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LAWCHA Conference 2027
Working Across Divisions
June 24-26
UMass Boston

“Working Across Divisions” asks us to think critically about the dichotomies that structure both the world of labor and our analyses of it, and then to trouble those boundaries. Scholars often define one form of labor against another: wage vs. unwaged labor; public vs. private; domestic vs.  marketplace; free vs. bound; productive vs. unproductive; skilled vs. unskilled. These categories have shaped law, organizing, policy, and scholarship. Yet they have also obscured the ways that working people  consistently cross, blur, and unsettle such divisions, laboring across boundaries of race, age, gender, citizenship, empire, and nation. They have confronted fractures within the working class itself, including divisions rooted in racism, sexism, xenophobia, ableism, and anti-Blackness, while also forging solidarities that transcend them. How have such divisions been constructed, maintained, resisted, or reimagined? Under what conditions have workers built alliances across lines of craft, sector, immigration status, or political ideology? When have those efforts faltered, and why?

At a moment when new technologies, global supply chains, environmental crises, and resurgent authoritarianisms reshape the terrain of work, we ask how we might expand the boundaries of what counts as “work” and who counts as a “worker.” How do carceral labor, reproductive labor, care work, and climate-related labor struggles challenge inherited analytical frameworks? How might histories of colonialism, racial capitalism, and imperialism help us rethink divisions between metropole and periphery, North and South, formal and informal economies? What can labor history contribute to contemporary debates about AI, automation, border regimes, and the future of organizing? “Working Across Divisions” ultimately calls on us to examine not only how labor has been divided, but also how working people have imagined and enacted unity across differences. By historicizing division and foregrounding efforts to overcome it, we hope to foster conversations that illuminate both the fractures and the possibilities within working-class life, past and present.

We welcome papers that explore labor and working-class history across all time periods and geographic regions. We especially encourage comparative, transnational, and global approaches; scholarship that bridges academic and activist communities; and work that connects theory and praxis. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

·       migration and mobility

·       coercion and unfreedom

·       care work and social reproduction

·       labor and the environment

·       disability and work

·       religion and labor

·       labor and incarceration

·       higher education and academic labor

·       public history and pedagogy

·       intersections of labor with race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and citizenship

We will consider traditional panels with 3 papers; roundtables; performance-oriented and artistic sessions, including films; proposals for a poster session; and moderated conversations between activists or artists and historians. We welcome proposals from scholars and activists in all fields, and especially urge submissions from contingent faculty, community college faculty, K-12 teachers, and independent scholars.
We encourage the submission of complete panels rather than individual papers. Single paper authors are encouraged to seek out others prior to submission. We ask that organizers aim for diversity in the gender identity, race, ethnicity, and/or employment status of presenters when pulling together submissions. To assist, the conference has created a collaboration form where individuals can post ideas and seek others to create panels.
Proposals should be submitted by November 1. The conference will take place June 24-26 at the University of Massachusetts - Boston. Conference email: LAWCHA2027@gmail.com

LAWCHA 2027 Program Co-Chairs
Alexandra Finley, University of Pittsburgh
Sergio González, Marquette University

by Assata Shakur

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that had claimed the life of a white state trooper. Long a target of J. Edgar Hoover's campaign to defame, infiltrate, and criminalize Black nationalist organizations and their leaders, Shakur was incarcerated for four years prior to her conviction on flimsy evidence in 1977 as an accomplice to murder.

This intensely personal and political autobiography belies the fearsome image of JoAnne Chesimard long projected by the media and the state. With wit and candor, Assata Shakur recounts the experiences that led her to a life of activism and portrays the strengths, weaknesses, and eventual demise of Black and White revolutionary groups at the hand of government officials. The result is a signal 
contribution to the literature about growing up Black in America that has already taken its place alongside The Autobiography of Malcolm X and the works of Maya Angelou. Two years after her conviction, Assata Shakur escaped from prison. She was given political asylum by Cuba, where she now resides.

Journal for the History of Environment and Society (JHES) 10/2025 has been published as a special issue marking ten years of ecological historiography. The journal is freely available online in open access.

The Journal for the History of Environment and Society (JHES) is an international journal for environmental history published by a Belgian-Dutch editorial board with Prof. Tim Soens (University of Antwerp) as editor-in-chief and Amsab-ISG as editorial secretariat. The journal has been published by Brepols since 2016. One issue appears per year, which is available in print as well as in Open Access at Brepols Online.

JHES 10/2025 - Environmental History at a Crossroads

• Celebrating Ten Years of the Journal for the History of Environment and Society Editorial
• Environmental Change and Imperial Governance Sabine R. Huebner
• “Better Seen with Others' Observations” Penelope K. Hardy
• Making Modern Raw Materials Sebastian Haumann
• Imperial Ecologies Tom Demange

Available for free consultation in Open Access

Organiser: Swiss Society for History Funded by: Schweizerische Akademie für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften Postcode: 3012 Ort: Bern Country: Switzerland Event type: Hybrid event Date: 04.12.2026 Website: https://www.sgg-ssh.ch/news/angriffe-auf-historikerinnen-und-die-krise-der-demokratie/

Critical historical scholarship is an important pillar of democratic societies. However, without democratic and legal frameworks, historians and their research are at risk.

What does it mean for historians when democracy and self-governing scientific institutions come under attack, with their legitimacy called into question from various sides? How can historians react to social media’s increased platforming of hostility towards science?

As part of an event organized by the «Science Policy» Department of the Swiss Society for History, three organizations (Comité de Vigilance face aux usages publics de l’histoire, hist4dem, Network of Concerned Historians) will highlight examples of best practice, explore how scholars from different disciplines can learn from each other, and discuss opportunities for networking across disciplines.

