Welcome to the website of the Posthumus Conference 2025. The 2025 Conference will be held on 27 and 28 May 2025 at Radboud University Nijmegen. This year’s theme will be ‘The People vs Structures’.

The conference will be hosted by Dr Dries Lyna and Dr Joris van den Tol, both affiliated with the Radboud Institute for Culture and History at Radboud University, in cooperation with the N.W. Posthumus Institute.

Next to paper presentations by Posthumus PhDs and other scholars, we are proud to announce a keynote lecture by Professor Tamar Herzog, Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs at Harvard University and Affiliate Professor of the Harvard Law School.

Please note that the structure of this year’s edition differs from previous ones. At first, both PhD candidates and fellows will now present in the same sessions, composed by the six research networks within the community of the N.W. Posthumus Institute. In addition, the PhDs of cohort 2024 will present their research projects through a poster presentation, accessible during the entire conference.

We are looking forward meeting you in Nijmegen!