Roundtable: the Changing Archive
Presentations and discussion about digitization, translation, and historical research on the early modern Indian Ocean World Date: Tuesday, 2 December 2025 Time: 10-12 CET Location: online
GLOBALISE Conference – 3-6 March 2026, Amsterdam
We are pleased to announce the GLOBALISE Conference, to be held from 4 to 6 March 2026 at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.
Conference schedule now available! More details and registration information will follow.
GLOBALISE webinar: Exploring digital methods for writing new histories
Join us for an interactive webinar about the GLOBALISE digital resources for research with the VOC archives. Date: Tuesday, 30 September 2025 Time: 13:30 – 16:00 CEST Location: online (registration required)
GLOBALISE data sprint on lists and tables
Explore VOC list/table records, enhance layout models & transcribe together in this hybrid hands-on session! Date: Thursday, 4 September 2025 Time: 13:30 – 16:00 CEST Location: Amsterdam & online (registration required)
Webinar: from Scribe to Screen
Digital humanities and the digitisation of archives are ever-growing trends in academia. How will digitisation open up new opportunities and yet present new challenges to historical research? Co-organised with Leiden University’s COGLOSS series, the GLOBALISE project invites discussions on digitisation, accessibility, and new approaches to global history. Date: Tuesday, 18 March 2025 Time: 12-13.30 CET Please follow the link to the event page for more information and registration.
A volume from the Overgekomen Brieven en Papieren series in the VOC archives. Photo Dave Straatmeyer.
Symposium: Colonial Archives and Meaningful Digital Infrastructure
Join us for a symposium on Colonial Archives, exploring innovative approaches to colonial archives and digital infrastructure.
Key topics include:
- Colonial archives and global significance
Reflect on the relevance of these archives for understanding shared histories and their broader implications. - Text recognition and digital access
Explore what comes after digitization and how to create meaningful tools for using complex historical records. - Biases in the archive
Address the inherent biases in colonial records and their impact on research and public access. - Reaching new audiences
Consider how digital infrastructures can engage diverse groups, including descendants of colonized communities.
Date and time: 24 January 2025, 10 am – 3 pm CETLocation: Radboud University, NijmegenMore information: full announcement
Announcement: Inaugural Lecture by Matthias van Rossum
Join Matthias van Rossum's inaugural lecture as he assumes the special chair of Global Histories of Labour and Colonialism at Radboud University. The lecture, De ‘jongens’ van Bontekoe? Over nut en noodzaak van mondiale geschiedenissen van kolonialisme en arbeid, will be held in Dutch.
Date and time: January 24, 2025, 3:45 pmLocation: Radboud Aula, NijmegenMore information and registration: Full announcement
View of the Harbor of Sūrat (Gujarāt), anonymous, c. 1670
Rijkmuseum, SK-A-4778, CC0
GLOBALISE seminar: CAPASIA, The Asian Origins of Global Capitalism
Date: Tuesday, 21 May 2024
Time: 15:00 - 16:00, drinks afterwards
Location: Room 2.18 of the Spinhuis, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, 1012 DK Amsterdam
Join us for a seminar featuring Maarten Draper and Sebastian Majstorovic, discussing the CAPASIA project's exploration of European 'factories' in maritime Asia and their role in the origins of global capitalism. Learn how CAPASIA and GLOBALISE projects are interconnected and how they enhance historical research.
GLOBALISE Datasprint: What on Earth is This? Defining, Labeling and Classifying Early Modern Commodities
Date: Monday 4 December
Time: 13:00 – 16:15
Location: Room F0.01 at the Humanities Labs, University of Amsterdam (Bushuis, Kloveniersburgwal 48 Amsterdam).
Tools: Bring your own laptop!
Are you a historian or a student of history at university with a keen interest in trade, material culture, commodity histories or just good old historical research? If yes, we at the GLOBALISE Project, in collaboration with the CREATE Lab (UvA), invite you to participate in a workshop to contribute to and enrich our thesaurus of commodities traded in the early modern Indian Ocean world.
GLOBALISE HTR Launch
Date: Wednesday 4 October 2023Time: 12:15 – 17:30 CESTLocation: International Institute of Social History, Cruquiusweg 31, 1019 AT AmsterdamRegistration (required): Eventbrite GLOBALISE is pleased to announce that the first results of…