Evenementen archief

Studiedag nieuwe perspectieven op slavernijgeschiedenis: lokaal, nationaal en globaal

11 October 2023 10:00 - 11 October 2023 16:00

Meld je aan voor dit bijzondere symposium bij het IISG waarin verschillende perspectieven over het Nederlandse slavernijverleden besproken zullen worden door diverse wetenschappers.

Amsterdam Slavery Monument

Senkata - Memories of a massacre (presentation and documentary)

10 October 2023 16:00 - 10 October 2023 18:00

On 19 November 2019, the military killed ten demonstrators in the Senkata neighbourhood of El Alto, Bolivia. The massacre took place a week after the president, Evo Morales, was ousted amid allegations of fraud in the national elections.

Maritime Solidarity: Past and Present

22 September 2023 09:00 - 23 September 2023 16:30

As part of the conference Maritime Solidarity that brings together scholars, activists and scholar-activists to discuss maritime solidarity in the past and present, we also organise a two-day public roundtable. 

Protest poster action at the harbour of Zarzis, Tunisia, April 2018. English text on poster: Freedom of movement, ferries not frontex, death at sea

The Theoretical Poverty of Western Analysis of Modern Indonesian Politics and History

20 September 2023 15:00 - 20 September 2023 18:00

Even since the 1950s, the study of Indonesian political history and contemporary politics has been devoid of any explicit discussions of theoretical frameworks for understanding history and politics.

Socialist Women and Revolutionary Violence 1918-21: A collective look at the revolution

12 September 2023 15:30 - 12 September 2023 17:00

At the end of the First World War, the demonstrations intensified. Often led by women, processions set off from working-class neighborhoods and marched into the city center to protest food shortages.

Otto and Hermina Huiswoud: Modern Black Diasporic Radicals

8 September 2023 09:30 - 9 September 2023 17:00

In the history of Black internationalism, few trajectories involve as many sites of political organizing as those of Hermina and Otto Huiswoud.

Lecture Andrea Mosterman - Spaces of Enslavement and Resistance in Dutch New York

18 July 2023 15:00 - 18 July 2023 17:00

In this lecture, Andrea Mosterman will explore how Dutch descendants in early New York used their dominance in homes, churches, and public spaces to control the people they enslaved, while enslaved people resisted such control by escaping or modifying these spaces and expanding their mobility and activities within them.

Agrarian Capitalism in the Preindustrial Low Countries

16 June 2023 08:00 - 16 June 2023 18:00

Agrarian Capitalism in the Preindustrial Low Countries
Local, Regional, and Global Dimensions

Call for Papers

June 16th 2023, International Institute for Social History (IISH), Amsterdam

Book presentation: State and Slavery

15 June 2023 16:30 - 15 June 2023 17:30

The Dutch colonial slavery past and its repercussions

  • Koninklijke Schouwburg, Korte Voorhout 3 in The Hague
  • with livestream
Book cover: Staat en Slavernij: het Nederlandse koloniale slavernijverleden en zijn doorwerkingen

Lecture by Joseph John Viscomi

13 June 2023 15:30 - 13 June 2023 18:00

Departures: Rethinking the History of Mediterranean Migrations? 

  • 13 June
  • 15.30 hours
  • IISH, Max Nettlau Room

“Women, Life, Freedom” and the revolutions of the 21st century

9 June 2023 15:00 - 9 June 2023 18:00

This year's Prince Dr Sabbar Farman-Farmaian Annual Lecture will be held by Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology and Global and Transnational Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

25 years of Global Labour History: past achievements and future perspectives

25 May 2023 15:00 - 25 May 2023 17:00

Interview and discussion with Jan Lucassen and Marcel van der Linden

Twenty-five years ago Marcel van der Linden and Jan Lucassen, successive directors of research at IISH, published their Prolegomena for a Global Labour History.