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Wieke Metzlar went home with the Volkskrant-IISG thesis award 2024 for her thesis on patterns and determinants of excess mortality among girls in Maastricht between 1864 and 1930. Her thesis stood out for its originality and clarity.
From the rise of atomic fission in the 1940s to the Chernobyl disaster of the 1980s, the future was nuclear. Scientists, politicians and policy makers predicted a transition to a new, virtually inexhaustible, cheap and “clean” energy source. But this first “energy transition” met with resistance in nations across the globe. In the Netherlands various groups united in the anti-nuclear energy movement (AKB).
On Friday 24 January Matthias van Rossum gave his inaugural lecture titled De ‘jongens’ van Bontekoe? Over nut en noodzaak van mondiale geschiedenissen van kolonialisme en arbeid at the Radboud University. Van Rossum was appointed professor of the Special Chair in Global Histories of Labour and Colonialism, which was jointly established by the IISH and the Radboud University, since 1 February 2024.
We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of our dear colleague and friend, Ömercan Şamlı (Mercan), who left us in December 2024.
We received the sad news that our former colleague Piet Lourens passed away on December 10. His close colleague and former research director Jan Lucassen wrote an In Memoriam.
On 3 December, the King, patron of the KNAW, visited the IISH. After a tour of the archives, which covered the history of the IISH, the King talked to researchers and collection specialists in the reading room about the various projects of the IISH.
Since 2020, the IISH has been involved in the joint project program “Open Archief,” together with Sound & Vision and New Institute. Within this program, several exhibitions and workshops have already taken place, to increase knowledge about creative reuse of archives among both artists and heritage institutions.
The IISH and the FNV have jointly received a grant through the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment from the European Social Fund for their project Women Forward with Network V. Rosa Kösters will be the principal investigator of this project.
King Willem-Alexander will bring a visit to the IISH on Tuesday, December 3rd. The visit starts with a tour of the archive, where our director will show him how scholarship and society are closely interwoven at the IISH.
Op 16 oktober overleed Wilhelmus Hubertus (Wim) van der Linden, van 1971 tot 1987 hoofd van de Iconografische Afdeling van het IISG.
With great sadness we inform you that Stefan Landsberger has passed away, completely unexpectedly, on 26 September 2024.
Uit archieven en onderzoek blijkt dat de firma Insinger & Co. een actieve rol speelde het Nederlandse slavernijverleden en koloniale dwangarbeid, onder meer door de handel in koloniale goederen en investeringen en beheer van plantages.
