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The participants of the workshop consider the Cold War as a multilateral conflict that created specific global connections'. We seek to realign the interdisciplinary analysis of its 'glocal' interdependencies. We will do this by raising essentially new questions on the social, economic, cultural, and political dimensions of the as yet barely researched Sino-Soviet rivalry for the African continent.

This interdisciplinary conference brings together junior and senior scholars to further the work of writing women back into histories of international thought.

La República de los trabajadores.
La Segunda República y el mundo del trabajo
14 de abril | Con motivo del 90 aniversario de la II República, la Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero abre a los lectores el libro colectivo editado por Julio Aróstegui en 2006 que celebra esta fecha.

Chères amies, Chers amis,

à la veille de ce long week-end, plus propice sans doute à la ballade qu'à la lecture, nous vous proposons tout de même quelques nouvelles des Archives contestataires.

L'impossibilité où nous sommes de nous rencontrer physiquement nous pousse à vous faire des propositions en ligne.

Coordination : Judith Hayem, Wenjing Guo Louis Moreau de Bellaing,

L’Association des historiens contemporanéistes de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche (AHCESR) a créé en 2016 le Prix jeune chercheur.se de l’AHCESR, couronnant un article d’histoire contemporaine écrit par la/le titulaire d’un doctorat obtenu au cours des trois dernières années. Ce prix entend faire connaître et encourager les recherches en histoire contemporaine les plus novatrices, par leur objet ou leur méthode, sans autre restriction que les limites de la chronologie.

Labour and the Making of Italy from Cavour to Covid

Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI)

3 – 4 December 2021

Italian Cultural Institute, London

Call for papers and panels

In recent years, various studies urge us to rethink our perspectives on the definitions, role and functions assumed by different forms of “childhood” in Latin-American societies. Likewise, a growing number of anthropological, historical and educational studies invite us to refer to “childhood(s)” in plural, to express the diversity that characterises the social constructions that give meaning to the idea of child in different times and spaces.

In the last decades, intellectual history has aimed to move away from its traditional focus on famous intellectuals as its main actors. The emergence of a "global" intellectual history further troubled the idea that (normatively white and male) professional intellectuals were the only people with ideas worth taking seriously.

Die Sommerakademie ist ein auf intensiven Austausch setzendes Format, in dessen Rahmen in kleineren Gruppen und im Plenum Impulsvorträge über eigene Texte und Zugänge der Teilnehmer:innen, aber auch einschlägige Texte diskutiert werden.

This international workshop will bring together established and emerging scholars to chart the intersection between refugee history and Cold War history. The most well-known connection between these two fields is the figure of the political refugee fleeing from the socialist East to the democratic West. As recent research in both areas has highlighted, however, forced displacement and Cold War competition were global phenomena.

Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Klaus Barbie, and Erich Priebke: These names are exemplary of the Nazi criminals who found refuge in South America after 1945. There, they either remained untroubled or were only made accountable for their crimes many years later.

This lecture series offers some new perspectives on the history of twentieth-century American Jewish political thought in a transnational dimension. It focuses on the diverse ways in which American Jews, through their communal institutions and organizations, articulated a variety of ideas about their responsibilities for Jews and Jewish life abroad.

International Conference
April 4-7, 2022
Villa Vigoni
German-Italian Center for European Dialogue,
Lake Como, Italy

Conveners: Matthias Buschmeier (Bielefeld) / Jeanne E. Glesener (Luxembourg)

Over the last twenty years, the study of photography’s history has been characterized by, among other things, two major strands: a concentration on the photograph’s status as an object and a concern with the decidedly virtual quality of its images and practices.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 10 am-12 n CEST (AEST 6 pm-8 pm; JST 5 pm-7 pm). All welcome.

Humboldt University (Berlin) and University of Zurich

International Conference
Transnational Perspectives on Music, Sound and (War) Propaganda (1914–1945)

21–23 October 2021 (Virtual conference)

Convened by Diego Alonso (Humboldt University, Berlin), Christian Koller (Swiss Social Archives and University of Zurich) and Steffen Just (University of Potsdam)

Keynote speakers:
Anne C. Shreffler (Harvard University)
Jens Gerrit Papenburg (University of Bonn)

Recent years have shown a fast-growing interest in the internationalist policies and cultures of the Communist Warsaw Pact countries, in the global engagements of East European actors, and in the active roles of smaller states in international relations during the Cold War.