Lectures

At every meeting of the Friends of the IISH a guest speaker is invited. Reports on the lectures are published in On the Waterfront, the newsletter of the Friends.

• Joost Jonker, Utrecht University - 'Crisis? What crisis? Financial crises and their explanation'
  Lecture held on 25 June 2009
  See: On the Waterfront issue 19, p. 10-14    (PDF-file, 4.1 Mb.)
• Marcel van der Linden and Ulbe Bosma - 'Research on Global Labour History at the Institute'
  Lecture held on 22 January 2009
  See: On the Waterfront issue 18, p. 12-16    (PDF-file, 2.5 Mb.)
• Jan Lucassen and Jaap Kloosterman - Lecture on the history of censorship
  Lecture held on 3 July 2008
  See: On the Waterfront issue 17, p. 11-15    (PDF-file, 3.3 Mb.)
• Eef Vermeij - 'The IISH Branching Out in South and Southeast Asia : Five Years of Experience'
  Lecture held on 24 January 2008
  See: On the Waterfront issue 16, p. 10-13    (PDF-file, 2 Mb.)
• Presentations about "Local Social Democracy"
  Lectures held on 21 June 2007
  Gilles Borrie - 'A Century of Social-democratic City Politics (1907 - 2007)'
  Ed van Thijn - 'Ups and downs in social-democratic municipal politics'
  See: On the Waterfront issue 15, p. 11-15    (PDF-file, 1.5 Mb.)
• Lectures on Moving Images at the IISH
  Lectures held on 11 January 2007
  Huub Sanders - 'Audiovisual Sources and the IISH Collection'
  Frank de Jong - 'Availability and preservation'
  Titia van der Werf - 'Moving image : Points of Departure for Management'
  See: On the Waterfront issue 14, p. 9-13    (PDF-file, 1.6 Mb.)
• Touraj Atabaki - 'Invoking the Past: the Use of History in Modern Iran'
  Lecture held on 22 June 2006
  See: On the Waterfront issue 13, p. 10-13    (PDF-file, 1575 Kb.)
  Summary   (PDF-file, 11 Kb.)
• Lectures on 'Art at the Institute'
    Huub Sanders - Does the Institute collect art?
    Bart de Cort - Graphic art at the IISH
    Marien van der Heijden - W.A. van de Walle’s stained glass designs
  Lecture held on 26 January 2006
  See: On the Waterfront issue 12, p. 10-14    (PDF-file, 1575 Kb.)
• Lectures on the Library of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  by Jaap Kloosterman, Frans van der Kolff, and Jan Lucassen
  Lecture held on 2 June 2005
  See: On the Waterfront issue 11, p. 9-15    (PDF-file, 1575 Kb.)
• Auke Pieter Jacobs - "Terrorism in the Spanish Speaking World: ETA, FARC and Al Qaeda"
  Lecture held on 16 December 2004
  See: On the Waterfront issue 10, p. 10-12    (PDF-file, 1572 Kb.)
• Prof. dr. Bart Tromp - "World Systems and Karl Marx"
  Lecture held on 17 June 2004
  See: On the Waterfront issue 9, p. 12-14    (PDF-file, 780 Kb.)
• Prof. dr. Martin van Bruinessen - "The Kurdish Movement. Issues, Mobilization, Organization"
  Lecture held on 4 December 2003
  See: On the Waterfront issue 8, p. 10-12    (PDF-file, 739 Kb.)
• Mr. Drs. P.B.Ph.M. Bogaers: "Historiography as the Events Take Place"
  Lecture held on 12 June 2003
  See: On the Waterfront issue 7, p. 12-13    (PDF-file, 743 Kb.)
• Stefan Landsberger - "Lecture held on Chinese Propaganda posters"
  Lecture held on 18 December 2002
  See: On the Waterfront issue 6, p. 10-12    (PDF-file, 844 Kb.)
• Rob Hartmans: "A Radical Tradition! De Groene Amsterdammer Weekly, 1877-2002"
  Lecture held on 20 June 2002
  See: On the Waterfront issue 5, p. 9-10    (PDF-file, 652 Kb.)
• Arthur Langeveld - "Varlam Shalamov (1907-1982)"
  Lecture held on 20 December 2001
  See: On the Waterfront issue 4, p. 12-13    (PDF-file, 656 Kb.)
• Frank Bovenkerk - "Extremist Right-Wing Archives"
  Lecture held on 14 June 2001
  See: On the Waterfront issue 3, p. 12-14    (PDF-file, 766 Kb.)
• Renate Fuks-Mansfeld - "The Yiddish Collections of the IISH"
  Lecture held on 12 December 2000
  See: On the Waterfront issue 1/2, p. 13-14    (PDF-file, 693 Kb.)
• Geert Mak - "Lecture held on His Book De eeuw van mijn vader"
  Lecture held on 16 June 2000
  See: On the Waterfront issue 1/2, p. 7-8    (PDF-file, 693 Kb.)