Götz Langkau (1935–2024)

On 9 January 2024, we received the sad news that Götz Langkau had passed away. Although many people knew that he had not been doing well in recent years, the news came as a shock. Götz belonged to a generation of IISH staff that restored the profile of the Institute, especially through his contributions to scholarly source publications.

Abolition Revolution

Date: 25th Jan 2024

Event time: 18:30 to 20:00

An introductory guide to abolitionist politics in Britain, Abolition Revolution explores how the history of imperialism, racism and class struggle has led to the carceral systems that we see today and how abolition should be seen as a key component of revolutionary politics, linking it with materialist feminisms, anti-capitalist class struggle, internationalist solidarity and anti-colonialism.

ONLINE & ONSITE BOOK LAUNCH: Global Neo-liberal Capitalism and the Alternatives: from social democracy to state capitalism

The twentieth century was an era of socialist revolutionary transformations and significant social-democratic reforms. By the twenty-first century, these socialist inspired movements have largely disappeared, their ideology had been disavowed, and their institutions dismantled. In the first part of the book, David Lane explains which social forces drove them and why, initially, they were successful.

CfP: Getting Old in Eastern Europe. Social, Political and Economic Dimensions of Ageing in the Past and Present

Call for Papers for the 11th Annual Conference of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) on "Getting Old in Eastern Europe. Social, Political and Economic Dimensions of Ageing in the Past and Present". The submission deadline is February 15, 2024. The conference will take place from June 27 to 29, 2024.