This workshop looks beyond the limits of the discipline of political history. How do/can other scientific disciplines inspire and inform political history research (and vice-versa)? Which debates outside the confines of political history are of interest to you, and to which debates can your PhD-project contribute? This meeting will particularly be inspired by approaches from the social sciences and social history. We will engage with how to write international political history ‘from below’ as well as the challenges of writing political histories of non-Western localities and topics. We will look at relevant examples of interdisciplinarity in political history research, for example political anthropology, political economy and political ecology approaches. More Information.

The Research School Political History, the N.W. Posthumus Institute, the Huizinga Institute, and the Research School for Medieval Studies warmly invite PhD candidates and recent graduates to the PhD Career Day 2025.
When? Friday 14 November 2025. Please register before 31 October.
Where? IISG, Amsterdam (Cruquiusweg 31)

Op 31 oktober 2025, om 12.15 uur, promoveert Oene de Haan aan de Universiteit Utrecht op het proefschrift ‘The implementation of reforms. The Austrian Empire, the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Kingdom of Prussia in the first half of the nineteenth century’. Meer informatie.

Op 4 november 2025, om 12:30 uur, verdedigt Solange Ploeg aan de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen haar proefschrift ‘Burgers in beeld: Televisie, opiniepeilingen en het denken over democratie in naoorlogs Nederland’. Meer informatie.

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