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Festival van de Opstand
Voor een keer opent het IISG op zaterdag haar deuren voor een festival met opstandige verhalen, muziekoptredens, rondleidingen door de schatkamers van het instituut, een filmprogramma en meer! GRATIS... [Event]
Wertheim Centenary
A freelance seminar on Blind Spots and Preoccupation in Dutch and Indonesian Historiography on Decolonization that revives the theme of Ignorance as discussed by Wertheim in his last Master's Course... [Event]
Maoist Insurgencies in Asia and Latin America
Workshop The aim of the workshop is to compare Maoist insurgencies in various Asian and Latin American countries by addressing the following questions: Why does (Maoist) insurgency emerge in certain... [Event]
1968 - A view of the protest movements 40 years after, from a global perspective
International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH) When we look back on the 68er protest movements, we are dealing with a period of two decades, the 1960s and 1970s. For the social and... [Event]
Mutiny and Maritime Radicalism in the Age of Revolution: A Global Survey
The conference explored the transnational dimensions of mutiny and maritime radicalism during the great cycle of war and revolution beginning in the mid-1750s, progressing through the eras of the... [Event]
High-cost Activism and the Worker Household
High-cost Activism and the Worker Household: Revolutionary Activism among Phillippine plantation workers.ContentsIntroductionSocial activism: a household strategy?Social activism in the hacienda... [Publication]
Rebellious Families
The question why people rebel is one of the most important questions historians and social scientists have been grappling with over the years. In most cases the research has focused on what people do... [Publication]