Only after World War II did scholars move to theorize the distinction between the core countries at the center of capitalism and peripheral countries, often with an added distinction to include the semi-peripheral. Immanuel Wallerstein's World Systems approach has been particularly important and led the term periphery into common scholarly parlance.
Third World Historical: Rethinking Revolution
November 5-7, 2020 - Columbia University
“Third World Historical: Rethinking Revolution from Iran to Ethiopia” is a scholarly conference organized at Columbia University that seeks to rethink the historiography of revolutionary movements and the heterogeneity of anti-colonial legacies. It is sponsored by the Department of Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies, and convened by Elleni Centime Zeleke (MESAAS, Columbia University) and Arash Davari (Politics, Whitman College).
Capitalism and Contention
Keynote speaker: Vivek Chibber (New York University), "Movements and the Many Lives of Capitalism"
Where: New York University, Department of Sociology, New York City (in the historic Puck Building, Houston Street @ Lafayette)
When: March 13-15 (Friday, March 13, 5 to 7 pm; Saturday, March 14, 9 am to 6 pm; Sunday, March 15, 9 am to 1 pm)
Conference organizers: Jeff Goodwin (NYU) and Nada Matta (Drexel)
50. Konferenz der International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI), 11.09.2019 – 14.09.2019 Alcalá de Henares, in: H-Soz-Kult, 18.10.2019, <www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-8480>.
Historians and interdisciplinary scholars of social movements, feminisms, and the Global South – broadly defined – are invited to submit an abstract to the upcoming conference, "Womandla! Feminism and Social Movements in the Global South."
Image: Destruction Monument Sacred Heart, 1936, Spain (Library U. San Diego)
Conference Blasphemy and Violence. Interdependencies since 1760
5 March 2020 - Liberas/Liberaal Archief, Kramersplein 23 9000 Ghent (Belgium)
www.blasphemyviolence2020.be
Lunch Lecture by IIAS fellow Ole Laursen from New York University, London (NYU London).
Lunch is provided; registration is required.
56th ITH Conference
Capital, Migration and the Left
Linz/Upper Austria, 24-26 September 2020
Conference languages: German / English
desterrados
Los editores del exilio republicano de 1939 en América
Tesoros de bibliotecas=Thesauri Bibliothecarum
#80AniversarioExilioRepublicano
#DíaDeLaBiblioteca (24 de octubre de 2019)
Assemblée générale de l’AFHMT, 30 novembre 2019
Amphi Dupuis, rue Malher, Paris
La contrainte au travail, le travail de la contrainte : perspectives historiques