We will examine attacks on researchers and research and ask: How can a legitimate scientific debate be protected from agenda-driven misrepresentation? What logic do attacks in the digital space follow, how can we respond, and what are their longer-term effects? What can historians learn from the climate sciences in terms of attacks on researchers and research? We will conclude our event with an online presentation and discussion with Naomi Oreskes on the current situation in the United States, drawing on her extensive experience with attacks on scientific research.

Programme

10.15–10.30: Introduction, Sandra Bott, Francesca Falk

10.30–10.55: Was ist die Funktion des Presserats in der Schweiz? Wie unterscheidet er Debatte von Diffamierung?, Monika Dommann

10.55–11.00: Break

11.00–11.25: Angriffe auf Forschende im analogen und digitalen Raum: Dynamiken und Handlungsmöglichkeiten, Anna Jobin

11.25–11.30: Break

11.30–11.55: Wie gehen die Klimawissenschaften mit Angriffen um? Was für Verhaltensweisen und Strategien haben sich bewährt?, Stefan Brönnimann

11.55–12.00: Break

12.00–12.30: Discussion, Francesca Falk, Pauline Milani (Moderation)

12.30–13.45: Lunch break

13.45–15.15: Organisations and Initatives
Chair: Sandra Bott

Comité de Vigilance face aux usages publics de l’histoire
hist4dem
Network of Concerned Historians (NCH)

15.15–15.30: Launch of the NCH-Website

15.30–16.00: Break

16.00–17.00: The Current Situation in the United

Contact

info@sgg-ssh.ch

Organiser: Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris; Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) Host: Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris Postcode: 75003 City: Paris Country: France Event type: Hybrid event Dates: 22.06.2026 - 26.06.2026 Website: https://mwsmigration.hypotheses.org/1115   How does migration history change when it is written with digital sources and methods? This question is at the heart of the 2026 summer university at the German Historical Institute Paris. As the field increasingly works with large, often multilingual corpora, the programme brings together contributions that explore a wide range of sources—from administrative records and correspondence to databases—and examine how these can be transformed and analysed as data. Approaches such as text analysis, spatial visualisation and network analysis open up new perspectives on mobility, trajectories and social relations.

At the same time, digital methods raise fundamental methodological and epistemological questions. Issues of data modelling and categorisation intersect with problems of bias, uneven coverage and the limits of digitised sources. The summer school therefore emphasises critical reflection, combining empirical case studies with discussions on source criticism, transparency and contextualisation.

The programme is framed by hands-on workshops on OCR/HTR, GIS and digital data processing, as well as keynote lectures by Lorella Viola and Christoph Rass.

Programme

Monday, June 22, 2026

5:30 pm Registration and Arrival
6:00 pm Welcome Address by Klaus Oschema (Director GHI Paris) and Introduction by the Organisers
6:30 pm Keynote Lecture
Chair: Mareike König (GHI Paris)
Lorella Viola (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): Mapping Migrant Worlds: Digital Approaches to Narratives, Identity, and Belonging

Tuesday, June 23, 2026
9:30 am Hands-on Workshops (parallel sessions, registration via dh@dhi-paris.fr)

Introduction to Handwritten Text Recognition with eScriptorium (Pauline Spychala, GHI Paris, and Hippolyte Souvay, University of Fribourg)
From Scratch to Maps: Digital Mapping for the Humanities. An Introduction to QGIS (Giovanni Vitali, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)

1:00 pm Lunch for Speakers and Participants
2:30 pm Plenary Session: Data Modelling, Critical Data Practices, and Ethical Reflections

Chair: Lorella Viola (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Noel Mariam George (London School of Economics): From Registration to Data Infrastructure: the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Category Drift, and the Making of Migration Knowledge

Daniel Richter (C2DH, University of Luxembourg): Marriage Registers as Heuristic Sources for Migration History: Comparative Perspectives on Stability and Change Across Towns and Villages (1850–1923)

3:30 pm Coffee Break
4:00 pm Plenary Session: Mapping Migration: GIS, Visualization, and Spatial Analysis I

Chair: Denis Scuto (C2DH, University of Luxembourg)

Blandine Landau (C2DH, University of Luxembourg) and Maël Le Noc (EHESS, Paris): Biographies, Testimonies, Visualization: Mapping Individual Migration Paths of the Jews of Luxembourg 1935–1947

Ekaterina Iakovleva (C2DH, University of Luxembourg): Beyond a Database: Wikibase as Research Infrastructure for Migration Prosopography

Free Evening
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
9:15 am Plenary Session: Mapping Migration: GIS, Visualization, and Spatial Analysis II

Chair: Giovanni Vitali (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)

Catrina Langenegger (University of Basel): Refugee Care in Switzerland During World War II in the Light of Historical Statistics and GIS

Alex Relicovschi (C2DH, University of Luxembourg): Présentation d’une chaîne de traitement en histoire digitale des migrations: mise en cartes et mise en données. Dudelange (Luxembourg), XIXe–XXe siècles

10:35 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Plenary Session: Transforming Sources Into Data: OCR and HTR Methods and Their Challenges

Chair: Pauline Spychala (GHI Paris)

Christelle Al Haddad (C2DH, University of Luxembourg): Written Language in Correspondences and Parish Letters of Luxembourgish Missionaries (1795–1900)

Sandra Velebit (Johannes Kepler University Linz): Digitizing Migration Data into Data Frames Using OCR and R. Problems and Workarounds

Ling Zi (École normale supérieure/Beijing Normal University): OCR, Romanization, and the Searchability of Chinese Migrants in European Digital Archives (1900–1950)

1:00 pm Lunch for Speakers and Participants
2:00 pm Hands-on Workshops (parallel sessions, registration via dh@dhi-paris.fr)

Building LLM-Assisted Workflows for Entity and Geospatial Data Processing (Alex Relicovschi, Ekaterina Iakovleva, both at C2DH, University of Luxembourg)
How to Process Interviews of Persons at Risk? Insights from the U-CORE project (Machteld Venken, Vladyslav Siulhin, both C2DH, University of Luxembourg)

