Dit is het evenementen archief.
Het IISG wordt gesteund door een grote groep vrienden. Mensen met een passie voor geschiedenis, archieven, oud-collega's en onderzoekers die een band hebben met ons instituut. De laatste donderdag van januari organiseren we weer een middag voor onze vrienden en andere geïnteresseerden. Met verschillende presentaties over onze collecties en een lezing over archiefmateriaal dat misschíen bij het IISG aanwezig is.
How can digital infrastructures for colonial archives support a better understanding of historical and contemporary issues? This symposium brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss the challenges and opportunities of working with digitized colonial records.
The social history of oil has been on the mind of Touraj Atabaki for 15 years. It has been the subject of several publications in relation to migration and labour. His new book Toiling for Oil presents an exploration of the social history of petroleum in Iran, while focusing on the experiences of the people working with the commodity.
Our seventh Palestine in Focus discusses archiving and archives, and more specifically, institutional practices and responsibility regarding Palestinian heritage.
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.
