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The Herder Institute Summer Academy invites Early Career Researchers, including Advanced Master Students, Ph.D. Students, and Early Postdocs, to participate in a workshop dealing with the East and Central European diaspora’s experiences of collecting, archiving, and publishing in exile.

East and Central European Cultures in Exile. Archiving, Collecting, and Publishing in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

The Herder Institute Summer Academy invites Early Career Researchers, including Advanced Master Students, Ph.D. Students, and Early Postdocs, to participate in a workshop dealing with the East and Central European diaspora’s experiences of collecting, archiving, and publishing in exile. Eastern Europe can be characterized by constant flux, with peoples, objects, andinstitutions undergoing continuous movement. From the late nineteenth century through periods of wars, revolutions, and the Cold War, various social, ethnic, religious, and political groups were compelled to migrate and exile due to poverty, catastrophes of the twentieth century, aspirations for better lives, and sometimes escaping prosecution for both trumped-up accusation and actual WWII crimes. Mass migration entails the establishment of cultural institutions in new environments, including archives, libraries, and publishing houses, which serve as mediators between cultures and their bearers, both within and outside their respective countries.

Suppressed under socialism, East European cultures sought avenues to the „free world,“ yet they were influenced by the ideological confrontation between East and West. Along with opposing the unfreedoms of Socialism in their native countries and on the global scale, publishing activities in the diaspora could include the dissemination of far-right and radical nationalist ideas. Furthermore, conflicts, recriminations, suspicions, and financial quarrels were not rare and they occupied a visible place in émigré publications. How can we critically engage with this heritage while paying attention to its diversity and historical significance?

The Summer Academy will delve into the publishing and collecting initiatives that emerged across Europe and the world following World War II, continuing into the late 1980s.

Equally crucial is the issue of preservation and accessibility, which can be facilitated through digitization. However, the challenge lies in how to approach and digitally connect the scattered multicultural and multilingual collections.

Against the backdrop of Russia’s ongoing aggressive war in Ukraine and mounting repressions in Belarus and Russia, East European cultures find themselves once again facing exile and emigration, while the Cold War experience of émigré activities at archiving, collecting, and publishing regain its relevance.

With its extensive archival materials, including the unique Urbańczyk collection of the Polish underground press from the era of Solidarność, the newspaper clippings archive from the Cold War period, and the comprehensive periodicals archive covering Eastern and Central Europe, the Herder Institute provides an exceptional foundation for this thematic focus, which will be explored through various theoretical and practical thematic units.

We invite submissions for 10-15 Minutes Paper presentations on the topics, including, but not limited to:
- Publishing Houses in exile: national and transnational perspectives
- The variety of émigré and publishing and collecting activities and how they affect the production of knowledge on Eastern Europe during the Cold War and after
- (Re)creation of national cultures in exile Intercultural connections and collections in the diasporas
- New and old diasporas’ approaches to publishing and collecting: continuity or rupture?
- The role of digital publishing and archiving techniques for enhancing access to émigré collections and archives

Send your exposé (approx. 300 words) and a short CV to
forum@herder-institut.de
until April 30, 2024.
Accomodation for selected participants will be provided and travel costs up to 250 Euro (EU), 500 Euro (Non-EU), 800 Euro (overseas travels) can be covered upon request.

Kontakt

Dr. Tatsiana Astrouskaya (tatsiana.astrouskaya@herder-institut.de), Dr. Denisa Nešťáková (denisa.nestakova@herder-institut.de)

https://www.herder-institut.de/event/call-for-papers-east-and-central-european-cultures-in-exile/

The Women, Gender & Sexuality Network of the SSHA calls for papers and panels for the 50th annual meeting of the Social Science History Association in Toronto CA from Oct. 31- Nov. 3, 2024.

Trust and Distrust of Historical Sources in the Digital Age

The Women, Gender and Sexuality Network of the Social Science History Association calls for papers and panels for the 50th annual meeting in Toronto, CA from Oct. 31 -Nov. 3, 2024.

This year's theme is "Trust and Distrust of Historical Sources in the Digital Age" but all Social Science History themes from a gender and sexuality perspective welcome.

50th SSHA in Toronto 2024
31 October – 3 November 2024

Submission Deadline: 23 February 2024

Official CfP “Trust and Distrust of Historical Sources in the Digital Age”: https://ssha.org/files/2024_SSHA_CFP.pdf

Call for WGS panels and critics:

Halloween: creepy, scary, sexy?
Evil clowns can be creepy, witches can be scary, but Halloween can also be sexy. In this panel we are looking for papers with sex/gender/queer perspectives on Halloween. Your contribution can be about nearly anything - costumes, histories, data, media representation, fantasies and more - as long as the audience is getting goosebumps.

Possible panel themes:
- 50 years of SSHA: Looking back at how Women Gender and Sexuality Studies evolved at SSHA and beyond, and at how WGS scholarship has been repeatedly challenged from within.
- Perceptions of women in seminal literary works (current to 50 years ago, with focus on different geographical areas).
- Revisiting digital humanities (e.g. born digital histories of women in the Red Power movement).
- Halloween related themes, e.g. histories of witchcraft, witches in popular culture, burning witches’ tropes, Walpurgis Night, Baba Yaga, The Little Witch by Otfried Preussler, esoterisms; gender and queer histories of costumes and dressing up and/as gender, etc.).
- Gender relations in visual and performing arts institutions (e.g. gender relations behind and on the stage of the theater).
- Cultural & science histories of the body or body parts: breast? vulva? hymen?
- Sexualities

Possible roundtable themes:
- Trust and distrust in digital sources in Women, Gender and Sexuality studies.
- Similarities and Differences of “Anti-Intellectual”, “Ani-Gender”, “Anti-Critical-Race”, “Anti-Postcolonial”, “Anti-Woke” and “Cancel Culture”-debates and movements in Europe, North America and beyond.

How to submit:
- We encourage you to organize a full panel (3-4 papers, optional discussant), but individual papers will be accepted as well. You may also submit “Author meets Critics”-sessions or roundtables.
- Send paper abstracts to network representatives or submit directly to conference. If you submit a panel, we need a panel title, names, affiliation and email of authors, abstracts of each planned paper as well as the names of discussants and chairs.
- We are happy to help you find/contact scholars as authors, discussants and chairs.

Please reach out to the WGS network chairs:
Jadwiga, Martin, and Dominique

dominique.grisard@unibas.ch
jadwiga@u.arizona.edu
martin.goessl@fh-joanneum.at

Kontakt

Women, Gender and Sexuality Network representatives (Dominique.grisard@unibas.ch)

https://ssha.org

Call for Abstracts
Punish and Rehabilitate through Work: Institutions, Discourses, and Agency in Central, Eastern, and Western Europe at the End of the 19th and in the first half of the 20th century

Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, GWZO
German Historical Institute Warsaw
Faculty of Humanities, Charles University

Date: November 13–15, 2024

Punish and Rehabilitate through Work: Institutions, Discourses, and Agency in Central, Eastern, and Western Europe at the End of the 19th and in the first half of the 20th century

Workhouse, house of correction, reformatory, forced labour colony, disciplinary labour camp, etc. – these are only a few designations of the disciplinary institutions that proliferated across Eastern, Central, and Western Europe during the late 19th and in the first half of the 20th century. These disciplinary institutions served a dual purpose of confinement as well as correction. Behind their walls or within their compounds, citizens who deviated from the prevailing middle-class norms of “proper work” and “decent behaviour” were confined as well as corrected by making use of their labour. The declared aim of such institutions, whose tradition dates back to the early modern period, was therefore not only to punish individuals whose mobility, livelihood and other types of conduct were criminalised, but also to turn “alcoholics”, “beggars”, “delinquents”, “pimps”, “prostitutes”, and “vagrants”, to name only a few groups who were targeted, into “orderly citizens”.

The majority of existing research has focused on the 18th and 19th centuries and the role of the continental as well as the English workhouse in Western Europe in relation to nascent capitalism. Therefore, shifting the focus on the late 19th and the first half of the 20th century opens up new possibilities for inquiring into the continuities and discontinuities of the practices and functions of previously established or newly created disciplinary institutions that were intended to provide additional punishment while simultaneously correcting the allegedly deviant subjects through labour. In particular, the regions of Central and Eastern Europe underwent significant political, social and economic development during this period. This development included the transition from semi-peripheral regions of empires to nation-states and many turbulent transformations of political regimes, encompassing liberal and popular democracies, authoritarian regimes as well as Nazi and state-socialist dictatorships. The political transformations often went hand in hand with significant economic fluctuations, such as the Great Depression or the two world conflicts. In addition, various social and penal reforms were introduced during this period, which had serious repercussions on the idea of who and how should be punished and/or rehabilitated through work.

In this workshop, we aim to bring together scholars from various fields, mainly experts in the history of social policies, history of convict or forced labour, histories of diverse marginalised or criminalised groups, history of criminology and penal law, and history of prisons and prison reform. Our intention is to explore the locally diverse disciplinary institutions such as continental workhouses, reformatories for young offenders, forced labour camps, etc. from various perspectives. These institutions could be located at the nexus of confinement, labour, and rehabilitation. They were embedded in a wider net of penal, social and economic measures and at the same time debated in expert circles as well as on the pages of the popular press. We also want to overcome the fact that the historiography of these various institutions remains very much focused on Western Europe, captive to national narratives, mostly overlooking institutions designed for women and often fragmented among a variety of research perspectives that overlap with each other only sporadically. Finally, in order to see possible innovations in this research field, we want to discuss the existing concepts (including disciplination, forced labour, and convict labour) that serve to interpret the meaning of these institutions and the methods and sources which could be used in order to reconstruct the everyday life of men and women assigned to these institutions as well as to re-examine the institutions’ role in confining specific groups of inhabitants, namely the Roma and Sinti.

Issues we would like contributors to address in the workshop are:

1. INSTITUTIONS AND ACTORS
What functions did these disciplinary institutions perform in the broader context of social processes of exclusion and inclusion?
How did the constitutive tension between the rehabilitation and confinement of inmates affect the position of these institutions within gradually diverging systems of punishment and social welfare?
Which actors (e.g. different bodies of the state, municipalities, churches, private companies etc.) were involved in different aspects of these institutions and in which ways?