Free Evening
Thursday, June 25, 2026
10:00 am Plenary Session: Modelling and Analysing Migration through Textual Data

Chair: Joanna Wojdon (University of Wrocław)

Timur Mitrofanov (University of Heidelberg/Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe): Latvian Diaspora Press Published in English-Speaking Countries in the Second Half of the 20th Century

Federica Schiaffino (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Mapping the “Imaginary East”: A Digital Analysis of West German Travel Reports (1967–1973)

11:00 am Coffee Break
11:30 am Plenary Session: Datafication and Migration Databases

Chair: Claire Zalc (CNRS/EHESS)

Valentin Rhodius (Université de Caen Normandie): Traversées maritimes des déplacés et réfugiés (1946–1952): une analyse par base de données

Théo Behra (Université de Strasbourg): Germanosearch et le portail “Archives disséminées”: enjeux méthodologiques et épistémologiques pour l’étude des migrations allemandes aux XIXe et XXe siècles

12:30 pm Lunch for Speakers and Participants
2:00 pm Visit to the Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration, Palais de la Porte Dorée

6:00 pm Keynote Lecture at the GHI Paris

Chair: Mareike König (GHI Paris)

Christoph A. Rass (University of Osnabrück): How Migration Became Data, How Data Makes Meaning, and How Reflexive Migration Research Intervenes

Friday, June 26, 2026
9:15 am Plenary Session: Exploring Migration Using Digital Network Analysis I

Chair: Christoph A. Rass (University of Osnabrück)

Alexandre Binoux (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/École française de Rome): Comprendre les hiérarchies d’une communauté migrante par les réseaux et la statistique. Lettres, registres paroissiaux et bases de données (colonie grecque de Corse, XVIIIe siècle)

Jorit Jens Hopp (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich): Collaboration and Migration Networks of Theatre Professionals in the Habsburg Empire of the 19th Century

10:35 am Coffee Break
11:00 am Plenary Session: Exploring Migration Using Digital Network Analysis II

Chair: Machteld Venken (C2DH, University of Luxembourg)

Katharina Isaak (University of Münster): Mapping the Immigrant Public Sphere. The Networked Russian Language Press in the United States, 1917–1941

Piotr Budzynski (University of Łódź): Network Analysis of Polish Fulbright Scholars (1968–1990)
12:20 pm General Discussion

1:00 pm End of Conference

Contact

Dr. Mareike König

Organised by: Mareike König (GHI Paris), Denis Scuto (C2DH, University of Luxembourg), Machteld Venken (C2DH, University of Luxembourg), Giovanni Vitali (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), Claire Zalc (CNRS/EHESS)

Organiser: Sarah Siegenthaler / Ana Maspoli, University of Basel Host: University of Basel Funded by: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Postcode: 4051 City: Basel Country: Switzerland Take place: In attendance Dates: 11.06.2026 - 12.06.2026 Website: https://daw.philhist.unibas.ch/de/event/details/intersectionality-in-ancient-and-pre-modern-contexts-considering-aspects-of-privilege-and-marginalisation/   We are pleased to announce an international conference on Intersectionality in Ancient and Pre-Modern Contexts. Considering Aspects of Privilege and Marginalisation to be held at the University of Basel on 11–12 June 2026.

Questions of identity and the marginalisation of specific groups have become central to both academic and public discourse. Awareness of these concerns is currently increasing in ancient and pre-modern disciplines. Intersectionality, a concept coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989) within Black Feminism and Critical Race Theory, offers a valuable framework for understanding how overlapping of aspects of identity – such as race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, and bodily dispositions (e.g., disability, age) – shape individual experiences of privilege and marginalisation. These dynamics unfold on the interpersonal, structural (government, law, education), and socio-spatial (urban form, spatial governance, land control) levels.

While intersectional approaches are well established in the social sciences, their application to ancient and pre-modern contexts remains mostly unexplored. The nature of pre-modern source material – often fragmentary and strongly reflecting elite perspectives – poses specific challenges. This conference aims to bring together scholars working in ancient and pre-modern fields who already engage with intersectionality or seek to explore its potential.

Selected Literature
A. Biele Mefebue – A. D. Bührmann – S. Grenz (Eds.), Handbuch Intersektionalitätsforschung (Wiesbaden 2022).
K. Crenshaw, Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color, Stanford Law Review 43, 1991, 1241–1299.
K. Ganz – J. Hausotter, Intersektionale Sozialforschung (Bielefeld 2020).
A. Griesebner – S. Hehenberger, Intersektionalität. Ein brauchbares Konzept für die Geschichtswissenschaften?, in: V. Kallenberg – J. Meyer – J.M. Müller (eds.), Intersectionality und Kritik: Neue Perspektiven für alte Fragen (Wiesbaden 2013) 105–124.
P. Hill Collins – S. Bilge, Intersectionality (Cambridge 2020).
E. Scambor – F. Zimmer, Die intersektionelle Stadt: Geschlechterforschung und Medienkunst an den Achsen der Ungleichheit, Gender Studies (Bielefeld 2014).
Ch. Sweetapple – H.-J. Voss – S. A. Wolter, Intersektionalität. Von der Antidiskriminierung zur befreiten Gesellschaft (Stuttgart 2020).
G. Winker – N. Degele, Intersektionalität (Bielefeld 2009).

