Rein van der Leeuw, director of the International Institute of Social History from 1974 until 1986, passed away on 6 September 2012.

The International Newsletter of Communist Studies Online ISSN 1862-698X

Dear Friends, Colleagues and Contributors,

We are proud to present the 2012 edition of The International Newsletter of Communist Studies Online.

Stiftung Ettersberg. Europäische Diktaturforschung - Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur - Gedenkstätte Andreasstraße; Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Thüringen 19.10.2012-20.10.2012, Weimar, Reithaus (Platz der Demokratie 5, 99425 Weimar)
Deadline: 11.10.2012

Archiv der sozialen Demokratie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung 21.09.2012-21.09.2012, Bonn
Deadline: 18.09.2012

Max Diamant - Sozialist, Exilant, Gewerkschafter

Internationales Symposium des Archivs der sozialen Demokratie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn, 21.09.2012

Dear colleagues,

Please find attached here the call for articles for a special issue on "New Perspectives on Global labour history" of the peer-reviewed international journal Workers of the World (http://www.workeroftheworldjournal.net).

The call for articles is open to PhD-, young- and senior researchers from all over the world.

The deadline for submission of the articles is 10th December 2012; articles will be published on line on 15th May 2013.

The University of Illinois Press is pleased to announce a new book in The Working Class in American History series:

"The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks"
By Timothy Messer-Kruse

Paper, ISBN: 978-0-252-07860-6 - $30.00
256 pages
Publication Date: August 27, 2012

List members will be interested in this well-crafted tribute to the late Michael Nash:

http://www.thevillager.com/?p=7062

Gail Malmgreen
Newark (NJ) Archives Project

[Cross-posted, with thanks, from H-Labor]

CFP: Actor-Networks between 'Global Markets' and the 'Nation', 1650-1950 - Berlin 08/13

Dr. Heather Ellis, Centre for British Studies, Dept. of History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Dr. des Simone Müller-Pohl, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Dept. of History, Freie Universität Berlin 01.08.2013-02.08.2013, Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Deadline: 31.10.2012

Book Ann: new edited book 'EU Labour Migration in Troubled Times: Skills Mismatch, Return and Policy Responses'

Dear colleagues,

We would like to inform you about our new edited book on 'EU Labour Migration in Troubled Times: Skills Mismatch, Return and Policy Responses'.

Debat "Macht in de marge?"

Op maandag 10 september organiseert Amsab-ISG in het Vlaams Parlement het debat Macht in de marge? Gemeentepolitiek in Vlaanderen, over het functioneren van de democratie op lokaal vlak. Dat naar aanleiding van de inventarisatie van het omvangrijke archief van Norbert De Batselier.