Labour History News
IISH News Service February, 2008
IISH News Service February 2008
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New items on the IISH website in January 2008:
www.iisg.nl/news/womancounts.php
Economic historians De Moor and Van Zanden present their research into the long term development of education.
www.iisg.nl/collections/secretsocieties/
Documents and illustrations of Freemasons, Jesuits, Illuminati and other putative secret societies and clandestine organizations.
www.iisg.nl/news/aksant-knaw.php
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has moved its publishing activities to Aksant Academic Publishers.
www.tseg.nl/2007-4/
Contents, summaries, and reviews of the fourth issue of the 'Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis' (TSEG). (Text in Dutch, summaries in English)
www.iisg.nl/friends/meeting.php
Meeting of the Friends of the IISH on 24 January 2008, with a lecture by Eef Vermeij on the IISH branching out in South and South East Asia.
www.iisg.nl/collections/ahf/im.php
On 13 January 2008 the former photojournalist Ben van Meerendonk (born 20 July 1913) died in Amsterdam.
(Text in Dutch)
www.iisg.nl/news/charity.php
Dutch funding organization NWO has funded the research project 'Giving in the Golden Age' with 500.000 euro.
www.iisg.nl/publications/978-9971-69-373-2.php
New publication: Ulbe Bosma and Remco Raben, 'Being "Dutch" in the Indies - A History of Creolisation and Empire, 1500-1920'.
www.iisg.nl/publications/1-903987-11-3.php
New publication: Patricia Kennedy Grimsted a.o. (eds), 'Returned from Russia: Nazi Archival Plunder in Western Europe and Recent Restitution Issues'.
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Upcoming events: www.iisg.nl/news/
Until 2 March 2008
Exhibition: 'K'ranti! De Surinaamse Pers [the Surinamese Press], 1774-2007'
In: Persmuseum
5 - 10 February 2008
13th Annual Cultural Studies Workshop organised by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata
In: Pune (India)
19 February 2008
Lecture: 'Vrouwen en werk in de vroegmoderne tijd' [Women and work in early modern history] by Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
27 February - 1 March 2008
"European Social Science History Conference" (ESSHC)
In: Lisbon, Portugal
3 - 21 March 2008
Workshop on Historicizing Migrations
Organised by CODESRIA / SEPHIS
In: Dakar (Senegal)
25 March 2008
Lecture: 'Arbeidsmigratie in het Noordzeegebied 1580-1850' by Jelle van Lottum
In: IISH - A. Adama van Scheltemazaal. 3 p.m.
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