2. IDEAS AND PRACTICES
How to interpret the relationship between the diverse contemporary discourses of rehabilitation and punishment, and the changing practice of the disciplinary institutions such as continental workhouses, forced labour camps and reformatories?
What role did the disciplinary institutions play in the discourses and imaginations of social outcasts, especially those who were labelled as “Gypsies”?
Did these popular as well as expert ideas and discourses shape the practice?

3. INMATES AND STAFF
Who actually were the people confined in these institutions, in terms of their age, gender, class, professions, ethnicity, nationality, etc.?
Why were they confined and in what ways were they deemed to need reforming?
Who was recruited as staff in the disciplinary institutions and how?

4. LABOUR AND ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY
What kinds of labour were used to correct male and female convicts and what concepts (e.g. forced labour or convict labour) could be used in order to capture the complexities of penal and economic goals?
How were the inmates’ conditions negotiated in relation to the labour market, wages, etc. in the outside world?

5. EVERYDAY LIFE AND METHODOLOGY
What were the living conditions and everyday life of the inmates and how did the everyday life of male and female convicts differ?
How were the social hierarchies and order negotiated by the inmates and the staff?
What types of sources and methods can be used in order to reconstruct everyday life and to capture the agency of the inmates and how?

6. (DIS-)CONTINUITIES
How did these disciplinary institutions change over time?
What role did the agency of inmates play in particular?
How were they influenced by political development of the state or local administrations?
We especially welcome scholars who deal with these topics in the context of Central and Eastern Europe and/or apply innovative qualitative and/or quantitative methods and approaches.
Our plan is to publish an edited volume.

Workshop language: English.

Organisers:
Pavel Baloun (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences / Faculty of Humanities, Charles University)
Lucie Dušková (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, GWZO)
Jaromír Mrňka (German Historical Institute Warsaw)
Klára Pinerová (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Jiří Smlsal (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Deadlines:
- Abstract Submission (max. 300 words with short bio): April 4, 2024
- Communicating Acceptance: April 22, 2024. Selected participants will be invited to submit a paper of 3,000–5,000 words as a basis for the book chapter.
- Paper Submission: September 30, 2024
- Submit Abstracts to prworkshop2024@hiu.cas.cz

Venue: Prague.

Keynote Speaker:
Sigrid Wadauer (University of Vienna)

Kontakt

prworkshop2024@hiu.cas.cz

Barcelona, 12-13 December 2024

This international workshop aims to consider the politicizing potential of scandals. Here, politicization is understood broadly as all the notions and ideas that make people have political awareness and help them define the sphere of the political. They foster public outrage, but proposalsand solutions can be alternative and even antagonistic. Considering scandals throughout different national and chronological frames, from the admonitionsfound in the mirrors for princes (specula principum) to mass demonstrations in the interwar years, by way of the causes célèbres of the Ancien Régime, the aim is to encourage historiographical debate on the capacity of political scandals to mobilize all social classes, revise social values and influence individuals’ ideologies.

Argument

Abuses of power, obscene crimes, heretic behaviours, violent anathemas, in short, any act or speech transgressing established norms, have shocked societies over the centuries, depending on each historical context. Whether the focus was on the courts, chancelleries, or bishoprics of ancient regime polities or parliamentary institutions of Liberal States, scandals exposed the limits of collective tolerance towards political deviations and the questioning of moral values and public ethics. In this sense, studying corruption scandals is an opportunity to understand how power relations and politicization function. Once corrupt practices are revealed, the breakout of a scandal can erode politic alauthority and legitimacy. Hence, the status quo is challenged, and the power is scrutinized.

In turn, contesting governance has not always entailed a desire for justice. The ideals of reparation, demands for profound reforms, the struggle for transparency or citizens’ demands for clarification of the facts may initially have been motivated by factionalism or partisan interests. Anti-corruption rhetoric may have disguised unhealthy sentiments such as revenge. It could also be achannel for public notoriety or private gain. Similarly, scandals could be instrumentalized depending on the objectives and goals: to stabilize government power, to serve as a corrective tool, or as a pretext to overthrow the regime. In any case, they could affect the very structures of power.

Based on all these assumptions, this international workshop aims to consider the politicizing potential of scandals. Here, politicization is understood broadly as all the notions and ideas that make people have political awareness and help them define the sphere of the political. They foster public outrage, but proposals and solutions can be alternative and even antagonistic. Considering scandals throughout different national and chronological frames, from the admonitions found in the mirrors for princes (specula principum) to mass demonstrations in the interwar years, by way of the causes célèbres of the Ancien Régime, the aim isto encourage historiographical debate on the capacity of political scandals tomobilize all social classes, revise social values and influence individuals’ ideologies.

For this reason, participants are compelled to submit proposals privileging the following themes:

- Political cultures and the fight against corruption.

- Religiousness, corrupted politics and the common good.

- Reasons and aims for denouncing misbehaviour in office.

- Rumours, popular claims, and the making/spreading of scandals.

- Scandals as political narratives.

- Comparative cases throughout history.

Submission guidelines

We welcome proposals of ca. 500 words concerning the topics mentioned above along with a short CV. The proposals must be sent to Scandalspolitization@gmail.com.

before the 1st of June 2024

The decision on the received proposals will beannounced on the 31st of July 2024. The contributions presented during the workshop will be collected for publication by a leading publisher.

Scientific Committee

• Dr Joan Pubill-Brugués (Margarita Salas Fellow, Universtat Autònoma de Barcelona)
• Dr Ricard Torra-Prat (Beatriu de Pinós Fellow, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
• Prof Dr Maria Gemma Rubí Casals (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Ce numéro d’ITTI propose d’interroger ce que les images peuvent révéler du travail au prisme des droits et des expériences des personnes handicapées.

AAP pour le n° 19 de la revue « Images du travail, travail des images » (septembre 2025)

Argumentaire

A partir des années 1960, l’évolution de la législation sur le travail des personnes handicapées s’inscrit dans un mouvement international d’émergence de leurs droits porté par les disability studies (Ravaud, 1999). Il remet en cause le modèle individuel et biomédical du handicap pour le redéfinir comme « modèle social » imputant la production du handicap à la société (ses structures, ses organisations) et non plus à la personne. Au niveau international, deux séries d’acteurs institutionnels ont joué un rôle décisif. D’une part, l’OMS (Organisation mondiale de la Santé) défend une approche biomédicale du handicap, mais fait entrer la dimension environnementale en révisant ses classifications, concédant ainsi une avancée vers le « modèle social ». D’autre part, l’ONU (Organisation des nations unies), puis le Conseil de l’Europe, relaient les revendications plus radicales des mouvements militants adossées au travail conceptuel des disability studies, qui promeuvent le « modèle social » (Ravaud & Fougeyrollas, 2005).

En France, la loi 2005-102 du 11 février 2005, « pour l'égalité des droits et des chances, la participation et la citoyenneté des personnes handicapées » intègre des aspects de ce « modèle social ». Ainsi, c’est désormais au monde du travail de prendre les mesures nécessaires pour permettre aux personnes concernées une pleine « participation sociale », autour de deux piliers essentiels que sont l’accessibilité et la compensation. La politique publique en faveur de l’emploi et du travail des personnes handicapées articule des mesures de discrimination positive avec les quotas d’emploi à des mesures antidiscriminatoires « d’aménagements raisonnables » consistant à adapter les postes de travail en fonction des besoins des personnes (Lejeune et al., 2017). Dans le monde francophone occidental, les années 2000 ont été propices à des avancées législatives relativement convergentes. Le Québec, pionnier, disposait depuis la loi du 23 juin 1978 « assurant l’exercice des droits des personnes handicapées » d’un Office des Personnes Handicapées du Québec aux pouvoirs consistants, obligeant la société. La loi du 17 décembre 2004 qui révise celle de 1978, renforce les pouvoirs de l’OPHQ et implique plus fortement les organismes de droit commun. Sans recourir aux quotas d’emplois comme en France, elle instaure des plans pluriannuels d’intégration et de maintien dans l’emploi à l’égard desquels le gouvernement doit rendre des comptes[1]. En Suisse, une loi fédérale dite « Loi sur l’égalité pour les handicapés, LHand » est votée le 13 décembre 2002 par l’Assemblée fédérale de la Confédération. Elle prévoit un cadre légal antidiscriminatoire à l’embauche et encourage les mesures d’accessibilité aux lieux de travail. En Belgique, la loi du 10 mai 2007 « tendant à lutter contre certaines formes de discrimination » prévoit une politique générale antidiscriminatoire pour l’accès à l’emploi, les conditions de travail, le maintien dans l’emploi, passant notamment par des « aménagements raisonnables ». Plus récemment, sans précédent dans l’histoire des droits des personnes handicapées, le parlement belge approuve le 12 mars 2021 une révision de la Constitution consacrant le droit des personnes handicapées à une participation pleine et entière à la société.

Pour autant, 20 ans après la loi française du 11 février 2005, les caractéristiques et les conditions d’emploi des personnes handicapées sont loin d’être homogénéisées avec celles de la population générale (Agefiph, 2022). Les travailleurs et travailleuses handicapé·es sont plus âgé·es et moins diplômé·es. Leur accès à l’emploi est sensiblement plus difficile. L’éventail de leurs métiers est réduit et ils et elles sont sous représenté·es dans les emplois des catégories intermédiaires et supérieures et surreprésenté·es dans les emplois subalternes (Bernardi & Lhommeau, 2020). Des enquêtes en sciences sociales viennent documenter les divers processus qui perpétuent des logiques inégalitaires et discriminatoires (par exemple : Boudinet, 2021, 2021 ; Dessein, 2022 ; Gardien, 2006 ; Lejeune, 2019, 2021 ; Revillard, 2017 ; Roupnel-Fuentes, 2021 ; Segon, 2021 ; Valdes, 2022).

Parallèlement, le changement de perspective qui s’est cristallisé dans la loi de 2005 a fait passer la personne handicapée du statut d’objet (de soins, d’aides) au statut de sujet (de son existence). Le « projet de vie » prévu par la loi en est l’instrument. Il doit être élaboré à partir de besoins formulés par la personne concernée ou, avec ou pour elle, par son représentant légal lorsqu’elle ne peut exprimer son avis. Il enjoint les professionnels du handicap à considérer la personne handicapée comme « actrice de son projet de vie » et à l’accompagner non plus à partir de ses déficiences, mais bien de ses capacités (Jacques, 2017). Plusieurs conséquences découlent de cette nouvelle propension des personnes handicapées à pouvoir s’affirmer en tant que personnes.

