"Crisis and Mobilization Since 1789" Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, February 22-24, 2013
Manuscript of Morris's "Why I am a Communist," one of IISH's holdings. Part I: The Venue, The International Institute of Social History Recently, the International Scholars' Network History of Societies and Socialisms (HOSAS) hosted its second conference at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In addition to the IISH, other co-sponsors included Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Duitsland Instituut, and the Jena Center. The conference theme was "Crisis and Mobilization since 1789." A more perfect venue could not be had. The International Institute of Social History was founded in 1935 by Nicolaas W. Posthumus, a leading light of Dutch social and economic history. A social democratic insurance company De Centrale supported the Institute in its early years, allowing for it to save archival materials related to left-wing movements from all over Europe. Before World War II, the Institute played a key role in saving pap