Programme

Program Thursday, 11 June 2026

08:45 Arrival
09:00 Welcome and introduction

Keynotes on Intersectional Approaches

09:20 Intersectionality: A Critical Approach to Understand Power Across Time?
– Dr. Claudia Wilopo (University of Bern)

10:20 Response organisers
10:30 Coffee break

10:55 Intersectionality as Analysis of Power: On Archives, Absence, and Historiography
– Dr. des. Jovita dos Santos Pinto (University of Lucerne)

11:55 Response organisers
12:05 General discussion
12:30 Lunch break

Panel 1 “Epistemology, Visibility and Justice”

13:30 Intersectionality Meets Antiquity: Some Epistemological Thoughts
– Prof. Dr. Kordula Schnegg (Innsbruck University)

14:00 Poverty and Power in Ancient Roman Cityscapes: Towards an Intersectional Reading of Urban Spaces
– Sarah Siegenthaler MA (University of Basel)

14:30 Access to Justice and Social Margins in the Roman World
– Dr. Vid Žepič (University of Ljubljana)

15:00 General discussion
15:30 Coffee break

Panel 2 “Gender, Race, and Power”

16:00 Intersections of Oppression: An Ecofeminist Reading of Vergil’s Eclogue 3
– Dr. Tori Lee (Boston University)

16:30 An Intersectional, Black Feminist Analysis of Lucan’s Erictho:
Liminality, Abjection, and Metapoetic Power in Bellum Civile 6
– Antonia Aluko MA (University College London)

17:00 Women Writing to Women: Intersectionality in Private
Letters from Roman Egypt
– Irene Chioni MA (Ghent University)

17:30 General discussion

Program Friday, 12 June 2026

Panel 3 “Politics, Hierarchies and Social Structures”

08:45 Arrival and welcome

09:00 Intersecting Hierarchies in Death: Kinship, Age, and Status in the Highlands of Middle and Neo-Elamite Lahsavareh Cemetery in Iran
– Mahsa Najafi MA (Independent Researcher)

09:30 Non-Combatants in Ancient Egyptian Warfare: An Intersectional Approach
– Dr. Uroš Matić (University of Graz)

10:00 Coffee break

10:30 Constructing the Civic Body: Propaganda, Identity, and
Marginalisation in Fifth-Century Athens
– Michelle Musolino MA (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

11:00 Meetings at Intersections? Intersectionality as an Analytical Tool for Understanding Ancient Associations and polis Society
– Maria Janosch MA (Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg)

11:30 General discussion
12:00 Lunch break

Panel 4 “Status, Identity, and Pedagogy”

13:00 The Identities of Enslaved Persons as Expressed on Dedicatory Inscriptions in Roman Samnium, Picenum, Umbria, and Etruria (Regiones IV, V, VI, and VII)
– Ethan Bragg Rummel MA (University of Crete)

13:30 At the Intersection of Gender, Social Status and Prestige: The Case of the Imperial Freedwomen in Ancient Roman Society
– Dr. Davide Trivellato (University of Crete)

14:00 Intersectionality as a Paradigm for a Renewed Medievalist Didactics
– Dr. Julian Happes (Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg)

14:30 General discussion
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Final discussion

Call for papers for a panel proposal entitled "Imperial, Colonial, Early Modern, Renaissance: Reflexions on Theory and Method", as part of the Renaissance Society of America's 2027 Annual Meeting, to be held on 11-13 March 2027, in Philadelphia, United States.

This panel invites proposals on the analytical categories used in the studies of the period from c.1400 to c.1800 in modern scholarship, across disciplines. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Convergence and divergence between conceptual framings, such as ‘imperial’, ‘colonial’, ‘early modern’, ‘Renaissance’, ‘pre-modern’, ‘pre-colonial’, ‘dynastic’;
• Comparative approaches according to discipline, target audiences, national-academic and/or regional-linguistic contexts
• Articulation between chronological and geographical framings, eg. local, regional, national, continental, intercontinental, and global
• Impact of standardisation, eg. English language, in research, teaching and outreach outputs in studies engaging with period between c.1400 and c.1800

Submission guidelines

Interested participants should send the following, to Marina Bezzi and Joseph da Costa (marinab@unb.br, joseph.dacosta@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk), by 1 July 2026:

1. Full name, current affiliation, and email address;

2. Title (max. 15 words);

3. Abstract (max. 200 words);

4. Short CV (max. 2 pages) emphasizing research and scholarship;

5. PhD completion date (past or expected).

Decisions will be communicated by 15 July (this will allow those not accepted ample time to submit unsponsored proposals). Please see RSA proposal guidelines and membership eligibility in the RSA Conference Submission Guide.

Organizers

• Marina Bezzi (Universidade de Brasília),
• Joseph da Costa (University of Oxford)

Location

• Philadelphia, USA

Event format

• In attendance

Deadline

• 1 July 2026

Keywords

• colonial, precolonial, early modern, premodern, renaissance, imperial

Contact

• Marina Bezzi
  courriel : marinab [at] unb [dot] br
• Joseph da Costa
  courriel : joseph [dot] dacosta [at] mod-langs [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk

Montpellier/France

Agumentaire

Nées de migrations volontaires ou forcées, les diasporas sont à la fois des communautés d’immigration ancrées dans des territoires et des communautés imaginées (Anderson, 1983), déterritorialisées. L’« espace diasporique » (Brah, 1996) est ainsi inéluctablement mouvant, contesté, façonné par des rapports de pouvoir, de genre, de race, de classe, dans un contexte postcolonial. Parce qu’elle crée des expériences de l’entre-deux, entre territoire d’origine et territoire d’arrivée, entre culture familiale minorisée et culture nationale dominante, entre ici et là-bas, la condition diasporique façonne des identités constamment renégociées et hybrides (Hall, 1990), bien plus complexes que celles dessinées par les notions d’intégration, d’exclusion ou de double culture.

Le rapport des diasporas au cinéma mérite alors une attention toute particulière, notamment parce que dans les sociétés contemporaines, les films participent aux constructions identitaires subjectives et communautaires, au prisme du national et du transnational. Naviguant dans l’entre-deux diasporique, le cinéma peut parfois être un espace de médiation entre les appartenances identitaires et un outil pour penser/panser les réalités de la migration et de l’exil. D’une part, les diasporas ont davantage intégré les récits filmiques à la faveur notamment de l’émergence de cinémas diasporiques. D’autre part, au-delà des enjeux de représentation, le cinéma est un espace de production et d’expérimentation dynamique qui fait émerger des pratiques, des acteur·rices et des écosystèmes cinématographiques modelés par les réalités diasporiques. Enfin, les publics diasporiques de cinéma ont des pratiques de réception et des formes de cinéphilie qui sont autant de reflets d’enjeux identitaires complexes.

