Registration for the Posthumus Conference 2026 is now open! The 2026 Conference will be held on 21 and 22 May 2026 at the International Institute of Social History (IISG/IISH) in Amsterdam. This year’s theme will be ‘Global Capitalism’. We are proud to announce this year’s keynote lecture will be delivered by Professor Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University. The conference will be hosted by the IISH team under the guidance of Professor Ulbe Bosma, in cooperation with the N.W. Posthumus Institute and includes presentations by both Posthumus PhDs and other scholars. Also, the PhDs of cohort 2025 will present of their research projects through a poster presentation on the first conference day. We are looking forward meeting you in Amsterdam!