CIRA Anarchist Library

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Chers amis, Chers collègues,

Le Centre international de recherches sur l'anarchisme (CIRA) fêtera ses 50 ans d'existence cette année. Le CIRA est une bliothèque et un centre d'archives anarchiste fondé à Genève et actuellement installé à Lausanne. Il est l'une des quatre institutions suisses membres de l'IALHI.

Labour and Gender History

24 April, Willem van Schendel: Stretching Labour Historiography. Ideas from South Asia

29 May, Subir Sinha: Social Movements in South Asia

19 June, Karin Willemse: Gender en Globalisering

25 September, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk: De draad in eigen handen. Vrouwen en loonarbeid in de Nederlandse textielnijverheid, 1581-1810

30 October, Farhad Nomani: Labour and Class in Contemporary Iran

27 November, Elke Weesjes: De Engelse en Nederlandse Communistische beweging vergeleken

All lectures are held from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.

Londoners Co-operate!

Celebrating the London Co-operative Society collection at Bishopsgate Institute and International Co-operator's Day.

This unique one-day event provides a fascinating insight to the history of co-operation in London. Discover more about the changing nature of this important movement from its origins to the present day and how the 'co-op' became part of the fabric of everyday life for Londoners.

Saturday 7th July 2007, 10.00am-5.30pm

Chair:
· Dame Pauline Green (Chief Executive and General Secretary, Co-operatives-UK)

Speakers:

The Black Jacobins

Conference to be held at the Institute of Historical Research, London, Saturday 2 February 2008.

Throughout many of the events organised in Britain to commemorate the bicentenary of the British abolition of the slave trade, one voice has been missing: that of the rebellious slaves themselves, in particular those of St. Domingue/Haiti, the authors of the only successful slave revolt in history, and the people who did more than Wilberforce or anyone else to bring the slave system to an end.

Spanish Civil War at Tamiment Library

The Continuing History of the Spanish Civil War
A Tamiment Library Symposium and Exhibition Opening "Art and Politics: Posters From the Spanish Civil War"

April 27, 2007
4 PM - 8 PM

Speakers:

John Brademas (NYU) "Communists and Anarchists during the Spanish Civil War."

Peter Carroll (Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives) "Toward a New Paradigm of Spanish Civil War History."

Gabriel Jackson (University of California, San Diego, emeritus "The Problem of Historical Memory and the Spanish Civil War."

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