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The proposed volume focusses on migrant farmworker resistances in the last five years. It seeks contributions that examine the roots and forms, evolution and role, consequences and prospects of solidarities, alliance building, and resistances against the exploitation, control, and precarization of racialized migrant labour. The volume's larger goal is to provide a platform for dialogue among academics, activists, artists, migrant workers and indigenous populations on practices of resistance and self-advocacy to reclaim labour rights and proposealternatives to agricultural racial capitalism.

Description

The present era is witnessing profound changes in global production and consumption of food. In some respects, this is a continuation of earlier trends. However, in several significant ways, restructuring of global agro-food systems in the contemporary moment appears to be completely new. Concentration and centralization of capital within agriculture is now being reinforced through intensified global competition, innovations in biotechnology and transportation, and the social organization of labor. As a result, we result as daily evidence rapid transformation of agriculture, including decline of subsistence agriculture and proletarianization of independent farmers.

In parallel, these transformations especially in the last five years have unfolded within what can be described as a “polycrisis”: the co-existence and interweaving of multiple crises such as an acute socio-economic crisis, ecological crisis, persisting racial injustice, health-care crisis, the growth and the rapid spread of far-right populism, and the breakdown of international order. Together, these constitutes a colossal crisis of crises that exposes the enduring strength of the capitalist system.

Migrant agrarian workers have been a structural element of the new global agro-food production system, in which they, together with autochthonous women, constitute the most exploited and vulnerable group within agro-business. COVID-19 pandemic brought into sharp focus the indispensability of migrant farm workers in sustaining global agro-food production while revealing the deep contradictions in migrant labour regimes – these migrant agrarian workers were classified as “essential” to national food security, yet they were rendered disposable through restrictive border controls and temporary migrant labour programs.

Scholarship emerging in the wake of the pandemic has laid bare the role of the state in facilitating the expropriation and exploitation of migrant labour and, thereby advancing the spread of agricultural racial capitalism that Manjapra (2018) defines as agriculture production derived from the unfree labour of racialized farmworkers. Research has also documented heightened consciousness among migrant farmworkers during this period, which has resulted in solidarities, mobilization of cross- racial and cross-national alliance building, unionizing, and informal and everyday resistances enacted against their exploitation and racialized migrant precarity.

There was a widespread anticipation that the momentum of such resistances and solidarities would persist, post pandemic, to generate momentum to contest bordering regimes and propose alternatives against labour exploitation in the agriculture sector.

The proposed volume focusses on migrant farmworker resistances in the last five years of the polycrisis. It seeks contributions that examine the roots and forms, evolution and role, consequences and prospects of solidarities, alliance building, and resistances against the exploitation, control, and precarization of racialized migrant labour. The volume's larger goal is to provide a platform for dialogue among academics, activists, artists, migrant workers and indigenous populations on practices of resistance and self-advocacy to reclaim labour rights and propose alternatives to agricultural racial capitalism. Among other, the volume invites submission on questions such as:

• Has the promise of heightened consciousness among migrant workers and local populations, and, with it, a promise of tangible changes within the global agri-food regimes led to change, either positive or negative?
• How has migrant farmworker resistance evolved or adapted?
• What new alliances have emerged or brought in new social actors to facilitate change?
• How has agricultural racial capitalism responded to labour resistance and solidarities and what new strategies of labour exploitation and discipline developed against racialized migrant farmworkers?
• What social infrastructures or local factors facilitate or prevent struggles, including social policies and the role of migrants within them?
• What role does spatiality have in shaping migrant resistance? Do certain spaces of agrarian production inhibit or facilitate collectivities of resistance or not?
• What role does/do temporality-ties such as those of seasonal migration or agricultural season have in contouring migrants’ resistance, solidarities and alliance building?
• Are certain forms of agricultural work more prone to collective action?
• Has the current polycrises led to new forms of gender subordination? In what ways have new forms of gender sequencing and gender segregation in agricultural work shaped consequences for labour resistance?
• Analyze whether struggles produce only immediate material gains (e.g., better salary, housing) or do these generate political and theoretical critiques (e.g., critique of racism, neoliberalism, agricultural racial capitalism)?
• Is there a link/alliance between such migrant resistances with struggles for social rights within specific national contexts and against structural and systemic racism and discrimination? With greater consciousness about exploitative migrant labour regimes and racial discourses, are these linked horizontally to similar struggles across countries or labour sectors?
• In relation to transnational collaboration of resistance against migrant labour exploitation, what factors have facilitated alliance building and what strategies have worked (or not).
• How is organized top-down resistance led by unions or other structured groups different than organic, grassroots mobilizations led by migrant workers and how do these fare in effectiveness of strategies and coalition building?

Significantly, the volume endeavours to examine resistances that either failed or got co-opted by agricultural racial capitalism. What led to the failure of migrant resistance or in the erosion of solidarity among migrant farmworkers? What lessons do such instances hold for racialized migrants, migrant rights groups and activists as they mount struggles against exploitative migrant labour regimes?

Call for Chapter Submissions

With the edited volume’s aim to provide critical insights, diverse perspectives, and creative approaches about migrant farmworker resistance, we invite scholars, researchers, writers, and creative artists to contribute original works, empirically grounded studies, and theoretical essays to the volume. We encourage non-traditional scholarly contributions that include creative performing arts, expressions of resistance such as poetry, short stories, photo essays, or participatory creative research methods such as photovoice.

Submission process and deadlines

If you are interested in contributing, please submit an abstract of 500 words, a 200-word biographical note with current affiliation and email address, and an updated CV (all as Word docs),

by 30 September 2025.

Please include “migrant agricultural workers resistance CfA” submission in the subject line. The abstract should state the research question addressed in the proposed article, outline the theoretical framework, and state the article’s main argument.

Please email the abstract and all queries to Eriselda Shkopi (eriselda.shkopi@unive.it), Reena Kukreja (reena.kukreja@queensu.ca), and Fabio Perocco (fabio.perocco@unive.it)

Editors

• Dr. Reena Kukreja, Queen’s University, Canada
• Dr. Eriselda Shkopi, Ca’ Foscari University, Italy
• Dr. Fabio Perocco, Ca’ Foscari University, Italy

Proposed publisher

• Routledge (The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture)

 

Keywords

migrant labour, resistance, agriculture

Recent migration research has recently adopted intersectional approaches by disputing age  categories, Gender, and class, which have long been pivotal  to the study of migrant populations. Despite being the focus of sustained scholarly inquiry, these domains continue to exhibit notable  limitations particularly in areas where migrants navigate conditions of “illegality” and where state authorities frequently respond with various forms of repression, including violence, detention,  stop-and-search practices, and police surveillance. This symposium will thus serve as a platform  for scholars and practitioners to exchange methodological insights into short-range mobility and  to explore innovative approaches to researching migration contexts. Furthermore, it will provide a  critical space to examine how funding agencies shape, influence, and/or potentially limit migration  research agendas.

The Laboratory for the History of Mediterranean Economies and Societies  (HESM) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Tunis, and  Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (CAREP) jointly organize an  international Conference on:  Temporary Migration (20th –21st Centuries): Spaces, Regulation, and  Imaginaries

May, 7-8-9, 2026

Argument

Existing databases and bibliographic resources on migration reveal that scholarly inquiry within  the humanities and social sciences has tended to coalesce around two principal areas of focus: the  conditions surrounding migrants’ departure, and the processes of reception and/or exclusion in  host societies. Nevertheless, geographers have been at the forefront of mobility data analysis, the  development of “spatial interaction” related theories and the bridging of spatial domains through  conceptual frameworks such as the migratory field (Simon, 1981) and migratory circulation  (Charef, 1999; Arab, 2009). The multifaceted nature of migration—rooted in the intricate interplay  of economic, social, political, cultural, and ecological factors—is investigated across diverse  temporal and spatial contexts. While they remain challenging, such dimensions are concomitantly examined, given that individual mobility patterns shape both personal trajectories and the  geographies traversed. Hence, mobility is analyzed through both national and transnational lenses  (Rosenthal, 1999; Mabrouk, 2010; De Wenden, 2016; Schmoll, 2020; Ben Khalifa, 2021; Regnard,  2022). Furthermore, migration studies invite critical interrogation of foreign policy frameworks  and societal transformations (De Wenden, 2016; Lacroix, 2023, 2024; Abbondanza, 2024). Within  this discourse, media representations and political rhetoric play a pivotal role in shaping public  opinion by constructing narratives that inform collective imaginaries, often contributing to the  entrenchment of migration within predominantly negative paradigms. The study of human mobility is substantially critical for migratory flows.

Recent migration research has recently adopted intersectional approaches by disputing age  categories (El Miri, 2021; Jamid, 2022; Ait Ben Lmadani, 2020), Gender (Moujoud, 2008; Ait Ben  Lmadani, 2020; Arab, 2018; Schmoll, 2020), and class (Peró, 2014), which have long been pivotal  to the study of migrant populations. Given the prominence of migration in public discourse, media representations are replete with traces of Human mobility offering valuable material for analyzing  social imaginaries (Schor, 1985; Gastaut, 2000; Mills-Affif, 2004; Wihtol de Wenden, 2022).  Despite being the focus of sustained scholarly inquiry, these domains continue to exhibit notable  limitations particularly in areas where migrants navigate conditions of “illegality” and where state authorities frequently respond with various forms of repression, including violence, detention,  stop-and-search practices, and police surveillance. This symposium will thus serve as a platform  for scholars and practitioners to exchange methodological insights into short-range mobility and  to explore innovative approaches to researching migration contexts. Furthermore, it will provide a  critical space to examine how funding agencies shape, influence, and/or potentially limit migration  research agendas.

Temporary migration runs counter to sustainable or long-term settlement projects. One  prominent form is circular migration, characterized by repetitive, temporary movement. The  European Union notably promotes such a model as an alternative to irregular migration and as a  development key driver. Temporary migration spans a multitude of situations, such as seasonal  migration (e.g., Gastarbeiter in Germany) (Arab, 2018; Rass, 2023), student and trainee migration  (Jamid), migration of workers and skilled labor under fixed-term contracts contributing to the  precariousness of migrant labor (Khaled, 2023). Temporary migration has a distinct temporality, characterized primarily by its repetitive nature and, to varying degrees, by precarity and  vulnerability. Further, Political exile (Diaz, 2021; Dulphy, 2021) emerges as a temporary condition  that profoundly shapes the life trajectories of both refugees and their descendants. As Bianchi aptly  states (2005): “To exile oneself is not only to change location but also for consciousness itself to  tend toward exile.” Finally, transit situations also fall within the scope of temporary migration  studies” (Alioua, 2013; Regnard, 2022).

Temporary migration can be approached both as an analytical category and as a set of social  practices (Triandafyllidou, 2022), highlighting the gap between state-imposed administrative  classifications and migrants’ lived experiences. Abdelmalek Sayad recognized the dual nature of  migration: the temporary nature (de jure) and the lasting nature of the immigrant’s stay with “an  intense feeling of the temporary.” which is often accompanied by: “an intense feeling of  provisionality.” Sayad thus posited that the immigrant’s situation: “lends itself, not without  ambiguity, to a dual interpretation: at times, as though to deny the increasingly permanent nature  of migration, one retains only the immigrant’s inherent de jure provisional status.; at other times,  conversely, as if to refute the official identification of the immigrant’s status as temporary. "It has  been rightly emphasized that immigrants increasingly tend to ‘become permanently embedded in  their condition as immigrants, " (Sayad, 1991, p. 14).

