Evenementen archief

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.

In her book Coerced Labour, Forced Displacement, and the Soviet Gulag, 1880s-1930s, Zhanna Popova examines the history of convict labor and forced displacement in Russia to shed light on the emergence of the Gulag - one of the central symbols of twentieth-century mass political violence.

In her book Nicaragua Must Survive. Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold War, Eline van Ommen recasts the international story of the Sandinistas and their innovative diplomatic campaign, which captured the imaginations of people around the globe and transformed Nicaraguan history at the end of the Cold War.

In this sixth event of Palestine in Focus, we focus on the workplace. Because although it is hard to realise: our lives and work are hugely entangled with the colonisation of Palestine and the violence against Palestinians. Therefore, this afternoon you will get all the information you need to know about how your pension and laptop contribute to occupation and colonisation, and what you can do about it.

In the fifth part of the Palestine in Focus series, we explore several organisations, groups and initiatives working on the Palestinian cause. These organisations are placed in a larger context of (Dutch) activism for Palestine. 

Kites are the ultimate symbol of freedom. About 25 years ago artist Rienke Enghardt started to use kites in the global Hope Box (HBX) art campaigns. Their kites have been active all over the world from Gaza City to Havana and from Hanoi to Johannesburg to continue to strengthen and spread the message of freedom. 

“What is beautiful about Gaza is that our voices do not reach it. Nothing distracts it; nothing takes its fist away from the enemy’s face. Not the forms of the Palestinian state we will establish whether on the eastern side of the moon, or the western side of Mars when it is explored.

In her talk, Mariana Candido explores the multifaceted history of dispossession, consumption, and inequality in West Central Africa, from the sixteenth century until the Berlin Conference of 1884-5.

This year, Görkem Akgöz published In the Shadow of War and Empire. Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey in open access. Her book offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialisation through the lens of a mid-century cotton factory in the “Turkish Manchester,” the name chosen by the Ottomans for the industrial complex they built in the 1840s in İstanbul.

“They make death, and I am the labour of life”. These are the words of Palestinian political prisoner Walid Daqqa (1961-2024), written in the voice of his unborn child, Milad, who was conceived of sperm smuggled from Ayalon prison. Daqqa's statement is an insistence on life, and the labour that makes it possible, in the face of the death-making worlds of Israeli settler colonialism.