Taking the Heat: The First Women Firefighters of New York City
Women’s History Month / Black History Month
Race and Gender in the NYC Fire Department
Screening: Taking the Heat: The First Women Firefighters of Nw York City
A film by Ban Roy, Narrated by Susan Sarandon
Speakers:
Captain Brenda Berkman, United Women Firefighters
Elbert Washington, Vulcan Society (African American Firefighters)
David L. Ransel. Village Mothers: Three Generations of Change in Russiaand Tataria. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000, 2005. 328 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-253-21820-9.
Reviewed for H-Women by Michelle DenBeste, Department of History, California State University, Fresno
The New Brunswick Labour History Project launches The Struggle against Wage Controls: The Saint John Story, 1975-1976 on Wednesday, 28 February, at 7 p.m. at the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John, New Brunswick. Written by veteran Saint John labour activist George Vair, the book is edited and introduced by David Frank, Professor of History at the University of New Brunswick. The evening is co-hosted by the Saint John District Labour Council and the New Brunswick Museum.
Plans for the annual workshop sponsored by the Canadian Committee on Labour History are now posted at [url]http://www.mun.ca/cclh/workshop.html[/url]. This year the event focuses on Saskatchewan labour history, and includes sessions on women, workers and the left, recent writings on Saskatchewan labour history, and labour in municipal politics; the program also includes music and a bus tour. The event is co-sponsored by the Society for Socialist Studies and the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour. The event is on Sunday 27 May 2007.
26th April 2007, 5.30pm, Durham University, UK
Roundtable on Raphael Samuel's The Lost World of British Communism (Verso, 2006) - a collection of the original articles from New Left Review, 1985-87.Speakers:
Kevin Morgan (Manchester): Histories of British Communism
Lawrence Black (Durham): The lost world of young Conservatism
Alison Light (Newcastle): discussant
Colloque international organisé par le Laboratoire Babel (Université du Sud Toulon-Var) et le Centre de recherche CIRCE (Université de Paris 3)
21, 22 et 23 mars 2007
UFR Lettres - Amphithéâtre Danielle Dumas (Y002), Bâtiment Y - Université du Sud Toulon-Var
Comité scientifique : Monique Léonard, Jean-Charles Vegliante, Isabelle Felici, Alain Morello
Comité d'organisation : Isabelle Felici, Alain Morello, Noëlle Breton, Martine Delapierre
The Fondazione Istituto Piemontese Antonio Gramsci
Patrocinio della Città di Torino
AnnouncesInternational Prize Giuseppe Sormani
For a work about Antonio Gramsci
Second Edition 2007
Judges: Aldo Agosti (president), Angelo D’Orsi, Romano Luperini, Robert Paris, Massimo Salvadori, Donald Sassoon, Franco Sbarberi
Regulations
Colloque international
Images et sons de mai 68 (1968-2008)
Organisé par le Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin), l’Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA), le Laboratoire Communication et politique (CNRS)
Paris, Institut national de l’audiovisuel
15, 16, 17 avril 2008
Appel à contribution
Date limite : 1er juin 2007
The Working Class Movement Library
Saturday 10th March 2007 2pm
Speakers: Nes Brierley, Bernadette Hyland, Imra Shoaib
Songs from Claire Mooney
plus exhibition, displays and refreshments. All welcome.
Nes is active in direct action and environmental campaigns
Imra is President of Oldham Trades Union Council
Bernadette has been active in Irish community campaigns
Claire is a singer songwriter from Manchester.
Frank Schauff: Der Spanische Bürgerkrieg. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2006. ISBN 978-3-8252-2790-6; 208 S.; 14,90 EUR
Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Sören Brinkmann, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von:
Sören Brinkmann, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
E-Mail: [mailto]Soeren.Brinkmann@wiso.uni-erlangen.de[/mailto]