A thorough critical examination of temporary migration necessitates a decolonial analytical  lens-- one that questions both the historical and structural continuities of colonial power. This approach calls for the deconstruction of colonial legacies rooted in racialization, securitization,  and in the privileging of certain populations. Analyzing migration temporalities through a  decolonial lens enables us to move beyond multiple forms of ethnocentric simplification and to  expose the enduring links between colonial power relations and postcolonial tensions, both in  border zones and in countries of transit and settlement.

Moreover, the construction of collective memory related to these forms of mobility unfolds within  a rather complex temporality—rooted in the past albeit extending into contemporary political  debates and identity claims. Highlighting the diversity of memories and the contexts in which they  emerge (Teulières et al., 2015) prompts us to focus on the role of temporary migrations in processes  of heritage-making and “désinvisibilisation” of previously marginalized histories. “Rendering  immigration history visible is inextricably intertwined with contemporary migration issues.  Numerous museum and archival exhibitions employ artistic mediums to engage with such  concerns, thereby eliciting diverse critical reflections” (Bertheleu et al., 2018).

Temporary migration operates within a framework of migratory utilitarianism" (Morice, 2001)  embedded in European state policies, which helps explain how migration is shaped according to  labor needs in specific sectors such as tourism and agriculture. Such a Utilitarian migration policy  is underpinned by two guiding core priciples: “Firstly, wherever and whenever relevant and  necessary, and in the appropriate quantity, states will import ‘high-quality’ (skilled or elite  migrants). Secondly, should a need for low- or semi-skilled labor also arise, such labor will be  deliberately confined to a time-limited contractual basis.” (Morice, 2001). Southern neighboring  countries have internalized such a logic in their own migration policies, largely due to the  authoritarian nature of their political regimes.

A system of “precarity competition” (Loiseau, Lasacaux, Mesini, 2024) is thereby implemented  in the employment of foreign labor, particularly evident in cases of Moroccan women recruited  for strawberry harvesting in Huelva (Arab, 2018), migrant labor in tomato farming in southern  Italy (Filhol, 2022), and in seasonal work in arboriculture in the Crau region of France (Mesini,  2022). 

This structurally embedded precarity is further intensified for female migrant workers, whose  labor often sits at the intersection of economic marginalization and gendered vulnerability. Such  is blatantly visible in seasonal migration schemes—such as those involving Moroccan women in  the Spanish strawberry fields —where the temporality of labor is narrowly defined and tightly  controlled, reinforcing an endemic instrumentalization of women’s bodies in service of highly  specific and extractive economic needs (Arab & Azaitraoui, 2024).

Of Further significance, temporary migration is embedded not only within individual  projects but also within family strategies aimed at distributing economic risks and securing  relatively stable income streams amid local economic uncertainties (Stark and Bloom, 1985). The  decision to migrate temporarily is not always the outcome of a preconceived, rational, and stable  plan. Drawing on Howard Becker’s work (1963), particularly his concepts of “life sequences” and  the construction of “deviant careers” (Outsiders), temporary migration is perceived as an evolving contingent process. Migrants typically do not set the duration of their stay beforehand, rather, the  temporality of migration develops through experience, shaped by interactions, emerging  opportunities, and constraints. Motivations to prolong or alter migratory trajectories often arise  retrospectively, I so much as they are informed by accumulated experiences within the host  context.

Focusing on irregular migration highlights a temporality shaped by security policies, which  can obstruct migratory trajectories, result in the detention of migrants, or lead to deportation to  places of origin. The sociology of bifurcations (Grossetti, 2006) underscores the role of  contingency and unpredictability in social trajectories. Migratory engagement, whether regular or irregular, can be triggered by unforeseen events or specific contexts, prompting a reassessment of  initial plans. This perspective encourages viewing temporary migration as an open-ended process,  wherein the duration is not predetermined but shaped by unexpected biographical bifurcations  often linked to personal, economic, or political changes.

Although temporary migration has received comparatively less attention compared to more  permanent forms of migration, it has nevertheless been the subject of extensive individual and  collective reflection (Arab, 2018; Baby-Colin et al., 2017; Donnan, Hastings, et al., 2017; Jacobson  et al., 2022; Regnard, 2022). Several key research trends can be identified as follows:

• Studies on pre-defined mobility projects (e.g., migration of workers and professionals,  as well as students, interns and trainees) whose stays are initially framed by fixed durations.  ∙ Research on refugees whose exile is conditioned by political situations in countries of  origin and transit, as well as by dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in countries of  settlement.
• Work on temporary labor regimes examining how labor needs—particularly in sectors  such as agriculture, tourism, and other seasonal industries—generate circular or short-term  migration flows involving both skilled and unskilled workers.
• Studies of migratory trajectories and their intermediary stages where migrants may  pause temporarily -- either in anticipation of further movement or in strategic response to  security barriers such as border enforcement. Such intermediary stages involve complex  logistical arrangement and are frequently subject to state surveillance of non-nationals.

Since the First World War, states have progressively developed and refined mechanisms for the  identification and control of foreigners, reflecting a broader logic of bureaucratic governance and  surveillance (About, Denis & Torpey, 2005). The intensification of mobility regulation has become  a hallmark of both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, shaped by the rise of nationalist  ideologies, the consolidation of authoritarian and dictatorial regimes, and the proliferation of  political dissent. Since the late 1990s, the European Union has positioned itself as a central actor  in the externalization of migration governance, extending its regulatory reach beyond its territorial  borders and reshaping mobility dynamics across its peripheries which are transformed into zones  of delegated migration management underpinned by security-oriented logics across the  Mediterranean and in bordering regions, thereby reaffirming restrictive logics that prioritize  containment and deterrence (Balleix, 2022; Billet et al., 2022).

By centering our analysis on the 20th and 21st centuries, this symposium intends to analyze  temporalities of migration through the prism of increasingly institutionalized mechanisms of  control and surveillance. The growing politicization of migration-- alongside sustained violations  of human rights-- calls for a thorough rethinking of how temporal regimes/ temporality shape migratory dynamics.

Within this framework, it is essential to undertake a critical inquiry into the practices of a wide  range of actors—including public institutions, international organizations, and civil society—and  to assess the extent to which these practices are informed and conditioned by the temporalities of  migrants’ presence. Whether oriented toward inclusion, capacity-building, or securitization, such  interventions remain inextricably tied to the temporal frameworks within which mobility is  managed.

Building on this premise, migrants residing on a temporary basis often develop distinct modes of  engagement with host societies, that diverge markedly from those of long-term or permanently  settled populations. Public policies that overlook the provisional nature of certain migratory  trajectories—or that operate within temporal logics misaligned with migrants’ lived experiences  — risk generating ineffective and even counterproductive outcomes.

While the Mediterranean space remains an area of focus in our analysis, we have deliberately  chosen not to be confined to this space alone. This approach allows for a more nuanced  examination of interactions with both neighboring and more distant regions and supports a  comparative framework that sharpens conceptual tools while deepening our understanding of how  temporality shapes public policy, humanitarian and associative interventions, as well as the lived  and outlived experiences of migrants and their families.

During their temporary stays, migrants engage in everyday interactions with individuals who  carry—and reproduce—representations of both the Other and the self. The duration and nature of  these encounters play a crucial role in either reinforcing or deconstructing stereotypical attitudes.  At various stages of their trajectories, migrants meet people from diverse cultural and social  backgrounds, making the temporality of migration a critical lens through which to examine  intercultural relations and the processes through which biases and perceptions are shaped,  challenged, or transformed.

Despite a substantial body of literature on exile, relatively few studies have addressed how  migrants themselves represent the spaces they traverse—particularly through artistic and literary  production. This dimension remains underexplored and warrants closer analytical attention.

It is therefore essential to highlight the adaptive strategies and forms of resilience developed by  migrants themselves as they navigate hostile environments or spaces requiring adjustment to  unfamiliar socio-cultural, economic, and political frameworks. In this regard, the collection of life  narratives and in-depth interviews offers valuable methodological avenues for foregrounding  grassroots perspectives and centering migrant agency in the study of temporary migration. 

Notably, social media platforms have emerged as critical arenas for the performative construction  and negotiation of migrant identities (Djebeil, 2025). These digital spaces constitute rich sites of  temporal representation and offer researchers an increasingly relevant corpus for analyzing  evolving subjectivities and practices of self-representation.

The aim of the symposium is to further scholarly inquiry into the multifaceted dimensions of  temporary migration by reconsidering analytical scales and promoting innovative methodological  approaches rooted in empirical fieldwork and critical engagement with heterogeneous corpora— including archival records, institutional documents, personal testimonies, and diverse media  outputs. Contributors are invited to reflect on the influence of temporary migration on public policy  frameworks, sociocultural representations, and the complex textures of migrants’ lived  experiences.

Key Areas

• Temporary Migration of Workers and professional/ skilled labor migration. ⮚ Migration and Education.
• Living and Surviving within Migration Transit Spaces.
• Exile and Temporality.
• Migrants’ Representation of Temporality.6

Output

• Enhancing the Analytical Framework/ conceptualization of Temporality in the Migratory  Context.
• Fostering intellectual and Scholarly exchange between academics from European  universities and institutions and across the MENA region.”
• Publication of the conference proceedings during the year 2026.

Submission Guidelines

Papers that engage with and address one or more of the following areas of focus are welcome:  

Interested authors are invited to submit original abstracts of 250–350 words, outlining the research  question, data or corpus used, and the adopted methodology.

Submissions must include a brief bio with institutional affiliation, research interests, and key  publications.

Proposals should be submitted by October 5, 2025 to the following addresses: labohesm.carep@gmail.com

Important Dates and Deadlines

• Submission Deadline : Abstracts must be submitted by October 5, 2025.
• Notification of Acceptance: Authors will be notified of the Scientific Committee’s decision by October 20, 2025. 
• Full Paper Submission: Authors of accepted proposals are required to submit the complete text of their presentations by  March 30, 2026.
• Conference Dates: The conference will be held on May 7-8-9, 2026.  

Scientific Committee

Hayet Amamou (University of Tunis), Chadia Arab (CNRS, UMR ESO-Angers), Riadh Ben Khalifa  (University of Tunis), Fatma Chalfouh (University of Tunis), Mohamed Charef (Université Ibn Zohr Agadir), Julius Dihstelhoff, ( Mecam-University of Tunis), Anne Dulphy (Ecole polytechnique), Piero  Dominique Galloro (University of Lorraine), Roméo Gbaguidi (Antonio de Nebrija University, Madrid.),  Sofien Jaballah (University of Sfax), Karim Khaled (CREAD-Algéria), Mehdi Mabrouk (University of  Tunis), Esther Möller ( Marc Bloch Zentrum), Antonio M. Morone ( University of Pavia) ; Khalid  Mouna (Rabat Social Studies Institute), Harouna Mounalaika (Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey),  Fatma Raach (Universitof Tunis elManar) , Antoine Pécoud (Sorbonne Paris North University), Céline  Regnard (Aix-Marseille University).