La première de ces conséquences est une visibilité accrue du handicap. Autrefois cantonné aux institutions ségrégatives et donc isolé du monde social (Pinell & Zafiropoulos, 1983), le handicap dans ses différentes formes se montre désormais. En témoignent, par exemple : le Festival National du Court Métrage Handica[2] ; la campagne publicitaire de CAP48[3] de 2010 affichant Tanja Klewitz, mannequin belge à qui il manque un avant-bras, posant « belle et handicapée »[4] en sous-vêtements ; les Jeux paralympiques donnant à voir des corps handicapés en tant que corps performants ; ou encore la promesse du président de la République de doter dès 2023 chaque département d’exosquelettes pour le réapprentissage de la marche des patients médullo- ou cérébro-lésés[5]. En contrepoint à ce coup de projecteur sur les corps handicapés, les « handicaps invisibles » sont également mis en lumière dans les discours : ils seraient la face immergée de l’iceberg dans la mesure où, selon les associations militantes, 80% des situations de handicap relèveraient de handicaps invisibles. À l’instar de l’étude fondatrice de Goffman (1975), les enjeux de visibilisation du handicap se révèlent ainsi décisifs (par exemple : Dalle-Nazébi & Kerbourc’h, 2013 ; Lejeune & Yazdanpanah, 2017 ; Segon, 2021).

Seconde conséquence de l’affirmation des personnes handicapées en tant que telles dans l’espace public, leurs revendications se structurent désormais au-delà des associations traditionnelles d’aide aux familles, sous la forme de groupements, de syndicats[6], de fédérations dirigés, encadrés, animés par les personnes handicapées. Un mouvement tel que « Ni pauvre, ni soumis » fondé en 2008 réunit par exemple une quarantaine d’associations et revendique la création d’un revenu d’existence décent pour les personnes handicapées qui ne peuvent pas ou plus travailler[7]. De plus, la normalisation du handicap produit de nouvelles normes partagées. À rebours d’une charge pour la société, le handicap se « désinsularise » et pourrait devenir pourvoyeur d’innovations potentiellement bénéfiques pour le plus grand nombre (Gardou & Poizat, 2007), en particulier dans l’environnement de travail.

L’entrée par les images du travail apparait ainsi particulièrement propice pour saisir les effets de la loi de 2005 sur le travail. Après deux décennies sous son égide, comment penser la relation entre handicap, travail et emploi, à partir des images du travail ? Une exploration rapide par les mots clés « handicap » et « travail » sur les moteurs de recherche généralistes est à première vue peu productive : prédominent des représentations du travail en col blanc, au bureau (tables, chaises, ordinateurs, tableaux, salles de réunion, etc.) et des représentations du handicap principalement par le fauteuil roulant qu’il s’agisse de personnes photographiées ou du pictogramme. Mais un regard plus attentif dessine une grande variété de pistes et de corpus envisageables autour de la thématique proposée, comme le révèlent quelques exemples. Un corpus médiatique (le média en ligne Konbini) montre des personnes concernées, face caméra, exprimant leurs aspirations et livrant leurs expériences des discriminations au travail[8]. Un corpus institutionnel (la FEBRAP : Fédération bruxelloise des entreprises du secteur adapté) rassemble des vidéos destinées aux employeurs et employeuses (par exemple comment communiquer avec des personnes déficientes intellectuelles) ou aux travailleurs et travailleuses (par exemple quel comportement adopter au travail), donnant ce faisant à voir des situations de travail concrètes. Enfin, dans un récent numéro de la revue ITTI, un article montre un bucheron en fauteuil après un accident de la route, révélant ce qu’il inflige à son corps pour continuer son activité comme avant, mais également des innovations techniques développées pour adapter sa pratique à sa situation (Plesse-Colucci & Schepens, 2023).

Les perspectives les plus contemporaines en sciences sociales aussi bien qu’historiques, articulées ou non avec des approches juridiques, les aires géographiques francophones aussi bien qu’au-delà, seront les bienvenues pour contribuer à cette réflexion. Les corpus mobilisés pourront être, sans exclusive : des corpus institutionnels publics (images issues des documents de communication des organismes militants, associations gestionnaires, événements et autres institutions dédiées au handicap), des archives privées ou publiques (par exemple l’Institut national de l’audiovisuel), des corpus publicitaires ou médiatiques, de la documentation iconographique technique (illustrant les matériels ou les plans adaptatifs, supplétifs, ergonomiques), des images produites dans le cadre de recherches.

Ce numéro d’ITTI propose d’interroger ce que les images peuvent révéler du travail au prisme des droits et des expériences des personnes handicapées, autour de deux axes principaux.

Axe 1 : la représentation du handicap au travail

Comment le handicap au travail est-il représenté ? Que disent ces représentations de la place et des droits des personnes handicapées dans la société ? Quelle place les représentations majoritairement centrées sur les handicaps visibles laissent-elles aux images d’autres handicaps en situation de travail ? Quelles innovations ou solutions techniques et humaines ont-elles émergé des préconisations législatives et comment sont-elles montrées ? Comment la compensation, l’accessibilité, les aménagements raisonnables, les approches capacitantes sont-elles (in)visibilisées ? Avec quelles intentions ou quels effets ?

Axe 2 : le point de vue des personnes handicapées sur le travail

Quel point de vue le handicap construit-il sur le travail ? Comment les personnes handicapées voient-elles le travail, ce qu’il est, ce qu’elles en font et ce qu’il leur fait ? Dans quelle mesure la situation de handicap révèle-t-elle certains aspects du « travail ordinaire » ? En quoi la représentation du travail du point de vue des personnes handicapées contribue-t-elle à leur appropriation d’un poste de travail, à leur insertion dans un collectif de travail ou encore à la construction d’une identité de travailleur ou de travailleuse ?

Trois entrées, sans exclusive, pourront contribuer à l’un ou l’autre axe :

1. Travailleurs handicapés en action : personnes, parcours, contextes, collectifs, gestes et réalisations, compétences, militances.
2. Accompagnements, compensations, mises en accessibilité en train de se faire : outils, environnements, postures, innovations.
3. Permanence des exclusions professionnelles, représentations défectologiques, vecteurs d’inaccessibilité.

Modalités de contribution

Les propositions reposeront sur l’analyse d’images qui doivent pouvoir être reproduites dans l’article. L’auteur doit s’assurer de la disposition des droits d’utilisation et de diffusion. Les articles sont d’un format de 30 000 à 50 000 signes maximum. Dans un premier temps sont attendues des propositions d’articles sous forme d’un texte d’intention de 2000 à 3000 signes espaces compris, qui exposera l’inscription disciplinaire et les éléments centraux du cadre théorique de la recherche, le type d’images support et leur mode de production, la méthodologie du travail d’enquête présenté, les grands résultats.

• Propositions d’articles : 1 mars 2024
• Retour sur les propositions d’article : 1 avril 2024
• Articles : 30 septembre 2024

Contacts pour toutes informations complémentaires et pour l’envoi des documents :

• Fabienne Montmasson-Michel : montmasson.michel@univ-poitiers.fr
• Christian Papinot : papinot@univ-poitiers.fr
• La revue Image du travail, Travail des images : imagesdutravail@gmail.com

Coordinateurs

• Fabienne Montmasson-Michel, MCF de sociologie, Université de Poitiers
• Christian Papinot, PU de sociologie, Université de Poitiers

Évaluation

Processus d’évaluation en double aveugle détaillé dans les consignes aux auteur.es à l’adresse suivante : https://journals.openedition.org/itti/1353

Bibliographie

Agefiph. (2022). Tableau de bord national. Emploi-chômage des personnes handicapées — 1er semestre 2022. Observatoire de l’emploi des personnes. https://www.agefiph.fr/sites/default/files/medias/fichiers/2022-10/Agefiph-TB-2022_8G_0.pdf

Bernardi, V., & Lhommeau, B. (2020). Quelles sont les spécificités des professions occupées par les personnes handicapées ? Dares Analyses, 31. https://dares.travail-emploi.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/pdf/dares_analyses_professions_personnes_handicapee.pdf

Boudinet, M. (2021). Sortir d’ESAT ? Les travailleur·ses handicapé·e·s en milieu protégé face à l’insertion en milieu ordinaire de travail. Formation emploi, n° 154(2), 137‑156. https://doi.org/10.4000/formationemploi.9294

Dalle-Nazébi, S., & Kerbourc’h, S. (2013). L’invisibilité du « travail en plus » de salariés sourds. Terrains & travaux, 23(2), 159‑177. https://doi.org/10.3917/tt.023.0159

Dessein, S. (2022). Juger l’employabilité des chômeurs handicapés à travers le prisme d’une logique de performance. Une analyse ethnographique et statistique du tri des usagers à l’entrée du service public Cap emploi. Revue des politiques sociales et familiales, 142‑143(1), 5‑21. https://doi.org/10.3917/rpsf.142.0005

Gardien, È. (2006). Travailleur en situation de handicap : De qui parle-t-on ? Pour une analyse des situations partagées. Reliance, 19(1), 50‑59. https://doi.org/10.3917/reli.019.59

Gardou, C., & Poizat, D. (2007). Désinsulariser le handicap : Quelles ruptures pour quelles mutations culturelles ? Erès.

Goffman, E. (1975). Stigmate. Minuit.

Jacques, M.-H. (2017). La ‘’relation au bénéficiaire’’ dans les ‘‘nouveaux métiers du handicap’’ : une relation de clientèle ? In M.-H. Lechien, F. Neyrat, & A. Richard, Sociologie de la relation de clientèle. Pulim, 179-193.

