Social and Labour History News

CfP: Oral History and Life Stories Network

3 months 1 week ago

The 15th European Social Science History Conference is organized by the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam in cooperation with Leiden University.

The conference will take place from 26 to 29 March 2025 in Leiden, Netherlands.

Oral History and Life Stories Network

The Oral History and Life Stories Network is one of the 27 networks of the ESSHC and brings together oral history and life story researchers and practitioners who explore memory, narratives, and history. Broadly, we want to encourage papers that explore methodological questions and challenges as well as the relationship between oral histories and the construction and analysis of life stories, both in terms of processes and outcomes.

This is a thematically open Call for Papers, but we would like to stimulate some topics that may attract broader interest:

- theoretical and methodological challenges of oral history today
- impact of the digitization process on doing oral history and the analysis; challenges of digitization (audio and video), e.g. transcript, keywording, archiving
- reuse of (archived) oral history materials
- reflections on legal issues and ethical questions in oral history
- themes of oral history today, e.g. whose memories are collected, analysed, and archived
- shared authority/sharing authority
- teaching oral history and supervision of oral history projects – experiences, challenges, concepts
- reflections on combining oral history and life story methods
- relations of oral history to other fields (e.g. social sciences, ethnology, memory studies, etc.)

We welcome individual paper proposals as well as proposals for panels. Panel proposals must be international in membership (and from different institutions). Each of their constituent papers must be of a high quality. The over-riding criterion for the selection is strength of the proposed paper, be it an individual paper or a paper in a panel proposal.
Our Network does not favour discussants; if a panel proposal includes a discussant, it should indicate why they wish to follow this format (if so, the panel must comprise a maximum of four speakers plus a discussant). Sessions can have a maximum of five papers.
The DEADLINE for the required pre-registration and upload of a paper or session proposal at the ESSHC website is April 15, 2024. Please refer to the ESSHC-ESSHC website for more information at https://esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en/guidelines.

Network chairs:
Anne Heimo, University of Turku, Finland, anheimo@utu.fi - Andrea Strutz, LBI for Research on Consequences of War and University of Graz, Austria, andrea.strutz@uni-graz.at - Malin Thor Tureby, Malmö University, Sweden, malin.thor@mau.se

https://esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en/esshc-conference-2025

Kontakt

conference office: esshc@iisg.nl

https://esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en

Wie erinnern sich Zwangsarbeiter:innen? Interviews mit polnischen und russischen Zeitzeug:innen (German)

3 months 1 week ago

29 February 2024, Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit, Berlin

Polnische und russische Verschleppte machten bei der Zwangsarbeit ähnliche Erfahrungen, erinnern sich jedoch unterschiedlich. Wie lässt sich das erklären?

Wie erinnern sich Zwangsarbeiter:innen? Interviews mit polnischen und russischen Zeitzeug:innen

In einem großangelegten Interviewprojekt wurden 2005/06 ehemalige NS-Zwangsarbeiter:innen in 26 Ländern interviewt, darunter 72 in Polen und 56 in Russland. Die Aufzeichnungen sind auf einem Portal der Freien Universität zugänglich (https://www.zwangsarbeit-archiv.de).

Grete Rebstock und Roland Borchers haben die russischen bzw. polnischen Interviews in ihren Dissertationen analysiert. In ihren Büchern, die jüngst erschienen sind, haben sie herausgearbeitet, inwiefern die Erinnerungen der Zeitzeug:innen von der sowjetischen und russischen bzw. polnischen Geschichtspolitik geprägt sind.

Programm

Begrüßung: Dr. Christine Glauning
Leiterin des Dokumentationszentrums NS-Zwangsarbeit

Polnische Zwangsarbeiter:innen: Dr. Roland Borchers
Osteuropa-Historiker, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit

Sowjetische Zwangsarbeiter:innen: Dr. Grete Rebstock
Osteuropa-Historikerin

Moderation: Dr. Cord Pagenstecher
Historiker, Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin, Bereich Digitale Interview-Sammlungen

https://www.ns-zwangsarbeit.de/home/

Re-Constructing Perestroika(s): In Search of a New Vocabulary for the Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia

3 months 1 week ago

14-15 March 2024, Prague

Perestroika, once synonymous with top-down reforms by Mikhail Gorbachev, was an era of diverse voices, intense emotions, and economic struggles. Beyond political and economic spheres, Perestroika encompassed all facets of society, culture, and even thought. This workshop invites fresh perspectives on Perestroika across Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, aiming to redefine its complex impact.

Re-Constructing Perestroika(s): In Search of a New Vocabulary for the Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia

Perestroika, originally associated with top-down reforms led by Mikhail Gorbachev, unfolded as an era characterised by diverse voices, intense emotions, and economic struggles. Extending beyond the realms of politics and economics, Perestroika permeated every aspect of society, culture, and intellectual thought. This workshop intends to transcend the conventional boundaries—both geographic and temporal—of our typical understanding of Perestroika as well as aspires to bring forth fresh perspectives on the period spanning Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Eurasia.

The workshop is organised by the Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague; Georgetown University, Washington DC; Leibniz Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam.

Programm

Thursday, March 14, 2024

9:00-9:30 Welcome and Introduction

9:30-11:00 Panel 1: Perestroika as a Local and Professional Community Event
Chair: Kelly Smith, Georgetown University

Victoria Musvik (University of Oxford)
De-Centralizing Perestroika: Local Russian Photographic Communities, Alternative Socialism and Unbroken Memory

Margarita Pavlovа (Justus Liebig University Giessen / Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam)
Grassroots Groups and Ambiguities of Perestroika in Leningrad

Karolina Koziura (European University Institute, Florence)
Holodomor Unveiled: The Emergence of Grassroot Memory of Famine in Ukraine under Perestroika

11:30-13:00 Panel 2: Perestroika as an Expression of Artistic Non-Conformism
Chair: Martin Babička, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Ilya Kalinin (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Universal (Non-/Anti-)Soviet Lexicon: Between Deconstruction and Affirmation

Kateryna Yeremieieva (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich)
Without Words: The Speaking Process in Perestroika Caricatures

Ondřej Daniel (Charles University, Prague)
Black Celebration in Red Prague: Concert of Depeche Mode in March 1988

14:00-15:45 Panel 3: Perestroika as a Moral Debate
Chair: Václav Rameš, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Anna Ivanova (Humboldt University, Berlin)
“If Cooperatives Win – We All Win!”: Discussions of Private Enterprise and Social Justice in the Soviet Union during Perestroika

