[...] The congress aims to present and analyse actors, forms and practices of global solidarity networks in the context of social, cultural and humanitarian movements of the 20th Century. Among others, the congress will look at collective biographies and the imagining of a ’cultural international’, the role of media and aesthetic mediums; questions that already during the interwar period were expressed in the Solidarity Song (Solidaritätslied) by Brecht and Eisler: ”Whose tomorrow is tomorrow, whose world is the world?” („Wessen Morgen ist der Morgen, wessen Welt ist die Welt?“).

The IISH conducts advanced research on the global history of work, workers, and labour relations and to this end gathers data, which are made available to other researchers as well.

As of December 1st, 2015, there will be an opening in the research department of the IISH for a

Post-doc (m/f)
(28,5 hours a week (0,75 fte), location: IISH)
For a period of 29 months

Marx & Engels papers completely available online

Keir Hardie centenary conference - booking now open

Saturday 26 September 2015 will mark the centenary of the death of James Keir Hardie at the comparatively young age of 59. But in those 59 years Hardie had changed the political landscape of Britain. This conference, which takes place at WCML, aims to celebrate the impact Hardie had on British society and the legacy he left for those who followed.

Programme

27. August 2015, 19.00 Uhr: Utopien revisited

Im Schnellgang durch 200 Jahre anderes Leben

Alternative Formen des Zusammenlebens und der Gemeinschaft haben eine lange
Tradition. Woher kommt die Sehnsucht nach dem Andern? Welche Versuche scheitern? Welche Experimente haben Erfolg?
In der dreiteiligen Eröffnungsveranstaltung soll es darum gehen, die theoretischen
Grundlagen für alternative Gemeinschaften zu umreissen und einige Beispiele
vorzustellen.

Referenten:
Christian Koller
Andreas Schwab
Damir Skenderovic

Leon Fink seminar at the University of Melbourne
Neo-Liberalism Before Its Time: Free Trade and Social Democracy in the Era of the ‘Great Compression’, 1945-1972

22 September 2015 at 5pm – South Lecture Theatre, Old Arts, University of Melbourne

The social history of Iberian America and the Philippines, when they belonged to the Spanish Empire, is a broad field of interest that has often been underrepresented in the academic world. In fact, most programs of seminars or publications with a social perspective focus on the period after independence, and concentrate on industrial development, urban expansion, syndicalism and socialism. There are no real intellectual reasons for this limitation.

Call for Papers: Arbeitsmigration: Frauen, Männer, Familie und die Ziegler aus Lippe
Archivmaterial, historische Erkenntnisse und neue Forschungsimpulse

Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen (LAV NRW), Abteilung Ostwestfalen-Lippe und Internationales Institut für Sozialgeschichte Amsterdam

25-26 November 2015, Detmold, Landesarchiv NRW Abt. OWL, Willi-Hofmann-Str. 2, 32756 Detmold

40th Anniversary Conference
Lancaster University, 21-23 March 2016

The annual Social History Society Conference is the largest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK. Over the last four decades, our members have transformed historical research, inspired challenging work and explored the many ways in which our social worlds are made, imagined, shared and shattered.

CfP International Workshop Chronologies of Labour
Date: 1 September 2015
Location: Noida, India
International Workshop Chronologies of 'Labour': a Global Perspective, to be held 22–23 January 2016, at the Giri National Labour Institute, Noida, India

NB Proposals for papers (including an abstract of maximum 1,000 words) should be emailed to Prof. Ravi Ahuja, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Göttingen, rahuja1@gwdg.de (link sends e-mail) by 1 September 2015.