Evenementen archief

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

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

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

Set your Compass, Doctorate in the Arts Round Table Discussions & Hinterlands Book Launch

What are the artistic research doctoral degree options in Amsterdam, and how are they organised and assessed? For those looking for doctoral degree programmes, ‘Set Your Compass’ is a day to meet the ARIAS partners and explore artistic doctoral degree trajectories in Amsterdam. Short presentations and several roundtable talks answer and ask questions to those ready to embark on any type of doctorate research in the arts. All that join get a taste and a better understanding of the post-Master research possibilities in Amsterdam – now and in the near future. For pre-reading on doctorate in the arts trajectories in Amsterdam click here.

The Commodity Frontiers Initiative hosts a roundtable discussion on the newly research agenda of the Commodity Frontiers Initiative. It just appeared as an article in the Journal of Global History under the title “Commodity Frontiers and the Transformation of the Global Countryside: A Research Agenda” authored by Sven Beckert, Ulbe Bosma, Mindi Schneider, and Eric Vanhaute.