An International Conference at the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada)
March 12-14, 2009

Call for Papers

Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli - Newsletter n. 10 - 1 luglio 2008
Le novità della Fondazione e del sito
[url]http://www.fondazionefeltrinelli.it[/url]
============
Si informa che la sala di lettura della Fondazione sarà chiusa dal 5 agosto al 29 agosto 2008

IISH News Service July 1, 2008
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

New items on the IISH website in June 2008:

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/research/globlab-toronto.php[/url]
Summer Institute 'Transnational Labour, Transnational Methods' at the University of Toronto, co-sponsored by the IISH.

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/friends/meeting.php[/url]
Meeting of the Friends of the IISH on 3 July 2008.

Falling Behind or Catching Up? - The East German Economy in the 20th Century

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Berghoff, GHI Washington Dr. Uta Andrea Balbier, GHI Washington, Washington, DC 24.09.2009-26.09.2009, German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
Deadline: 15.08.2008

Falling Behind or Catching Up? - The East German Economy in the 20th Century

• Sociale fotografie: een digitale schenking van Brandpunt 23
• Opvallende aanwinst in de bibliotheek: 'De Kommunistische Arbeider'
• 120 jaar geleden werd voor het eerst 'De Internationale' gezongen
• Nog tot 25 juli! 'Van de Wolga tot de Oder', foto's van Alexander Ustinov in het Amsab-museum

Ingezonden

Transnational social policies reformist networks and the International Labour Organization 1900-1980
Prof. Sandrine Kott (Université Genève), Dr Isabelle Moret Lespinet (Université ParisX, IDHE)

15.05.2009-16.05.2009, Genf
Deadline: 30.09.2008

As the International Labour Organization (ILO) celebrates its 90th anniversary, the objective of this conference is to reflect upon the activities of the ILO and those of other international actors who have undertaken to organize and promote global social regulation.

Das Institut für soziale Bewegungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum plant, vom 2.-4. April 2009 eine wissenschaftliche Tagung zum Thema "Theoretische Ansätze und Konzepte der Sozialen Bewegungs-Forschung in den Geschichtswissenschaften" auszurichten. Übergeordnetes Ziel der Tagung ist es, Stand und Perspektiven der historischen Bewegungsforschung mit Blick auf theoretische und konzeptionelle Perspektiven zu diskutieren.

Peace HistoriansAnn: founding a European NetworkEuropean Network of Peace Historians

Aims

Müller, Reinhard: Marienthal. Das Dorf - Die Arbeitslosen - Die Studie. Innsbruck u.a.: StudienVerlag 2008. ISBN 978-3-7065-4347-7; Hardcover; 423 S.; EUR 39,90.

Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Jan Surman, Universität Wien
E-Mail: [mailto]jan.surman@univie.ac.at[/mailto]

The University of Illinois Press has just released Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture by Lawrence Richards. The book is part of the series "The Working Class in American History," edited by Alice Kessler-Harris, Nelson Lichtenstein, David Montgomery, and James Barrett.

The following description is from the University of Illinois website: