Das Archiv der sozialen Demokratie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung trauert um Dieter Schuster (1927-2019)

Dieter Schuster war als Historiker und Archivar der Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung verpflichtet.

Social Histories of Revolution: the Long 1960s explores the spirit of an era of extraordinary global upheaval, from the perspectives of those whose marches, strikes and movements shook the world. It follows a highly successful series in 2017, Social Histories 1917, which took a similar approach to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution. (The recordings are available at https://socialhistories1917.wordpress.com/recordings-past-talks/)

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Revolutionary Left in Sub-Saharan Africa (1960s and1970s) - a political and social history to be written

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES AND TIMETABLE

Contributors are invited to e-mail a proposal in the form of an abstract (in English or in French) not exceeding 5,000 characters to: revleftafrica@rosalux.org by no later than 1 March 2019.

This innovative pan-European history of post-war socialism challenges the East-West paradigm that still dominates accounts of post-war Europe. Jan De Graaf offers a comparative study of the ways in which the French, Italian and Polish socialist parties and the Czechoslovakian Social Democratic Party dealt with the problems of socio-economic and political reconstruction. 

Groupe de travail sur l’histoire de la politique internationale de la CFTC-CFDT (1945-2004)

Séminaire du mercredi 23 janvier 2019

Salle du BN, 4 boulevard de la Villette

La CFDT et la défense des libertés syndicales et démocratiques en Europe et en Amérique latine

9h : Accueil (mezzanine)

9h15 : Introduction des travaux de la journée par Yvan Ricordeau

9h30-12h30 : Défense des libertés syndicales et démocratiques en Europe

What is the relationship between the global caesura of “1989” and the many political, economic, social and cultural transformations that have taken place across the world during the last 30 years? This is the key question that the international conference on “Revolutions and Transformations in Global Perspective, 1989-2019” will seek to address. It will be held from 12-16 June 2019, in the thirtieth year since 1989, at Leipzig University.

The Oral History and Life Stories Network brings together oral history and life story researchers and practitioners who explore memory, narrative and history.

In recent decades oral history has stabilized its’ place in and beyond academia to the point, that it has been questioned if oral history has lost its radical roots? Also, the rise of the Internet and social media demands that we reflect on our work according to methodological questions and maybe new challenges in that context. Do the voiceless still need us to give them voice?

CFP 13th European Social Science History Conference

18 – 21 March, 2020

Women and Gender Network

DOING GENDER IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: THEORY AND PRACTICE

The ESSHC Women and Gender network invites proposals for individual papers and sessions (3-4 speakers, a chair and a commentator) focussing on interconnections between practice and theory in applying gender-sensitive historical analysis. We would like to discuss the following questions during our forthcoming conference:

Movements for social change have often preceded or immediately followed periods of warfare. The temporal proximity of social movements and warfare raises several interesting questions. Among others, in what ways have movements for social change been linked to periods of violent conflict? How might war contribute to the expansion or limitation of rights for marginalized and oppressed groups? How does warfare shape the attitudes and strategies of social activists in local, transnational, and global contexts?