This is the events archive.
Poetin noemde het ‘de grootste geopolitieke catastrofe van de twintigste eeuw’: het uiteenvallen van de Sovjet-Unie. Voor sommigen een ramp, voor anderen juist een historische kans voor de opbouw van democratische, vrije samenlevingen en onafhankelijke staten. Dat deze tegenstellingen dertig jaar later zouden verharden tot een oorlog tussen Rusland en Oekraïne kon toen nog niemand bevroeden.
The fourth Lexicon of Commodity Frontiers keyword conversation about “commons” will take place on 12th of October 2022, from 4 to 6 p.m. (CEST). (Zoom, hosted by IISH, Amsterdam)
Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar will present an overture from her work on the concept of commons/lo(s) común(es), followed by commentary offered by Manuela Zechner, José Luis Vivero Pol, and Deborah Delgado Pugley. We then open the floor to a discussion with the audience.
“Industrious gentiles: Hindu merchants and middlemen in the Portuguese Estado da Índia, c. 1730-1830
On October 11th Noelle Richardson, postdoctoral researcher in the NWO-VICI project “Exploiting the Empire of Others: Dutch Investment in Foreign Colonial Resources 1570-1800”, will hold a lecture at the IISH.
How to deal with inherently violent colonial imagery in the archives?
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ARIAS and Open Archief are happy to invite you to another edition of the Re:Use Clinics, a series of public events for heritage professionals, artists and other interested parties in the creative reuse of heritage collections.
'Britain and international law in West Africa: the practice of empire'
On September 20th Inge van Hulle, Leader of Max Planck Research Group , will hold a lecture at the IISH entitled ''Britain and international law in West Africa: the practice of empire"
The struggle against right-wing populist/radical and extreme right-wing movements
52nd Annual Conference Of The International Association Of Labour History Institutions (IALHI)
Swiss Social Archives, Zurich, Switzerland
14-17 September 2022
We zijn blij dat we u na lange tijd weer kunnen uitnodigen voor een IISG Vriendenbijeenkomst op donderdag 30 juni. Een goede gelegenheid om de Vriendenbanden weer aan te halen.
Graag even aanmelden via jacqueline.rutte@bb.huc.knaw.nl
The International Association on Strikes and Social Conflicts organises:
The Fifth International Conference on Strikes and Social Conflicts that will take place in Rotterdam, Netherlands at the headquarter of the Rotterdam branch of the Dutch Trade Union Confederation (FNV) from 22-24 June 2022. Its objective is to discuss and assess the changing character of strikes and social conflict over the course of capitalist history. The focus is on the lessons learned from the approaches and strategies of trade unions and social movements in terms of responses to the social and economic changes that accompanied globalisation.
On Wednesday 15 June 2022 Open Archief and Pictoright collaboratively organize ‘Re:Use Clinic #1, Archives and Copyright’, a public event for heritage professionals, artists and other interested parties, about creatively reusing heritage collections.
The research group Tolerant Migrant Cities? The Case of Holland 1600-1900 organises in collaboration with the N.W. Posthumus Institute a symposium on agency in the justice system in global perspective on 9 June 2022 at the International Institute of Social History (IISG) in Amsterdam. You can sign up for the symposium until 1 June, by sending an email to tolerantmigrantcities@gmail.com.
‘Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly’
Keyword Conversation on Extractivism
The third Lexicon of Commodity Frontiers keyword conversation about “extractivism” will take place on 25th of May 2022, from 4 to 6 p.m. (CEST). (Zoom, hosted by IISH, Amsterdam)
Thea Riofrancos will present an overture from her work on the concept of extractivism/extractivismo, followed by commentary offered by Kristina Dietz, Boipelo Bonokwane, Verónica Gago, and researchers of the Environmental Justice Atlas project. We then open the floor to a discussion with the audience.
To attend, please register by emailing jacqueline.rutte@bb.huc.knaw.nl before Wednesday 18 May.
