From 1 July until mid-August, the N.W. Posthumus secretariat will only deal with urgent issues as the staff members pack their bags for some holiday adventures. In case of questions or issues, do send these to our mailbox at posthumus@uu.nl, but please take note that mails will be read less frequently and may be answered a bit later than usual.
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Workshop 'A peek into the neighbours’ garden’ (University of Antwerp, 15 November 2024) - Call for papers, deadline 15 August 2024
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The Centre for Urban History (University of Antwerp) and the N.W. Posthumus network Economy and Society of the Pre-Industrial Low Countries in a Comparative Perspective jointly organise the workshop ‘A peek into the neighbours’ garden’ on Friday 15 November 2024. The intention of this workshop is to provide a forum for work in progress or recently finished work on the Low Countries and to approach these new research developments from a comparative angle. Everyone who wants to present recent research about the social and economic history of Belgium and the Netherlands is invited to submit an abstract of no more than 500 words before 15 August 2024 via e-mail to Dr Wout Saelens. The decision on the submitted proposals will be communicated to the applicants soon after that deadline. Participants just wanting to attend without presenting are admitted on a first come, first served basis, space permitting.
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ESTER Datini Advanced Seminar 2025 'Finance in History' (Prato, Italy, 11-18 May 2025) - Call for abstracts, deadline 15 October 2024
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The Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Datini” and the European School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research (ESTER) announce their tenth jointly organized Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for economic and social historians on 11-17 May 2025, in Prato (Italy). The topic of the 2025 seminar is ‘Finance in History’ and closely related to the theme of the preceding congress yearly organised by the “F. Datini” International Institute of Economic History, in 2025 devoted to ‘Risk Management, Insolvency, and Bankruptcy in the Pre-Modern World (13th-18th Centuries)’. The seminar is open to 15 PhD-students and Post-Docs (who finished their doctorate less than five years prior to the seminar) and valued at 4 EC. Abstracts (800 words max.) should be submitted ultimately 15 October 2024. Students who are accepted will be asked to draft their research paper, due by 15 March 2025.
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ESTER RDC 2024 to be held in Münster (Germany), 30 September-2 October 2024 - Call for papers, EXTENDED deadline 1 July 2024 (only a final place open)
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From 30 September until 2 October 2024 the ESTER Research Design Course (RDC) 2024 will be held at the University of Münster. The 2024 RDC will be hosted by Dr Christine Fertig and her colleagues in close cooperation with the N.W. Posthumus Institute. ESTER is the acronym of the European graduate School for Training in Economic and social historical Research, a Europe-wide network of leading scholars in the field of social and economic history, established in 1991 by the N.W. Posthumus Institute, currently involving 60 universities, offering high-level research training for PhD candidates in an international context. PhD candidates in economic and social history are invited to submit a paper for presentation at the RDC. Please consult our website for full details; applications should be submitted ultimately by the extended deadline of 1 July 2024. Please note that there is only a final place open.
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Danielle van den Heuvel appointed as Full Professor in Social and Economic History at Utrecht University
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Danielle van den Heuvel, currently board member of the N.W. Posthumus Institute on behalf of the University of Amsterdam, has been appointed as Full Professor in Social and Economic History at Utrecht University, starting 1 September 2024. Danielle did her PhD at IISH/VU University, on Female entrepreneurs in the Dutch Republic, for which she received the IEHA Best Dissertation Prize in 2009. She then worked for several years as a researcher and lecturer at Cambridge University. At the moment, she is Associated Professor at University of Amsterdam, where she leads the Vidi-project 'Freedom of the Streets. Gender and Urban Space in Eurasia'. The N.W. Posthumus Institute congratulates Danielle with this appointment!