Ces deux dernières décennies, les relations entre cinéma et diaspora ont ainsi été peu à peu étudiées dans le monde académique, notamment anglophone, mais restent encore un champ de recherche à explorer. Cette journée d’étude se veut donc une invitation à étudier les pratiques culturelles des communautés de l’immigration et de l’exil dans un contexte postcolonial, à documenter des existences diasporiques au creux de leur relation au cinéma pour permettre de décentrer le regard au-delà de l’exotisation, et ainsi de contribuer à décoloniser les recherches sur le cinéma. A l’intersection des études cinématographiques, de l’anthropologie, des sciences sociales, des cultural studies et des études postcoloniales, cette manifestation scientifique examinera les façons dont les diasporas entretiennent une relation complexe au cinéma, et les façons dont le cinéma est, en retour, bouleversé par les expériences et les expérimentations diasporiques dans une perspective transnationale, interculturelle et décentrée. Elle mettra aussi bien en lumière les pratiques de réception du cinéma chez les publics diasporiques, les récits et esthétiques des films diasporiques, que des parcours de cinéastes des diasporas, plus ou moins engagé.es dans les réseaux de production, de diffusion et de circulation à l’échelle globale. 

Nous encourageons des propositions qui relèvent des axes suivants mais nous restons ouvert·es à tout autre sujet s’inscrivant dans l’argumentaire de la journée d’étude, à différentes échelles et dans divers contextes migratoires, émanant de chercheur·es, de doctorant·es, d’étudiant·es ou de cinéastes. 

Axe 1 : Les diasporas, publics de cinéma

La journée d’étude s’intéressera aux diasporas comme publics de cinéma. La New Cinema History (Biltereyst et al. 2011, Kuhn 2002) a ouvert la voie des études sur l’expérience spectatorielle du cinema-going comme phénomène socio-culturel et, dans le contexte français, les travaux de Fabrice Montebello (1997) et Jean-Marc Leveratto (2010) sur les spectateur·rices lorrain·nes et ouvrier·es d’origine italienne ont été pionniers dans l’étude de la réception cinématographique au prisme de la migration. Depuis, la recherche sur les pratiques culturelles des diasporas, et plus spécialement, sur leur expérience du cinéma, reste à développer. Les propositions pourront aborder non seulement la réception diasporique des films nationaux et internationaux au sein des sociétés d’arrivée mais aussi la façon dont les cultures filmiques et les expériences spectatorielles liées aux cinémas des territoires d’origine sont transmises et appropriées au sein des diasporas. Les propositions pourront, par exemple, se focaliser sur des pratiques, des lieux ou des temporalités propres aux publics diasporiques de cinéma, tels que les formes de cinéphilie, l’émergence des fan clubs ou des projections communautaires. Il sera alors intéressant de comprendre ce que ces formes de réception diasporiques disent de la (dé)connexion au territoire d’origine, ce qu’elles révèlent des enjeux d’appartenance, de transmission et de mémoire de l’expérience migratoire vécue ou héritée dans les sociétés postcoloniales. 

Axe 2 : Cinéastes et cinémas diasporiques

La journée d’étude examinera le cinéma diasporique comme espace discursif et critique privilégié sur la condition migratoire et post-migratoire. Ces films, parfois assimilés au Troisième Cinéma, se définissent comme un cinéma des subalternes, des minorisé·es, porté par des cinéastes issu·es des diasporas. Par définition, ces œuvres sont hybrides et « interculturelles » (Marks, 2000), aussi bien par les thèmes abordés, les genres explorés, les matériaux exploités que par leurs expérimentations formelles et esthétiques. Cet axe permettra d’étudier des parcours de cinéastes diasporiques, naviguant entre des récits qui puisent dans l’autobiographie, des pratiques filmiques originales ou subversives mais aussi des stratégies de visibilisation de leur travail dans un contexte national et transnational. Les propositions peuvent aussi se concentrer sur les filmographies de ces cinéastes au prisme de leurs récits, de leurs esthétiques, de leur langage visuel, sonore et musical, façonnés par l’expérience diasporique. Faisant écho à une histoire longue d’invisibilisation des réalités migratoires dans les médias de masse, les cinémas diasporiques peuvent contribuer à décentrer le regard vers les marges, et, par là même, à défier les régimes dominants de visibilité en créant un « contre-cinéma » (Wollen, 1972) diasporique qui rend visibles des vies qui n’existaient jusqu’alors ni dans le récit national, ni dans les représentations cinématographiques dominantes.

Axe 3 : Produire, diffuser et visibiliser les cinémas par et pour les diasporas

La journée d’étude sera aussi l’occasion d’étudier les acteur·rices et structures qui rendent possibles les cinémas par et pour les diasporas en les finançant, en les distribuant et en les diffusant. Cet axe permettra ainsi de mettre en lumière les écosystèmes et réseaux économiques, nationaux, transnationaux et communautaires qui donnent une visibilité aux films consommés et créés par les diasporas. Dans quelle mesure les politiques nationales de la diversité et les systèmes de financement publics créent les conditions d’existence ou, au contraire, freinent ces cinémas ? Quel rôle jouent les co-productions internationales, les plateformes et les festivals dans leur reconnaissance au sein d’industries cinématographiques ancrées dans les enjeux de récompense et de légitimation institutionnelle (Delaporte, 2022) ? Existe-t-il des contre-espaces alternatifs proposant des modes de valorisation et de visibilisation des cinémas vus par les publics diasporiques ou créés par les cinéastes diasporiques ? 

