Two new publications by Rossana Barragán
Potosí Global (Viajando con sus primeras imágenes, 1550-1650, La Paz: Plural) and Work and Workers in Latin America (Trabajo y Trabajadores en América Latina, Siglos XVI-XXI (CIS, REDLATT, 2019) .
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Social inequality: what's work got to do with it?
- lecture/debate
- 21 November, 20.00 hrs., IISH
- drinks afterwards
Climate change and growing levels of social inequality have given rise to widespread discomfort with capitalism, that – since the ideological shift in China in the late 1970s – is dominating virtually all parts of the world. The question is, whether there is an alternative to capitalism and, if not, how it should be changed?
NWO visitor travel grant for Denis Volkov
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) awarded the Visitor Travel Grant to the project presented by Prof. Touraj Atabaki. The Travel Grant enables Dr Denis Volkov (Russian National Research University Higher School of Economics) to join a new research project at the International Institute of Social History on the Soviet refugees across the southern borders of the Soviet Union during the interwar period (1918-1939).
We vieren de schitterende erfenis van de ANDB
Dit jaar, op 18 november om precies te zijn, is het 125 jaar geleden dat de bond werd opgericht. We vieren het jubileum met een boek, debatten en storytellers. Tussen 29 november en 29 december opent het prachtige voormalige ANDB Vakbondsgebouw van Berlage, De Burcht in Amsterdam, haar deuren om dit jubileum met ons te vieren. Bekijk de speciaal voor dit project ontwikkelde website over de rijke geschiedenis van deze vakbond en die van de ADB.
Chinese ambassador visits IISH
On Monday September 9th, the Chinese Ambassador to the Netherlands, H.E. Mr. XU Hong, and part of his staff, visited our institute.
Potosi and the world: new approaches (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries)
Rossana Barragán (Bolivia) from the International Institute of Social History (the Netherlands) and Paula Zagalsky from CONICET (Argentina) organized this important Conference in the X International Congress of Bolivian Studies held in Sucre (22 to 24 July 2019).
New book by Ulbe Bosma: The Making of a Periphery
In his new book The Making of a Periphery, IISH senior researcher Ulbe Bosma draws on new archival sources from the colonial period to the present to demonstrate how high demographic growth and a long history of bonded labor relegated Southeast Asia to the margins of the global economy.
El País writes about Kati Horna photographs at IISH
Our colleague, Spanish historian Almudena Rubio, located more than 500 negatives of Hungarian born photographer Kati Horna which were unknown so far. The Spanish newspaper El Pais published an interesting article about this extraordinary find.
NWO grant for Leo Lucassen en Manon van der Heijden
Prof. Manon van der Heijden (University of Leiden) & Prof. Leo Lucassen (IISH) learned last week that NWO decided to fund their project Tolerant migrant cities? The case of Holland 1600-1900 in the NWO Open Competition - SGW. Of the 41 grants, a total of 13 projects fall within the Humanities. Three projects went to the KNAW Humanities Cluster.
Dossier Slavernij in de maatschappij
Het policy-journal Beleid in Maatschappij publiceerde een dossier over slavermij en maatschappij. Het nummer werd samengesteld door dr. Karin Lurvink en IISG PhD-onderzoeker Drs. Tamira Combrink. Het dossier bevat ook een bijdrage van IISG-senior onderzoeker Pepijn Brandon.
Hoe belangrijk was de Atlantische slavernij voor de Nederlandse economie in de achttiende eeuw?
Op 26 juni presenteerden IISG, de Vrije Universiteit en de Universiteit Leiden de uitkomsten van een meerjarig wetenschappelijk onderzoek dat deze vraag beantwoordt.
General Labour History of Africa
General Labour History of Africa
Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
Edited by Stefano Bellucci, Andreas Eckert
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and Labour History worldwide.