Matej Ivančík (Comenius University, Bratislava)
Markets in the Name of Morality. Economic Thought and Democracy in Post-Socialist Slovakia

Jogilė Ulinskaitė (Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University)
Negotiated and Justified Stories about the Post-Communist Transformation in Lithuania

Annina Gagyiova (Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Moving from Risk to Risky: Hungary’s Second Economy and its Transition to Market after 1989

16:15-17:15 Keynote Roundtable Discussion “How to Speak About Perestroika Now?”
Chair: Bradley Gorski, Georgetown University

Epp Annus (Tallinn University / Ohio State University)
Juliane Fürst (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam)
Veronika Pehe (Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences,Prague)

Friday, March 15, 2024

9:30-11:15 Panel 4: Perestroika as a Transnational Event
Chair: Irina Gordeeva, Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam

Kirsten Bönker (University of Cologne)
Building a “Common European Home”? Town Twinning between Soviet, West and East German Cities during Perestroika

Emma Friedlander (Harvard University)
The Soviet New Age: A Pop Culture Chronology of Soviet Collapse, 1975-2000

Vlad Strukov (University of Leeds)
Queer Exchanges: Re-Inventing Sexualities during and after Perestroika

Tetiana Perga (Institute of World History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
“External Factor”: The Role of the Diaspora in the Development of the Environmental Movement in Ukraine during the Period of Perestroika

11:45-13:15 Panel 5: Perestroika Outside Time and Place
Chair: Corinna Kuhr-Korolev, Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam

Isaac Scarbrough (Leiden University)
Perestroika Did Not End – Perestroika is Ongoing: The Extended Reform and Collapse of the USSR across the Soviet Divide

Tamar Qeburia (Georg-August University Göttingen / Ilia State University)
Pre-Perestroika Dynamics in a Georgian Factory

Isabel Jacobs (Queen Mary University of London) and Katerina Pavlidi (University College Dublin)
Perestroika as Return: Late Soviet Temporalities and the Myth of Stagnation

14:15-15:30 Panel 6: Perestroika in the Mind
Chair: Marie Černá, Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Courtney Doucette (State University of New York, Oswego)
Perestroika: The Last Attempt to Create the New Soviet Person

Hubert Guzik (Czech Technical University, Prague)
What Can Historians of Perestroika Learn from Opinion Polls?

Jonáš Jánsky (Central European University, Vienna)
“Islands of Positive Deviation” in Slovakia

Final Discussion

CfP: Traverse 2025/3 "Antiféminismes" (French/German)

3 months 1 week ago

La revue Traverse lance un appel à contribution sur le thème des antiféminismes. Revue transpériode et bilingue français-allemand, la revue cherche des contributions qui examinent les antiféminismes sous différentes perspectives pour amener des éclairages variés. Si l’antiféminisme à proprement parler se situe essentiellement dans la période contemporaine (long XIXe siècle – XXIe siècle), les propositions portant sur des manifestations misogynes prenant place dans des périodes antérieures, et pouvant ainsi être considérées comme des mouvements précurseurs de l’antiféminisme, sont également bienvenues. Il en va de même pour les contributions conceptuelles qui s’intéressent aux questions de définition et s’interrogent sur les différences et les points communs entre l’antiféminisme, la misogynie et le sexisme.

Argumentaire

L’antiféminisme est un contre-mouvement dont les idées ont circulé au fur et à mesure que les femmes réclamaient leur émancipation. Dès le milieu du 19e siècle, les antiféministes refusent aux femmes leur droit à l’éducation et au travail, puis à l’autonomie civile et politique, au nom de la différence naturelle des sexes et de la tradition. Prônant une société fondée sur des hiérarchies considérées comme «naturelles», le discours antiféministe est une des composantes clés et continuelle des sociétés organisées sur un modèle patriarcal. L’antiféminisme n’est toutefois pas homogène : il s’agit d’un phénomène global, qui s’adapte aux cadres nationaux et varie d’intensité en fonction des contextes historiques, si bien qu’il est plus juste de parler des antiféminismes pour souligner la diversité de ses protagonistes, organisations et modes d’action et, en fin de compte, questionner la relation complexe entre les positions antiféministes et féministes. Les recherches actuelles soulignent l’adaptation de l’antiféminisme au monde contemporain. Ainsi, à l’antiféminisme centré sur la lutte contre la présence des femmes dans l’espace politique et public, se sont ajoutées de nouvelles formes d’antiféminisme, visant notamment la défense de la famille hétérosexuelle.

Face à cette capacité de changement et à la diversité du phénomène, le numéro cherche des contributions qui examinent les antiféminismes sous différentes perspectives pour amener des éclairages variés. Si l’antiféminisme à proprement parler se situe essentiellement dans la période contemporaine (long 19e siècle – 21e siècle), les propositions portant sur des manifestations misogynes prenant place dans des périodes antérieures, et pouvant ainsi être considérées comme des mouvements précurseurs de l’antiféminisme, sont également bienvenues. Il en va de même pour les contributions conceptuelles qui s'intéressent aux questions de définition et s'interrogent sur les différences et les points communs entre l'antiféminisme, la misogynie et le sexisme.

Les thèmes suivants pourront être abordés:

  • intersectionnalité des haines: convergences entre antiféminisme, antisémitisme et racisme
  • circulation transnationale des idées, protagonistes et pratiques antiféministes
  • la « théorie du genre » comme nouvelle cible de l’antiféminisme
  • lesbophobie et homophobie
  • mouvements de backlash face aux réformes en faveur de l’égalité de genre
  • antiféminisme et nouvelle droite
  • déploiement de l’antiféminisme dans la presse et en ligne
  • mouvements masculinistes
  • antiféminisme et religion
Modalités de soumission

Les contributions sur le thème des «Antiféminismes» seront publiées dans le numéro 3/2025 de traverse. Les textes comporteront au maximum 30’000 signes (espaces compris) et seront évalués par les pairs (double blind). Vous trouverez toutes les informations sur les formalités ainsi que la feuille de style sur le site de traverse. Les chercheurs et chercheuses intéressé·e·s sont priés d’envoyer un abstract (environ 600 mots) et un bref CV à Stéphanie Ginalski (stephanie.ginalski@unil.ch), Pauline Milani (pauline.milani@unifr.ch) ou Matthias Ruoss (matthias.ruoss@unifr.ch).

avant le 15 avril 2024

Les auteur·ice·s seront informé·e·s de la décision des éditeur·ice·s de la revue au plus tard le 15 mai 2024. La date limite pour la soumission des articles est le 15 décembre 2024

Comité scientifique
  • Burghartz Susanna, Prof. Dr.
  • Friboulet Jean-Jacques, Prof. Dr.
  • Guex Sébastien, Prof. Dr.
  • Joris Elisabeth, Dr.
  • Jost Hans Ulrich, Prof. Dr.
  • Leimgruber Matthieu, Prof. Dr.
  • Roche (†) Daniel, Prof. Dr.
  • Schulte Regina, Prof. Dr.
  • Siegrist Hannes, Prof. Dr.
  • Tanner Jakob, Prof. Dr.
  • Wecker Regina, Prof. Dr.