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Seminar I of PhD Training Programme in Maastricht, 12-13 December 2024
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The N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to announce that Seminar I, ‘My research in a nutshell’, to be attended by the PhDs enlisted in cohort 2024 of the N.W. Posthumus PhD Training Programme, will be hosted by Maastricht University on 12 and 13 December 2024 under the guidance of Dr Joris Roosen, Assistant Professor of Regional History at FASoS and head of research and vice-director at the Centre for the Social History of Limburg (SHCL). Through this one- or two-days seminar, the new cohort PhD students get to know each other and their project. Participants will read and discuss each other’s notes. Those already enlisted have been informed by e-mail, please note that signing up for the 2024 cohort is still possible until the deadline of 15 October 2024.
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First National Sector Plan Conference ‘Cultural Heritage and Identity’ (Rotterdam, 1 September 2024)
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The Organising Committee on behalf of the Assistant Professors involved in the Sector plan theme ‘Cultural Heritage and Identity’ is cordially inviting participants to the very first National Sector Plan Conference ‘Cultural Heritage and Identity’ organised by the Dutch faculties in Arts and Humanities and hosted by Erasmus University Rotterdam. The conference is intended for all staff involved in the sector plan theme. The conference (which will be held in English) will facilitate roundtable discussions on national cooperation in education, research, and dissemination. Additionally, there will be time for networking and exchange.To keep track of the number of potential participants, pre-registration (without final commitment) is trequested.
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Moving Humanities Conference 2024: 'Resistance' (Radboud University, Nijmegen, 31 October - 1 November 2024; deadline abstracts 31 July 2024)
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The Moving Humanities Conference 2024, organised by Radboud University and Groningen University, will take place on 31 October and 1 November 2024. This year’s theme is ‘Resistance’ taken in its broadest sense, both within subjects of research and the humanities itself. Resistance can be to the common way of understanding things, to other positions and interpretations, to change, or as a subject in itself. The organisers are now calling for abstracts (300 words max., excluding bibliography) for talks and poster presentations from (research) master and PhD students and will give special consideration for those which fit the broad theme of ‘Resistance’. Abstracts should be submitted ultimately 31 July 2024.
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PhD course 'The Versatile Interior' (Royal Danisch Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark, 27-29 November 2024) - deadline abstracts 15 September 2024
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The PhD School of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts is offering the PhD course 'The Versatile Interior' on 27-29 November 2024. This PhD course aims to explore interiors as versatile, ambiguous and complex phenomena. How such complex phenomena can be grasped and comprehended will be discussed through genuine and rigorous analytical discourse. Several examples will be presented forming the basis of the course and these will be studied through academic texts. In addition, there will be an excursion to a local museum where interiors are reconstructed to further inform the discussion. Participants are asked to submit a draft paper describing examples of versatile interiors that will be discussed in a group format. Participation in the course will be awarded with 3 EC. For participants form outside of Denmark, a participation fee may apply. Abstracts should be submitted by 15 September 2024.
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Congratulations to our PhD alumni recently promoted!
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Dr Sietske van der Veen (Utrecht University) on the PhD thesis ‘Novel opportunities, perpetual barriers: patterns of social mobility and integration among the Jewish Dutch elite, 1870-1940’ at Utrecht University. Promotors: Professor Lex Heerma van Voss (Utrecht University), Professor Leo Lucassen (Leiden University), and Profeesor Karin Hofmeester (IISH and University of Antwerp) (31 May 2024).
Dr Ingrid Schepers (University of Antwerp) on the PhD thesis 'Mobilising labour: A spatial analysis of railway infrastructure, commuting flows and rural-urban relations in Belgium, 1846-1961'. Promotors: Professors Greet De Block and Ann Verhetsel (both University of Antwerp) (11 June 2024).
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As of 1 March 2024, the N.W. Posthumus Institute has started using Mastodon as social medium, following the decision to stop using X, formerly known as Twitter, actively for new announcements, as a result of the current developments surrounding the X platform. Do sign up with Mastodon and follow our account to keep updated frequently with new items and developments. Join us on Mastodon!
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Image credits: - Picture of the crowd in the hall of Utrecht Central Station at the start of summer holidays (1967), photo made by L.H. Hofland, published by permission of Het Utrechts Archief via CC-BY-4.0 licence - Celebrating graduates image made by violey via Pixabay |
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