IISH News Service, 1 June 2010

New items on the IISH website in April and May 2010

New items on the IISH website in April - May 2010:

[url]http://www.spui25.nl/spui25/programma.cfm/3074274D-46D6-4F9E-84A07008CA…]
4 June 2010: Lecture by Ervand Abrahamian on the role of crowds in Iranian history.

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/irsh/55-1.php[/url]
Contents, summaries, and bibliography of volume 55 part 1 of the 'International Review of Social History'.

[url]http://www.persmuseum.nl/sigmund/[/url]
The Press Museum exhibits cartoons on Dutch mores and worries, drawn by Peter de Wit. (Dutch text)

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/hope.php[/url]
IISH makes its digital collections available through Europeana in the framework of an ambitious new EU project: HOPE.

[url]http://www.socialhistoryshop.com[/url]
The IISH webshop offers reproductions of 200 beautiful posters from the IISH collections.

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/war-commentary/[/url]
A contribution on the journal 'War Commentary', published by Freedom Press on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2010.

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/collections/war-peace/[/url]
A guide to all IISH archives and collections regarding both World Wars and universal peace initiatives.

[url]http://www.tseg.nl/2010-1/[/url]
Contents, summaries, and reviews of the first issue of the 'Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis' (TSEG) (Text in Dutch, summaries in English).

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/scriptieprijs.php[/url]
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the institute, IISH and 'de Volkskrant' initiated an award for the best Dutch MA thesis on history (Dutch text).

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/2010.php[/url]
The 8th European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), organized by IISH and local partners in Ghent, Belgium, 13 - 16 April 2010.

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4 June 2010
Meeting: "Crowds in the Iranian History"
Lecturers: Prof. Ervand Abrahamian, Prof. Ahmad Ashraf, Prof. dr. Touraj Atabaki
In: Spui 25, Amsterdam

11 June 2010
NEHA-workshop about Dutch Dutch developing aid, with Arend-Jan Boekestijn, Marc Dierikx, Frans Huijzendveld en Thomas Lindblad.

16 June 2010
Meeting: 'Gouden Eeuw dankzij de vrouwen' ('Golden Age thanks to women' with Els Kloek, Marjolein van Dekken and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
In: Historisch café, Amsterdam

24 June 2010
21st Meeting of the Friends of the IISH
Piet Hagen, author of the latest biography of Pieter Jelles Troelstra will meet Hans Daalder and Jelle Gaemers, biographers of Willem Drees.

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