Organizing Committee

Hayet Amamou, Mehdi Mabrouk, Riadh Ben Khalifa, Fatma Chalfouh, Henda Ghribi, Safouane Trabelsi

Conference Coordinator : Riadh Ben Khalifa

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Azaitraoui, Mustapha & Arab, Chadia (2024) “Silence and intersectional resistance: the  mobilisation of temporary Moroccan temporary migrant women in Spain”. International Journal  of Migration and Border Studies, 8 (1/2), p.56-77.

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Mabrouk Mehdi (2010) Voiles et sel. Culture, Foyers et organisation de la migration clandestine  en Tunisie, Tunis, Sahar Editions. 

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Mills-Affif, Édouard (2004), Filmer les immigrés : les représentations audiovisuelles de  l’immigration à la télévision française, Bruxelles, Ed. De Boeck ; Bry-sur-Marne : INA.

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Rosenthal, Paul André (1999) Les sentiers invisibles. Familles et migrations. France, XIXe siècle,  Paris, Editions de l’EHESS. 

Sayad, Abdelmalek (1991), L’immigration ou le paradoxe de l’altérité. 1. L’illusion du provisoire,  Paris, éditions De Boeck (Bruxelles).

Simon, Gildas (1981) « Réflexions sur la notion de champ migratoire international. » Hommes et  Terres du Nord, Acte du colloque international, Lille, 16, 17, 18, octobre 1980, numéro spécial,  Vol. 1, n 1, p. 85-89. 

Schmoll, Camille (2020), Les damnées de la mer. Femmes et frontières en Méditerranée, Paris,  La découverte. 

Schor, Ralph (1985), L’opinion française et les étrangers 1919-1939, Paris, Publications de la  Sorbonne, 1985. 

Stark, Oded, et David E. Bloom (1985), “The New Economics of Labor Migration.” The American  Economic Review 75 (2) : 173–178.

Teulières, Laure, Hélène Bertheleu, et Marianne Amar, éd. (2015) Mémoires des migrations, temps  de l’histoire. Tours : Presses universitaires François-Rabelais :  https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pufr.13590.

Triandafyllidou, Anna ( éd.) (2022), Temporary Migration: Category of Analysis or Category of  Practice? London : Routledge.

Wihtol de Wenden, Catherine (2016), Migrations. Nouvelle donne, Paris, Maison des Sciences de  l’homme.

Wihtol de Wenden, Catherine (2022), Perception du migrant en France 1870-2022, Paris, CNRS  éditions.

 

Location: 10 rue tanit notre-dame
Tunis, Tunesien (1082 Tunis)

Event format: hybrid event

Keywords: temporary migration, space, regulation, imaginary

Contact person: Henda Ghribi
courriel : henda [dot] carep [at] gmail [dot] com

Stuttgart/Germany

Veranstalter: Stadtarchiv Stuttgart, Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg, Evangelisches Bildungszentrum Hospitalhof Stuttgart

Veranstaltungsort: Rathaus, Marktplatz 1, Großer Sitzungssaal, 3. Obergeschoss

PLZ: 70173

Ort: Stuttgart

Land: Deutschland

Findet statt: In Präsenz

Vom - Bis: 17.10.2025 - 17.10.2025

Website: https://www.stuttgart.de/veranstaltungskalender/veranstaltungen/was-ist-eine-wehrhafte-demokratie-506837

Wie kann sich eine Demokratie gegen ihre Feinde verteidigen? Diese Frage wird angesichts zahlreicher gegenwärtiger Bedrohungen kontrovers diskutiert.

Was ist eine wehrhafte Demokratie? Historische und aktuelle Perspektiven auf den Südwesten

Mit einem Blick zurück in die Vergangenheit will das Stuttgarter Symposion 2025 diese Debatten bereichern. Wie wehrhaft war die Weimarer Demokratie? Welche Lehren wurden aus Weimar für die Bundesrepublik gezogen? Kann staatliches Handeln überhaupt eine Demokratie wirksam schützen?

Eine Kooperation des Stadtarchivs Stuttgart mit dem Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg und dem Evangelischen Bildungszentrum Hospitalhof Stuttgart

Wir bitten um Anmeldung per Mail an veranstaltungen@hdgbw.de

Programm

11:00-11:30 Uhr
Grußworte

11:30-12:15 Uhr
PD Dr. Tobias Kaiser (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der Kommission für Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien (Berlin) und Privatdozent an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
Der Schutz des Parlaments – Bedrohungen von innen und außen

12:15-13:00 Uhr
Dr. Sebastian Rojek (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Stadtarchiv Stuttgart)
Wehrhaftigkeit und politische Gewalt von der späten Weimarer Republik bis in die frühe Bundesrepublik

13:00-13:30 Uhr
Kaffeepause

13:30-14:15 Uhr
Dr. Moritz Fischer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Habilitand am Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Neuzeit (19.-21. Jh.) der RWTH Aachen)
Wehrhaft nur in der Ära Adenauer? Parteienverbote in der deutschen Geschichte des langen 20. Jahrhunderts

14:15-15:00 Uhr
Dr. Maren Richter (Historikerin, Ausstellungskuratorin und freie Autorin in München)
Im Ausnahmezustand: Personenschutz in der Bundesrepublik während des Linksterrorismus der 1970er und der Brennpunkt Baden-Württemberg

15:00-15:30 Uhr
Kaffeepause

15:30-16:15 Uhr
Prof. Dr. Vanessa Conze (Inhaberin des Lehrstuhls für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte an der KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
Beamte als Verfassungsfeinde? Der Kampf um politische „Treue“ im Öffentlichen Dienst zwischen Weimar und Bundesrepublik

16:15-17:00 Uhr
Dr. Stefanie Palm (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin)
Pressefreiheit im Kreuzfeuer: Der Staat und die Medien in der jungen Demokratie

Freiburg/Switzerland

Veranstalter:Mediävistisches Institut der Universität Freiburg (Schweiz)

Veranstaltungsort: Universität Freiburg Schweiz, Campus Misericorde

Gefördert durch: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds und Universität Freiburg

PLZ: 1700

Ort: Freiburg

Land: Switzerland

Findet statt: Hybrid

Vom - Bis: 03.09.2025 - 05.09.2025

Website: https://www.unifr.ch/mediaevum/de/veranstaltungen/freiburger-kolloquien/

Das Mediävistische Institut der Universität Freiburg/Schweiz nimmt das Freiburger Colloquium 2025 zum Anlass, im interdisziplinären Austausch über das Thema «Behinderung», Armut und Arbeit nachzudenken und zu diskutieren, wobei verschiedene Quellen und Materialien (literarische, ikonografische, normative und praktische) herangezogen werden sollen. Eingeladen dazu wurden 16 internationale Spezialist:innen auf dem Gebiet.

Freiburger Colloquium 2025 "Disability, Armut und Arbeit im Mittelalter"

Das Mediävistische Institut der Universität Freiburg (Schweiz) organisiert alle zwei Jahre ein interdisziplinäres Kolloquium, bei dem Forscher:innen und Spezialist:innen zusammen gebracht werden, um sich mit einem speziellen mediävistischen Forschungsthema zu beschäftigen.

Das Freiburger Colloquium 2025 thematisiert und diskutiert das Thema von Disability, Armut und Arbeit im europäischen Mittelalter und findet Anfang September 2025 statt.

Studien über Menschen mit Behinderungen sind, was das Mittelalter betrifft, erst um die Jahrhundertwende zunehmend aufgekommen. Sie sind mittlerweile sowohl in den Geschichtswissenschaften als auch in der Philologie und Literaturwissenschaft gut etabliert, vor allem im angelsächsischen Raum, in geringerem Maße auch in Deutschland und anderen Ländern, weniger allerdings in der frankophonen akademischen Sphäre.

Dennoch hat sich die mediävistische Forschung bereits vorher Menschen mit Behinderungen gewidmet, und zwar im Kontext des Themas Armut. Die großen Studien der 1960er bis 1990er Jahre, wie jene von Michel Mollat oder Bronislaw Geremek, gingen oft von der Annahme aus, dass Behinderung und Armut untrennbar miteinander verbunden seien. Die infirmi, so die Autoren, konnten aufgrund ihres hohen Alters oder einer Behinderung nicht arbeiten, und diese Arbeitsunfähigkeit führte zwangsläufig zu Armut. Gleichzeitig stellen Studien zur Armut im Mittelalter Menschen mit Behinderungen als die guten Armen schlechthin dar, die einen legitimen Anspruch auf Almosen hatten, im Gegensatz zu den mendicantes validi, die lasterhaft oder aus Faulheit von der Gesellschaft profitierten. So setzte sich trotz einiger differenzierterer Untersuchungen das bestimmende Bild von bettelnden Menschen mit Behinderungen durch, das seither nicht mehr in Frage gestellt wurde.

In der Tat lädt die mittelalterliche Ikonografie zu solchen Verkürzungen ein, denn die einfachste Art, eine arme Person bildnerisch darzustellen, bestand damals nicht nur darin, sie in Lumpen zu kleiden und sie mit ausgestreckter Hand zu zeigen, sondern auch in der Sichtbarmachung einer Behinderung und den mit ihr verbundenen Gegenständen, Krücken oder Holzbeinen. Darüber hinaus scheinen die umfangreichsten historischen Quellen, wie die Hagiografie einerseits, und die aus den städtischen und praxisorientierten (z.B. von Wohltätigkeitseinrichtungen) überlieferten Dokumenten andererseits, Behinderung und Armut fast immer miteinander zu verbinden.

Die Tagung bietet nun die Gelegenheit, gemeinsam über Fragen wie die Präsenz von Menschen mit Behinderungen, die in den Quellen weder als arm noch als inaktiv erscheinen, die soziale Akzeptanz ihrer Inaktivität oder die unterschiedlichen Erfahrungen mit Arbeit oder deren Abwesenheit je nach sozialem Status, aber auch nach Geschlecht der Menschen mit Behinderungen nachzudenken.

Die Ergebnisse der Tagung werden wie bei den Freiburger Colloquien gewohnt, in der institutseigenen Reihe "Scrinium Friburgense" beim Reichert Verlag veröffentlicht.

