by Sabrina Álvarez, Gabriela González Vaillantm Dahiana Barrales, Ramiro Bosca, Lucía Siola, Diego Grauer, Lucía V. Martínez Hernández and Julián Reyes
LABOUR HISTORY
New issue on women's labour available
The Special Issue New Essays on Women’s Labour History in Europe: Gender, Work and Activism, edited by Leda Papastefanaki & Eszter Varsa, in Labour History, A Journal of Labour and Social History (Number 130, May 2026) can be found here.
The history of Romani women’s activisms in Eastern Europe, 1945-1990s
at Prague, Hotel Belvedere (M. Horákové 19, Praha 7)
29-30 October 2026
This conference aims to bring into focus the contribution of the concept of social class to the study of various hierarchies, inequalities and conflicts. We are seeking theoretical contributions and studies on past and present phenomena and situations that use the social class as a central concept, highlighting its capacity to renew or enrich analytical perspectives (see the full CFP attached).
October 14 – 16, 2026, Department of History, University of Montreal, Center for the Study of Political Thought (CEPP), UQAM
In the 2020s, a growing number of activists and scholars have started using the term ‘green colonialism’ to describe how the burden of the ‘energy transition’ demanded at an international level is primarily borne by formerly colonised states (Hamouchene 2023; Claar 2025; Dejonghe and Van de Graaf 2025). Consequently, several scholars have attempted to develop a rigorous concept of ‘energy colonialism’ applicable to present-day examples of renewable energy mega-projects undertaken in the Global South for the benefit of the Global North (Sánchez Contreras and al. 2023; Müller 2024).
