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The Arab Spring and the subsequent transition process in Yemen provided an opportunity for minorities to fight for more civil rights. Youth and women were at the forefront of the protests, but also racial minorities increased their call for equal citizenship and against discrimination.

The European Social Science History Congress (ESSHC) aims to bring scholars within the field of Social Science History together so they can exchange ideas and build networks. The congress is held every other year, taking place at different cities in Europe each time.

The Humanities Cluster is excited to invite you to the kick-off event of the ERC project “Greenhouses as Vital Landscapes: Sustainability, Relationality, and the Future of Food” (VITALGREENHOUSE). 

While it is long known that the Roman Empire had a profound impact on everyday social dynamics in the Mediterranean and beyond, the lived reality of this impact in urban communities has long been studied through fairly schematic, universalist models that mostly project European (elite) perceptions of the more recent colonial and industrial past backwards on the Roman empire. 

Ben je benieuwd hoe (e)migratie de levensverhalen van families beïnvloed?  Kom dan op 14 april naar de kennissessie Westlanders in Australië, een samenwerking tussen het IISG, het Centrum voor de Geschiedenis van Migranten (CGM) en documentairemaker Heleen van Berkel. 

Franz Junghuhn (1809-1864) was een onwaarschijnlijk veelzijdig geleerde die de natuur in haar totaliteit wilde begrijpen. Hij beschouwde haar als een organisme waarin geen enkel element op zichzelf kan bestaan, ook de mens niet.

In the early 1880s, ships from Australia and Fiji (both parts of the British Empire), and German vessels from Sāmoa, competed in a deadly but lucrative trade kidnapping men, women, and children from the islands off New Guinea to work on sugar, cotton, and copra plantations. 

Healthcare restructuring marked by concentration of services in cities and withdrawal from rural areas has given rise to several drawn-out and spectacular collective actions in contemporary Sweden. 

The impetus to forge international ties has been common to a wide spectrum of political projects. As such, it is crucial to consider ‘internationalism’ in terms of its pluralities – as a phenomenon that operated on different scale and was ideologically variegated.