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International Rosa Luxemburg Society

Dear Colleagues,
our 16th International Rosa Luxemburg Conference
in cooperation with the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation Berlin - will be held on Friday, 16st and Saturday, 17nd January 2009 in Berlin, Germany

Introductory Lectures

• Prof. Dr. Narihiko ITO (Japan): Rosa Luxemburg's Concept of Socialism
• Dr. Evelin Wittich (Germany): The Response to Life and Work of Rosa Luxemburg in South-Africa and Latin America

Further fields of subject:

[Sephis (South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development) posted the latest issue of their e-magazine.]

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit abstracts on 'Workers' Struggles and Nationalist Movements in the Arab World, 1900-present.' We are directing a workshop on this theme at the Tenth Mediterranean Research Meeting which will take place near Florence (Italy) on 25 -28 March 2009.

Mikron Theatre perform their new show Fair Trade this Sunday, 7 September 2pm in The Annexe at the Working Class Movement Libray, 51 Crescent, Salford.

Entrance £4, payable on the door.

Fair Trade: Reaping the Dividends, the story of the co-operative movement.

New items on the IISH website in August 2008:

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/news/mandemakers.php[/url]
Kees Mandemakers, senior researcher at the IISH, has been appointed Professor of Large Historical Databases at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/research/global-black.php[/url]
Call for papers for the workshop "A Social History of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry, 1908-2008".

The 39th Conference of the International Association of Labour History Institutions will take place at Johannesburg, South Africa, from 9 till 13 September 2008.

For more information and the programme, see

[url]http://www.ialhi.org/conferences.php#present [/url]

Lehrstuhl für deutsche und österreichische Studien der Karls-Universität Prag gemeinsam mit dem Goethe-Institut Prag, dem Herder-Institut Marburg und der Historischen Kommission für die böhmischen Länder, Prag, Prag
25.09.2008-26.09.2008, Goethe-Institut Prag, Masarykovo nábreží 32, 2.Etage

Dans le cadre des Journées du patrimoine, le Carhop, en partenariat avec le CIEP-MOC Hainaut Centre et Loisirs et Vacances, vous invite au vernissage de l'exposition "Mouvement ouvrier et Culture". Il se déroulera le vendredi 12 septembre à 18h30 aux Ateliers des FUCaM à Mons. L'exposition sera accessible de 9h30 à 17h30 les 13 et 14 septembre.

Outre l'exposition, ne ratez pas la nuit blanche du Patrimoine le samedi 13 septembre à partir de 20h30. Au programme: concerts de Slam, de guitares manouches et de djembé.

Points of Passage: Jewish Transmigrants from Eastern Europe in Germany, Britain, Scandinavia and other Countries 1860-1929
International Conference, Hamburg, 13-15 September 2008
Hosted by Institute for the History of Jews in Germany, University of Hamburg and organized in conjunction with:

- Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien (IMIS), Universität Osnabrück
- Historisk Institutt, Universitetet i Bergen
- Parkes Institute, University of Southampton

The conference is funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Cologne.

ITH Newsletter

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

anbei [[url]http://www.ith.or.at/start/[/url]] der aktuelle ITH-Rundbrief Nr. 44/3.
Dieser Rundbrief enthält das Programm der 44. Linzer Konferenz der ITH: "1968 - Ein Blick auf die Protestbewegungen 40 Jahre danach aus globaler Perspektive". Anmeldungen sind kurzfristig noch bis 2. September möglich!