Call for Papers: Coming home? Conflict and return migration in twentieth-century Europe (1-3 April 2009)

Intermediaries in Labour Relations From Pre-industrial Societies to the XXth Century
Call for Papers

Business History Center/Groupe d'histoire des entreprises Free University of Brussels/Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels 04.12.2008-05.12.2008, Institute for the Study of Europe/Institut d'etudes europeennes
Deadline: 01.09.2008

Work and Makeshifts: Workshop, Vienna (November 27th-29th, 2008)

Deadline for abstracts July 3, 2008

This is the first in a series of workshops on the history of work organized by the research project "The Production of Work: Welfare, Labour-market, and the Disputed Boundaries of Labour (1880-1938)." Historians dealing with similar issues, regardless of period or place, as well as researchers in other disciplines (sociology, anthropology, economics, etc.) are expressly invited to collaborate in the workshops.

Call for papers

Thematic Issue of the Journal of Genocide Research (JGR)

New Perspectives on Soviet Mass Violence

International conference "Historical experience of socialist resistance against authoritarianism", taking place in Moscow, Russia, on 12-13 July 2008.

See also: [url]http://www.praxiscenter.ru/about_us/english/[/url]

Praxis Research and Education Center
[url]http://www.praxiscenter.ru[/url]

Praxis Research and Educational Center

Global South: Sephis e-magazineA new issue of Global South was posted. Sephis e-Magazine is a platform for scholars and students based in in countries of the "south" to engage in conversations about development and history.

[url]http://sephisemagazine.org/current/current.html[/url]

New York University's Center for the United States and the Cold War invites scholars to submit proposals to present at the Center's seminar series. The Cold War seminar is a venue for works in progress. It is interdisciplinary and international in scope. All papers are pre-circulated.

Chinese Posters 1937 - Present: Propaganda, Politics, History
[url]http://chineseposters.net[/url]

Tom Goyens. Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 263 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03175-5.

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Beth English, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Published by [mailto]H-SHGAPE@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (May, 2008)

Bruce Watson. Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream. New York: Penguin Books, 2005. 337 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $16.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-14-303735-4.

Reviewed for H-NewEngland by Mary Beth Fraser Connolly, Department of Social Sciences, Purdue University North CentralPublished by [mailto]H-NewEngland@h-net.msu.edu[/mailto] (April, 2008)