The welfare state operates with regulations, rights and obligations that apply to everyone in the same way, requiring individuals to identify themselves as members of society first and foremost. In this sense, the welfare state is the antithesis of art. Many artists support the welfare state in both theory and practice, and they are fascinated by rules as such, but they have little interest in following rules formulated by others than themselves…
From the Domestic Theatre Handbook by Beth Shaw and Martin Bould
Karl Marx lived from 1856 - 1883 in Maitland Park, Camden. In 2006, on the 150th anniversary of Marx's arrival in their neighbourhood, modern day residents performed this play in the Maitland Park Tenants Hall to tell neighbours about his life during that period.
Author Beth Shaw will be on hand to start the play.
International conference Societies Beyond Borders? New Horizons in Transnational Studies
CREW, Paris 3 University, Thursday 17 & Friday 18 September 2015.
Organized by the Center for Research on the English-Speaking World (CREW, EA 4399), Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle
While open to a variety of subject matter, this conference will feature three major themes in contemporary transnational studies: the sociology of migrations; international/transnational political economy; and transnational mobilizations, both in the contemporary era and in modern history.
On Archiving and Commoning the Snowden Files
by Andrew Clement
In the past years the Berliner Gazette has been stimulating various debates and practical processes to work out ways to deal with the Snowden documents in a responsible, sustainable and, above all, democratic manner.
Cet ouvrage est le fruit d’une journée d’étude organisée en 2010 à la Maison du peuple de Saint-Claude (Jura). Dès son inauguration en 1910, l’édifice devint le centre névralgique et l’immeuble symbolique du mouvement ouvrier jurassien. Ce mouvement social se référait d’abord à un pragmatisme volontaire. Mais l’écoute et la lecture attentives des voix et des textes laissent affleurer l’utopie. Car sans être continuellement revendiqué, le rêve n’en apparaît pas moins comme essentiel.
Nieuwsbrief Amsab-ISG
10e jaargang, nr. 6, juni 2015
Fotofestival 80 Days of Summer
Van 12 juni tot 30 augustus 2015 vindt in Gent 80 Days of Summer – Stories of Identity plaats. Het is de eerste editie van een nieuw fotofestival, met 27 tentoonstellingen op 10 locaties in de stad. In Amsab-ISG kan je een selectie van cartes de visite uit onze fotocollectie bekijken.
Website over 100 jaar Romain Deconinck
The emergence of international capitalism depended on the creation of a highly mobile working class that built, loaded, and sailed the ships that connected the globe. These ships inaugurated the Atlantic slave trade and other labor migrations, making possible new regimes of accumulation and labor based in port cities, dynamic centers of power that linked the slave labor of colonial plantations to Europe and other parts of the world. The laborers of port cities - sailors, indentured servants, and slaves, workers free and unfree - are the subjects of this workshop.
La Commune de Paris, période insurrectionnelle qui opposa le gouvernement d’Adolphe Thiers et des insurgés parisiens, débute le 18 mars 1871 et se termine le 28 mai 1871 après la fameuse et meurtrière « Semaine sanglante ». Elle est due largement à la défaite française de la guerre franco-prussienne de 1870 et à la capitulation de la France. Elle trouve son élan dans la Première République et son gouvernement révolutionnaire (la Commune de 1792), ainsi que dans l’héritage de l'insurrection populaire de 1848.
African Socialism / Socialism in Africa
Paris, April, 7-9, 2016
Call for papers
Scientific Committee