CfP: Conceptualizing Corruption: The “Old Regime” and the New Order in East-Central-South Europe (1750s-1850s)

3 months 1 week ago

During the age of revolutions, West European politicians, scholars, and popular writers often characterized South-East-Central Europe as a corrupt political space. Notables from the region routinely echoed these claims. Those in and outside of South-East-Central Europe mobilized commentaries on “corruption” for their own political, professional, and personal gains. They used the idea of corruption to assert, for instance, that they knew to run more honest and efficient administrations, military regimes, and commercial operations. The conference organizers welcome paper proposals that employ a (de)constructivist and/or sematic approach to study the concept corruption and its relationship to the rise of (West European) modernity. Submissions should focus on Central-South-East Europe from the 1750s to the 1850s. Applicants working on regional micro-histories that situate changing notions of “corruption” in a transnational context are especially encouraged to apply.

International Conference Conceptualizing Corruption: The “Old Regime” and the New Order in East-Central-South Europe (1750s-1850s)

New Europe College – Institute for Advanced StudyBucharest, 17-18 June 2024

Argument

During the age of revolutions, West European politicians, scholars, and popular writers often characterized South-East-Central Europe as a corrupt political space. Notables from the region routinely echoed these claims. Those in and outside of South-East-Central Europe mobilized commentaries on “corruption” for their own political, professional, and personal gains. They used the idea of corruption to assert, for instance, that they knew to run more honest and efficient administrations, military regimes, and commercial operations. Political and economic actors on both sides of the continent linked “corruption” to the supposed cultural backwardness and economic underdevelopment of the region. In doing so, public figures naturalized notions of “corruption,” making it appear both widespread and organic, popularizing tropes that have endured right down to the present.

“Corruption,” however, is a historically specific concept not an ahistorical, moral, universal, or essentialist category. It gained currency in West Europe during the age of revolutions when a particular understanding of “corruption” grew increasingly hegemonic in developing liberal-capitalist discourses. It lent itself to liberal critiques of anciens régimes, rival politicians, and societies that they might formally or informally colonize. Public figures agitating for change used accusations of “corruption” to legitimize their political programs and assert (political and/or discursive) power.

This emerging definition of “corruption” drew on novel notions of good government that excluded traditional systems of clientelist relationships — the types of political, economic, and social networks that had heretofore characterized public life in South-East and Central Europe. Leaders in this region gradually adopted and adapted this new view of “corruption.” As such, denouncing “corrupt” acts generated a particular form of political and social capital in an emerging order in South-East and Central Europe.

The conference organizers welcome paper proposals that employ a (de)constructivist and/or sematic approach to study the concept corruption and its relationship to the rise of (West European) modernity. Submissions should focus on Central-South-East Europe from the 1750s to the 1850s. Applicants working on regional micro-histories that situate changing notions of “corruption” in a transnational context are especially encouraged to apply. To explore both the continuities perpetuated and ruptures produced by discourses of “corruption,” the conference organizers invite interested scholars to submit a proposal connected to one or more of the following themes:

  • Redefinition of “corruption.”In West Europe, critiques of anciens régimes as “corrupt” gained purchase between 1750 and 1850. Were actors in South-East-Central Europe aware of these discourses that delegitimized the political and social status quo? If not, how do we account for the simultaneity of similar polemics in the region? What did it mean for the old regime to be “corrupt” and did leaders in East Europe understand “corruption” in the same way their West European counterparts? What did good government mean to actors in different geographic locations and how did “corruption” become a mechanism for asserting their own political legitimacy?
  • The transitions from the old regime to the new regime. How did actors contribute to and/or resist empire- and state-building via accusations of “corruption”? Did they confront or collaborate with new imperial (and later national) agents? Did they encourage or attempt to thwart the rise of a new political/social/economic order? Who were the actors that advocated for a new order and what were the changes they pursued? How did they deploy the concept of “corruption” to achieve their goals?
  • Reframing the Ottoman past. Throughout the period, political elites mobilized tropes like “Turk” and “Phanariot”. Even today these terms still denote notions of “corruption,” clientelism, and favoritism in the region. How can we assess their use at the time as well as the longevity of these ideas in political, public, and historiographical discourses?
  • Codifying deviation, formalizing “corruption.”Debates over “corruption” arose in the context of a broader process of modernization marked above all by the formalization of laws (including property rights, the codification of taxes, the elaboration of various regulatory practices), the creation of an increasingly elaborate and centralized bureaucracy, and a tighter distinction between the public and private spheres. Each of these processes shaped behavioral standards. How can tracking the concept of “corruption” help us analyze these changes over time and understand their impact?
Submission guidelines

The conference organizers welcome proposals of ca. 400 words concerning the above-mentioned themes

until the 1st March 2024. 

The proposals, along with a short CV should be sent to cardeleanu@nec.ro and ardcons@gmail.com.

The final decision on the received proposals will be announced by mid-March 2024.

Travel costs and accommodation

Invited speakers will have their travel costs reimbursed. Accommodation will be provided.

This international conference is organized within the framework of “Transnational histories of ‘corruption’ in Central-South-East Europe (1750-1850)”, European Research Council Advanced Grant (ERC-2022-AdG no. 101098095). It is hosted by the New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest (2023-2028) (https://nec.ro/programs/erc-grants/).

Organizers and scientific selection committee
  • Constantin Ardeleanu (New Europe College / Institute for South-East European Studies, Bucharest)
  • Ana Buculei (New Europe College)
  • Silvia Marton (New Europe College / University of Bucharest)
  • Alex R. Tipei (New Europe College / Université de Montréal)

CfP: Pan-Africanisms, (Post-)Slavery and Race

3 months 1 week ago

This issue of Slaveries & Post-Slaveries examines the repercussions of the transatlantic matrix of race on post-slavery societies. Particular attention will be paid to societies on the African continent, as the racial logics operating within them have rarely been studied. We understand racial logics as the assumption that supposed physical and cultural differences between groups are “inherited” from one generation to the next.

Scientific editors

Sakiko Nakao, Chuo University

Argument

The African diaspora originated from the mass deportation of captive people transported from the African continent to the Americas and territories in the Indian Ocean and Asia. Accompanying this movement of forced migration was a process of racialization of these enslaved people (Cottias 2007). Certain physical and cultural characteristics supposedly shared by the enslaved were systematically associated with their “African” ancestry and subaltern status. Viewed as an anti-racist resistance movement, pan-Africanism, which overturns stigma, is underpinned by bonds of racial solidarity. In structuring post-slavery societies, including on the African continent, blackness and Africanity developed interdependently (Pierre 2013). Over time, some pan-African struggles have attempted to transcend racialized belongings to envisage a transnational anti-colonial and anti-neo-colonial solidarity, while others have emphasized culturalist solidarity and revived its racial basis (Apter 2016). How have the various political and cultural actors of Pan-Africanism explicitly or implicitly positioned themselves with regard to the history of racialization?

This issue of Slaveries & Post-Slaveries examines the repercussions of the transatlantic matrix of race on post-slavery societies. Particular attention will be paid to societies on the African continent, as the racial logics operating within them have rarely been studied. We understand racial logics as the assumption that supposed physical and cultural differences between groups are “inherited” from one generation to the next (Takezawa 2005). While these logics may have existed in a great many societies before the European invention of “scientific racism,” the social, political and economic structures that exploit these differences were transformed when the latter was introduced, and became part of global racialization processes (Takezawa & Schaub 2022; Clarke & Thomas 2006; Pierre 2013). We will question the ways in which racial logics are mobilized within pan-African movements from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. What are the resulting impacts on the vision of “Africa” as a community of belonging and on the process of identification and self-identification of being African?

The aim herein is to study the circulation and transformation of racial thought within African communities on the continent and in the diaspora, as well as the strengths and limits of their mobilization within the pan-African movement. The political mobilization of racial ideologies can be a tool of resistance, but can also generate conflicts within and between African societies. Is there convergence in the anti-racist and/or pan-African resistance strategies adopted in different post-slavery societies? Or, on the contrary, have the various interpretations of chromatic cultural and political concepts such as négritude and blackness been sources of divergence within pan-Africanism? How have national and international political powers instrumentalized these affinities or divergences (Apter 2016; Pierre 2013)?

Contributions may focus on the following themes, among others:

  • The symbolic dimension of the slave trade and slavery within pan-African movements from their origins to the present day.
  • The politics of remembrance of the slave trade and slavery pursued by African governments and/or international bodies (OAU/AU, UNESCO, etc.) and their impact on racialized conceptions of belonging among Africans on the continent and in the diaspora.
  • The issue of citizenship and nationality for people from the diaspora community.
  • Pan-African cultural events (FESMAN in Dakar, 1966 and 2010; PANAF in Algiers 1969; FESTAC in Lagos, 1977; FESPACO in Ouagadougou since 1969; PANAFEST in Ghana since 1992, etc.).
  • Racial logics as part of social, cultural and political discourses and practices within African societies or the diaspora.
  • The role of racial logics in discourses and practices that define social relations, particularly with regard to social statuses linked to slavery within African societies.
  • How “lineage identification” within African communities sustains ideology, Afrocentrism, and militant protest movements.
  • Contributions focusing on regions often sidelined in pan-Africanist discourses are welcome, including North Africa, the Indian Ocean, or the African diaspora in Asia.
  • Finally, special attention may be given to the study of counter-discourses to chromatic identifications of Africa, such as the concepts of multiculturalism, creolité or Afropolitanism.
Submission Procedures

Proposals for articles (between 500 and 800 words) must be sent to ciresc.redaction@cnrs.fr

by June 1, 2024.

Decisions on manuscripts will be announced on July 1, 2024.

Accepted papers (45,000 characters maximum, spaces included, bibliography included) must be submitted in French, English, Spanish or Portuguese, before November 1, 2024. They must be accompanied by an abstract or résumé of no more than 3,600 signs. The full list of recommendations to authors is available here.

Final versions must be ready by July 1, 2025.

Schedule
  • Deadline for the submission of summaries: June 1, 2024
  • Deadline for the submission of articles: before November 1, 2024
  • Deadline for final version of articles: July 1, 2025
Selected References

Apter Andrew, 2016. “Beyond Négritude: Black Cultural Citizenship and the Arab Question in FESTAC 77,” Journal of African Cultural Studies, no. 28/3, pp. 313–326.

Clarke Kamari Maxine & Deborah A. Thomas (eds.), 2006. Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness, Durham, Duke University Press.

Cottias Myriam, 2007. La Question noire. Histoire d’une construction coloniale, Paris, Bayard.

Diagne Souleymane Bachir, 2001. “Africanity as an Open Question,” in Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Amina Mama, Henning Melber & Francis B. Nyamnjoh (eds.), Identity and Beyond: Rethinking Africanity, Uppsala, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, pp. 19–24.

Glissant Édouard, 1990. Poétique de la Relation, Paris, Gallimard.

Mbembe Achille, 2006. “Afropolitanisme,” Africultures, no. 66/1, pp. 9–15.

Pierre Jemima, 2013. The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race, Chicago/London, The University of Chicago Press.

Takezawa Yasuko, 2005. Jinshu gainen no fuhensei wo tou, Kyoto, Jimbun Shoin.

Takezawa Yasuko & Jean-Frédéric Schaub (eds.), 2022. Jinshushugi to Han jinshushugi: Ekkyo to Tenkan, Kyoto, Kyoto University Press.

Thioub Ibrahima, 2012. Stigmates et mémoires de l’esclavage en Afrique de l’Ouest : le sang et la couleur de peau comme lignes de fracture, FMSH-WP-2012-23. Available online: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00743503 [last accessed, December 2023].

"What is your take on violence?" On a crucial question of the international Left in its historical-political contex

3 months 1 week ago

International Conference at IHSF Vienna, International Rosa Luxemburg Society, Nord University (20–22 June 2024)

"What is your take on violence?" On a crucial question of the international Left in its historical-political context

In the years leading up to the First World War, the international labor movement made considerable efforts to counteract an escalation in international politics. In fact, however, in the respective historical-political context of their time, numerous influential left-wing theorists, who, for example, strictly opposed an armed conflict of the European powers, had to take the position that violence was “[the] means of the offensive [...] where the legal terrain of the class struggle has yet to be conquered.” (Rosa Luxemburg, 1902). Against the background of this apparent contradiction, the conference in Vienna will examine left-wing positions on violence in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Programm

Thursday, 20 June 2024

Check-in / Welcoming remarks

Keynote & Discussion
Mark Jones (Berlin/Dublin): Making the atrocities go away: reflections on violence in the German Revolution of 1918-19.

Friday, 21 June 2024

Panel 1: Linke Intellektuelle und die Gewaltfrage/ Left lntellectuals and the Question of Violence

David Bernardini (Milan): "All the Violence Necessary to Win; but Nothing More": Errico Malatesta and the matter of violence

Ari Ofengenden (New Orleans): Kautsky and Trotsky on Terrorism and Communism

Ben Lewis (Leeds): Dictatorship, Terror and Sacrifice in Rosa Luxemburg's Thought

Panel 2: Linke Gewaltpraxen / Violent Practices of the Left

Christina Diac (Bucharest): Far-Left Terrorism? The Bomb Attack at the Romanian Senate in December 1920

André Pina (Porto): The Red Legion: radical-left terrorism in the Portuguese 1st Republic (1919-1925)

Monica Quirico (Stockholm/Turin): Between Strategy of Tension and Second-Wave Feminism: Lotta Continua and the lssue of Violence (1969-1976)

Panel 3: Zur linken Organisation von Gewalt/ On Left Organization of Violence

Paul Dvorak (Wien): Vom Bellizismus zum Pazifismus? Die französische Linke, der Krieg und die Armee im langen 19. Jahrhundert

Chris Ealham (Madrid): "All power to the unions": The genealogy of Spanish "Anarcho-Bolshevism" and the Anarcho-Syndicalist Revolutionary Armed Struggle (1917-36)

Sebastian Engelmann (Karlsruhe): Wie lernt die Klasse kämpfen? Gewalt in der proletarischen Pädagogik zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts

Panel 4: Gewaltrezeptionen / Perceptions of Violence

Ottavia Dal Maso (Genova): Women leading Turinese Bread Riots: Between Violence and Spontaneity, August 1917

Kostas Paloukis (Thessaloniki): The Views of the lnterwar Communist Party of Greece (KKE) on Revolutionary and Labour Violence

Judith Tauber (lthaka, New York): The Cause of the People: Gauche proletarienne on Violence and Consensus

Saturday, 22 June 2024

Panel 5: Zwischen Gewalterfahrung und Gewaltwahrnehmung/ Between Experience and Reception of Violence

Mari-Leen Tammela (Tallinn): Use(fulness) of violence in political struggle: views on the use of violence in Estonian left-wing newspapers' editorial offices from 1906 to 1914

Vojtěch Šimák (Prag): From Militant Vanguard to Neutral Observer: The lntellectual Evolution of the lrish Citizen Army from Militancy to Neutrality

David Mayer (Wien): Fokus und Ambivalenz: Die Guerilladebatten in den langen 1960er Jahren in Südamerika und ihre differenzierte Anverwandlung der Maximen des bewaffneten Kampfes

Panel 6: Erinnerungen an Gewalt/ Memories of Violence

Kyra Schmied (Wien): Auseinandersetzung mit der Erinnerung an Gewalt im Rahmen bzw. im Anschluss an die Pariser Commune (1871)

Linh Vu (Tempe, Arizona): Laboring and Sacrificing Life: Narratives of Brutality in Worker Movements in Early Twentieth Century China

Kumru Toktamis (Brooklyn, New York): Lessons from Historical Praxis of Violently Defeated Left Movements in Chile and Turkey

Nicholas Bujalski (Oberlin, Ohio): 'Knight of the Proletariat': Feliks Dzierżyński and the Antinomies of Russian Revolutionary Violence

Panel 7: Strategische und taktische Beurteilungen von Gewalt/ Strategie and Tactical Assessments of Violence

Daniel Egon (Lowell, Massachusetts): ls There a Socialist Mode of Warfare?

Mario Kikaš (Bodø): Cultural Front on the Semi-Periphery: lntellectuals and the International Labor Movement in the 1930s

Sean Scalmer (Melbourne): Sabotage and Violence: Historical Transformations

Antonio J. Pinto (Malaga): Postcolonialism in Africa and ... in Europe? The Algerian Experience and lts lnfluence on Eta (Spain) and IRA (Ulster) in the 1960s

Kontakt

Florian Wenninger/Charlotte Rönchen, IHSF Vienna: office@ihsf.at
Frank Jacob, Nord Universitet, Bodø, Norway: frank.jacob@nord.no

Gender Attributions of (Ir-)Reconciliation

3 months 1 week ago

University of Bonn, 22-23 February 2024

The conference aims to shed light on the significance of the category "gender" in conflict resolution and reconciliation processes from the 19th to the 21st century from a historical perspective. It does not concentrate solely on the women's peace movement, which has already been relatively well studied by historians, but brings together research that asks about gender attributions in various forms of reconciliation efforts in different constellations of conflict, taking a global history perspective.

Prospective participants are warmly invited to register for free by 21.02.23 via e-mail to nng@uni-bonn.de.

Programm

Donnerstag / Thursday, 22.02.24

13:30 - 13:45 Begrüßungsworte / welcome address - Christine Krüger (Bonn)

Macht / Power

13:45 - 14:30Frauenbewegte Berufe als Orte der Unversöhnlichkeit um 1900 - Mette Bartels (AddF Kassel)

14:30 - 15:15„Rollentausch der Geschlechter an der Terrorfront“. Debatten über Frauen und Gewalt im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert und in den 1970er Jahren - Amerigo Caruso (Bonn)

15:15 -15:45Kaffeepause / coffee break

Kommunikation / Communication

15:45 - 16:30"Weil die Männer eine starke Neigung haben sich zu zanken". Frauen als versöhnende Kraft in der politischen Kultur der frühen BRD - Anna Leyrer (Basel)

16:30 - 17:15Fremde Weiblichkeit und Mütterlichkeit im Eigenen: Debatten um die Rolle der Frau in binationalen Paarbeziehungen in Deutschland und darüber hinaus (1870er-1930er) - Christoph Lorke (LWL Münster)

17:15 - 17:30Kaffeepause / coffee break

17:30 - 18:15Women's Transnational Networks at the End of the 19th Century: Tracing the Roots of a ‘Feminist Foreign Policy’ - Victoria Fischer (Bonn)

18:15 - 19:00Interpretations. Communication, Conflict and Translation in the Contact Zones of Transnational Women's Movements - Johanna Gehmacher (Wien)

19:00gemeinsames Abendessen / conference dinner

Freitag / Friday, 23.02.24

Gewalt / Violence

09:00 - 09:45Women's International Organisations' Intervention in Conflict Situations: The Chilean Case - María Fernanda Lanfranco (Valparaíso)

09:45 - 10:30Krieg, Weiblichkeit und Öffentlichkeit: Weibliches Pflegepersonal als britische Problemlösungsstrategie im Krimkrieg - Yvonne Blomann (Bonn)

10:30 - 11:15"...je n'ai envie que de les mitrailler!" Versöhnlichkeit und Unversöhnlichkeit in Zeugnissen von überlebenden Frauen und Mädchen des Tutsizids in Ruanda - Anne Peiter (La Réunion)

11:15 - 11:45Kaffeepause / coffee break

Repräsentation und Erinnerung / Representation and Remembrance

11:45 - 12:30Die Versöhnung der fragilen ‚Volksgemeinschaft‘ im Krieg. Heroisch-männliches Totengedenken und die deeskalierende Inszenierung von Weiblichkeit von 1939 bis 1945 - Kay Schmücking (Halle)

12:30 - 13:15Leah Grundigs 'Deutsche Mütter' und der 'Orient' (1942-1943)? - Esther Gardei (BZV Bonn)

13:15 - 13:30abschließende Bemerkungen / closing remarks

Kontakt

nng@uni-bonn.de

Reminder CfP: Participation and Representation – A Democratic Lovestory?

3 months 1 week ago
Conference in Bonn, 13-14 June 2024 Participation and Representation – A Democratic Lovestory?

Modern democracies are characterised by a fundamental tension: on the one hand, they promise to realise the rule of »the people«, that is the exercise of power by the many, through the widest possible political and social participation, and base their legitimacy on this. On the other hand, even if they are committed to a participatory understanding of democracy, they cannot avoid delegating the rule of the many to representatives who stand for a group or a party: the many then only have the power to vote for their representatives in elections or on specific political issues in referendums. The representative system has therefore been repeatedly criticised, if not condemned, for its lack of participation. The experimentation with (consultative) citizens’ councils currently underway in several countries, including at subnational and supranational levels, is a response to the current demand for additional forms of participation in representative democracy. In addition, extra-parliamentary actors have for some time been asking who is actually represented, what the »representation« of certain groups looks like. This is not a new question in the history of democracy, but it has been discussed with increasing intensity over the last 20 years – including, for example, in relation to the prospect of a loss of trust.

Against the backdrop of the 75th anniversary of the Basic Law and the Federal Republic of Germany, we would like to take this stocktaking as an opportunity to take a systematic look at the (tense) relationship between and complementarity of representation and participation. What role have social or political protests, that is non-representative practices of participation, played in the emergence of modern democratic forms of representation? How specific are the problems of legitimation of political representation for democratic systems and their promise of participation compared to dictatorships that developed authoritarian, plebiscitary forms of political participation of the many? How can the quality of representational relations in democratically organised republics be described in concrete terms and distinguished from those in (constitutional) monarchies, for example? How did democratic relations of representation differ according to time, region, ideological orientation and institutional framework, and what specific or universal understandings and problems of participation were associated with them? Which social classes participated to what extent, who was excluded, and what role did gender roles and ethnicity play in the development of democratic forms of participation? How exactly did participation (symbolic, consultative, decisive) work and how was it represented? How was and is participation specifically limited and restricted by representation; what processes of change can be identified in this respect? And finally: which notions – in the cultural-sociological sense – of participation and political representation, of »people« or party base, of representatives and political leaders characterise the history of modernity? These questions aim not least to shed light on the historicity of terms, concepts and practices in modern democratic societies.

For the 65th volume of the Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, we are looking for contributions that address these questions, focusing on the relationship between participation and representation in modernity and discussing them comparatively or on the basis of a specific case. Of interest is the period from the late eighteenth century to the present, with European and global historical as well as interdisciplinary perspectives explicitly encouraged.

The Friedrich Ebert Foundation will host a conference in Bonn on 13 and 14 June 2024 to develop ideas, topics and questions for contributions on the subject of Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 65 (2025) as outlined above. We invite all those interested to submit proposals to afs@fes.de by 10 February 2024. The proposals should not exceed 3,000 characters and, like the papers and subsequent texts, may be submitted in German or English. The articles subsequently selected by the editors for inclusion in the volume should be approximately 60,000 characters (including footnotes) and should be completed by 31 December 2024.

Kontakt

Philipp Kufferath
afs@fes.de

https://www.fes.de/afs/cfp

CfP and session proposals for the European Social Science History Conference 2025

3 months 2 weeks ago

Call for Paper and session proposals for the ESSHC 2025, 26-29 March, Leiden, the Netherlands.

The deadline for submitting a proposal is April 15, 2024.

More information on the conference and the link to the submission form can be found on the ESSHC website: https://esshc.iisg.amsterdam

For this edition we are working with a new registration system by Ex Ordo. This system will take some getting used to for all of us. Important to know: All future communication regarding your submission and registration information will be sent from notifications@exordo.com

Even if you are already an ESSHC participant, you will need to register on the new platform and create a new account at

https://esshc2025.exordo.com

You can as before submit a paper proposal or a session proposal or both.

Please note

- On this platform Networks are called Tracks. Some other conferences have different topics for each track, so once you selected a track you will be asked to select a topic. You will notice there is only one topic, the same as the track you just selected. For our conference: Topic = Track = Network

- You can present only one paper at the conference.

- You can submit more than one session proposal.

If you have any questions about the conference, please feel free to contact us at esshc@iisg.nl, should you run into technical issues with the platform, you can contact Ex Ordo support via the link provided on the platform.

Looking forward to receiving your proposals!

With kind regards,
The ESSHC Team

Convegno “Un’altra idea di autonomia: alle origini de La libertà viene prima. Autonomia, autogoverno, democrazia radicale, tra azionismo e marxismi eterodossi” (Italian)

3 months 2 weeks ago
Roma Tre University, 29 January 2024   Si terrà il giorno 29 di gennaio, presso l’aula 15 del Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell’Università di Roma Tre, in via Ostiense 234 il convegno dal titolo “Un’altra idea di autonomia: alle origini de La libertà viene prima. Autonomia, autogoverno, democrazia radicale, tra azionismo e marxismi eterodossi”.

Il convegno è promosso dalla Fondazione Giuseppe Di Vittorio, dalla Fondazione Lelio e Lisli Basso, dalla Cgil Roma e Lazio e dall’Iress Lazio, con il patrocinio dell’Università degli studi Roma Tre. 

La giornata, che sarà conclusa dal segretario generale Maurizio Landini, si svolgerà durante quattro sessioni, dalle ore 9 alle ore 16.45, che vedranno un confronto di numerosi e numerose esponenti del mondo accademico e sindacale che discuteranno del concetto di autonomia in un’ottica storico-sindacale.

Una idea di autonomia molto diversa da quella che vive oggi nel dibattito pubblico. L’autonomia come partecipazione democratica diretta opposta a quella dell’autonomia differenziata che produce oltre alla frantumazione del paese una deriva verticista, una involuzione delle istituzioni democratiche. Non a caso viene legata alla proposta presidenzialista. 

Il convegno è parte di un seminario permanente dal titolo “Culture Politiche, culture del lavoro” che nelle intenzioni della FDV vuol essere un continuo confronto, in collaborazione con territori e Camere del Lavoro, attraverso cui produrre pensiero, dibattito ed elaborazione su momenti ed aspetti della nostra tradizione, da noi ritenuti particolarmente rilevanti e fecondi rispetto alle sfide che gli scenari odierni e le trasformazioni contemporanee ci pongono di fronte.
Scopo del convegno anche contribuire a realizzare un ulteriore approfondimento della figura e del pensiero di Bruno Trentin, indagando la genealogia teorica e intellettuale delle sue due opere principali, La città del lavoro e La libertà viene prima.

Ordnungen des Todes. Von Listen, Statistiken und Dunkelziffern über das Sterben und die Verstorbenen (German)

3 months 2 weeks ago

Book Presentation at Schweizerisches Nationalarchiv Zurich, 26 January 2024

Von Listen, Statistiken und Dunkelziffern über das Sterben und die Verstorbenen

Ob Opfer von Genoziden, Attentaten, häuslicher Gewalt, Unfällen oder Naturkatastrophen: Listen sind nie «unschuldig», sondern verfolgen immer bestimmte Absichten. Register suggerieren Kontrolle, sind aber auch Machtinstrumente. Listen von Verstorbenen dokumentieren gesellschaftliches Handeln und erzählen eine eigene Geschichte des Todes.
Die Beiträger:innen des Bandes «Ordnungen des Todes» untersuchen von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart Zählungen von Gefallenen oder Verstorbenen in kolonialen Kontexten, Unfallstatistiken, Todeslisten in der NS-Zeit, Suizide in der DDR sowie Todesfälle von Geflüchteten. Ihre Analysen fokussieren dabei die Hintergründe und Motivationen der Urheber:innen und liefern damit einen erhellenden Einblick in die Macht der Statistik.

Buchpräsentation mit den Autor:innen Nina Kreibig (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Moisés Prieto (Universität Bern) und Philipp Krauer (Staatsarchiv des Kantons Schwyz)

Freitag, 26. Januar 2024, 19 Uhr
Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv, Medienraum

Trade Unions and LGBT+ Rights: Past Victories, Future Challenges

3 months 2 weeks ago
Date and time Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:00 - 15:30 GMT Location

Working Class Movement Library

51 Crescent Salford M5 4WX United Kingdom

 

From the first strike action organised by trade union members to save the job of a victimised gay colleague in the 1970s, through the mutual solidarity of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, trade unions have contributed immensely to the successes achieved for LGBT+ equality in Britain. Join Peter Purton and Meg Birchall for a talk that celebrates the past victories for LGBT+ rights in Britain, the significant challenges that LGBT+ people face today and what the trade union movement can do to support and empower its LGBT+ members.

Peter Purton began campaigning for LGBTQ+ equality in the 1970s, participating in all the struggles of those years. Believing that winning the active support of the Labour Movement was vital to achieving both legal and social progress, he played a leading part in the work of the Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights (now LGBTLabour) to secure Labour Party support in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1998 he started work as the first LGBT officer for the TUC (Trades Union Congress) and helped secure the successive laws that culminated in the Equality Act (2010). On retirement (2016) he wrote 'Champions of Equality. Trade Unions and LGBT rights in Britain' (Lawrence & Wishart 2018), and has been warning for many years against complacency in the LGBTQ+ communities because rights that have been gained can also be lost.

Meg Birchall (they/them) is a councillor for Delph & Denshaw on Saddleworth Parish Council and one of the first transgender councillors in Greater Manchester. They are activist for trans rights within the labour movement and a member of the Labour for Trans Rights Secretariat.

Note for Attendees

Our events space has a ramp on entry, an accessible toilet and air purifier. If you have any access requirements then please let us know in advance of the event so we can make your visit as comfortable as we can.

Search for the words lots.gosh.vocal on what3words.com to find the entrance that leads to the events space. The events space is through the double gates and can be found on your right.

At the WCML, we are committed to keeping attendees at our events safe. If you are displaying symptoms of Covid-19, please stay at home.

The history of the groups, campaigns and individuals who make up our collection at the Working Class Movement Library has a wide range of positions and the Library is committed to ensuring that this range is available for people to explore for themselves. Although respectful debate is encouraged, we will not tolerate sexism, homophobia, racism, transphobia, nor oppressive language or behaviour based on any structural inequality, including disability, socio-economic status, sexuality, age, education, religious affiliation, or gender expression. All who use our space, both the physical Library and its virtual spaces, share responsibility for maintaining it as a safe and welcoming one.

If you have any questions prior to your visit, then please contact us on – events@wcml.org.uk

Protect Our Rights To Protect Our Patients: Celebrating 50 Years of the Health Professionals and Allied Employees (HPAE), AFT, 1974 - 2024

3 months 2 weeks ago

Exhibit on view January 10th - April 20th, 2024

Featuring labor union memorabilia, union contracts, historic photographs, union publications, strike placards and more from the collection of the HPAE and union members, this exhibit highlights historic events and achievements of the largest union of registered nurses and healthcare professionals in New Jersey.

Beyond Norms and Categories: Towards a History of Sexual Practices, 1850–1960

3 months 2 weeks ago
Conference at the University of Bremen, 20-21 February 2024 Beyond Norms and Categories: Towards a History of Sexual Practices, 1850–1960

The international workshop "Beyond Norms and Categories: Towards a History of Sexual Practices, 1850-1960" at the University of Bremen on February 20 and 21, 2024 will discuss the century before the so-called "sexual revolution" – without seeing this period as a prehistory – and pay special attention to the history of social practices rather than the history of sexual norms.

