ELHN

18th Contact Day Jewish Studies on the Low Countries
Institute of Jewish Studies - University of Antwerp, Tuesday 12 May 2026

We are pleased to invite you to the launch of Labour’s Memory. This new international initiative opens up the rich archival heritage of the labour movement, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

Call for Papers
Conference: “Transition and Renewal: Progressive Utopias and Leftist Reorientation, 1970s–1990s”
Date: 12–14 May, 2027, Venue: University of Copenhagen
Organizers: Knud Andresen (Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg), Mads Jedzini (University of Copenhagen), Detlef Siegfried (University of Copenhagen)

Vulnerability and Power in Late Antiquity (4th-9th centuries)
Second International Postgraduate Conference of the Ghent Centre for Late Antiquity (GCLA) 
27-29 April 2026, Ghent (BE)

Understanding the dynamics of vulnerability and power is important for the study of any period, not least for Late Antiquity (broadly defined here as spanning the fourth to ninth centuries, across a wide geographical scope), where we see significant negotiations of power in a time of great transformation.

Publication, discount until 7 November 2025

The volume Working in Greece and Turkey. A comparative labour history from Empires to nation-states, 1840-1940, eds. Leda Papastefanaki & M. Erdem Kabadayi, (Series: International Studies in Social History, Vol. 33, New York/Oxford: Berghahn, 2020) has a 35% discount on the occasion of the 2nd International Conference "From Tobacco Workers' Movements to Contemporary Social Movements" (Kavala, Greece, 18-19 October 2025).

How did deindustrialisation change local communities at the end of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21th century?
Call for papers of the ELHN Working Group Memory and Deindustrialisation for the 6th ELHN Conference, 16-19 June 2026, Barcelona

Organizers: Irene Diaz, Tibor Valuch

6th European Labour History Network Conference
Barcelona 4-6 September 2026

Session 40:
Gateways to Work in Urban Spaces: Women’s Strategies, Networks, Institutions, and Mobilities (18th–20th Century)

Connecting ethnographies:
Working-class anthropology in Central and Eastern Europe from the end of the Second World War till today 

Call for paper of WG Workers, Labour and Labour History in Modern Central-East Europe for 6th ELHN Conference, 16-19 June, Barcelona

Organizers: Eszter Bartha, Tibor Valuch

CfP 6th ELHN 2026
Working Group Speak, Look, Listen! The Cultural Production of Work
Co-operation, Cultural Production and the Labour Movement

For the 6th ELHN conference we are inviting individual papers and session proposals on the theme of co-operation and cultural production within the labour movement from the C19th to the present day. In particular, we welcome proposals which address the following key questions:

Call for Papers
European Labour History Network Conference 2026 – Barcelona
Session: “Extractive Industry under Dictatorship in the 20th Century: Social, Political and Environmental Issues”
Organizers: Labour in Mining Working Group

The mining sector occupied a central role in shaping the economic, political, and social history of many countries throughout the 20th century. As a strategic industry, mining was closely tied to national development agendas, regimes of labour control, environmental transformations, and the consolidation of state power.