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Gisteren bereikte ons het bericht dat Huibert Schijf in de nacht van 11 op 12 mei is overleden. Bert werd 79 jaar. Hij was al jaren bekend op het IISG, eerst als onderzoeker vanuit de Universiteit van Amsterdam waar hij werkte als universitair docent bij de Faculteit der Politieke en Sociaal-Culturele Wetenschappen, later, na zijn pensionering, als vrijwilliger bij de HSN (Historische Steekproef Nederland) op het IISG. 

The Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision (S&V), Nieuwe Instituut and the International Institute of Social History (IISH) come together again to form a new edition of Open Archief. This time, we are joined by our new partner Framer Framed, a platform for contemporary art, visual culture, and critical theory & practice in Amsterdam. 

After 32 years at the IISG, including 26 years in the Asia Department, Eef Vermeij is retiring. To mark his departure, he highlights his favorite collection.

On Monday, April 14, a knowledge session on the impact of emigration was held at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam, featuring the documentary Westlanders in Australia. 

On Friday, April 11, 2025, photographer, writer, and curator Ewald Vanvugt passed away, just a few days before his 82nd birthday.

The 15th  European Social Science History Conference took place in Leiden from 26 to 29 March! During these four days of the conference, there were more than 1500 visitors and participants in around 400 different panel sessions.

A coalition of Amsterdam based Archives, Museums and Historical institutes* with the generous support of the Insinger Foundation has taken the initiative for a five-year programme that offers three two-month long fellowships per year for curators, archivists and historians in the field of slavery history.

On 7 March, the eve of International Women's Day, Francisca de Haan (prof. emerita of Gender Studies and History ) received a Suffrage Science Award for 2025. The prize is awarded annually to outstanding female scientists.

At the end of last year, under the leadership of Thijs van Leeuwen and Frank de Jong, the IISH began preparations to digitise collections related to Indonesia/the former Dutch East Indies (Indische collections) and make them available to the Programma Indisch Erfgoed Digitaal (PIED).

Are you a scholar in the humanities, social sciences, or economics ready to tackle on a research project regarding the development of Iran between 18th and 20th century? Then why not apply for the Prince Dr Sabbar Farman-Farmaian Fellowships at the IISH?

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.

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.