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Traveling to and from IISH

Main venue

International Institute of Social History, Cruquiusweg 31, Amsterdam

The building the IISH nowadays is located in, used to be a former cocoa warehouse. Its collections comprise archival manuscripts (with the original manuscript of Das Kapital by Karl Marx as one of its ‘treasures’), but also large digital files have also been collected or created since then, such as the Historical Sample of the Netherlands. The collected material serves as one of the foundations for the IISH’s research, which has ‘global labour history’ as its theme. This involves the global history of labour and labour relations, centred on the role of working people themselves. More info on the history of the IISH can be found here.

Conference dinner (21 May)

Restaurant Oceaan, R.J.H. Fortuynplein 29, Amsterdam

Because of the group size, the dinner will be a fixed vegetarian dinner; of course it is possible to take dietary needs and preferences into account; you can indicate this when registering.

Please note: in case of doubt, select the option NOT to join the dinner. In this way, you will prevent no-show, unnecessary costs and, most importantly, food spillage. In case you later change your mind and decide to join the dinner, an e-mail with your menu preferences to us (posthumus@uu.nl) will suffice: we will be happy to add a plate for you :).

The current building that is now Restaurant Oceaan was built in 1951 as the Amsterdam office of the Nederlandse Stoomvaart Maatschappij Oceaan [transl.: the Dutch Steamship Company Oceaan], a small shipping company for steamships traveling to and from the former Dutch East Indies. After the shipping company left the building in 1978, it became a base for (among others) Robert-Jasper Grootveld, a famous Dutch hippy personality  in the 1960s and 1970s. Here, Grootveld created his ‘floating gardens’,/ plants and trees planted on rafts of Styrofoam, now still floating in the waters of this part of town.  After the location had been vacant for several years at the beginning of this century, several local people from the neighbourhood started a crowd funding and managed to become the owners of the building, which was then turned into the current Restaurant Oceaan.