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.
Dear Colleague,
Please find attached the latest issue of the ISHA Newsletter (December 2018) published by the International Social History Association. It features contributions by Alessandro Stanziani, Eileen Boris and Leon Fink as well as news and reports.
The ISHA Newsletter can be subscribed here:
https://www.staff.u-szeged.hu/mailman/listinfo/isha_newsletter
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden today all enjoy a reputation for strong labour movements, which in turn are widely seen as part of a distinctive regional approach to politics, collective bargaining and welfare. But as this volume demonstrates, narratives of the so-called “Nordic model” can obscure the fact that experiences of work and the fortunes of organized labour have varied widely throughout the region and across different historical periods.
Université Paris Nanterre
Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur le Monde Lusophone
CRILUS - EA 369 Études Romanes
Colloque international
23-25 mai 2019, Paris
Ce IIe colloque sur la gauche des années 1930 organisé par la revue Aden. Paul Nizan et les années trente porte sur les débats et prises de position dans cet espace politique à propos des menaces d''une guerre européenne qui devient guerre réelle en septembre 1939.
One of the most dramatic images of the French Revolution is of Parisian market women sloshing through mud and dragging cannons as they marched on Versailles and returned with bread and the king. These market women, the Dames des Halles, sold essential foodstuffs to the residents of the capital but, equally important, through their political and economic engagement, held great revolutionary influence.
