Social and Labour History News

From October 2017 until July 2018, the fellows of the research group “In Search of the Global Labour Market” have been living and working at ZiF to examine the question of whether there is a global labour market at all and how it should be analysed from a theoretical and empirical perspective.

The Oral History and Life Stories Network brings together oral history and life story researchers and practitioners who explore memory, narrative and history.

In recent decades oral history has stabilized its’ place in and beyond academia to the point, that it has been questioned if oral history has lost its radical roots? Also, the rise of the Internet and social media demands that we reflect on our work according to methodological questions and maybe new challenges in that context. Do the voiceless still need us to give them voice?

CFP 13th European Social Science History Conference

18 – 21 March, 2020

Women and Gender Network

DOING GENDER IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: THEORY AND PRACTICE

The ESSHC Women and Gender network invites proposals for individual papers and sessions (3-4 speakers, a chair and a commentator) focussing on interconnections between practice and theory in applying gender-sensitive historical analysis. We would like to discuss the following questions during our forthcoming conference:

Movements for social change have often preceded or immediately followed periods of warfare. The temporal proximity of social movements and warfare raises several interesting questions. Among others, in what ways have movements for social change been linked to periods of violent conflict? How might war contribute to the expansion or limitation of rights for marginalized and oppressed groups? How does warfare shape the attitudes and strategies of social activists in local, transnational, and global contexts?

New York University's Center for the United States and the Cold War announces the Agnese N. Haury fellowships and travel grants for 2019-2020.

« Dès lendemain de la bataille, hommes et femmes, tous avaient à la bouche ce mot d’association, symbole de salut, qui semblait avoir en soi quelque vertu mystique. On criait « Association, association » comme jadis les vilains criaient : « Commune ! » et les Croisés « Dieu le veut ! » (Lettre de Pauline Roland à Guépin, 10 mai 1850)

 

MIGRATION AND THE EUROPEAN CITY. Social and Cultural Perspectives from Early Modernity to the Present

Italian-German Historical Institute – Trent / Italy, 18 –20 September 2019

Scientific Committee: Christoph Cornelissen (Frankfurt-Trent), Beat Kümin (Warwick), Massimo Rospocher (Trent)

Lieu: EHESS, 105 boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris – amphithéâtre François Furet

SISLav and Istoreco Livorno are inviting applications to the second edition of the “Simonetta Ortaggi” award for outstanding PhD dissertations in the field of Labour History. Simonetta Ortaggi (1944-1999) was a historian and researcher, author of some of the most important contributions to Italian Labour History.

19. Februar 2019, 15.30 Uhr in Berlin

Confluences Méditerranée
http://iremmo.org/confluences-mediterranee/

Proposta di numero tematico:
“Situazioni del lavoro e mobilitazioni operaie nel Mediterraneo”
Coord. Amin Allal, Elisabeth Longuenesse, Michele Scala

The School of Labor and Employment Relations at The Pennsylvania State University invites applications for the position of Post-Doctoral Scholar with the Center for Global Workers’ Rights.

This is a twelve-month position that begins on August 11, 2019

Protests and social movements are fuzzy objects to study. Scholars face a lack of clear boundaries, diversity-by-definition, and -often dramatic- changes over time. The field of social movement studies holds particular challenges to researchers with a view to getting the research design straight and becoming clear about the restrictions of an argument. These challenges contrast with the conditions of scientific production: the lion’s share of research on social movements and protests is realized in individual post-graduate projects.

 

Hosted by the Latin America and Caribbean Centre (LACC), London School of Economics and Political Science

La Société d’histoire de 1848 a le plaisir d’annoncer la tenue, les 19 et 20 juin prochains, de la première édition des Rencontres du XIXesiècle, organisées sous son parrainage. 

Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is one of the major European centres of research and documentation in the fields of history, political science, economics and social scien-ces, with particular emphasis on the history of ideas, political cultures and democratic movements in the framework of globalization related phenomena. In recent years, Fon-dazione Feltrinelli has established fruitful collaborations with numerous research centres of excellence all over the world (e.g.

Journée d'études « De la mémoire à l'histoire orale : approches & perspectives » (Liège, La Cité Miroir, 27 février 2019)

Longtemps reléguée dans les coulisses de la recherche historique au profit de l’archive papier, l'archive orale fait l’objet d’un vif regain d’intérêt.

Présentation

Depuis plusieurs années, des  travaux étudient les formes de racialisation subies, ou revendiquées par certains groupes dans la société française, en particulier par les populations noires. Ils invitent également à analyser les usages sociaux de la notion de race – entendue comme un fait social et non biologique – en France et ils interrogent de façon générale la place à accorder à la « question raciale » dans l’historiographie française. Quelle histoire sociale des populations noires ces travaux permettent-ils de construire ?

Planetary Utopias, Capitalist Dystopias:  Justice, Nature & the Liberation of Life
Fifth annual conference of the World-Ecology Research Network

San Francisco
May 30-31, June 1, 2019
California Institute of Integral Studies Department of Anthropology and Social Change