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Définie comme la tendance à la monopolisation des activités politiques principales par des individus vivants pour et de la politique, se consacrant à temps complet à des activités dont ils tirent leurs moyens matériels d’existence, la professionnalisation du politique témoigne, dès la fin du XIXe siècle, de l’émergence d’un « nouvel entrepreneur politique ». Ainsi, au moment même où s’invente la politique moderne et se construisent les principes mêmes de la légitimité politique démocratique, les femmes restent pour de longues années exclues du jeu politique et demeurent aujourd’hui encore des outsiders dans cet espace. Il s’agira, dans le cadre de ce colloque international, d’étudier d'une part les mécanismes historiques et sociologiques qui contribuent à construire un ordre politique genré, et d’autre part la manière dont les femmes ont, malgré leur exclusion du champ politique légitime, acquis les savoir-faire et les savoir-être utile à la subversion des règles du jeu politique.

22/23 octobre 2025 

Sciences Po Lille/IRHIS (ULille, Campus Pont de Bois) 

Argumentaire

Définie comme la tendance à la monopolisation des activités politiques principales par des individus vivants pour et de la politique, se consacrant à temps complet à des activités dont ils tirent leurs moyens matériels d’existence[1], la professionnalisation du politique témoigne, dès la fin du XIXe siècle, de l’émergence d’un « nouvel entrepreneur politique »[2]. Ainsi, au moment même où s’invente la politique moderne et se construisent les principes mêmes de la légitimité politique démocratique, les femmes restent pour de longues années exclues du jeu politique et demeurent aujourd’hui encore des outsiders dans cet espace[3]. Le processus de professionnalisation se fait donc sans les femmes et consacre une vision masculine des rôles politiques et des qualités y afférant[4]. Le métier politique a été construit par et pour les hommes et valorise des compétences, des savoir-faire et des savoir-être produits d’une socialisation masculine. Au-delà de leur exclusion de l’espace politique représentatif, les femmes se sont vues de fait interdire l’apprentissage des règles de la politique « légitime », tout en se voyant opposer une figure genrée du représentant politique conforme au modèle d’une masculinité hégémonique, bourgeoise, blanche et hétérosexuelle[5]. Cette exclusion historique pèse aujourd’hui encore sur les difficultés que rencontrent les femmes à atteindre les postes les plus convoités comme celui de président de la République par exemple ou encore de Première ministre [6]. 

Les travaux sur la féminisation du métier politique ont été nombreux ces dernières années[7]. Ils ont cherché à comprendre les logiques qui conduisent – en dépit des dispositifs paritaires - à la difficile inclusion des femmes dans l’espace politique. Ils ont aussi mis au jour l’existence d’un ordre genré en politique qu’il convient désormais de mieux définir. La question de la fabrique du métier politique (et des représentations qui le dominent) demeure finalement peu étudiée. L’objectif du colloque est donc d’engager des analyses sur les difficultés du métier politique à devenir un « métier de femme », et par ce biais de revenir sur les processus historiques de construction d’excellence à l’œuvre dans l’espace politique et ses transformations. Qu’est-ce qui aujourd’hui définit un « bon » professionnel de la politique ?

Qu’est-ce que cette définition doit à l’histoire de la construction du rôle de « représentants » ? Et en quoi ces normes d’excellence professionnelles « genrées » participent-elles de l’inclusion ou de l’exclusion des femmes politiques et ce, à différents moments donnés de l’histoire ?  Comment les femmes, en dépit de leur exclusion de fait, ont-elles finalement trouvé des espaces d’acquisition des savoir-faire politiques et des manières de peser sur l’espace de la représentation politique ? 

La réflexion s’inscrit d’abord dans le renouveau des études sur la féminisation du champ politique, depuis deux décennies. Elle se penche plus particulièrement sur le métier d’élue et n’est pas sans faire écho au profond renouvellement de l’histoire des femmes, entendue sur un plan historiographique, depuis les années 1970.  La seconde « vague » féministe, et à travers elle la dénonciation des pesanteurs d’une société encore marquée par le patriarcat et la domination masculine, nous rappelle tant la place réservée aux absentes d’une histoire au masculin façonnée depuis le XIXe siècle, que l’influence des women studies qui, visant à remplir les silences de l’histoire, entendent remédier « aux silences patriarcaux du passé »[8]. Il convient également de ne pas négliger l’influence des gender studies dès les années 1980, particulièrement dans l’histoire des rapports de pouvoir. 

 Il s’agit ensuite de rappeler que la vision du « métier politique » par le prisme du genre ne peut s’extraire d’un cadre chronologique qui, au-delà de sa nature éminemment politique et de la place prépondérante accordée aux Grands Hommes du roman national français, se superpose en partie à une périodisation des féminismes, et notamment par le biais des termes – de « vagues » ou de « générations » – communément employés pour désigner un cycle de mobilisation féministe correspondant à un contexte particulier[9]. La temporalité retenue, du mouvement suffragiste de la fin du XIXe siècle à l’actuel mouvement MeToo, propose à ce titre une approche non pas pluridisciplinaire, à laquelle on pourrait reprocher de contribuer à un morcellement du propos, mais véritablement interdisciplinaire dans son épistémologie et dans sa méthodologie, favorisant une démarche comparatiste permettant de prendre en compte les dynamiques, les ruptures et les échanges au sein d’un cadre hexagonal qui renvoie à une cristallisation d’une multitude de représentations, de significations, d’images correspondantes aux enjeux politiques et aux conflits idéologiques qui marquent la période[10].

Il s’agira enfin de montrer que l’absence des femmes des institutions politiques ne signifie pas pour autant leur totale invisibilité dans le champ politique, et plus encore leur renoncement ou leur incapacité à s’approprier les savoir-faire du professionnel de la politique, et ce en dehors même de l’espace politique stricto sensu ?  Bien que cantonnées à l’espace privé dans un XIXe siècle décrit comme « le siècle du triomphe de la virilité »[11], les femmes contribuent à leur manière à une professionnalisation du politique en marche. Le regard qu’elles portent sur une activité politique exclusivement masculine, et plus encore leur politisation croissante, participe ainsi à la construction sociohistorique d’une masculinité d’une part, et d’une féminité d’autre part, toutes deux encastrées dans l’ère de la modernité. L’ambition vise alors à décrypter, pour mieux les reproduire (et les contourner par la suite), les mécanismes masculins de compétition conférant aux hommes les ressources et les aptitudes nécessaires à asseoir leur domination politique ; en somme, et en des termes plus actuels, leur assurer une intégration dans le « royaume des hommes »[12] qui suppose abnégation et parfois de douloureux sacrifices. Cette entrée en politique « par la marge » voire par effraction suppose alors de saisir y compris au travers de cas singulier comment des femmes s’imposent en politique et comment, elles mettent en œuvre des stratégies de contournement des normes de genre qui s’imposent à elles, et ce quelles que soient les conditions d’ouverture du champ politique.  

 

Les communications pourront s’inscrire dans deux axes principaux, le premier étudiera les mécanismes historiques et sociologiques qui, d’hier à aujourd’hui, contribuent à construire un ordre politique genré. Le second s’intéressera davantage à la manière dont les femmes ont, malgré leur exclusion du champ politique légitime, acquis les savoir-faire et les savoir-être utiles à la subversion des règles du jeu politique.

1)    La construction historique d’un ordre politique genré  

 Le premier axe pourra accueillir les travaux qui, à la fois du point de vue des institutions, mais aussi des acteurs et actrices politiques, contribuent à une analyse de la fabrique d’un ordre politique genré.  Comme le fait Juliette Rennes13 lorsqu’elle étudie comment la Troisième République joue la nature contre le mérite pour interdire l’accès des femmes aux professions à diplômes, il s’agit ici d’étudier les dispositifs qui historiquement ont conduit à exclure les femmes du jeu politique et à justifier cette exclusion. Si les débats sur le difficile accès des femmes au droit de vote sont emblématiques des mécanismes de naturalisation des qualités féminines comme fondement de leur exclusion de la citoyenneté, d’autres cas pourront être mobilisés et étudiés. Comment dans les discours publics, mais aussi dans les prises de parole privées sont définies la légitimité et illégitimité d’un personnel politique[13] féminin ? Comment au cours du temps se dessinent comme dans d’autres métiers des normes d’excellence professionnelle qui conduisent à exclure les femmes du « bon » gouvernement ? Si les sources politiques (débats parlementaires), ou les sources de presse nous renseignent sur ce processus d’inclusion et d’exclusion de la féminité en politique, d’autres matériaux (fictions, récits biographiques) pourront être mobilisés pour saisir ce qui hier comme aujourd’hui dessine les fondements de la légitimité politique. 

2)    Les apprentissages « genrés » des savoir-faire et savoir-être en politique

Le second axe de notre colloque privilégiera les travaux qui permettent de saisir comment les femmes, malgré leur exclusion de l’ordre politique légitime, peuvent à leur manière en subvertir les règles. Si la participation des femmes aux mobilisations féministes ou non constitue le creuset de leur apprentissage politique, d’autres espaces moins conventionnels pourront aussi été étudiés.  Comment se produit l’apprentissage politique du métier dans les marges et comment peut-on les saisir ? À titre d’exemple, les près de neuf mille feuillets qui composent la correspondance de la marquise Arconati-Visconti – misogyne, fière de l’être, aux antipodes de toute pensée féministe –, émanant de correspondants tous masculins, simples relations ou amis intimes, signés de grands noms de la politique ou de la vie intellectuelle[14], nous invitent à élargir notre champ d’études. Les travaux qui proposent d’explorer les chemins de traverse de l’accès au champ politique en particulier ceux qui proposent de nouvelles sources pour analyser le métier politique pourront être soumis. La presse féminine, les archives privées de celles qui ont soutenu une « maisonnée politique »[15], les journaux intimes17 de celles qui aspirent à une carrière politique sont autant de matériaux qui pourront renouveler l’analyse des stratégies mise en œuvre par de nouvelles entrantes (ou du moins celles qui aspirent à rentrer) pour changer les règles d’un jeu auquel on refuse qu’elles participent. 

Modalités de contribution

Les projets de communication sont à envoyer à l’adresse suivante colloquemetierpolitique@gmail.com

avant le 31 janvier 2025.

Les réponses seront données durant la 2e quinzaine du mois d’avril 2025.

Afin de faciliter le travail des discutantes et des discutants, les communications sont attendues pour le 15 septembre 2025.  

