New items on the IISH website in June – July 2009:
[url]http://www.wehc2009.org/[/url]
XVth World Economic History Congress in Utrecht, The Netherlands, from 3 to 7 August, organized by Utrecht University and IISH.
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/onloan.php[/url]
Exhibitions with IISH materials on loan in New York, Shanghai, Poland, and various Dutch cities .
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/vinkenoog.php[/url]
The Dutch poet and icon of the 1960’s Simon Vinkenoog left many traces in the IISH collections.
[url]http://www.tseg.nl/2009-2/[/url]
Contents, summaries, and reviews of the second issue of the ‘Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis’ (TSEG). (Text in Dutch, summaries in English)
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/publications/9781845119621.php[/url]
New publication: Touraj Atabaki (ed), ‘Iran in the 20th Century – Historiography and Political Culture’.
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/sneevliet/[/url]
An exhibition on the Dutch revolutionary Henk Sneevliet (1883-1942) at the Memorial Hall of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Shanghai.
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/publications/978-90-5260-350-6.php[/url]
New publication: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk a.o.: ‘Serving the Urban Community – The Rise of Public Facilities in the Low Countries’.
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/vanrossum-nl.php[/url]
Matthias van Rossum, PhD student at IISH and Free University of Amsterdam, won a prize for the best MA thesis on maritime history (in Dutch).
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/friends/meeting.php[/url]
Meeting of Friends of the IISH on 25 June 2009, with a lecture ‘Financial crises through the ages’.
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/exlibris/[/url]
A dozen bookplates from the Dutch labour movement, 1905-1940.
[url]http://www.neha.nl/[/url]
NEHA meeting on 19 June on 400 years of Dutch-American relations 1609-2000 (in Dutch).
[url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/mandemakers-oratie-nl.php[/url]
On 11 June, IISH researcher Kees Mandemakers delivered his inaugural lecture at Rotterdam University (in Dutch).
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Upcoming events: [url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/[/url]
Until 30 August 2009
Exhibition: “Baghdad Calling / Why Mister, Why? Iraq 2003-2008”
In: Persmuseum
3 – 7 August 2009
XVth World Economic History Congress – International Economic History Association (IEHA)
In: Utrecht, the Netherlands
10 September – 1 November 2009
Exhibition: Drawings by Kees Willemen
In: Persmuseum (text in Dutch)
16 – 19 September 2009
IALHI Conference
In: Barcelona, Spain
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