IISH News Service, 2 September 2008

New items on the IISH website in August 2008

New items on the IISH website in August 2008:

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Kees Mandemakers, senior researcher at the IISH, has been appointed Professor of Large Historical Databases at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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Call for papers for the workshop "A Social History of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry, 1908-2008".

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The University of Oslo is awarding an honorary doctorate to Professor Marcel van der Linden, director of research at the IISH.

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'Bukharai-ye-sharif' was the first Persian-language newspaper in Central Asia in 1912. An almost complete run is now available at the IISH.

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In the twenties, the Olympic Games got their counterpart within the labour movement. Labour Olympiads took place in Frankfurt, Vienna, and Antwerp.

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

Until 21 September 2008
Exhibition: 'China in Posters: The Dreamt Reality'
Posters belonging to the collections of IISH and of Stefan Landsberger
In: Kunsthal, Rotterdam

9 - 13 September 200839th International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI) congressIn: Johannesburg, South Africa

11 - 14 September 2008International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH): '1968 - A view of the protest movements 40 years after, from a global perspective'In: Linz, Austria

11 September - 9 November 2008Exhibition: 'Censorship through the ages'In: Persmuseum (in Dutch)

20 September - 22 November 2008Exhibition sponsored by IISH: 'Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to the Present'In: Exit Art, New York

30 September 2008Lecture by Stephen Wheatcroft: 'The Great Leap Famines of 1928-33 in the USSR and 1955-60 in China: Towards a Comparative Social and Economic History'

17 October 2008 - 29 March 2009Exhibition: 'PROTESTEER! Actieaffiches vanaf 1965' - posters from IISH collectionsIn: Verzetsmuseum, Amsterdam

20 - 31 October 2008Workshop organized by SEPHIS: 'Alternative Research Methodologies'In: Manila, Philippines

28 October 2008Lecture by Ulbe Bosma: 'Postcolonial Migrant Organisations in the Netherlands (1945-2008)'

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