Lejeune, A. (2019). Travailler avec un handicap. Idéal d’inclusion et inégalités face au droit. Savoir/Agir, 47(1), 53‑62. https://doi.org/10.3917/sava.047.0053

Lejeune, A. (2021). Postface. Handicap et inégalités. Formation emploi, n° 154(2), 197‑203. https://doi.org/10.4000/formationemploi.9383    

Lejeune, A., Hubin, J., Ringelheim, J., Robin-Olivier, S., Schoenaers, F., Yazdanpanah, H., Fillion, E., & Thivet, D. (2017). Handicap et aménagements raisonnables au travail : Importation et usages d’une catégorie juridique en France et en Belgique [Rapport de recherche]. Mission de recherche Droit et Justice ; CERAPS, Université de Lille. https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01625329

Lejeune, A., & Yazdanpanah, H. (2017). Face au handicap : Action syndicale et cadrages juridiques. Politix, n° 118(2), 55‑76. https://doi.org/10.3917/pox.118.0055

Pinell, P., & Zafiropoulos, M. (1983). Un siècle d’échecs scolaires : 1882-1982. Éditions ouvrières.

Plesse-Colucci, A., & Schepens, F. (2023). Quand la photographie révèle l’innovation technique. Images du travail, travail des images, 15, Article 15. https://doi.org/10.4000/itti.4298

Ravaud, J.-F. (1999). Modèle individuel, modèle médical, modèle social : La question du sujet. Handicap. Revue de sciences humaines et sociales, 81, 64‑75. https://hal.science/hal-02264281/document

Ravaud, J.-F., & Fougeyrollas, P. (2005). La convergence progressive des positions franco-québécoises. Santé, Société et Solidarité, 4(2), 13‑27. https://doi.org/10.3406/oss.2005.1047

Revillard, A. (2017). La réception des politiques du handicap : Une approche par entretiens biographiques. Revue française de sociologie, Vol. 58(1), 71‑95. https://doi.org/10.3917/rfs.581.0071

Roupnel-Fuentes, M. (2021). La formation pour prévenir la désinsertion professionnelle des travailleur·s·es handicapé·e·s ? Formation emploi, n° 154(2), 113‑135. https://doi.org/10.4000/formationemploi.9416

Segon, M. (2021). Révéler, dévoiler, c’est décidé, je le mets ! Candidater en signalant son statut de « travailleur handicapé ». Formation emploi, n° 154(2), 65‑86. http://doi.org/10.4000/formationemploi.9270

Valdes, B. (2022). Les référents handicap dans la fonction publique, des missions variées dans un contexte encore peu professionnalisé. Revue française des affaires sociales, 1, 109‑131. https://doi.org/10.3917/rfas.221.0109

Notes

[1] Gouvernement du Québec. (2019). Stratégie nationale pour l’intégration et le maintien en emploi des personnes handicapées 2019-2024. Gouvernement du Québec. https://cdn-contenu.quebec.ca/cdn-contenu/adm/min/emploi-solidarite-sociale/publications-adm/rapport/STRAT_snph_2019-2024_MTESS.pdf

[2] Dreyer, P., & Raymond, V. (2006, mai 4). La représentation des personnes handicapées au cinéma : Quels regards pour quels enjeux ? Handicap.fr. https://informations.handicap.fr/a--1935.php

[3] Événement de collecte de dons via la RTBF (radiotélévision belge francophone) pour les recherches médicales sur les handicaps.

[4] Mallaval, C. (2010, octobre 8). Belle et handicapée : En Belgique, l’affiche qui ose. https://www.liberation.fr/vous/2010/10/08/belle-et-handicapee-en-belgiq…

[5] Dal’Secco, E. (2023, janvier 26). Macron promet de déployer 2 exosquelettes par département. Handicap.fr. https://informations.handicap.fr/a-macron-deux-exosquelettes-par-departement-34337.php

[6] Par exemple l’union professionnelle des travailleurs indépendants handicapées (UPTIH), créée en 2008 et devenue H’up entrepreneurs en 2018.

[7] http://www.nipauvrenisoumis.org/

[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqP2xKHoeIE&ab_channel=Konbini

 National Archives of Belgium (Brussels), 24 September 2024

The aim of the symposium is to highlight recent developments in research on migrant activists, exploring the interactions between gender, political commitment and migration in the twentieth century. Proposals may focus on women's engagement, masculinities or gender relations in militant contexts. How does gender influence militancy in migration? And how do political commitment and migration influence gender relations and the construction of femininity and masculinity?

Symposium organised in collaboration with the Forum for Belgian research on history of women, gender and sexuality (AVG-CARHIF) and the BRAIN project (Belspo) WomenExile: Gendering political exile in Belgium (1918-1958).

Argument

Twenty years ago, a special issue of the journal Sextant was published on "Migrant Women" (Gubin and Morelli, 2004), followed five years later by a new issue on "Women in Political Exile" (Morelli, 2009). In these two volumes, the contributors noted both the need for historical research to consider the singularity of female exile (Gubin and Piette, 2009), and the many methodological difficulties of uncovering migrant women in institutional archives (Gillen, 2004). For the female political exiles who are the subject of the second volume, their invisibility in the sources is coupled with their non-recognition as activists, a reflection of their illegitimacy in male political circles (Gubin and Piette, 2009). At a time when the history of migration had shown little interest in women, the two volumes of Sextant highlighted the many facets of women's mobility, and challenged the representation of women as mere "victims", highlighting their ability to make the best of difficult situations, to forge links of solidarity, to organise themselves, to emancipate themselves, and so on.

The desire of the editors of Sextant to bring together the history of women and migration was shared by other historians. The interaction between these two fields of research intensified from the 2000s onwards (Schrover 2008, Guerry 2009, Green 2013, Schrover and Moloney, 2013), as is demonstrated by the publication of a special issue on gender by the International Migration Review in 2006 and a special issue on migration by Gender & History in 2019. In Belgium, Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis had already published an issue on the subject in 2001, while Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis devoted a special issue to gender, migration and government policies in 2008.

Many avenues still need to be explored: feminist perspectives on migration and social and political engagement continue to be enriched by new fieldwork and new grids of interpretation.

The aim of this conference is to highlight recent developments in research on migrant activists, exploring the interactions between gender, political commitment and migration in the 20th century. Proposals may focus on women's involvement as well as on masculinities or gender relations in an activist context. How does gender influence militancy in migration? And how do political commitment and migration influence gender relations and the construction of femininity and masculinity?

Our perspective is to consider gender as a central organising principle of migratory flows and the lives of migrants (Mahler and Pessar, 2006). Gender influences where, how and why people migrate, and how they fit into the host society (Morokvasic, 1991; Donato et al, 2006; Pessar and Mahler, 2003; Mahieu et al, 2009; Lutz, 2010). The influence of migration - understood as an engine of socio-cultural change - on gender relations has also been widely demonstrated (Hondagneu-Sotelo, 2003; Parado and Flippen, 2005): it sometimes leads to empowerment, and sometimes to an accentuation of female subordination (Piper, 2005; Foner, 2001; Dahinden et al., 2007). From this perspective, the conference will look at social relations as expressions of inequality, domination and power, considering that gender relations are always mediated by other socially constructed categories, such as "race", ethnicity, social class or nationality (Anthias and Yuval Davis, 1992, Phoenix and Pattynama, 2006).

Particular attention will be paid to the question of agency –political agency and migratory agency - a concept that is central to new research on the history of exiled women engaged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Maugendre, 2019; Lo Biodo, 2013; André, 2016). Indeed, women have often been seen as following in men's footsteps or migrating as a result of family decisions (Kofman, 1999) and, as such, without agency, without mobilising their own networks or shaping their own destinies (Harzig 2001). Yet research shows that they are not blindly subject to structural factors, but play an active role in the design of the migration project, the decision to migrate, the organisation of the journey, participation in networks and in the society of arrival (Timmerman, 2015, 235-243). However, attention to women's active role should not lead to overlook the specific vulnerability of migrant women (Nouvelles Questions Féministes, 2006). For this reason, agency is also often interpreted in the sense of adaptation: how do women adapt to opportunities and constraints, how do they give meaning to their migratory trajectory? The concept of agency is also fruitful for thinking about the collective commitments of immigrant women (Veith, 1999). Migrant women's involvement in associations can be analysed as a strategy for empowerment and resistance to insecurity (Lesselier, 2003), and migrant women can be portrayed as "resilient, strategic and in search of autonomy" (Schmoll, 2020, cited by Guerry, 2020).

Topics

Three axes have been defined, in order to consider the multiple social and spatial scales on which gender operates simultaneously across transnational terrains (Pessar and Mahler, 2003):

• Axis 1: micro level: activism in migration and negotiating gender boundaries: This axis looks at the forms of women's political commitment and the gendered distribution of activist work in the context of migration. It examines the porous nature of politics and intimacy, and the intersections between commitment, community life, public life and private life. How are care responsibilities negotiated within militant families? What are the continuities and discontinuities in activist careers over the course of migration, and how are relationships with the country of origin negotiated? Particular attention will be paid to the effects of commitment and migration on bodies, and on the gendered agency of migrant activists.
• Axis 2: meso level: networks, sociabilities and activist movements : This axis looks at gender relations within activist, political and/or community networks, and the issues involved in the gender (non-)mixity of organisations. What impact does the gender of activists have on their sociability and networks in their countries of arrival and origin? This axis also looks at gender relations within transnational activist networks, internationalism and mobility as a modality of political commitment - and their implications in terms of gender.
• Axis 3: macro level: institutional views, normative views, representations, and their consequences on people's lives: This axis looks at the gender dimension in the discourse and representations of activism in exile: moralisation, repression, stigmatisation, invisibilisation, etc. It looks at the representations (in the press or literature) and police apprehensions of the political commitment of exiled women and men. How are migrant women recognised as active political subjects? What impact does this have on their daily lives and their commitments? Some research, for example, has highlighted how the invisibility of women activists can also be a resource: they are less distrusted by the authorities, opening up a number of possibilities for action (Durant, Dupont and Diaz, 2021)...

Submission guidelines

Proposals (300 words) should be sent with a short biography to migrationhistory2024@ulb.be

by 15 March 2024

Notification of acceptance will be sent no later than 8 April 2024.

• The symposium is organised in collaboration with the the Forum for Belgian research on history of women, gender and sexuality (AVG-CARHIF) and the BRAIN (BELSPO) project WomenExile: Gendering Political Exile in Belgium (1918-1958) jointly supported by the National Archives of Belgium, the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Universiteit Antwerpen.
• The day will be held at the National Archives of Belgium (2 rue de Ruysbroek, 1000 Brussels) on 24 September 2024. Presentations will be given in English.

