Femmes de l'immigration pour l'égalité et contre les discriminations, 1970-1996

A travers des documents d’archives originaux, cette exposition permet de retracer l’histoire des femmes issues de l’immigration qui, à travers leurs combats, ont contribué à promouvoir l’égale dignité de toutes et tous de 1970 jusqu’au milieu des années 1990. Arrivées en France comme étudiantes, immigrées économiques qualifiées ou non-qualifiées, exilées politiques, ou dans le cadre du regroupement familial, les femmes de l’immigration, parce que femmes et étrangères, ont subi de multiples discriminations tant en raison de leur genre que de leur origine et de leur situation familiale.

Visegrad Scholarship at the Open Society Archives

OSA and the Visegrad Fund are inviting applicants for the 2014/2015 academic year, who are interested in working on specific aspects of the following broader research themes. All the proposed research topics are related to the diverse problems of the archive (“archive” both as a concept, a notion and idea, and “archive” as physical repositories having, intellectually interesting specificities as well).

Archival Finding Aids Labour Movement Library and Archive (Copenhagen) online

The Danish Arbejderbevægelsens Bibliotek og Arkiv (Labour Movement Library and Archive) has finished the online publication of its archival finding aids.

ABA is the central archival depository of workers’ and employees’ organizations and the of left-of-centre political parties in Denmark. The Archive collects material from national and local organizations as well as personal archives. Today the holdings include 2,500 organizational archives and 275 personal archives. 

For more information (in Danish):

Amsab Newsletter

Amsab Nieuwsbrief, 9e jaargang, nr. 9, juli 2014

Jean Jaurès 100 jaar geleden vermoord
Honderd jaar geleden, op 31 juli 1914, werd de Franse socialist en pacifist Jean Jaurès vermoord. Hij streefde naar een grote solidaire beweging tegen de oorlog en voor de vrede. En is hiermee nog steeds prangend actueel. We maakten een montage over zijn leven.

Marx’s Capital. An Unfinished and Unfinishable Project?

All of Marx’s previously unpublished economic manuscripts have now become available in the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA), the historical-critical edition of the complete writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It now becomes clear that Marx’s Capital was an unfinished project for good reasons. Marx was constantly exploring new subjects, revising his earlier results, and reformulating Capital’s first volume in several editions after it had been published in 1867.

Summer Academy re:work in 2015: "Work in Post-Slavery Societies: Gender and Generations"

The international research centre IGK Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History (Humboldt-Universitdt zu Berlin) and the University Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar, Senegal will hold a Summer Academy entitled Work in Post-Slavery Societies: Gender and Generations. The event will take place from 26 January to 1 February 2015 in Dakar.