Gradnet e.V.; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 12.11.2011-13.11.2011,
Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Kochstraße 4, 91054 Erlangen
Deadline: 15.09.2011
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The Plekhanov House (Dom Plekhanova), the National Library of Russia department, is pleased to announce The Хth Plekhanov Conference on “Russia: A Focus of Nations and Crossroads of Civilizations”, to be held on 30 May – 1 June, 2012, and invites proposals for paper presentations and/or items of archival research, relating to the subject, for the first publication.
A special edition of the national magazine “The Historical Archive” (№2, April, 2012.) would cover the documentary materials at issue.
Paul Werner. The Red Museum. Art, economics and the ends of capital. New York: the Orange Press. 60 pp., hand-sewn paper binding.
First Museum, Inc. then Musée et Cie, then Museo, S.p.A., and finally my latest, The Red Museum, in which I further develop some ideas about a Marxist theory of art in praxis:
This issue of the ITH newsletter contains the invitation for the imminent (26 May, 18h) presentation of the publication of ITH's 2010 conference “Labour history beyond borders” in form of a panel discussion on “Global Commodity Chains and Production Networks in the Textile Industry” (in German language).
The newsletter further contains the provisional program of the coming 47th Linz conference: Is one world possible? Practices of “International Solidarity” and “International Development”. Applications for participation until 15 August 2011. Admission form attached!
Call for Papers for Conference of the Gesellschaft für Exilforschung e.V. in co-operation with the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, 23 - 25 March 2012
In the IISH series International and Comparative Social History, a new volume has just been published:
Kristoffel Lieten, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (eds), Child Labour's Global Past, 1650-2000. [International and Comparative Social History, vol 13.] Bern [etc.]: Peter Lang, 2011; ISBN 978-3-0343-0517-4, 714 pp.
CFP: Armut im Europa der Moderne. Mikroperspektiven auf Ausformungen des Sozialstaats im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert // Poverty in Modern Europe. Micro-perspectives on the Formation of the Welfare State in the 19th and 20th Centuries - London 05/12
Historical archival footage has been deposited at OSA by the Black Box Foundation. The material will soon be open for researchers. In conjunction with the event, OSA TV will broadcast on a weekly basis 90 documentary shorts of Black Box, as well as 6 to 8 minute excerpts from the recordings of the Opposition Roundtable negotiations in 1989.
Der Nachlass von Konradin Kreuzer (1921-2010)
Why?:
Over the past few years the history of popular protest, collective action and resistance in Britain and Ireland has undergone a renaissance. We now know much more about the Captain Swing riots, enclosure disputes, poor law debates, and a whole other range of protests and tactics used by the aggrieved and the subaltern. There are two distinctive elements of this new research:
