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Save the date: Valedictory speech by Marjolein 't Hart (VU Amsterdam) on 1 June!
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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’]. More details will follow in due time, but do already save the date!
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Valedictory speeches Professors Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden on 15 June 2022
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In September 1992, Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden, both PhD fellows, took office as part-time professors of Economics and Social History at Utrecht University, sharing this chair. This experiment will come to an end on June 15, 2022, which will be marked by valedictory lectures in the Domkerk, Utrecht. More details will follow in due time, but we ask you to save this date in your schedule from 3 pm.
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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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| Various Posthumus fellows and students involved in 'Re-Building Brussels' Exposition
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| From 10 February 2022 until and including 27 March 2022 the expo ‘Re/Building Brussels: The urban construction sector and the need for production space, social inclusion and circularity (1695-today)’ shows at the Halles Saint-Gery / Sint-Gorikshallen in Brussels. To understand the complex and varied needs of Brussels' urban space, researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel take a new, interdisciplinary look at the Brussels building sector in the project ‘Re/Building Brussels’, in a historical and contemporary perspective, from 1695 to the present day. Several fellows and students of the N.W. Posthumus Institute have been involved in this exposition, the opening symposium, and the related projects.
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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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Save the date! ESTER Research Design Course 2022 to be held in Lund, Sweden, 23-26 October 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 will be launched early April 2022.
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Save the date! Posthumus Conference 2022 scheduled for 30 June-1 July, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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The N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to announce its 2022 Conference, which is scheduled for 30 June-1 July 2022 and will be hosted by the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The Posthumus Conference is an annual event, which combines presentations by Posthumus PhDs in an advanced stage of the PhD programme with Research Network meetings and lectures by prominent scholars within the field of Economic and Social History. More info on the thematic setting and the program details will follow in due time, please check the website regularly.
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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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| Call for Papers – Masterclass ‘Crime and Justice in Historical Context: Theory, Methods and Perspectives’ by Prof. Robert Shoemaker – deadline 28 March 2022
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The research group of the project Tolerant Migrant Cities? The Case of Holland 1600-1900 in collaboration with the N.W. Posthumus Institute, in particular the Research Network ‘Inclusion, Exclusion, and Mobility’ are pleased to announce that they will be hosting a masterclass by Professor Robert Shoemaker (The University of Sheffield), on 8 June 2022 11:00 to 17:00 (lunch included) at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. Interested candidates are invited to send an abstract (c. 300 words) before 28 March 2022.
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Call for papers – Symposium ‘Voices in the Justice System: Agency of Victims, Plaintiffs, Witnesses and the Accused in Global Perspective’ – deadline 5 April 2022
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The research group Tolerant Migrant Cities? The Case of Holland 1600-1900 organises in collaboration with the N.W. Posthumus Institute a symposium on agency in the justice system in global perspective on 9 June 2022 at the International Institute of Social History (IISG) in Amsterdam. The organisers hope to open up the theme of crime and justice into a global perspective by focusing on how historians approach criminal justice sources to better understand the daily lives and agency of those who came into contact with various courts and legislations through time. The aim is to facilitate discussion and exchange of global sources and methodologies between historians from different networks and disciplines. This symposium is preceded on 8 June by a Masterclass by Professor Robert Shoemaker. Paper proposals are due by 5 April 2022.
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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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Studiedag Werkgroep Stadsgeschiedenis – 'Panorama’s'
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Op donderdag 14 april 2022 organiseert de werkgroep Stedengeschiedenis een bijeenkomst bij de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (Smallepad 5, Amersfoort) onder de titel ‘Panorama’s’. Onder leiding van dagvoorzitter dr. Roos van Oosten (Universiteit Leiden) zullen diverse sprekers dit onderwerp belichten. Aan het einde van deze dag zal tevens de boekpresentatie plaatsvinden van Nederland op zijn mooist, geschreven door dr. Everhard Korthals Altes (TU Delft) en prof. dr. Bram Vannieuwenhuyze (Universiteit van Amsterdam). De studiedag is hybride en gratis voor eenieder toegankelijk, mits vooraf aangemeld.
