CFP: James Keir Hardie, 15 August 1856-26 September 1915

James Keir Hardie, 15 August 1856-26 September 1915: a one-day public conference at the Working Class Movement Library - CALL FOR PAPERS

Keynote Speaker: Professor David Howell, University of York

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.

Unofficial Histories 2015 Conference: Programme and Registration

HISTORIES ON THE FRINGES AND BETWEEN THE MARGINS

Unofficial Histories is a public conference to discuss how society produces, presents, and consumes history beyond official and elite versions of the past.

It aims brings together those who wish to consider historical engagements and understandings that take place within, on the edges of, or outside “official” sites that produce and transmit historical knowledge and ideas.

Roll up, roll up! The fourth annual Unofficial Histories conference will take place in Amsterdam over two days:

Vº ENCUENTRO DE INVESTIGADORE/AS SOBRE ANARQUISMO

Desde aquella primera reunión en 2007 se han multiplicado los trabajos relacionados con el anarquismo y su presencia en Argentina y en otros países de América Latina. En estos pocos años se digitalizaron y compartieron cientos de archivos, se escribieron varias tesis y se publicaron decenas de libros y artículos.

La quinta edición de nuestros encuentros es una excelente oportunidad para hacer un balance. Es por eso que lo/as invitamos a encontrarnos nuevamente el SÁBADO 13 DE JUNIO DE 2015 en la sede del CeDInCI (Fray Luis Beltrán 125, Flores, Buenos Aires).

Working Class Movement Library - Activities April-May 2015

The final free talk in our Invisible Histories series is by Sheila Cohen on Wednesday 22 April at 2pm - Notoriously militant: the story of a union branch at Ford Dagenham.
Sheila Cohen's book Notoriously militant, based on original research and oral history, covers the history of Ford's Dagenham plant - and its roots in Henry Ford's early US activities - from 20th century shop floor struggles to the 21st century fight against plant closure.

CFP: Moralizing Capitalism: Agents, Discourses and Practices of Capitalism and its Opponents in the Modern Age

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. Thus, new conceptions of morality emerged during this period.