Evenementen archief

In the busy December month we always screen a film or documentary. This year: The Sad Truth by Helle Stenum, who will also give an introduction to her documentary. 

A coalition of Amsterdam based Archives, Museums and Historical institutes has taken the initiative for fellowships for curators, archivists and historians in the field of slavery history. The first two fellows of the Global Slavery History Fellowships - Toluwanimi Owolana and Javier Estupiñán - will present the results of their research on 26 November at the IISH. 

Amnesty International was created in London in 1961 as a campaign against political imprisonment. As the remit of the organisation grew, so too did its membership across the globe. By 1978 Amnesty counted over 200,000 members and supporters in 111 countries, with ‘national sections’ (formal Amnesty structures) in 35 of those countries. This expansion was, however, uneven, with significantly more interest generated in the global North than in the South.

De documentaire Illuminando de Indische Buurt, gemaakt door filmmakers Anna Dabrowska en Alessandra Laitempergher, gaat op 24 oktober in première in het IISG in Amsterdam. Deze documentaire vertelt over de snelle transformatie van de Indische Buurt, gezien door de lens van de kleurrijke Super Sint Maarten Parade.

Dat de zeventiende eeuw niet voor iedereen een gouden tijd was weten we inmiddels wel. Maar hoewel het bekend is dat slavernij en uitbuiting eeuwenlang onder het tapijt zijn geveegd, is veel uit die periode nog relatief onbekend.

On Wednesday 16 October we present the project '(Re)counting the Uncounted'. In this project, funded by the Dutch Research Council NWO, we have taken on the exciting challenge of replicating and testing the findings of four so-called cornerstone publications* that provided medieval and/or early modern population estimates for the Netherlands and Belgium.

In his book Brassroots Democracy Benjamin Barson revises the birth of jazz. He uncovers narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inseparably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction after the Civil War (1861–1865), as well as connected to the emancipatory revolution in Haiti several decades before. He presents a music history from below, following the musicians as they built communes, performed at Civil Rights rallies, and participated in general strikes.

The Conference "Labour Inspection in a Global Context: Balancing the Interests of Employers and Employees" will focus on the history, presence and future of these two groups, and will be held on 10 and 11 October 2024 at the International Institute for Social History.

In her book Coerced Labour, Forced Displacement, and the Soviet Gulag, 1880s-1930s, Zhanna Popova examines the history of convict labor and forced displacement in Russia to shed light on the emergence of the Gulag - one of the central symbols of twentieth-century mass political violence.

Museum Perron Oost en Semester 9 organiseren in samenwerking met het IISG een gesprek over de invloed van familiegeschiedenis op kunst. Tijdens dit gesprek gaan kunstenaars Baby Reni (Irene Ha) en Nazif Lopulissa in gesprek met kunstenaar en curator Doron Beuns over de invloed van migratie en globalisatie op hun werk en identiteit. Migratieonderzoeker Sophie De Baere zal een introductie geven over migratie en familiegeschiedenis in de context van het IISG.

In her book Nicaragua Must Survive. Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War, Eline van Ommen recasts the international story of the Sandinistas and their innovative diplomatic campaign, which captured the imaginations of people around the globe and transformed Nicaraguan history at the end of the Cold War.

In this sixth event of Palestine in Focus, we focus on the workplace. Because although it is hard to realise: our lives and work are hugely entangled with the colonisation of Palestine and the violence against Palestinians. Therefore, this afternoon you will get all the information you need to know about how your pension and laptop contribute to occupation and colonisation, and what you can do about it.