Thirty years after the end of state socialism, the need to fully comprehend it is still an immediate task. Over the past three decades, the dominant public discourse of the previous historical period has undergone significant changes: from a firm rejection in the first years of the transition to the latest wave of rehabilitation of the regime and nostalgia (socialist nostalgia, Ostalgie, Yugo/Tito-nostalgia). To varying degrees, post-socialist societies in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe are still divided in their attitudes to the recent past.

Nous sommes heureuses de vous annoncer la publication en ligne du numéro double 6/7 de la Revue Image du travail/Travail des images : Femmes au travail : quelles archives visuelles ?

http://09.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/imagesdutravail/index.php?id=1763

 - Ce numéro sera officiellement présenté à Poitiers le mardi 12 février de 10h30 à 12h30, dans le cadre du festival Filmer le travail, Espace Mendès-France, Planétarium.

The People’s History Museum, Manchester
Saturday 18th May 2019

10.45: Arrive
11.00: Welcome
11.15 – 1.00: Papers 1, 2 & 3

Dr Janette Martin (University of Manchester/The John Rylands Library) and Mike Powell (PHM)
Sources for Peterloo and the Manchester Histories Festival

Professor Robert Poole (UCLAN)
Peterloo: a Manchester event

Professor John Belchem (University of Liverpool)
“Orator” Hunt, radical mobilisation and the Peterloo massacre

La Fondazione Gramsci onlus bandisce per l’anno 2019 un concorso per il conferimento di un premio di laurea in ricordo di Alberto Cardosi.

This article explores the evolution of the State and of State-society relations in Saudi Arabia in the wake of the Arab Springs. Besides the harsh repression and buy-out of political opponents, Saudi governments also crafted social reforms to address the structural causes of potential mass popular uprising.

La Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero, en colaboración con el Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte, la Universidad de Alcalá y el Ayuntamiento de Alcalá de Henares, convoca el certamen literario “Leer en la Segunda República”, con el objetivo de promocionar la lectura y la escritura sobre los cambios acaecidos en la sociedad española durante la Segunda República en materia de alfabetización y cultura literaria.

El concurso se regirá por las siguientes bases:

Tamiment Library's first book talk of Spring 2019

Soledad Fox Maura will discuss her book Exile, Writer, Soldier, Spy: Jorge Semprún (Skyhorse Publishing, 2018) on Friday, February 8 (4:30 PM) at the Tamiment Library. A reception with wine and cheese will follow the lecture. This event is sponsored by the Frederic Ewen Center.

The Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg, is advertising for Post-doctoral research fellows and doctoral candidates. Details attached and below, please circulate widely in your networks.

Post-doctoral research fellows
We welcome candidates from a range of disciplines that conduct research on social movements, labour movements, protests and uprisings in Africa. The successful candidate will be part of an academic community that is driving a research agenda focused on producing scholarship that will contribute to the decolonisation of social movement studies.