Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) courses taking place at PHM in 2015/2016
Workers' Educational AssociationPHM are delighted to be working with the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) to host a series of WEA courses. Booking is required through WEA, all course details are listed below.
WEA Course - Europe, Democracy and Citizenship in the 21st Century
Monday 21 September to Monday 30 November 2015 (Half Term break on Monday 26 October)
Exposición Julian Besteiro. 75 aniversario de su muerte (1940-2015)
Se cumple el 75 aniversario del fallecimiento de Julián Besteiro y desde la Fundación Largo Caballero y la UGT hemos querido recordar su figura con una exposición que se inaugurará en la Escuela Julián Besteiro, el viernes, 25 de septiembre a las 12:00 h. Nos gustaría mucho que pudieras acompañarnos.
Amsab-ISG Nieuwsbrief
10e jaargang, nr. 8, augustus 2015
Belgian refugees 14-18
In het kader van het project 'Aan de slag over het kanaal. Belgische vluchtelingen in Engeland tijdens WOI', verzamelen wij getuigenissen en foto's op belgianrefugees14-18.be
Verhalenverzameldag in het Red Star Line Museum
The International Institute of Social History (IISH) is looking for a Postdoc researcher and two PhD students for work within the ERC funded project on regional industrialization in Northwestern Europe and China, ca. 1800-present.
More information:
https://socialhistory.org/nl/jobs/vacancy-iish-postdoc-research-program…
[...] 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
