The Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre Annual General Meeting
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 5:30
Reading Room, Noel Butlin Archives Centre,
Menzies Library, Building 2,
corner of Garran and Fellows Roads
Australian National University
The annual conference of the Social History Society, University of Exeter, UK, 30 March - 1 April 2007, [url]http://www.socialhistory.org.uk/annualconference.htm[/url] is arranged around six broad themes, many of which offer scope for historians and kindred scholars of children and family. These are:
The Working Class Movement Library is mounting a small exhibition of material from the Spanish Civil War to mark the 70th anniversary of the conflict 1936-1939. Thousands of volunteers from Britain and many other countries went to Spain to defend the Republic against Franco and his allies Hitler and Mussolini.
The library can be contacted on 0161-736-3601, email: [mailto]enquiries@wcml.org.uk[/mailto]. Website: [url]http://www.wcml.org.uk[/url]
Class Matters: Working-Class Culture and Counter-Culture
CFP: Annual Conference of the Working-Class Studies Association
June 14-17, 2007
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
Dormitory housing available
From: Alex Prichard [mailto]A.Prichard@lboro.ac.uk[/mailto]
Report from the Anarchist Studies Network (formerly Specialist Group for the Study of Anarchism SGSA)
The UK Political Studies Association (PSA) Specialist Group for the study of anarchism (SGSA) has recently been renamed the Anarchist Studies Network (ASN). We thought we would take this opportunity to inform the broader anarchist academic community of our activities, the nature of the group and plans for the future.
See Le Courrier: un quotidien suisse d'information et d'opinion for an interesting article on our last meeting, written by Frédéric Deshusses, representing the Collège du Travail, Genève
Warm greetings
Marianne Enckell
CIRA Lausanne
[mailto]cira@plusloin.org[/mailto]
Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli - Newsletter 4 Oct 2006
Cultural Conflicts, Social Movements and New Rights: A European Challenge
XVII Cortona Colloquium
Cortona 20-22 Oct 2006
Download the programm of the colloquium from [url]http://www.feltrinelli.it/Fondazione/donwload/Cortona2006Progr.pdf[/url]
AK Press, [url]http://www.akpress.org/[/url], which is probably now the leading publisher of scholarly books on anarchism has added to its collections the remarkable works of Paul Avrich, the leading scholar on American anarchism. I will mention:
* Anarchist Voices: An Oral History Of Anarchism In America (Unabridged), 2005. Pb. ISBN: 1904859275.
La Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati" informa che è uscito il volume:
Andrea Ragusa, I linguaggi della politica contemporanea. Piero Lacaita Editore. Collana "Società e Cultura". pp. 288. Euro 20,00
Fondazione di Studi Storici "Filippo Turati"
Via M. Buonarroti, 13
50122 Firenze
E-mail: [mailto]fondazione.turati@pertini.it[/mailto]Pagine web: [url]http://www.pertini.it/turati.html[/url]
The ITH, the Austrian organization which since 1965 organizes annual labour-history conferences in the city of Linz, will change its course quite fundamentally. Originally founded as a neutral meeting place for labour historians from East and West during the Cold War, the collapse of East-European state socialism plunged [?] the ITH into a severe identity crisis. After years of debates and experiments the General Assembly now unanimously decided to implement a new approach. The essence of the organization's new profile was summarized in the following points:
