IISH News Service May 6, 2008
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New items on the IISH website in April 2008:
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/charlestilly.php[/url]
On 29 April the American sociologist and historian Charles Tilly died. For twenty years he served the IISH as a formal and informal adviser, and made significant contributions to our academic and editorial policies.
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/freiepresse/[/url]
On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day 2008, more on the history of 'Freie Presse', a magazine published by German socialists during their exile in Amsterdam in 1933.
[url]http://www.tseg.nl/2008-1/[/url]
Contents, summaries, and reviews of the special issue of 'TSEG' on gender, migration, and government policy in the Netherlands and Belgium, 1945-2005. '(Text in Dutch, summaries in English)'
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/asia/oral-history-sa.php[/url]
Guide to the South Asian Oral History Collections. These include social movements of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, such as the Naxalite movement, the peasant uprising of Telengana, and the Bangladesh Liberation War.
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/thirsk-feinstein-prize.php[/url]
Danielle van den Heuvel was awarded the Thirsk-Feinstein Dissertation Prize for her dissertation 'Women and entrepreneurship', which she wrote at the IISH.
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/publications/978-90-400-8486-7.php[/url]
'Het Socialistenboek', a photo book about the Dutch socialist movement with more than 300 images, to a large extent belonging to the IISH collections. ('in Dutch')
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/~hsn/news/2008congres.php#intro[/url]
The concluding congress of 'Life Courses in context' took place on Friday 11 April at the IISH. In this program attempts have been made to reconstruct the life courses of about 40,000 Dutchmen born between 1863-1922.
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Upcoming events: [url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/[/url]
8 May 2008200 year Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) - 'text in Dutch'
16 May - 31 August 2008Exhibition: Political drawings by Willem (Bernhard Willem Holtrop) for weekly HP/De Tijd At the Dutch Persmuseum
27 May 2008Lecture: 'Boeren, landarbeiders en hun organisaties op de Zeeuwse eilanden en het Gelderse rivierengebied' by Piet van Cruyningen and Jan Zwemer At the IISH - A. Adama van Scheltemazaal. 3 p.m.
4 June 2008Presentation of the Wertheim Award 2008 to writer Benny Setiono
4 - 7 June 2008Conference "Everyday Life in Qajar Iran"IISH / Leiden University
13 June 2008Introduction to the Database of Postcolonial Migrants
14 June - 7 September 2008Exhibition: 'China from Mao to Beijing'Posters from the collections of IISH and of Stefan Landsberger At the Kunsthal Rotterdam
24 June 2008Lecture: 'Dienstensector in Indonesië 1900-2000' by Daan Marks At the IISH - A. Adama van Scheltemazaal. 15:00 hour
30 June - 2 July 2008Colloquium: "The Abolition of the Slave Trade: Longterm Consequences"
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