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Do you want to become our new collection employee (full-time, 12 months with a chance of extension, starting in August 2025)? Then apply before June 15th.
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On Wednesday 28 May the new database will be launched in Amsab-ISG Ghent Brigadistas from Belgium presented, with biographical data of more than 2.000 Belgian volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The result of years of research by Rudi Van Doorslaer and François Van Pelt will be explained that afternoon during a workshop with lectures and a public debate.
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Big news: Feestlokaal Vooruit is officially on the candidate list for UNESCO World Heritage! A milestone for this Ghent heritage and the power of solidarity. The final decision will be made in the summer of 2027.
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Two special sheet music collections from our collection have recently been made accessible. These scores, both handwritten and printed, originate from two historical Antwerp music associations: the Socialist Fanfare De Vredekring and the Socialist Harmony De Werker.
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Op wednesday june 12 The first one takes place in the Fashion Museum (MoMu) in Antwerp data salon place. An informal gathering for heritage professionals who want to share practical experiences, experiments and concerns around this rapidly evolving technology.
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During Heritage Day on sunday 27 april Voem vzw and Amsab-ISG proudly present Digital there for: a brand new virtual archive and museum space where Voem's heritage comes to life.
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In the week of March 17, 2025, Sofie De Baere of Amsab-ISG represented the Feestlokaal Vooruit during a workshop in Australia, in the context of the World Heritage dossier on Workers' Assembly HallsWith this dossier we aim for recognition of the social impact of public houses as world heritage.
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Op Saturday, June 21, 2025 takes place in Amsab-ISG the formation The Hidden Stories of Refugees During World War I place, an initiative of Histories and In Flanders Fields Museum. Register now!
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Back to start? takes you through a hundred years of leisure history in a playful way. In response to Heritage Day – with the theme game on! - we delved into our collection in search of historical images and authentic games that show how free time – and the way we think about it – has changed over the years.
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Do you want to become our new receptionist (full-time, indefinite duration, starting date: June 2, 2025)? Apply before April 30.
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Buy now the new edition of Brood & Rozen - Journal for social history.
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The exhibition will be on display at the Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi until 18 May Studio Stone, with 80 pieces from the Amsab-ISG collection.
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The expo 𝗝𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗻 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝘅𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 was festively concluded on Friday 28 March 2025 with a final visitor moment and a spectacular drag performance by Krasna, Chéri.e and J BOY.
We look back on a fantastic expo – the best visited ever in our public space! Thanks to everyone who came by and made this experience so special.
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The origin and spread of the word to strike: from lowering the sails to laying down work.
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On Thursday, February 27, 2025, Amsab-ISG would like to invite you to the lecture of Prof. Dr. Jonas Roelens (UGent) about his recently published book The Unspeakable Sin. Sodomy in the Southern Netherlands (1400-1700).
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On March 8th we celebrate International Woman's Day, a day that revolves around women's rights and the fight against gender discrimination. But did you know that this day has its origins in the early socialist movement?
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On Friday, March 14, 2025, Amsab-ISG invites you to a talk with Bram Van Oostveldt about his essay On the sensuality of cruisingRadio and television producer Lieven Vandenhautte moderates the conversation.
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On the occasion of sixty years of migration, Bindus vzw published the book 60 years of migration, 30 years of connection, written by Hümeyra Cetinel. This book was created in collaboration with Amsab-ISG, the Red Star Line Museum and Ecru.
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Every year in February Tournée Minerale people to abstain from alcohol for a month. This may seem like a modern phenomenon, but the discussion about alcohol consumption and moderation is much older.
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On February 4, 2025, Amsab-ISG welcomed the 20 participants of the international Winter School Cultural Heritage & Wellbeing, which this year focused on the potential contribution of cultural heritage to the well-being of refugees.
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The heritage project Digital there has started in full swing. Over the next two years, we will be working on creating a virtual archive and museum space in the metaverse, with the aim of preserving the heritage of Voem non-profit organization to present to a wider audience in an interactive and accessible way.
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The eighth volume of the Journal for the History of Environment and Society (JHES) has been published. Amsab-ISG has been the editorial secretary of this journal on the intersections between environmental history and social history since 2016.
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About the night shelter the Ghent Work of the Night Shelter, disease-specific patient associations, the archive of the Ghent Fietsersbond, documents of the United States Escape Program from our collection and the exhibition Young and queer since the sixties.
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El Ghorba Talk about the first generation of Turkish women in the Netherlands and Belgium
During the El Ghorba festival (an Arabic concept related to words such as homesickness, alienation and melancholy) by Victoria Deluxe, Neslihan Doğan and photographer Çiğdem Yüksel will enter into a conversation.
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The Flemish Department for the Environment is organizing the campaign in the week of February 17 #ipullitonmeThe successor to Sweater Day has been putting energy conservation at the top of the agenda since 2005, but in recent years it has expanded to include other climate-related themes.
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The research project 'Metadata and Access to Digital Archives using Large Language Models', or MODAL for short, started in the autumn of 2024.
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On Thursday 27 February 2025, the Centre for the History of Migrants (CGM) will organize its annual study day in Leuven, this time with the theme Female labour migration in the Low Countries.
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On Friday 31 January, the Flemish Government placed Feestlokaal Vooruit on the Belgian indicative list of UNESCO, an important step towards the recognition of the monument as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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In the recent government negotiations, the index once again in the center of attention. Once again, people wanted to index adjust to slow the rise in wages and benefits. But what is that really, that index?
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We close our donation campaign from 2024. Thanks in part to you, we have solar panels can be installed on the roof of one of our depots.
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In 2025, TOON, Dr. Guislain Museum, University College London Arts & Sciences and Amsab-ISH, will deliver the International Winter School 'Cultural Heritage & Wellbeing: Refugees', from February 3 to February 7 in Ghent.
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On Saturday 23 November, the annual Day of Ghent Historical Research took place. We shared our insights about We have never been the Turks, the intergenerational heritage trajectory on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the first self-organisation in Flanders, the Democratic People's and Culture Association (DHKD).
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Masereelfonds Gent and Amsab-ISG invite you to the book presentation on Monday 16 December Luk Vandenhoeck: On the barricades at the VRT.
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We are saddened to learn of the passing of two important archive creators: photographer Lieve Colruyt and Paul Staes, one of the pioneers of the environmental movement in Flanders since the end of the 1960s.
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Amsab-ISG has received a special historical document from the Ghent City Archives: the register of the Ghent Association for Universal Suffrage, founded in 1880.
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Experience Museum night in Amsab-ISG and visit the exhibition Young and queer since the sixties! Our doors remain exceptionally clean especially for this occasion open until 22pm. There is a drink waiting for you.
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