L’Association des historiens contemporanéistes de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche (AHCESR) a créé en 2016 le Prix jeune chercheur.se de l’AHCESR, couronnant un article d’histoire contemporaine écrit par la/le titulaire d’un doctorat obtenu au cours des trois dernières années. Ce prix entend faire connaître et encourager les recherches en histoire contemporaine les plus novatrices, par leur objet ou leur méthode, sans autre restriction que les limites de la chronologie.

Labour and the Making of Italy from Cavour to Covid

Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI)

3 – 4 December 2021

Italian Cultural Institute, London

Call for papers and panels

In recent years, various studies urge us to rethink our perspectives on the definitions, role and functions assumed by different forms of “childhood” in Latin-American societies. Likewise, a growing number of anthropological, historical and educational studies invite us to refer to “childhood(s)” in plural, to express the diversity that characterises the social constructions that give meaning to the idea of child in different times and spaces.

Die Sommerakademie ist ein auf intensiven Austausch setzendes Format, in dessen Rahmen in kleineren Gruppen und im Plenum Impulsvorträge über eigene Texte und Zugänge der Teilnehmer:innen, aber auch einschlägige Texte diskutiert werden.

This international workshop will bring together established and emerging scholars to chart the intersection between refugee history and Cold War history. The most well-known connection between these two fields is the figure of the political refugee fleeing from the socialist East to the democratic West. As recent research in both areas has highlighted, however, forced displacement and Cold War competition were global phenomena.