Modalités de contribution

Les propositions de communications en français ou en anglais (titre et résumé de 300 mots maximum) accompagnées d’une courte notice bio-bibliographique sont à envoyer avant le 15 juin 2026 aux organisatrices :

• Shakila Zamboulingame s.zamboulingame@hotmail.com
• Amandine D’Azevedo amandine.d-azevedo@umpv.fr

Les réponses seront envoyées au plus tard le 6 juillet 2026.

La journée d’étude se déroulera le vendredi 20 novembre 2026 à l’Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry. Les communications d’une durée de 25 minutes pourront être données en français ou en anglais. 

Comité d’organisation 

• Shakila Zamboulingame (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry)
• Amandine D’Azevedo (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry)

Comité scientifique 

• James M. Burns (Clemson University, South Carolina)
• Clelia Clini (London Metropolitan University)
• Morgan Corriou (Université Paris 8)
• Amandine D’Azevedo (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry)
• Caroline Damiens (Université Paris Nanterre)
• Daniela Ricci (Université Paris Nanterre)
• Kevin Smets (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
• Shakila Zamboulingame (Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry)

Lieu

• Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry Route de Mende 34090 Montpellier
  Montpellier, Frankreich (34090)

Format de l'événement

• Événement hybride

Date

• Lundi 15 juin 2026

Appendice

• AAC, CFP, Cinema & diaspora - SZ_V4.pdf

Mots-clés

• diaspora, cinéma diasporique, culture filmique, publics du cinéma, réception cinématographique, cinéphilie, cinema-going, migration, exil, minorités, identité hybride, transnationalité, réseaux transnationaux, diffusion, distribution, société p

Contact

• Amandine D'Azevedo
  courriel : amandine [dot] d-azevedo [at] umpv [dot] fr
• Shakila Zamboulingame
  courriel : s [dot] zamboulingame [at] hotmail [dot] com

by Sabrina Álvarez, Gabriela González Vaillantm Dahiana Barrales, Ramiro Bosca, Lucía Siola, Diego Grauer, Lucía V. Martínez Hernández and Julián Reyes

 

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.

Archivos de historia del movimiento obrero y la izquierda se encuentra indizada en el Núcleo Básico de Revistas Científicas Argentinas, en SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences), en Dialnet (Universidad de La Rioja), en el catálogo 2.0 de Latindex, en CLASE (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, dependiente de la UNAM), en el DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) y en la REDIB (Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico). También es parte de las siguientes bases de datos, indexaciones y directorios: EuroPub, Journal TOCs; MALENA (CAICYT); BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine); CIRC (Clasificación Integrada de Revistas Científicas, de España); MIAR (Matriz de Información para el Análisis de Revistas, Universitat de Barcelona); BIBLAT (Bibliografía Latinoamericana en revistas de investigación científica y social, UNAM); BINPAR (Bibliografía Nacional de Publicaciones Periódicas Registradas); REDLATT (Red Latinoamericana del Trabajo y Trabajadores); Latinoamericana (Asociación de revistas académicas de humanidades y ciencias sociales) y LatinREV (Red Latinoamericana de Revistas Académicas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades de FLACSO Argentina). El CEHTI es miembro de la International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI).

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: Martín Mangiantini y Diego Ceruso

LABOUR HISTORY

New issue on women's labour available

The Special Issue New Essays on Women’s Labour History in Europe: Gender, Work and Activism, edited by Leda Papastefanaki & Eszter Varsa, in Labour History, A Journal of Labour and Social History (Number 130, May 2026) can be found here.

This special issue is an outcome of the activities of the Feminist Labour History Working Group of the European Labour History Network (ELHN).

This 1.5-day workshop convened by the Department of Romani Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, and the Romani Studies Program at Central European University, Vienna, and hosted by the Prague Center for Romani Histories at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, will take place from 29-30 October 2026. The workshop addresses the variety of agendas and repertoires of Romani women activists/intellectuals engaged in a wide range of community and public activities in the region at local, national and transnational levels between the end of World War II and the 1990s.

The aftermath of the Holocaust brought about a new phase in Romani civil rights activism in both the Western and Eastern parts of a newly divided Europe. In the West activist/intellectuals were often confronted with the fact that while their governments acknowledged the crimes committed during National Socialism, the suffering of Roma remained unaddressed and legislation and institutional structures leading to the social exclusion of Roma remained for a long time unchanged. In Eastern Europe, the new People’s Republics established in the late 1940s, officially committed to antiracism and class and gender equality, and placed the enhancement of the situation of the Roma on their national agendas. Their central policy documents often called specifically for the inclusion of Roma in the process of “building socialism” and “solving the Gypsy question”. Still, anti-Roma racism continued to influence both state politics and authorities’ action as well as local sentiments.

The workshop “The history of Romani women’s activisms in Eastern Europe, 1945-1990s” traces how Romani women in Eastern Europe, committed to the improvement of the living and working conditions of their communities, engaged with the new state-provided opportunities for participation and social mobility as both Roma and women and how they maneuvered hindrances in their local and national contexts. On a transnational scale, the project follows Eastern European Romani women’s engagement with the international Romani civil rights movement in Western Europe on the rise from the 1970s. It aims to address Romani women’s diverse engagements from a long-term, comparative, transnational perspective and from an intersectional approach, paying attention to how gender-, sexuality-, class-, and race/ethnicity-based difference shaped the positionality of Romani women actors and their agendas and repertoires.

The workshop aims to contribute to the global histories of social movements, including the histories of gender and women’s activisms, by placing the so far under-researched endeavors of Romani women at the center of attention. By exploring their diverse public and community roles, it will contribute substantially to the current research on post-war Romani movements that has often overlooked especially the issues of gender and intersectionality.