Comité d’organisation 

• Sandrine Lévêque (Sciences Po Lille, Université de Lille, CERAPS)
• Julien Rycx (Sciences Po Lille, Université de Lille, IRHIS)
• Thierry Truel (Université de Bordeaux, CEMMC et Lab-E3D)

 

Comité scientifique   

• Catherine Achin, PU science politique (Université Paris Dauphine, IRISSO)
• Aurélie Audeval, PU junior histoire contemporaine (Université de Lille, IRHIS)
• Fanny Bugnon, MCF histoire contemporaine (Université de Rennes, TEMPORA)
• Fanny Gallot, MCF histoire contemporaine (Université Paris-Est Créteil, CRHEC)
• Alban Jacquemart, MCF science politique (Université Paris Dauphine, IRISSO)
• Eric Phélippeau, PU science politique (Université Paris Nanterre, ISP)
• Florence Tamagne, MCF histoire contemporaine (Université de Lille, IRHIS)
• Sidonie Verhaeghe, MCF science politique (Université de Lille, CERAPS)

Notes

[1] Gaxie (Daniel), Les professionnels de la politique, Paris, PUF, 1973.

[2] Offerlé (Michel) [dir.], La profession politique, XIXe-XXe siècles, Paris, Belin, 1999.

[3] Bard (Christine), Pavard (Bibia), « Femmes outsiders en politique. Introduction », Parlement[s], Revue d'histoire politique, 2013/1 (n° 19), p. 7-15. Riot-Sarcey (Michèle), Histoire du féminisme, Paris, La Découverte, 2006 [2002] ; Scott (Joan W.), La citoyenne paradoxale. Les féministes françaises et les droits de l’homme, Paris, Albin Michel, 1998

[4] Tellier (Philippe), « Professionnalisation politique », in Catherine Achin, Laure Bereni, Dictionnaire. Genre et science politique, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po, 2013.

[5] Arambourou (Clément), Paoletti (Marion), « La virilité mise à mâle », Travail, genre et sociétés, 2013/1 (n° 29), p. 149-152 ; Connell (Raewyn), Masculinities, Cambridge, Polity Press, Sydney, Allen & Unwin; Berkeley, University of California Press, 1995 (ouvrage traduit et publié en 2014 sous le titre Masculinités. Enjeux sociaux de l'hégémonie, Paris, Éditions Amsterdam).

[6] Matonti (Frédérique), Le genre présidentiel. Enquête sur l’ordre des sexes en politique, Paris, Éditions La Découverte, 2017 ; voir le récent témoignage d’Elisabeth Borne (Vingt mois à Matignon, Paris, Flammarion, 2024).

[7] Achin (Catherine) et alii, Sexes, genre et politique, Paris Economica, 2007. Navarre (Maud), Devenir élue. Genre et carrière politique, Rennes, PUR, 2015.

[8] Zemon Davis (Nathalie), «Women and the world of the “Annales”», History Workshop Journal, 33, 1992, p. 121.

[9] Bergès (Karine), « Remous autour des vagues féministes », in Féminismes du XXIe siècle : une troisième vague ?, Rennes, PUR, « Archives du féminisme », 2017, p. 11-27.

[10] Verhaeghe (Sidonie), Vive Louise Michel ! Célébrité et postérité d’une figure anarchiste, Vulaines-sur-Seine, Éditions du Croquant, 2021.

[11] Corbin (Alain), Courtine (Jean-Jacques) et Vigarello (Georges) [dir.], Histoire de la virilité. Volume II, Le triomphe de la virilité. Le XIXe siècle, Paris, Le Seuil, 2011.

[12] Bachelot (Roselyne), Fraisse (Geneviève), Deux femmes au royaume des hommes, Paris, Hachette, 1999. 13 Rennes (Juliette), Le mérite et la nature. Une controverse républicaine : l'accès des femmes aux professions de prestige 1880-1940, Paris, Fayard, 2007

[13] Offerlé (Michel). Illégitimité et légitimation du personnel politique ouvrier en France avant 1914, in Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 39ᵉ année, N. 4, 1984. pp. 681-716.

[14] Poulain (Martine), Marie Arconati-Visconti. La passion de la République, Paris, PUF, 2023.

[15] Gris (Christelle), Femmes d’élus. Sociologie d’un second rôle, Le Bord de l’eau éditions, 2021, p. 10. 17 Pensons aux Mémoires de Louise Michel, au Journal longtemps disparu d’Hubertine Auclert, aux Mémoires d’une européenne de Louise Weiss ou encore aux Combats de Simone Veil).

Paris, 19-20 June 2025

Introduction
The control and use of money are clearly perceived as a gender issue in the present day. In France, the possibility for a married woman to open a savings account in her own name dates to 1881, to control her own salary to 1907, and the right open a current account to 1965: so many milestones on the road to emancipation. As a pessimistic counterpoint, in The Handmaid's Tale, published in 1985, Margaret Atwood imagined a dystopian future in which the brutal suppression of access to money was the first marker of the enslavement of women. Historians, however, have not yet fully taken up this theme, which makes it difficult to understand developments over the long term and from a comparative perspective. Specialists in the literature have been more active, tracing, for example, the conceptual link between the corruption brought about by money and the corruption brought about by women. Women’s work, too, has been and still is a well-established theme in historical research. Yet money itself - its management and control, the way it can be used as a tool of domination or as a lever for action, the question of who owns it and who controls it - has rarely been posed as an independent long-term historical question. Although the question of gender and money has emerged peripherally in many fields of study, it has never been taken on as an issue in its own right.

One of the main reasons for this relative neglect is the difficulty of defining what money is over a very long period and in a wide variety of historical societies. This polysemous term refers both to wealth (income and assets, in stock or in flow, which can be accounted for abstractly through accounts, tables or balance sheets) and to the materiality of money in circulation (cash, coins and banknotes, as well as the alternative currencies studied, for example, by the sociologist Viviana Zelizer). Sociologists and anthropologists have helped to distinguish money - which is a social, political and moral fact - from currency, a more limited concept used in economics to designate the instrument of exchange. Money encompasses, but is not limited to, cash, because it takes on its meaning through the prism of the social context, but also of affects, values, mores, beliefs, the collective imagination and, more generally, the symbolic order that underpins them (Baumann et alii, 2008). This definition invites us to look at the gendered aspects of relationships with money: money is a concrete means of ensuring masculine domination, but it can also be a tool used by women to create room for manoeuvre. This broad understanding of money is also a welcome invitation to historians: highly variable from one era to the next, money becomes a powerful indicator of gender norms and social relations between men and women.

To open up this field of study, still largely unexplored in history, we are propose this call for papers for a two-day research workshop to analyse the many interactions between money and gender from the early Middle Ages to the present day. The approach is open chronologically and geographically, based on historical case studies, where gender is not reduced to the history of women, but also takes into account masculinities and the structuring role of money in relations between men and women. Thus the issues of possession, management and control of money will be central to the contributions to this workshop, as will the question of money as a useful lever of domination or of agency.

I. Norms and Language
The first area to be explored in this workshop will be gendered conceptions of money over the long term. The relationship between gender norms and money, from the perspective of cultural history or of representations, could be explored in dialogue with literary studies and art history in particular. How does the gender order of a given period and society determine our relationship with money? Jeanne Lazarus (2021) notes that women's relationship to money is seen as less legitimate than that of men, and is marked by a triple suspicion. Firstly, there is the suspicion of impurity, inherited from Christian exegesis: women are considered impure if they possess money, which is always implicitly linked to a suspicion of prostitution. Secondly, there is the suspicion of incompetence, as women are considered frivolous and wasteful, and always less rational than men. Finally, there is the suspicion of dependence, which leads women to be seen only as financially protected by their husbands, families, communities or the state. These general observations can be illustrated or qualified by case studies. Men, on the other hand, are thought to be on the side of rationality, forecasting and money management. But can we distinguish between economic masculinities that vary in time and space? Are there hegemonic and subordinate masculinities in the financial sphere, depending on the era? The distinction between the capitalist (a powerful decision-maker) and his accountant (a figure of submission and execution), for example, provides some clues as to how to nuance masculine representations of money. Since the work of R.W. Connell, it has been clear that ‘middle-class masculinity’ can be hegemonic or subordinate in the contemporary world (Connell 2005 [1995]). How can this tension be historicised?

Secondly, how have the languages of law and religion constructed imaginative systems concerning money and created representations of the possible relationships between men and women and wealth since the Middle Ages? For while ecclesiastical language casts suspicion on women’s management of and their relationship to material goods since Eve and her original sin, it also opens up areas of legitimacy, particularly for consecrated women who belong to the nobility and head powerful monasteries whose property they administer. Similarly, not all men were recognised as being capable of legitimately administering common funds (of the State, the Church, etc.), but it was men consecrated to God (clerics and monks) who were designated from the early Middle Ages onwards as good administrators, those who knew how to make money work and to ensure collective salvation. At the end of the Middle Ages, this virtuous model was applied to secular society, as the Church pointed to the great merchant as the one who worked for the salvation of society.

Finally, the imaginary world of money has been materialised in legal norms that restrict men’s and women’s relationship to money, depending on their status (minor or adult) and their place in the family, particularly in the case of women (daughter, wife or widow did not have the same rights). But legal systems are varied (customary law and Roman law do not have the same relationship to the inheritance of daughters and sons or to the dowry, for example) and there are many specific national features (for example, the principle of ‘couverture’ in English Common Law from the end of the Middle Ages to the Married Women’s Property Act of 1882). Papers, potentially in dialogue with legal history, on the legal framing of succession, property or the matrimonial alliance from a gender perspective will be welcome. This normative framework must not be confused with the social practices that may conform to it or, on the contrary, circumvent it, however: concrete case studies on the ways in which men and women deal with money, with or against the law, are encouraged.

II. Accounting and Control
Counting, consuming, saving, investing: how does the circulation of money within the family, and between the family and institutions, reveal gender relations, between domination and autonomy? Who counts, what is counted and what is not counted? In what way? And in whose interests? This workshop will delve into the question of control over a couple’s resources, with studies of ordinary family accounting (in the vein of ethnographic studies of accounting practices, for example). It will also consider the power relationships involved in receiving and rendering accounts, and even in keeping accounts for oneself.

