ELHN

Labour & Empire Working Group

Precarity and Scale in the History of Colonial Labour

ELHN Conference, University of Barcelona
June 16-19, 2026

Following up on a long-term project on working-class anti-imperialism, explored in publications (Beliard, Kirk 2021) and at conferences (most recently in Bristol 2023 and Uppsala), the ELHN Labour & Empire Working Group moves towards a renewed focus on colonial labour systems for the 2026 ELHN conference in Barcelona.

Call for Papers: Working Group “Labour and Coercion” at the European Labour History Network (ELHN) Conference 2026

***EXTENDED DEADLINE*** 15 July 2025

The ELHN Working Group “Labour and Coercion” invites proposals for papers and sessions at the upcoming 6th ELHN Conference. The event will take place from 16 to 19 June 2026 in Barcelona.

Work and the Balkans, special issue of the Études Balkaniques

(scheduled for publication in the second half of 2026)

Editors: Antonis Nasis, PhD candidate in history at EHESS/CETOBaC – University of Crete, and Christos Andrianopoulos, PhD in History and member of the CRH at EHESS

Call for contributions

Work and the Balkans

Palestine and global resistance to genocide

The Workers of the World journal invites submissions for the upcoming themed issue, Palestine, and global resistance to genocide. The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2025.

Description

Education, how, what and for whom?

The Workers of the World journal invites submissions for the upcoming themed issue, Education, what, for whom, how? The deadline for submissions is July 15, 2025.

Chères et chers collègues,

J'ai le plaisir de vous informer de la parution du dernier n° de la revue d'histoire Le Mouvement social comportant le dossier "Identités portuaires" susceptible de retenir votre attention et dont j'ai assuré la direction.
Bien cordialement.

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to inform you of the publication of the latest issue of the history review Le Mouvement social including the file "Port Identities" likely to attract your attention and of which I was responsible for the direction.

Kind regards.

Michel Pigenet

“Control and punishment devices”

3rd International Conference on History of Prison and Punitive Institutions

https://www.unavarra.es/congreso-historia-prision/?languageId=1

14 to 16 January 2026, Iruñea - Pamplona.
Universidad Pública de Navarra – Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa.

Introduction

Les dockers du Havre, de la révolution à nos jours
Mont-Saint-Aignan, PURH, 2024
ISBN 9791024017952

For the project Voices of Resistance in collaboration with the project The Global Business of Slave Trade (by Filipa Ribeiro da Silva) we are looking for

l'OAB (CREA, Paris Nanterre) et CREW (Sorbonne Nouvelle) organisent conjointement une journée d'étude autour de la question d'agrégation “Mouvements protestataires, contestations politiques et luttes sociales en Grande-Bretagne (1811- 1914)” le 31 janvier 2025.

La journée se tiendra sur le site de l'université Paris Nanterre, Bâtiment Max Weber (W), Salle des conférences (RER A, arrêt Nanterre Université)

Le programme est le suivant :