CfP: International solidarity movements in the Low Countries during the long twentieth century. New perspectives and themes.

WCML ebulletin with news from the Library and elsewhere.

The new issue of the review Migraciones e exilios is dedicated to the Republican Memories of Spanish Refugees in France.

See the attached PDF for the Table of Contents.

http://www.aemic.org/

Labor history has been said to be on the decline for some time. However, the foundation of a European Labor history network in Amsterdam in October 2013 as well as the large number of national labor history networks, with especially successful examples in India, Brazil and South Africa, shows that the field is vivid and growing.

52nd ITH Conference
Commodity Chains and Labour Relations
15-17 September 2016
Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr/Upper Austria
Conference language: German / English

CALL FOR PAPERS

Seth Siegelaub, the subject of a major retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam from 12 December 2015 to 17 April 2016, was closely acquainted with the International Institute of Social History (IISH). Since 1989, the IISH has housed one of Siegelaub’s characteristic projects: the International Mass Media Research Center (IMMRC) collection. Part of it is on show at the Stedelijk.

The legendary Mexican Suitcase containing Robert Capa’s Spanish Civil War negatives, considered lost since 1939, has recently been rediscovered and is exhibited here for the first time. The Suitcase is in fact three small boxes containing nearly 4,500 negatives, not only by Capa but also by his fellow photojournalists Chim (David Seymour) and Gerda Taro.

The Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs invites applications for travel grants of up to $1,000 as part of the 2016 Sam Fishman Travel Grant Program. The program provides research grant to support faculty, students, independent researchers, and union members to defray travel, lodging, food, and other costs to conduct research in the Reuther Library’s extensive labor collections. The award is named in honor of Sam Fishman, a former UAW and Michigan AFL-CIO leader and grants are given in support of projects relating to labor history.

The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH) at Harvard University identifies and supports outstanding scholars whose work responds to the growing interest in the encompassing study of global history. We seek to organize a community of scholars interested in the systematic scrutiny of developments that have unfolded across national, regional, and continental boundaries and who propose to analyze the interconnections—cultural, economic, ecological, political and demographic—among world societies.

Le syndicalisme Espagnol dans le cadre des relations internationales: le cas de l' Union Générale des Travailleurs (1888–1986)

Mardi 15 Décembre 2015 

Centre Universitaire Jean-François Champollion 

Albi - Auditorium 2

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