Pioneering historical studies encourage us to look beyond stereotypes and what the law says - admittedly restrictive for wives in France from the time of the Napoleonic Code onwards - to highlight women, between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in daily struggle for control of the earnings of the couple and very aware of the property issues at stake within the family (Sohn 1996). At the same time, the revival of interest in accounting and accountability from the central Middle Ages to early modernity has opened the possibility of a hitherto unexplored gender analysis. The women of the elite, as landlords, were accountable, while lower down the social ladder, the women in charge of the laundry, the farmyard or the dairy were accountable. Between the two, however, bookkeeping was mainly a male affair. On the other hand, it is possible that the management of estates or businesses gave some women autonomy over expenditure and investment, and that bookkeeping was, at least in early modern England, a particularly feminine skill. But if bookkeeping was seen as a woman’s job, the degree of empowerment can be questioned: was it a thankless and time-consuming task that was delegated to women precisely because it bound them to the domestic sphere? Can the management of money be equated with control of it? The question of education is also key. Gender inequalities can be illuminated by what happens earlier in life, in terms of education in income and asset management. From savings education in the schools of the Third Republic, through domestic economics taught in girls’ schools from the inter-war years onwards, to budget education in the technical schools of the 1980s-2000s, has money education been a tool for promoting and maintaining patriarchy, or for providing autonomy and possibilities for individual action to women within the family?

III. Credit, Remuneration and Care
Women’s participation in credit markets has been considered in different ways. Is it easier for women to borrow than to lend? Lending can encourage autonomy, but much depends on the legal context and on marital status. However, the focus has been on women’s borrowing and, in particular, microcredit, first perceived by development economists as a means of empowering poor women. But this has not always been the case. Who were the women who lent and borrowed? Who did they lend to and who did they borrow from? More broadly, it’s a question of questioning the gender of debt. Laurence Fontaine describes the moral economy, structured by the bonds of debt, in terms of vertical links between rich and poor, but a large part of credit, like other forms of solidarity, may well have consisted of horizontal links between relatives and neighbours.

Recognising that money and cash are not the same allows us to take a broader view of what constitutes an economic transaction or a form of income. Olwen Hufton’s innovative concept of the ‘makeshift economy’ has long recognised the importance to poor households of a range of activities and forms of income other than paid work, including small-scale credit, the use of common rights such as gleaning and access to communal land, embezzlement, smuggling, theft, prostitution, begging, poor relief and mutual aid. Often regarded as criminal activities, they have recently been examined for their economic value by historians. Gleaning could account for up to 10% of household income. Proposals are awaited on the nature of these ‘bricolage’ activities as forms of income-generating work. How much did sex workers earn in the past? How much income can begging or ragging bring into the household economy?

A recent development in economic history, in the wake of feminist economics and development economics, calls for a monetary value to be placed on care activities. The interpersonal and emotional dimensions of care cannot be neglected. However, they have often led to the idea that care work used to be carried out within the family, by women, particularly married women, and without remuneration. However, new studies show that, historically, a large proportion of care work was not carried out within the family and that this work was in fact paid for. Who was paid to provide this care, in what contexts and why? Under what circumstances did households choose to pay for care work, rather than seeing it as a ‘natural’ part of women's unpaid work? To date, studies of care work from this perspective have attempted to assign monetary values on the basis of cases where it was paid for. However, does assigning a monetary value to care work reproduce masculine categories and values of productivity and efficiency? Is care work priceless? Can we put a price on work that has an emotional dimension? Or is it all the more important to insist on value, in order to avoid the trap of seeing care work as a ‘calling’ or a ‘labour of love’?

IV. Conflicts, Violence and Collective Mobilisation
This workshop will also address conflicts over money and its management. We particularly encourage proposals which consider economic violence: how does this manifest itself in the relationship to money within families and couples? But also how is the control of money one of the means of exerting violence on women and dependents, particularly on minors?

Economic violence is one form of violence within the family. This recent concept refers to all acts designed to deprive the victim of her financial autonomy, increasing her isolation and making it more difficult for her to leave the family unit (deprivation of resources, exclusive management of family income, endangerment of family assets, refusal to pay maintenance). Over the longue durée, economic violence has long been considered legal, like other forms of physical violence (paternal or marital correction) or sexual violence (the conjugal debt), because marriage placed wives in a position of legal minority and the management of the family patrimony fell exclusively to the husband. However, more work is needed to refine the spatial, temporal and social patterns of economic violence. Which social groups are most affected by economic violence? Which regions most firmly assert patriarchal domination over resources and which can be seen as more egalitarian?

Furthermore, in practice, there are many conflicts and negotiations over the management of economic resources, which are documented in archives (divorce proceedings, wills, autobiographies, correspondence, etc.). How do women negotiate access to money in patriarchal systems, particularly when resources are limited? Finally, men’s domination of money was also challenged collectively. The demand for economic emancipation for married women has been at the heart of European feminist struggles since the nineteenth century, and has been achieved at different rates in different countries. The dismantling by civil law of the economic guardianship of wives is in fact the fruit of a long process, begun in the nineteenth century and completed in the second half of the twentieth century. Who were the key players in this struggle? Beyond political texts and legislative battles, are these demands for financial autonomy perceptible in women’s struggles that focus on other aspects of women's lives (work, control of fertility, etc.)?

Proposals for contributions (abstract of less than 500 words in English or French + brief CV) may cover any historical period, any country or cultural area, with or without a comparative approach. They should specify the sources used and the main bibliographical references.

They should be sent jointly to the organisers of the event: Anais Albert (anais.albert@u-paris.fr); Christopher Fletcher (christopher.fletcher@univ-lille.fr); Julie Marfany (julie.marfany@durham.ac.uk); Marianne Thivend (marianne.thivend@u-paris.fr); and Valentina Toneatto (valentina.toneatto@univ-lyon2.fr) by 6 January 2024.

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Davidoff, Leonor and Hall, Catherine, Family Fortunes : Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850, Chicago University Press, 1987.
Fontaine Laurence, L’économie morale: pauvreté, crédit et confiance dans l’Europe préindustrielle, Gallimard, 2008.
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Haemers, Jelle, Bardyn, Andrea and Delameillieure, Chanelle, La femme dans la cité au Moyen Âge, Racine, 2022.
Howell, Martha, Commerce before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Hufton, Olwen, The Poor of eighteenth-century France, c.1750-1789, Oxford University Press, 1974.
Lazarus, Jeanne, ‘L’argent des femmes. Quelques pistes de recherche’, Sensibilités, no. 9/1, 2021, 60-71.
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Seabourne, Gwen, Women in the Medieval Common Law, c. 1200-1500, Routledge, 2021.
Shepard, Alexandra, ‘Care’ in Catriona Macleod, Alexandra Shepard and Maria Agren (eds.), The Whole Economy. Work and Gender in early modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. 53-83.
Sohn, Anne-Marie, Chrysalides. Femmes dans la vie privée (XIXe-XXe siècles), Publications de la Sorbonne,1996
Whittle, Jane and Griffiths, Elizabeth, Consumption and Gender in the Early-Seventeenth Century Household. The World of Alice Le Strange, Oxford University Press, 2012.
Yates, Alexia, ‘The Invisible Rentière: The Problem of Women and Investment in Nineteenth-century France’, Entreprises et histoire, 2022/2, no. 107, 76-89.
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Contact (announcement)

Anais Albert (anais.albert@u-paris.fr); Christopher Fletcher (christopher.fletcher@univ-lille.fr); Julie Marfany (julie.marfany@durham.ac.uk); Marianne Thivend (marianne.thivend@u-paris.fr); Valentina Toneatto (valentina.toneatto@univ-lyon2.fr)

by Claudia Bernardi, Viola F. Müller, Biljana Stojić, Vilhelm Vilhelmsson

This book explores how workers moved and were moved, why they moved, and how they were kept from moving. Combining global labour history with mobility studies, it investigates moving workers through the lens of coercion.

The contributions in this book are based on extensive archival research and span Europe and North America over the past 500 years. They provide fresh historical perspectives on the various regimes of coercion, mobility, and immobility as constituent parts of the political economy of labour.

Moving Workers shows that all struggles relating to the mobility of workers or its restriction have the potential to reveal complex configurations of hierarchies, dependencies, and diverging conceptions of work and labour relations that continuously make and remake our world.　

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111137155/html

London, 7-9 January 2026

This conference is planned as a follow-up to the seven successful conferences, which took place at Imperial War Museum London in 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015 and at Birkbeck, University of London, and The Wiener Holocaust Library in 2018 and 2023. It will continue to build on areas previously investigated and open up new fields of academic enquiry.

Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution

Eighth international multidisciplinary conference, to be held at Birkbeck, University of London, and The Wiener Holocaust Library, London, 7-9 January 2026

The conference will be held in-person only, with no opportunity to attend virtually.

Call for Papers
This conference is planned as a follow-up to the seven successful conferences, which took place at Imperial War Museum London in 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015 and at Birkbeck, University of London, and The Wiener Holocaust Library in 2018 and 2023. It will continue to build on areas previously investigated and open up new fields of academic enquiry.

The aim is to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on all groups of survivors of Nazi persecution. These will include - but are not limited to - Jews, Roma and Sinti, Slavonic peoples, Jehovah’s Witnesses, LGBTQIA+, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents, members of underground movements, people with disabilities, the so-called ‘racially impure’, and forced labourers. For the purpose of the conference, a ‘survivor’ is defined as anyone who suffered any form of persecution by the Nazis or their allies as a result of the Nazis’ racial, political, ideological or ethnic policies from 1933 to 1945, and who survived the Second World War.

The organisers welcome proposals which focus on topics and themes of the ‘life after’, ranging from the experience of liberation to the trans-generational impact of persecution, individual and collective memory and consciousness, and questions of theory and methodology.

In response to recent scholarly debate and feedback we have received from the last conference, for this eighth conference we are keen to encourage in particular papers on:
- Testimonies and ego-documents
- Digital humanities methodologies
- Antisemitism and racism after 1945
- Survivors of the Roma and Sinti genocide

As previously, we also warmly welcome new research in the following areas
- DPs in post-war Europe
- Former forced labourers in central, east and south-east Europe
- Early post-war Holocaust research
- Yiddish studies, including Yiddish sources
- Relief and rehabilitation
- Reception and resettlement
- Comparative experiences of Jewish and non-Jewish survivors
- Jewish returnees from the Soviet Union
- Literary representation of survival
- Survivors in ‘grey zones’, including kapos
- Victimhood and survival in changing public discourse
- Soviet and other prisoners of war
- The legacy of euthanasia and medical experiments
- Exiles, émigrés and refugees in the reconstruction process
- Rescuers and liberators
- Child survivors
- Gender and survival
- Physical and psychological consequences
- Trials and justice
- Reparation and restitution
- Visual representations and ethics of new technologies
- Museums, exhibitions and memorials
- Archives and record-building

Panel proposals are welcome.

