Activities
What else do you want to do during the congress week? Meet your colleagues at the Holland History House and enjoy a free drink, the Remains of the Day talk show or live music? Watch an international historical movie? Go to a classical concert? Visit the Rijksmuseum or Dutch Resistance Museum during a special evening opening? Or perhaps take an organized day trip to see the West Frisian Circular Dyke, one of the oldest examples of the Dutch struggle against water?
The Holland History House and the participating organizations have arranged a number of different activities for ICHS 2010 visitors. These are listed below. Please note that for some activities a reservation or purchase of a ticket is required.
Monday 23rd - Tuesday 24th - Wednesday 25th - Thursday 26th - Friday 27th
August 23, 2010
The Holland History House
Monday 23 August: 5 to 8 pm
At 5 pm, the bar in the Amsterdam Historical Museum will open with a free drink for all congress visitors.
The daily talk show, The remains of the day, will then start at 5.45 pm, presented by Hans Goedkoop and hosted by Jouke Turpijn, lecturer at the University of Amsterdam.
The subject of the first session is ‘The end of history’. Twenty years ago, Fukuyama pronounced the death of both ideology and history, yet today both are apparently alive and kicking. How has this happened, and what does it mean for the international community of historians? Former director of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation and chairman of the local ICHS2010 organizing committee Hans Blom swaps views with our hosts.
We will then watch a short film of the first day of the congress, made by history students from the University of Amsterdam who will be reporting on the entire congress week as ‘the Holland History Hunters’.
The talking then continues with Peter Scholliers, lecturer in the History Department at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and vice-chairman of the International Commission for Research into European Food History (ICREFH), Garrelt Verhoeven, chief curator of Special Collections, University of Amsterdam, and culinary journalist Johannes van Dam. We will discuss what our food says about us and about the age in which we live. A finger lickin’ good conversation!
This is followed by a varied jazz programme by the Sue Moreno Trio, featuring pianist Henk Jan Heuvelink and saxophonist Mr Mills, finishing at 8 pm.
Holland History House @ Amsterdam Historical Museum
Kalverstraat 92 / Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 357
+31 (0) 205231822
The Hoerengracht
Monday 23 to Saturday 29 August
This summer, the Amsterdam Historical Museum presents one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary works of art: The Hoerengracht.
This huge installation by Edward Kienholz (1927-1994) and Nancy Reddin Kienholz (b. 1943), which has been exhibited throughout the world, is the central attraction in a show examining the connection between art and Amsterdam's famous red light district. This is the first time The Hoerengracht has been displayed in Amsterdam.
Location: Amsterdam Historical Museum
Admission: museum entrance charge (free for congress visitors)
Also: a guided tour of the Hoerengracht and the museum.
Tuesday 24 August and Thursday 26 August
Time: 5.30 – 7.00 PM
Participants: max. 20
Admission: €12,50 p.p. (excl. museum admission) Admission ICHS: free with congress badge
Reservations required: + 31 (0)6-18257014 or e-mail info@amsterdamcitywalks.com
Starting point: Main cash desk in the Amsterdam Historical Museum, Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 357, Amsterdam.
Amsterdam Historical Museum
Kalverstraat 92 / Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 357
Guided tours of the Allard Pierson Museum
Monday 23 to Friday 27 August: 7 to 7.45 pm
The guided tour of the Allard Pierson Museum on Oude Turfmarkt focuses both on the building’s history and on its current use as the home of the University of Amsterdam’s archaeological collections. If English-speaking visitors attend, the tour will be conducted in English.
Location: starts in the Central Hall of the Special Collections, Oude Turfmarkt 129
Participants: max. of 20 per tour
Admission: free
Guided tours of the Special Collections and the Allard Pierson Museum are free. You can sign up for the tours by sending an e-mail to summerschool-bc@uva.nl. Please mention your name and address, the parts of the programme you are signing up for, and the number of people that will be attending.
Allard Pierson Museum
Oude Turfmarkt 129
The Golden Age - Amsterdam, centre of the world
Monday 23 August and Wednesday 25 August
The 17th century is the most glorious period in Dutch history and the most important era in the history of Amsterdam. In this period the city developed from a regional trading centre into the very heart of European economy. Amsterdam grew at an explosive rate from a population of 50,000 in 1600 to more than 200,000 in 1700 and expanded as never before. With the help of many objects in the Amsterdam Historical Museum and numerous historic buildings we’ll explore the Golden Age from different perspectives.
A guided tour of the museum and a city walk by Amsterdam City Walks through the historical centre of Amsterdam.
