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Following the earlier organized workshops and conferences on the comparative social histories of labour in the oil industry, the International Institute of Social History (IISH) organizes a workshop...
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In 2012, for the Third Sadighi Annual Lecture, Dr Laleh Khalili of the University of London is invited. The title of Dr Khalili’s lecture is: Women In and After the Arab Uprisings.The Sadighi...
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11th Conference on Qajar Studies and Inauguration of the Qajar Documentation Centre at the International Institute of Social HistoryThe first day of the conference will be held at the International...
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A Social History of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry is a research project at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam, headed by Prof. Touraj Atabaki. It aims to study...
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In rethinking the Qajar period (1781-1925), Nasser ed-Din Shah's reign (1848-1896) could be seen as a pivotal point in the study of social history in modern Iran. Furthermore, the turn of the...
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The Triumphs and Travails of Authoritarian Modernisation in Turkey and IranTwentieth-Century History from Below
The practice of authoritarian modernisation in post-First World War Turkey and Iran...
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In the course of its history, Iran has experienced many eventful epochs. The last century was far from exceptional in this respect: the country was ravaged by three major wars (1914-1918, 1941-1945,...
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Abstracts of papers presented during the conference:
1. Memoirs from the Left in IranErvand Abrahamian (City University of New York)Since the l979 revolution reams of political memoirs have emerged...
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The Academy library has several interesting studies about Persia, especially seventeenth and eighteenth-century historiographies and travel and country descriptions. They are about Persia from that...
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Since the late 1960s, the flourishing economy of Iran had been attracting many Afghan labourers. Following the political upheavals in the mid 1970s in Afghanistan, the massive influx of Afghan...
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