Social and Labour History News

Le colloque international « Migrations : traces, inscriptions et textualités » visera à comparer les modalités d’expression et de réception d’un concept politiquement et médiatiquement omniprésent dans le débat public européen et latino-américain. Le concept de « migration-s » sera interrogé d’un point de vue à la fois synchronique et généalogique (dans le sens que Michel Foucault lui a donné).

Appréhendé à l’époque coloniale comme le « laboratoire de la modernité » européenne (De l’Estoile 2004, Lachenal 2010), le continent africain est aujourd’hui partie intégrante de l’histoire et de l’avenir de l’Europe mais aussi du monde. Dans son essai Afrotopia récemment traduit en allemand, l’économiste et écrivain sénégalais Felwine Sarr dénonce le mythe occidental du développement projeté sur les sociétés africaines et appelle à décoloniser les esprits de par et d’autre de la Méditerranée pour permettre aux Afriques de redevenir le « poumon spirituel du monde. » (Sarr 2019)

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
2nd Biennial Conference of Activist Scholars
East Side Freedom Library, Saint Paul, Minnesota

June 5-6-7, 2020

 

Cette année, l’IHOES publie non pas une, mais deux études.

 

Índice  Dossier: “La izquierda judeo-progresista en Sudamérica”

Presentación del dossier, por Nerina Visacovsky

Icufistas en el Río de La Plata: orígenes y devenir de una identidad étnico-política, Nerina Visacovsky
Silencios y olvidos sobre los judíos progresistas chilenos (1938-1964), Valeria Navarro-Rosenblatt

Organized Abandonment: Cultures of crisis and resistance

May 15-16, 2020 Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC, Canada

Conference keywords: debt; extractivism; migrants; surveillance; carceral cultures; cultures of resistance; resurgence; solidarity; neo-liberal state governance; surplus populations; environmentalism

CAPPE (University of Brighton) and SSPT (University of Sussex)

 

Critical Theory in (a Time of) Crisis

 

A two-day postgraduate and early career conference, organised by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics (University of Brighton) and the Research Centre for Studies in Social and Political Thought (University of Sussex)

 

Sponsored by the Mind Association

 

On 30 October we launched our new catalogue of JD Bernal's peace collection. Thanks to sponsorship from the late Beryl Huffingly and the hard work of Project Archivist Joseph Dance, this internationally significant archive on the world peace movement can now be searched on our online catalogue here. At the launch event daughter Jane Bernal paid tribute to her brilliant, endlessly curious father whose commitment to the peace movement knew no bounds.

Visualising Class

Class and the Visual Arts Today (1980-2019)

 

The University of Manchester, November 15, 10am-18.30pm

Room G7, Bridgeford Street Building.

Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission

 

Recent decades have seen many economic history books and articles published about working men and women, small and big entrepreneurs, guilds and state manufactures, farmers and journeymen, and children and citizens. Studies have been conducted both at a macro and a micro level, at a global and at a local scale and with regional and national approaches aimed at analysing cultural, social and economic phenomena associated with the world of work. Yet, there is still new ground to be covered.

Mostra “Meccanica e passione. Giuseppe De Vecchi e le origini dell’industria dell’auto a Milano”

12 novembre/12 dicembre 2019 | Sesto San Giovanni

The aim of this conference will be to analyse the characteristics of 19th-century French industrialisation and to understand how these distinguish France from other countries that went through the same process in the same era. Instead of using the English case as the only reference (as is customary), particular attention will be paid to a comparison between France and other continental European countries, especially Germany.

The conference 'Biographies and Politics: The Involvement of Jews and People of Jewish Origin in Leftist Movements in 19th and 20th Century Poland' aims to determine the actual Jewish engagement in leftist movements in Poland in the 19th and 20th centuries from the point of view of their individual ideological choices.

Personal histories, family fortunes, and forming political identities will be analyzed using a biographical method. Thus, they will help answer the question of what drove Polish Jews to join leftist organizations.

The present call of paper sollicits chapter proposals to complete a peer-reviewed collection of original research papers on the topic “Western Hegemonies and their Contestations”. This collection is inspired from the international and multidisciplinary conference “The End of Western Hegemonies ?” held in Jyväskylä, Finland, in June 2019, organized by The West Network. The proposed chapters must fall within one of the following categories:

Le parcours et l'œuvre de Friedrich Engels demeurent encore souvent dans l'ombre de Karl Marx. L'ambition de ce colloque pluridisciplinaire, organisé les 30 novembre et 1er décembre 2020 à l'université de Strasbourg à l'occasion du bicentenaire de sa naissance, est de rompre avec les idées reçues sur Engels en mobilisant les acquis de la recherche récente en sciences humaines et sociales, afin de projeter sur sa vie et ses travaux une lumière nouvelle.

The 8th Biannual conference of the European Early American Studies Association invites established scholars, post-doctoral students and graduate students to re-examine the fundamental concept of Atlantic history in light of current research on the themes of colonisations, revolutions, and reinventions, from 1492 to 1848. It is also an opportunity to examine the history of transformations in early America and, broadly, the early modern world, by taking fuller account of scholarship on the politics of primitive globalisation.

L’Institut CGT d’histoire sociale est heureux de vous inviter au colloque pluridisciplinaire,

organisé par le Centre d’histoire sociale des Mondes contemporains (Université Paris 1), le Laboratoire Triangle (Université Lyon 2) et lui-même,

 

les 21 et 22 novembre 2019

Full programme in attached PDF

Provisional timetable: http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/sites/default/files/2019-10/Timetable%2025-10-19.pdf

Registration: https://conference.historicalmaterialism.org/index.php/hmlondon/annual16/schedConf/registration

Chères et chers collègues,

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la publication du livre La CGT, 1975-1995. Un syndicalisme à l'épreuve des crises. Cet ouvrage collectif, codirigé par Elyane Bressol, Sophie Béroud, Jérôme Pélisse et Michel Pigenet, réunit les contributions d'une quarantaine de chercheurs et de syndicalistes et propose une étude inédite sur la CGT d’une période particulièrement difficile pour le mouvement syndical français.

Bien cordialement