Time: 5.30 – 7.00 PM
Participants: max. 20
Admission: €12,50 p.p. (excl. museum admission) Admission ICHS: free with congress badge
Reservations required: + 31 (0)6-18257014 or e-mail info@amsterdamcitywalks.com
Starting point: Main cash desk in the Amsterdam Historical Museum,
Amsterdam Historical Museum
Kalverstraat 92 / Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 357
+ 31 (0)6-18257014
Guided tours of the Special Collections
Monday 23 to Friday 27 August: 7 to 7.45 pm
The guided tour of the building that houses the Special Collections on Oude Turfmarkt focuses both on the history of the complex of buildings and on its current use as a library. If English-speaking visitors attend, the guided tour will be conducted in English.
Location: starts in the Central Hall of the Special Collections, Oude Turfmarkt 129
Participants: max. of 20 per guided tour
Guided tours of the Special Collections and the Allard Pierson Museum are free. You can sign up for the tours by sending an e-mail to summerschool-bc@uva.nl. Please mention your name and address, the parts of the programme you are signing up for, and the number of people that will be attending.
Bijzondere Collecties UvA (Special Collections)
Oude Turfmarkt 129
Dutch Resistance Museum: exclusive opening – free entrance with your ICHS-badge!
Monday 23 August: 7.30 –to 9.30 pm
Free English-speaking guided tour (1 hour) or multimedia tour: auf Deutsch, en Français, in English.
The permanent exhibition focuses on the consequences of the occupation for all the Dutch. How did Dutch people respond to the increasing oppression of the occupying power? Who took up resistance? Why, and in what ways? The museum décor evokes the atmosphere of the war years with authentic objects, photos and documents, film and sound clips.
A separate section tells the story of the former colony, the Dutch East Indies, where the population experienced great suffering during the Japanese reign of terror.
Plantage Kerklaan 61
(+) 31 (0)20 620 25 35
Special Collections presentation: Maps and atlases
Monday 23 August: 8 to 9 pm (Dutch) & 9 to 10 pm (English)
Curator Jan Werner presents highlights from the collection of maps and atlases.
Location: Map Room of the Special Collections, Oude Turfmarkt 129
Participants: max. 20
Admission: €5
You can sign up for collection presentations by sending an e-mail to summerschool-bc@uva.nl. Please mention your name and address, the parts of the programme you are signing up for, and the number of people that will be attending.
Bijzondere Collecties UvA (Special Collections)
Oude Turfmarkt 129
Special Collections: Guided tours of the Irma Boom exhibition
Monday 23 to Friday 27 August: 8 to 9 pm
This guided tour is a chance to view Irma Boom: Biography in Books, which will be on display in the Special Collections exhibition rooms until 3 October.
Irma Boom (1960) is a graphic designer who focuses primarily on book design. Her remarkable work has won many prizes and her magnum opus from 1996, SHV, is now recognized as an icon of Dutch design. Works by Irma Boom have been included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Irma Boom: Biography in Books is the first retrospective exhibition of the work of this innovative designer.
Location: Exhibition Rooms, Special Collections, Oude Turfmarkt 129
Participants: max. of 20 per guided tour
Admission: €6 (free for holders of the one-year museum pass and for purchasers of the exhibition catalogue)
Bijzondere Collecties UvA (Special Collections)
Oude Turfmarkt 129
Special Collections presentation: The Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana
Monday 23 August: 8 to 9 pm (English) & 9 to 10 pm (Dutch)
Curator Emile Schrijver presents some highlights from the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana.
Location: Reading Room of the Special Collections
Participants: max. 30
Admission: €5
You can sign up for collection presentations by sending an e-mail to summerschool-bc@uva.nl. Please mention your name and address, the parts of the programme you are signing up for, and the number of people that will be attending.
Bijzondere Collecties UvA (Special Collections)
Oude Turfmarkt 129
Historical Film Week
Monday 23 to Friday 27 August
During the ICHS conference, the European Union of National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) is organizing a Historical Film Week together with the Dutch Association for History, Image & Sound (GBG).
Ten countries will show their best, most interesting, most underrated or most prestigious historical movie. From Monday 23 to Friday 27 August, two movies will be shown every evening at the Doelenzaal (University Library entrance). Each movie will be introduced by an expert on the historical theme in question.
