“Most narrative films take place in that part of life where work has been left behind.” Harun Farocki’s condemnation of cinema’s unwillingness to represent labour finds echoes in present-day political discussions about the struggles and persistent invisibility of labour in public space. Undocumented labour, the weakening of union organizing, and the decoupling of work from physical space in the era of the Internet, are phenomena that have irreversibly altered everyday life. 

The international research centre Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History (re:work) at Humboldt-Universita t zu Berlin and the history department of the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo will hold a Summer Academy exploring the historical and contemporary meanings and practices of work in relation to the politics of health, safety and security.

Call for articles for a special issue of “Arbeit – Bewegung – Geschichte” (Labour – Movement – History).

Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
(intellect journals ISSN 2051-7041)
Call for Papers: Making the New World: The Arts of China’s Cultural Revolution

In the history of international law, the socialist bloc has been generally relegated to the role of roadblock to the fulfillment of the ideals of Western liberalism. Scholars of international criminal law (ICL) and international humanitarian law (IHL) have often dismissed the contributions of socialist legal initiatives as little more than Cold War propaganda and thus irrelevant to understanding the historical evolution of judicial norms and the modern international system.

International Conference - Reggio Emilia, 2016, May 25-27
"Wars, Labour. Europe 1914-1945"

La conférence–débat du samedi 21 mai 2016

au CERMTRI, 28 rue des Petites-Ecuries – Paris 10° (M° Château d'eau)

avec Christophe CHICLET,
membre du Comité de rédaction de la revue Confluences Méditerranée et auteur entre autres de Les communistes grecs dans la guerre. Histoire du Parti communiste de Grèce de 1940 à 1950. (Paris, L’Harmattan, 1987.)

LES GUERRES CIVILES GRECQUES (1943-1949)

A new exhibition at the Library, To Make That Future Now!, celebrates the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Manchester and Salford Trades Council.

For 150 years the Trades Council has fought, not only for socialism and trade union rights, but also against injustices such as poverty, discrimination and unemployment - and, as two separate institutions since 1975, it still carries on the struggle.

Open Wednesdays to Fridays 1-5pm and the first Saturday in May, June and July 10am-4pm. The exhibition runs until 26 August.

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