The Sovietization of the Baltic States 1940-56
International Workshop
9-11 May 2003
Haapsalu, Estoniap

Call for Papers

After the occupation and annexation of the Baltic States in 1940 there started a long lasting process of sovietization until the regaining of independence in 1991. The goal of the workshop is to bring together scholars from the Baltic States, the West and Russia to discuss different aspects of the sovietization. The papers will be published later. Languages of the workshop are English and German.

Five sessions are planned:

Scienza e politica in Amadeo Bordiga (1910-1970)
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università degli Studi di Milano, 24-25 ottobre

Al Convegno parteciperanno relatori di tutte le nazionalità. L'iniziativa, che riceve i contributi del CNR, è patrocinata dal Dipartimento di Scienze della Storia e della Documentazione storica dell'Università degli Studi di Milano, dal Dipartimento di Filosofia Politica dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli e dalla Fondazione Amadeo Bordiga.

The Tamiment Library is holding a reception on October 14, 2002 at 6:30 p.m. to celebrate the new book The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s, just published by the University of California Press. The book, edited by Robert Cohen and Reginald Zelnick, contains essays from participants on both sides of the debate and reflections by historians. Speaking about the book at the Tamiment Library will be editor Robert Cohen along with contributors Margot Adler and Greil Marcus.

Fifth European Social Science History Conference
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
24-27 March 2004

Call for Papers

The ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions.

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Historische en sociologische benaderingen van Nieuwe Sociale Bewegingen

Wanneer : vrijdag 22 november 2002

Waar: Congreszaal van de Kamer van Volksvertegenwoordigers en de Senaat, Leuvenseweg 21, 1000 Brussel

Een volledig programma en inschrijvingsformulier vindt u op: www.odis.be.

Hagley Fellows' Conference, March 28-29, 2003
Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware
Call for Papers

The Hagley Fellows at the University of Delaware invite paper proposals for "Reinventing the Factory," the 2003 Hagley Fellows' Conference. Amy Slaton, Professor of History at Drexel University and author of Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900-1930 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), will give the keynote address.

Nelson Lichtenstein, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xi + 336 pp. $29.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 0-691-05768-0.

Reviewed for EH.NET by Walter Licht, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania.

The Essex County Labour Party and Labour Heritage are jointly sponsoring a Conference on the history of the Labour Movement in Essex on Saturday, 26 October, 2002, from 10.30am to 4.00pm at the Labour Hall, Collingwood Road, Witham, Essex.

John Kotz, Chair of the County Labour Party will take the chair.

PROGRAMME

* The publication of the online version of The International Newsletter of Communist Studies, beginning with the 2001 issue which should have been realized three months after the publication of the paper version was delayed because of technical problems at the publishing house.

Working-Class Studies:
Intersections with Race, Gender, and Sexuality

The Sixth Biennial Conference of the Center for Working-Class Studies At Youngstown State University Co-sponsored by the Race, Gender, Class Project of Southern University of New Orleans
May 14-17, 2003, Youngstown, Ohio

Call for Papers