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Posthumus Conference 2022 ... almost there...
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 We are looking forward to meet you later this week at the 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. Over 100 participants will be joining this year's conference!
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N.W. Posthumus Instituut, Huizinga Instituut en Onderzoeksschool Politieke Geschiedenis organiseren sessie Historicidagen 2022
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~ because of scope, only in Dutch ~ Van 25 tot en met 27 augustus 2022 vinden in Rotterdam de KNHG Historicidagen plaats. Op het programma staat een rijke variatie aan sessies en presentaties; bij een aanzienlijk aantal van deze sessies en presentaties zijn studenten en / of fellows van het N.W. Posthumus Instituut betrokken. Het N.W. Posthumus Instituut is ook als instituut zelf betrokken bij een van de sessies. Samen met het Huizinga Instituut en de Onderzoekschool Politieke Geschiedenis organiseert het N.W. Posthumus Instituut de labsessie ‘Onderzoeksscholen zonder grenzen? Mondiale perspectieven in de praktijk’. In dit lab zullen onder meer de volgende vragen centraal staan: Hoe passen wij in onze onderzoekspraktijk een mondiaal perspectief toe? Hoe passen we global history toe in het curriculum (R)MA studenten en promovendi? In hoeverre heeft een mondiaal perspectief onze kijk op geschiedschrijving fundamenteel veranderd?
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Writing Retreat successfull new element in Posthumus PhD Training Programme
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Recently, nine Posthumus PhD candidates joined the N.W. Posthumus Institute Writing Retreat. The Writing Retreat, originally initiated as a 'home away from home' during the covid period, for the next years forms an optional part of the PhD Training Programme, offering Phd Students an opportunity to focus on writing in a quiet, yet inspiring environment. This year 's edition was held at the premises of Meeting and Conference Centre Soeterbeeck, a former monastery in Ravenstein, close to Nijmegen; for the 2023 edition, a similar location will be available. The 2022 participants all indicated to have enjoyed this opportunity.
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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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The N.W. Posthumus Institute & Summer holidays: out of office and next newsletter
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The N.W. Posthumus staff of course wishes you pleasant and safe Summer holidays. The N.W. Posthumus Institute will be closed from 30 July until 20 August 2022. We will keep an eye out for very urgent mails, but in principle we will reply after 20 August 2022.
Also, in July and August there will be no newsletter. You can already send in your messages, but do take into account that the next newsletter will be issued by mid-September.
As the image displays in Dutch: 'Forget nothing, but forget everything... Happy holidays!'
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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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Call for papers Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar 2023: ‘Economic Exchanges’ – deadline abstracts 15 October 2022
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Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) will organise their sixth jointly-organized Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians on 14-20 May 2023, in Prato (Italy) on the theme of “Economic Exchanges”. The topic of the seminar is closely related to the theme of the congress organized yearly by the “F. Datini” International Institute of Economic History, which in 2023 is devoted to ‘Alternative Currencies. Commodities and Services as Exchange Currencies in the Monetarized Economies of the 13th to 18th Centuries’. Abstracts for the 2023 edition are due by 15 October 2022. If accepted for participation, the final paper will be due on 15 March 2023.
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Masterclass Professor Eithne Luibhéid - Leiden University, 14 July 2022
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On 14 July 2022, Professor Eithne Luibhéid will give a masterclass at Leiden University. This masterclass is organised by Posthumus PhD candidate Jamel Buhari MA and Professor Marlou Schrover and forms a unique opportunity for PhD students working to interact on a personal level with this important author. Professor Eithne Luibhéid is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona and a key author on the connections among queer lives, racialization processes, state immigration controls, and citizenship. At this masterclass, you will able to present your research in progress and receive feedback on this from both Professor Luibhéid and fellow participants. Participating in a masterclass is also one of the requirements for the Posthumus Advanced Training Programme.
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Masterclass Dr Beate Althammer - Ghent University, 30 Sept. 2022 - deadline for applications 1 Aug. 2022
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The Ghent University Research Group "Social History since 1750" in collaboration with the N.W. Posthumus Institute is hosting the masterclass 'Between Integration and Expulsion: Actors, Practices and Subjects of Migration Control in 19th- and 20th-century Europe', delivered by Dr Beate Althammer, postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of African and Asian Studies at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, specialised in the history of migration, migration control, crime, poverty and social policies. The masterclass 'Between Integration and Expulsion: Actors, Practices and Subjects of Migration Control in 19th- and 20th-century Europe' offers PhD candidates and early-stage post-docs the opportunity to discuss their research with an expert in the field. Applications should be received by 1 August 2022.