Programm

Mittwoch, 3. September 2025

9.15–9.30 Uhr: Begrüssung durch das Rektorat der Universität Freiburg und die Organisatoren

9.30–10.00 Uhr: Einführung durch Olivier Richard

Moderation Cornelia Herberichs

10.30–11.15 Uhr: Sebastian Scholz (Universität Zürich) „Behinderung und Armut im frühen Mittelalter. Eine quellenkritische Annäherung“

10.15–12.00 Uhr: Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela / Université Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne, LaMOP) „Life after Violence: Disability and Legal Amputations in Early Medieval North Iberia“

14.00–14.45 Uhr: Sabrina Kremling (Universität Tübingen) „Disability im höfischen Roman? Überlegungen zu Hartmanns von Aue ,Iwein‘“

14.45–15.30 Uhr: Léo Delaune (Université de Strasbourg) „Handicap et émotions dans l’incitation aux bonnes œuvres. Analyse des exempla cisterciens, dominicains et franciscains (XIIe–début du XIVe siècle)“

16.00–16.45 Uhr: Yves Mausen (Université de Fribourg) „La justice, les sens et la parole: la question des juges et des témoins aveugles, sourds ou muets au Moyen Âge“

Donnerstag, 4. September 2025

Moderation: Paolo Borsa

9.15–10.00 Uhr: Catherine Bloomer (Villanova University, PA, USA) „Redefining (Dis)Ability to Work in Dante’s Florence“

10.30–11.15 Uhr: Rose Delestre (Université de Genève/Université de Rennes 2) „Handicap et pauvreté: usages de la fragilité dans le miracle et la chanson de geste tardive“

11.15–12.00 Uhr: Georg Modestin (Universität Freiburg) „Der gelähmte Fürst: Albrecht II. von Habsburg zwischen körperlicher Beeinträchtigung und Herrschaftsausübung“

14.00–14.45 Uhr: Silvia Carraro (Università degli studi di Genova) „Una donna con disabilità può amministrare un patrimonio? Disabilità femminile e agency economica nell’Italia tardomedievale (sec. XIII–XV)“

14.45–15.30 Uhr: Piotr Pawlina (ENS de Lyon) „Économie du miracle et fabrique de la bourgeoisie: les rôles de l’Aveugle et du Boiteux dans les mystères médiévaux“

16.00–16.45 Uhr: Mark C. Chambers (Durham University) „Entertaining ,Disability‘: Performers and Disability in the Records of Early English Drama“

Freitag, 5. September 2025

Moderation: Marion Uhlig

9.15–10.00 Uhr: Ninon Dubourg (Universität zu Köln) „Ministre ou mendiant? Comment les ecclésiastiques handicapés ont échappé à la pauvreté à la fin du Moyen Âge“

10.30–11.15 Uhr: Ahuva Liberles (Tel Aviv University) & Astrid Riedler-Pohlers (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) „Negotiating Access: Women with Disability in Rabbinic and Municipal Responses from 15th-Century Bavaria“

11.15–12.00 Uhr: Bianca Frohne (Universität zu Kiel) „Behinderung, Arbeit und Technologie in der Disability History: Assistive Objekte in Selbstzeugnissen und Memorialbüchern des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts“

14.00–14.45 Uhr: Aleksandra Pfau (Hendrix College, Conway, AR, USA) „Caregivers, Disability and Work in Late Medieval France“

Kontakt

Martin Rohde
iem@unifr.ch

Organizer: European Association for Urban History (EAUH)

Postcode: 08001

Location: Barcelona

Country: Spain

Takes place: In person

Dates: 02.09.2026 - 05.09.2026

Deadline: 20.10.2025

Website: https://www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#session22

We invite paper proposals for our session at the European Association for Urban History (EAUH) conference about new ways of examining urban hierarchies in Europe and addressing regional disparities and functional differences. We welcome all methodological approaches, but particularly those that go beyond the Central Place Theory.

Beyond Centrality: Reassessing Urban Networks and Regional Hierarchies in Europe, 1300–1900

This session (Session 22 of the EAUH 2026 conference) explores the formation and transformation of urban networks and hierarchies in Europe between 1300 and 1900, with a particular interest in the roles of non-economic drivers of urban development. While the legacy of Central Place Theory (CPT) remains influential in urban historiography, we invite contributions that go beyond centrality-based models to consider the impact of administrative, cultural, social, and geopolitical factors on the interaction between cities, towns, and boroughs. The session is open to a wide range of methodological approaches, including historical GIS, qualitative microstudies, and comparative long-term analyses. Key issues in this context are:
- the identification of indicators of urban functions (direct or indirect) in different periods of time and various regions;
- possible ways of investigating regionality within European polities in a longue-durée approach;
- in which cases do these differences lead to the formation of hierarchical or non-hierarchical networks;
- under which circumstances do similar development profiles lead to conflict or competition;
- how are small market towns and boroughs complement the network of cities and what was their role in regional development.

These questions have often been approached within the framework of Central Place Theory, which tends to privilege economic centrality. We aim to broaden this perspective by integrating a more diverse set of factors into the analysis of urban functions and regional connectivity. We invite contributions addressing the following questions in any regional framework and any chronological focus between 1300 and 1900:
- What was the role of administrative units, such as parishes, communes or neighbourhoods, in differentiating, organising and concentrating human and natural resources?
- What part did cultural institutions and access to learning play in establishing contacts between nodes of an urban network?
- How can one assess the role of different ethnic and religious communities and social solidarities in strengthening or weakening ties between nodes of a network?
- What was the impact of environmental factors such as natural barriers or communication corridors in the formation of urban networks?
- In the light of all the above factors, how do we assess the weight of economy in shaping urban networks?
We hope that discussing the above questions in a broad spatial and temporal frame can contribute to reassessing the relationship between urban functions and spatial organisation. Thus, the session intends to pave the way to a more nuanced understanding of European urbanisation and its networks and hierarchies.

Paper submissions

We encourage scholars with an interest in social and economic history and/or historical geography to submit abstracts for our session according to the general conference guidelines. Presentations should aim to be between 15-20 minutes, with additional space for discussion. Abstracts of max. 2000 characters can be submitted until Monday, 20 October 2025 at https://eauh2026.confnow.eu/?pagename=extpapersubmission

Kontakt

Katalin Szende, szendek@ceu.edu; Judit Majorossy, judit.majorossy@univie.ac.at; Beatrix F. Romhányi, romhanyi.beatrix@kre.hu

Organizer: Plattform Global Encounters / College of Fellows, Universität Tübingen

Funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) and the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal and State Governments

Postcode: 72070

Location: Tübingen

Country: Deutschland

Takes place: In person

Dates: 04.02.2026 - 06.02.2026

Deadline: 20.09.2025

The Global Encounters Research Focus Group is excited to announce the Call for Abstracts for the upcoming “Politics of Division: Legal and Knowledge Regimes,” taking place 4-6 February 2026 at the University of Tübingen. This conference invites submissions that engage with the theme "Politics of Division", fostering critical dialogue across disciplines.

The Politics of Division: Legal and Knowledge Regimes

The politics of division exploit existing or newly created social divisions and cleavages, deploying them as mechanisms to consolidate power and maintain the status quo. Contemporary states and their attendant legal and knowledge regimes are a key marker of these politics of division.

Examples include the changing varieties of ethnonationalism, which are based on notions of exclusive citizenship that dehumanize and denigrate certain racial, religious, and national groups. Similarly, gender and sexuality politics have become sites of intensified hostility, everyday policing, and legal repression. These strategies of division are neither new nor specific to any geographical region. At the same time, a series of overlapping crises exacerbate and fuel these movements: climate change, the migration crisis, the intrusive state, neoliberalism, and the rise of right-wing populism.

Efforts to understand these challenges have been trivialised. In recent years, both ends of the political spectrum have engaged in the production of forms of knowledge suited to political ends and the university has been forced to negotiate curriculums and policies due to external pressures, calling into question its role as a space for critical inquiry and free discussion. The knowledge circulated within online filter bubbles is reshaping the real world, and the effects created in the process overwhelm the facts.

We are interested in exploring how legal regimes institutionalize norms and authorize forms of governance, while knowledge regimes legitimize these norms by producing, circulating, and privileging particular epistemologies over others. Together, they shape the boundaries of what is considered lawful, rational, and politically possible. This conference seeks to interrogate the interplay between law, policy, and knowledge as well as to understand how they are invoked and mediated, gain appeal within a particular population, and evolve in terms of their ideological sophistication, and representations.

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers that consider the following or related themes. Early career scholars are especially encouraged to apply.
- Politics of History and Epistemic Violence
- Political Mobilizations
- The Rhetoric of the Right-wing Populism
- Competing historical narratives and selective invocations of the past, idealism, and nostalgia
- Rulership and sovereignty, political borders, and human movement
- Modern social problems, public policy/environmental justice, great replacement theory, and xenophobia
- Methods of resistance and restorative approaches

Submission Guidelines: Abstracts should be a maximum of 250 words in English. Include a short academic bio with author, current affiliation, and contact details.

Limited travel funds may be available for those who lack institutional support. Participants who need partial funding should submit a travel budget.

Deadline for Submission: 20 September
Selected participants will be notified in early October

Please submit your abstract via mail: global-encounters@uni-tuebingen.de

For inquiries, contact: global-encounters@uni-tuebingen.de

Join us at “The Politics of Division: Legal and Knowledge Regimes” for an inspiring ex-change of ideas. Selected papers will be solicited as part of an edited volume or special journal issue.

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Kontakt

global-encounters@uni-tuebingen.de

Neuenburg am Rhein/Germany

Veranstalter: Abt. Landesgeschichte, Historisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg; Stadt Neuenburg am Rhein

Veranstaltungsort: Stadthaus, Marktplatz 2

Gefördert durch: Bürgerstiftung der Stadt Neuenburg am Rhein

PLZ: 79395

Ort: Neuenburg am Rhein

Land: Deutschland

Findet statt: In Präsenz

Vom - Bis: 19.09.2025 - 20.09.2025

Website: https://www.mittelalter1.uni-freiburg.de/nachrichten/tagung-neuenburg-im-bauernkrieg-2025-09-19

Vom 19. bis zum 20. September 2025 findet im Stadthaus der Stadt Neuenburg am Rhein in Kooperation mit der Abteilung Landesgeschichte der Universität Freiburg eine historische Tagung zum Thema „Neuenburg und der Bauernkrieg im Markgräflerland“ statt.

Neuenburg und der Bauernkrieg im Markgräflerland

2025 jährt sich der Bauernkrieg zum 500. Mal. Vom Südwesten ausgehend, breitete sich 1524/25 der hauptsächlich von Bauern, zunehmend aber auch von anderen sozialen Schichten getragene Aufruhr innerhalb weniger Monate bis in die Mitte des Alten Reiches aus. Schnell verquickten sich dabei die sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Forderungen der Bauern mit dem Gedankengut der reformatorischen Lehre.

Das 500-jährige Jubiläum des Bauernkriegs bietet Anlass, diesen Konflikt und seine Auswirkungen auf die südliche Oberrheinregion im Rahmen einer Tagung in den Blick zu nehmen. Der Fokus richtet sich dabei auf die Oberen Lande des Markgrafen von Baden, also jenes zwischen Freiburg und Basel gelegene Gebiet, das eine der Keimzellen dieser bäuerlichen Protestbewegung darstellte. Im Rahmen der Tagung soll an konkreten Beispielen herausgearbeitet werden, wie sich die ländliche, durch (Wein-)Bau und nur wenige Städte geprägte spezifische Sozialstruktur dieses Raums sowie die Nähe zu und die Verflechtungen mit Basel, der Eidgenossenschaft und dem vorderösterreichischen Sundgau auf den Verlauf des Konflikts auswirkten.

Schirmherr der Tagung ist Regierungspräsident Carsten Gabbert, Regierungspräsidium Freiburg.