Admission: tickets are free, but you need to reserve by sending an e-mail to hollandhistoryhouse@innl.nl
Monday 23
7 pm: Der Hauptmann von Köpenick, director Helmut Käutner (Germany 1956)
9 pm: Karakter, director Mike van Diem (The Netherlands 1997)
Tuesday 24
7 pm: Les roseaux sauvages, director André Téchiné (France 1994)
9 pm: Katyn, director Andrzej Wajda (Poland 2009)
Wednesday 25
7 pm: Turn left at the end of the world, director Avi Nesher (Israel 2003)
9 pm: Merry-go-round, director Zoltán Fábri (Hungary 1956)
Thursday 26
7 pm: An unforgettable summer, director Lucian Pimtilie (Romania 1994)
9 pm: Juana la Loca (Joanna the Mad), director Vicente Aranda (Spain 2001)
Friday 27
7 pm: Ucho (The ear), director Karel Kachyna (Czechoslovakia 1970)
9 pm: Hasenjagd (The quality of mercy), director Andreas Gruber (Austria 1994)
Doelenzaal
Singel 425
+31 (0) 20-5257300
For more information, please contact:
Csilla Tordai 0621274542
David Barnouw 0654276135
August 24, 2010
The Holland History House continues
Tuesday 24 August: 5 to 8 pm
The evening is kicked off at 5.45 pm by the legendary French historian Rogier Chartier, who joins us to talk about the history of reading and literature. We explore the boundaries of historical writing by also inviting along an historical novelist Machiel Bosman, to join Hans Goedkoop and Jouke Turpijn. Roger Chartier is the director of L’Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and a specialist in the history of the book, while Machiel Bosman is author of the book Elisabeth de Flines. Can the historical novel serve as an accessible version of the historical discipline? We again round off the first session with a short film by the Holland History Hunters.
We then turn our attention to the special city that is hosting us this week. In ‘Amsterdam Eterna’ we discuss what is so unique about this little global city with various urban historians. Or are the Amsterdammers simply arrogant and is the claim of uniqueness self-serving? Peter-Paul de Baar, historian and chief editor of the magazine Ons Amsterdam, Guy Geltner, professor of Medieval History at Amsterdam University and specialist in urban culture and Paul Spies, director of the Amsterdam Historical Museum discuss.
After that, it’s time to relax. From 6.30 to 8 pm, West Hell 5 set the joint jumping with what they describe as Crime&Mod Jazz: blistering sax, haunting theremin, red-hot organ, razor-sharp percussion, throbbing bass and cool guitar-work.
Holland History House @ Amsterdam Historical Museum
Kalverstraat 92 / Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 357
+31 (0) 205231822
Boat trip: ‘On Workers’ Palaces and Sea Castles’
Tuesday 24 August: 1 to 4 pm
A trip on the characteristic barge De tijd zal het leren (Time will tell) is the perfect way to discover the former docklands that made Amsterdam Harbour great. It was here that the ‘sea castles’ (as the Dutch sometimes call particularly impressive ships) used to drop anchor on the quays of Java Island and KNSM Island. There are also residential areas with an interesting social history and noteworthy architecture. The great harbour and railroad strike of 1903 started here. It remains the single largest strike in Dutch history, and laid the foundations of the nation’s labour movement.
The trip takes in old wharfs, renovated warehouses and silos and the Houthaven (‘Timber Docks’), and ends up at the Spaarndammerbuurt district, hidden between the harbour and the railway. Finally, there is a guided tour of the 'Workers’ palaces' on Spaarndammerplantsoen near the Het Schip Museum.
Boat trip from the Amsterdam Historical Museum: 1 to 2.30 pm
Tour at Het Schip Museum: 2.30 to 4 pm
Price: €10 including museum entry
For reservations send an email to: info@museumhetschip.nl
Museum Het Schip
Spaarndammerplantsoen 140
+31 (0)20 418 2885
Museum Our Lord in the Attic – Open! Restoration
Tuesday 24 August: 5 to 7 pm.
On 24 August, Amsterdam’s second oldest museum is open for the participants of Holland History House from 5 to 7 pm. Discover the seventeenth-century town house with a hidden Catholic church in the attic.
In 1661 Jan Hartman, a young merchant from Germany, bought three adjacent houses. In the top storey’s of his home he built a church that served the parish until the late nineteenth century, at a time when Catholic worship was officially prohibited. The church became a museum in 1888 and was preserved for future generations to visit. At the moment the museum is restoring the seventeenth-century church. Visitors are welcome to take a look and follow this delicate process in the exhibition OPEN! Restoration.
