Advanced Seminars
In Advanced Seminars, PhD-students are trained and prepared for the international academic debate in a specific field of economic and social history.
General information
In Advanced Seminars, PhD-students are trained and prepared for the international academic debate in a specific field of economic and social history. The seminar comprises a full-time programme of up to a week. Paper presentations by the participating postgraduates are the core of the advanced seminar. The local organiser of the Advanced Seminar invites three or four international experts to attend the seminar. They debate the papers and presentations of the young scholars and lead the general discussion.
Criteria for admission
The advanced seminars are open to postgraduates:
- who are preferably in their second, third or fourth year, and
- whose subject of the dissertation is closely related to the theme selected for the advanced seminar.
The selection of the postgraduates is the responsibility of the local organizer. He will base his decision upon a synopsis of the paper submitted by the PhD-students themselves in reaction to a call for papers. A maximum number of fifteen postgraduates are admitted to an advanced seminar.
Organization of the Advanced Seminar
- Each Advanced Seminar is prepared by a local organizer with the support of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, the Research Institute and School for Economic and Social History in the Netherlands.
- Each participant will write and present a seminar paper dealing with one or several core problems of the dissertation project. This paper should reflect own research and focus on theoretical or methodological problems encountered by the student in his or her research. The paper should include some explicit ideas the student wishes to present to an international expert audience.
- The papers are prepared and distributed prior to the seminar.
- During the sessions the papers are discussed by both PhD-students and experts after a short introduction by the author.