ILWCH on Strikes and Social Conflicts
Vietnam and World History - Hanoi 12/13
World History Association
29.12.2013-31.12.2013, Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam
Deadline: 30.09.2013
The World History Association, in association with the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi, the Vietnam History Association, and Hawaii Pacific University, has issued a Call or Papers for a Symposium on Vietnam in World History.
Submissions are welcome which pursue interdisciplinary, local-to global, comparative, or international approaches so as to provide an opportunity for dialogue among world historians and scholars of Vietnamese Studies.
Vacancies for Research Projects
The IISH has 6 vacancies for two new research projects.
For the project 'Four Centuries of Labor Camps':
PhD student, Subproject: “Tsarist Katorga and Soviet Gulag in Western Siberia: War, Colonization and the Making of "Socialist Man," 19th-20th Centuries”
Postdoc, Subproject: “Colonial Enlightenment and Punishment in the Netherlands Indies: From chain gang to Upper Digul 1750-1942”
Postdoc (location NIOD), Subproject: “Internment, Work, Poverty and Crime in Hamburg, 1618-1969”
For the project 'Slaves, commodities and logistics':
Die Philanthropie - Partnerin oder Konkurrentin des Wohlfahrtsstaates? Zum ambivalenten Verhältnis von privaten und staatlichen Produzenten sozialer Sicherheit
CfA: Die Philanthropie - Partnerin oder Konkurrentin des Wohlfahrtsstaates? Zum ambivalenten Verhältnis von privaten und staatlichen Produzenten sozialer Sicherheit - Bern/Innsbruck 10/2013
Exhibition: The People’s Business – 150 Years of The Co-operative
The People’s Business – 150 Years of The Co-operative
In partnership with The Co-operative
12 October 2013 — 11 May 2014
People's History Museum, Manchester (UK)
Association of Indian Labour Historians Conference: Labour History – A Return to Politics?
CALL FOR PAPERS:
X INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LABOUR HISTORY organized by THE ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN LABOUR HISTORIANS and V.V. GIRI NATIONAL LABOUR INSTITUTE, 22-24 MARCH 2014 AT V.V. GIRI NATIONAL LABOUR INSTITUTE, NOIDA/New Delhi, INDIA
The Theme: Labour History – A Return to Politics?
The Association of Indian Labour Historians invites proposals for its Tenth International Conference on Labour History in March 2014. The theme for the conference is Labour History: A Return to Politics?
Upton Sinclair; California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual - Lauren Coodley
My new biography, *Upton Sinclair; California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual*, will be released in September from the University of Nebraska Press. My book focuses on a number of aspects of Sinclair that have not been emphasized in prior biographies, including his relationship to labor, both organized and unorganized.
Asian sailors - Journal for Maritime Research
Call for submissions: Asian Sailors - A Special Issue of the Journal for Maritime Research