Museum Our Lord in the Attic
Oudezijds Voorburgwal 40
+31 (0)20 624 66 04
Special Collections: Guided tours of the Artis Library
Tuesday 24 August: 5 to 6.30 pm (Dutch) & 8 to 9.30 pm (English)
The Artis Library is a museological reference library for research into the history of the natural sciences. It was founded at the same time as the Royal Zoological Society’s zoo, Natura Artis Magistra, in 1838. Since April 2010, the library has been restored to the state it would have been in not long after it was built – the current furnishings date from 1868. The collection includes beautifully illustrated works dating from 1485 to the present, and features Linnaeus, Darwin, geographical descriptions and travel accounts and modern nature studies. The library’s collection of animal prints, which includes around 90,000 items, is the largest in the world.
Guide: Piet Verkruijsse
Location: Artis Library, Plantage Middenlaan 45
Participants: max. of 20 per guided tour
Admission: €10
Artis Library
Plantage Middenlaan 45
A special evening visit to the Geelvinck Museum
Tuesday 24 August: 5 to 7.30 pm
A peep behind the curtains into an historic Amsterdam canal house during an evening visit.
The interiors of the Geelvinck Museum are examples of rococo and neoclassicism. Twenty years ago, the Buisman family reconstructed the period rooms on the ground floor of this historic canal mansion. The current exhibition, Splash!, takes a look at contemporary and historic fountains in and around Amsterdam. Jurn Buisman, chairman of the foundation, and Dunya Verwey, curator, will welcome you personally and explain the background of this private museum.
Time: 5 to 7.30 pm
Admission: free for congress visitors
Geelvinck Museum
Keizersgracht 633
A special evening visit to the Willet-Holthuysen Museum
Tuesday 24 August: 5 to 7.30 pm
A peep behind the curtains into an historic Amsterdam canal house during an evening visit.
In the elegant Willet-Holthuysen Museum, the magnificent ballroom and dining room give you an idea of what life was like for the Willet-Holthuysens, a wealthy 19th-century couple, in their Amsterdam canal house.
Bert Vreeken, the curator of the Willet-Holthuysen Museum, will welcome you and can answer all your questions.
Time: 5 to 7.30 pm
Admission: free for congress visitors
Willet-Holthuysen Museum
Herengracht 605
Special Collections presentation: Collections and archives of the book trade
Tuesday 24 August: 8 to 9 pm (Dutch) & 9 to 10 pm (English)
Curator Menno Polak and former curator Nico Kool give an impression of the diversity and sheer vastness of the collections and archives relating to the book trade.
Location: Nina van Leer Room, Oude Turfmarkt 129
Participants: max. 40
Admission: €5
You can sign up for collection presentations by sending an e-mail to summerschool-bc@uva.nl. Please mention your name and address, the parts of the programme you are signing up for, and the number of people that will be attending.
Bijzondere Collecties UvA (Special Collections)
Oude Turfmarkt 129
Special Collections presentation: Medieval manuscripts and early printed books
Tuesday 24 August: 8 to 9 pm (English) & 9 to 10 pm (Dutch)
Curator Jos Biemans focuses on the transition from manuscripts to printed books: was it a revolution or a gradual development?
Location: Reading Room of the Special Collections, Oude Turfmarkt 129
Participants: max. 30
Admission: €5
You can sign up for collection presentations by sending an e-mail to summerschool-bc@uva.nl. Please mention your name and address, the parts of the programme you are signing up for, and the number of people that will be attending.
Bijzondere Collecties UvA (Special Collections)
Oude Turfmarkt 129
Enjoy a wonderful organ concert in Amsterdam’s oldest church, the Oude Kerk
Tuesday 24 August: 8.30 pm
Alessandro Sbrizzi (an Italian musician specializing in the interpretation of Renaissance and Baroque music) will play the Goldberg Variations, one of Bach’s best-loved works. Although written for the harpsichord, the music can be played on the organ very successfully.
The organ of the Oude Kerk was built in Bach’s time, and is arguably the most authentic large organ of that period in the Netherlands.
Prior to the concert there will be a short introductory talk and you can enjoy a glass of prosecco.
Doors open at 8.30 pm. The concert starts at 9.00 pm.
Tickets €17, including free drink.
Ticket reservations: info@oudekerk.nl
Tickets can be purchased by transferring €17 (plus transfer costs) to account 46.50.46.886 (Stichting de Oude Kerk, Amsterdam), or can be purchased at the entrance. Reservations must be made before 19 August.
Oude Kerk
Oudekerksplein 1
August 25, 2010
The Holland History House
Wednesday 25 August: 5 to 8 pm
In The Remains of the Day, Hans Goedkoop and Jouke Turpijn today talk to Jürgen Kocka and Valentijn Byvanck. Kocka is president of the Social Science Research Centre in Berlin and a specialist in modern German and European history. Byvanck is former director of the Zeeuws Museum and currently director of the Museum of National History. Taking ‘National histories, national museums?’ as our subject, we consider whether national history still has a place in today’s world. If so, is a national museum is a suitable place to present it...and how do you do so, anyway?
