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Where does our modern democracy come from? In a Europe-wide historical perspective, Democracy’s Double Helix. Participation, Equality and Revolution in Early Modern Europe explores the roots of modern democracy in a new way.

The International Institute of Social History invites you to join the Exploring Slave Trade in Asia (ESTA) Database’s second data launch on Friday, 12 December 2025, 11:00 CET, at our insitute in Amsterdam. 

For those who experience the momentum of revolution, time passes differently: the future becomes a promise that waits somewhere in the past, always anticipating return. The archive itself becomes a tool for perceiving time, offering the possibility to return and remember. 

As part of the IISG’s 90th-anniversary year, artist Golrokh Nafisi and researcher Ahmadali Kadivar will inhabit the institute in a performative sit-in during the first week of December.

We warmly invite you to join the next instalment of monthly seminar series Micro-Global Histories of Slavery: Sources and Approaches, featuring Miguel Rodrigues (International Institute for Social History) who will give a talk titled Spiritual Salvation, Enslavement, and Creolization: The Formation of Colonial Societies in the West African Archipelagos of Cape Verde and São Tomé (16th–17th Centuries).

Amal Helles and Ahmed Abu Artema are Palestinian journalists from Gaza, who respectively fled Gaza in 2024 and 2025. In this twelfth session of Palestine in Focus, they will speak about their personal and professional experiences during the genocide.

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 third group of fellows of the Global Slavery History Fellowships – Kushanava Choudhury and Tri Ramadhan- will present the results of their research on 20 November at the IISH.

Recent years have seen the proliferation of projects dealing with topics that broadly fit the category of business history of slavery and colonialism. Yet because of the broad demarcations of, and interest in, the topic remains divided along disciplinary and geographical lines. This workshop is for early-career researchers to explore new perspectives on business history in relation to the histories of slavery and colonialism.  

This year, 2025, marks fifty years of contemporary Dutch transnational feminist solidarity activism with women’s issues and gender relations in the Global South. The origin of this engagement dates back to 1975, which was proclaimed International Women’s Year thanks to the mobilisation of feminists within and around the UN at the time. 

The concept of ecocide—large scale, systematic destruction of ecosystems—has gained support as a lens for analysing environmental harms that intersect with conflict, oppression, settler-colonialism, ethnic cleansing and genocide. 

In this two-day workshop, Marcel van der Linden and Jan Breman, senior fellows at the IISH, will discuss their three recently published essays on labour migration from below.

The IISH invites you to join this two-day workshop on labour relations, extraction, and resistance in contexts of slavery, indenture, and contract work. Scholars will discuss the procurement, mobility, exploitation and resistance of enslaved, indentured and contracted workers in the Atlantic, and the Asia-Pacific region.

Please join us in welcoming the third group of fellows of the Global Slavery Fellowship programme. They will be conducting research into the Dutch involvement in the transatlantic and Southeast Asian slave trade and slave labour.