We are pleased to invite you to the international conference entitled “From Cooperativism to Commoning. Historical and Contemporary Forms of the Institutions of the Common” which will take place online on November 19th and 20th, 2020. The conference will be held on the Zoom platform. 

The conference is organized by the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw and Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, Polish Academy of Sciences.

A Special Issue of International Labor and Working-Class History 

Talitha L. LeFlouria and Vivien M. L. Miller, editors 

CALL FOR PAPERS

The third edition of the winter school goes digital. It will provide a forum for educators who want to exchange ideas on methods and teaching practices on the topic of Nazi forced labor and its memory in postwar Europe from a transnational perspective. The winter school will also focus on how educators can use the documents archived at the Arolsen Archives, which comprise among others multi-million page collections of records on forced labor, including the situation of Displaced Persons after liberation.

“Racism in History and Context” is a Virtual Panel Series presented by the German Historical Association, the German Historical Institute Washington and its Pacific Regional Office, and the Institute of European Studies at University of California, Berkeley.

A discussion with Manuela Boatcă (University of Freiburg), Teresa Koloma Beck (Bundeswehr University Munich), Monica Muñoz Martinez (University of Texas, Austin), and Kathryn Olivarius (Stanford University)

Moderated by Elisabeth Engel (GHI Washington) and Leti Volpp (University of California, Berkeley)

Ghent University

29-30 April 2021

The concept of modern slavery covers many forms of abuse. In addition to customary understandings of slavery, the term has been used to describe unfree practices including: servitude and forced or compulsory labour; sexual exploitation; organ removal; securing services by force, threats or deception; and securing services from children and vulnerable persons.

La Fondazione Pellegrini Canevascini inaugura la sua collana online pubblicando Con i partigiani in Montenegro. Ricordi di una missione della Centrale sanitaria svizzera (1944-45) di Elio Canevascini, a cura di Danilo Baratti, Patrizia Candolfi e Renato Simoni.

The Conference, organized by some Ph.D candidates in History at the University of Pavia, will be held on 10/11/12 may 2021 in Pavia. We hereby attached the CfP, both in Italian and English.

The key concepts of the 2021 edition are those of “conflict” and “recognition”. In history, the declination of these two concepts has taken on different forms and, in more recent times, events such as the protest in Hong Kong and the Black Lives Matter movement have demonstrated their pervasiveness and relevance.