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IISG-KNAW minisymposium Utopie en Geweld
Tijd: 18.00-20.00 uurUtopieën – blauwdrukken voor ideale samenlevingen – kennen veel verschijningsvormen. Van Plato’s Politeia tot en met communistische regimes en de Islamitische Staat. Steeds leidt... [Event]
IISG-KNAW Minisymposium De utopische wortels van de Sharing Economy
De ‘sharing economy’ is booming. Online platformen voor het delen van goederen en diensten schieten als paddenstoelen uit de grond en het lijkt erop dat ‘eigen bezit’ aan status verliest.Al eeuwen... [Event]
Extra Publiekswandeling Utopisch Amsterdam in de Gouden Eeuw
Vanwege de grote belangstelling voor de wandelingen op 4 en 11 oktober, organiseert het IISG op 25 oktober een extra rondwandeling 'Utopisch Amsterdam in de Gouden Eeuw'.Vrijburg, Mokum,‘Dè Plaats'.... [Event]
Utopian Travels
Thomas More’s Utopia was published exactly five hundred years ago, in 1516, in Leuven. More had many epigones throughout Europe, particularly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In this... [Collection highlight]
IISH activities History Month
‘In-between Dream & Deed’ is the theme for the annual Dutch Month of History, October 2015. The Month of History’s website explains the theme further: ‘In-between Dream & Deed is  about... [News]
Back from the Future
William Morris' utopian novel News from Nowhere or An Epoch of Rest starts with six friends at the Socialist League having a 'brisk discussion about what would happen on the day of the Revolution'.... [Item of the Day]
Credo Communiste
The French Utopian thinker Etienne Cabet (1788-1856) wrote his Credo Communiste in 1841. On June 20, 1851, the artist Glatigny dedicated a copy of the Credo, beautifully illuminated and set by hand... [Item of the Day]
Humanist Beheaded
On July 6, 1535 the head of Thomas More fell, who, as the author of Utopia, would acquire eternal praise. More composed Utopia in Latin in 1515, the first edition appeared in Louvain in 1516. No... [Item of the Day]
A Practical Utopian
A letter by the French Utopian thinker Etienne Cabet (1788-1856) of 7 April 1846 reveals that Cabet was a man of action as well as words. He writes to the physician Rostant: "Le porteur de ce billet... [Item of the Day]