We invite proposals for individual papers that explore the diverse social and political involvement of Romani women in improving the situation of their communities focusing on but not restricted to one of the following topics:

• Romani women’s participation in and contribution to the emerging mixed-gender Romani national political movements and self-organisations and the transnational organization of Roma in Europe
• Synergies with and the involvement of Romani women in other national mass organisations, such as the women’s councils, the Red Cross and trade union organisations, organisations aimed at the assistance of Holocaust survivors as well as the diverse organizations of the national communist and socialist workers’ parties
• Romani women’s participation in regional, cross-border initiatives, and transnational organizations
• Local level initiatives by Romani women, such as professional associations and neighbourhood or community-level initiatives among diverse groups of Roma aimed at improving their living and working conditions, access to services and infrastructures
• Romani women as actors and/or “objects” of state policies and state “care” on central, regional and local levels, including their participation in the state apparatus
• Romani girls and women’s educational paths and professional careers: navigating school and adult education, and employment in state institutions and national enterprises, and/or working to improve the access of Roma (including Romani women) to education and employment
• The emergence of gender issues on the agendas of local, national or transnational Romani initiatives, organizations and movements
• Romani women’s diverse (art) works reflecting on their lives and positions, their everyday realities as women and Roma, and/or the position of Roma in society between 1945 and the 1990s; their strategies of agency, resistance, mechanisms of solidarity and copying with anti-Roma racism and conservatism as well as their role in healing their Holocaust affected families

 

From the wide variety of sources available, we especially appreciate research working with ego documents. We also welcome contributions based on the analysis of photographs, artistic works and other visual materials.

 

Please send a 500-word abstract and a short academic CV (max 500 words) in one Word file to romaniwomen.workshop.prague@gmail.com by 21 June 2026. The proposal should include name, surname, current affiliation and contact details of the proponent.

Participants will be notified about the acceptance of their proposal by the end of July 2026. Paper drafts are expected to be sent to discussants by 9 October 2026.

Travel funding and accommodation will be available for the participants presenting at the workshop.

Scientific Committee: Margareta (Magda) Matache (Harvard University), Helena Sadílková (Charles University), Angéla Kóczé (Central European University), Eszter Varsa (Central European University).

Organizing Committee: Helena Sadílková (Charles University), Angéla Kóczé (Central European University), Eszter Varsa (Central European University)

 

Funding for the workshop is provided by the generous award of the Flax Foundation, Advancing Feminist and Inequality Research in Europe (https://flax-foundation.net/).

Organiser: Collegium Helveticum (Mischa Suter, Geneva Graduate Institute & Collegium Helveticum, CH) Host: Mischa Suter, Geneva Graduate Institute & Collegium Helveticum, CH Location: Collegium Helveticum Schmelzbergstrasse 25 Postcode: 8004 City: Zurich Country: Switzerland Takes place: In attendance Date: 03.06.2026 Website: https://collegium.ethz.ch/events/fellow-year-2025-2026/the-politics-of-psychoanalysis-in-history  

Making sense of our historical conjuncture requires understanding the unconscious as a political force. The resurgence of fascism and the enduring afterlives of colonialism highlight the need to explain political motivations beyond manifest interests alone. Historical research and activist practice alike suggest that social transformation depends on the remaking of political subjectivities.

This interdisciplinary workshop explores how psychoanalysis has shaped understandings of politics, political practice, and forms of subject formation, while remaining historically and politically contested.

Psychoanalysis is at the core of such understandings of politics. But just as psychoanalysis has always maintained a tense relation to the discipline of history, its politics have been complex and have never been tied to a single political project. The interdisciplinary workshop explores some of these dimensions. It is conceived as a forum for discussing work in progress.

It can be argued that the politics of psychoanalysis become discernible on at least three levels, and some of these will be reflected in the workshop’s contributions. Psychoanalytic theory offers a way to explain politics, as it did especially from the interwar period until the “long” moment of decolonization, 1930–1970. Psychoanalytic theory also informs politics: political movements aimed for the remaking of selves and thus the “dis-alienation” of relations in society, as in revolutionary psychiatry and libidinal politics. And psychoanalytic categories not merely describe but also prescribe forms of being and relating, thus both opening and limiting forms of political agency on a foundational level, that of subject formation.

Berlin/Germany   Veranstalter: Freunde und Förderer des Leo Baeck Institut e.V. Veranstaltungsort: W. M. Blumenthal Akademie (gegenüber vom Jüdischen Museum Berlin), Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1 PLZ: 10969 Ort: Berlin Land: Deutschland Findet statt: In Präsenz Vom - Bis: 10.06.2026 - Website: https://fuf-leobaeck.de/event/juedischesexilveranstaltungberlin/  

Wir möchten Sie im Namen der Freunde und Förderer des Leo Baeck Instituts herzlich zu unserer Podiumsdiskussion in Kooperation mit dem Podcast »Der zweite Gedanke« (radio3/rbb) mit anschließendem Empfang einladen.

Freuen Sie sich auf ein anregendes Gespräch über deutsch-jüdisches Exil gestern und heute. Im Zentrum stehen die Kulturgeschichte der jüdischen Emigration sowie universelle Erfahrungen von Entwurzelung, Isolation und dem Leben zwischen den Stühlen. Vom Topos des Wandernden Juden über die zerstörten Träume einer deutsch-jüdischen Symbiose bis in die gewaltvolle Gegenwart gehen wir der Frage nach, ob Flucht und Migration Ankommen bedeuten kann – selbst wenn es ein Ankommen in einer fremden Heimat ist.

