The Faculty of Languages and Humanities, Department History, Archeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics, is looking for a postdoc in History for the tenure track position of lecturer in Gender History of the Contemporary Era. The lecturer will teach the following courses: Research seminar contemporary history, History of globalization, Contemporary history section of the course Social…

The Department of Economic History of Lund University is hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow in the research program ‘The legacy of a settler colony: Quantitative panel studies of the political economy of the Cape Colony’. The program is funded by the The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation and will run to the end of 2026. It…

~ because of required proficiency, in Dutch only ~ Het Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum (BHIC) in ’s-Hertogenbosch is vorig jaar als eerste archief in Nederland met fellowships gestart. Deze beurzen (vier per jaar) bieden recent afgestudeerden de kans om tegen een vergoeding voor de duur van maximaal vijf maanden onderzoek te doen in de collectie…

Please note the deadline for applications has passed on 15 May 2023. Antwerp Summer University welcomes applications for the Summer School CityLab IX: ‘Cities and states: exploring a complicated relationship’, to be organised at the University of Antwerp in July 2023. In this CityLAB, a range of scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and…

Dr Katherine Frederick, one of the Research Directors of the Posthumus Research Network ‘Societies in Context: Interactions between humans and rural-urban environments’, has been awarded the Keetje Hodshon Award 2023. Kate receives this award for her PhD thesis Deindustrialization in East Africa: Textile production in an era of globalization and colonization, c. 1830-1940, which she…

On 27 April 2023, Professor Tirthankar Roy (London School of Economics) will deliver the opening lecture of the CAPASIA (The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism) project. Professor Roy’s lecture will be titled: Land or sea? Alternative routes to colonialism in Asia and Africa. This project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and…

On 5 June 2023, Posthumus alumnus Hugo La Poutré will defend his PhD thesis ‘English population 1086-1377: a modelling approach’ at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen. Population size, food production, and consumption are closely related. Hugo La Poutré concentrates on this relationship in his doctoral research. He shows by the use…

Gijs Dreijer, Lewis Wade, Mallory Hope, Cátia Antunes and Maria Fusaro kindly invite participants to join the workshop ‘Risk and Entrepreneurship – Old Discussions, Innovative Questions, New Insights’, to be held at Leiden University on 7 and 8 June 2023. The keynote lecture will be delivered by  Professor Anthony Hopkins, Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth…

The N.W. Posthumus Institute participates in the European graduate School for Training in Economic and social historical Research (ESTER), 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)…

The organisers of the Conference ‘Gender discrimination in Modern Greece’ welcome proposals for this single-day conference, to be held at the Norwegian Institute at Athens. Recent research not only argues that female infanticide and the mortal neglect of female infants was more common in Modern Greece than previously acknowledged, but also that Greek parents continued…