Evenementen archief

This afternoon, we place archives in the ‘Faro’ spotlight. The focus is not on paper and data, but on the people the archives are about and those who create them. It highlights the social role — the “value of archives for society”, referring to the subtitle of the Faro Convention. The symposium pays considerable attention to the recognition of community and private archives, their relationship with public archives, and the role of the archivist.

The turn of the nineteenth century marked the rise of labour conflict in the industrializing western world, as well as a general expansion of global trade and integration. In her talk, Anna Missiaia quantitatively tests the link between global price shocks and labour conflict during this period.

The theme of the KNHG Annual Conference is Life Stories – The multifaceted autobiographical document as a source.

In early nineteenth century Sri Lanka, slave descent was still recorded through state institutional practices. All were disciplinary in a similar and explicit manner: court cases, police records, health/epidemic records, censuses, slave registers, thombos (land and school registers) were the privileged written loci where reference to slave descent appeared. 

On 29 May, we will launch an initiative to a renewed Yearbook for the History of Labour Movements and Socialism in the Netherlands! We are reviving the long-standing tradition of Dutch journals on labour movements and socialism.

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.