New items on the IISH website in February 2008:
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/zurcher.php[/url]
From 1 April 2008, Erik-Jan Zürcher will be the new director of the IISH. At present, he is professor of Turkish languages and cultures at Leiden University.
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/research/wagescurrency/[/url]
New research by Jan Lucassen shows the connection between coin circulation and payment of wages.
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/megabytes-marx.php[/url]
A new agreement between Reaal Verzekeringen and IISH has opened the door to the digitization of the oldest information sources on Marxism and anarchism.
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/[/url]
The European Social Science History Conference 2008 took place in Lisbon (Portugal), from 26 February until 1 March 2008.
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/publications/978-3-03910-782-7.php[/url]
New publication by Jan Lucassen (ed.), 'Wages and Currency. Global Comparisons from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century'. vol. 10 of 'International and Comparative Social History'.
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/hbm/chinese_spoorzoekers/[/url]
The Historical Image Archive on Migrants shows photos of the history of the Chinese in the Netherlands. (Text in Dutch)
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/chinezen-zeedijk/[/url]
In 1972, Chinatown in Amsterdam was photographed by Ab Koers. Nine photos from this collection and an accompanying text about the Chinese minority in Amsterdam.
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/labouragain/labourargentina.php[/url]
LabourAgain, the research network on Latin America, social mobilisation and the centrality of labour, presents five new online publications on labour conflicts in contemporary Argentina.
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/publications/978-90-5260-291-2.php[/url]
On 1 February 2008, former IISH research staff member Christiaan van Bochove successfully defended his PhD thesis 'The economic consequences of the Dutch. Economic integration around the North Sea, 1500-1800'.
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/acquisitions2007.php[/url]
An overview of recent acquisitions: Ratio Koster, Dutch Participants in the International Brigades, RAF in The Netherlands, Martin Bailey, drawings of Koos Vorrink.
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Upcoming events: [url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/[/url]
Until 2 March 2008
Exhibition: "K'ranti! De Surinaamse Pers, 1774-2007"
In: Persmuseum - 'in Dutch'
Until 28 March 2008Exhibition: "Derek's (on)werkelijkheid"
Photographs by Derek Walsh - 'in Dutch'
3 - 21 March 2008
Extended Workshop on Social History - theme: Historicizing Migrations Organised by CODESRIA / SEPHISIn: Dakar (Senegal)
25 March 2008
Lecture: 'Arbeidsmigratie in het Noordzeegebied 1580-1850' by Jelle van LottumIn: IISH - A. Adama van Scheltemazaal. 3 p.m.
11 April 2008
Life Courses in the 19th and 20th Century Concluding congress of the NW0-Groot program 'Life courses in context'
29 April 2008
Lecture: 'The Turkish Labouring Class in the 20th Century' by Görkem AgközIn: IISH - A. Adama van Scheltemazaal. 3 p.m.
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