Die Diskussionsrunde besteht aus folgenden Teilnehmenden:

- Dr. Ursula Krechel setzt sich in ihrem literarischen Werk mit den Themen Verfolgung, Flucht und Exil in Geschichte und Gegenwart auseinander, so auch in ihrem jüngsten Buch »Vom Herzasthma des Exils«. Der Text appelliert an ein Umdenken und tiefgreifenden Respekt für jene, die ihre Heimat verlassen (müssen und mussten). 2025 erhielt sie den Georg-Büchner-Preis.
- Prof. Dr. Michael Brenner ist der Internationale Präsident des Leo Baeck Instituts. Er forscht und publiziert zu Themen deutsch-jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, zuletzt in seinem Buch »Der lange Schatten der Revolution«. Michael Brenner ist Professor an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und an der American University in Washington D.C.
- Dr. Sebastian Schirrmeister ist Literaturwissenschaftler. Er forscht u.a. zur deutschsprachigen Exilliteratur, zu deutsch-hebräischen Literaturbeziehungen und zu deutsch-jüdischen Archiven. Er ist der Autor von »Das Gastspiel« (2012) und »Begegnung auf fremder Erde« (2019) sowie zahlreicher wissenschaftlicher Aufsätze.
- Moderation: Natascha Freundel ist Journalistin mit einem Schwerpunkt auf deutsch-jüdischer Geschichte. Sie ist Redakteurin und Moderatorin der Podcast- und Radiodebatte »Der zweite Gedanke« von radio3 im rbb.

Wir freuen uns über ein Grußwort von Frau Julia Friedrich, Sammlungs- und Ausstellungsdirektorin des Jüdischen Museum Berlin.

Programm

ab 18:30 Uhr: Einlass

19 Uhr: Programmbeginn: Begrüßung + Podiumsdiskussion zum Veranstaltungsthema

ab 20:30 Uhr: Empfang
Die Veranstaltung findet in Kooperation mit radio3 statt, wo der Mitschnitt am 11. Juni 2026 um 19:03 Uhr sowie am 13. Juni 2026 um 13:03 Uhr und im Podcast »Der zweite Gedanke« (u.a. in der ARD Sounds App) zu hören sein wird.

Einlass nur nach vorheriger Anmeldung. Der Eintritt ist kostenfrei. Die Plätze sind begrenzt, daher erbitten wir eine zeitnahe Anmeldung, um Ihnen eine Teilnahme garantieren zu können.

In Kooperation mit dem radio3/rbb

Kontakt

info@leobaeck.de

Kiel/Germany   Veranstalter: Christian Hoffarth, Kiel; Christoph Mauntel, Osnabrück Veranstaltungsort: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Leibnizstraße 1, Raum 208a&b Gefördert durch: Collegium Philosophicum der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel; Alumni und Freunde der CAU e.V. PLZ: 24118 Ort: Kiel Land: Deutschland Findet statt: In Präsenz Vom - Bis: 12.06.2026 - 13.06.2026   Der Workshop ist ein Forum für Wissenschaftler:innen verschiedener Disziplinen, auf dem Ansätze, Methoden und Zugänge zur Mobilitätsforschung diskutiert werden.

Formen der Mobilität sind seit langem ein vielbeachtetes Thema der Vormoderne-Forschung. Die thematischen Schwerpunkte und das methodische Instrumentarium einschlägiger Arbeiten haben sich naturgemäß im Laufe der Jahre gewandelt und spezialisiert. So wurden Boten, Diplomatinnen und Missionare, Kaufleute, Scholaren und Pilgerinnen als mobile Gruppen untersucht, Routen und Wegnetzwerke rekonstruiert, die Erfahrung, Beschreibung und Konstruktion von Fremdheit und Alterität analysiert, Aspekte von Körperlichkeit und Emotionalität erforscht, transkulturelle Kontakte und Austauschprozesse in den Blick genommen, Formen individueller oder auch kollektiver Migration analysiert sowie die narrative, rhetorische und poetische Repräsentation und Funktion von Mobilität in literarischen Texten untersucht – um nur wenige Themen und Ansätze zu nennen.

Der geplante Workshop ist ein Forum für Wissenschaftler:innen verschiedener Disziplinen, auf dem Ansätze, Methoden und Zugänge zur Mobilitätsforschung diskutiert werden. Dazu werden laufende Projekte und Forschungsarbeiten vorgestellt, die sich mit Formen des Reisens, Pilgerns und Migrierens sowie des Erzählens darüber in Europa von ca. 500 bis ca. 1800 beschäftigen

Programm

Freitag, 12. Juni 2026
Moderation: Christian Hoffarth (Kiel)

15.30 Uhr Kaffee und Begrüßung
16.00 Uhr Alicia Wolff (Heidelberg): Auf zu neuen Ufern: Bau, Instandhaltung und Nutzung von Brücken im Mittelalter
16.45 Uhr Martina Hacke (Düsseldorf): Die Büchertransporte der Verleger, Drucker und Buchhändler Anton Koberger und Johann Amerbach an der Wende vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit
17.30 Uhr Pause
18.00 Uhr Melanie Greinert (Heide): In Bewegung! Eine Ausstellung zur Mobilität in Dithmarschen durch die Zeiten im Entstehen
18.45 Uhr Swantje Piotrowski (Kiel): Digitale Rekonstruktion vormoderner Mobilität. Adam Olearius’ Persienreise (1647) als Fallstudie
19.30 Uhr Tagungsende

Samstag, 13. Juni 2026
Moderation: Christoph Mauntel (Osnabrück)

9.00 Uhr Veronika Unger (Mainz): Reisepäpste des Frühmittelalters
9.45 Uhr Erik Wolf (Aarhus): Mobilität im nördlichen Fennoskandinavien als koloniale Expansion, Argumentation und Resistenz
10.30 Uhr Pause
11.00 Uhr Vanina Kopp (Münster): Zwischen den Kontinenten – Afrikanische Reisende nach Europa und ihre Erfahrungen
11.45 Uhr Sita Steckel (Frankfurt a. M.): Von Menschenfressern und Manuskripten. Beobachtungen zur Überlieferung der ‚Reisen des Mandeville‘
12.30 Uhr Schlussworte
12.45 Uhr Tagungsende

Kontakt

Christian Hoffarth (choffarth@histosem.uni-kiel.de)