International Conference:
Migrant Labour in Southeast Asia: Needed, Not Wanted
to be held at
Faculty of Economics, Business and Law
The University of New England,
Armidale, Australia
1-3 December, 2003

First Circular and Call for Papers

Invitation

The Conference conveners cordially invite you to participate in an international conference Migrant Labour in Southeast Asia: Needed, Not Wanted, to be held at The University of New England from 1-3 December, 2003.

Conference Theme

Call for Papers

The Chinese Historical Review (ISSN 10043-643X) invites manuscripts of original research, reviews, and research notes concerning all aspects and time periods of Chinese history, China-foreign relations, and the Chinese diaspora. Manuscripts with comparative perspectives on history are also welcome.

Richard Lawton and Robert Lee, eds. Population and Society in Western European Port Cities, c. 1650-1939. Liverpool Studies in European Population, vol. 2. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2002. xvi + 385 pp. Tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $75.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-85323-435-3; $28.95 (paper), ISBN 0-85323-907-X.

We Were All Slaves: African Miners, Culture and Resistance at the Enugu Government Colliery, Nigeria
Carolyn Brown (Carolyn Brown is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Jersey)
Series: Social History of Africa
Series Editors: Allen Isaacman and Jean Allman

Jan T. Gross. Revolution from Abroad: the Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorusssia. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 2002. xxiv + 396 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $44.89 (cloth). ISBN 0-691-09603-1.

Reviewed for H-RUSSIA by Johanna Granville, Hoover Institution, Stanford University (May 2003).

Occupation by a Spoiler State: the Soviet Takeover of Eastern Poland (1939-1941)

At the ESSHC in Berlin 2004 a session on Horse-racing, Gambling and the Working-Class will be arranged. At the moment only Swedish people have made paper proposals. However, it would be fruitful to have papers from other countries as well. Therefore, we invite people interested in the topic to make paper proposals. Deadline is 15 May.

Mats Greiff
Mats.Greiff@lut.mah.se

XIIIth International Oral History Conference
Rome, Italy, 23-26 June 2004

Call for Papers

FELLOWSHIPS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES 2004-2005

Twenty Years On! The Great Miners Strike in Historical and International Perspective

Saturday November 1st 2003
Institute of Historical Research
Malet St, London

March 2004 marks the twentieth anniversary of the start of the 1984/5 British miners strike, one of the great labour struggles of the second half of the twentieth century.

The 39th conference organized by the International Conference of Labour and Social History and the Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria will be held in Linz, Austria, on September 11-14, 2003. Its topic is 'Labour and New Social Movements in a Globalizing World System'.

The conference program is now available and may be ordered from christine.schindler@doew.at. The conference website is at www.ith.or.at.