A Critical Condition? Class and the Practice of History in the Twenty-first Century
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
15th June 2002
Department of History, University of Essex

Final Call for Papers

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Professor Steve Smith - University of Essex
Dr Simon Gunn - Leeds Metropolitan University

XXII MEETING APHES
Aveiro (Portugal) 15-16 November 2002

Call for Papers

The Portuguese Economic and Social History Association (Associacao Portuguesa de Historia Economica e Social - APHES) holds its XXII Meeting in Aveiro, on 15-16 November 2002.

The general theme of the XXII Meeting is "Enterprises and Institutions in Historical Perspective." However, following the practice of previous meetings, papers on other themes of economic and social history are welcome.

Last night at the University of Melbourne the Hon Justice Geoffrey M Giudice, President of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, launched a unique online resource to provide labour and trade union history scholars with a one-stop-shop to source material.

6th Annual Conference
University of Missouri-St. Louis
May 31st-June 1st, 2002

Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov. Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents. Documents compiled by Ludmila Kosheleva, Larisa Rogovaia, Lewis Siegelbaum, Andrei Sokolov, Vladimir Telpukhovsky, and Sergei Zhuravlev. Translated by Thomas Hoisington and Steven Shabad. "Annals of Communism" series. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. xvii + 460 pp. Includes bibliographical references, photographs, and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-300-08480-3.

Robert Harms. The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade. New York: Basic Books, 2002. xxv + 466 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, index. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-465-02871-3.

Reviewed by Thomas N. Ingersoll, Department of History, Ohio State University, Lima.
Published by H-Atlantic (February, 2002).

Into those Waves, Never to Return

Christian F. Ostermann. Uprising in East Germany 1953: The Cold War, The German Question, and The First Major Upheaval Behind the Iron Curtain. National Security Archive Cold War Readers. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2001. xxxvii + 451 pp. Index. $63.95 (cloth), ISBN 963-9241-17-2.

Reviewed by Ruud van Dijk, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Published by H-German (March, 2002).

David R. Stone. Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union 1926-1933. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. viii + 287 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-7006-1037-5.

Reviewed by Lohr E Miller, Louisiana State University.
Published by H-Russia (January, 2002).

The Crime of Moderation

Political Pressure and the Archival Record
Liverpool University - LUCAS - Centre for Archival Studies
Liverpool, UK, 22-25 July 2003

Preliminary Call for Papers -- Keynote Speakers

The principal themes of this international conference are:

With the addition of a detailed inventory of the Bund (Jewish Social Democratic Party) archive the web guide to the unique and manifold yiddish collection of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam is now completed. Please see:

www.iisg.nl/collections/yiddish/yidsearch.html#bund

Karin Hofmeester [MAILTO]kho@iisg.nl[/MAILTO]
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
www.iisg.nl