We then talk about ‘The relevance of being Dutch’. The discussion will range over a number of historical examples of the (ir)relevance of the Dutch in world history. From 6.10 to 6.30 pm, guests Henk te Velde and Pieter Lagrou consider the mighty and minor achievements of a small country. Henk te Velde is professor of Dutch History at the University of Leiden, while Pieter Lagrou is professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the author of The Legacy of Nazi Occupation: Patriotic Memory and National Recovery in Western Europe, 1945-1965.
The evening is rounded off in festive mood by Pacifix: four Dutchmen who have caught the latest musical bug from across the Atlantic. Surf and soul influences combine, and the organist swings his way through the music to complete the soul trash company.
Holland History House @ Amsterdam Historical Museum
Kalverstraat 92 / Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 357
+31 (0) 205231822
Bus tour of the Golden Age country retreats
Wednesday 25 August: 1 to 5 pm
In the 17th century, the wealthy merchants of Amsterdam did not just invest in international trade: many put their money to work by building estates in the surrounding region. Some of these estates were created for profit, being used for farming or as hubs for land reclamation projects. But many also developed estates for leisure purposes, establishing country retreats to escape the noise and stench of the city.
On this bus tour, we escape the city ourselves and visit some of the finer examples of these magnificent Golden Age country retreats in the region surrounding Amsterdam.
Price: €57.50 (including entrance charges to all the properties & coffee)
Reservation is required by sending an e-mail to:
info@stadsverkenningen.nl
Tour starts and finishes at the Amsterdam Historical Museum
Belien & Van Tol stadsverkenningen
+31 (0) 20 5285851
Picture: Goudenstein, Maarssen
Special Collections presentation: Dutch comic books
Wednesday 25 August: 8 to 9 pm (English) & 9 to 10 pm (Dutch)
Curator Jos van Waterschoot presents highlights from the collections of Dutch comic books, which include the Alfred Mazure collection.
Location: Reading Room of the Special Collections, Oude Turfmarkt 129
Participants: max. 30
Admission: €5
You can sign up for collection presentations by sending an e-mail to summerschool-bc@uva.nl. Please mention your name and address, the parts of the programme you are signing up for, and the number of people that will be attending.
Bijzondere Collecties UvA (Special Collections)
Oude Turfmarkt 129
Special Collections presentation: The collection of the Nederlandsch Schoolmuseum
Wednesday 25 August: 8 to 9 pm (Dutch) & 9 to 10 pm (English)
Curator Roelof Jansma focuses on educational innovations in the nineteenth century in a presentation illustrated by specimens from the collection of the Nederlandsch Schoolmuseum.
Location: Nina van Leer Room, Oude Turfmarkt 129
Participants: max. 40
Admission: €5
You can sign up for collection presentations by sending an e-mail to summerschool-bc@uva.nl. Please mention your name and address, the parts of the programme you are signing up for, and the number of people that will be attending.
Bijzondere Collecties UvA (Special Collections)
Oude Turfmarkt 129
A storytelling evening in the Rijksmuseum
Wednesday 25 August: 6.30 to 9 pm
The Rijksmuseum will be holding a storytelling evening in its exhibition halls on the evening of Wednesday 25 August. The curators from the History Department will tell the story of the Rijksmuseum’s collection, set against the background of Dutch history.
Each story will be told three or four times, taking about 10 minutes each time.
The subjects will be as follows:
1. Gijs van der Ham – Amsterdam’s canal belt: Hall 13
2. Jan de Hond – Great Javan court officials: Acquireshall
3. Harm Stevens– The William Rex and Chatham/the Royal Charles: the Anglo-Dutch Wars:
Hall 1
4. Martine Gosselink– The Dutch in India: view of the Dutch trading post in Houghly, India, 1665: Hall 2
5. Eveline Sint Nicolaas – The painting ‘The Night Watch’ and the weapons: Hall 12
6. Daniel Horst – The Dutch Revolt: Hall 2
7. Tristan Mostert – Amsterdam elite in the 17th century: the portraits of father and son Bicker, Hall 8.
During this storytelling evening you can buy a drink in the garden of the Rijksmuseum.
Admission: free for congress visitors
Rijksmuseum
Jan Luijkenstraat 1
Dutch Resistance Museum: exclusive opening – free entrance with your ICHS-badge!
