Imagination and Commitment. Representations of the Social Question
International conference

University of Groningen, 10 - 11 May 2007.

Keynote-speakers:

Soutien au CIRA - Support the CIRA!

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.

Read more about the historian of the anarchist movement and his papers at www.iisg.nl/collections/nettlau/

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.

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 2006 IALHI annual conference was held in Zurich, Switzerland from 6 to 9 September. It was organized by the Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv.

The meeting included a special session on "Labour Movement Film: Collecting – Preserving – Valorization".

The conference report (PDF file, 1.4 Mb) is now available at www.ialhi.org/iconf-06.pdf

Call for papers ESSHC Lisbon 2008
Network: Labour

'Working for wages 1300-1800: Conditions and forms of pre-industrial labour contracts'

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.

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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Demande de communications
Thème : Le rôle des femmes et de leur travail dans le contexte de l'histoire publique
26-27 octobre 2007
Ottawa, Ontario
Présentée par l'Association canadienne sur le rôle des femmes dans l'histoire publique