Engels Week - Working Class Movement Library

From 22 to 28 November 2021 the Working Class Movement Library invites everyone to an Engels Week. This aims to raise awareness of Friedrich Engels and his work, find out what he means to people and explore how his work is still relevant today – as well as to draw attention to resources available at the Library which everyone can come and use.  

MONDAY 22 November:

9.30am Why not mark the start of Engels Week by viewing a short film? It's 

CfP: Livestock as Global and Imperial Commodities: Economies, Ecologies and Knowledge Regimes, c. 1500 – present

his year's annual Commodities of Empire international workshop will take place from 14 to 15 July 2022 at the Freie Universität Berlin, in collaboration with the DFG funded project Commodifying Cattle. It investigates livestock commodities and commodification processes in global and imperial history. Deadline for the submission of paper proposals is 31st of January.

Museums and Movements | WORKLAB General Conference

WORKLAB – International Association of Labour Museums – is organising a general conference in late November. Worklab Conference 2021 will be held by The Musée de l’histoire Vivante (Museum of Living History) in Montreuil, France November 29 – December 1 2021. The Museum of Living History, located in an old Italian villa, in a marvellous park near Paris, will provide a unique and authentic venue for the conference. The Call for papers is closed and the program is now published.