Wissenschaftliche Leitung: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Dendorfer, Dr. Heinz Krieg

Programm

Freitag, 19. September:

9.15 Uhr Begrüßung und Grußwort von Regierungspräsident Carsten Gabbert, Regierungspräsidium Freiburg

Einführung

9.30 Uhr Prof. Dr. Jürgen Dendorfer, Freiburg i. Br.: Das Markgräflerland im 16. Jahrhundert – Aktuelle Bauernkriegsforschung

Rahmenbedingungen

10.15 Uhr Dr. Casimir Bumiller, Bollschweil: Der Bauernkrieg am Oberrhein – eine Annäherung in biografischen Skizzen

11.00 Uhr Kaffeepause

11.30 Uhr Dr. Clemens Regenbogen, Stuttgart: Lebenswelten spätmittelalterlicher Bauern – Grund- und Leibherrschaft, Bauernschaften, Landstände

12.15 Uhr Mittagspause

Bauernkrieg im Markgräflerland

14.15. Uhr Dr. Jürgen Treffeisen, Bruchsal: Neuenburg am Rhein und der Bauernkrieg

15.00 Uhr Kaffeepause

15.30 Uhr Prof. Dr. Jürgen Dendorfer, Freiburg i. Br.: Markgraf Ernst von Baden im Bauernkrieg

16.15 Uhr Kai Börsig, Freiburg i. Br.: Gewalthandeln gegen Burgen und Klöster

17.00 Uhr Führung durch die Sonderausstellung „Ausgegraben! Archiv unter der Erde“ im Museum für Stadtgeschichte

18.15 Uhr Abendimbiss für die Tagungsteilnehmerinnen und -teilnehmer

Abendvortrag

19.30 Uhr Begrüßung durch Jens Fondy-Langela, Bürgermeister der Stadt Neuenburg am Rhein

19.45 Uhr Dr. Heinz Krieg, Freiburg i. Br.: Zur Gründung der Stadt Neuenburg am Rhein

Samstag, 20. September:

9.15 Uhr Arman Weidenmann, lic. phil., St. Gallen: Die Eidgenossen und der Bauernkrieg

Nach dem Krieg

10.00 Uhr Prof. Dr. Dieter Speck, Bad Krozingen: Die Rechtfertigung Neuenburgs und anderer habsburgischer Städte

10.45 Uhr Kaffeepause

11.15 Uhr Joy Sheik, M.A., Freiburg i. Br.: Die Nachkriegszeit im Markgräflerland

Schlussdiskussion

12.00 Uhr Prof. Dr. André Krischer, Freiburg i. Br.: Zusammenfassung

Kontakt

zentralstrelle@neuenburg.de

Date: July 21, 2026 - July 24, 2026
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Subject Fields: African History / Studies, American History / Studies, European History / Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History / Studies, Literature

The International Nineteenth Century Studies Association (INCSA)—in collaboration with the Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA), Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (INCS), and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History–invites proposals for its second biennial conference. 

We welcome submissions for individual papers, panels, posters, roundtable discussions, digital humanities projects, and performances exploring the nineteenth century from interdisciplinary, international, and intertemporal perspectives.

July 21-24, 2026

National Union Building, Washington, DC

English and Spanish

In-Person and Online 

Proposal Deadline: October 31, 2025

Join INCSA's mailing list: https://mailchi.mp/f57e81b357af/in-csa-join-us

For more information: https://in-csa.com/2026-call-for-papers-in-english/ 

Contact Information

Shannon Perich
Curator, National Museum of American History
Chair of the 2026 Conference, Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation 

Contact Email

incsa2026@gmail.com

URL

https://in-csa.com/2026-call-for-papers-in-english/

Ludwigshafen/Germany 

Organizer: Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte e.V.

Location: BASF SE, Visitor Center

Postcode: 67063

City/ Location: Ludwigshafen

Country: Deutschland

Takes place: In person

Date: 08.10.2025

Website: https://unternehmensgeschichte.de/AK-GlobalEconomy

On 8 October, the Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte (Society for Business History) will host the first meeting of the working group «Global Economy and Multinational Enterprises» (GEME) at BASF in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The workshop will explore how German corporations responded to global economic turbulence through shifting strategies in FDI.

Foreign Direct Investment and the Globalization of the German Industry in the 1970s

The world in the 1970s – the years of two oil price shocks, currency turbulence and the emergence of «new protectionism» – placed particular pressure on German business. Having connected with global markets primarily via exports, currency appreciation and trade protection quickly devalued this strategy. Many industries therefore chose to engage in offshoring production and the world saw a rapidly increasing stream of German FDI. On the other hand, German industry became an interesting target for inbound FDI, particularly from OPEC states, looking for secure investment.

The workshop meeting aims at addressing this well-known macroeconomic situation from a Business History perspective. Based on archival research in corporate archives, we want to discuss how corporations reacted to this dynamic global economic environment. What was the driving force and the main motivation for increasing FDI? To what extent did government subsidies influence the decision-making? Did European integration play a significant role? What specific challenges did corporations face in particular foreign markets? How was the FDI financed and which role did the parallel revolution in international banking play? The workshop will convene four empirically grounded talks and provide space for discussion and networking.

The workshop will be held in English.

Programm

13:00 - Introduction
Jan-Otmar Hesse, University of Bayreuth / Society for Business History Germany

13:30 - Keynote
The Role of FDI-Research in Business History
Neil Rollings, University of Glasgow

14:45 - Market Entry in China: The case of Sartorius, 1970s to 1990s
Caetano Franz, University of Gottingen / Sartorius AG

15:45 - Coffee Break

16:15 - When Quality Meets Sovereignty: German Footwear/Leather Companies in India’s Postcolonial Market
Christina Häberle, Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam

17:15 - Elastic Images of Europe. The European Rubber Industry as Agent and Site of Europeanisation, 1950–1980
Tonio Schwertner, Humboldt University of Berlin

18:15 - Discussion and further Program of the Working Group
Working Group Chair - Election

19:00 - Close of Event

Kontakt

Christiane Borchert: borchert@unternehmensgeschichte.de

Frankfurt/Germany

Veranstalter: Joachim Baur, Institut für Kunst und Materielle Kultur, TU Dortmund; Dominik Hünniger, Deutsches Hafenmuseum Hamburg; Doreen Mölders, Historisches Museum Frankfurt (Historisches Museum Frankfurt)
Ausrichter: Historisches Museum Frankfurt
PLZ: 60311
Ort: Frankfurt am Main
Land: Deutschland
Findet statt: In Präsenz
Vom - Bis: 17.11.2025 - 18.11.2025
Website: https://mailchi.mp/127e567db8c8/urbh4jocv5

Soziale Klasse zählt zu den prägendsten, aber im Kulturbereich nach wie vor unterbelichteten Kategorien gesellschaftlicher Ungleichheit. Die Tagung rückt die Frage in den Mittelpunkt, wie Klassenzugehörigkeit – verstanden als soziales Verhältnis und strukturelle Position – Museen in ihren Inhalten, Arbeitsweisen und Publika beeinflusst. Wie reproduzieren Museen die bestehende Klassengesellschaft? Und welche Potenziale haben sie, um diese sichtbar zu machen, zu hinterfragen – oder gar Klassenungleichheiten zu überwinden?

Klasse - Museum. Klasse und Klassismus in der Museumsarbeit

Soziale Klasse zählt zu den prägendsten, aber im Kulturbereich nach wie vor unterbelichteten Kategorien gesellschaftlicher Ungleichheit. Die Tagung rückt die Frage in den Mittelpunkt, wie Klassenzugehörigkeit – verstanden als soziales Verhältnis und strukturelle Position – Museen in ihren Inhalten, Arbeitsweisen und Publika beeinflusst. Wie reproduzieren Museen die bestehende Klassengesellschaft? Und welche Potenziale haben sie, um diese sichtbar zu machen, zu hinterfragen – oder gar Klassenungleichheiten zu überwinden?

Die Tagung bietet theoretische Zugänge zu Klasse und Klassismus ebenso wie eine kritische Reflexion der kulturellen und musealen Praxis. In Vorträgen, Diskussion und Workshops sollen die Verflechtungen von Museen mit Klassenverhältnissen untersucht und gemeinsam Handlungsmöglichkeiten für eine klassenbewusste, diskriminierungskritische Museumsarbeit entwickelt werden.

Die Tagung ist kostenfrei.

Programm

MONTAG, 17.11.2025

13:00 Ankommen / Registrierung

14:00 Klasse — Museum: Zur Einführung
Doreen Mölders, Dominik Hünniger, Joachim Baur

14:30 Klasse — Konzepte
mit Alex Demirović und Francis Seeck

16:30 Klasse — Kultur:en
Podiumsdiskussion zur Rolle von Klasse und Klassismus in Kulturinstitutionen
mit Katharina Böttger (Urban Design), Dietmar Dath (Journalist & Autor), Alexandra Hennig (Dramaturgin) und Ilija Matusko (Autor)

18:00 Klasse — Museumsgeschichte
mit Nina Gorgus u.a.

19:45 Abendempfang im Historisches Museum

Begrüßung: Ina Hartwig, Dezernentin für Kultur und Wissenschaft der Stadt Frankfurt am Main

Performative Lesung: Working Class Daughters

DIENSTAG, 18.11.2025

9:30 Ankommen

10:00 Parallele Workshops
Klasse — Sammeln
Klasse — Ausstellen
Klasse — Vermitteln
Klasse — Strukturen & Personal
12:30 Präsentation der Ergebnisse

Mittagspause

14:00 Klasse — Kämpfe
mit Alexander Gallas u.a.

15:00 Klasse — Museum: How might we …?

16:00 Ende der Tagung

Kontakt

doreen.moelders@stadt-frankfurt.de

Connecting ethnographies:
Working-class anthropology in Central and Eastern Europe from the end of the Second World War till today 

Call for paper of WG Workers, Labour and Labour History in Modern Central-East Europe for 6th ELHN Conference, 16-19 June, Barcelona

Organizers: Eszter Bartha, Tibor Valuch

The idea behind the planned session grew out of a decade-long cooperation between the two organizers and our common interest in re-connecting with both the East-Central European “native” traditions of labour anthropology and the new, global perspectives on labour history. 

It is common knowledge today that even though working-class studies enjoyed a privileged status in state socialist Eastern Europe and received distinguished attention and institutional funding from the Communist regimes, the discipline also stood under strict ideological control, which impacted on the actual academic production and the local academic communities. While in the aftermath of “actually existing socialism”, for understandable reasons, the stress has been put on the question of academic control, resistance or collaboration with the Communist regimes, there has also emerged a need to re-read the old ethnographies through a new lens and a new attention to the actual ethnographic work rather than the question of the scale of compliance to the ideological narrative that the “client” state wanted to hear. Labor anthropology had a particularly strong school for instance in Poland, but sociological and ethnographic studies also flourished in countries such as Hungary, where the re-established sociology enjoyed a very high social and academic prestige.