We particularly encourage early career scholars and PhD candidates to apply; and we are pleased to announce that the Center for Holocaust Studies (Munich), the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies (Yale University), and the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (Vienna) will financially support a number of speakers.

Please submit an abstract of 200-250 words together with a biography of 50-100 words through our online application form by 31 March 2025: https://forms.gle/PY4r8KDHH7WXg3Kg8

If you have any trouble with this form, please contact Christine Schmidt: cschmidt@wienerholocaustlibrary.org

All proposals are subject to a review process. The organisers aim to respond to all applications received by summer 2025.

Fee: GBP 120 for speakers. The fee includes admission to all panels and evening events, lunches and refreshments during the conference. Further information and registration details will be made available in due course.

The Czech Journal of Contemporary History (Soudobé dějiny) invites authors to submit articles for a special issue on victim associations in post-socialist and post-conflict countries after 1989.

CfA: Victims, Their Organisations and the Struggle over the Memory of Suffering

The second half of the twentieth century saw a shift in the concept of victimhood in post-socialist and post-conflict countries. While victims are often seen through the lens of trauma and passivity, there is now increased focus on their active role in transitional justice and social mobilization. Victims and their organizations have played an important role in democratic transition and public history and emerged as powerful political and social groups that secured some of their main goals, such as compensations, rehabilitations, redress and acknowledgment. Representatives of victim associations (particularly former political prisoners and their descendants), have also become “guardians of memory”, sharing their experiences while defending their group’s or association’s image. Their goal is not only to integrate the history of state socialist dictatorship victims into broader political and national history, but to enforce their version of the past as the dominant narrative as well.

The thematic block of Soudobé dějiny / Czech Journal of Contemporary History (No. 3/2025) will focus on victim associations in post-socialist and post-conflict countries (East-Central, Southeast and Southern Europe) and their role after 1989. It wants to explore their goals, the activities they used to gain recognition and redress, and their influence on collective memory, politics, and democratization of society. For example, we ask ourselves the following questions:

1. How do the victims define themselves and how does this definition become part of their identity? Do they define themselves as victims, or as heroes and fighters against the communist dictatorship?
2. What means did the victim organizations use to achieve their goals of compensation, redress and recognition?
3. What role did the victim organizations play in the democratization process and how did they change the way societies understand justice, memory and reconciliation?
4. In what ways do victim organizations seek to institutionalize a specific narrative of the past and thus promote their collective memory and interpretation of history in the political and educational process?
5. How did the victim narrative evolve, to what extent and why was it polarized? And how was the polarized narrative and value system transferred to society and how successful has it been? Why do some members of victim organizations cooperate with politicians from extremist right-wing parties?

We welcome articles and essays by historians, as well as by experts in the field of sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and other social science disciplines. The deadline for submission of manuscripts in English, in the range of 5,000 to 15,000 words, is 31 January 2025. Manuscripts should be submitted via our webpage (“for authors – submit manuscript”).

Soudobé dějiny / Czech Journal of Contemporary History is indexed in Scopus, ERIH PLUS, CEEOL and CrossRef.

Kontakt

Milan Drápala, Hana Bortlová
sd@usd.cas.cz

https://sd.usd.cas.cz/

2-5 February 2025, Berlin

The Nazi concentration camp system reached its greatest expansion and highest number of prisoners relatively late, around the turn of 1944/45. Although the history of individual camps and subcamps is well-researched, there is no comprehensive overview of the origins, structure, and living conditions of the prisoner society during its maximum expansion. Who were the prisoners, why and how did they come to the camps, and where did they come from? In particular, the connections between the German occupation throughout Europe and the late phase of the Holocaust have, thus far, been researched to a limited extent. The conference addresses these gaps by bringing together expertise on various topics and regions.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Contexts of the concentration camp system in 1944: the development of the “Inspection of Concentration Camps,” the European-wide radicalization of repression policies, the arms industry and exploitation of prisoners, air warfare and the frontline, the recruitment of civilian labor, other types of camps
- The registration and deportation of prisoner groups in the occupied territories, especially in Poland, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia, but also in Western Europe
- The transnational prisoner society in 1944: a comparison of camp networks, hierarchies, specific topics, and murder campaigns (Aktion 14f13 etc.)
- The transports of Jewish prisoners to the camps in the Reich and Austria in 1944: from Greater Hungary, following the dissolution of the last ghettos in Poland, through the evacuation of camps in the Baltic States via Stutthof
- The society in the Reich and its confrontation with the expanded camp system in 1944: in everyday life, at work, during escapes, criminalization of contacts

A separate panel will discuss the possibilities of (digitally) recording prisoner biographies and their significance for European memory.

We particularly welcome presentations that address not only the micro and individual camp level but also the broader framework of deportations to concentration camps, the prisoner societies, and the political and social contexts of the concentration camp system from the end of 1943 to the beginning of 1945. Please note that the evacuations of the camps and “Endphase” crimes are not within the scope of this conference.

Applications, including an abstract of approximately 1000 characters and a short CV (in German or English), should be sent to buchmeier@stiftung-bg.de by November 22, 2024.

The presentation language is English. Applicants who require translation services are requested to indicate this in their application. Selected speakers will be notified shortly after their submissions are reviewed. Travel and accommodation costs for speakers can be covered in consultation with the organizers.

Contact

buchmeier@stiftung-bg.de

20-21 March 2025, London

This conference explores ways in which particular internationalist visions have spawned and sustained movements that have subverted predominant discourses, challenged existing power asymmetries or sought to overcome socio-economic inequalities.

Counter-Hegemonic Internationalisms: Perspectives from the Past

This conference explores ways in which particular internationalist visions have spawned and sustained movements that have subverted predominant discourses, challenged existing power asymmetries or sought to overcome socio-economic inequalities. It thus shifts the focus from two forms of internationalism that have attracted particular scholarly attention in recent years: on the one hand, Ango-American visions of liberal internationalism that are often associated with bodies such as the League of Nations and United Nations; on the other hand, state-led internationalist ventures in which the Soviet Union and its allies played a prominent role. Instead, this conference will feature papers on grassroots visions and practices of internationalism, examining efforts that operated from the margins and/or within contexts of oppression.

We invite contributions that focus on particular historical case studies or aim for a broader intervention. In chronological terms, papers may concentrate on any period or point in time between the mid-nineteenth century and the recent past. We anticipate that the programme will feature examples that cover various internationalist efforts, including anti-colonial, anti-racist, feminist, queer and anarchist internationalisms. At the same time, the conference will problematise notions of the ‘counter-hegemonic’ – for instance by examining forms of internationalism that, while being framed as coming ‘from below’, could serve exclusionary agendas.

The conference is part of the AHRC-funded project ‘Rethinking Internationalism: Histories and Pluralities’, which is jointly led by Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck), Ria Kapoor (QMUL), Daniel Laqua (Northumbria) and Margot Tudor (City St George’s). ‘Rethinking Internationalism’ seeks to build a community of scholars beyond (sub-)disciplinary silos and across different career stages. Together with its International Advisory Board, the project team are setting up a mentoring scheme, and we are therefore particularly keen on paper proposals from doctoral students, early-career scholars and researchers working under insecure contracts, as they will also be able to receive mentoring via the project. We intend to award travel bursaries to conference participants who do not have access to conference funding via their own institutions or funders.

If you are interested in proposing a paper for this event, please send a title, 300-word abstract and one-page CV to Daniel Laqua (daniel.laqua@northumbria.ac.uk) by 20 November 2024.

Contact Information
Daniel Laqua (daniel.laqua@northumbria.ac.uk)

Contact (announcement)

daniel.laqua@northumbria.ac.uk

Après l’exode massif du début de l’année 1939 qui mène vers la France plusieurs centaines de milliers de républicains espagnols, ces derniers connaissent tout au long de
la Seconde Guerre mondiale des itinéraires marqués par le travail – souvent forcé –, par des engagements militaires et par diverses formes de résistances contre l’occupant de leur pays d’exil. Ils sont prestataires de l’armée française ou soldats incorporés dans des unités étrangères de celle-ci. Et, ce qui est encore relativement méconnu, ils contribuent massivement à l’économie de guerre tout au long de la période en France mais aussi en Allemagne et en Espagne.

Comment la IIIe République puis l’État français dirigé depuis Vichy ont-ils conçu, géré, l’utilisation de la main-d’oeuvre abondante que représentaient ces « étrangers indésirables », d’abord dans les Compagnies puis dans les Groupements de travailleurs étrangers (CTE et GTE) ? Comment les autorités nazies ont-elles puisé dans le vivier des GTE pour leurs besoins industriels en Allemagne et en France occupée, notamment pour la construction du Mur de l’Atlantique ? Et aussi, comment la dictature franquiste a-t-elle fait du travail esclave effectué par ses opposants un pilier économique du régime ?

Les études historiques sont suivies d’articles sur le travail accompli par des associations mémorielles oeuvrant pour rappeler l’histoire des travailleurs forcés des bases sousmarines allemandes et honorer leur mémoire. Deux exemples particulièrement éclairants reflètent la vie des « Espagnols rouges » – Rotspanier – ayant travaillé pour la construction des bases sous-marines de Bordeaux et de Brest.

Ce numéro double comprend également la rubrique « La fabrique des archives », un aperçu sur de nouvelles recherches – femmes galiciennes émigrant seules en Catalogne
sous le franquisme – et des notices de livres – sur des GTE dans le Sud-Est français et sur la guérilla antifranquiste dans le León et en Galice.

Coordination
Geneviève Dreyfus-Armand, Iván López Cabello,
en collaboration avec Peter Gaida et Antonio Muñoz Sánchez.

AU SOMMAIRE DE CE NUMÉRO
Guadalupe Adámez Castro, José Manuel Algarbani, Claudine Allende Santa Cruz, Antoine Caro
Guillerm, Cristina Clímaco, Joël Delhom, Emmanuel Dorronsoro, Geneviève Dreyfus-Armand, Monique
Escobar, Peter Gaida, Diego Gaspar Celaya, Rafael Guerrero Moreno, José Luis Gutiérrez Molina, Iván
López Cabello, Antonio Muñoz Sánchez, Cláudia Ninhos, Wally Rosell, Emma Rubio-Milet, Jean Sala
Pala, Sandrine Saule, Marta Simó, Pierre Souchar, Grégory Tuban, Hugues Vigouroux.

