Family and Household in Urban East and Southeast Europe (20th century)
Workshop, Graz, May 18-20, 2006
The workshop will be organised by the Department of South East European History (University of Graz, Austria) and the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), in cooperation with the Center for the Study of Balkan Societies and Cultures (CSBSC).
Participants: 15-20
Household Strategies in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe: Coping with Demographic and Economic Shock
Session 81 of the XIVth International Economic History Congress
Calling for papers. For further inquiries, please contact the session organizer.
Household Strategies in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe: Coping with Demographic and Economic Shock
International appeal for a French Centre d'histoire internationale contemporaine
The BDIC is launching a a Support Network for the reunification of the BDIC Library (Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine - Paris, Nanterre) and its Museum (Musée d'histoire contemporaine - Paris, Hôtel des Invalides)
I would be pleased to hear from anybody who would like to contribute a book review to the 2005 issue of the North West labour history journal. This will be our 30th annual issue. The journal is aimed at those with a general interest in the history of the working class and labour movement in the North West of England. We welcome contributors and reviewers from all backgrounds. We wish to include a wide range of reviews of cultural, social and political history of books, films, drama and other forms.
Please contact Michael Herbert, reviews editor, .
Authors needed to write entries for the Encyclopedia of US Labor and Working Class History, (Eric Arnesen, editor) to be published in three volumes by Routledge in November 2006.
Study Group on the Russian Revolution
XXXII Conference
Nottingham, United Kingdom
3 - 5 January 2006
Call for papers
The call for papers for the study group's thirty-second conference is now open. Proposals for panels and for individual papers are welcomed, covering the period from the 1880s up until 1932. We welcome papers that draw on ongoing or recent research relating to revolutionary Russia.
Papers can be submitted and presented either in English or in Russian. Papers in Russian should be accompanied by an English abstract.
The Fondazione Turati (Florence) recently published two new titles:
For more information:
H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by . (February, 2005)
Immanuel Wallerstein. World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2004. xii + 109 pp. Notes, glossary, bibliography, index. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8223-3431-3; $16.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8223-3442-9.
Reviewed by: Brian J. McVeigh, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona.
Published by: H-US-Japan (February, 2005)
World-Systems Theory: Sizing Up the Units of Spatial-Temporal Analysis
From: Bernd Huettner,
Bernd Hüttner, Gottfried Oy, Norbert Schepers (Hg.): Vorwärts und viel vergessen - Beiträge zur Geschichte und Geschichtsschreibung neuer sozialer Bewegungen“; AG SPAK Verlag, Neu-Ulm 2005 (ISBN 3-930 830-59-0)
The table of contents and preface of this book can be found at www.vorwaerts.org. Orders could be made online. The language of the book is German.
From: Donald Weber
International Colloquium on Anti-globalism
Ghent, Friday 9 September 2005
Organized by Amsab-Institute of Social History
www.amsab.be/anti-globalism
Survey of the research on the anti-globalist movement.
Position towards the global governance authorities.
