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The Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision (S&V), Nieuwe Instituut and the International Institute of Social History (IISH) come together again to form a new edition of Open Archief. This time, we are joined by our new partner Framer Framed, a platform for contemporary art, visual culture, and critical theory & practice in Amsterdam.
After 32 years at the IISG, including 26 years in the Asia Department, Eef Vermeij is retiring. To mark his departure, he highlights his favorite collection.
On Monday, April 14, a knowledge session on the impact of emigration was held at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam, featuring the documentary Westlanders in Australia.
The 15th European Social Science History Conference took place in Leiden from 26 to 29 March! During these four days of the conference, there were more than 1500 visitors and participants in around 400 different panel sessions.
On 7 March, the eve of International Women's Day, Francisca de Haan (prof. emerita of Gender Studies and History ) received a Suffrage Science Award for 2025. The prize is awarded annually to outstanding female scientists.
At the end of last year, under the leadership of Thijs van Leeuwen and Frank de Jong, the IISH began preparations to digitise collections related to Indonesia/the former Dutch East Indies (Indische collections) and make them available to the Programma Indisch Erfgoed Digitaal (PIED).
Are you a scholar in the humanities, social sciences, or economics ready to tackle on a research project regarding the development of Iran between 18th and 20th century? Then why not apply for the Prince Dr Sabbar Farman-Farmaian Fellowships at the IISH?
Wieke Metzlar went home with the Volkskrant-IISG thesis award 2024 for her thesis on patterns and determinants of excess mortality among girls in Maastricht between 1864 and 1930. Her thesis stood out for its originality and clarity.
On Friday 24 January Matthias van Rossum gave his inaugural lecture titled De ‘jongens’ van Bontekoe? Over nut en noodzaak van mondiale geschiedenissen van kolonialisme en arbeid at theRadboud University. Van Rossum was appointed professor of the Special Chair in Global Histories of Labour and Colonialism, which was jointly established by the IISH and the Radboud University, since 1 February 2024.
On 3 December, the King, patron of the KNAW, visited the IISH. After a tour of the archives, which covered the history of the IISH, the King talked to researchers and collection specialists in the reading room about the various projects of the IISH.