AVEC LE SOUTIEN DE
Centre de recherches ibériques et ibéro-américaines (CRIIA) de l’Université Paris-Nanterre, Centre de
recherches sur les Suds et les Orients de l’Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier-3 (ReSO) et Laboratoire
Héritage et création dans le texte et l’image (HCTI, UR 4249) de l’Université de Brest.

 

by Tony Leah

“Oshawa has fallen!” wrote the monthly New Commonwealth. “One week ago it was known as ‘The Home of General Motors.’ Today it belongs to the United Automobile Workers, International Union.”

How did autoworkers at the GM plant in Oshawa in 1937 beat a rabidly anti-union government, a hostile press, and the world’s largest corporation? The conventional wisdom popularized by academic Irving Abella has obscured the truth about the ’37 strike for 50 years. Abella claimed the international UAW was a hindrance, not a help. He downplayed the role of both reds and rank and file workers. And Abella completely ignored the role of women strikers, stewards and bargainers.

Tony Leah reveals what actually took place at the Oshawa GM plant in 1937 through the voices and actions of rank-and-file workers and shop-floor activists that have been covered up for decades. We need to study the lessons of the ’37 strike; it can provide a guidepost for workers today who are striving to revive a fighting labour movement that can win.

 

“It’s clear, it’s thorough. It reads almost like a novel.” Wayne Lewchuk, Professor Emeritus, McMaster University School of Labour Studies

“It takes the tenacity and truthfulness of a grassroots activist to tell the real story of working-class politics. Tony Leah does just that in this behind-the scenes tale of the historic ’37 GM strike.” Sid Ryan, former President, Ontario Federation of Labour.

Tony Leah is a long-time union activist with experience in bargaining, shop-floor representation, labour education, and political mobilization. A maintenance and construction welder with GM, Oshawa for nearly 40 years, he has held many positions at Local 222 and with the national union. He holds an MA in Labour Studies (2023) from McMaster University and lives in Toronto.

The flyer attached has info on the Toronto Book Launch on October 30, 2024 at 7 PM at A Different Booklist, 779 Bathurst St., Toronto.

https://www.archivosrevista.com.ar   ISSN: 2313-9749 | ISSN en línea: 2683-9601

Índice

• Presentación, Hernán Camarero

Dossier: “Luis Emilio Recabarren y la izquierda socialista-comunista en Chile”

• Presentación del dossier, Ximena Urtubia Odekerken
• El tránsito hacia el comunismo de Luis Emilio Recabarren, Sergio Grez Toso
• De Valparaíso a Buenos Aires. Recabarren y la disputa por la politización obrera (1916-1918), Ximena Urtubia Odekerken
• La temprana construcción patrimonial de Recabarren. Muerte y política en el movimiento obrero chileno de la década de 1920, Jorge Navarro López

Artículos libres

• Los inicios del trotskismo mexicano y la polémica del frente único, 1929-1938, Josué Bustamante González
• Un “fascista comunista” en el interior de Córdoba. Una disputa local desde referencias internacionales en la Argentina de entreguerras, Eugenia Sánchez 
• Resistir, producir e innovar: el caso de la fábrica recuperada Madygraf (exDonnelley) durante la pandemia de covid-19 en Argentina (2020-2021), Ernesto Alejandro Najmias

Intervenciones

• A 50 años de la Revolución de los Claveles: de África a Lisboa, rasgos de una revolución ultramoderna, Raquel Varela y Roberto della Santa

Documentos

• Autonomía, burocratización y peronismo. Un documento de la CGT (1949) y un texto inédito de Juan Carlos Torre para Pasado y Presente (1974), Hernán Camarero
• El debate de la CGT sobre la autonomía sindical en 1949, Juan Carlos Torre
• Actas del Comité Central Confederal. 2 de diciembre de 1949

Crítica de libros

• Daniel James y Mirta Lobato. Paisajes del pasado. Relatos e imágenes de una comunidad obrera, por Paula Varela
• Wolfgang Frutz Haug, Frigga Haug, Peter Jehle y Wolfgang Küttler (eds.). Edición en castellano de Mariela Ferrari, Víctor Strazzeri y Miguel Vedda. Diccionario histórico-crítico del marxismo. Teoría crítica y cambio social, por Antonio Oliva
• Jacinto Cerdá. Negras tormentas. La FORA anarquista en la ciudad de Buenos Aires (1930-1943), por Gisela Manzoni

 

 

Archivos de historia del movimiento obrero y la izquierda, revista de acceso abierto, es una publicación científica de historia social, política, cultural e intelectual, que tiene como objetivo impulsar la investigación, la revisión y la actualización del conocimiento sobre la clase trabajadora, el movimiento obrero y las izquierdas, tanto a nivel nacional como internacional, propiciando el análisis comparativo. Es una publicación semestral (marzo-agosto y septiembre-febrero) y todos sus artículos son sometidos a referato externo con el sistema doble ciego. Las colaboraciones deben ser originales y no estar sometidas simultáneamente a evaluación en ninguna otra publicación.

 

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Archivos es una publicación del Centro de Estudios Históricos de los Trabajadores y las Izquierdas (CEHTI)

Director y Editor Responsable: Hernán Camarero

Secretarios de Redacción: Diego Ceruso y Martín Mangiantini

Rome, 23-24 October 2025

This workshop invites contributions that investigate displacement, migration, and refugee relief in Southern European countries, the Balkans, the Middle East, and North Africa during the Twentieth Century. The main temporal focus lies on (but is not limited to) the period between the early 1920s and the late 1960s, discussing the effects of continued or renewed conflicts on refugees in the Mediterranean from the first postwar period to the aftermath of the Second World War and the first decades of the State of Israel.

Refugees in the Mediterranean. Flight, Migration, and Relief during the Twentieth Century

With the ongoing refugee crisis in the Mediterranean and the current escalation of the Israeli-Arab conflict, research into refugees, migration and forced displacement has gained major significance in contemporary European and Global History. Works at the intersection of refugee studies and the history of humanitarianism are moving into the center of relevant investigations. In this context, the Mediterranean has received key attention as a place of origin of fascist regimes and colonial forms of rule in North Africa, a central sphere for Jewish migration, global center of the Catholic Church, and an important area of transit and socio-cultural transfer between North and South, Orient and Occident, which shaped refugee movements as well as humanitarian actors throughout the Twentieth Century. This workshop invites contributions that investigate displacement, migration, and refugee relief in Southern European countries, the Balkans, the Middle East, and North Africa during the Twentieth Century. The main temporal focus lies on (but is not limited to) the period between the early 1920s and the late 1960s, discussing the effects of continued or renewed conflicts on refugees in the Mediterranean from the first postwar period to the aftermath of the Second World War and the first decades of the State of Israel.
The workshop aims at a critical discussion of contemporary refugee history in the Mediterranean from a long-term perspective and within an interdisciplinary framework, including social, cultural, and legal sciences. The concept expresses the need for further in-depth, source-critical, and comparative studies into refugees and relief work, analyzing problems and shortcomings of the past that have persisted within international refugee policy to this day. We are interested in new research that perceive refugees (individuals and/or groups) as active historical actors, and examine critically the strategies of relief work and power structures within donor-recipient relationships, drawing on original sources such as ego documents, relevant organizational archives, visual documents, oral history projects, etc.

Papers are welcome that correspond to the following broad themes:
- The role of gender, race, and social class in human mobility and refugeedom
- Religious, ethnic, and political identities of refugees and humanitarians and their impact on intra-Mediterranean migration and aid structures
- Intra-Mediterranean migration and socio-cultural transfer, as well as transatlantic/global connections and relief networks
- Fascistization of humanitarian movements and organizations versus anti-fascist refugee relief in national, colonial, and transnational contexts
- Displacement and forced migration as lived experience, (non-)communication of violence
- Gender-based violence and exploitation; gender dynamics and hierarchies within relevant humanitarian organizations and networks
- Human rights discourse and development of international refugee law
- Visual representation and reception of refugees
- Relations between local and global actors; intergovernmental, state, and non-state organizations

The workshop is organized in the framework of the DFG-funded project “Transnational Humanitarianism and Refugee Policy in the Age of World Wars” (Research Centre Global Dynamics at the University of Leipzig) and will take place in Rome, October 23-24, 2025.
The workshop will be conducted in English. Abstracts of up to 300 words along with a short CV should be sent by December 15, 2024, to Ruth Nattermann (natterma@hotmail.com; Ruth.Nattermann@uni-leipzig.de). Successful applicants will be notified by January 31, 2025.
Accommodation and on-the-need-basis travel reimbursement will be provided to active participants

Contact (announcement)

Ruth Nattermann (natterma@hotmail.com; Ruth.Nattermann@uni-leipzig.de)

The research field of childhood experience in Eastern Europe under German occupation faces complex questions and moral dilemmas concerning the capacity of children to act and their liability. Approaches in Holocaust research with a socio-historical perspective therefore require an in-depth analysis of the society in the territories in which the Holocaust took place.

Children and Childhood in the Holocaust in Eastern occupied territories - Perceptions, Actions and Limitations of Children in the Holocaust

For many children war and persecution meant the end of their childhood in “conventional sense” now and then. About 1,1 million Jewish children lost their lives in the Holocaust. Approximately 400,000 further underage victims from other ethnicities should also be acknowledged. The lives of those who survived were shaped by the traumatic experiences.

The research field of childhood experience in Eastern Europe under German occupation faces complex questions and moral dilemmas concerning the capacity of children to act and their liability. Approaches in Holocaust research with a socio-historical perspective there-fore require an in-depth analysis of the society in the territories in which the Holocaust took place. Microhistorical approaches are developing increasingly complex analyses of individual crime scenes and more and more include the local community as an “actor”. Beyond the categories of “perpetrators, victims and bystanders” (Hilberg) emerges a “grey zone”, which reveals a range of choices for locals under German occupation.

