CfP: Interdisciplinary Autumn Research School: Rethinking Extractivist Capitalism

Young International Scholars Autumn Research School
Rethinking Extractivist Capitalism
10 – 18 October 2020, University of Bremen
Venue: Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study)

We welcome applications from advanced MA students, PhD candidates and postdoc researchers in political, social or cultural sciences, geography, linguistics, law, international relations or related disciplines.

Deadline for applications is 1 May 2020.
Please, find the online application form on our website: yisares.uni-bremen.de

CfP: Archiving, Recording and Representing Feminism: The Global History of Women's Emancipation in the 20th Century

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?

Deutscher Prize 2020

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.

COVID-19: Information about closures and restrictions in IALHI institutions worldwide

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.

CfP: War and Communism

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“.