Capitalism, Community and Charity. Giving in mercantile and industrial economies (ca. 1300-2000)

Call for Papers: Capitalism, Community and Charity. Giving in mercantile and industrial economies (ca. 1300-2000)

Session at the Tenth European Social Science History conference in Vienna, 23-26 April 2014, in the Social Inequality Network

Capitalism, Community and Charity. Giving in mercantile and industrial economies (ca. 1300-2000)

Organizers: Henk Looijesteijn & Marco van Leeuwen

Les contestations de la propriété" - Journée d'étude de l'équipe Rousseau

Centre d'étude de la langue et de la littérature françaises des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Université de Paris-Sorbonne. C.N.R.S. U.M.R. 8599

Journée d'étude organisée par Catherine Labro

dans le cadre de l'équipe J.-J. Rousseau,

le samedi 23 mars 2013,

en collaboration avec Yves Charles Zarka (Sorbonne, Université Paris-Descartes, PHILéPOL) et l'Institut d'études avancées sur la culture européenne de l'Université Jiaotong de Shanghai

PROGRAMME

Labor History Dissertation Prize

To encourage the study of labor, Labor History is pleased to encourage submissions for its annual Dissertation Prize for labor studies, broadly defined. In keeping with the journal's dedication to a multi-disciplined approach to the field, and its commitment to chronological and geographical breadth, the prize will be awarded to the best Ph.D.
dissertation on a labor topic, historical or contemporary, in the US or worldwide, regardless of discipline.

Winners will receive an award of £750 / $1500, and publicity in both the journal and the Labor History website.

Tamiment Library seminar

Please join us for this upcoming seminar:

“Grassroots Democracy as Counterinsurgency: Community Development in the Philippines, 1950–1970.”
Speaker: Daniel Immerwahr, Northwestern University

Comment: Alejandro Velasco, NYU

February 21, 2013
5:00PM-7:00PM

The Tamiment Library is located at 70 Washington Square South (between LaGuardia and Green) 10th floor For a copy of the paper or to RSVP please email Zuzanna Kobrzynski at zk3 [at] nyu.edu

VIII FAGE Conference. Seville, 12-14 September 2013 - looking for papers linking Wagner studies with revolutionary politics

[German and Spanish version below]

Conference announcement and call for papers

VIII FAGE Conference. Seville, 12-14 September 2013
Cultural Studies Section. Musicology

The section is devoted to Richard Wagner in his 200th anniversary (1883-2013).