Coping strategies with the German occupation were entangled with gender, material preconditions and, to a greater extent, age. The complex of childhood in the Second World War and the Holocaust has been portrayed heterogeneously in the post-war period. Children were generally excluded from history or memorized as vulnerable and inactive martyrs. From a historical perspective, this imagined passivity cannot be maintained. While Jewish children were marginalized, exploited, and murdered as victims of the nazi extermination policy soon after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, there were other conditions for children who belonged to the majority society in which they had to ensure their survival. Beyond German extermination policy in Eastern Europe, recent research shows a wide range of policies in treatment of children, such as the enslavement as forced worker (Ostarbeiter), the colonization of ethnic German children in what is now Ukraine, the forced Germanization of Polish children, the mobilization of Belarusian children in the White Ruthenian Youth Work, the penal camps and extermination for young Roma in Estonia, to name fates of children under German occupation in their various forms without claiming to be exhaustive.

This prompts us to ask how children navigated their choices for action under the constraints, demands and dangers they faced under occupation. And it seems like being a child was not solely a deprivation in the struggle for survival but could be used even more as a “resource” as the historian Yulia von Saal puts it. By focusing more on the “agency” of the child, completely new research perspectives emerge.

Beyond the genuinely historical perspective, newer research approaches, particularly from the memory studies, can be used to take an analytical look at the oral history testimonies of children and point out their special features. How do childhood experiences and narratives differ from those of adults? How can testimonies of children be interpreted with the right hermeneutics? Oral history is now considered to be the most versatile medium of children's memories, additionally autobiographies, drawings and all other material and immaterial cultures of children would be an interesting object of research. Furthermore, psychological research of children in the Holocaust and its aftermath concerning traumatic experiences are appreciated.

Given this background, a special issue of Eastern European Holocaust Studies will focus on the complex of children and childhood in the Holocaust in Eastern occupied territories. Articles of 7,000 words (including references) in English or Ukrainian are invited on any of the following themes:
- Relationships between Jewish and non-Jewish children before, during and after the war
- “Daily life” of Jewish children in camps and ghettos
- Means of survival. Hiding, evasion and help for Jewish children
- Means of resistance. Jewish and non-Jewish children's activity in the resistance
- Commemoration and Memorization. Representation of children in the Holocaust in memorial landscapes and collective memory
- Forced labor, captivity, reprisal and deportation. Nazi policy towards children in the occupied territories of Eastern Europe
- Germanization, colonization, politicization. Mobilization of children in the occupied territories of Eastern Europe
- Memory Studies and Oral History. Perspectives on childhood memories in relation to trauma and reliability
- Differences and perceptions. Comparative analysis of childhood and adult narrative
- Adultification. Children as family providers and as heads of families
- Perception of Gender. Normative expectations of “girls” and “boys” shaping their means and limitations for action
- Vulnerable bodies. Children as victims of sexual violence
- Orphanages as ambivalent spaces for survival and persecution
- In the “grey zone”. Children between forced requisition and collaboration
- Witnessing the Holocaust. Children as eyewitnesses of atrocities, shootings and violence
- Object history and immaterial legacies. Products of children during the Holocaust like drawings, magazines, games, diaries and jokes
- Justifying the Unjustifiable. The perpetrators' narratives of the murder of children during and after the Holocaust

Please submit abstracts of 500 words and a short bio until first of November 2024, to the following e-mail address: eehs@degruyter.com. Authors will be notified of acceptance shortly after. The language of submission is English or Ukrainian.

Kontakt

eehs@degruyter.com

Wir fragen: Wie lebten Menschen mit Behinderungen in den beiden deutschen Staaten nach 1945? Welche Konzepte von Behinderung gab es während des Kalten Krieges in Ost und West? Wo steht die Forschung dazu?
Sie haben Antworten darauf, arbeiten zum Thema oder planen ein Forschungsprojekt? Wir laden Sie herzlich ein, einen Beitrag für das Symposium „Der Umgang mit Behinderung nach 1945. Die DDR und Westdeutschland in internationaler Perspektive“ einzureichen, das die Stiftung Ettersberg und die Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur am 22. & 23. Mai 2025 in Erfurt veranstalten. Einsendeschluss ist der 30.11.2024.

Der Umgang mit Behinderung nach 1945. Die DDR und Westdeutschland in internationaler Perspektive

Die Stiftung Ettersberg und die Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur führen am 22. & 23. Mai 2025 eine gemeinsame Tagung durch, die sich dem Thema ›Umgang mit Behinderung nach 1945. Die DDR und Westdeutschland in internationaler Perspektive‹ widmet.

Die aus dem interdisziplinären Forschungsfeld der Disability Studies entstandene Disability History hat in den vergangenen Jahren dazu beigetragen, bislang wenig oder nicht beachtete, komplexe Geschichten von Menschen mit Behinderungen in Ost und West in den Blick zu nehmen und so neue Perspektiven auf historische Ereignisse und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen zu werfen. Während der nationalsozialistische Massenmord an Kranken und Menschen mit Behinderungen mittlerweile relativ gut erforscht ist1, steht die Forschung zum Umgang mit Behinderung nach 1945 noch am Anfang. Erste sozial- und kulturgeschichtliche Studien zum Leben von Menschen mit Behinderungen in Westdeutschland, der DDR und anderen Staaten Ost- und Ostmitteleuropas2 unterstreichen die Notwendigkeit eines vergleichenden Blicks, um die Spezifika zwischen den einzelnen Ländern und politischen Systemen besser herausarbeiten zu können. Welche Konstruktionen und Vorstellungen von Behinderung gab es und wie veränderten sich diese im Laufe der Zeit? Inwieweit wirkten das nationalsozialistische Menschenbild und die systematische Ermordung von Menschen mit Behinderungen auch nach 1945 in Deutschland und Europa nach? Und unter welchen politischen, sozialen, ökonomischen und kulturellen Voraussetzungen stand der Umgang mit Menschen mit Behinderungen nach 1945?

In historischen Museen und Gedenkstätten und dabei insbesondere in Dauerausstellungen zur Geschichte nach 1945 finden sich nur selten Erfahrungen und Geschichten von Menschen mit Behinderungen. Dies, obwohl Themen wie Inklusion und Barrierefreiheit in Kulturinstitutionen in den vergangenen Jahren erfreulicherweise stärker in den Vordergrund gerückt sind. Doch die Diskussion über inklusive Arbeit in Museen und Gedenkstätten beschränkt sich zum einen häufig auf bauliche Barrierefreiheit und die Teilhabe an museumspädagogischen, zielgruppenorientierten Angeboten. Zum anderen wird Geschichte auch in diesem Zusammenhang häufig aus Sicht der ›Mehrheitsgesellschaft‹ vermittelt, obwohl beispielsweise Fragen nach gesellschaftlichen Inklusions- und Exklusionsmechanismen in historischer Perspektive – vor der Hintergrundfolie gegenwärtig wieder erstarkender antidemokratischer Kräfte, insbesondere von rechts – eine zunehmend größere Rolle spielen.

An diesen Punkten setzt die Konferenz ›Der Umgang mit Behinderung nach 1945. Die DDR und Westdeutschland in internationaler Perspektive‹ an und bringt die Erkenntnisse aus der Forschung zur Disability History mit der praktischen Geschichtsvermittlung in historischen Museen und Gedenkstätten zusammen.

Wir freuen uns auf Beiträge, die sich mit dem Umgang mit Behinderung in historischer Perspektive nach 1945 beschäftigen und die einzelne oder mehrere Aspekte aus unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen, Lebenssituationen und -entwürfen explizit aus der Perspektive von Menschen mit Behinderungen in den Blick nehmen:

- Bildung & Arbeit: Die Integration von Menschen mit Behinderungen in den Arbeitsmarkt stand in den staatsozialistischen Ländern im Vordergrund. Wie aber sahen die (Aus-) Bildungsperspektiven und die Arbeit von Menschen mit Behinderungen in staatlichen Betrieben konkret aus? Und wo stießen sie an ihre Grenzen?
- Religion & Gesellschaft: Welchen Einfluss hatten Religionen und Weltanschauungen auf den Umgang mit Menschen mit Behinderungen in West- und Osteuropa? Welche Rolle wurde behinderten Menschen im Staatssozialismus zuerkannt? Und wie sah deren tatsächlicher Alltag in den staatsozialistischen Regimen aus? Wie unterschied sich etwa der Alltag von behinderten Menschen in westeuropäischen Ländern zu dem in der DDR in den 1970er- oder 1980er Jahren?
- Kunst & Kultur: Welche Rolle nahmen Menschen mit Behinderungen in Kunst und Kultur ein? Wie gestaltete (und veränderte) sich die Repräsentanz von Menschen mit Behinderungen in Gesellschaft und Medien?
- Gebaute Umwelt & Barrieren: Wann und wo entwickelten sich Ideen zum barrierefreien Bauen? Und wie wurden sie umgesetzt? Und ging mit der Idee einer barriereärmeren Umwelt eine allgemeine Veränderung im Umgang und der Wahrnehmung von Menschen mit Behinderungen einher?
- Selbstbestimmung & Fremdzuschreibungen: Welche Vergemeinschaftungsformen von Menschen mit Behinderungen gab es in West- und Osteuropa und wie unterschieden sie sich je nach Zeit, Region und Behinderungsart? Wie organisierten sich Menschen mit Behinderungen und deren Angehörige? Welche Selbstdefinitionen, Selbstorganisationen und Selbstermächtigungspraktiken fanden Betroffenencommunities?

Darüber hinaus laden wir dazu ein, darüber nachzudenken, wie Erkenntnisse der Disability History gewinnbringend in die Geschichtsvermittlung von historischen Museen, Gedenkstätten und Lernorten der außerschulischen historisch-politischen Bildung integriert werden können.

- Welche ›weißen‹ Flecken der Disability History müssen hierfür geschlossen werden? Welche Methoden und Ideen haben sich als erfolgreich erwiesen? Welche Programme gilt es zu entwickeln? Und wie können Menschen mit Behinderungen von Beginn an in Konzeption und Umsetzung einbezogen werden?

Wir bitten darum, ein Kurzexposé (max. 2.500 Zeichen inkl. Leerzeichen auf Deutsch) des Themenvorschlages sowie einen kurzen Lebenslauf bis zum 30. November 2024 an: barrierefrei@stiftung-ettersberg.de zu senden.

Geplant ist eine interdisziplinäre Tagung, auf der sowohl Early Career Scientists als auch erfahrene Forschende und Expert:innen in eigener Sache zu Wort kommen sollen. Die Vorträge sollten 15 Minuten nicht überschreiten. Reisekosten, Übernachtungskosten und Verpflegung der Konferenzbeiträger:innen werden im Rahmen der geltenden gesetzlichen Bestimmungen und vorbehaltlich beantragter Mittel von den Veranstaltern übernommen.

