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

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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

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
Local, Regional, and Global Dimensions

Call for Papers

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

The Dutch colonial slavery past and its repercussions

• Koninklijke Schouwburg, Korte Voorhout 3 in The Hague
• with livestream

Departures: Rethinking the History of Mediterranean Migrations? 

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

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.

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.