Publication

The conference proceedings will be published in a special issue of the journal Sextant (2025) by Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles (https://www.editions-ulb.be/fr/review/?collection_ID=8). Articles may be written in French or English, as Sextant is a bilingual journal. The first version of the articles will be submitted for peer-review in early 2025.

Organising Committee

• Michaël Amara (NAB)
• Henk de Smaele (UAntwerpen)
• Juliette Masquelier (ULB/UAntwerpen)
• Aline Thomas (NAB)
• Cécile Vanderpelen (ULB)

Scientific Committee

• Michaël Amara (NAB)
• Henk de Smaele (UAntwerpen)
• Asunción Fresnoza-Flot (ULB)
• Hilde Greefs (UAntwerpen)
• Juliette Masquelier (ULB/UAntwerpen)
• Aline Thomas (NAB)
• Cécile Vanderpelen (ULB)

Submissions are now open for the Labour History Review postgraduate essay prize 2024. The competition is open to anyone currently registered for a higher research degree, in Britain or abroad, or to anyone who completed such a degree within the timeframe set out in the rules.

Download the entry form and rules >

The cash prize for this year’s winner has been substantially increased by the Society for the Study of Labour History, and now stands at £700. In addition, the winning essay will be published in Labour History Review, and the winner will receive a year’s free membership of the Society for the Study of Labour History, which includes a subscription to Labour History Review.

Other entries of sufficient quality may be invited to publish their submissions in the journal. If so, then they will be given one year’s free subscription to Labour History Review.

Essays can be on any topic of labour history broadly defined, provided that they fulfil the requirements of the editorial statement/aims and scope of Labour History Review, as set out in the entry form. Essays should conform to LHR style guidelines, copies of which can be found on the websites of the SSLH (Guidelines for authors) and Liverpool University Press.

Essays for the 2024 competition must be submitted no later than 31 March 2024.

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Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) in Cologne, 13-15 November 2024

Conference theme

Employing the lens of the life and work of Otto Kahn-Freund (1900–1979), we investigate the invention of labor law as a distinct field of legal doctrine and scholarship. Invention and reinvention are understood here to be ongoing political and scholarly processes, involving the defense of existing institutions and the development of new ones. We consider developments across the twentieth century, from the end of the first world war to the struggle over the second postwar settlement in the 1970s and thereafter. Following Kahn-Freund, we conceive of labor law scholarship as an interdisciplinary endeavor, combining insights from political economy, sociology of law, and empirically-oriented industrial relations. As such, our investigation allows us to address two questions: How was legal scholarship on the changing conflict between capital and labor related to contemporary developments in the social sciences, and what can we learn from this today?

We invite paper proposals which address the conference theme.  In particular, authors may wish to address the following:

• The relations and interactions of labor law scholars and trade unionists in the Weimar Republic
• The reception of Karl Marx and Max Weber in Weimar labor law scholarship and, especially, the work of Otto Kahn-Freund
• Labor law and the state under capitalism: from Heller and Neumann to Laski and Miliband
• Labor law and corporatism: the legal empowerment and control of trade unions through the institutionalization of trade union rights; delegated rights and imposed restriction; Keynes to Marshall to Donovan – Keynesian full employment – incomes policy in the 1970s and its failure
• Labor law and comparative political economy: the origins and significance of commonality and difference.

Venue

The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) is located in Cologne, Germany. It is one of the largest social science research institutions in Germany, regarded internationally as one of the top research institutes in the social sciences. Cologne has its own airport and can be easily reached by train from Frankfurt International Airport, Düsseldorf airport, and other locations throughout mainland Europe.

Confirmed speakers

• Zoe Adams, University of Cambridge
• Ruth Dukes, University of Glasgow
• Richard Hyman, London School of Economics
• Agustín José Menéndez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
• Brishen Rogers, Georgetown University
• William Scheuerman, Indiana University
• Wolfgang Streeck, MPIfG
• Rebecca Zahn, University of Strathclyde

Submissions

Scholars who are interested in presenting papers at the conference are invited to submit an abstract of up to 500 words. Please include a title, your name and affiliation, and contact information.

Abstracts should be sent to Ruth Dukes by April 30, 2024. Please copy the following text into the title of the email: Class Conflict and Institutional Change Paper Proposal. Decisions on the acceptance of paper proposals will be communicated by May 31, 2024.

Logistics and key dates

We are grateful for the financial and administrative support provided by the MPIfG. Thanks to that support, no fee will be charged for attendance at the conference, but participants may be asked to cover their own travel and accommodation expenses. Information about recommended hotels will be provided at a later date.

• April 30, 2024: Last day to submit paper proposals
• May 31, 2024: Decisions on acceptance of paper proposals
• November 13–15, 2024: Conference in Cologne

Any questions can be addressed to Ruth Dukes.

Workshop Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies & International In-stitute of Social History Amsterdam
Dates: 20-21 June 2024
Place: Conference room, Niebuhrstr. 5, 53113 Bonn
Organizers: Eva Marie Lehner (BCDSS) and Hanna te Velde (IISH)

In the past years, the lives of colonized people have been studied increasingly. Individual stories of enslaved, freed and other marginalized men and women were documented in colonial ar-chives, often because they stepped out of line at a certain moment. How to find a more balanced approach when trying to unearth the lives of colonized people, while being at the mercy of colonial archives? How to best account for the manifold differences between men and women living in colonial establishments, based among others on gender, race, class, religion, age and social position? This workshop wants to provide a platform for Ph.D. candidates and postdoc-toral researchers to address the above challenges, showcase their individual research projects, obtain comments from experts in gender history, slavery studies, and Dutch colonial history, and stimulate exchanges and discussions.
In this workshop, professor Claudia Jarzebowski (early modern history and dependency studies, BCDSS), and professor Sarah Zimmermann (colonialism and gender, Western Washington University) together with Dutch and German Ph.D. and postdoctoral researchers will explore the Atlantic and Asian Dutch Empire and its archives (17th-19th century) from different levels and from various perspectives. First, we aim to encourage a dialogue between researchers who take a global approach to the Dutch Empire, using, for example, sources of the Dutch trading companies, and researchers who use a case-centered approach, concentrating on specific colo-nial outposts and situations, individual actors and including different types of archives and sources. Second, we want to explore different approaches to studying previously underexposed historical actors, such as European women, enslaved individuals, indigenous women, or chil-dren and offspring of mixed marriages and relationships. Consequently, our goal is to develop a comparative framework rooted in a focus on historical actors and gender perspectives rather than top-down abstract entities like colonies or colonial archives. This approach is particularly beneficial for slavery and dependency studies, because it encompasses a wide spectrum of power dynamics and dependencies, instead of emphasizing binaries like colonizers and colo-nized, free and unfree.

Provisional programme

We will start at circa 1.30 pm on Tuesday June 20, and the workshop will be finished Friday June 21 around 15.00 pm.

Assignments and assessment

By exploring the above topics from an actor-/bottom-up approach and gender perspective, the workshop will address the following questions:
1. How were men and women treated differently in the Dutch early modern empire, and what was the role of socio-economic aspects (for example religion, race, status, age, background, marital status, free/unfree status) in the making of these differences?
2. To what extent were various women and other marginalized actors able to have an impact on their direct environments and the broader colonial societies they were a part of?
3. How were differences between the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds reflected in the lives of the people living in Dutch colonial establishments?
4. What can we learn from a global perspective that compares the Dutch Empire with other Empires?
5. How can colonial sources be used to study women, marginalized or so-called “invisible” actors from a bottom-up perspective?
All workshop participants are asked to hand in short papers (3000-5000 words), based on their ongoing research, addressing one or more of the above questions before 1 June 2024. Partici-pants are required to read the papers of all fellow participants. Short presentations at the work-shop and comments prepared by experts in gender history, slavery studies and the Dutch colo-nial empire will facilitate in-depth feedback for each participant and discussions that bridge the different topics, approaches, and results.

Application

Please register before March 23 by contacting Hanna te Velde (hanna.te.velde@iisg.nl) and Eva Marie Lehner (elehner@uni-bonn.de), and include a short abstract of your paper (100-500 words). Do not hesitate to reach out in case of further questions.

Southern Labor Studies Association
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
September 20-21, 2024
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2024

In 2024 SLSA will convene in Chattanooga at a pivotal moment for Southern workers, a
crossroads between rising reaction and potential for radical change. The combination of
Chattanooga’s history as a strategic transportation junction and a locus of Southern labor
resistance inspires our conference theme of “Crossroads of Resistance.”

At this site of convergence and departure, SLSA seeks explorations of geographical,
generational, and organizational exchanges in the lives of Southern working people—past,
present, and future. SLSA’s mission is to bring together a broad, diverse array of scholars,
thinkers, organizers, and other activists working at the crossroads of academic disciplines and
beyond the ivory tower, including dialogues among folks in the labor movement, community
organizing, journalism, and the arts. We welcome scholars whose work engages many Souths–
Black, white, people of color, Indigenous, Queer, and recent migrants.

We invite proposals in a wide range of formats, including traditional paper presentation
sessions, individual papers, roundtable discussions, workshops, skillshares, and other
nontraditional formats. In addition to our customary program, we are excited to announce our
“New Directions” Workshop Series on the morning of Friday, September 20, in which
graduate students and early career scholars can pre-circulate article-length essays and engage
in focused seminar discussions in small groups. Presenters in this category will also be
considered for the SLSA Robert H. Zieger Prize as well as conference travel grants for early
career participants, all of which will be announced at the conference.

Most conference activities will take place on the campus of the University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga (UTC), located just blocks from the Tennessee Riverwalk, the Bluff View Art
District, downtown restaurants, and historic MLK Blvd. The Guerry Center, home to UTC’s
Honors College, will host breakout sessions, film screenings, and performances, and attendees
will convene for a plenary and reception at the university’s newly renovated Fine Arts Center.
Discounted hotel accommodations will be available at Chattanooga’s historic Read House,
where we will gather for a buffet dinner and keynote address. Known as the Scenic City,
Chattanooga offers conference attendees opportunities to hike, bike, kayak, and rock climb, as
well as abundant restaurants, breweries, shops, and historic sites.

To submit a full session or individual proposal, visit https://bit.ly/SLSA2024. Questions? Email
SouthernLaborStudies2024@gmail.com or contact a member of the conference committee
listed below.

