IISH News Service 1 October 2007

New items on the IISH website in Aug and Sep 2007

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/jvv-2007.php[/url]
Just published: 27th Yearbook for Women's History in the Netherlands - (in Dutch).

[url]http://www.chineseposters.net/toomanybooks/[/url]
"To Read Too Many Books is Harmful" (Mao Zedong). Web exhibition about books in Chinese propaganda posters.

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/academylibrary/[/url]
A selection of twelve editions from the Academy Library illustrating the close connections between this collection and other IISH collections.

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/kloosterman.php[/url]
Jaap Kloosterman has decided to step down as director of the IISH.

[url]http://www.persmuseum.nl/[/url]
A conference on digitizing newspapers co-organized by Persmuseum - (in Dutch).

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/rosta.php[/url]
Recently acquired: Russian Rosta posters and a collection on Slovenian and Yugoslav miners in the Netherlands.

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/ith-2008.php[/url]
Call for papers for the ITH conference "1968 - A view of the protest movements 40 years after, from a global perspective".

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/irsh/52-2.php[/url]
Contents and summaries of volume 52 part 2 of the International Review of Social History.____________________________________________________

Upcoming events: [url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/[/url]

Until 7 October 2007
Exhibition: "Oud zeer" - political drawings by Joep Bertrams
In: Persmuseum - (in Dutch)

2 October 2007
Conference: "Digitizing newspapers", co-organized by Persmuseum

5 - 6 October 2007
Conference: "The Past and Present of the International Labour Organization"
Organized by AMSAB and IISG

25 October 2007 - 2 March 2008
Exhibition: "K'ranti! De Surinaamse Pers, 1774-2007"
In: Persmuseum - (in Dutch)

16 November 2007
Workshop: "Over de zin en onzin van kwantitatief verenigingsonderzoek"
[quantitative research on associations (in Dutch)]

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