Evenementen

Our seventh Palestine in Focus discusses archiving and archives, and more specifically, institutional practices and responsibility regarding Palestinian heritage. 

The social history of oil has occupied Touraj Atabaki for 15 years. It has been the subject of several publications in relation to migration and labour. His new book Toiling for Oil presents an exploration of the social history of petroleum in Iran, while focusing on the experiences of the people working with the commodity. 

How can digital infrastructures for colonial archives support a better understanding of historical and contemporary issues? This symposium brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss the challenges and opportunities of working with digitized colonial records.

Het IISG wordt gesteund door een grote groep vrienden. Mensen met een passie voor geschiedenis, archieven, oud-collega's en onderzoekers die een band hebben met ons instituut. De laatste donderdag van januari organiseren we weer een middag voor onze vrienden en andere geïnteresseerden. Met verschillende presentaties over onze collecties en een lezing over archiefmateriaal dat misschíen bij het IISG aanwezig is. 

In het licht van de groeiende maatschappelijke belangstelling voor inkomensongelijkheid en de verdeling van winsten, organiseert het NEHA een publieksmiddag die deze urgente thema's onder de loep neemt. 

This lecture by Katharina Oke will give insight into a research project on the history of “Making Things” in West Africa (Ghana and Nigeria): focusing on artisans and craftspeople, this project turns to productive processes and entrepreneurial labour with a focus on meaning making, creating, and the socio-cultural importance of ‘making things’. 

While it is long known that the Roman Empire had a profound impact on everyday social dynamics in the Mediterranean and beyond, the lived reality of this impact in urban communities has long been studied through fairly schematic, universalist models that mostly project European (elite) perceptions of the more recent colonial and industrial past backwards on the Roman empire. 

Healthcare restructuring marked by concentration of services in cities and withdrawal from rural areas has given rise to several drawn-out and spectacular collective actions in contemporary Sweden. 

The impetus to forge international ties has been common to a wide spectrum of political projects. As such, it is crucial to consider ‘internationalism’ in terms of its pluralities – as a phenomenon that operated on different scale and was ideologically variegated.