Wednesday 25/8, 19.30-21.30
Free English-speaking guided tour (1 hour) or Multimedia tours: auf Deutsch, en Français, in English.
The permanent exhibition focuses on the consequences of the occupation for all the Dutch: How did Dutch people respond to the increasing oppression of the occupying power? Who took up resistance? Why, and in what ways? The museum décor evokes the atmosphere of the war years with authentic objects, photos and documents, film and sound fragments.
A separate section tells the story of the former colony the Dutch East Indies, where the population suffered badly under the Japanese regime of terror.
Plantage Kerklaan 61
(+) 31 (0)20 620 25 35
Amsterdam reception at De Bazel
Wednesday 25 August: 8 p.m.
Drinks reception for all conference delegates at De Bazel, an impressive art-deco building with a rich and royal history that dates back to the beginning of the twentieth century.
This reception is hosted by the City of Amsterdam.
N.B. Registration in advance at the Amsterdam desk in the Atrium (near the conference desk)
De Bazel (Amsterdam City Archive)
Vijzelstraat 32
August 26, 2010
The Holland History House
Thursday 26 August: 5 to 8 p.m.
Today’s first session of the talkshow The Remains of the Day is about ‘Telling stories’. If historiography is a form of storytelling, can you call it an academic discipline? If it is not a form of storytelling, who is it intended for? Hayden White, professor emeritus at the University of California, historical theorist and one of the foremost post-war historical philosophers, joins Chris Lorenz, historical theorist and professor at the History Department of the Free University in Amsterdam.
After a short break, the importance of religion in the study of history is discussed by James Kennedy, professor of Dutch history at the University of Amsterdam, and Hugh McLeod, professor of church history at the University of Birmingham and president of CIHEC, the international organization of historians of Christianity (2005 to 2010). In ‘Religion matters’, we discuss how and why religion has made a comeback as a subject of study all over the world.
From 6.30 to 8 p.m., West Hell 5 will again entertain the guests with their Crime&Mod Jazz: blistering sax, haunting theremin, red-hot organ, razor-sharp percussion, throbbing bass and cool guitar-work.
Holland History House @ Amsterdam Historical Museum
Kalverstraat 92 / Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 357
+31 (0) 205231822
Observe the history and beauty of Amsterdam from the water
Thursday 26 August: midday to 2 p.m.
Boat tour with lunch
This boat trip is a tour through the history of Amsterdam, starting with the city’s origins in 1275, and exploring its historical development and expansion. You will learn about the foundation(s) of the city, the medieval fortifications, the construction of the canals and the rise and fall of Amsterdam’s harbour. The newly developed districts on the islands of Amsterdam will also be featured.
Price: €45, including lunch and drinks
Reservation required. Please send an e-mail to: info@stadsverkenningen.nl
Tour starts and finishes at the Amsterdam Historical Museum
Belien & Van Tol stadsverkenningen
+31 (0) 20 5285851
Special Collections presentation: Cookery books from the Low Countries
Thursday 26 August: 8 to 9 p.m. (English) & 9 to 10 p.m. (Dutch)
Curator Joke Mammen illustrates the history of cooking and cookery books in the Netherlands by showing some rare specimens from the gastronomy collection.
Location: Reading Room of the Special Collections, Oude Turfmarkt 129
Participants: maximum of 30 people
Admission: €5
You can sign up for collection presentations by sending an e-mail to summerschool-bc@uva.nl. Please state your name and address, the parts of the programme for which you wish to enlist, and the number of people wishing to attend.
Bijzondere Collecties UvA (Special Collections)
Oude Turfmarkt 129
Come visit the Rijksmuseum in the evening
Thursday 26 August: 6.30 to 7.30 p.m.
The museum will be open to conference participants on the evening of Thursday 26 August.
Admission: free for congress visitors
Rijksmuseum
Jan Luijkenstraat 1
Esnoga summer concert: duo Kalinowsky
Thursday 26 August: 7 p.m.
In conjunction with the International Federation for Research in Women’s History, the Portuguese Synagogue offers a unique opportunity to visit this complex by presenting a concert on Thursday 26 August. In these majestic 17th-century surroundings, Duo Kalinowsky (piano and violin) will present a surprising classical music programme entitled ‘Miriam’s Song’, featuring works by famous Jewish female composers. Take advantage of this chance to enrich your stay in Amsterdam!
Doors open: 7 p.m.
Concert begins: 7.30 p.m.
Concert ends: 8.30 p.m.
Price: €8.50
Further information and ticket reservations: info@portugesesynagoge.nl
Please quote ‘IFRWH’ when booking tickets.
