Tamiment Library Award for Documentaries

Blaufarb Award to Support Documentaries Relating to Labor and the Left

The Jacob and Besye Blaufarb Video Library of the American Labor Movement has established a fund to provide assistance to filmmakers working on projects relating to the history of Labor, progressive politics, and American social history. It awards an annual prize of $5,000 to support post-production work. Areas of interest include: labor history, the struggle for immigrant rights, race and class, the civil rights movement, and the women's movement.

Anarchism and Syndicalism

From Wednesday 27 February up to and including Saturday 1 March 2008 the European Social Sciences History Conference will take place in Lisbon, Portugal at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. We plan to organize a panel on new ways to research anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism and herewith invite researchers to participate.

DANGO Project

DANGO (Database of Archives of Non-Governmental Organisations) is an archival project based at the University of Birmingham (UK). It aims to gather as much information as possible on the availability of records relating to non-governmental organisations and pressure groups active in the UK since 1945. The project's outcome will be a fully functional online database (currently already available for research, although as a trial and incomplete version).

Anarchism: PhD Studentships

The Department of Politics, International Relations & European Studies at Loughborough University (GB) invites applications for three Studentships to undertake doctoral research from July/October 2007 in any area related to the Department's research interests.

Dr Ruth Kinna and Dr Dave Berry would like to hear from anyone interested in studying for a PhD in any area related to anarchist history, politics or theory.