IISH News Service, 1 April 2009

New items on the IISH website in March 2009

New items on the IISH website in March 2009:

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/seraj-al-akhbar.php[/url]
The modernist newspaper 'Seraj-al-Akhbar', published in Afghanistan (1911-1919) is now available in the IISH collection (also in Persian).

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/einstein/[/url]
A search in various IISH archives yielded dozens of letters and manifests of Albert Einstein.

[url]http://www.persmuseum.nl/pip2008/[/url]
Exhibition in the Press Museum of the best Dutch political cartoons of 2008 (in Dutch).

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/publications/978-90-5260-336-0.php[/url]
IISH research staff member Daan Marks successfully defended his PhD thesis 'Accounting for services. The Economic Development of the Indonesian Service Sector, ca 1900-2000'.

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/publications/978-90-351-3242-9.php[/url]
New publication: Ulbe Bosma, 'Terug uit de koloniën - Zestig jaar postkoloniale migranten en hun organisaties' [migrants from the former Dutch colonies and their organizations].

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/platform/tijssen/[/url]
Photographs made by Elsbeth Tijssen on daily life in Nagorno-Karabakh, an exhibition in the IISH program 'Platform for Photography.

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/iisg/schrevel-welcker.pdf[/url]
Anneke Welcker, former head of the IISH Netherlands department, deceased on 15 March(biographical sketch in Dutch, pdf).

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/wbs2009.pdf[/url]
Symposium re the Dutch social-democrats Marinus van der Goes van Naters, Hilda Verwey-Jonker and Han Lammers (Dutch text)

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/pejic.php[/url]
Exhibition at the IISH: 'Romania around the fall of Ceausescu'. Photos by Maja Pejic (Dutch text).

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

Until 17 April 2009
Exhibition: Romania around the fall of Ceausescu - photos by Maja Pejic

Until 3 May 2009
Exhibition: Politiek in Prent 2008 [Dutch political cartoons]
In: Persmuseum - in Dutch

21 April 2009
Lecture by Kristoffel Lieten on Child Labour

26 May 2009
Lecture by Wiebke Schulz: 'Careers in Context'

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