Eine Publikation der Beiträge wird angestrebt.

Anmerkungen:
1 Das gilt in erster Linie für das nationalsozialistische »Euthanasieprogramm«, in dessen Zusammenhang schätzungsweise 300.000 Menschen mit Behinderungen und psychischen Erkrankungen in Europa ermordet wurden. Siehe hierzu beispielhaft: Jörg Osterloh/Jan Erik Schulte (Hrsg.): »Euthanasie« und Holocaust. Kontinuitäten, Kausalitäten, Parallelitäten (Schriftenreihe der Gedenkstätte Hadamar, 1), Paderborn 2021; im Speziellen zur so genannten »Aktion T4«: Maike Rotzoll u.a. (Hrsg.): Die nationalsozialistische »Euthanasie«-Aktion »T4« und ihre Opfer: Geschichte und ethische Konsequenzen für die Gegenwart. Paderborn 2010; bezogen auf die europäische Dimension der nationalsozialistischen »Euthanasie«-Politik siehe: Sybille Steinbacher/Jörg Osterloh/Jan Erik Schulte (Hrsg.): »Euthanasie«-Verbrechen im besetzten Europa. Zur Dimension des nationalsozialistischen Massenmords (Studien zur Geschichte und Wirkung des Holocaust, 6), Göttingen 2022, zugleich Schriftenreihe der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Band 11055, Bonn 2024.
2 Hier hat es insbesondere mit Blick auf die DDR-Geschichte in den vergangenen Jahren einige Veröffentlichungen gegeben. Für einen umfassenden Überblick siehe: Sebastian Barsch/Elsbeth Bösl: Disability History. Behinderung sichtbar machen: Emanzipationsbewegung und Forschungsfeld, in: Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History, Online-Ausgabe, 19 (2022), H. 2; oder neue Studien wie etwa von Pia Schmüser: Familiäre Rehabilitation? Eine Alltagsgeschichte ostdeutscher Haushalte mit behinderten Kindern (1945–1990), Frankfurt/New York 2023 oder Ulrike Winkler: Mit dem Rollstuhl in die Tatra-Bahn. Menschen mit Behinderungen in DDR: Lebensbedingungen und materielle Barrieren, Halle 2023; Mit Blick auf Westdeutschland siehe beispielsweise: Sebastian Schlund: »Behinderung« überwinden? Organisierter Behindertensport in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (1950–1990), Frankfurt a.M. 2017; oder etwa für die Sowjetunion: Claire Shaw: Deaf in the USSR. Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917–1991, Ithaca 2017.

Kontakt

Dr. Jenny Baumann – Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur (j.baumann@bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de)

Dr. Christine Schoenmakers – Bundestiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur (c.schoenmakers@bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de)

Dr. Katharina Schwinde – Stiftung Ettersberg (schwinde@stiftung-ettersberg.de)

Prague, 5-6 May 2025

International Conference held on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the End of World War II

This international conference aims at the issue of post-war transformation in a wider European context. The focus here is on cities not only as places, but also as actors of social, cultural, economic and political processes.

Main conference organiser: Prague City Museum

Cooperating institutions: Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences; The Twentieth Century Memorial Museum; Faculty of Education of Charles University, National Theatre, National Film Archive & Czech Association of Museums and Galleries

Date: May 5–6, 2025

Venue: The Prague City Museum's Main Building (Na Poříčí 1554/52, Praha 8, Czechia)

E-mail: conference1945@muzeumprahy.cz

Argument

The conference focuses on contemporary research on issues related to the end of World War II and and post-war transformations in the Czech, Czechoslovak, and broader European contexts. The primary attention aims on cities and towns, which are viewed not only as important sites of historical events but also as the key actors in social, cultural, political, and economic processes.

This meeting offers an opportunity for interdisciplinary discussions and the confrontation of various thematic areas and approaches, as well as the presentation of current scientific research projects. The conference also aims to contribute to cross-border dialogue and deepen international cooperation between academic and memory institutions.

Considering different points of view, methods, and perspectives, it would be great to present the papers from the multiple academic disciplines, including history, political science, sociology, urban anthropology, cultural studies, art history, museum pedagogy and economics.

Topics of interest

(not necessarily exactly according to these points)

Cities on the way to the end of conflict

• The end of World War II in broader geopolitical contexts
• Forms of anti-Nazi resistance and combat operations in the Czech and European contexts – sabotage, diversionary actions, and resistance movements
• Uprisings and anti-occupation demonstrations – their actors, sites, and course; comparisons across European regions (e.g. Warsaw, Paris, Milan, Genoa), the situation in the Czech lands and Slovakia
• The politics of occupation administration at the end of the war, the circumstances of German capitulation
• Allied forces and their prolonged presence in occupied areas
• Retribution
• The liberation and the end of World War II as a subject of post-war propaganda
• Reflection of war experiences

Cities on the Threshold of Post-War Transformation

• Development of post-war local governments in 1945–1948; the role of national committees
• The post-war economy, the process of nationalization
• Specifics of the rationing system in the wartime and beyond
• Post-war healthcare (state policy, organization of medical care and health services in cities, the role of humanitarian organizations)
• Wartime and post-war education

Social Aspects of Post-War Development

• Demographic developments from regional and micro-regional perspectives after 1945
• Everyday life in post-war cities (housing, holidays, festivities, sports…)
• The position of women during the war and beyond
• Ethnic homogenization and the status of the German population in Czechoslovakia
• Forced migration and regional specifics of the expulsion process
• Reflection of post-war realities from the perspective of expelled and non-expelled German populations
• The process of re-emigration of civilians
• The phenomenon of violence and its forms in the post-war period
• The activities and role of humanitarian organizations
• The decline of the legal concept of domicile and its impact on life in towns

The Nylon Age (1945–1948) in Culture

• Cultural and memory institutions at the end of the war and on the threshold of the post-war era
• Inter Arma Silent Musae? – Wartime and post-war film, theatre, and music production
• The image of the end of World War II in the arts
• The trajectory and restoration of objects and historical artifacts after 1945
• Post-war commemoration in art (memorials, statues, monuments)
• Television and radio broadcasting
• Changes in education and memory policies

The End of World War II and the Post-War Period as an Educational Theme

• Educational approaches and methods
• The use of film in teaching history and social science subjects
• Education and memory sites
• School and museum collaborations in the sphere of educational programmes

Organizational Guidelines

Please send the abstracts of your papers (200–300 words) along with a brief biography and institutional affiliation, via email address conference1945@muzeumprahy.cz

by December 31, 2024.

• The conference papers should not be longer than 20 minutes.
• The working languages of the conference and all submissions: Czech, English.
• You will be informed about the acceptance or rejection of your submission by January 15, 2025. The organizers reserve the right to choose the proposals.
• The articles will be published after a double-blind peer-review process in the conference volume. Some papers may also be submitted for peer-review in journals such as Studia Musei Pragensis (formerly Historica Pragensia), Soudobé dějiny /Czech Journal of Contemporary History, or Marginalia Historica.
• Deadline of registration of participants without papers: April 30, 2025.
• A cultural program accompanying the conference is being prepared, and participants will be informed of the details in due course.
• If you have any questions, please contact us via e-mail conference1945@muzeumprahy.cz.

Conference fee

500,- CZK / 20,- EUR (covers coffee breaks and organizational expenses during the two- or three-day programme)

Conference Organizing Committee

• Mgr. Bohuslav Rejzl, Ph.D. (Prague City Museum)
• Mgr. Magdaléna Šustová (Prague City Museum) 
• Mgr. et Mgr. Zdenko Maršálek, Ph.D. (Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
• PhDr. Ing. Jana Kasíková, Ph.D. (Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
• PhDr. Stanislav Kokoška, Ph.D. (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes)
• Mgr. Karolína Stegurová, Ph.D. (National Theatre in Prague)
• Prof. PhDr. Jiří Pokorný, CSc. (Faculty of Education, Charles University)
• PhDr. Petr Blažek, Ph.D. (The Twentieth Century Memorial Museum)
• Mgr. Petr Chlebec (Commission of History, Czech Association of Museums and Galleries)

Das Kolloquium findet im Wintersemester 2024/25 an drei Terminen online statt.

19. Kolloquium Geschichte der Arbeitswelten und der Gewerkschaften

Das Kolloquium bringt Historiker:innen zusammen, die in der ganzen methodischen und theoretischen Vielfalt des Faches zur Geschichte der Arbeitswelten und der Gewerkschaften forschen. Das bundesweit einladende Kolloquium bietet die Gelegenheit, historische, aber auch interdisziplinär angelegte Forschungen vom Dissertationskonzept bis zur Postdoc-Arbeit zur Diskussion zu stellen; es dient dem Austausch und der Vernetzung in diesem Teilgebiet der Sozialgeschichte.

Das Kolloquium findet semesterweise wechselnd digital oder als Tagesveranstaltung am Institut für soziale Bewegungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Stefan Berger), am Lehrstuhl für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte der Universität Augsburg (Dietmar Süß), dem Arbeitsbereich Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte der Universität Bamberg (Nina Kleinöder), an der Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg (Knud Andresen) oder dem Historischen Seminar der Universität Leipzig (Detlev Brunner) statt. Getragen und finanziert wird das Kolloquium von der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung und der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung.
Die beteiligten Lehrstühle, Institute und Stiftungen möchten mit dieser Kooperation Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeitswelten anregen und fördern

Die Teilnahme am Kolloquium ist kostenlos. Wir bitten um Anmeldung bis zwei Tage vor dem jeweiligen Kolloquiumstermin bei Alexandra Jaeger: alexandra.jaeger@fes.de.

Programm

5. November 2024, 14.00-15.30 Uhr
Till Goßmann
Vom Plan zum Markt. Der Wandel der Arbeitswelt im ostdeutschen „Konsum“ in den 1990er Jahren

12. Dezember 2024, 14.00-15.30 Uhr
Lars Kravagna
Neoliberalismus in der Offensive? Die Neoliberalisierung des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes am Beispiel der Entsendung von „Billigarbeitskräften“ in der deutschen Bauwirtschaft

22. Januar 2025, 15.00-16.30 Uhr
Amanda Witkowski
Eingeschlossen oder ausgeschlossen? Die Wahrnehmung der Interessenvertretung koreanischer Krankenschwestern in Mit-bestimmungsgremien und Gewerkschaft in der BRD

World History Bulletin is seeking quality research essays, experiential learning case studies, and classroom activities for inclusion in its upcoming Fall/Winter 2024 issue, “Dissent in World History.”

