The archive has become an object of sustained historical and theoretical investigation in recent years. The anthropological turn in photographic criticism has opened up new directions for the analysis and understanding of photo archives that complement and dialogue with more traditional Art Historical approaches focused on photographs as images; it has helped direct this growing interest towards the materiality of the photograph as object, and its social and institutional lives that unfold very often within the archival ecosystem.

The Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) is one of Germany’s leading research universities. The „Institute for Social Movements“ (ISB) is a central research institute of the RUB under the directorship of Professor Stefan Berger, which has a long track record of researching the comparative history and present-day relevance of social movements.

The ISB is looking for

2 postdoctoral researchers (full time; payment according to German public service scale - E 13 TV-L)

and

We (Michele Ford, Michael Gillan and Dimitris Stevis) are organizing a session on Global and Regional Trade Unions and the Future of Work (description below) at the International Sociological Association Global Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil July 14-18, 2020. Host committee RC-44.

Paper Proposals accepted until September 30, 2019.

"Le mouvement des associations de travailleurs au XIXe siècle"
Colloque international, lundi 7 et mardi 8 octobre 2019
Université de Lille – Campus Pont de Bois – Villeneuve d’Ascq
Bâtiment A, salle de séminaire de l’IRHiS (A1 152)

Lundi 7 octobre

16-17th January 2020, Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change, University of Leeds

CONFERENCE DECEMBER 2-3, 2019, GHENT 

TAPAS/Thinking About the PASt and Centre for Anthropological Research on Affect and Materiality (CARAM) are proud to announce thjis conference on the restitution of colonial collections in Europe, taking place on December 2 and 3, 2019 in Ghent.  

Utilisé dès le XIXe siècle, le dossier personnel est le résultat d’une procédure de recueil d’informations, d’enregistrement, de description et de suivi d’un individu. Cette mise en écriture de l’existence individuelle devient un moyen de contrôle et de traçabilité pour identifier des catégories de personnes et surtout fabriquer une typologie de l’hors norme, dont l’objectif peut viser la protection de l’individu et de ses droits mais aussi et surtout la protection de la société en adaptant l’intervention à la nature jugée déviante de la personne concernée.

The Institute of Contemporary History at the Universidade NOVA, Lisbon, Portugal, is pleased to invite proposals for its new research seminar on the colonial past and its historical legacies during the academic year 2019/2020.

KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 99, July 2019 has just been posted. The PDF is up at: https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/00013n

Contents:

The First of May. "This coming May 1st, the Toilers of the entire world will take to the streets: to do what? Why will they do so? To demand what? A palliative that is not going to be able to bring about any improvement in our lot." https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/sf7nrt