by Assata Shakur

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that had claimed the life of a white state trooper. Long a target of J. Edgar Hoover's campaign to defame, infiltrate, and criminalize Black nationalist organizations and their leaders, Shakur was incarcerated for four years prior to her conviction on flimsy evidence in 1977 as an accomplice to murder.

LAWCHA Conference 2027
Working Across Divisions
June 24-26
UMass Boston

INTRODUCTION
Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura (hereinafter “Fondazione 1563”) has since 2013 supported 
research and advanced training in the field of the humanities. 
In a wider effort to pursue this goal, in 2020 Fondazione 1563 launched the Turin Humanities Programme, a research initiative that allows junior scholars to work on interrelated research projects under the guidance of especially appointed Senior Fellows. 
THP aims at promoting two-year research projects about relevant global history topics. 

by Sabrina Álvarez, Gabriela González Vaillantm Dahiana Barrales, Ramiro Bosca, Lucía Siola, Diego Grauer, Lucía V. Martínez Hernández and Julián Reyes

LABOUR HISTORY

New issue on women's labour available

The Special Issue New Essays on Women’s Labour History in Europe: Gender, Work and Activism, edited by Leda Papastefanaki & Eszter Varsa, in Labour History, A Journal of Labour and Social History (Number 130, May 2026) can be found here.

The history of Romani women’s activisms in Eastern Europe, 1945-1990s

at Prague, Hotel Belvedere (M. Horákové 19, Praha 7)

 29-30 October 2026

This conference aims to bring into focus the contribution of the concept of social class to the study of various hierarchies, inequalities and conflicts. We are seeking theoretical contributions and studies on past and present phenomena and situations that use the social class as a central concept, highlighting its capacity to renew or enrich analytical perspectives (see the full CFP attached).