Author: René van Weeren

Preceding her valedictory speech, colleagues and friends will celebrate the work of Professor Marjolein ’t Hart by discussing her work and launching the book The early modern state: Drivers, beneficiaries and discontents (eds. Pepijn Brandon, Lex Heerma van Voss and Annemieke Romein), containing essays in her honour. The volume will be published by Routledge later in June.

Book Description

In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wars, subject their own and far away populations, and exert bureaucratic power over a variety of areas of social life increased dramatically. Nevertheless, these changes were far less absolute and definitive than the literature on the rise of the “modern state” once held. While war pushed the boundaries of the emerging fiscal military states of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, rulers remained highly dependent on negotiations with competing elite groups and the private networks of contractors and financial intermediaries. Attempts to increase control over subjects often resulted in popular resistance, that in their turn set limits to and influenced the direction of the development of state institutions. Written in honour of the leading historian of war and state formation in the early modern Low Countries, Marjolein ‘t Hart, the chapters gathered in this volume examine the main drivers, beneficiaries and discontents of state formation across and beyond Europe in the early modern period.

Participants (confirmed)

• em. Professor Wim Blockmans (Leiden University)
• Dr Pepijn Brandon (VU Amsterdam)
• em. Professor Maarten Prak (Utrecht University)
• Dr Annemieke Romein (Huygens/ING)

How to participate

This event is freely accessible, registration is not required.

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. Contributors explore novel perspectives and approaches on the late life and afterlife of this association. How might we engage with the kinetic character of the Hanse? How does our perspective on the Hanse, its people, and its encounters with the non-Hanseatic world change if we focus on art, everyday life, or intellectual currents in the period of its supposed decline from the sixteenth century onwards?

For the Early Career Symposium ‘Hansards in the World: Continuity and Discontinuity on the Intellectual, Cultural, and Economic Frontiers of the Early Modern Hanse’ the organisers (Alexander Collin Mphil, University of Amsterdam and Suzie Hermán MA, Princeton University) welcome contributions from PhD students and early career researchers and are keen to hear from applicants who might not consider themselves as Hanse historians. Participants will contribute to understanding which aspects of the Hanse persisted beyond the medieval period, and which aspects changed in early modernity. Contributions can draw on a wide range of methodologies and intellectual traditions. Keynote speaker will be Dr Angela Huang (Director of the Research Centre for Hanse and Baltic History at the European Hansemuseum).

The symposium, originally scheduled for January 2022 will now take place on the postponed dates 12 and 13 May 2022 at the University of Amsterdam. Online participation is also possible.

SYMPOSIUM WEBSITE

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Op 20 mei 2022 zal professor Jelle van Lottum, hoogleraar aan de Radboud Universiteit / Faculteit der Letteren met de leeropdracht Geschiedenis van arbeidsmigratie in vergelijkend perspectief zijn ambt aanvaarden met het uitspreken van de rede Structuur en empathie:
de geschiedenis van arbeidsmigratie naar Nederland in vergelijkend perspectief.

Indien u deze oratie wilt bijwonen, dient u zich voor 9 mei 2022 aan te melden via onderstaande link. De oratie zal ook per livestream te volgen zijn.

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Uitnodiging (pdf)

On 19 May 2022, a one-day farewell seminar will be held in honour of Dr Willem Jongman, on Archaeology and Ancient and Comparative Economic History at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen. The programme will consist of a morning session on archaeology and an afternoon session on Comparative Economic History, two fields of research in which Wim was active as a teacher and researcher. The day will conclude with a lecture by Wim himself and a reception in the van Swinderen huys. Please find the programme for this festive day via the button below.

In case you want to attend in person, you are asked to register before 12 May 2022. Please indicate whether you will attend all day, morning session only, afternoon session only or valedictory lecture and reception only (or any combination) via the button below. The meeting will be hybrid. Here is the link for people who can only attend online. Instead of presents, Wim would like to receive donations for the University Aid Fund. A link will be made available soon and sent to you separately.

Registration in person attendance
 
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Programme (pdf)

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.

This symposium is preceded on 8 June by a Masterclass by Professor Robert Shoemaker, follow this link for more info.

Topic

The aim of this symposium is to connect scholars working on the history of crime and justice across various chronological periods and geographic regions. In doing so we 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. In doing so, the difficulties and opportunities in using legal source material in order to reveal something about the agency and daily lives of those who came into contact with the justice system will form the central theme.

Aim

The symposium aims to broaden the knowledge of (early career) researchers by inviting presentations by experienced scholars in the subject of legislation, crime and justice in a global perspective, as well as offering a platform for post-doctoral researchers, PhD-candidates, and ReMA students to share their own research and connect with other researchers working on similar subjects or source types.

Program

You can download the program, including abstracts of the lectures, as pdf via this link.

How to participate

Those who wish to attend but not present can sign up for the symposium by sending a quick email to the organisers stating name, affiliation and topic of research.

FULL PROGRAM (PDF)

On 30 June and 1 July 2022, the Posthumus Conference 2022 will be hosted by the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication of Erasmus University Rotterdam. This year’s theme will be ‘Humanomics’, with the keynote lecture by Professor Deirdre McCloskey. The conference website has just been launched at https://posthumusconference.org.

We are looking forward to meet you all at this event, where the Posthumus PhD students will present their research findings and our Research Networks will organise several interesting sessions on their respective fields of expertise.

The Posthumus Conference will be on-site this year and is open to all interested. There is no conference fee, but for logistic and catering reasons, registration via the conference website is however required. In the rare case the number of registrants exceeds the limits set by accommodations, preference will be given to Posthumus students and fellows.

CONFERENCE WEBSITE