The Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) invites applications for its PhD program BIGSSS-departs (doctoral education in partnerships). Under the European Commission’s COFUND scheme the BIGSSS offers several fully funded PhD stipends with a duration of 42 months.

Applications are open to all non-German applicants whose reserach interests fit into one of the three thematic fields ("Global Governance and Regional Integration", "Welfare State, Inequality, and Quality of Life", and "Changing Lives in Changing Socio-Cultural Contexts").

On the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the most important in depth meditation of Capitalism, you are invited to submit a short discourse addressing problems, analyzing developments, points of contention, methodologies, approaches and insights.

1) Proposals: From intellectual workers in the academic sector, friendly organizations and individuals interested in advancing Working Class scholarship.

Call for Papers for a special issue of ÖZG Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften – Austrian Journal of Historical Studies

13-15th July 2017

All Souls College, Oxford

Proposals for papers are invited presenting new and original research on all aspects of economic warfare and the sea between 1650 and 1950, for a conference to be held in Oxford in July 2017. As in the successful 2014 conference ‘Strategy and the Sea’: An International Conference in Honour of Professor John B. Hattendorf, we seek once again to bring together research students and early career scholars, established academics, and serving personnel, in the study of naval history.

Nel 2016 ricorre il ventesimo anniversario della Carta Sociale Europea “Riveduta” (3 maggio 1996). L’anniversario cade in un periodo di sfida e grande fermento per la protezione dei diritti sociali e la coesione sociale in Europa.

Call for Papers
Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Century.
Imperial – Inter/national – Decolonial
(Max Weber Foundation conference 2017, German Historical Institute, Moscow)

The 12th Conference of the International Federation for Research on Women’s History/ Federation Internationale Pour la Recherche en Histoire des Femmes (IFRWH/FIRHF) will be held August 12-15, 2018 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, the home of the current President, Eileen Boris. This will be the first time that this international gathering of historians of women and gender will assemble in the United States.

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

Seminar by Ariel Heryanto | Decolonializing Indonesia: The Left and Indonesia Calling
October 27 @ 15:30 - 17:00

Of late, there has been a growing interest in The Netherlands to re-examine the decolonisation of Indonesia (1945-1949), particularly the military conflict between the two countries. This paper offers a preliminary analysis of the conflict and its cultural and political dimensions within a broader regional context, including Australia, The Netherlands and Indonesia.