International Congress: Decolonizing Museums and Resignifying Monuments (November, 20-22, 2024)

Dear colleagues,

We cordially invite you to contribute your cutting-edge research to the international conference Decolonizing Museums and Resignifying Monuments. The event is scheduled to take place in Madrid, Spain, on November 20-22, 2024 at the National University of Distance Education (UNED).

Database of primary sources for the history of environnemental struggles in West Switzerland

The Archives contestataires of Geneva have developed a database of primary sources on environmental struggles in West (French-speaking) Switzerland in the second half of the 20th century. The site environnement.archivescontestataires.ch offers an overview of the main archival holdings on the subject in Switzerland, enriched with brief descriptions, metadata and tags to facilitate research.

Zimmerwald 1915. L’internationalisme contre la Première Guerre mondiale (French)

En septembre 1915, des militant·es socialistes de différents pays d’Europe se rassemblent dans le village de Zimmerwald, en Suisse, pour tenir une conférence contre la Première Guerre mondiale. Réaffirmant leur opposition au conflit en cours, les participant·es s’inscrivent résolument à contre-courant du discours dominant et adoptent un retentissant manifeste qui appelle à une paix immédiate, dénonçant la guerre impérialiste et tous les États belligérants.

"Histoire d'objets - le militant et le populaire entre archives et patrimoine" (French)

Cette journée d’études prendra appui sur le projet «Mémoires, Archives, Transmission des Objets militantS en Pays de la Loire» (MATOS-PDL) qui associe des membres de trois laboratoires de recherche (CENS, TEMOS, CHS) et plusieurs institutions partenaires (Archives départementales de Loire-Atlantique, Centre d’histoire du travail, Centre de Documentation sur l’Histoire du Mouvement Ouvrier et du Travail, Centre des Archives du féminisme).

Socialist ideas of Europe in the world - 1871 to 1968

Friday 14 June 2024 9.00am to 6.00pm hosted by the Department of International History

The issue of a distinct left-wing international vision seems relatively overlooked in contemporary academic work and politics, with profound implications for public life. 

Weighed down by its international contradictions, Europe is ill-prepared to grapple with illiberalism, climate breakdown, war, and migration in a coherent- let alone leftist- manner. 

Special Issue of the journal traverse – Zeitschrift für Geschichte – Revue d'Histoire: Industrialisation - Deindustrialisation - Reindustrialisation

Since the 1970s, Western Europe and North America have experienced a socio-economic transformation that scholars and policy-makers have termed deindustrialisation. Initially analysed as a trend towards a post-industrial society, deindustrialisation is now viewed as a symptom of deep crisis in the age of globalisation. In Switzerland many companies relocated their factories to low-wage countries, closed production sites, or restructured departments. Workers were laid off, and factory buildings were left to rust or placed on the property market.