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Alberto Feenstra will present his book Frontiers of finance: the political economy of public debt in the Dutch Republic on 28 May. 

In the book J'accuse (Bezige Bij), published last year, forty writers living in the Netherlands and Flanders speak out against the ongoing genocide of Palestinians and the failure to address it.

The Posthumus Conference takes place on 21 and 22 May 2026 and is hosted by IISH-researcher Ulbe Bosma and his team. Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University, will deliver the keynote lecture at the conference.

The histories of more than a hundred years of struggles for the right to decent and affordable housing can be found in the recently published Rent Strikes: A history of collective tenant actions across the world. These stories on paper will be joined by an exhibition about rent strikes: Maffers II hoog. 

This presentation focuses on enslaved and freed individuals from societies bordering the Indian Ocean who were brought to Lisbon during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

First Venezuela, then Iran—will Cuba be next? Recent threats against Havana by Donald Trump add to an arsenal of sanctions that has been in place for more than six decades and further strengthened since January 2026 with the tightening of the U.S. oil blockade.

As part of the AHM/ASCA research initiative Critical Audiovisual Heritage (2024–29, University of Amsterdam), this one-day workshop takes our audiovisual collections as a case study to explore how large-scale digitisation reshapes access, reuse and collaboration around political and social-movement-related audiovisual materials. 

In cases of genocide, other countries, groups, or organisations are almost always complicit in the systematic destruction of a group of people. This may occur through active financial, political, or military support, or through passive complicity by turning a blind eye and failing to intervene.

In 1812, the Portuguese governor ​of São Tomé and Príncipe sent an alarming letter to the metropole: ‘The black people of this island want white men to eat, drink, and sleep with them as if they were all the same, with no distinction between nobles and commoners, between the rich and the poor’. These dangerous ideas, the governor claimed, had been imported from abroad: ‘all of this comes from the principles of equality introduced here by the French during the Revolution.’

Almudena Rubio will present her long-awaited book on the legacy of the female photographers Margaret Michaelis and Kati Horna, whose work has been identified in the historical archives of the anarchist organizations CNT-FAI. 

On March 31st, the IISG will present the newly found and digitized film No Passport for Spain (1969). 

On 26 March 2026, Rosa Kösters will defend her thesis, How to Self-Organise? Insights from Workers at Albert Heijn (Ahold) and Unox (Unilever) in the Netherlands, 1960–2020.