CfA: Special Issue of "Global Food History" on Migrant Marketplaces

Over the last two decades historical food studies have developed to articulate food's central role in the culinary practices and identity constructions of migrant populations. While this body of research has tackled critical questions about the creation of individual and collective subjectivities through food, the racialization of migrants and their foodways, and ethnic food entrepreneurship, the large majority of this research has been done within nation-centered, and particularly U.S. dominated, frameworks.

Black History Month at People’s History Museum

2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the Race Relations Act, which was the first legislation in the UK to address racial discrimination. Our Living History performance No Bed of Roses explores the experiences of Gabrielle, who moves from St Kitts to Britain in the 1950s, and examines the racism of the time. Our Living History performances can be booked throughout the year by schools and community groups. To find out more contact our Learning Team on learning@phm.org.uk or 0161 838 9190.

Society for the Study of Labour History - Autumn Conference

The Society for the Study of Labour History autumn conference takes place on Saturday 28 November at the University of Huddersfield, West Building, WG17. It explores the History of Adult Worker Education from its nineteenth century origins to the demise of adult education in an age of austerity.

The provisional programme includes topics such as the Fenwick Weavers, the foundation of the London Mechanics' Institution, the Leeds Arts Club and the origins of Guild Socialism, and 'healing the fault line in the age of austerity'.

Film: C’est quoi le travail ?

C'EST QUOI CE TRAVAIL ?

UN FILM DE LUC JOULE ET SEBASTIEN JOUSSE

SORTIE NATIONALE LE 14 OCTOBRE 2015

Ils sont au travail. Les salariés d’une usine qui produit 800.000 pièces d’automobile par jour et le compositeur Nicolas Frize dont la création musicale s’invente au cœur des ateliers.
Chacun à sa manière, ils disent leur travail. Chacun à sa manière, ils posent la question : alors, c’est quoi le travail ?

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Third ISA Forum of Sociology - The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World

The Third ISA Forum will be convened in Vienna, Austria, 10-14 July 2016 on the theme “The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World.” This theme encourages a forward-orientation in empirical, theoretical, and normative research to tackle the problems and opportunities that often cut across borders.

Archive Dutch Diamond Workers goes digital

Metamorfoze, the national programme for the preservation of Dutch paper heritage, will completely subsidize the digitization of the archives of the Dutch Diamond Workers Union (ANDB). This will make a part of the Dutch trade union history widely accessible, but the history of the ANDB is also an important episode in the narrative of Jewish Amsterdam, as the rank and file of the Diamond Workers Union consisted largely of Jewish socialists.

Symposium '1965' Today. Living with the Indonesian Massacres

1965 marked a turning point in Indonesian history. A failed putsch on 1 October was followed swiftly by a violent backlash against the Left. About half a million were killed, perhaps another million and a half detained without trial. The violence paved the way for the military regime of General Suharto, the New Order. Millions of survivors and their relatives lost their civil rights. The nation was changed forever.

For half a century, serious discussion of this shocking violence has been taboo within Indonesia. However, the taboo has begun to lift in recent years.

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