"Dissent in World History" | World History Bulletin | Fall/Winter 2024

Guest-edited by Barbara J. Falk, Professor in the Department of Defence Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada and Director of Academics at the Canadian Forces College, the issue will explore the question of national and transnational dissent in its broadest sense and across all historical time periods. Falk has written, published and taught about resistance, dissent and dissidence for more than 30 years.

Recent protests on college campuses across the United States over the Israel-Hamas conflict call to mind various examples of dissent throughout modern world history, from independence movements in Africa and the response to suppressive regimes in parts of South America, to revolutions in Cuba and China, dissent against communist and authoritarian governments in Central and Eastern Europe, and civil rights movements in apartheid South Africa and the Southern United States. Yet the genealogy of dissent is deeply embedded as a motive force in world history—from Plato’s critiques of Athenian democracy and the work of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove to the fight against racist carceral systems in the West and the Arab Spring—and is ingrained in and inscribed on the human experience.

The origins of and responses to theories and practices of dissent raise myriad questions about its nature, the forms dissent can and has taken, who determines/decides what is/is not appropriate in terms of defining or expressing dissent, the motives of actors involved, and the responsibilities of officials to enable or foreclose opportunities for dissent and under what legal or ethical lines of reasoning.

The Bulletin is interested in submissions covering a range of topics related to the theme of dissent in world history, including:
- Origins of Dissent Movements. The social, cultural, political, and/or economic factors which have motivated movements in the past.
- Dissent Case Studies. The exploration of instances of dissent and their ramifications for local or global history and practice.
- Globalized Dissent. Examining global responses to regional/local conflicts/conditions.
- Freedom, Dissent, and Suppression. Studying the tensions between a society with institutionalized freedom of expression and state actors/officials who intervene to suppress dissent.
- Authoritarian Learning and Dissent. How contemporary authoritarian states are repurposing techniques of suppression and adopting and adapting new forms of surveillance and control to persecute, prosecute and eliminate dissent.
- Future Dissent. How innovation disrupted the landscape of dissent in the past, and how this might serve as a guide to future dissent movements.
- Techniques used in the classroom to introduce and explore dissent as part of wider political and sociocultural phenomena.
- Historiographies of theories and practice concerned with dissent in World History.

World History Bulletin therefore invites contributions to a thematic issue on dissent in world history. We are especially interested in articles that share novel research or historiographical perspectives which explore the origins of dissent movements as part of wider sociocultural and political circumstances and examine discursive elements between dissent and reform (political, social, cultural, and economic); present innovative teaching at all levels that employs techniques related to dissent, revolution, and counterrevolution in world history; or explore the connection between student engagement and world history as a result of coursework related to the theme “dissent in world history.” We also welcome short interviews with designers, artists, writers, and scholars and small roundtables on a book, film, or other work.

Submission Guidelines: Research and pedagogical articles should range between 1,500 and 6,000 words in length, including endnote text. The Bulletin accepts submissions which adhere to the style, format, and documentation requirements as outlined in the most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. The Bulletin uses endnote citations, rather than footnote citations. Text of submissions should be spelled according to American English standard usage (e.g., favorite, rather than favourite). Submissions should be written in past tense, rather than the literary present, and passive voice should be avoided.

Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024

Essays and questions should be directed to Joseph M. Snyder, Editor-in-Chief of World History Bulletin, at bulletin@thewha.org.

Contact (announcement)

bulletin@thewha.org

https://www.thewha.org/publications/whb-publication/

by Adeline Blaszkiewicz

Homme politique majeur de la IIIe République, Albert Thomas (1878-1932) est resté dans l’ombre de personnalités comme Jean Jaurès ou Léon Blum. Il faut dire que l’homme a des positions qui le placent en marge du mouvement socialiste, dont il se revendique pourtant jusqu’à son dernier souffle. Ouvertement réformiste quand le marxisme révolutionnaire s’impose dans la gauche française, ministre de l’Armement pendant la Première Guerre mondiale au moment où la gauche européenne renoue avec le pacifisme, il devient aux yeux des socialistes et des communistes le « ministre des obus » et le fossoyeur de l’idéal de paix. Opposé à la Révolution russe de 1917, il défend un socialisme républicain, convaincu de l’importance de la voie législative et du dialogue social pour changer le monde. Premier directeur du Bureau international du travail, il est un ardent défenseur de la régulation du capitalisme par l’instauration d’un code du travail mondial. Appuyé sur des archives inédites et variées, cet ouvrage retrace le parcours de ce précurseur de la social-démocratie à la française, et offre une plongée passionnante dans l’histoire de la IIIe République et dans celle des internationalismes du début du XXe siècle.

https://www.puf.com/albert-thomas-une-histoire-du-reformisme-social

⚒️ Doctoral Schools specialist course Labour, Mobilization, and the Politics of Work ✏️
📅 Date & Time:  December 10-12, 09:00-18:00
📍 Location: Ghent University

✍ Registration: https://event.ugent.be/registration/labourmobilisationpoliticswork2425 

This doctoral course invites PhD students to critically engage with the interdisciplinary analysis of work. We will look into identities and struggles of workers, emphasizing the importance of participatory research approaches. It challenges conventional views that marginalize workers and position researchers as neutral observers, arguing instead for active participation in knowledge production. The course will examine the interconnectedness between labour mobilisation and the rise of precarious jobs, informal contracts, and flexible working conditions. It aims to provide PhD candidates with the necessary tools to research and analyse the world of paid and unpaid work. In a world dominated by neoliberal ideologies that exacerbate inequalities and erode workers' rights, this course seeks to refocus attention on workers' experiences and agency. More than just an academic pursuit, this course is committed to fostering research that is both academically rigorous and socially impactful, inspiring early career researchers to contribute to a more equal and democratic society.

📌Programme

Day 1: Intersectional analysis of work: class, gender and race in and beyond the global workplace (10th of December)

• Social reproduction and globalisation of production (Dr Alessandra Mezzadri, SOAS, UK)

• In and Against the Ecological Crisis: Working-Class Environmentalism between Workplace and Community (Dr Lorenzo Feltrin, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice – Geneva Graduate Institute, IT/CH)

Day 2: Participatory and movement-relevant research methods (11th of December)

• Decolonial and Participatory Research Approaches: Beyond Methods (Dr Adriana Moreno-Cely, VUB, BE)

• Movement-relevant research methods (Dr Levi Gahman, Liverpool University, UK)

• Counter-mapping conventional geographies of work, production and value (Dr Katharina Grueneisl, University of Nottingham & Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain, UK/TU)

Day 3: Workers' research, activism and organising (12th of December)

• Workers' inquiry and class composition (Dr Jamie Woodcock, Notes From Below/KCL, UK)

• Reproductive labour and union organising in Belgium and Georgia (Dr Sigrid Vertommen, UGent & University of Amsterdam, BE/NL)

• Participant-led research workshops (UGent PhD students)

Who?

PhD students, postdocs, organisers, activists, labour unionists and anyone else interested in the course. This course is organized for social science, humanities and non-social science disciplines, but we particularly invite business students who wish to engage with critical approaches to work/labour. We also welcome international and exchange students. Everyone is welcome. No registration fee is required!

Further information https://www.ugent.be/doctoralschool/en/doctoraltraining/courses/specialistcourses/labour-mobilisation-politics-work2425 and poster attached. 📎

Registration deadline is 25 November 2024.

Organised by PhD students and postdocs of the Department of Conflict and Development Studies; contact for questions and queries: fayrouz.yousfi@ugent.be; allan.souzaqueiroz@ugent.be. 

Vous trouverez en pièce jointe l'appel à articles de la revue Terrains & Travaux pour transmettre un dossier sur « Les ancrages sociaux de la grève » coordonné par Pauline Grimaud, Baptiste Giraud, Maxime Quijoux et Gabriel Rosenman

l'OAB (CREA, Paris Nanterre) et CREW (Sorbonne Nouvelle) organisent conjointement une journée d'étude autour de la question d'agrégation “Mouvements protestataires, contestations politiques et luttes sociales en Grande-Bretagne (1811- 1914)” le 31 janvier 2025.

La journée se tiendra sur le site de l'université Paris Nanterre, Bâtiment Max Weber (W), Salle des conférences (RER A, arrêt Nanterre Université)

 

Le programme est le suivant :

 

9-9:15 Introduction : Laurence Dubois & Charlotte Gould (OAB, Université Paris Nanterre)

Chair : Myriam-Isabelle Ducrocq (Université Paris Nanterre)

9:15-9:45 Robert Poole (University of Central Lancashire) : “Peterloo and the Radical Movement” 

9:45-10:15 Michel Prum (Université Paris Cité) : “Chartism revisited - a pre-Marxist view”

10:15-10:45 Ophélie Siméon (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) : “Women, workers and citizens. Rethinking the political role of the Owenite movement, 1820-1845”

10:45-11:15 Q&A

11-15-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-12 Ryan Hanley (University of Exeter) : “Popular Politics and the Abolition Movement in Britain, 1787-1833”

12-12:15 Q&A

12:15-1:30 LUNCH BREAK

Chair : Thierry Labica (Université Paris Nanterre)

1:30-2 Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière (Sorbonne Université) : “The relationship between the British Socialist and Suffrage Movements, 1884 -1914”

2-2:30 Yann Béliard (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) : “The Daily Herald, product and mirror of the Great Labour Unrest, 1912-1914”

2:30-2:50 Q&A

2:50-3.10 Coffee break

3:10-3:40  Steven Parfitt (independent scholar) : “The Knights of Labour in Britain”

3:40-4:10 Daniel Renshaw (University of Reading) : “The British Left and Migrant Socialism, 1889-1914”

4:10-4:30 Q&A

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Comité d'organisation :

Yann Béliard (Sorbonne Nouvelle) 

Laurence Dubois (Nanterre) 

Charlotte Gould (Nanterre)

Ophélie Siméon (Sorbonne Nouvelle)

 

En ligne : https://crea.parisnanterre.fr/colloques-et-journees-detude/agenda/journee-detudes-question-dagregation-mouvements-protestataires-contestations-politiques-et-luttes-sociales-en-grande-bretagne-1811-1914