A research forum for scholars of the history of the Middle Ages.

Before Copyright is hiring a doctoral research fellow to study the history of printing privileges (1500-1800).

This PhD course grabs the bull by the horns and challenges participants to seriously engage with theory (ideas/principles to explain a practice or account for a situation) and method (planned procedure to pursue knowledge), and highlights the connections between them. We also discuss ethical problems in historical research. This is a 5 ECTS course.

Before Copyright is hiring a doctoral research fellow to examine the history of printing privileges in France.

The Department for Archaeology, Conservation and History (IAKH) cordially invites you to its first Digital Humanities Day, which will take place on 14 September 2023. This event will bring together a range of experts in the Digital Humanities to discuss the possibilities of using digital tools for historical research. Registration below.

International conference

On 11/12 May 2023 CLIMCULT will host a workshop the climate-conflict-nexus. It will bring together fields of climate history and conflict studies and explore new, integrative research designs.

Giorgio Riello (European University Institute) and Michael O’Sullivan (CAPASIA project) presents Where is Asia in the History of Early Modern Capitalism? 

Advanced course in methods: Archives are collections of documents and institutions that preserve them. What have been kept, for what purposes, by whom, and how can they be accessed? And how does asking these questions help students of the present and the past shape new research questions and design more thoughtful and better research projects? This course seeks to enable students to engage with the epistemic problems presented by archives. What is it possible to know and represent through archival sources, and what are the limitations to what can be known?  

The research group History of Capitalism offers a PhD fellowship for a project related to interrelation between capitalism, technology, and narratives of progress.