Portuguese Synagogue - opposite the Jewish Historical Museum
J.D. Meijerplein 7 (temporary entrance during renovation)
Special Collections presentation: Modern literary collections
Thursday 26 August: 8 to 9 p.m. (Dutch) & 9 to 10 p.m. (English)
Curator Klaas van der Hoek presents manuscripts and letters by Potgieter, Multatuli, Frederik van Eeden, Albert Verwey, Menno ter Braak, Carry van Bruggen, Jean-Paul Franssens, Arie Visser, Boudewijn Büch and other writers.
Location: Map Room of the Special Collections, Oude Turfmarkt 129
Participants: maximum of 20
Admission: €5
You can sign up for collection presentations by sending an e-mail to summerschool-bc@uva.nl. Please state your name and address, the parts of the programme for which you wish to enlist, and the number of people wishing to attend.
Bijzondere Collecties UvA (Special Collections)
Oude Turfmarkt 129
August 27, 2010
The Holland History House
Friday 27 August: 5 to 8 p.m.
What do you do when writing history puts your life in danger? Antoon de Baets (University of Groningen) has long been an international authority on the subject of exiled historians. In The Remains of the Day at 5.45 p.m. he joins Colombian refugee and historian Diana Gomez to discuss the use and abuse of history. The discussion is once again followed by a short film made by the Holland History Hunters on the final day of the congress.
At 6.10 p.m., we’ll be ‘talkin’ about my generation’. Now that the congress is nearly over, it’s time to look at the future. Who are tomorrow’s historians? How are they being educated? What does it mean to belong to a younger or older generation of historians? Is it necessary to break free from your own generation – and is it possible, anyway? Peter van Dam, a (young) history lecturer at the University of Amsterdam talks with Luigi Cajani, professor of modern history at the Università La Sapienza, Rome and editor of the book History Teaching, Identities and Citizenship.
From 6.30 to 9 p.m., the twenty-something’s of pop-group De Biet play numbers that were hip back in the sixties – long before they were born. As the final strains of De Biet die away, it’s over to DJ George Oostdijk with his swinging disco and soul to get everyone onto the dance floor to swing the night away.
Holland History House @ Amsterdam Historical Museum
Kalverstraat 92 / Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 357
+31 (0) 205231822
A romantic evening in Haarlem
Friday 27 August: 7.30 to 10 p.m.
This is a unique opportunity to visit Haarlem, 15 minutes by train from Amsterdam. Haarlem has retained its authentic 17th-century centre, as depicted in so many well-known pictures. The evening starts with a reception in the medieval town hall, where all the counts of Holland, including Charles V and Philip II, were once welcomed. One of the more intriguing objects is a whalebone from the Arctic, which has hung from the ceiling since 1594.
After a walk around the soaring Bavo cathedral it is time to move into the 18th century with a visit to the world’s only authentic museum of the Enlightenment, the Teyler’s Museum. The original building was opened in 1784 as an institution to encourage contemporary art and scientific research, and gradually turned into the museum we see today, with its collections of paintings and drawings, fossils and minerals, scientific instruments, numismatic objects and a large library.
During this visit you will have access to areas which are normally off-limits to the general public, and you can savour the spirit of inquisitiveness which is still in the air.
The reception at the Town Hall starts at 7.30 p.m.; Teyler’s Museum is open from 8.30 to 10 p.m.
Admission and drinks: free
You can sign up by sending an e-mail to reserveringen@teylersmuseum.nl
Teyler's Museum
Spaarne 16
2011 CH Haarlem
Special Collections presentation: Bibles and heretics
Friday 27 August: 8 to 9 p.m. (Dutch) & 9 to 10 p.m. (English)
Curator Adriaan Plak presents a selection from the Church History Collections. These include the largest collection of old printed Bibles in the Netherlands as well as a large number of books by and on dissident religious groups in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Location: Reading Room of the Special Collections, Oude Turfmarkt 129
Participants: maximum of 30
Admission: €5
You can sign up for collection presentations by sending an e-mail to summerschool-bc@uva.nl. Please state your name and address, the parts of the programme for which you wish to enlist, and the number of people wishing to attend.
Bijzondere Collecties UvA (Special Collections)
Oude Turfmarkt 129
Special Collections demonstration: The printing press of the Dutch Golden Age
Friday 27 August: 8 to 9 p.m. (English) & 9 to 10 p.m. (Dutch)
Frans A. Janssen and/or Paul Dijstelberge will demonstrate the book-printing process, using a replica seventeenth-century printing press.
