{"id":6827,"date":"2025-10-07T12:31:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T10:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.org\/?p=6827"},"modified":"2025-10-07T12:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T10:31:33","slug":"posthumus-affiliates-runners-up-paleography-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/?p=6827","title":{"rendered":"Posthumus affiliates runners-up in Dutch \/ Flemish Paleography contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 4 October, the Dutch \/ Flemish Paleography Contest 2025 was held at the Academiezaal in Sint-Truiden (Belgium). This contest is organised every second year by the archival institutions behind the online paleography platform <a href=\"https:\/\/watstaatdaer.nl\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Wat staat daer?&#8217;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At this contest, about 40 finalists from the Netherlands and Flanders competed on transcribing three archival texts. Two Posthumus-affiliates each ended as runner-up in their respective age categories. Sieben Feys, Posthumus alumnus (cohort 2022) and currently in the final year of his PhD at Ghent University, was runner-up in the category under 25 years, whereas Ren\u00e9 van Weeren, Office Manager of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, was runner-up in the category 26 years and over.<\/p>\n<p>The N.W. Posthumus Institute congratulates both runners-up with this achievement!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"bttn\" href=\"https:\/\/watstaatdaer.nl\/forum\/winnaars-paleografiewedstrijd-2025-blij-met-het-behaalde-resultaat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MORE INFO (IN DUTCH)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 4 October, the Dutch \/ Flemish Paleography Contest 2025 was held at the Academiezaal in Sint-Truiden (Belgium). This contest is organised every second year by the archival institutions behind the online paleography platform &#8216;Wat staat daer?&#8217;. At this contest, about 40 finalists from the Netherlands and Flanders competed on transcribing three archival texts. Two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}