Events archive

This year, Görkem Akgöz published In the Shadow of War and Empire. Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey in open access. Her book offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialisation through the lens of a mid-century cotton factory in the “Turkish Manchester,” the name chosen by the Ottomans for the industrial complex they built in the 1840s in İstanbul.

“They make death, and I am the labour of life”. These are the words of Palestinian political prisoner Walid Daqqa (1961-2024), written in the voice of his unborn child, Milad, who was conceived of sperm smuggled from Ayalon prison. Daqqa's statement is an insistence on life, and the labour that makes it possible, in the face of the death-making worlds of Israeli settler colonialism. 

In deze lezing vertellen Ivo Zandhuis en Richard Zijdeman over de volgende stappen in het meer toegankelijk en bruikbaar maken van informatie over archieven, boeken, collecties en onderzoeksdata en hoe deze informatie  met elkaar verbonden kan worden.

The Center for the History of Migrants (CGM) organizes its annual study day in cooperation with the Center for Migration Law in Nijmegen and is looking for call for presentations.

In the 1960s and 1970s, amid the optimism of decolonisation, new and 'reinvented' history journals, now largely under African leadership, were at the heart of scholarly and social renewal.

17 March Putin is scheduled to be elected president of the Russian Federation for yet another six years in office, in spite of launching a devastating war against Ukraine and letting oppositional politician Alexei Navalny die in prison.

Unfortunately, due to illness the lecture Human Trafficking and Piracy in Early Modern East Asia: Maritime Challenges to the Ming Dynasty Economy, 1370–1565 is cancelled. 

Op 11 maart vindt er bij het IISG een presentatie plaats van een onderzoek getiteld 'Van slavernij tot liefdadigheid?’ dat de Insinger Stichting heeft laten uitvoeren.

Part I of the series Palestine in Focus discusses the role of boycotts in addressing historical injustices. 

Rosa Luxemburg (1871 -1919) was een socialist, communist en revolutionair van Poolse origine die eind 19e, begin 20e eeuw een vooraanstaande rol speelde in de internationale arbeidersbeweging.

Nonviolent civil resistance has occurred in various forms and by different social actors, women, youth or intellectuals, throughout modern and contemporary Iranian history.

Het IISG nodigt alle vrienden en geïnteresseerden graag uit voor de eerste Vriendenmiddag van 2024.