Dit is het evenementen archief.
Wees welkom bij onze maandelijkse seminarreeks Micro-Global Histories of Slavery: Sources and Approaches. Dit keer met River Baars (SOAS, University of London) die de lezing met de titel Sodomitical outlaws in the VOC colonial encounter geeft.
Where does our modern democracy come from? In a Europe-wide historical perspective, Democracy’s Double Helix. Participation, Equality and Revolution in Early Modern Europe explores the roots of modern democracy in a new way.
The International Institute of Social History invites you to join the Exploring Slave Trade in Asia (ESTA) Database’s second data launch on Friday, 12 December 2025, 11:00 CET, at our insitute in Amsterdam.
We warmly invite you to join the next instalment of monthly seminar series Micro-Global Histories of Slavery: Sources and Approaches, featuring Miguel Rodrigues (International Institute for Social History) who will give a talk titled Spiritual Salvation, Enslavement, and Creolization: The Formation of Colonial Societies in the West African Archipelagos of Cape Verde and São Tomé (16th–17th Centuries).
Amal Helles and Ahmed Abu Artema are Palestinian journalists from Gaza, who respectively fled Gaza in 2024 and 2025. In this twelfth session of Palestine in Focus, they will speak about their personal and professional experiences during the genocide.
In dit symposium wordt gekeken naar de veranderende betekenis van het begrip inclusiviteit en wat dat betekent voor de historische verhalen over gemarginaliseerde groepen, zowel in onderzoek als in archiefvorming en collectiebeheer. Het symposium wordt georganiseerd door het Nederlandsch Economisch-Historisch Archief, Stichting Bedrijfsgeschiedenis en het IISG.
A coalition of Amsterdam based Archives, Museums and Historical institutes has taken the initiative for fellowships for curators, archivists and historians in the field of slavery history. The third group of fellows of the Global Slavery History Fellowships – Kushanava Choudhury and Tri Ramadhan- will present the results of their research on 20 November at the IISH.
Recent years have seen the proliferation of projects dealing with topics that broadly fit the category of business history of slavery and colonialism. Yet because of the broad demarcations of, and interest in, the topic remains divided along disciplinary and geographical lines. This workshop is for early-career researchers to explore new perspectives on business history in relation to the histories of slavery and colonialism.
This year, 2025, marks fifty years of contemporary Dutch transnational feminist solidarity activism with women’s issues and gender relations in the Global South. The origin of this engagement dates back to 1975, which was proclaimed International Women’s Year thanks to the mobilisation of feminists within and around the UN at the time.
Op woensdag 12 november organiseren het KNAW Humanities Cluster en de Vereniging voor Landbouwgeschiedenis een studiemiddag bij het IISG over de toekomst van HisGIS, de digitale infrastructuur voor onderzoek naar het historische landschap en de gebouwde omgeving.
The concept of ecocide—large scale, systematic destruction of ecosystems—has gained support as a lens for analysing environmental harms that intersect with conflict, oppression, settler-colonialism, ethnic cleansing and genocide.
In this two-day workshop, Marcel van der Linden and Jan Breman, senior fellows at the IISH, will discuss their three recently published essays on labour migration from below.
