Please join us for the APH’s online book launch, to mark the publication of Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America. From the Late Medieval Period to the Present edited by Richard Huzzey, Maartje Janse, Henry Miller, Joris Oddens, and Brodie Waddell. The book will be published by Oxford University Press for the British Academy in June. The event will include Prof. Laura Stewart (University of York) and Prof. Henk te Velde (Leiden University), in conversation with the book’s editors. Residues and Innovations within Imperial Orders. Political Assemblies in Continental Europe, 1800-1850. Warsaw, 23-24 January 2025. Deadline submission papers: August 31, 2024. More information: https://ihpan.edu.pl/en/cfp-conference-parliamentary-junctures-in-continental-europe-2/ Regional history has traditionally been in the periphery for many (although not all) social and economic historians. Despite Sidney Pollard’s claim that the British Industrial Revolution was a regional rather than a national phenomenon, economic historians have frequently tended to focus on the national level, while social historians often preferred to study local communities. Welke culturele, sociaal-maatschappelijke en beleidsmatige capaciteiten zijn nodig om een crisis het hoofd te bieden? Een breed team van onderzoekers van vijf universiteiten gaat dit de komende jaren onder de naam Adapt! onderzoeken.Een van de trekkers is OPG bestuurslid Beatrice de Graaf. Every year Studium Generale organizes the May 4 lecture, in which we investigate what commemoration means today. This year, Lorena De Vita will be delivering the May 4 lecture in Utrecht.
Studium Generale requires booking a place up front. More information and registration via this link: Remembrance in times of crisis – Studium Generale Universiteit Utrecht (uu.nl)