Workers across Africa: global and transnational labour history and labour studies

Date: 27 June 2013 to 29 June 2013
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Panel Workers across Africa: global and transnational labour history and labour studies, organized at the 5th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 2013): African dynamics in a multipolar world , in Lisbon, Portugal, 27 - 29 June 2013.

The panel is convened by Stefano Bellucci (IISH) and William Freund (University of KwaZulu/Natal).

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Labor and Working-Class History Association Conference

LAWCHA Conference: Program Available, Online Registration Ends JUNE 3rd

Hello,

The 2013 Labor and Working-Class History Association Conference, "Rights, Solidarity, Justice: Working People Organizing, Past and Present" will be taking place from June 6-8, in New York City. We have an exciting program planned, including film screenings, two public plenaries, a guided tour, and over 90 roundtables, workshops, and presentations planned.

Tracing Connections - Explorations of Spaces and Places in Asian Multilocalities

Centre for Development Studies (ZELF), Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 20.06.2013-21.06.2013, Centre for Development Studies (ZELF), Freie Universität Berlin, Malteserstraße 74-100, D-12249 Berlin
Deadline: 31.05.2013

We cordially invite you to the Crossroads Asia Workshop "Tracing Connections - Explorations of Spaces and Places in Asian Multilocalities" at the Centre for Development Studies (ZELF), Freie Universität Berlin held on 20 - 21 June 2013.

"Kampf dem Hakenkreuz": Ausstellung der FES-Bibliothek

In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbund Bonn und der Gedenkstätte für die Bonner Opfer des Nationalsozialismus wird die Ausstellung "Kampf dem Hakenkreuz" vom 5. Juni bis zum 21. Juli 2013 im Stadtmuseum Bonn zu sehen sein. Die Ausstellung zeigt politische Graphiken und Karikaturen sowie Originale von Agitationsschriften, mit denen zu Beginn der 1930er Jahre die nationalsozialistische Bewegung demaskiert werden sollte.

Surrender to the Library: 10 Short Films on Library Design

Join us for a unique film screening in connection with the Bibliotheca exhibition at OSA Archivum, exploring the idea of libraries as special, almost spiritual places through short films about library design. The films will take you on a journey through different library spaces and their transformations, the past and future of the book, and the dissolution of knowledge into information.

1. All the World's Memory Alain Resnais, France, 1956, 21’, in French with English subtitles

Libraries are paradoxical: they free imagination while confining books and people.

Workers' Internationalism before 1914

School of History, University of East Anglia 15.02.2014-16.02.2014, Norwich
Deadline: 01.10.2013

2014 is the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the International Working Men's Association in 1864. It is also the 125th anniversary of the foundation of the Socialist International in 1889, and the centenary of the outbreak of the war which precipitated the collapse of that International.