Location: Printing Press Room of the Book Studies Department, Oude Turfmarkt 131
Participants: max. 20
Admission: €5
You can sign up for collection presentations by sending an e-mail to summerschool-bc@uva.nl. Please state your name and address, the parts of the programme for which you wish to enlist, and the number of people wishing to attend.
Bijzondere Collecties UvA (Special Collections)
Oude Turfmarkt 131
August 28, 2010
Closing session of the International Congress of Historical Sciences
Saturday 28 August: 10 to 12 am
Besides the official business of the closing session – the election of the new board of the International Committee of Historical Sciences responsible for organizing the international congress – famous Dutch writer Nelleke Noordervliet will deliver a lecture entitled In Defence of Clio’s Honour. Finally, the short silent movie Regen (Rain), created in 1929 by avant-garde director Joris Ivens and now featuring live new music composed by Huub de Vriend, will be screened for a second time. The world première was at the opening session of the congress.
The closing session of the ICHS is sponsored by the Dutch daily newspaper De Volkskrant.
Participants: maximum of 500. Seats for non-participants at the congress are limited. They will be distributed on a first-come-first-served basis.
Non-participants at the congress must apply for tickets by sending an email to Karen Tessel (k.tessel@niod.knaw.nl).
Admission: free.
Auditorium of the University of Amsterdam
Singel 411
October 16, 2010
Start Week van de Geschiedenis
De Week van de Geschiedenis is het grootste historische evenement van Nederland. Ieder najaar organiseren honderden musea, archieven en andere culturele instellingen speciale tentoonstellingen en activiteiten rond een wisselend thema. In 2010 is dat Land en Water. De zevende editie Week van de Geschiedenis vindt plaats van 16 tot en met 24 oktober en wordt georganiseerd door het Nationaal Historisch Museum. De Landelijke Archievendag is op 16 oktober en de Nacht van de Geschiedenis op 23 oktober.
Tijdens de Week van de Geschiedenis kun je op toegankelijke en aansprekende manier kennis maken met een stuk van de Nederlandse geschiedenis. Omdat het evenement door verschillende organisaties en in heel Nederland wordt georganiseerd, zijn de activiteiten heel divers en geschikt voor jong en oud.
Het thema Land en Water biedt veel aanknopingspunten. Het gemaakte Nederlandse landschap, de Deltawerken en de Afsluitdijk. Klimaatverandering en waterschappen, maar ook de polder als inspiratiebron voor de Hollandse politieke cultuur. Het landschap als schildergenre en de indamming van water als metafoor voor de beteugeling van overdaad en driften. Water als bondgenoot en bedreiging. Het land(schap) als zinnebeeld van Hollandse opgeruimdheid en schoonheid. En natuurlijk land en water als vermaak: pootjebaden en spelevaren, zeilen en schaatsen, wandelen en kamperen. De Nederlandse geschiedenis van Land en Water is een onuitputtelijke bron.
October 23, 2010
Nacht van de Geschiedenis
In debat gaan met je favoriete historicus? Dansen op nostalgische nummers? Je laten meeslepen door nooit vertoonde filmfragmenten? Of aanwezig zijn bij de uitreiking van de Libris Geschiedenisprijs? Tijdens de Nacht van de Geschiedenis INNL kan het allemaal…
In samenwerking met de Volkskrant, NPS / Andere Tijden, het Historisch Nieuwsblad en het Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid organiseert het Nationaal Historisch Museum de feestelijke afsluiting van de Week van de Geschiedenis.
Op 23 oktober 2010 vindt in de Stadsschouwburg een gevarieerd programma plaats met lezingen van toonaangevende historici, verrassende interviews, live muziek en bijzondere films. Bovendien wordt de prestigieuze Libris Geschiedenisprijs, de prijs voor het beste geschiedenisboek van 2010 uitgereikt. Daarnaast zullen er tijdens de Week van de Geschiedenis op verschillende plekken in het land lokale Nachten van de Geschiedenis georganiseerd worden.
November 28, 2010
The One Minutes
Waar geschiedenis begint. In Paradiso Amsterdam op 28 november. Maak een film van één minuut over het thema ‘Waar geschiedenis begint’. Het begint bij de naam van je grootmoeder, of de straat waarin je woont, bij een monument in je buurt, een verhaal over een bijzondere gebeurtenis, bij beelden van verlies, liefde, trouw of inzicht. Doe mee aan deze historische One Minutes!
Een minuut geschiedenis. Per persoon. De 60 meest bijzondere inzendingen worden gepresenteerd in Paradiso Amsterdam op 28 november 2010. Ook verschijnen ze op dvd en wordt een selectie uitgezonden in AVRO KunstUur.