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Workshop 'Digital mapping for historians with QGIS' - Utrecht University, 4-5 October 2022
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A map can be an excellent way to visualize your research, but only a small percentage of people know how to make them. Have you been wanting to learn more about digital mapping for your research, but do not know where to start? Or struggle to make time to teach yourself? This workshop may be for you! In this workshop, which is made possible by the N.W. Posthumus Institute, the HiDo Scientific Network for Historical Demography, and the Quetelet Center, attendees will be taught the essentials of digital mapping using the world's most popular open source application QGIS. By the end of this two half-day hands-on workshop, you will be able to combine different types of data to create your own historical maps for use in papers, presentations and other sessions. Attendance (up to max. 15 participants) is free of charge.
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| Maascongres 2022: ‘De Limburgse Maas: historisch rivierlandschap met toekomst’
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| Vanaf 29 juni ‘s avonds tot en met 1 juli 2022 vindt het Maascongres 2022 plaats. De editie van dit jaar heeft als thema ‘De Limburgse Maas: historisch rivierlandschap met toekomst’ en vindt deels in Maastricht en deels in Maaseik plaats. Het programma omvat diverse lezingen, filmmateriaal en diverse excursies. Gedeputeerde Geert Gabriëls van de Nederlandse provincie Limburg en Johan Tollenaere, burgemeester van Maaseik, zullen op de eerste volledige dag (30 juni) het congres openen.
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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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| PhD position in Agricultural History (VU Amsterdam) – deadline 29 June 2022
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| The Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam is looking for a PhD candidate in the field of Agricultural History. The historical research the candidate will conduct in this PhD project will engage with a contemporary problem: in recent years, it has become increasingly clear that the Dutch food- and agriculture system is in need of transformation in order to address a growing number of challenges. Next to research, resulting in a PhD thesis, the PhD will be teaching in courses offered by the Athena Institute. Applications are due by 29 June 2022 via the online application portal of VU Amsterdam.
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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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| 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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3 PhD and 3 Postdoc Positions ‘Construction History: Above and Beyond’ (Ghent U., VUB, ULB) – deadlines 30 June and 4 July 2022
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The EOS research project “Construction History, Above and Beyond. What History Can Do for Construction History” is currently looking for 3 PhD candidates and 3 postdocs, who can start between 1 October and 31 December 2022. The individual trajectory of each researcher is embedded in this larger team, operating in the three universities (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Ghent University and Vrije Universiteit Brussel). Each researcher will be situated in one of the 3 fields of dialogue: (1) colonial history – construction history; (2) legal history – construction history and (3) planning history – construction history. Applications need to be submitted online no later than 30 June 2022 (for postdoc positions) and 4 July 2022 (for PhD bursaries) via the respective university application portals.
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| PhD position ‘Cooperation, Cooperatives and Development’ (Utrecht University) – deadline 1 July 2022
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| Utrecht University is seeking a candidate for a PhD project titled “Cooperation, Cooperatives and Development”. The project, through a historical analysis of the cooperative enterprise, seeks explanations for the drivers of stable and sustainable cooperation. The candidate will examine these issues in a comparative framework, focusing on participation in cooperative enterprises across South Asia, South-east Asia and West Africa between 1900 and the present-day. Aside from research commitments, the PhD candidate is expected to participate in the SCOOP PhD Training Program, as this project forms part of the transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary research program SCOOP: Roadmaps to Resilient Societies. Applications are due by 1 July 2022 via the application portal.
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| PhD Position in Historical Demography (Lund University) – deadline 4 July 2022
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| Lund University is recruiting a doctoral student (4 years, fully funded) in historical demography (PhD in Economic History). The doctoral student will work within the research project ‘Long Live the Family. The Rise of Familial Health Advantages in Sweden 1813–2022’. Applicants should have a relevant MSc degree (history, economics, demography, sociology) and have an interest in longitudinal analysis of micro-level population data. Application deadline is 4 July 2022.
