Queer Urban Underworlds in European State Socialism

Workshop Date: September 17 to September 19, 2024 (Prague)

We are excited to announce a call for papers for a workshop to form a collaborative and interdisciplinary team. The workshop's primary goal is to collectively prepare a panel submission for the ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) conference in 2025 while concurrently working on a collective monograph for a distinguished publication thematic series.

CfP: Victimhood - Acknowledgement - Politics of Memory: Struggling over the Memory of Suffering

Conference in Dresden, 03.09.2024 - 05.09.2024

The second half of the twentieth century saw a change in the concept of victimhood in post-socialist and post-conflict countries. Although victims are often perceived through the prism of their trauma and passivity, attention is currently focused also on their active role in transitional justice and their social mobilization.

Labour migration past and present, seminar 12 April 2024, Nijmegen (Netherlands)

The Center for the History of Migrants (CGM) organizes its annual study day in cooperation with the Center for Migration Law in Nijmegen and is looking for call for presentations.

The theme is 'Labour migration past and present'. Among other things, we reflect on the recruitment agreements that Belgium and the Netherlands concluded with Turkey and Morocco 60 years ago.

YMHC #13 : Things that Grow in the Earth: Recovering Resources in the Early Modern World - by Sebastian Felten (University of Vienna)

The Young Mining Historians Corner is a blog post series edited by the Labour In Mining WG dedicated
to early career researchers in mining history broadly constructed.

The Issue 13 has been just published:  

Things that Grow in the Earth: Recovering Resources in the Early Modern World - by Sebastian Felten (University of Vienna)

 https://lim.hypotheses.org/2899

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CfP Special issues of journal Workers of the World

Workers of the World: International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflict aims to stimulate global studies on labor and social conflicts in an interdisciplinary, global, long term historical and non-Eurocentric perspective. It intends to move away from traditional forms of methodological nationalism and conjectural studies, adopting an explicitly critical and interdisciplinary perspective.

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CfP: Conference - "Pathways to Empire? Belgian Global Expansion, 1830-1930"

On September 11-13, 2024, KU Leuven will host an international conference on the interrelated themes of imperialism and Belgian expansionism. We welcome paper proposals that explore the theoretical and methodological challenges involved in writing new global histories of imperialism between 1830, when Belgium was founded, and the Great Depression of the 1930s.

CfP: Rendez-vous d’histoire coloniale, 2nd edition: "(Anti)colonialism and (inter)nationalism"

20-22 of June 2024 - Diplomatic Archives - Nantes.

Theme 1 – Rethinking the Empire of Knowledge through the prism of internationalism(s)

Theme 2 – Anti-imperialism et internationalism

Theme 3 – War and peace: international institutions and colonialism

Theme 4 – Nationalisation of societies and the colonial situation

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CfP: International friendship within and beyond the Iron Curtain

Ljubljana, 18-19 April 2024

This workshop aims to explore relations among countries both within and beyond the Iron Curtain through the lens of international friendship. Scholars are invited to explore how intersecting collective identities, trust, and emotions interact with strategic and material interests in interstate and transnational relations; and how these factors influence behavior and decision-making across various political and social levels.

International friendship within and beyond the Iron Curtain