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2024

 

Special Thanks to our Sponsors!

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
University of New Orleans
Texas A&M University
Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA)
University of Georgia
and more - email us to ask how!

SLSA Conference Committee

Thomas J. Adams, University of South Alabama
Thomas Alter II, Texas State University
Shannon C. Eaves, College of Charleston
Sarah Fouts, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Joshua Hollands, University College London
Justin Jolly, Texas Christian University
Robert Korstad, Duke University
Max Krochmal, University of New Orleans
Sarah McNamara, Texas A&M University
Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez, Emory University
Jarod Roll, University of Mississippi
Bryant Simon, Temple University
Jermaine Thibodeaux,University of Oklahoma
Michael D. Thompson, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Additional Notes on the Conference Theme

We invite participants to riff on our theme of “Crossroads of Resistance,” building upon and
beyond the following dimensions:

● Temporal crossroads (then and now/future)
● The crossroads of disciplines and subfields
● Geographic crossroads within the region and beyond it (transnational, etc.)
● Intergenerational crossroads
● Crossroads in forms of organizing, between formal labor organizations and new models
● The present as a crossroads between fascism and resistance
● Crossroads of scholarship and activism
● Crossroads of labor systems and types of work (from enslavement to the gig economy)
and/or imagining futures of guaranteed incomes or without work
● Crossroads of work, academic freedom, and the donor class in higher education

University of Reading 7 September 2024

The annual Chartism Day Conferences were launched at the University of Birmingham in September 1995 by the renowned Chartist historian Dorothy Thompson (1923-2011). Apart from the disruption caused by the Covid pandemic, the conferences, which are endorsed by the Society for the Study of Labour History [SSLH], have been held in a variety of locations in England, Wales, Ireland and France every year since, bringing together established academics, postgraduate researchers and members of the public who all share a common interest in the history of the Chartist movement. As well as a strong contingent of labour historians, Chartism Day brings together a broad spectrum of academics from the diverse fields of arts and humanities. It is this dynamic interchange between scholars working in an interdisciplinary environment that gives the event its distinctively friendly and productive character. 

Our next conference will be held at the University of Reading, hosted by Professor David Stack and themed to commemorate Dorothy Thompson’s impressive scholarship. Although we are inviting proposals on any aspect of Chartism, we would particularly welcome papers which closely engage with Dorothy’s special interests. Proposals might usefully focus on

•​Radicalism and political reform

•​Class and Chartism

•​Gender and women’s participation in Chartism

•​The Irish dimension 

•​Feargus O’Connor /Chartist leadership

•​The Land Plan

Presenters can choose to deliver full length (30-45 mins) or shorter papers (15 mins). Shorter papers could also be a contribution to our regular ‘Chartist Lives’ feature which offers brief biographical sketches of lesser-known Chartists, or be an analysis of a related document or artefact. 

In all instances, we are calling for brief abstracts of no more than around 350 words to be submitted by 19 April 2024. 

Please send abstracts to the co-convenors: 

Joan Allen joan.allen@ncl.ac.uk &

Richard Allen richard.allen@ncl.ac.uk

Further information: https://sslh.org.uk/2024/02/08/chartism-day-2024/

Workshop at Geneva Graduate Institute, 5-6 June 2024

The Global Sixties: An Interdisciplinary Journal invites submissions for a workshop and an ensuing special thematic issue on Internationalism of the Decolonizing World in the Cold War.

In recent decades, Cold War historiography has paid growing attention to the autonomy and agency of the players beyond the US-Soviet dichotomy. In the wake of Westad’s seminal The Global Cold War (2005), scholars have increasingly explored the episodes, events, and institutions that demonstrate the agency of the Global South. From the Bandung Conference to Pan-African networks, the so-called Third World assumes a pivotal role in the latest historiographies. Newly independent states, among others, are recast as actors in their own right and not mere pawns in a game played by two superpowers.

Cold War Internationalisms of/in the Decolonizing World advances this recentering of the narrative by focusing on decolonizing or newly independent states, along with related actors, as the makers and breakers of the Cold War world order. This special issue thus seeks to reframe the Cold War from the standpoint of Latin American, Middle Eastern, African, or Asian actors – where the US and Soviet Union appear not as the protagonists but as the dependent variables of decolonial world-making.

In addition, we seek contributions to highlight the decolonizing world’s agency in defining and/or shaping various ideologies – including, but not limited to, Communism, Socialism, Social Democracy, Nationalism, or Liberalism. We want to explore how actors from the postcolonial sphere assigned new meanings to the political vocabulary of the Cold War and created their own vocabularies.

Submissions including, but not limited to, the following topics are welcome:

    Anti-imperialist networks

    South-south diplomacies

    Biographical or multi-biographical studies

    Revolutionary organizations linked to post-colonial powers

    Women’s organizations, labor, intellectual, cultural, medical, educational, and humanitarian groups

    Politics of anti-colonial nationalism

    Non-Soviet communisms

 

 International repercussions and transnational afterlives of novel variations of ideologies or stand-alone ideologies emerging from the decolonizing world (Maoism, Nasserism, Juche, Jamahiriyya, Latin American Developmentalism, Nkruhmaism, Nehruvianism, etc.)

 Contributions from all levels, including graduate students and independent scholars, are greatly encouraged.

 

How to Apply

Prospective authors should send a short abstract (300 words) and a short bio (one paragraph) directly to Burak Sayim (burak.sayim@nyu.edu) and Severyan Dyakonov (sd3196@nyu.edu) by March 30, 2024. We will be in touch about the results by April 15.

The workshop will take place on June 5-6, 2024 at Geneva Graduate Institute. Financial support for travel and accommodation is limited.

If you are invited to submit a paper for the envisioned publication afterwards, the submission deadline for a completed manuscript is October 30, 2024.

For submission, style guidelines, or any further information, click here: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rsix21&…

University of Vienna, 19-20 September 2024

Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

How did cultural interaction since 1945 unfold outside the realm of Western dominance, shaping omitted global narratives? This workshop will explore cultural interactions between state socialist countries in Europe and those in the Global South, with the aim of challenging and deconstructing traditional Cold War narratives.

Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

How did cultural interaction since 1945 unfold outside the realm of Western dominance, shaping omitted global narratives? While Cold War studies have long acknowledged the role of culture and the arts as instrument of „soft power,“ scholars have traditionally framed this role within a binary East-West narrative. More recent studies have highlighted the necessity of a complex, interconnected, and global view of this conflict, with a particular focus on the decolonization process. This workshop will explore cultural interactions between state socialist countries in Europe and those in the Global South, with the aim of challenging and deconstructing traditional Cold War narratives.

We seek to further analyze the specificities, similarities, and differences in the development of relations between the Global South and state socialist Europe. Although these issues have been increasingly discussed in the context of trade, labor, and education, they have not yet received sufficient attention in the realm of visual arts, material objects, and cultural institutions. We welcome contributions from Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, as well as especially the Global South perspectives. Our goal is to foster critical discussion of theoretical frameworks as well as illustrative case studies that emphasize the historical and contemporary diversity and specificity of these regions by avoiding their objectification and homogenization.

We invite submissions for 20-minute papers from across the fields of museology and cultural heritage studies; art, architecture, cultural, global, oral, and Cold War histories; and political science that focus on:

- Cultural relations, representations, imaginations, and their historical and political contexts;
- Roles and impacts of cultural institutions, programs, exhibitions, and objects in the (un)official cultural diplomacy;
- Mobilities and exchanges of artists, cultural workers, artworks, artifacts, and ideas across regions and continents;
- Networks between official policies, institutions, and individuals in shaping and implementing cultural diplomacy;
- Relationship between art markets, role of collectors in shaping state cultural policy, and surrounding issues of provenance;
- Actors, motivations, and backgrounds of cultural encounters, and their evolution from economic to ideological interests;
- Role of European state socialist states in cultural decolonization and anti-imperialist partnerships;
- Historical transcontinental power dynamics and inequalities in cultural relations and diplomacy;Colonial legacies and challenges in contemporary cultural institutions and curatorial practices.

Keynote Lecture: Prof Beáta Hock (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe; Humboldt University of Berlin)

Please submit an abstract (c. 250 words) and a brief bio to anna-marie.kroupova@univie.ac.at by 31 March 2024. Applicants selected by the scientific committee will be notified by 30 April 2024.

Scientific Committee: Friedrich Cain (University of Vienna), Noémie Étienne (University of Vienna), Beáta Hock (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe; Humboldt University of Berlin), Dietlind Hüchtker (University of Vienna), Anna-Marie Kroupová (University of Vienna)

Workshop Partners: Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies (University of Vienna), FSP Global History (University of Vienna), Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Research on the Consequences of War, New Cold War Studies Research Group (University of Vienna), Research platform "Transformations and Eastern Europe" (University of Vienna)

Kontakt

anna-marie.kroupova@univie.ac.at

Hybrid

Cette journée vise à poursuivre la réflexion sur les dynamiques familiales, dans une optique comparative, France-Québec, et dans la longue durée des périodes moderne et contemporaine. Dans le but de faire le point sur l’état de la recherche et de poser les balises en vue d’un colloque international, la journée d’étude propose de focaliser sur les sources, les méthodes et les perspectives qui permettent d’interroger l’individualité des acteurs familiaux, l’évolution dans le temps des rapports entre les différents membres de la famille ainsi que leurs rapports à la transmission familiale, tant au sein des mondes urbains que ruraux.

Présentation

Dans la foulée d'une première journée d'étude portant sur les sorories et la transmission familiale tenue à l'Université de Lorraine (Metz) en octobre 2022, cette journée souhaite relancer la discussion sur l'entité "famille" (stratégies, réseaux), et les enjeux de la transmission (qu'il s'agisse des biens, des valeurs, des pratiques ou des savoirs, de la mémoire enfin), cela dans une perspective comparative France-Québec, et dans la longue durée des périodes moderne et contemporaine. Cette seconde journée vise à poursuivre la réflexion sur les dynamiques familiales, à la fois verticales (parents ou grands-parents/enfants) et horizontales (relations adelphiques ou de germanité) à l'œuvre dans les processus de transmission.