In the 1990s, academic interest in Central and Eastern European labour radically shrank, as the working class was often uncritically associated with the Communist past that both the public and academic communities sought to leave behind. With the transformation of Communist industries, the main losers of the regime changes belonged to the postsocialist working class, who en mass lost their jobs and temporarily or in most cases permanently fell out of the labour market, suffering all the predictable consequences (material and social insecurity, impoverishment, the decline and eventual ghettoization of their living habitats, the disintegration of the old communities and often even the families, the loss of the dignity of work, and the pressing need to redefine their social, gender and personal identities). This nourished a sense of socialist nostalgia, which had an uncanny resonance with the Communist past, rendering labour studies even less attractive for the new, democratically elected governments in East-Central Europe. Unsurprisingly, much of the postsocialist labour anthropology has been written by Western scholars, who brought with themselves not only their academic interest and moral commitment but also novel perspectives and new academic methods.

By now, a new generation of scholars grew up, who were born after the regime changes or only have distant childhood memories of the late socialist period. The old political-ideological fights and Cold War divisions that determined the lives of the older generations are – optimistically – foreby. The kind of global ethnography that Michael Burawoy advocated seems to be a “natural” choice for many researchers, who can cross – or are even pushed to cross – borders.

It is also common knowledge that the globalization of labour has many negative aspects – Western scholars already in the 1990s spoke of the colonization of Eastern European labour. It can be, however, also argued that this colonization has also become global as dire consequences such as the informalization of employment, the weakening of trade unions, gendered poverty, growing material and social insecurity are no longer postsocialist specificities. 

Despite all odds, we believe that there is a continuing need to “connect” our ethnographies – both socialist and postsocialist, and the Eastern and Western perspectives. We therefore invite papers which are engaged with working-class ethnographies in Central and Eastern Europe from the end of the Second World War till the present day. We welcome both contemporary case studies or comparative papers and papers, which are engaged with the history of socialist ethnographies. We also welcome studies that examine the everyday life of workers, their life, adaptation, and work strategies, the system of work, workplace and private relationships, and networks from a complex ethnographic, anthropological, and social history perspective.

Studying different regions, scholars from the new generation of global labour historians such as Görkem Akgöz or Leda Papastefanaki proposed to re-focus on the workplace, and they published ground-breaking studies embedded in the factory. A contemporary scholar in East-Central Europe would only see enviously the voluminous literature inside the socialist factory – commissioned by the Communist state. Much has been rightfully said about the Communist misuse of the “working class”. It is, however, also important to re-discover what kind of mirror the contemporary scholars held to the “client” state. 

We hope that this session can contribute to contemporary debates on the future of labour and labour ethnographies.

Abstracts (max. 300 words) should be sent by 30 September 2025 to Tibor Valuch (e-mail: valuch63@gmail.com).

Aubervilliers/France

Le laboratoire d'excellence « Individus, Populations, Sociétés » (iPOPs) est au cœur de la recherche et de la formation en sciences de la population. Il organise le 7 octobre prochain une journée scientifique afin de valoriser les travaux des jeunes chercheur·es qu'il a financés. Au cour des années, des travaux originaux ont ainsi été produits sur les question de paternité, de violences de genre, d'inégalités sociales de santé ou encore sur l'utilisation de données satellitaires pour mieux saisir les dynamiques de population face aux enjeux environnementaux. 

Colloque de fin du Labex iPOPs.

Le Labex est porté par l’Ined en partenariat avec l'Université Paris | Panthéon Sorbonne, l’Université de Bordeaux, l'Université de Paris Nanterre, l'Université de Strasbourg et l'Université Paris Cité. Lancé en 2011, il a été prolongé en 2019.

Programme

• 9h15. Ouverture : François Clanché, (directeur de l’Ined), Laurent Toulemon (Ined), Carole Brugeilles (Université de Nanterre)

10h-11h Question de paternité

Discutante :  July Jarty, Université de Toulouse 2

• Marine Quennehen La mise au travail des futurs pères : résistances et inégalités de genre dans la préparation de l’arrivée de l’enfant 
• Alix Sponton, Un congé pour quoi faire ? La réception du congé de paternité de deux semaines en France (2002-2021)

11h15-12h45 - L’expérience des violences de genre 

Discutante : Virginie Descoutures (Université d’Amiens)

• Tania Lejbowicz - L’intrication des expériences de violences de genre et de migrations chez les femmes. Le cas de migrantes en France.
• Lucie Wicky – Les traces des violences sexuelles dans les parcours de vie des hommes victimes
• Rebecca Levy-Guillain - Les violences de genre dans les « situationships » chez les jeunes (18-30 ans)  

Pause déjeuner

14h00 – 15H00 Inégalités de santé

Discutante : Claire Scodelaro, Idup 

• Arlette Simo Fotso - Proxy Respondent- or Self-reported Adult’s Disability in Nationally Representative Surveys: Does it Really Matter?
• Nancy Nzeyimana Cyizere - Des vies qui valent moins et un virus qui fait peur : une banalisation du VIH limitée par la conscience des inégalités structurelles

15h00- 16h00 - Environnement et population : opportunités des analyses satellitaires

Discutant : Christophe Z. Guilmoto, Ceped

• Ankit Sikarwar et Valérie Golaz - Unveiling the Overlap: Population Change and Rising Multiple Environmental Burdens in Sub-Saharan Africa  
• Narovana Andriamanatena - Exploring the links between landscape structure and building density in rural Madagascar

16h15-17h conférence de Sylvie Dubuc, titulaire de la chaire d’excellence iPOPs sciences de la population : le jeu des mobilités résidentielles dans le changement social des villes petites et moyennes

Pot de clôture

Lieu

Auditorium | Centre des Colloques | Campus Condorcet - Place du Front Populaire
Aubervilliers, Frankreich (93)

Date

Dienstag, 07. Oktober 2025

Mots-clés

démohraphie, sociologie, ipops, ined, france 2030, anr

Contact

Anissa DJELASSI-SAIDANI
courriel : ipops [at] ined [dot] fr

In 2025, the Melbourne Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH) will host the Society’s 19th Biennial Conference.

The conference will be held from 26 to 28 November 2025 and commemorates the 50th anniversary of the International Women’s Year, the dismissal of the Whitlam Government, and the end of the American War in Vietnam. 

The Spirit of 1975: Transformations in Australian Labour History invites historians and activists to take up this theme, as well as addressing wider issues and developments epitomised by the events of the 1970s in politics, protests, ideas, and cultural and social movements in Australia and abroad.

We also welcome papers on topics not related to this theme.

Hosted by the Victorian Trades Hall, The Spirit of 1975: Transformations in Australian Labour History is held under the general auspices of the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Links

Keynote Speakers

Call For Papers: Panel Proposals & Abstract Submission

Registration

Conference Program

In and Around Melbourne

Congress of Humanities Conferences and Events

by Raimund Dehnlow and Thomas Iffert

Hamburg nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg: Die Not ist groß, die alte Ordnung zusammengebrochen, groß ist die Hoffnung auf revolutionäre Veränderungen. Für den Kommunismus und die Weltrevolution agitiert enthusiastisch Ketty Guttmann (1883–1967).

Lange vergessen, wird sie gerade durch zwei Veröffentlichungen neu entdeckt: In Robert Bracks Kriminalroman »Schwarzer Oktober« um Klara Schindler schließt sich die 19-Jährige begeistert für die Revolution den Kommunisten an und lernt die Frauenrechtlerin Ketty Guttmann kennen. Zuletzt hat Theodora Becker in »Dialektik der Hure« an Ketty Guttmann als Herausgeberin der 1920 entstandenen Zeitschrift Der Pranger. Organ der Hamburg-Altonaer Kontroll-Mädchen erinnert, die Ketty Guttmann weit über Hamburg hinaus bekannt machte.

Der Arbeiterbewegung war sie zu feministisch, der bürgerlichen Frauenbewegung zu radikal. In der Arbeiterbewegung musste sie die Entstehung einer neuen Klasse von Funktionären erleben, deren Strategien zu den sozialen Bewegungen und ihrem Gerechtigkeitsgefühl in scharfem Gegensatz standen. Unter der Losung »Los von Moskau« wandte sich Ketty Guttmann 1924 von der KPD ab und schloss sich rätekommunistisch-anarchistischen Gruppen an. Für die offizielle Arbeiterbewegung und ihre Geschichtsschreibung war sie damit zur Unperson geworden; wo existiert auch nur ein Foto von ihr?

Der Band zeichnet Ketty Guttmanns wichtigste Lebensstationen nach, gibt Einblicke in ihren Kampf gegen bürgerliche Sexualmoral und für die Rechte von Prostituierten und beleuchtet ihren Weg zur scharfen Kritikerin des Parteikommunismus der Zwischenkriegszeit. Es ist der Beginn einer Spurensuche, die auch manch Irritierendes aufklären kann.

Raimund Dehmlow, geb. 1952, Buchhändler und Bibliothekar, forscht und publiziert zu Leben, Werk und Wirkung von Dr. Otto Gross, zu deutschsprachigen Opfern des Stalinismus und zu jüdischem Leben.

Thomas Iffert, geb. 1952, Bibliothekar, Soziologe, arbeitet zu den Schwerpunkt Herrschaft, Arbeiterbewegung, neue soziale Bewegungen, Krieg und Gewalt.

Lutherstadt Eisleben/Germany

Veranstaltungsort

Synagoge Eisleben
Lutherstr. 25
06295 Lutherstadt Eisleben

Zeit

01.09.2025, 18:00 - 20:00 Uhr

Themenbereiche

Deutsche / Europäische Geschichte, Erinnerungspolitik / Antifaschismus

Linke Jüdinnen und Juden in der Geschichte.

Erinnerungen an eine vergessene Allianz?

mit Dr. Florian Weis und Dr. Angelika Timm, RLS
Eröffnung: Bernd Gentkow, Vorsitzender des Vereins Eisleber Synagoge e.V.

Moderation: Dr. Angelika Klein

Veranstaltung der RLS Bundesstiftung mit der RLS Sachsen-Anhalt mit Unterstützung des Vereins Eisleber Synagoge e.V.

Nicht erst seit dem 7. Oktober 2023 erscheint es schwer vorstellbar, dass es eine lange gemeinsame Geschichte von jüdischer Emanzipationsbewegung und sozialistischer Arbeiter:innenbewegung gab. Diese war oft spannungsreich und widersprüchlich, doch gleichwohl in Europa, Nordamerika, Südafrika und anderen Ländern sehr ausgeprägt. Jüdinnen und Juden waren überproportional stark in den sozialistischen, kommunistischen und auch anarchistischen Strömungen und Organisationen vertreten. Diese gemeinsame Geschichte wieder stärker in Erinnerung zu rufen ist Anliegen der Reihe »Jüdinnen und Juden in der internationalen Linken«, die Bernd Hüttner, Riccardo Altieri und Florian Weis seit 2021 herausgeben. 
Viele jüdische Sozialist*innen, die die Nazi-Diktatur überlebt hatten, wählten die Sowjetische Besatzungszone beziehungsweise die DDR bewusst als das Land, in dem sie eine antifaschistische neue Ordnung mit aufbauen wollten, so etwa Helene Weigel und Anna Seghers, Stephan Hermlin und Stefan Heym. Doch wie waren ihre und die Erfahrungen anderer Jüdinnen und Juden nach 1945 in der DDR? Und wie entwickelte sich der Umgang der DDR mit dem historischen und der Shoah, dem Judentum im eigenen Land und dem Staat Israel? Darüber diskutieren Angelika Timm und  Mario Keßler mit Florian Weis. Darüber hinaus wollen wir fragen, an welches gemeinsame Erbe von jüdischer und sozialistischer Emanzipationsbewegung eine heutige politische Linke anknüpfen könnte  und welchen Versäumnissen im Kampf gegen jeden Antisemitismus sich stellen muss.