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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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Voorjaarsbijeenkomst SGVDO: ‘Overheidsfinanciën in Nederlands-Indië’
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De voorjaarsbijeenkomst 2022 van de Stichting Geschiedenis van de Overheidsfinanciën staat in het teken van Nederlands-Indië. Kolonialisme wordt gekenmerkt door ongelijkheid: de ongelijkheid tussen moederland en kolonie (Nederlands-Indië als wingewest) en de (etnische) ongelijkheid binnen de koloniale samenleving. Beide aspecten komen aan bod. De Stichting Geschiedenis van de Overheidsfinanciën (SGvdO) heeft tot doel het bevorderen van de bestudering van de geschiedenis van de overheidsfinanciën, bij voorkeur in interdisciplinair verband. Opgeven voor de bijeenkomst kan per e-mail via de organisatie. LET OP: afhankelijk van coronasituatie vindt de bijeenkomst in Leiden of Rotterdam plaats, zie voor updates de webpage van het event.
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| Symposium 'Hansards in the World: Continuity and Discontinuity on the Intellectual, Cultural, and Economic Frontiers of the Early Modern Hanse'
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Due to the effects of the covid pandemic, the symposium 'Hansards in the World: Continuity and Discontinuity on the Intellectual, Cultural, and Economic Frontiers of the Early Modern Hanse’, originally scheduled for January 2022 will now take place on the postponed dates 12 and 13 May 2022 at the University of Amsterdam. Hansards in the World gathers and promotes new histories of the Hanse, an association of European merchants and towns, and how they interacted with the wider world in the early modern period.
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| Postdoc ‘The Social Life of Early Netherlandish Painting’ (Ghent University and FWO) – deadline 31 March 2022
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| ~ because of scope, only in Dutch ~ In de context van het FWO Project dat wordt geleid door prof.dr. Frederik Buylaert, prof.dr. Jan Dumolyn (Universiteit van Gent, Vakgroep Geschiedenis) en prof.dr. Maximiliaan Martens (Universiteit Gent, Vakgroep Kunst-, Muziek- en Theaterwetenschappen) is een driejarige postdoctorale onderzoekspositie beschikbaar. Het doel is een studie van het sociale profiel van opdrachtgevers van schilderijen. Dit project focust op de sociale netwerken die aan de basis lagen van de vroege Nederlandse schilderkunst tussen c. 1400 en c. 1550. Deadline 31 maart 2022.
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| Assistant Professor Economic and Social History (Utrecht University) – deadline 1 April 2022
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| The section of Economic and Social History at the Department of History and Art History of Utrecht University aims to appoint an Assistant Professor as of 1 July 2022. The position involves 70 percent teaching and 30 percent research. The Assistant Professor will be involved in high-quality teaching and supervision tasks and is expected to further develop his/her research agenda within the field of Economic and Social History, aiming for publications in leading journals, with a potential for attracting/securing research funding. Applications are due by 1 April 2022.
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| 2 PhD Positions on Farm Accountancy 1870-1945 (DATAREV, University of Vienna) – deadline 15 April 2022
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| At the Department of Economic and Social History of the Vienna Faculty of History, Assistant Professor Federico D’Onofrio is looking for two University Assistant prae doc (PhD students) in the field of economic and social or business history: one PhD student to work on sub-project 1 (farm accountancy data in Austria, Germany and Switzerland) and one PhD student to work on sub-project 3 (farm accounting as innovation) Successful candidates will join the team of the project DATAREV, Leading the first data revolution in European agriculture: farm accountancy data and their impact 1870-1945. The project investigates accounting as a crucial tool of Europe’s agricultural modernization. Applicationa are due by 15 April 2022.
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| PhD position Corporatism and Well-being (Utrecht University) – deadline 27 April 2022
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| The Economic and Social History Research Group of the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University is looking for a candidate (1.0 fte) for a PhD project titled “Corporatism and Wellbeing. A Historical Analysis of the Corporatism: Its Functioning, Development and Wellbeing Effects.” The aim of the project is to study the change in corporatism (also referred to as the associative order or coordinated market economy) and the effect of this change on the well-being of the Dutch society in the period between 1870 and 2020. The PhD candidate will be responsible for collecting information on the characteristics of the corporatism and the wellbeing outcomes in the Dutch economy from various sources. Applications are due by 27 April 2022.