Les travaux sur la reproduction familiale ont donné lieu à de nombreux échanges entre les historiens nord-américains et européens, notamment par l'étroite relation France-Québec illustrée par les collouqes franco-québecois réunis à l'initiative de John A. Dickinson, G. Bouchard et J. Goy (Transmettre, hériter succéder, 1991 ; Les exclus de la terre en France et au Québec, 1997 ; Famille et marché, 2001 ; Familles, terre, marché, 2002). Sans exclure les réflexions spécifiques à la transmission des biens au sein des familles, l'objectif est ici de replacer les acteurs de la famille au centre de l'analyse, afin de réfléchir aux rapports interpersonnels et intergénérationnels lorsqu'il s'agit de penser la transmission.

Nous ferons le point sur l'état de la recherche et poserons les balises en vue d'un colloque international, la journée d'étude focalisera sur les sources, les méthodes et les perspectives qui permettent d'interroger l'individualité des acteurs familiaux, l'évolution dans le temps des rapports entre les membres de la famille ainsi que leurs rapports à la transmission familiale tant au sein des mondes urbains que ruraux.

Programme

Accueil 8h15-8h30 (Canada) / 14h15-14h30 (France)

8h30-8h45 / 14h30 -14h45 : Introduction

8h45-10h15/14h45-16h15 : Table ronde 1. Stratégies, transmissions et réseaux familiaux

• Pauline Ferrier-Viaud, Université d'Artois. « Protéger et transmettre : une lecture des stratégies conjugales et patrimoniales des premiers administrateurs de la Nouvelle-France »
• Nicolas Lelièvre, Université de Sherbrooke. « Reconstituer les réseaux familiaux ethnoculturels allemands en Amérique du Nord : sources et méthodes dans l'étude des familles Wurtele, Pozer, Glakmeyer et Globensky (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles) »
• Caroline Bouchier, Université Lyon 2. « Le partage anticipé : moteur et miroir d'une dynamique familiale »

Discussion

10h15 - 10h30 / 16h15-16h30 : Pause

10h30-11h45 / 16h30-17h45 : Table ronde 2. Relations adelphiques, familles et deuils

• Sophie Doucet, chercheuse indépendante et Peter Gossage, Université Concordia. « Frères et soeurs, rivalités et solidarités : les relations adelphiques devant les tribunaux québecois, 1840-1920 »
• Louise Lainesse, Université de Montréal. « Pleurer et se souvenir des siens : la famille en tant que communauté d'endeuillés (Québec, fin XIXe siècle) »
• Karine Pépin, Université de Sherbrroke, Sorbonne-Université. « La transmission de la mémoire familiale jusque dans la mort : l'identification des descendants nobles à leur lignée à travers les notices nécrologiques »

Dicussion

11h45-12h / 17h45-18h : Conclusion de la journée. Magda Fahrni, Université du Québec à Montréal.

Organisation

La Journée d'étude est organisée par le département d'histoire de l'Université de Sherbrooke et par le CRULH (Université de Lorraine), avec le soutien de la société de démographie historique.

Para su 6° número la revista Macrohistoria propone una reflexión para reforzar la mirada transnacional y de larga duración, centrada en las circulaciones, espacios y lenguajes políticos en América latina. El objetivo es repensar la variabilidad de conexiones y de escalas de análisis.

Convocatoria abierta para el dossier - Revista Macrohistoria

Coord.

Matias Sanchez Barberan / EHESS-MondesAméricains – mibarberan@hotmail.com

Argumentos

Para su 6° número la revista Macrohistoria propone una reflexión sobre circulaciones, espacios y lenguajes políticos en América latina, desde las independencias hasta nuestros días. Este tema no es un objeto nuevo en la atención de los especialistas. A los intercambios a gran escala durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX se suma la presencia europea o bien las migraciones regionales, que se trate por razones económicas o políticas. Si estos temas confirman el carácter global de las circulaciones, los estudios han tendido a caer en un doble impase. Por un lado, la perspectiva nacional, predominante durante buena parte del periodo de estudio propuesto, tiende a restringir los debates políticos a los marcos jurídicos de los emergentes Estados, sin explicitar los argumentos que dejarían fuera del análisis otras lecturas, que se trate de los valores cosmopolitas del siglo XIX, los debates sobre el derecho de asilo o los conflictos ideológicos durante la Guerra Fría. Numerosos y sugestivos trabajos recientes han demostrado en efecto que la imposición de la nación, aparentada a los contornos de los nuevos Estados, está lejos de ser la única puerta de entrada para apreciar el alcance de la cuestión migratoria y de sus efectos en el juego político. Lejos la idea de la nación como único resultado de la crisis imperial de principios del siglo XIX. Un segundo impase consiste en la adopción de la perspectiva biográfica. La exploración de la trayectoria individual tiende a pensar la migración en términos de influencia y recepción, dejando en las sombras otras formas de pensar el problema. Esta reducción se traduce en un relato que pierde en problematización, para adquirir a ratos contornos panegíricos.

El presente llamado apuesta a poner en relación los diversos tipos de circulación con las diversas formas de construcción de espacios y lenguajes políticos en América latina. La perspectiva invita a reforzar la mirada transnacional y de larga duración, permitiendo plantear en otros términos los debates y los espacios políticos. La propuesta busca ofrecer una alternativa a los marcos nacionales sobre la base de conexiones entre territorios y espacios aparentemente diferenciados.

La atención prestada a las conexiones autoriza además una variación de escalas de análisis,enriqueciendo así la interpretación más allá de la pregunta por la simple recepción. Sería así posible pensar bajo otros términos la relación entre el emergente movimiento estudiantil de principios desiglo y la circulación del pensamiento socialista vehiculado por trabajadores e intelectuales sensibles a la cuestión social. Si los estudios han insistido en el valor transnacional de las izquierdas, fuerza es deconstatar que las derechas se prestan también convenientemente a esta perspectiva. El llamado a contribución pretende en un primer momento dar luces sobre las diversas formas de circulación regional, para explorar desde ahí cómo los actores se dan una palabra o bien se sirven de mediaciones para incidir en los debates públicos. Interesa explorar las representaciones de la circulación y las formas concretas que ella adopta. Que se trate de la circulación de ideas, de migraciones voluntarias, del enganche o bien de las migraciones políticas o económicas, la circulación favorece la creación constante de un espacio de intercambios que debe poco a los contornos jurídicos de los Estados, y que ciertos estudios piensan como un vector de una “cultura política transnacional”. La llamada “crisis migratoria” o los debates en torno a la interculturalidad vienen a dar una actualidad consternante a estos procesos de larga duración

Ejes:

1. La circulación en tiempos de definición política y económica. Siglo XIX – formas económicas y políticas de migración (enganche, esclavitud, trabajo libre, exilios, proscritos y emigrados). Derecho internacional y derecho de asilo en la construcción institucional de los nuevos Estados.
2. La emergencia de la cuestión nacional. Segunda mitad del siglo XIX-XX. El giro conservador y la nacionalización de la migración.
3. América latina en la era de la crisis migratoria. Segunda mitad del siglo XX-XXI. Rupturas, continuidades, escalas y conexiones.

Modalidades de proposiciones de ponencias

Los artículos deben ser enviados al mail revista@macrohistoria.com, con copia a mibarberan@hotmail.com

Fecha límite para el envío de artículos: 12 de abril de 2024

Sobre la revista Marcohistoria

Normas de publicación

Consejo de Redacción

• Michelle Lacoste Adunka Editora Jefe Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 
• Andrea Torrealba Torre Editora científica Universidad Autónoma de México 
• Santiago Forero Bedoya Editor científica Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia 
• José Sovarzo Editor científico CONICET, Argentina.

Comité Editorial

• Dra. Antonella Romano Centre Alexandre-Koyré, EHESS, París
• Dr. Carlos Marichal El Colegio de México
• Dr. Ottmar Ette Universität Potsdam
• Dra. Tanya Harmer London School of Economics
• Dra. Marcela Echeverri Yale University 
• Dra. Eugenia Palieraki University of Cergy-Pontoise
• Dr. Bernd Hausberger El Colegio de México 
• Dr. Rafael Sagredo Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Proposals (maximum 500 words) must be sent by 30 April 2024 to praticashistoria@gmail.com . Proposals must be accompanied by a short biographical note. The acceptance or refusal of the proposal will be communicated by 15 May 2024. The articles of accepted proposals must be submitted by 31 July 2024. Contributions in both English and Portuguese are welcome.

(Digital) Retrospectives on Historiography from Africa: Decolonization, the African press, and the uses of historical knowledge (open)

https://praticasdahistoria.pt/digital-retrospectives-historiography-africa?fbclid=IwAR1NKcVvQOyYGKsWs-M_YJOn5D-7ZNvnJujquBUtVPHlZojy4rSlPWiH5Ss

Guest editors: Noemi Alfieri (CHAM, NOVA FCSH-UAc; Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, U. Bayreuth), Cassandra Mark-Thiesen (Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, U. Bayreuth)

The history of knowledge production in Africa is a rising topic in the backdrop of growing awareness of the uneven globalization of intellectual thought. Focusing on the era of decolonization in Africa, a growing number of scholars are especially exploring historiography as read in periodicals such as pamphlets, magazines, journals or newspapers (Mark-Thiesen, Alfieri, Thioub, Coquerey-Vidrovitch and others). They provide important impetus for understanding the link between media and emancipation,
political democracy, freedom of choice, self-awareness, and selective association.

This special issue of Práticas da História reflects on contemporary epistemological possibilities and constraints in the writing of history. Therefore, it welcomes both contributions that dwell on African journals (scholarly, literary, artistic and ephemeral periodicals) from the 1950s to 1980s, and on the histories behind said periodicals. We look forward to contributions that explore different and contested visions of decolonization and future-making for the African continent and its diaspora. We also invite articles investigating differently situated historiographies from Africa: that use local vernacular by incorporating idiom, local imagery, myth and folklore; that relate to the present or the deep past. We also encourage more nuanced takes on the "nationalist historiography" that when viewed as a monolith was so dominant at the time. For instance, Pan-Africanism and Négritude, while revolutionizing the political assets of the continent, remained contested as intellectual projects. Finally, articles problematizing the current conceptualisations of such historiography as either "colonial", "traditional", "radical", eurocentric", “afrocentric", "Africa-centred", and so forth, are highly welcomed.