Kontakt Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Sachsen-Anhalt

E-Mail: info@rosaluxsa.de

Telefon: +49 391 25191475

Hamburg/Germany

Veranstaltungsort

Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden
Beim Schlump 83
20144 Hamburg

Zeit

25.09.2025, 18:30 - 20:30 Uhr

Themenbereiche

Deutsche / Europäische Geschichte, Erinnerungspolitik / Antifaschismus, Parteien- / Bewegungsgeschichte

Als Joseph Berkowitz Kohn 1905 in Hamburg starb, würdigte ihn ein Nachruf im sozialdemokratischen „Hamburger Echo“ als verdienten und vertrauenswürdigen Genossen dem nicht nur die liebende Familie, sondern auch die Erfolge der Arbeiterbewegung das Leben erhellt hätten. Als meinungsstarkes Parteimitglied und Aufsichtsratsmitglied des Konsum-, Bau- und Sparverein „Produktion“ war er der Hamburger Arbeiterschaft wohlbekannt. Zu Grabe getragen wurde Berkowitz Kohn auf dem Jüdischen Friedhof in Ohlsdorf, geleitet von Größen der damaligen Partei unter einer trauerbeflorten roten Fahne.

Wenige Jahre später wurde 1908 Olga Benario in eine sozialdemokratische jüdische Münchener Familie geboren. Sie engagierte sich in den 1920er Jahren bei der Kommunistischen Jugend in Berlin-Neukölln. 1928 floh sie in die Sowjetunion, wo sie Agentin der Komintern wurde. In ihrem Auftrag wurde Benario nach Paris und London und schließlich nach Rio de Janeiro entsandt. Nach einem gescheiterten Aufstand unter der Führung ihres Ehemanns lieferte Brasilien Benario an Nazideutschland aus. Im Berliner Frauengefängnis Barnimstraße gebar sie die gemeinsame Tochter, wurde in das KZ Ravensbrück überführt und 1942 mit anderen Häftlingen in Bernburg ermordet. Von den Nazis wurde Benario als „Stalins Agentin“ geschmäht, ihre Erinnerung an den Kampf um Befreiung jedoch in Brasilien und der DDR aufrechterhalten – und auch heute noch dient sie als ikonische Revolutionärin.

1982, ein halbes Jahrhundert später wurde in Maputo, Mosambik, Ruth First von einer Briefbombe, die der südafrikanische Geheimdienst gesandt hatte, aus dem Leben gerissen. Im Nachruf gab die Südafrikanische Kommunistische Partei den Grund für die Ermordung an: ihren Kommunismus, der die völlige Hingabe zur Befreiung der Bevölkerungsmehrheit von der Apartheidherrschaft und ihr Vertrauen in die Fähigkeit der normalen Menschen, sich selbst zu befreien. Ausdruck des Knotenpunkts, den die SACP spiele, drücke sich in der Symbiose von Firsts Leben und Aktivismus und der Befreiungsbewegung aus. Ihre Anteilnahme drückten 3.000 Menschen bei der Beerdigung aus, bei der Ruth First nahe bei 13 ihrer zuvor ermordeten Genossen gebettet wurde.

Kann eine Linie über Zeit und Raum gezogen werden, die Berkowitz Kohn, Benario und First verbindet? Sicherlich waren sie für fast einhundert Jahre nicht die einzigen jüdischen Genoss*innen. Denn gemessen am Bevölkerungsanteil waren Jüdinnen und Juden im ausgehenden 19. und in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts weit überproportional in den revolutionären und sozialreformerischen Bewegungen in allen Teilen der Welt aktiv. Kann es eine Antwort geben auf die Frage, welche Rolle dabei ihre jüdische Herkunft für sie spielte? Welche Motivation und welche Erfahrung trieben Kohn Berkowitz, Benario und First an? Welche Relevanz hatten sie jeweils und welche Spuren hinterließen sie? Und welches Erbe haben sie, stellvertretend für eine Vielzahl jüdischer Genoss*innen, hinterlassen, an das angeknüpft werden könnte?

Unter diesen und weiteren Fragestellungen diskutieren Prof. Dr. Gertrud Pickhan (Berlin), Prof. Dr. Christopher Kopper (Bielefeld) und Dr. Hanno Plass (Hamburg)

Begrüßung: Dr. Kim Wünschmann, Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden

Moderation: Dr. Florian Weis, Historiker, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

Gertrud Pickhan, bis 2021 Professorin für die Geschichte Ostmitteleuropas am Osteuropa-Institut der Freien Universität Berlin. Zuvor Stationen am Deutschen Historischen Institut Warschau, am Leibniz-Instituts für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur – Simon Dubnow in Leipzig und an der TU Dresden. Sie forschte und publizierte unter anderem über den Allgemeinen Jüdischen Arbeiterbund „Bund“, über russischen Nationalismus im 19. Und 20. Jahrhundert, ostjüdische Migranten im Berlin der Weimarer Republik und jüdische Jazzmusiker zwischen Nationalsozialismus und Stalinismus.

Christopher Kopper, Historiker, seit 2012 apl. Professor an der Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft der Universität Bielefeld. Forschungen zur Wirtschafts- Finanz- und Verkehrsgeschichte mit Augenmerk auf die Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Kopper legte unter anderem Studien zur Bankenpolitik des NS, eine Biographie Hjalmar Schachts, eine Untersuchung des Volkswagen-Konzern während der brasilianischen Militärdiktatur sowie eine Darstellung der Geschichte der Münchener Rückversicherungsgesellschaft vor. Er ist Mitglied des Auswahlausschusses der Studienförderung der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

Hanno Plass, Historiker, promovierte an der TU Berlin mit einer Studie zur Beteiligung südafrikanischer Jüdinnen und Juden am Kampf gegen die Apartheid. Stipendiat der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. Studien- und Forschungsaufenthalte in London, Jerusalem, Johannesburg und Kapstadt. Er arbeitet als politischer Referent im Verbraucherschutz.

Die Veranstaltung findet hybrid statt: im Lesesaal des Instituts für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden und online über Zoom. Um Anmeldung wird gebeten: kontakt@igdj-hh.de

Bitte geben Sie bei der Anmeldung an, ob Sie in Präsenz vor Ort oder Online über Zoom teilnehmen möchten.

Vertiefende Informationen zum Thema finden sich im jüngst erschienenen fünften Band der Publikationsreihe Jüdinnen und Juden in der internationalen Linken – Erinnerungen an eine emanzipatorische Allianz.

Eine Kooperationsveranstaltung des Instituts für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, der Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Hamburg und der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung.

 

Gefördert durch die Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Hamburg

Kontakt Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Hamburg

 

E-Mail: info@rls-hamburg.de

Telefon: 040 28003705

Location: Trieste, Italy

Subject Fields: Maritime History / Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies, Business History / Studies, Economic History / Studies, Labor History / Studies

International Hybrid Workshop

Bread, Butter, and Bacon On Shore

Gendered Perspectives on the Economic, Social, and Cultural Dimensions of Food and ‘Feeding Relationships’ in Maritime Contexts in Modern Times (18th–21st Centuries)

Venice (Italy) and online, 27–28 November 2025

CfP deadline: 7 September 2025

Organisers:

• NextGenerationEU Project ‘Ondine’ (Dep. History, Humanities and Society – Tor Vergata University of Rome);
• Venice School of Management – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice 

Dates and location: 27–28 November 2025 at Venice School of Management - Ca’ Foscari Universiry of Venice, Venice and remotely

Languages: English and Italian 

Under the patronage of: Fondazione ISEC

The aim of the workshop is twofold. (1) On the one hand, the workshop aims to highlight the multifaceted nature of gendered, socio-economic, and cultural practices related to the entire foodstuff (including beverages) ‘lifecycle’ (i.e., production, transformation and/or circulation, management, consumption) within maritime contexts in Modern times (18th–21st centuries). (2) On the other hand, its goal is to explore the most salient features of ‘feeding relationships’, i.e. breadwinning and caregiving, in maritime contexts in the longue (modern) durée.

Regarding the first aspect (1), it is important to emphasise the characteristics of an exemplary case study. In 1992, the Government of Canada enacted a moratorium on the cod fishery along the Atlantic coast. Overexploitation has culminated in the cessation of nearly five centuries of fishing activities within those waters. The economic, social, and cultural consequences were devastating. The fishing boats, which employed predominantly male labour, remained anchored in port, while the fish processing plants, which employed mainly female workers, closed their doors. Unemployment was rampant. In this context, the centuries-old economic, social, and cultural fabric of Atlantic Canada’s fishing communities has undergone a profound transformation, losing its distinct physiognomy. This can be defined both as a failure of food and maritime security, or at the very least, it was the individuals and human capital involved who bore the consequences. Nevertheless, it is important to emphasise that food security, particularly in the maritime environment from a gender perspective, is a topic that has seen some success in academia when it relates to the Global South (Njuki et al., 2016; Swastiwi et al., 2023). However, this is much less the case when the ‘crime scene’—as in the example of Atlantic Canada—pertains to the modern, enlightened, and advanced Global North. It seems that, ultimately, this is a matter that does not concern ‘us’ (Cf. Suárez-de Vivero et al., 2019).  

In recent years, Campling & Colás (2021) have questioned the hierarchical relations between sea and shore in the context of maritime capitalism. From that discussion, the well-chosen expression ‘terraqueous predicament’ was coined. No other formulation better explains the nature of the relationship between food (including beverages) and maritime capitalism, since that encounter occurs precisely on the shore, where land and sea, feminine and masculine, private and public, intimacy and worldliness intersect. 

All those intersections are expressed in different economic forms: production, transformation and/or circulation, management, consumption. What is important to emphasise here is that not only can those economic operations have a significant gender connotation, but also that each gender can articulate and manage them differently. 

Therefore, given the vital role of gender throughout the entire foodstuff ‘lifecycle’ (Shiva, 2009), the following is a brief list of topics for which we welcome paper proposals. 

• What are the particularities of maritime environments? 
• Do maritime communities and port cities share common traits, or, on the contrary, do they possess unique characteristics that set them apart from each other? 
• How much influence, for example, do a) the physiognomy of the local economy, b) the level of mobility and/or transnationality and/or creolisation, c) and the traits of domesticity and intimacy models have in shaping food patterns in maritime localities? 
• What could be the consequences for gender relations resulting from food and maritime security failures like those in Atlantic Canada during the 1990s? 
• What is the role of the meal – a social institution and the main element in understanding the socio-economic and cultural significance of food – in a maritime context? What does consuming the meal ‘at home’ (e.g., with one’s family or at one’s home port) versus ‘out’ (e.g., with shipmates or in a foreign port) in a maritime setting involve?   

