On May 10th, Gerhard de Kok (Leiden University) will give a lecture on: “Cursed Capital: The Economic Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on Walcheren around 1770”

Date: May 10th, 2016
Time: 12.30-14.00 hrs
Place: room C76, Leeuwenborch

This lecture is part of the monthly RHI Seminar series. In principle, seminars take place every second Tuesday of the month. The seminar is open to the public, but with regard to accommodation and distribution of the paper in advance, we would like you to give notice of attention to the RHI Secretariat.

Call for papers:
The richness of historical household budget surveys
Proposal for sessions at the World Economic History Congress in Boston, July 29–August 3, 2018

Uitgave: Rond de Eerste (Socialistische) Internationale. Bundeling artikelen J.J. Giele over de tijd rond 1870 en aanverwante onderwerpen met een inleiding van Johan Frieswijk. Toegang vrij, aanmelden via info@onvoltooidverleden.nl

Sprekers: Johan Frieswijk, Dennis Bos, Bert Altena en Frank Rutten.
Dagvoorzitter: Marten Buschman. Uitgever: Jaap van der Laan (Kelderuitgeverij)

Expo: Koop COOP!

Amsab-ISG maakte een selectie van foto’s, films, cartoons, publiciteit over de coöperatieve winkels in de jaren 1950, 1960. Vanaf 1 mei te bezichtigen in de Samen Sterker Store aan de Vrijdagmarkt te Gent.

Media Activism and Postcolonial Futures

We are pleased to invite applications for six days of interactive Winter School training.

Application deadline: Monday 13 June, 2016 9.00 am CET

Winter School dates: 16 – 21 January 2017

Registration open:
Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960): Ways of Viewing Science and Society, Conference at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Below please find information on funded PhDs at University of Aberdeen in IN CITIZENSHIP, CIVIL SOCIETY AND RULE OF LAW (CISRUL). Prospective students wanting to study social movements can apply. They can also cross list this funding with the Elphinstone projects listed here: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cass/graduate/find-a-phd-510.php. Successful applicants under the CISRUL scheme will have a full stipend £14,296 per annum. Those applying under Elphinstone can apply for a fee waiver.

Rencontre-débat, Uni-Mail, Genève.

Mardi 10 mai 2016, 18h30-22h00

salle MR 160

Une soirée organisée par le Collège du travail et l'Equipe de didactique de l’histoire et de la citoyenneté (EDHICE, Université de Genève), en collaboration avec le syndicat Unia. 

Première partie

TÉMOIGNER DE L’ENGAGEMENT SYNDICAL

18h30-18h45 Présentation de la numérisation et de l’inventaire des archives sonores du Collège du travail
Patrick Auderset, coordinateur du Collège du travail
Tamara Katz, archiviste et historienne

Economic Turn in de Joodse Geschiedenis
Date: 23 May 2016
Location: KNAW, Trippenhuis, 18.00 uur

De 'economic turn' is een belangrijke ontwikkeling in de joodse geschiedschrijving van de afgelopen vijftien jaar. Wat was de specifieke economische positie van Joden, hoe kunnen we dit verklaren? Welke invloed had dit op hun plek in de maatschappij en de manier waarop men naar Joden keek en hoe Joden zichzelf zagen?

Sprekers

Free and Unfree Labor in Atlantic and Indian Ocean Port Cities (c. 1700-1850)

May 6-7, 2016, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Thursday 5 May

5:00 pm Welcoming reception (Hilton Garden Inn, Bar area)

Friday 6 May

9:00 am Registration

9:15-9:30 am Welcome

9:30-10:15 am Key note lecture 1: Seth Rockman, Brown University

10:15 am-12:15 pm: Labor in Atlantic Port Cities: Regimes, Structures, Linkages and Chains

Chair: Mike Thompson, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga