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IISH is joining a new edition of Open Archive that launches this autumn. Together with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and Het Nieuwe Instituut we will stimulate the creative re-use of digital heritage in 2020/21 by offering creators the opportunity to create new media work using open, digital collections. This autumn three media artists will be selected to participate in the project in which they will conduct research in and reflect upon copyrighted and open collections.

On 10 September Ivo Zandhuis defended his dissertation Motivation for striking at the Central Maintenance Workshop in Haarlem, the Netherlands during the Dutch national railway strikes of 1903, at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

Het IISG is opzoek naar mensen uit de Unox-fabriek. Stond of staat u tussen 1970 en 2020 op de werkvloer in Oss? En heeft u daar materiaal van liggen? Meld u dan bij ons.

We are very happy to announce the publication of new book El Partido Socialista Argentino 1896 - 1912, by researcher Lucas Poy. The book describes the social and political history of the Argentine Socialist Party between its foundation and the law of Sáenz Peña.

On 1 July, the KNAW Humanities Cluster will begin the design and construction of an Open Access journals platform, openjournals.nl. The platform aims to offer a solution for independent Dutch scientific journals. Openjournals.nl offers them a low-threshold route to becoming Open Access. The realization of this platform is possible thanks to a three-year project grant from NWO. The platform is expected to go live at the end of 2020.

The IISH supports the worldwide 'Black Lives Matter' protests against racism and discrimination. The Institute was founded in 1935, at a time of rising fascism, with the aim of saving the archives of social movements and thinkers who stand up for human rights.

Dit jaar viert Nederland 75 jaar bevrijding. Door de geschiedenis heen zijn veel verhalen verteld over het verzet tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Eén belangrijke speler uit de ‘ondergrondse’ is de Communistische Partij van Nederland (CPN). Hun rol in het verzet was onmiskenbaar en zeer intensief, en die betrokkenheid was uiteraard niet zonder risico. Veel verzetsstrijders moesten hun inspanningen met hun leven bekopen.

Het archiefbronnen van de CPN uit de periode 1940-1945, onderdeel van de collectie van het IISG, zijn met financiering van Metamorfoze en binnen een project van Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen gedigitaliseerd en vanaf nu online beschikbaar. Dat geldt eveneens voor de documenten over omgekomen verzetsstrijders, die na de oorlog verzameld zijn om een Gedenkboek samen te stellen.

As of April 1, 2020 Karin Hofmeester is the Director of Research of the International Institute of Social History.

"If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution" Machteld Maris, 1970 - 2020 If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution wrote Emma Goldman, whose archives are kept at the IISH. It's a quote that fits Machteld like no other. For the 'Festival of the Rebellion' that she organized in 2018, she had it printed on T-shirts, and she even had the columns in the canteen of the IISH stick with it as a statement.

Call for articles and book reviews for the first issue of the Revista Latinoamericana de Trabajo y Trabajadores (REVLATT).

Deadline: 31 March 2020.

Update: Unfortunately, due to the current situation around COVID-19, the two-day symposium The Transformation in the World of Work in Germany, the Netherlands and Beyond organized by The Germany Institute, the International Institute of Social History and the N.W. Posthumus Institute, in Amsterdam of 10-11 June 2020 will be rescheduled to June 2021. More information will follow in the course of this year.

We would like to draw your attention to a call for papers for the masterclass The Transformations in the World of Work: Bringing Sociological and Historical Perspectives Together.

Woensdag 4 maart was Leo Lucassen te gast bij Studium Generale | Universiteit Utrecht om te spreken over feiten en meningen in het migratiedebat.