European Labour History Network (ELHN)

ELHN Conference 2026 Barcelona
Upcoming ELHN conference in Barcelona, Spain, in June 2026. See link below.

The European Labour History Network is organized around working groups consisting of researchers working on the same topics or in the same area. The Network organizes a bi-annual conference, with contributions from around the world.

For information on the ELHN, contact elhn@iisg.nl

ELHN Conference Barcelona 2026 - Conference website

News ELHN

CfP: Les violences intrafamiliales : conception, perception et répression, de l’Antiquité au Moyen Âge (in French)
Call for Papers, deadline 28 February 2026
05/01/2026
CfP: groc2026: Forced Mobility In Colonial Empires (15th-20th centuries)
Call for Papers, deadline 6 February 2026
05/01/2026
CfP: SCIENTIAE Annual Conference: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World
Call for Papers, deadline 31 January 2026
05/01/2026
CfP Argentina 1976, 50 Years Later: Workers’ and Social Insubordination in the 1970s
Call for Papers, deadline 21 November 2025
13/11/2025
CfP: 18th Contact Day Jewish Studies on the Low Countries
Call for Papers, deadline 15 December 2025
04/11/2025
Opening the archives, strengthening the movement
Event, 7 November 2025
03/11/2025
CfP: Transition and Renewal: Progressive Utopias and Leftist Reorientation, 1970s–1990s
Call for papers, deadline 15 January 2026
30/10/2025
CfP: Vulnerability and Power in Late Antiquity (4th-9th centuries)
Call for papers, deadline 7 January 2026
29/10/2025
Discount on book Working in Greece and Turkey
Publication, discount until 7 November 2025
27/10/2025
CfP: ELHN Conference 2026: WG Memory and Deindustrialization: How did deindustrialisation change local communities at the end of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21th century?
Call for papers, deadline 30 September 2025
25/09/2025
CfP: ELHN Conference 2026: Gateways to Work in Urban Spaces
Call for papers, deadline 22 October 2025
23/09/2025
CfP: Working Group Workers, Labour and Labour History in Modern Central-East Europe, ELHN Conference 2026: Connecting ethnographies, Working-class anthropology in Central and Eastern Europ
Call for papers, deadline 30 September 2025
14/08/2025
CfP: Working Group 'Speak, Look, Listen! The Cultural Production of Work', ELHN Conference 2026: Co-operation, Cultural Production and the Labour Movement
Call for papers, deadline 15 September 2025
01/08/2025
CfP: Labour in Mining Working Group, ELHN Conference 2026: Extractive Industry under Dictatorship in the 20th Century
Call for papers, deadline ***NEW DEADLINE*** 30 September 2025
10/07/2025
CfP: Maritime Labour History Working Group, ELHN Conference 2026
Call for papers, deadline 31 August 2025
04/07/2025
CfP: Working Group Workplaces, Pasts and Presents, ELHN Conference 2026: Grounded Work: Social, Spatial and Environmental Ecologies of Labour
Call for papers, deadline 15 August 2025
02/07/2025
CfP: Working Group European Trade Unionism, ELHN Conference 2026: The conceptions and contributions to Social Europe
Call for papers, deadline 23 September 2025
02/07/2025
CfP: Working group Arctic and Indigenous Labour, ELHN Conference 2026
Call for papers, deadline 1 September 2025
12/06/2025
CfP: Military Labour History at the ELHN Conference, 2026
Call for papers, deadline 1 September 2025 (7 July for Session 5)
12/06/2025
CfP: Working Group Labour Migration History, ELHN Conference 2026: Disparities and Inequalities in Transformations of Labour Migration: Historical Shifts and Historiographical Debates
Call for proposals, deadline 15 July 2025
02/06/2025