Regarding the second aspect (2), it is essential to establish a working assumption immediately: breadwinning, or ‘bringing home the bacon’ or ‘bread and butter’, is a socio-economic practice and institution that, in most cases, occurs within the formal economy. In contrast, frying and serving the same bacon or buttering the toast – i.e., all the activities related to care and household management tasks – are generally linked to the informal economy. Moreover, these two socio-economic and cultural spheres are not gender-neutral and imply a strong normative charge concerning gender roles. Despite significant structural changes in recent decades, at least in terms of our collective imagination, the breadwinning capacity is still associated with masculine and male gender roles, while housework and caregiving are linked to feminine and female gender roles. This is arguably one of the most significant socio-economic and cultural outcomes of modern (industrial) capitalism (DeVault, 1991). In maritime socio-economic contexts, the issue becomes even more complex. If, on the one hand, historiography over the last 40 years has progressively dismantled the assumption of the male seafarer as the sole wage provider (Burton, 1998) and recognised the value of domesticity and women’s productive contributions in fishing communities (Thompson et al., 1983; Norling, 2000; Mezzoli, 2023; 2025 forthcoming), on the other hand, port-cities continue to be regarded as ‘normal’ bastions of masculinity and male economic, social, and cultural production and breadwinning.

Finally, there is one last important aspect to consider. In Parassecoli’s words: ‘Food is pervasive. The social, economic, and even political relevance cannot be ignored. Ingestion and incorporation constitute a fundamental component of our connection with reality and the world outside our body’ (2008, 2). In short, this makes food a cultural issue. As discussed earlier, it is also a key element in shaping gender identities and roles within a specific society at a given time. However, within this framework, what are the cultural outcomes of the intersection between food and gender in maritime environments, which are inherently susceptible to processes of creolisation? What are their characteristics? What significance does the gender variable hold in the gender-race-class equation within food-related cultural production in maritime contexts?

Given the premises, we are primarily soliciting proposals that deal with:

• Practices related to the economic ‘lifecycle’ (i.e., production, transformation, circulation, management, consumption; both labour and business dimensions) of foodstuff in maritime environments; abstracts with a gender focus (i.e., history of women, masculinities, and LGBTQ+ communities) will be given priority;
• Breadwinning ‘versus’ caregiving in maritime contexts: abstracts focusing on breadwinning – particularly in relation to gender issues (i.e., women’s history, masculinities, and LGBTQ+ communities) – linked to the socio-economic aspects of household management, care of the person, food patterns will be provided priority.

However, we also welcome proposals that concern:

• (Pop) Representations and narratives of food and/or ‘feeding relationships’ in maritime contexts (e.g., exhibitions, festivities, documentaries): abstracts with a gender and/or economic angle will be given priority. 

In particular, we would welcome:

• Proposals based on ‘non-official’ historiographic sources (e.g., cookery books, paintings, photographs, comics, films, songs, etc.); 
• Proposals that focus on practices in (post) imperial/colonial maritime port-cities;
• Proposals from scholars from disciplines other than history (e.g., anthropology, sociology, economics).

Please send your 20-minute presentation proposal to Erica Mezzoli at bbb.venice2025@gmail.com by 7 September 2025. The proposal should include:

• max 300-word abstract in English;
• max 250-word bio profile in English with affiliation, position, and contact information;
• the language the proponent would prefer to communicate: Italian or English;
• the modality the proponent would prefer to communicate: in person in Venice or remotely.

The workshop is organised in the framework of the NextGenerationEU Project ‘Ondine. Women’s Labour and Everyday Life on the Upper and Eastern Adriatic Waterfronts, mid-19th century–mid-20th century’ (Funded by EU; CUP E53C22002420001) hosted by the Department of History, Humanities and Society of the Tor Vergata University of Rome.

 

Contact Information

Erica Mezzoli

NextGenerationEU Project 'Ondine' (CUP E53C22002420001)

Department of History, Humanities and Society - Tor Vergata University of Rome

Via Columbia, 1

00133 Rome (Italy)

Erica.Mezzoli@uniroma2.it

Contact Email

bbb.venice2025@gmail.com

CfP 6th ELHN 2026
Working Group Speak, Look, Listen! The Cultural Production of Work
Co-operation, Cultural Production and the Labour Movement

For the 6th ELHN conference we are inviting individual papers and session proposals on the theme of co-operation and cultural production within the labour movement from the C19th to the present day. In particular, we welcome proposals which address the following key questions:

• How have the labour and co-operative movements represented ‘co-operation’ in their respective literary and visual cultures? 
• To what extent have tensions between the co-operative and labour movements been mediated by the forms of cultural production associated with both movements? 
• To what extent and with what success has co-operative cultural production been able to embed itself within the co-operative and labour movements?

We welcome both individual paper proposals and session proposals. For session proposals, please include 3 to 4 papers, along with an abstract that outlines the overarching theme or common thread of the session. Each individual paper should also include an abstract. We welcome proposals of theoretical, methodological and empirical nature. 

Abstracts (max. 250 words) should be sent to the working group coordinators by 15th September 2025 at the latest. It should include a short academic biographical note (max. 100 words). We look forward to receiving your proposals.

Please submit proposals by e-mail to the four coordinators:

• Anna Pellegrino (Universitá de Bologna) anna.pellegrino@unibo.it
• Luísa Veloso (Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) luisa.veloso@iscte-iul.pt
• Michael Sanders (University of Manchester) Michael.Sanders@manchester.ac.uk
• Nathalie Ponsard (Université Clermont Auvergne) nathalie.ponsard@uca.fr

Organiser: Ana Maspoli, Vindonissa-Professur for the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, Department of Ancient Civilizations, University of Basel; Sarah Siegenthaler, Department of Ancient Civilizations, Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Basel Location of the event: University of Basel Supported by: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Postcode: 4051 Location: Basel Country: Switzerland Date: 11.06.2026 - 12.06.2026 Deadline: 01.09.2025  

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. We invite papers in English, though exceptions may be arranged upon request. Contributions from MA students and PhDs are explicitly encouraged. Further information and the full Call for Papers are included in the attachment (submission deadline for papers is 1 September, 2025).

Intersectionality in Ancient and Pre-Modern Contexts. Considering Aspects of Privilege and Marginalisation

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. Contributions from MA students and PhDs are explicitly encouraged.

Key questions include:
- How can intersectional frameworks be meaningfully and methodologically applied to pre-modern contexts?
- What challenges arise when reconstructing the experiences of marginalised individuals in societies with different structures and belief systems? How are spaces shaped by these systems?
- How do researchers’ own social positions influence the representation and interpretations of historical identities?

We invite papers that address, among others:
- Theoretical and methodological reflections on the use (and limitations) of intersectionality in historical disciplines
- Case studies showing how intersecting identities shaped experiences of marginalisation or empowerment (interpersonally, structurally and socio-spatially)
- Analyses of intersectional dynamics in ancient or pre-modern public spaces
- Interdisciplinary approaches bridging history with sociology, anthropology, gender or disability studies
- Critical examinations of how ancient and pre-modern identities were constructed, transmitted and later interpreted by scholarship

We encourage submissions from scholars across disciplines, including but not limited to ancient, byzantine and medieval history, archaeological disciplines (Pre- and Protohistorical Archaeology, Mediterranean Archaeology, Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, etc.), ancient Eastern studies, classical philologies, Egyptology.

Abstracts of no more than 250 words, along with your title and a short bio (max. 150 words), should be submitted by 1 September 2025 to the organisers. Presentations should preferably be given in English (exceptions are possible, e. g., German). Presentations cannot be held via Zoom. However, a Zoom link can be provided to allow participants to listen to the presentations on demand. We anticipate being able to offer a limited number of travel and accommodation bursaries to support MA and PhD students. If you would like to be considered for a bursary, please indicate this in your submission email.

Please send your abstract, title and bio to the organising committee:
Ana Maspoli ana.maspoli@unibas.ch and Sarah Siegenthaler sarah.siegenthaler@unibas.ch.
Notification of acceptance will be provided by 26 September 2025 at the latest.

Gotha/Germany   Veranstalter: 1. Teil: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Thüringen, Arbeit und Leben Thüringen 2. Teil: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Thüringen, Arbeit und Leben Thüringen Veranstaltungsort: Tivoli Gotha Am Tivoli 3 PLZ: 99867 Ort: Gotha Land: Deutschland Findet statt: In Präsenz Datum: 06.09.2025  

Pfingsten 1875 kam es auf dem Vereinigungsparteitag in Gotha zum Zusammenschluss der beiden Arbeiterparteien ADAV und SDAP zur Sozialistischen Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (SAP), der späteren SPD. Im hier beschlossenen Programm wurde ein allgemeines Wahlrecht für alle Staatsbürger, wie die Presse- und Redefreiheit, die Vereinigungsfreiheit zur Gründung von Gewerkschaften und die unentgeltliche Rechtsprechung und Volksbildung gefordert. Marx Kritik am Gothaer Programm erreichte danach internationale Bekanntheit.

 

150 Jahre Gothaer Parteitag und Marx Kritik am Gothaer Programm

Die Veranstaltungen beschäftigen sich mit der Frühgeschichte der sozialen Demokratie in Thüringen und Deutschland, die im weiteren Verlauf wichtige Reformen, wie die Sozialgesetzgebung und den 8-Stunden-Arbeitstag durchsetzen konnte. Auch soll der spätere Umgang mit dem Gothaer Programm und Marx Kritik des Gothaer Programms und die Frage, was von den Forderungen von 1875 bleibt, diskutiert werden.

Bitte beachten Sie auch die Internetseite des Tivoli Gothas zur Geschichte der sozialen Demokratie in Gotha und Thüringen mit einem kleinen Film, Tonspuren und Texten.

https://demokratie-tivoli-gotha.de/

und die einfache Erklärung des Gothaer Programms und Marx Kritik des Gothaer Programms auf der gleichen Internetseite:

https://demokratie-tivoli-gotha.de/gothaer-vereinigungsparteitag-1875/

 

Programm

1. Teil "Frühe Geschichte der Sozialen Demokratie"

10.00 Uhr Grußworte

10.15 Uhr Judy Slivi "Traditionsland Thüringen - Der lokale Hintergrund"

11.00 Uhr Prof. Dr. Karsten Rudolph "Die Bedeutung des Gothaer Parteitages für die deutsche Arbeiterbewegung"

12.00 Uhr Mittagessen

13.00 Uhr Matthias Wenzel "Führung durch das Gothaer Tivoli"

2. Teil "Das Gothaer Programm und Marx Kritik am Gothaer Programm"

15.00 Uhr Prof. Dr. Mario Keßler "Die frühen Ideengeber der Sozialdemokratie: Karl Marx und Ferdinand Lassalle"

16.00 Uhr Uwe Roßbach "Nach Gotha 1875"

Die Veranstaltung ist kostenfrei! Wir bitten um Anmeldung per Email oder Telefon, um die Verpflegung des Tages nachhaltig planen zu können.

Kontakt

Judy Slivi
slivi@arbeitundleben-thueringen.de
+49 361 565730