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In the fifth part of the Palestine in Focus series, we explore several organisations, groups and initiatives working on the Palestinian cause. These organisations are placed in a larger context of (Dutch) activism for Palestine. 

Kites are the ultimate symbol of freedom. About 25 years ago artist Rienke Enghardt started to use kites in the global Hope Box (HBX) art campaigns. Their kites have been active all over the world from Gaza City to Havana and from Hanoi to Johannesburg to continue to strengthen and spread the message of freedom. 

“What is beautiful about Gaza is that our voices do not reach it. Nothing distracts it; nothing takes its fist away from the enemy’s face. Not the forms of the Palestinian state we will establish whether on the eastern side of the moon, or the western side of Mars when it is explored.

Iedereen is welkom om langs te komen op onze zomervriendenmiddag, op 6 juni. Deze valt midden in de klimaatweek van het Humanities Cluster, waar ook het IISG onder valt. Het programma staat daarom grotendeels in teken van milieuactivisme. De menselijke destructie van onze leefomgeving en alles wat zich daarin bevindt - inclusief archieven - komt aan bod, evenals hoopvolle initiatieven, waarbij wordt ingezet op een betere wereld.

In her talk, Mariana Candido explores the multifaceted history of dispossession, consumption, and inequality in West Central Africa, from the sixteenth century until the Berlin Conference of 1884-5.

This year, Görkem Akgöz published In the Shadow of War and Empire. Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey in open access. Her book offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialisation through the lens of a mid-century cotton factory in the “Turkish Manchester,” the name chosen by the Ottomans for the industrial complex they built in the 1840s in İstanbul.

“They make death, and I am the labour of life”. These are the words of Palestinian political prisoner Walid Daqqa (1961-2024), written in the voice of his unborn child, Milad, who was conceived of sperm smuggled from Ayalon prison. Daqqa's statement is an insistence on life, and the labour that makes it possible, in the face of the death-making worlds of Israeli settler colonialism. 

In deze lezing vertellen Ivo Zandhuis en Richard Zijdeman over de volgende stappen in het meer toegankelijk en bruikbaar maken van informatie over archieven, boeken, collecties en onderzoeksdata en hoe deze informatie  met elkaar verbonden kan worden.

Het Centrum voor de Geschiedenis van Migranten (CGM) organiseert haar jaarlijkse studiedag in samenwerking met het Centrum voor Migratierecht in Nijmegen en doet een oproep om presentaties hiervoor op te sturen.

In the 1960s and 1970s, amid the optimism of decolonisation, new and 'reinvented' history journals, now largely under African leadership, were at the heart of scholarly and social renewal.

17 March Putin is scheduled to be elected president of the Russian Federation for yet another six years in office, in spite of launching a devastating war against Ukraine and letting oppositional politician Alexei Navalny die in prison.

Unfortunately, due to illness the lecture Human Trafficking and Piracy in Early Modern East Asia: Maritime Challenges to the Ming Dynasty Economy, 1370–1565 is cancelled.