Second Meeting of the International Standing Working Group on Medialization and Empowerment, 10-11 December, 2020
How have feminist stories been recorded historically? Where can we find them in the archive? And how does this shape historical scholarship on women’s empowerment?
Every year, the Deutscher Prize is awarded for a book which exemplifies the best and most innovative new writing in or about the Marxist tradition.
Nominations for this year's prize (covering publication dates from May 2019 through to April 2020) are now open and may be submitted up to 1st of May 2020.
To nominate a candidate for this year's prize, please email deutscherprize@gmail.com stating the author, title and publisher of the book, and your reason for nominating it.
Due to the current COVID-19 emergency, many IALHI institutions have taken measures that include the closure of their buildings or different restrictions regarding the access to their libraries and archives. Below is a (provisional) list of announcements made by IALHI institutions worldwide, based on the information provided in their websites, as of Monday 16 March 2020. Please check each institution website and/or social media outlets, or contact them by phone or email, to check their availability.
This symposium explores North American Indigenous intellectual and narrative traditions that were recovered, reclaimed, or (re-)invented in the wake of Red Power movements that emerged in the 1960s in the settler colonial societies of Canada and the USA.
We are looking for PhD and MA students who would like to present their current research on Eastern Europe, South Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union as part of the ZOiS Conference Poster Session. The call is open to all disciplines.
Monday, 23 March 2020, 16:00-18:00
Digital Holocaust Memory Roundtable Event
As Holocaust denial and neo-Nazism proliferate online, taking stock of how the digital may (or may not) be useful in perpetuating Holocaust memory has never been a more urgent inquiry.
Communist theory was supposed to lead to a classless society that would thereby overcome nationalism, imperialism, violence, and eventually war itself. Regardless of the theoretical assumption that a communist utopia would end wars forever, communism very often related to war, not only in a theoretical sense, but also in the actual historical process. How communist theorists interpreted war, argued for or against it and tried to sanction the use of violence in the name of a communist utopia are questions for an anthology about this “unnatural interrelationship“.
In 1985, a group of five member states of the European Community (EC), i.e. France, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Benelux countries, signed an agreement in Schengen, whose aim was to remove internal border controls. It also provided for measures to strengthen external border controls and to ramp up the fight against drug trafficking, international crime and illegal immigration. This document, however, was more a working programme than a detailed plan of action and it was outside the community framework.
La Revue d’histoire contemporaine de l’Afrique prépare un numéro spécial, à paraître à la fin de l’année 2020, qui sera consacré à l’histoire des cultures urbaines en Afrique australe (XIXe-XXe siècles). Les propositions d’articles sont à adresser aux coordinateurs du numéro avant le 15 avril.
