CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research

CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research

Labour & Society Research Group (LSRG)
7-8 May 2026
Newcastle University
Armstrong Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU

The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research

To commemorate the centenary of the British General Strike and miners lock-out, Newcastle University’s Labour & Society Research Group (LSRG) are organising a conference that revisits the historical experience of 1926 through the lens of new scholarship that is concerned with the global, spatial and maritime turns in labour history.

CfP: Agents of change: Folk cultures in the long 20th century

Agents of change: Folk cultures in the long 20th century

Folk art and cultures have often been seen as passive, unchanging, and frozen in a preindustrial era, linked with ideas such as nostalgia, decoration, and kitsch. From this point of view, grounded in late 19th and early 20th-century nationalist and modernist discourses, folk art seems to be a relic of the past that cannot respond to the challenges of modern societies, let alone contribute to social change.

CfP: Interdisziplinäre Männlichkeitenforschung: Bestandsaufnahme und aktuelle Herausforderungen (German)

Stuttgart/Germany
 
Veranstalter: Arbeitskreis für interdisziplinäre Männer- und Geschlechterforschung AIM GENDER; Fachbereich Geschichte, Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart
Veranstaltungsort: Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Tagungszentrum Stuttgart-Hohenheim
PLZ: 70599
Ort: Stuttgart
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