The symposium 'Moralizing Capitalism' addresses the impact of moral sentiments on capitalist society and vice versa. In the age of democratic revolutions, industrialisation and the consolidation of capitalism new and different religious and political-ethical movements gained in importance. They were articulated for example by Enlightenment thinkers or in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. 

 Le projet PAPRIK@2F (Portail Archives Politiques Recherches Indexation Komintern et Fonds français), dans le cadre de l’ANR CORPUS, vise à développer un programme de recherche permettant de mieux connaître le phénomène communiste dans ses dimensions française et internationale. Il est porté conjointement par la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Dijon et par les Archives nationales.

The recent attention for anarchist movements in the non-European world is very welcome, but it seems that this growing literature still need a complementary analysis of the attitudes of European anarchists towards the European colonies and the people who lived there.

CFP: Land reforms and peasant rebellions in world history, 18th-21st centuries, Session at the International Conference "Old and New Worlds: the Global Challenges of Rural History Lisbon" (27-30 January 2016)

Deadline: 15.04.2015

At http://ludditebicentenary.blogspot.nl/you can find a website on the bicentenary of the Luddite Uprising (1811-1817).
Almost every day, a news item from 200 years ago is featured. You can subscribe to these items by RSS or email - or follow the Luddite Bicentenary on Facebook or Twitter.

From http://ludditebicentenary.blogspot.nl/p/about.html:

La Fondazione di studi storici Filippo Turati e la Fondazione Giacomo Matteotti
(fondazione.turati@pertini.it) (info@fondazionematteottiroma.org)

annunciano

la pubblicazione del volume

MATTEOTTI 90 NELLE SCUOLE
I giovani e la lezione civile, morale e politica di un martire per la democrazia

Giacomo Matteotti 1924-2014

Roma - Firenze 2015

CeDInCI
Centro de Documentación e Investigación
de la Cultura de Izquierdas / UNSAM

tiene el agrado de invitar a la conferencia

El Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura

y las izquierdas latinoamericanas

a cargo de

Patrick Iber

1. Our popular free Invisible Histories talks are underway again in their usual Wednesday 2pm slot.
Wed 25 March ''Red Nelson": the English working class and the making of C.L.R. James - Christian Hogsbjerg
The ten months that the black Trinidadian writer C.L.R. James spent in the cotton textile town of Nelson in NE Lancashire from 1932-33 were 'ten months that shook his world'. This talk will discuss how James's experience in Nelson shaped his emergence as one of the most important socialist intellectuals in Britain during the Great Depression.

The Latin America and Caribbean Network on Labour History is a website that has been launched in three languages, English, Spanish and Portuguese.

The website aims to:

Veranstalter:

Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde e.V. und das Stadtmuseum Dresden in Zusammenarbeit mit der Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig, dem Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln und den Kunstsammlungen Zwickau

Gefördert von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft und der Sächsischen Landesstelle für Museumswesen

27. und 28. März 2015

im Stadtmuseum Dresden