ITH - International Conference of Labour and Social History
Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria
Labour Biographies and Prosopography
September 15 to 18, 2005
AK-Bildungshaus Jägermayrhof
Römerstr. 98a, A-4020 Linz
41st Linz Conference, organized by International Conference of Labour and Social History and Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria kindly supported by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, the Provincial Government of Upper Austria, the City of Linz, the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions and the Friedrich Ebert-Foundation Bonn.
Simultaneous translation: German - English - French
PROGRAMME
Friday, September 16, 2005
from 9:00 am:
Welcoming of the participants by the President of ITH
Problems of Collective Biography in Labour History
Bruno Groppo (Paris): Introduction
Claude Pennetier (Paris): L'expérience du Dictionnaire Biographique du Mouvement Ouvrier Français. Les problèmes de la prosopographie en histoire ouvrière et sociale.
Feliks Tych (Warszawa): Erfahrungen mit dem biographischen Handbuch derpolnischen Arbeiterbewegung.
Reception by the Provincial Governor of Upper Austria, Josef Pühringer,at the Youth Hostel of Linz
from 2:00 pm:
Klaus Tenfelde (Bochum): Generationen in der deutschen Sozialdemokratie.
Jürgen Mittag (Bochum): Kollektivbiographische Forschung in der Geschichtswissenschaft: Das Beispiel der sozialdemokratischen Land- und Reichstagsabgebordneten.
Horacio Tarcus (Buenos Aires): Pour un dictionnaire biographique de la gauche argentine.
Patricia Toucas-Truyen (Paris): Itinéraires biographiques de militants du mouvement coopératif en France.
Short presentation: Claudie Weill (Paris): Biographies de militants socialistes juifs de Russie.
6:30 pm: Dinner at Jägermayrhof
Saturday, September 17, 2005
from 9:00 am:
Collective Biography-Projects after the Opening of Communist Archives
Michael Buckmiller (Hannover): Biographien von Komintern-Mitarbeitern.
Short presentation: Klaus Meschkat (Hannover): Das biographische Handbuch lateinamerikanischer Komintern-Mitarbeiter.
José Gotovitch (Bruxelles): Les cominterniens de langue française. Problèmes méthodologiques posés par le Dictionnaire biographique de l'Internationale communiste.
Kevin Morgan (Manchester): The Communist Party Biographical Project.
Lunch at Jägermayrhof
from 2:00 pm:
Hermann Weber (Mannheim): Biographien deutscher Kommunisten.
Bernard Pudal (Paris): Les biographies de militants communistes français.
Short presentation: Ottokar Luban (Berlin): Führung und Helferkreise der Spartakusgruppe (1915-1918): Probleme bei der Erforschung der Biographien.
General Discussion.
6:30 pm: Dinner at Jägermayrhof
Information for participants:
The conference will take place in Linz, Upper Austria, in the conference centre "Jägermayrhof", Römerstrasse 98a, A-4020 Linz, Austria.
Registration is essential. ITH is a network of institutions in Labour and Social History. Regular participation is restricted to member institutes but interested individuals are welcome.
Participants will be charged E 80.- in Linz for meals, accommodation with breakfast (September 15th - 18th, only twin-bedded rooms available) and conference material (without accommodation: conference fee E 40.-). To avoid bank expenses please do not transfer the conference fee, but pay it cash in Linz at the Secretariat.
Travel expenses can only be refunded in a few, exceptional cases in order to facilitate contacts to possible new members. Please apply for partial or total travel reimbursements before August 22nd, 2005, and include a statement with arguments.
Contact and further information:
ITH
Eva Himmelstoss
Wipplinger Straße 8
A-1010 Wien
Austria
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