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Forged in blood and fire. Report from the Conference 

“Towards a Global History of Primitive Accumulation”

By Marten Dondorp

How are land, seas, habitats, and human bodies incorporated into global market society? This question animated more than forty researchers to come together at the “Towards a Global History of Primitive Accumulation” conference. This conference at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam, from 9 to 11 May, 2019, was co-sponsored by the IISH, the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Houston. The organizing committee consisted of Pepijn Brandon, Nyklas Frykman, Wendy Goldman, Marcus Rediker and Marcel van der Linden.

• Huub Sanders
• Booklaunch at the IISH
• 2019 may 16th

Het virus der betrokkenheid. Het Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis 1935-1989. 

• Keynote lecture: “Blood on the Red Banner: Primitive Accumulation under Socialism”.
• Prof. Wendy Goldman, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
• Saturday 11 May, 9.00 h  - 11.00 h  

• Keynote lecture: “State and Capital in the Era of Primitive Accumulation”
• Prof. Dr. Jairus Banaji, SOAS, London
• Friday 10 May, 17.30 h - 19:00 h

• Debat @ Pakhuis De Zwijger
• 9 mei 2019, 20.00 uur

Over achterblijvende lonen, perverse regelingen en goedkope arbeid.

• Peter Cole
• Western Illinois University
• Lecture @ IISH
• 7 may 2019 | 15.00 hrs,  Max Nettlau Room

Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the Francisco Bay Area

• Conference @ IISH
• 9 May 2019 to 11 May 2019
• Co-sponsored by the International Institute of Social History, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Houston. 

• Doelenzaal, Universiteitsbibliotheek UvA, Singel 425, Amsterdam.
• 10 May 2019
• 17-19 hours

CLASS, INEQUALITY, AND SOCIAL MOBILITY IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY IRAN

lecture by Ali Banuazizi, Boston College    

• Görkem Akgöz
• Humboldt University
• Lecture @ IISH
• 4 june 2019 | 15.00-16.00

Negotiating Femininity and Productivity:

Discourses on Gender and Labor in Post-War Turkey

• Conference @ IISH
• 20-22 june 2019 | 09.00-18.00

The 2019 Global Summit on Labor Migration. Labor migration is a vast, global, and highly fluid phenomenon in the 21st century, capturing public attention and driving political controversy.

• Maximiliano Menz
• Universidade Federal de Sao Paolo
• Lecture @ IISH
• 2 april 2019 | 15.00-16.00

The Bankers of the Slave Trade: finances and trade of people in Angola (1724-1771)

• Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (University of Coimbra)
• Lecture @ IISH
• 5 march 2019 |  15.00-16.00

The Internationalization of colonial labour:

From berlin to Geneva (1880s-1920s)