Call for Papers and Posters

“Workers of the World – Exploring Global Perspectives on Labour from the 1950s to the Present”

June 28-30, 2017 at HERRENHAUSEN PALACE, HANNOVER, GERMANY

This conference comprises three sessions
• Political Regulation of Labour: Trends and Contradictions
• Labour at the Site of Production: Labour Process, Control, Quality of Work
• Politics of Labour: Collective Action
We invite papers focussing on either of these fields, from the 1950s to the present.

Event location: Old Fire Station, Crescent, Salford

Date: 17th Sep 2016

Event time: 09:30 to 16:00

A One-Day Public Conference 
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Sheila Rowbotham, Manchester University, UK
Professor Karen Hunt, Keele University, UK

Programa de Posgrado en Historia política y cultural de las izquierdas y los movimientos político-culturales del siglo XX Ciclo 2016

Ya está abierta la inscripción al nuevo seminario de posgrado del CeDInCI/UNSAM

Inicio: 3 de agosto.

Izquierdas, género y sexualidad. De los socialismos utópicos a las teorías queer a cargo de Dra. Laura Fernández Cordero

El Centro de Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierdas (CeDInCI) y el Centro de Estudios de los Mundos Eslavos y Chinos (CEMECH)

invitan a la conferencia

Luis Carlos Prestes, un revolucionario entre dois mundos

a cargo de Daniel Aarão Reis

Call for Applications

The International Research Center "Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History" at Humboldt University in Berlin, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) invites scholars to apply for international research fellowships (senior scholars and postdoctoral candidates) for the 2017-2018 academic year. Eight to twelve fellowships will be awarded. Applications are due in Berlin on 15 September 2016.

Fully funded PhD Studentships on the Politics of Sustainable Prosperity/Grassroots Environmental Politics
Keele University, United Kingdom

School of Politics, Philosophy, International Relations and Environment (SPIRE)

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Number of studentships: Funding for up to two PhD Projects (at European/UK Students rate - overseas applicants may apply but will have to pay the difference between overseas and UK/EU rate)

Mode of Study: Full Time

Application Deadline: 31 July 2016

80 years ago, the Spanish Civil War started. Approximately seven hundred Dutch young men - and a single girl - left for Spain in the period '36 -'38 to help the endangered Spanish Republic.

Olympics and Politics - Berlin / Barcelona 1936

An exhibition organized by the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives

23 June – 28 August 2016

Galeria Centralis, Vera and Dondald Blinken Open Society Archives

Exhibition design by László Rajk

Curated by Gwen Jones, Katalin Székely, Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives

Dear colleagues,

I would like to draw your attention to the following Call for Papers for a workshop on “Zwangsarbeit in Europa unter NS-Herrschaft. Unfreie Arbeit im transnationalen Vergleich” at the Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr, Upper Austria, taking place from 9-10 September 2016. The workshop will be held in German and English (without interpretation!). Please consider the deadline for submission: 10 July 2016.

Many thanks and best regards,
Lukas Neissl

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Liebe KollegInnen,

Workshop per la fondazione del gruppo SISLav "Lavoro libero e non libero"
28 Giugno 2016
Istituto Sangalli Firenze

Programma

Ore 9.15 Saluti iniziali Istituto Sangalli
Ore 9.30 inizio dei lavori
_Christian De Vito_ Global Labour History, convict labour, indenture work
_Claudia Bernardi_ Il lavoro migrante nella storia globale del lavoro libero e non
_Federica Morelli_ Schiavitù e libertà in un territorio di frontiera