Amsab Newsletter

Amsab Nieuwsbrief, 9e jaargang, nr. 9, juli 2014

Jean Jaurès 100 jaar geleden vermoord
Honderd jaar geleden, op 31 juli 1914, werd de Franse socialist en pacifist Jean Jaurès vermoord. Hij streefde naar een grote solidaire beweging tegen de oorlog en voor de vrede. En is hiermee nog steeds prangend actueel. We maakten een montage over zijn leven.

Marx’s Capital. An Unfinished and Unfinishable Project?

All of Marx’s previously unpublished economic manuscripts have now become available in the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA), the historical-critical edition of the complete writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It now becomes clear that Marx’s Capital was an unfinished project for good reasons. Marx was constantly exploring new subjects, revising his earlier results, and reformulating Capital’s first volume in several editions after it had been published in 1867.

Summer Academy re:work in 2015: "Work in Post-Slavery Societies: Gender and Generations"

The international research centre IGK Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History (Humboldt-Universitdt zu Berlin) and the University Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar, Senegal will hold a Summer Academy entitled Work in Post-Slavery Societies: Gender and Generations. The event will take place from 26 January to 1 February 2015 in Dakar.

ITH-Newsletter and 50th Linz Conference

Dear colleagues,

this newsletter begins with the preliminary programme of the 50th Linz Conference “Work and Compulsion: Coerced Labour in Domestic, Service, Agricultural, Factory and Sex Work, ca. 1850-2000s” from 25-28 September 2014. The final conference programme will be published in August.

The registration form for the Linz Conference 2014 is attached to this newsletter. Registrations are to be submitted until 1 July 2014.

A Usable Collection, Essays in honour of Jaap Kloosterman on collecting social history

The International Institute of Social History has a time-honoured tradition of writing its own history, as might be expected from one of the world's leading centres of collecting social history. A Usable Collection, Essays in honour of Jaap Kloosterman on collecting social history (Amsterdam University Press, June 2014) fits into this tradition.