Events archive

"The Becoming of a Corrodian. Retirement, life-cyclic change and social mobility in the early modern period"

• 3 November
• 15.30 hrs
• online via Zoom

A staggering number of South Asian migrant workers are recruited to work in European Union member states. Increasingly these workers do not remain in the country of arrival but go on to work in another member state.

‘Service, help and delegation: labor relations in the past'

• 6 October
• 15.30 hrs
• online via Zoom

"Hoe groot was de betrokkenheid van Amsterdam en het Amsterdamse stadsbestuur bij de slavernij en slavenhandel in Azië en in het Atlantisch gebied?"

Vulnerabilities avoided and resilience built. Collective action, poor relief and diversification as weapons of the weak (The Campine, Belgium, 1350-1845)

• 1 September
• 15.30 hrs
• online via Zoom

'Ribbons of the "Empire". Merchant-Capitalism and Labour Commodification in Early Modern Italy'.

• 3 March
• 15.30 hrs
• Max Nettlau Room, IISH

Abstract: From the 16th century onwards, ribbons became fashionable objects in both clothing and home interiors as accessory and symbolic items representing global commodities capable of connecting different regions of the world.

Since the publication of Piketty’s Capital in the twenty-first century in 2014 social inequality has become the talk of the town. Although the field as such is not new, with the ongoing process of globalisation and the rise of populist political movements,  the topic has gained urgency. Interestingly in the work of Piketty, but also others like Branko Milanovic, Walter Scheidel and Bas van Bavel, history plays a prominent role.

3rd September IISH Amsterdam, 15.30 hrs, Nettlau Room

The 2019 Global Summit on Labor Migration takes place in the International Institute of Social History on 20-22 june 2019. The deadline for the call for papers is 1 July 2018

Recent social and economic history research in Belgium and the Netherlands
Workshop Friday 9 November at the IISH, Amsterdam
Under the auspices of the N.W. Posthumus Institute, IISH and NEHA

Voor een keer opent het IISG op zaterdag haar deuren voor een festival met opstandige verhalen, muziekoptredens, rondleidingen door de schatkamers van het instituut, een filmprogramma en meer!

What can games teach us about the past? In what ways can video games be treated as cultural heritage? What do video games have to offer for historical and archaeological research?