CfP: Use and Reuse of Paper in the Pre-Industrial World

University College Cork, 27-28 August 2024

After the material turn in the Arts & Humanities, the use and reuse of objects has gained more scholarly attention. We would like to strengthen the change of focus to later stages in the life cycle of paper and to non-text-bearing objects by hosting the colloquium "Use and Reuse of Paper in the Pre-Industrial World" in Cork, Ireland, 27-28 August 2024.

Protect Our Rights To Protect Our Patients: Celebrating 50 Years of the Health Professionals and Allied Employees (HPAE), AFT, 1974 - 2024

Exhibit on view January 10th - April 20th, 2024

Featuring labor union memorabilia, union contracts, historic photographs, union publications, strike placards and more from the collection of the HPAE and union members, this exhibit highlights historic events and achievements of the largest union of registered nurses and healthcare professionals in New Jersey.

CfA: Histories of Migration - Transatlantic and Global Perspectives

The Young Scholars Forum at the GHI Pacific Office Berkeley is an annual program designed to bring together a diverse group of approximately ten scholars based in Germany, Europe, North America, and beyond to explore new research in the history of migration. The 2024 Forum focuses on the intersection of migration and gender and sexuality studies looking into the potential of gender-based analyses and queer historical perspectives on migration experiences

Call for Chapter Submissions – Yearbook for the History of Global Development Volume: Development and Transition: International Organizations and Post-Socialist Eurasia

The Yearbook for the History of Global Development (YHGD) is inviting submissions for a volume dedicated to the history of international organizations and their role in the post-socialist world. The purpose of the volume Development and Transition is to historicize the period of the “transition” in Eurasia across the 1989/1991 divide.

CfP: Labor Migration and Commodity Production in Africa: Global Entanglements

This Special Issue intends to bring together studies on labor migration that focus on the agency of labor migrants in transforming connections between Africa and elsewhere. Its objective is to pinpoint how the making of these connections often hinged on the circulation of men and women engaged in commodity production/extraction for long-distance trading at a global scale.

Götz Langkau (1935–2024)

On 9 January 2024, we received the sad news that Götz Langkau had passed away. Although many people knew that he had not been doing well in recent years, the news came as a shock. Götz belonged to a generation of IISH staff that restored the profile of the Institute, especially through his contributions to scholarly source publications.

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