Finally, on methodology, and given the current wave of digitisation and digitality, the guest editors encourage reflections on processes of digital preservation and recirculation of historiography from Africa, including their implications for Africa-based and African diasporic knowledge production in the arts, literature, and scholarship. How about their impact on the expansion of the public arena and community empowerment? How are online platforms fostering a re-positioning, re-calibrating and re-thinking of these bodies of knowledge from Africa? And what potentialities lie in the future? In short, we are interested in contributions that dwell on contemporary and future receptions of the above-mentioned publications and journals in the digital sphere.

Proposals (maximum 500 words) must be sent by 30 April 2024 to praticashistoria@gmail.com . Proposals must be accompanied by a short biographical note. The acceptance or refusal of the proposal will be communicated by 15 May 2024. The articles of accepted proposals must be submitted by 31 July 2024. Contributions in both English and Portuguese are welcome.

Kontakt

praticashistoria @ gmail.com

https://praticasdahistoria.pt/digital-retrospectives-historiography-africa?fbclid=IwAR1NKcVvQOyYGKsWs-M_YJOn5D-7ZNvnJujquBUtVPHlZojy4rSlPWiH5Ss

27–28 June 2024, Faculty of History Cambridge

We are soliciting papers for a workshop hosted at the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge on the social history of money in the contemporary world on 27–28 June 2024. The workshop will aim to explore money as a social relationship both from national and transnational perspectives in non-Western regions, such as Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, ranging from Far East developmental states to Latin American structuralism and socialist modernisation projects through the twentieth century. The workshop has two objectives. The first is to unravel the ways in which money has shaped and, in turn, has been shaped by social dynamics within national borders, particularly within production, consumption, and exchange, taking into consideration the cultural and social nuances specific to individual countries, societies, and communities, as well as state strategies that aim to regulate these diverse monetary dynamics through public finance techniques. The second objective is to investigate the effects of these domestic processes on peripheral modernisation projects, strategies of ‘alternative globalisation’, and engagement with international markets, as well as broader processes, like the postwar Keynesian revolution, financialisaton, globalisation, decolonisation, global economic crises, and the rise of neoliberalism.

Participants may consider the following questions of and perspectives on money, credit, and debt. However, the list is non-inclusive, and panellists are encouraged to explore other aspects beyond those mentioned below.

States and Governments

What strategies did states and governments on the periphery of the world system employ to influence monetary value and thereby state capacity? What were the outcomes of these efforts? What roles did fiscal and monetary policies, ideological considerations, or the concept of ‘peripherality’ vis-à-vis the West play in shaping these processes? Can we identify cross-regional patterns in these dynamics, and to what extent can money be considered a ‘great equaliser’, converging states towards Western patterns?

Individuals, Society, Producers, Consumers, and Markets

How did cultural, religious, or other community-based lending practices influence individuals’ creditworthiness and the social reproduction of credit and debt? How did individual perceptions and meanings of money evolve over time, and what impact did this evolution have both on society and the state? How did temporality feature in these processes and to what extent could this concept be useful to examine shifts in money’s (time)value?

Domestic and International Financial Institutions, Stock Exchanges, and Financial Markets

What roles did (post)colonial financial institutions play in overseeing credits, investments, and monetary value, particularly in influencing interest rates within developing states? How did religion or culture feature in financial institutions’ credit extension practice? In what ways and to what extent did global shifts such as decolonisation, the rise of neoliberalism, the 1970s oil crises, and the disintegration of the Eastern Bloc impact lending practices and the reproduction of money, credit, and debt?

We are planning with conventional panels, each including up to three panellists, followed by a Q&A session. A keynote will be delivered by Dr Oscar Sanchez-Sibony (University of Hong Kong) on socialist political economy and Soviet financial globalisation in the twentieth century. The workshop will conclude with a roundtable discussion including museologists, focusing on museums and public engagement. Participants will be invited to publish their papers in a special journal issue.

Applications from any of the social and historical sciences, broadly considered, are welcome, provided papers adopt a historical approach. This includes, but is not limited to, disciplines such as history, sociology, anthropology, international relations, political economy, and political science. Early-career scholars are especially encouraged to apply.

Limited funding will be available to contribute to accommodation expenses for those without institutional support. Please indicate in your application if you request support to attend.

Please send abstracts of up to 300 words together with a short CV to Szinan Radi, sr2103@cam.ac.uk by 18 March 2024.

17 - 19 October 2024, Universität Konstanz (Germany)

The workshop is the first of a series of events within the programme ‘Violence in East and West — Towards an Integrated History of 20th Century Europe’, funded by the VolkswagenStiftung. Its goal is to stimulate a comprehensive, multi-scalar and multi-territorial research and teaching on violence in the 20th century Europe.

Call for abstracts: Children’s Experiences of Violence and Coercion in Europe since 1945

The Chair of East European History at the University of Konstanz welcomes applications for a workshop dedicated to publishing a journal issue/edited volume on the topic of children’s experiences of violence and coercion in Europe since 1945. We plan to develop a multi-scalar approach that includes individual, bottom-up and local, as well as collective, institutional and national/transnational perspectives covering the second half of the 20th century, along with the 21st century.

We particularly welcome historians as well as researchers from other relevant fields (sociology, anthropology, political science, legal studies, gender studies, decolonial studies, pedagogy and psychology). The geographic focus of the workshop is Europe as a whole, both capitalist (Western democracies, Southern authoritarian regimes, Nordic welfare states) and socialist (including the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia) countries. Comparative papers crossing the East-West divide are particularly welcomed. We strongly encourage individuals from underrepresented and/or marginalized identities to apply.

We remain open to papers reflecting on any relevant issues, for instance:
- Local, state and transnational policies towards protection of children against violence, particularly in time of transitions and transformations (relief organisations, care institutions, grassroots and formal substitute care)
- Domestic and systemic violence against children
- Children’s experiences of poverty, homelessness, hunger, labour (also as a result of previously experienced violence)
- Exclusion of and violence towards children from marginal groups
- Children born of war and occupation
- Post-war adaptation of child survivors (civilians, prisoners, forced labourers, refugees)
- Forced transfer and trafficking of children
- Trauma and resilience of children who experienced violence

The workshop’s goal is to offer a substantial space to discuss each other’s work, explore new research ideas, and build and extend networks of scholars of all career levels who research children’s post-war experiences of violence. After the workshop, we intend to publish selected papers as a special journal issue or edited volume. The aim of the set-up network would be to develop studies on the long-lasting consequences that World War II in Europe (as well as other later conflicts) had on child survivors, communities, and societies, as well as law, medicine, pedagogy, and welfare.

Accommodation (2 nights) and travel costs (within Europe) for the participants will be covered. The language of the workshop and further publication will be English.

Please send your abstract (max. 300 words) and a short bio to maria.buko@uni-konstanz.de in a message entitled „WORKSHOP” by 29 February 2024. Decisions will be sent out by 31 March 2024.

If you are invited to participate, the deadline for a draft paper (work in progress, around 7000 words, in English), will be 15 September 2024. All paper drafts will be pre-circulated two weeks before the planned workshop, with one person selected as a respondent and the other participants expected to comment during the group discussions. The workshop will take place on 17-19 October 2024 at the University of Konstanz, Germany (Thursday afternoon until Saturday morning).

Organising committee: Maria Buko (Universität Konstanz), Jakub Gałęziowski (University of Warsaw), Pavel Kolář (Universität Konstanz).

Kontakt

Dr. Maria Buko
maria.buko@uni-konstanz.de

https://www.geschichte.uni-konstanz.de/forschung-geschichte/kolar/

The Theory and Historiography network of the ESSHC is interested in proposals for panels (consisting of three papers and a comment), roundtables (more oriented to discussion than the formal presentation of panels) and ‘meet the author’ sessions (where there is a pathbreaking publication of a monograph, not older than two years) on theoretical and historiographical topics.

ESSHC Theory and Historiography Network

The 15th European Social Science History Conference will be held in Leiden, The Netherlands, from 26 to 29 March 2025. The ESSHC aims to bring together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the past. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions. It is organized in a large number of networks that cover a certain topic (e.g. criminal justice, family, social inequality).

The Theory and Historiography network is interested in proposals for panels (consisting of three papers and a comment), roundtables (more oriented to discussion than the formal presentation of panels) and ‘meet the author’ sessions (where there is a pathbreaking publication of a monograph, not older than two years) on theoretical and historiographical topics.

Although reflection on a wide set of theoretical and historiographical issues are welcome, in 2025 we would like to encourage proposals in particular on the topic of ‘Engaged History Writing’. In times of global crises there is an urgency to act on the knowledge that we have as scientists and scholars. Biodiversity loss and climate change, war, conflicts and polarization have turned many academics into activists. Many historians today are likewise engaged in addressing societal needs and concerns, not least by working on societies confronting a traumatic, violent or unwanted past, or by dealing with a growing political instrumentalization of history and an ongoing mobilization around the meanings and uses of the past. Engaged history work, in the sense of putting historical knowledge in the service of societal change, or even, of emancipatory politics, can mean many things; re-writing history on behalf of disadvantaged and repressed groups, engage in public contestations of history or critically contest populist memory governance, act as expert witness in international tribunals or as public intellectuals by actively resisting the demands of specialization. But engaged history writing also has to do with the politics and ethics of historical knowledge production, with academic commitments and epistemic responsibilities, with resisting public demands of useful pasts in the name of historical truth. Overall, we encourage submission of panels that deal with issues related to engaged history writing and the notions of activism and commitment broadly conceived, across time and geographical borders. We also encourage submissions that deal with the responsibilities of historians and with the intersecting roles of professional historians, public intellectuals and academic activists.

The deadline for proposals is April 15, 2024.

The European Social Science History Conference is organized by the International Institute of Social History. For details see: https://esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en

To submit proposals, please use the Ex Ordo platform, https://esshc2025.exordo.com/

Network chairs:

Professor Stefan Berger
Institut für soziale Bewegungen
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
e-mail: stefan.berger@rub.de

Kenan Van De Mieroop
Leiden University
e-mail: K.J.Van.de.mieroop@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Professor Victoria Fareld
Department of Culture and Aesthetics
Stockholm University
e-mail: victoria.fareld@idehist.su.se

https://esshc2025.exordo.com/