Events archive

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’

• 7 June
• 12.30 hours
• IISH, Posthumus Room

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. 

Nuclear Polders: A Workshop with Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou & Agnès Villette.

'The past should not affect the children': intergenerational hauntings in the homes of Indo-European families (co-authored with Ana Dragojlovic)

• 10 May
• 15.30 hours
• IISH, Max Nettlau Room

The Commodity Frontiers Initiative hosts a round table discussion on Alessandro Stanziani’s recent monograph Capital Terre Une histoire longue du monde d'après (XIIe-XXIe siècle).

Are you an early career researcher (PhD, postdoc) working with judicial sources? Are you looking to exchange ideas and discuss the methodological issues around using this particular type of source with other like-minded historians? In June 2022 two upcoming events at the IISH (Amsterdam) may be of interest to you.

General Labour History of Africa
Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries

Edited by Stefano Bellucci and Andreas Eckert
In collaboration with the ILO Regional Office for Africa
https://www.ilo.org/global/publications/books/WCMS_732986/lang--en/index.htm

Please register here: https://www.ilo.org/global/research/events-courses/WCMS_842717 to receive the Zoom link.

'Where Was Women’s Work? Gender, Work and Space in Amsterdam, 1650-1790'

• 12 April
• 15.30 hours
• IISH, Max Nettlau Room