Dare Devil Rides to Jarama

Marking the 80th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War, Dare Devil Rides to Jarama is a new play by Townsend Productions based on the experiences of International Brigade volunteers during the Spanish Civil War. In particular it focuses on Clem Beckett, a Lancashire blacksmith and famous star of the speedway track, who joined the International Brigade to defend freedom and democracy against Franco's rising fascist armies.

CfP: "Accepting and Holding Objects “in Trust” – an International and Interdisciplinary Perspective"

"Accepting and Holding Objects “in Trust” – an International and Interdisciplinary Perspective"

Conference ǀ Vienna University Library ǀ May 2-4th, 2017
The question of how to deal with cultural property or looted property held "in trust" concerns libraries, archives, museums, and Jewish institutions.

CfA: 3 fellowships at re:work in Berlin

The Institute for the History and Future of Work (Institut für die Geschichte und Zukunft der Arbeit - IGZA) is a foundation recently established by Dr. Horst Neumann in Wolfsburg and Berlin. It supports the study of historical developments, present problems and future perspectives of work and labour.
Presently, one of its research fields is dealing with the history, present varieties and future possibilities of working time (Arbeitszeit) in a cross-epochal historical perspective.

CfP: Gender and Empire: Intimacies, Bodies, Detritus

The Journal of World History seeks submissions on the topic of Gender and Empire. For more than three decades scholars have incorporated gender studies into traditional imperial histories to draw attention to the myriad ways in which imperial projects co-created modern gender identities. Emerging from scholarship on the major European empires of the 19th and 20th centuries (British, French, German, and Dutch), studies of gender and empire now include the United States, Russia, and Japan.

CfP: Agrarian Reform and Resistance in an ‘Age of Globalization’: The Euro-American World, 1815-1914

The purpose of this conference is to explore the myriad experiences of agrarian reform and resistance that characterized rural regions of Europe and the Americas, whether based on either free or unfree labour, between 1815 and 1914. In this period, the economic changes associated with the influence of the Industrial Revolution transcended national boundaries, profoundly affecting rural societies by transforming patterns of demand for agricultural commodities.

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