ToC: Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv Newsletter 3/2016

Vor 25 Jahren: Der Frauenstreik vom 14. Juni 1991
Christian Koller

Buchvernissage

"Masse, Märkte und Macht in der Geschichte des Sports (Traverse Themenheft 1/2016)"
Mit den Herausgebern Marc Gigase, Michael Jucker, Christian Koller, Daniel Krämer und Yan Potin:
Freitag, 27. Mai 2016, 19.00 Uhr:
Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv, Medienraum

"Gotthard: Der Pass und sein Mythos"
Mit Helmut Stalder (Autor):
Donnerstag, 2. Juni 2016, 18.30 Uhr

Öffentlicher Vortrag

In Front of the Factory. Cinematic Spaces of Labour

“Most narrative films take place in that part of life where work has been left behind.” Harun Farocki’s condemnation of cinema’s unwillingness to represent labour finds echoes in present-day political discussions about the struggles and persistent invisibility of labour in public space. Undocumented labour, the weakening of union organizing, and the decoupling of work from physical space in the era of the Internet, are phenomena that have irreversibly altered everyday life. 

Labour, Politics and Safety. International Summer Academy, Maputo, Mozambique

The international research centre Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History (re:work) at Humboldt-Universita t zu Berlin and the history department of the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo will hold a Summer Academy exploring the historical and contemporary meanings and practices of work in relation to the politics of health, safety and security.

CfP: State Socialism, Legal Experts and the Genesis of International Criminal and Humanitarian Law after 1945

In the history of international law, the socialist bloc has been generally relegated to the role of roadblock to the fulfillment of the ideals of Western liberalism. Scholars of international criminal law (ICL) and international humanitarian law (IHL) have often dismissed the contributions of socialist legal initiatives as little more than Cold War propaganda and thus irrelevant to understanding the historical evolution of judicial norms and the modern international system.