeldingen dienen binnen te zijn uiterlijk 1 juni 2022.
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Call for Panels and Papers – 7th European Congress on World and Global History – deadline 31 May 2022
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The 7th Congress of the European Network In Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) will be hosted by Leiden University on its campus in The Hague, UN City of Peace and Justice, from 29 June to 1st July 2023. Under the main congress theme ‘Conflict and Inequity, Peace and Justice: Local, Regional, and International Perspectives’, the aim of the 2023 conference is to discuss structural and specific causes of conflict and inequity as well as the corollary features of various quests for peace and justice. The organisers invite panels and papers to examine how historical narratives have been constructed around moments of peace and of conflict and to reflect on the long-term impacts of conflict and inequity in relation to processes of reconciliation and peace-making. Proposals should be submitted ultimately 31 May 2022.
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Call for papers – Jaarcongres ‘Oorlog op afstand. De Lage Landen tussen neutraliteit en betrokkenheid’ – deadline abstracts 1 juni 2022
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In december 2022 organiseert de werkgroep De Moderne Tijd haar jaarcongres. Het thema voor 2022 zal zijn ‘Oorlog op afstand. De Lage Landen tussen neutraliteit en betrokkenheid’. Papervoorstellen over binnen het congresthema passende onderwerpen zijn welkom. Belangstellenden kunnen een voorstel van max. 300 woorden en een (beknopte) biografische beschrijving indienen tot en met 1 juni 2022.
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Call for Applications – NWA Wetenschapscommunicatie 2021/22 – deadline 15 juni 2022
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Het doel van de call ‘NWA Wetenschapscommunicatie 2021-2022’ is om door goede wetenschapscommunicatie de verbinding tussen wetenschap en samenleving te versterken. Deze call is bedoeld voor projecten die zich richten op specifieke doelgroepen, bijvoorbeeld doelgroepen die niet vanzelfsprekend met wetenschap in aanraking komen en onvoldoende beeld hebben van wat wetenschap is en betekent voor de maatschappij. Aanvragen in deze call moeten ondersteund worden door een actief betrokken consortium en kunnen ingediend worden door wetenschappers of andere aanvragers verbonden aan universiteiten en hogescholen, TO2-instellingen, instituten en Rijkskennisinstellingen maar ook organisaties zonder winstoogmerk waaraan een aanvrager is verbonden en aanvragers verbonden aan (wetenschaps)musea die lid zijn van de Museumvereniging. De nu lopende ronde sluit op 15 juni 2022.
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