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The IISH is hosting a workshop ‘Introduction to Nodegoat’ on Friday the 20th of March. The workshop offers an introduction to Nodegoat (nodegoat.net), a web-based research environment for the humanities, and is given by its developers, Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels. 

For six years, Timon de Groot and Jeroen van Veldhoven, under the supervision of Lex Heerma van Voss, researched various forms and the extensive history of flexible labour in the Netherlands since the Second World War. The topics range from married women in part-time positions in the 1950s to the arrival of migrant workers at temporary employment agencies and the false self-employed workers of recent years. De Groot and Van Veldhoven show that flexible work is by no means a recent phenomenon.

When it comes to the Netherlands and employment, the Netherlands is always referred to as the “champion of part-time work”. The question is whether this is meant in a positive sense. The fact that Dutch women are dismissed as “part-time princesses” makes it abundantly clear how this is perceived.

We warmly invite you to join the next gathering of the monthly seminar series Micro-Global Histories of Slavery: Sources and Approaches with Kate Ekama who will give a talk titled Family, freedom and remembering: The case of Clasina from Bengal.

We are pleased to announce the GLOBALISE Conference Colonial Pasts, New Approaches and Historiographical Futures: Explorations of GLOBALISE, the Dutch East India Company Archives and the writing of new histories will be held from 4 to 6 March 2026, with pre-conference activities on 3 March.

The SevenFrontiers project investigates the transformative impact of commodity frontiers in the Global South on labour, the environment and trade in the nineteenth century. These commodity frontiers, sites and processes of integration into the emerging global capitalist economy, fed the rise of early industrial capitalism in this period. 

Want to know more about Dutch policy on the recognition of genocide, malaria in the Middle Ages, or psychiatrist Coen van Emde Boas's views on homosexuality and transsexuality? Come to the presentation of the Volkskrant-IISG thesis prize!

On 13 February, Framer Framed will open the exhibition Between Fires: Irradiated Imaginations and Anti-Nuclear Solidarities. The exhibition focuses on anti-nuclear energy protest and the power structures associated with nuclear energy and testing.

How can we explore the many ways in which coercion has occurred in and through paid labour? This book discussion brings visual and written sources and interpretations into dialogue, broadening the analytical horizon of Labour History. 

Out on the streets it is hard to miss their delivery boxes and cargo bikes. The rapid rise of bicycle couriers shows that work in the Netherlands has changed enormously over the past ten years.

Focusing on recent protests in Iran, this session brings together two scholars of modern Iran to offer contextual, nuanced, and cross-disciplinary perspectives. The programme will include a brief introduction, short presentations by the speakers, and an open Q&A.

We warmly invite you to join the next gathering of the monthly seminar series Micro-Global Histories of Slavery: Sources and Approaches with River Baars (SOAS, University of London) who will give a talk titled Sodomitical outlaws in the VOC colonial encounter.