Poster presentations PhDs Cohort 2024
This page shows the research posters composed and presented at the Posthumus Conference 2025 by the PhD students participating in the 2024 cohort of the PhD Training Programme of the N.W. Posthumus Institute. For the original poster in pdf you may contact the composer of the poster. We also ask you not to cite or to disperse the poster image without prior consent of the author of the poster concerned.
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Merel Blok (IISH / VU Amsterdam)
Intermediaries at commodity frontiers. Exploring the local and international networks of trade and finance driving the expansion of commodity frontiers in the Global South (1816-1870)
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Hannelore Braeken (Leiden University)
Alone in history. Learning from the history of loneliness of people with mild intellectual disabilities in the Netherlands (c. 1970-…)
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Marten Buschman (VU Amsterdam)
Developing Dutch democracy: the life of Henri van Kol 1852 -1925
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Zarah Cleve (Ghent University)
Sleeping cattle: The history of African Animal Tripanosomiasis (AAT) in colonial and early-postcolonial Congo, Rwanda and Burundi (1890s-1970s)
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Antje De Herdt (University of Antwerp)
Becoming a social worker: social work education and the Belgian welfare state (1920-1970)
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Hans de Vries (Utrecht University)
Censorship in Dutch public broadcasting at beginning of radio. Freedom of expression, using Freethinkers Radio Broadcasting organization (VRO) as case-study
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Paulien Daelman (Ghent University)
(De)constructing vermin: interactions between agriculture and wildlife in the Low Countries (1780-1840)
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Nadeche Diepgrond (Radboud University)
The evolving role of hospitals. The impact of hospitals on patients in the Netherlands, 1830-1914
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Rick Faust (University of Antwerp)
How to claim the past as a woman? Cherchez la femme: Women and the boom of antiques in Belgium (c. 1880-c.1940)
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Gijs Hoekstra (University of Groningen)
Regional depopulation and community welfare in the Netherlands, 1950-2022
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Brent Huygh (Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Village(r)s in conflict. Political expectations and governance in 17th- and 18th-century rural Brabant and Limburg
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Pascal Konings (IISH / Radboud University)
Enslaved mobilities in the colonial Dutch Indian Ocean
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Evert Lambrechts (VLIZ and University of Antwerp)
Worth the gamble? Tourism and the embeddedness of gambling in seaside resorts (1878-1930)
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Camille Le Brettevillois (Radboud University)
Enslaved mobilities in the Portuguese Empire and beyond: Lisbon and Goa 1580-1640
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Paulo Pereira Oliveira Matos (Ghent University and University of Lisbon)
Memory, agency and resilience: cattle commodification attempts in Portuguese Angola and Mozambique (1915/1975)
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Patrick Pieters (University of Antwerp)
The pursuit of power weighed: power, profit and risk in Antwerp banking, 1870-194
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Yuanita Wahyu Pratiwi (Wageningen University and Research)
What is a good life? Well-being of rice farming society in Java, 1750-1900
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Wouter Raaijmakers (Radboud University)
Whose law is it anyway? Between legislation and litigation in the Indian Ocean world
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Ilmari Railo (University of Groningen)
How is regional depopulation perceived in relation to welfare decline? Depopulation and community welfare in North Karelia
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Maud Rijks (Leiden University)
‘Water for life’. Translocal activism and environmental justice across the Great Lakes, 1985-1992
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Marte Stoffers (Radboud University)
Business as usual? Common (mis)understandings among merchants in the early-modern Low Countries
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Sanâah May Swart (Leiden University)
This is for the best for mother and child: relinquishment and adoption in the Netherlands, 1939-1980
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Iliana Tintory Reyes (Radboud University)
What paths did enslaved Asians forge under Spanish rule? Agency and social navigation in New Spain and the Philippines
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Dea Van den Brande (Antwerp University)
The financial lives of female Antwerp immigrants, 1870-1940
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Michiel van Dongen (University of Groningen)
The Dutch into foreign mining adventures. Free-standing companies, 1870-1914
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Jessie van Straaten (Leiden University)
The rise and retreat of institutions: housing, policy, and ageing in the postwar Netherlands
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Jessica van Zadelhof (University of Antwerp)
What did it mean to be at home? Towards a spatial turn of domestic material culture in the 15th and 16th century Southern Low Countries
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Elene Vernaeve (Ghent University)
Animal crossing: movement, adaptation, and socio-environmental change in Katanga, Belgian Congo (1910-1970)
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Sophie Vries (Utrecht University)
Sticky practices: the development of early childhood education and care in the Netherlands, 1840-1970
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Pieter Zhao (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
The return of the privateer: the delegation of defense and security responsibilities at sea in histroical perspective