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| Full Professorship ‘Long-Run Economic Development’ (Utrecht University) – deadline 28 April 2022
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| Utrecht University is searching for a full professor on ‘Long-Run Economic Development’ as of 1 November 2022. The chair is part of the section of Economic and Social History (ESH) at the Department of History and Art History. The chair will be expected to play a prominent role in the multi- and interdisciplinary initiatives within the strategic theme Institutions for Open Societies (IOS), which is one of four main research clusters at Utrecht University. An extensive description of tasks and requirements as well as a downloadable description of the position are to be found on the Academic Transfer application portal. Applications are due by 28 April 2022.
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| Assistant Professor Economic and Social History (Utrecht University) – deadline 1 April 2022
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| The section of Economic and Social History at the Department of History and Art History of Utrecht University aims to appoint an Assistant Professor as of 1 July 2022. The position involves 70 percent teaching and 30 percent research. The Assistant Professor will be involved in high-quality teaching and supervision tasks within the regular programmes as offered by the Department of History, on BA, MA and RMA level in a broad range of courses, possibly extending beyond the specific field of Economic and Social History. The Assistant Professor is expected to further develop his/her research agenda within the field of Economic and Social History, aiming for publications in leading journals, with a potential for attracting/securing research funding. Applications are due by 1 April 2022.
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Call for Papers – 18th History of European Integration Research Society Conference – deadline 3 April 2022
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The History of European Research Society (HEIRS) will hold its 18th annual conference under the title “A means to what end: the interrelation between visions of Europe and economic policies.” The conference will take place on 31 May-1 June 2022 at the University of Glasgow. The aim of the 18th annual HEIRS conference is to analyse the interrelation between different motivations and visions of Europe and the EC's / EU’s economic policies during the 2nd half of the 20th century. PhD students and early postdoctoral researchers are invited to submit a 250 word abstract and CV by 3 April 2022.
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Call for Applications – Fellowships at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre "Dis:connectivity in processes of globalisation" – deadline 24 April 2022
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The Käte Hamburger Research Centre “Dis:connectivity in processes of globalisation” (global dis:connect) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich invites applications for fellowships for the academic year 2023/24. The centre explores from international and transdisciplinary perspectives the inter-dependent, complex relationship between global interconnectedness, lack of inter-connectedness and disentanglement in historical and contemporary globalisation processes. Scholars from the humanities and social sciences, especially from the fields of history, theatre studies and art history, are invited to apply. The work of the fellows should have a clear connection to the general goals of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre and deal with the annually changing focal topics. Applications are due by 24 April 2022.
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Call for Papers – European Social Science History Conference 2023 – deadline 15 April 2022
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The 14th European Social Science History Conference is organized by the International Intsitute of Social History in co-operation with the University of Gothenburg. The ESSHC 2023 will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden, on 12-15 April 2023. Please note this is a postponed date for the conference originally intended for 2022. At the event, the 2023 Professor Jan Lucassen Award, a prize for the best paper at the ESSHC by a PhD student, will also be awarded. The deadline for paper and session proposals is 15 April 2022.
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Call for Colloquia – KNIR (Royal Dutch Institute in Rome) – deadline 1 May 2022
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The KNIR (Royal Dutch Institute in Rome) calls for proposals for colloquia. The KNIR organises up to three colloquia each year with no more than fifteen participants. These colloquia are closed, small-scale research meetings (expert meetings) in Rome, facilitated and funded by the KNIR. During these three-day intensive work conferences, early and mid-career scientists can strengthen their research profiles and boost their research. All university lecturers working at an NWIB university can apply for this. The selection of candidates focuses on the quality of the application, on motivation and on the relationship with KNIR, Rome and/or Italy. Applications are due by 1 May 2022.
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Applications Niels Stensen Fellowship 2022 – deadline 1 May 2022
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The aim of the Niels Stensen Fellowship is to encourage these talented young researchers by means of facilitating their academic research abroad. The Niels Stensen Fellowship Committee would like to be introduced to candidates who have shown academic excellence as well as social commitment. The fellowship is open to all academic disciplines. Please note that nominations are to be submitted by professors and not by the candidates themselves. The 2022 nomination procedure is open to PhDs obtaining their PhD between 15 June 2021 and 15 June 2023, starting their research project between 1 January 2023 and 1 September 2023.
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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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| Image credits: Image Symposium Hansards in the World: Hanse Sail 2011 - Fregatt-Vollschiff "Shtandart" by contributor yetdark (flickr; Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0)
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