The Social Science History Association (SSHA) is accepting poster, paper, and panel session proposals for its 28th annual meeting, to be held at the Wyndham-Baltimore Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland, from November 13-16, 2003. The labor network co-chairs, Richard Greenwald (greenwaldr@usmma.edu) and Gerry Ronning (gerr75@aol.com) especially invite papers dealing with any aspect of labor or working class history.
States and Social Transformation in Postwar Eastern Europe, 1945-1965
24-26 April 2003
The Open University Conference Centre
354-355 Gray's Inn Road
London WC1, United Kingdom
A two-day conference to be held at the Centre for Metropolitan History, Senate House, London
Friday 31 October - Saturday 1 November 2003
Call for Papers
Labour Heritage
Annual General Meeting Conference
Saturday, 22 March 2003
10 am - 4 pm
Women's Library
Old Castle St, London E1
Programme
The Conference will examine the relationship and role of women in the labour movement and the Labour Party.
Speakers include:
Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World
edited by Donna Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta
(University of Toronto Press, 2002)
Book Party
Come celebrate the publication of this anthology and join us for an evening of conversation on Italian women's labor activism and political radicalism around the world.
Friday, February 7, 2003 at 6:00pm
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò
New York University
24 West 12th Street (off 6th Ave)
New York City
212-998-8728
Jack Barkstrom, Poverty, Wealth, Dictatorship, Democracy: Resource Scarcity and the Origins of Dictatorship. Golden, CO: Pericles Press, 2002. v + 535 pp. $21.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-9610224-0-x.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Peter Baofu, Political Science, Eastern New Mexico University (January 2003).
Introduction:
Readers might be interested in the review by Alain Lauzanne of:
Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography
June Purvis
London & New York: Routledge, 2002.
on www.cercles.com/review/r7/purvis.html
Antoine Capet antoine.capet@laposte.net
Université de Rouen
Political Economy Research in Soviet Archives
www.soviet-archives-research.co.uk
New On-Line Guide to Russian Archives
M.J. Berry and M.J. Ilic, Using the Russian Archives: an Informal Practical guide for Beginners Based on Users' Experience. British Academic Committee for Collaboration With Russian Archives, in association with the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham.
The Society for the Study of Working-Class Literature call for papers for sessions at the 2003 American Literature AssociationConference May 22-25, 2003, Cambridge, MA.
The newly-formed Society for the Study of Working-Class Literature welcomes proposals for papers and panels at the 2003 ALA Association addressing any aspect of working-class literature.
For more information, and to join the Society's electronic mailing list, go to: groups.yahoo.com/group/workingclasslit.
The Praxis Research and Education Centre
International research-practical conference
The anti-totalitarian left, past and future
Moscow, 21-22 June 2003
This conference is being organised to coincide with the re-opening of Moscow’s library of democratic and libertarian socialism, the Victor Serge Library.
The purpose of the conference is to discuss the historical experience of, and perspectives for development of, the social, political and intellectual tendencies comprising the anti-totalitarian left in Russia and internationally.
