Die Schweizerische Pflegekinder-Aktion entstand nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Auslöser waren mehrere Skandale um die Misshandlung von Verdingkindern. Anfangs 1946 zeigte der Schriftsteller und Journalist C.A. Loosli in einer Artikelserie für den "Tagesanzeiger" anhand mehrerer Einzelschicksale die Missstände in der Kinder- und Jugendfürsorge auf. Kurz darauf startete die Zeitschrift "Beobachter" eine Leseraktion: Gemeinsam mit Pro Juventute und interessierten Leserinnen und Lesern wollte der "Beobachter" dafür sorgen, dass die Rechte von Pflegekindern besser geschützt werden.

26 September - 18 December 2013, ETUI Documentation Centre, 4th floor / ITUH, 1st floor / 10 am – 4 pm weekday / Admission free

Poster exhibition: The art of preventive health and safety in Europe

Friends,

We invite you to participate in the upcoming conference at Harvard, Oct.
3-5, "The Global E. P. Thompson: Reflections on the Making of the English
Working Class after Fifty Years." We will be hosting a truly global
conversation among scholars, and we invite you to join us, either in person
or online.

We will be broadcasting live; please spread the word and tune-in, October
3-5th. The Broadcast will start at 4 PM EST on Thursday, October 3rd, and
conclude on Saturday October 5th at 1 PM, EST.

“Y'en a pas un sur cent et pourtant ils existent...”—Anarchists and anarchisms in France since 1945

I would like to test the water for a more or less informal, multidisciplinary research network concerned with all aspects of anarchist thought and practice in post-1945 France.

'The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia; Industrial Production, 1770–2010', the latest book of IISH staff member and professor of 'International Comparative Social History' at Amsterdam Free University Ulbe Bosma, was released by Cambridge University Press.

August Bebel Institut, Berlin

30.11.2013, Berlin, August Bebel Institut, Müllerstr. 163, 13353 Berlin
Deadline: 16.10.2013

Sous la direction de Dzovinar Kévonian, Geneviève Dreyfus-Armand, Marie-Claude Blanc-Chaléard et Marianne Amar

La Cimade et l’accueil des réfugiés Identités, répertoires d’actions et politiques de l’asile, 1939-1994
(Dans la collection Sources et travaux de la BDIC)

Call for Papers

IISH Exhibition in Moscow

On 13 September 2013 the exhibition "Together and Apart. The Urban Family in Russia in the 20th century" opened its doors in Moscow. It was jointly organised by the International Institute of Social History (IISH) and the Schusev State Architectural Museum, situated at a stone’s throw from the Kremlin. At the root of the exhibition are the results of the IISH research project "Work, Income and the State in Russia and the Soviet Union'' on the impact of the events of the turbulent twentieth century on the family in Russia.

Debat Arbeiders en Koningshuis 1813-1960
Date: 17 October 2013
Location: Spui 25, Amsterdam
Debat ter gelegenheid van de Maand van de Geschiedenis, georganiseerd door het IISG in samenwerking met Spui25
Tijd: 20:00 tot ca. 22.00 uur
Locatie: Doelenzaal, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam
Deelname is gratis, maar aanmelden via www.spui25.nl