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Senior Research Fellow position (European University Institute, Florence) – deadline 4 July 2022
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| The EUI has an open vacancy for a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History and Civilization within the ERC-funded project CAPASIA: European Factories of the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800, led by Professor Giorgio Riello. The Senior Research Fellow will carry out research work in an independent manner and collaborate on the research work of the project. Main tasks include investigating the system of factories of the Indian Ocean over the period 1500-1800, the system of commodity procurement, the structure of and relationship between factories, and factories’ contribution to the origin of global capitalism. Applications should be received ultimately by 4 July 2022 midnight (Florence Time) via the online application form.
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| 3 Postdoc Fellow positions (European University Institute, Florence) – deadline 4 July 2022
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| The EUI has 3 open vacancies for Research Fellows in the Department of History and Civilization within the ERC-funded project CAPASIA: European Factories of the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800, led by Professor Giorgio Riello. Depending on their regional and conceptual expertise, they will have the opportunity to research (for example) the physical and social structure of factories, the economic activities carried out within factories and most especially commodity procurement, the commodity trade in the Indian Ocean and China Sea, and the factories as knowledge centres and nodes of information exchange. Applications should be received ultimately by 4 July 2022 midnight (Florence Time) via the online application form.
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PhD position SCOOP project ‘Consensual bargaining strategies’ (University of Groningen) – deadline 13 July 2022
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| The Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences of the University of Groningen is seeking a candidate for a PhD project titled “Consensual bargaining strategies: The Road to Sustainable Industrial Relations in an Era of Liberalization and Precarization?”. The project is part of the transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary research program SCOOP: Roadmaps to Resilient Societies. Applications are welcomed from candidates who completed or are close to completing a Master’s degree in Sociology, Industrial Relations, Economic History, History, Economics or a related field in the social sciences. Applications should be submitted ultimately by 13 July 2022 via the Academic Transfer application portal.
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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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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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Nominaties mogelijk voor Instituut Gak-KNAW Award (deadline 1 juli 2022)
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| ~ because of scope, only in Dutch ~ De Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) biedt tot 1 juli 2022 de mogelijkheid om aanvragen te doen voor de Instituut Gak-KNAW Award. De Instituut Gak-KNAW Award is bestemd voor talentvolle onderzoekers aan het begin van hun carrière om origineel, vernieuwend onderzoek te doen op het gebied van sociale zekerheid en arbeidsmarkt binnen de stimulerende omgeving van een KNAW-instituut. De Award is in 2019 ingesteld door Instituut Gak en de KNAW en wordt jaarlijks uitgereikt.
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Call for abstracts – Themadossier Jaarboek De Achttiende Eeuw – deadline 1 augustus 2022
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| ~ because of scope, only in Dutch ~ De redactie van het Jaarboek De Achttiende Eeuw nodigt auteurs uit bijdragen te leveren die ingaan op de achttiende-eeuwse lichamelijke of zintuiglijke beperkingen vanuit historisch, literair, artistiek of filosofisch perspectief. Met het themadossier ‘Doof, Blind, Kreupel, Krank’ wil het Jaarboek De Achttiende Eeuw in 2023 aandacht geven aan achttiende-eeuwers met een beperking. Voorstellen tot bijdrage dienen uiterlijk 1 augustus 2022 ingediend te zijn.
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Call for proposals Dr. H. Enno van Gelder beurs 2023 (KNGMP) – deadline 1 september 2022
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| ~ because of scope, only in Dutch ~ De Van Geldercommissie van het Koninklijk Nederlands Genootschap van Munten en Penningen (KNGMP) is op zoek naar onderzoekers, docenten of curatoren die uitdagende verbindingen durven te leggen tussen de numismatiek en overige wetenschappelijke disciplines zoals geschiedenis, archeologie, kunstgeschiedenis, economie en communicatiewetenschappen. Met de Dr. H. Enno van Gelder beurs beoogt de Van Geldercommissie onderzoek naar en studie van geld en geldgeschiedenis in Nederland te bevorderen. De Van Gelderbeurs heeft een waarde van max. € 10.000 en kan ingezet worden voor onderzoeks- en/of educatieve doeleinden zoals bijvoorbeeld het maken van een (digitale) tentoonstelling of kennisclips.
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| Image credits: 'Vergeet niets ... vergeet alles. Stadsarchief Amsterdam / Jan Tybout.
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