POSTHUMUS CONFERENCE 2025
''The People vs Structures'
Nijmegen, 27-28 May 2025 |
Welcome to the website of the Posthumus Conference 2025. The 2025 Conference will be held on 27 and 28 May 2025 at Radboud University Nijmegen. This year’s theme will be ‘The People vs Structures’. The conference will be hosted by Dr Dries Lyna and Dr Joris van den Tol, both affiliated with the Radboud Institute for Culture and History at Radboud University, in cooperation with the N.W. Posthumus Institute. Next to paper presentations by Posthumus PhDs and other scholars, we are proud to announce a keynote lecture by Professor Tamar Herzog, Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs at Harvard University and Affiliate Professor of the Harvard Law School. Please note that the structure of this year’s edition differs from previous ones. Firstly, both PhD candidates and fellows will now present in the same sessions, composed by the six research networks within the community of the N.W. Posthumus Institute. Also new is the presentation by the PhDs of cohort 2024 of their research projects through a poster presentation at the first conference day. We are looking forward meeting you in Nijmegen!
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Keynote lecture by Professor Tamar Herzog |
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The organisers of the 2025 Posthumus Conference are happy and proud to announce that this year's keynote lecture 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. More info on the keynote will follow in due time. |
Our host: Radboud Group for Historical Demography and Family History |
The 2025 edition of the Annual Posthumus Conference will be hosted by the Radboud Group for Historical Demography and Family History. This research group studies family, life course, health, migration and slavery in a historical, international and comparative perspective. They are dedicated to combining their teaching in the broad fields of economic, social and demographic history with specialized research with an international profile, consisting of two interconnected strands: historical demography and colonial social history. |
The main venue of the 2025 Posthumus Conference will be the Elinor Ostrom Building (Heyendaalseweg 141). In 2018, this building was named after Professor Elinor Ostrom (1933-2012). Elinor Ostrom, American political scientist and political economist, received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her groundbreaking research demonstrating that ordinary people are capable of creating rules and institutions that allow for the sustainable and equitable management of shared resources. |
Joining us for dinner? May we take your order?
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The organisers at Radboud University and the N.W. Posthumus Institute kindly invite you to to the conference dinner on 27 May. The dinner will take place at Restaurant Valdin, located at Van Peltlaan 4, about 15 min. walking distance from the conference venue. The dinner starts at 18:00 sharp and will also be the stage for the diploma ceremony for the Posthumus PhDs who completed their Training Programme.
Participation is free, but prior registration is required. Important: in order to avoid food spillage, we kindly ask you only to register for the dinner if you really intend to join. In case you are not sure yet, no problem: in that case, please indicate now you are not joining and just send us an e-mail if you change your mind later on (we rather have an extra plate than an empty chair :)).
In accordance with the policies of the organising universities and to ensure an efficient serving process, the restaurant will serve a fixed vegetarian conference menu. Vegan options will also be available, and of course dietary needs will be taken care of. Although the conference is still some time away, please indicate any dietary needs / preferences when you register.
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