The visibility of power has always been indispensible for dictatorships - and still is. The practices of such visualizations became particularly relevant in the twentieth century, the age of mass-media imagery. In addition to moving images, it was photography that played a pivotal role, becoming not only a mass medium, but also an everyday practice for the individual photographic actor operating below the level of dominant media representations - a grassroots area that has received much less attention from historians.

De onderzoeksgroep Moderniteit en Samenleving 1800-2000 (MoSa) is op zoek naar een doctoraatsbursaal (m/v) voor een project over de geschiedenis van prostitutie in België.
MoSa bestudeert de politieke en sociale veranderingsprocessen die met de moderniteit worden geassocieerd. MoSa onderzoekt de uiteenlopende wijzen waarop mensen en samenlevingen (in Belgisch, Europees en mondiaal perspectief) veranderingen ervaren en sturen.

1. Februar 2016, 19.00 Uhr: Buchvernissage

Moisés Prieto: Zwischen Apologie und Ablehnung.
Schweizer Spanien-Wahrnehmung vom späten Franco-Regime bis zur Demokratisierung (1969–1982)
Zürcher Beiträge zur Geschichtswissenschaft, Band 6, 2015. 490 S.

Du 17 février 2016 au 29 mai 2016

Hôtel national des Invalides
75007 Paris

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 spelled the end of communism in East-Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. Like the communist experience itself, postcommunism is seen as a distinct phenomenon, with countries facing a triple transition: political, economic, and societal. So far, the notion of postcommunism has only been used for the Eurasian countries. As a consequence, it is unclear whether postcommunism is a regional phenomenon or truly captures the unique legacies of Leninist regimes worldwide.

Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960): Ways of Viewing Science and Society
Amsterdam, 9&10 June 2016

We invite contributions to the second Challenging History conference, to be hosted by Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, 29-30 June 2016.

Proposals are welcome from practitioners and/or researchers interested in re-imagining work with difficult and sensitive heritages in a time of unprecedented change, pressure and evolution for museums. The conference will directly address these contexts, and suggest imaginative responses to them, helping delegates to explore why and how challenging histories maintain their relevance.

Working for Tips - In the latest issue of IRSH (vol 60 part 3), Patricia Van den Eeckhout tries to find out how widespread was the practice of working for tips only and paying a fee to be allowed to work in restaurants and cafés.

Evan Smith (Flinders University), Matthew Worley (University of Reading) and Jon Piccini (University of Queensland) are calling for chapter proposals for an edited volume on the Australian far left in the post-war era (1945 to the present). Expanding on our work looking at the history of the British far left, we believe that a survey of the exciting new work being done of the far left in Australia and its influence on wider Australian political history is due.

We are currently seeking chapter proposals on the following topics:

Many waves of mass violence against communists occurred in the twentieth century. They took place in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa, in capitalist but also in socialist countries. They happened before, during and after the Cold War. Such persecutions came about in a variety of situations - in peacetime, wartime, civil wars and/or guerrilla wars, as a prelude to World War II, and in the aftermath of World Wars I and II.