CfP: Images et récits de l’exil et des exodes en Amérique latine au XXIe siècle

Ce colloque international, qui aura lieu les 19 et 20 novembre à Nice, est envisagé comme le prolongement de la journée d’études interdisciplinaire et inter-laboratoires (LIRCES et URMIS) organisée à Nice en décembre 2018 et intitulée « Amérique latine : exil, migrations et identités ». À l’occasion de cette nouvelle manifestation scientifique, nous souhaitons recentrer la réflexion autour de la représentation de l’exil et des exodes en Amérique latine depuis le début du XXIe siècle.

Open access books on labour history - Temple University Press

From its start, Temple University Press has been known for publishing significant titles in labor studies. Given this long history, many of these titles have gone out of print. Thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Press, in collaboration with Temple University Libraries, has reissued 32 outstanding labor studies books in PDF, EPUB, and MOBI formats and made them freely available online.

CfP: Human Trafficking: Global History and Global Perspectives

The United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking In Persons, Especially Women And Children, Supplementing The United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime define Human Trafficking as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the p

CfP: Comparing the Copperbelt: Social history and knowledge production in Central Africa

Comparing the Copperbelt is an ERC-funded research project, running at the University of Oxford from 2016-2021. The project aims to examine the Copperbelt (in both Zambia and the DR Congo) as a single region divided by a (post-)colonial border, across which flowed minerals, people and ideas. It analyses how academic knowledge production (e.g. by the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute and CEPSI) shaped understanding of Copperbelt societies and it seeks ways to explore Copperbelt political culture and popular perceptions from a historical perspective.

CfA: PhD Positions, Research Group "The Concept of Slavery in African History"

Candidates will work in the Research Group "The Concept of Slavery in African History". This Research Group is an integral part of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS). The BCDSS was awarded the status of "Cluster of Excellence: Beyond Slavery and Freedom. Asymmetric Dependencies in pre-modern Societies" by the German Research Council.

CfP: ddh20 - Data and Digital Humanities 2020

The digital humanities offer a particularly rich research field of studies for data processing, apart from those of the hard sciences and the social sciences. Indeed, the humanities are rarely subject to privacy principles (privacy by design, GDPR…) that affect most social science works and are not just about digital or binary data. Moreover, in DH the data pre-exist and are most often already known if they are not collected and formalized.

CfP: Delinquency, crimes and repression in History

The question of delinquency, in the most general sense of the term, is particularly complex because criminologists, sociologists, psychologists, psychoanalysts, doctors, lawyers, and historians who have studied this subject extensively have often expressed very different and even contradictory opinions. Difficulties arise as soon as the phenomenon is to be defined. In French law, the word “delinquency” designates all types of offenses.