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Annual Report 1988
The year 1988 was a very busy and productive one for the Institute. It proved possible to realize many of the plans made before and shortly after thereorganization of the Institute. In addition to... [Annual report]
Annual Report 1989
In 1989 the Institute was able to reap many of the results of the harvest sown in the preceding years. For a start, the Institute moved to the rapidly changingEastern Docks redevelopment area of... [Annual report]
Bezoek Sisonke Msimang visit
Zondag 10 februari jl. hield Sisonke Msimang, Zuid-Afrikaans schrijfster en opiniemaker, de Nelson Mandela lezing in een afgeladen grote zaal van de Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam, georganiseerd door... [Blog post]
The records of the ‘People’s Information Centre: April-May 2010 Crackdowns’ (PIC)
PIC was a Thai human rights organisation founded after the repression of the Red Shirt protests around the Rachaprasong intersection in Bangkok in May 2010. In total 91 people were killed during the... [Blog post]
Informal architecture
Everybody who has ever visited Hong Kong and made a Sunday stroll around Central District knows about the weekly phenomena of Filipino domestic workers reclaiming the streets - or pavements and... [Blog post]
Over bewaren én het weggooien van archiefstukken
Foto van Harry Meijer, gepubliceerd in: FNV magazine (2001).Door Loran van DiepenSchone kleren campagneIk werk sinds een tijd als archief-assistent aan het FNV-archiefproject. Ik was nog niet... [Blog post]
Speech at City Hall
There’s a number of speeches from Aung San held at City Hall: Resistance Movement - Address delivered at the meeting of East and West Association held on August 29, 1945, at the City Hall of Rangoon... [Blog post]
The 30th anniversary of 8888 The Uprising - Photographer - Htein Win
A selection of photos from Htein Win's collection of '88 photographs is now on display in Burma for the 30th anniversary of the uprising. See the article in IrrawaddyThe reference to 'an archive in... [Blog post]
Nelson Mandela 100 activiteiten/activities
Eerder deze maand was ik in Londen, o.a. voor de opening van een expositie Mandela and Me in het gebouw van de British Council aldaar. Op 17 juli, de dag voor Mandela's honderste geboortedag, opent... [Blog post]
Patricia Herbert Collection on Burma
Early 2018 IISH received a small collection on Burma from Patricia Herbert (London, 1943). Herbert studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), lived a number of years in Burma in... [Blog post]

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