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In this tenth session of Palestine in Focus, we will focus on two forms of protest aimed at convincing the universities to cut their ties with Israeli universities. 

On Saturday 4 October, the IISH will be open to anyone who would like to get to know the IISH better. This year marks our 90th anniversary, and there is plenty to see and do at the IISH for young and old alike. Join a guided tour of the archive depot, take part in a creative workshop and view some very special archive material.

This workshop explores the intersections between legal and social history for early (Dutch) colonialism.

International aims and visions have been common to a wide range of political projects, with socialism, feminism, pacifism, anti-imperialism and environmentalism being just cases in point. 

In our ninth Palestine in Focus, Afaf Jabiri will talk about her latest book Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan. Decolonizing the Geopolitics of Displacement. 

The IISH invites you to join this seminar about research methodes regarding the history of global Chinese labour. The keynote speaker is Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Professor of History and American Studies at Brown University.

The International Institute of Social History (IISH) invites you to join this seminar about the history of Depok and its (im)material heritage of slavery. This seminar will take place on 22 July 2025 at 16:00h in the Posthumus Room.

Increasing exchanges between academic, heritage, and community sectors and needs point to the promise for more applied practices in our knowledge production. Still, though demands for concrete practices following our knowledge production from (affected) communities have been constant, it remains hard to envision durable exchanges between communities and heritage and academic work (which are not mutually exclusive domains). 

The objective of this seminar is to discuss the unique contribution of Dutch scholars and policymakers to decolonising discourses in the social sciences and humanities. 

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 second group of fellows of the Global Slavery History Fellowships - Wisaal Abrahams, Thanya Fonkel, Shereen Lafhaj and Rupsa Nag - will present the results of their research on 20 May at the IISH. 

Healthcare restructuring marked by concentration of services in cities and withdrawal from rural areas has given rise to several drawn-out and spectacular collective actions in contemporary Sweden. 

As part of our Palestine in Focus series, we will show the documentary Gaza Fights for Freedom from 2019, directed by Abby Martin.