Workforce reductions in shipbuilding: towards a comparative framework for global labour history - Lund, August 2016
Call for papers, deadline: 30.05.2016
Am 21. April 2016 stellt Olaf Guercke, Mitarbeiter der Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, auf der IFLA-News-Media-Conference 2016 das Digitalisierungsprojekt "Vorwärts bis 1933" vor. Im Rahmen der Konferenz, die unter dem Titel "Reviving the past and keeping up with the future - the libraries' role in preserving and providing access to newspapers and news-media" vom 20. bis 22.
Historians without Borders: The Use and Abuse of History in Conflicts
19th-20th May 2016 at the University of Helsinki
Historians without Borders in Finland (HWB) was founded on June 17 in Helsinki, at the initiative of Erkki Tuomioja, former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland, to further public discussion about history and to promote the use of historical knowledge for peace-building and conflict resolution.
47th Annual Conference of the International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI)
September 7 – 10, 2016
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Heritage of Social Movements in a Global Perspective: Collection and Helsinki, Finland Preservation of Sources
The International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI) brings together archives, libraries, documentation centers, museums and research institutions specializing in the history and theory of the labour movement from all over the world. IALHI’s Social History Portal gives access to over 900.000 digital objects (archives, books, brochures, leaflets, photographs, posters, prints, cartoons, sound, films and videos).
IALHI is looking for an Executive Assistant (m/f) for 8 hours per week based at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Chief Archivist
Blinken Open Society Archives
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 85, March 2016 has just been posted on our site. The PDF is up at: http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/bnzthf
Call for Papers
A Great Transformation? Global Perspectives on Contemporary Capitalisms
10-13 January 2017
International Conference
Johannes Kepler University, Linz/Austria
Concept, questions, speakers, and issues of the conference
The Labor History Initiative at the CEU Department of History invites applications for a residential fellowship on the topic of Labor History with a special emphasis on Eastern Europe writ large, including comparative and transnational approaches within and beyond the region. This postdoctoral fellowship contributes to the CEU Labor History Initiative (see http://history.ceu.edu/LaborHistory) and to developing this area of research in the region.