Beyond Norms and Categories: Towards a History of Sexual Practices, 1850–1960

Sexuality is at the center of contemporary social movements. The #MeToo movement against sexual abuse, harassment, and violence since 2017 and the LGBTQ movements advocating for equal rights, benefits and protection from harm for queer people have gained momentum worldwide, sparking also a growing interest in the history of sexuality. Recent work has mainly focused on the second half of the twentieth century, examining moral norms and social practices in the decades which are commonly – and certainly not entirely unfairly – referred to as the sexual revolution.

This workshop will look at the period that preceded it – without seeing this period as a prehistory to sexual liberation. Instead, it aims to discuss notions of temporality, of progress and regression, as contingent phenomena. We invite papers that explore the relationship between pleasurable, reproductive and violent practices of sexuality since the mid-nineteenth century. The overarching question of the workshop is: What do concrete practices of pleasure/displeasure, procreation/contraception, and sexual violence reveal about the organization of society?

Registration
Participation at the workshop is free of charge. It is also possible to ttend the workshop online via Zoom. Please e-mail lisa.hellriegel@uni-bremen.de until 10 February 2024 to register.

Programm

Tuesday, 20 February 2024

12.30 pm: Arrival, welcome

1.00–3.00 pm: Race, Racism and Sexuality
Chair: Norman Aselmeyer (Universität Bremen, Germany)

Lucy Debus (Gedenkstätte Lager Sandbostel, Germany):
Forbidden Relationships between Germans and Prisoners of War or Forced Labourers during the Second World War
Alexander Maxwell (Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand):
Lustful Doctors in the Orient. Foreign Women and Sexual Respectability in the 1820s and 1830s
Loong Dien Min (University of Cambridge, UK):
Beyond the Law of ‘Unnatural Offences’. Uncovering Experiences of (Il)legitimate Intimacies in British Malaya’s Plural Legal and Normative Landscape (1860–1938)

3.00–3.30 pm: Coffee Break

3.30–6.30 pm: Religion and Reproduction
Chair: Birgit Aschmann (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)

Jessica Albrecht (Universität Bonn, Germany):
Religion, Sexual Education and Eugenics
Pauline Mortas (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France):
Writing the History of Sexualities Through Objects? What Contraceptive Devices Can Teach Us About Sexual Practices and Sensibilities (France, 1880s–1930s)
Katerina Piro (Universität Mannheim, Germany):
Reproduction and Sexuality and the Ambivalent Protestant Clerics in Germany around 1900
Alina Potempa (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany):
Playing „Vatican Roulette“ – Catholicism and Contraception after 1930
Veronika Settele (Universität Bremen, Germany):
Secularizing Pleasure and Reproduction among Church Personnel and Lay People in Germany and France, around 1900

7.30 pm: Dinner at bellini, Universitätsallee 14, 28359 Bremen

Wednesday, 21 February 2024

9.00–11.00 am: Sexual Violence and Law
Chair: Julia Reus (Universität Bayreuth, Germany)

Lisa Hellriegel (Universität Bremen, Germany):
Between Consent and Violence. What Court Files Tell Us About Sexual Practices in German Cities, c. 1900–1935
Chifundo Kamba (Stellenbosch University, South Africa):
Towards the Making of the Legal Culture. European Conceptualisations of Sexual Violence among the Local Population of Malawi, c. 1891–1920
Sabina Mompó (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain):
Rape in Franco's Spain through Medical Reports and Legal Proceedings. Sexed Violence, Infanticide and Moral-Catholic Judgment

11.00–11.30 am: Coffee Break

11.30 am–1.30 pm: Deviance and Control
Chair: Andrea Rottmann (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

Paul Durand (EHESS Paris, France):
Exploring the Boundaries of Intimacy and Sexuality. Gender as a Tool for Homosexual Encounters and Police Arrests in Public Toilets between the Two World Wars in Angers
Jens Elberfeld (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany):
„Liederlich, raffiniert und mannstoll“ (“Dissolute, Refined and Man-Mad“). Welfare Education and Adolescent Sexuality in Early 20th Century Germany
Daniel Gerster (Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg, Germany):
“We Found Individual Relief in Masturbation.” Towards a History of Onanism from below

1.30 pm: Lunch (optional)

Kontakt

veronika.settele@uni-bremen.de
lisa.hellriegel@uni-bremen.de

https://www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fuer-geschichtswissenschaft/epochen-und-bereiche/neuere-und-neueste-geschichte/forschung/fokusprojekt-sexualitaetsgeschichte

CfP: Use and Reuse of Paper in the Pre-Industrial World

3 months 2 weeks ago

University College Cork, 27-28 August 2024

After the material turn in the Arts & Humanities, the use and reuse of objects has gained more scholarly attention. We would like to strengthen the change of focus to later stages in the life cycle of paper and to non-text-bearing objects by hosting the colloquium "Use and Reuse of Paper in the Pre-Industrial World" in Cork, Ireland, 27-28 August 2024.

Use and Reuse of Paper in the Pre-Industrial World, Cork, 27-28 August 2024

After the material turn in the Arts & Humanities, the use and reuse of objects has gained more scholarly attention. In book history, the production and reuse of material has long been researched, but traditionally the focus was on the production of paper and the reuse of parchment, particularly on watermarks and on fragments used in bindings or as scraped-off and newly-written-on palimpsests. In recent years the research has shifted to include the wider afterlife of parchment manuscripts, including societal and historical contexts. We would like to expand these new approaches to handmade paper, including paper manuscripts, in the pre-industrial world.

We would like to strengthen the change of focus to later stages in the life cycle of paper and to non-text-bearing paper objects by hosting a colloquium. We thus invite you to investigate various approaches towards the use and reuse of pre-industrial paper. Possible research questions include, but are not limited to:
- To what uses was paper put, apart from books and manuscripts? What historical sources and artefacts bear witness to such uses?
- Did paper replace other materials or did it create new needs?
- How did the use and reuse of paper spread through our world? How widespread was the use of paper in society? Are there differences of use and reuse with regard to geographical or social aspects?
- When did the reuse of paper start, when did it stop and were there specific events that led to the reuse of paper?
- Does the reuse of handmade paper give us general clues about the age, or ‘life expectancy’ of paper? For how long was paper in circulation?
- What manuscripts and books were prone to be recycled and to contain recycled materials?
- To what new uses was recycled paper put, apart from manuscripts and books?

Topics are not limited to book history, codicology or fragmentology, and suggestions from other disciplines are particularly welcome. We especially encourage scholars, librarians, archivists, conservators and other interested parties from outside Europe to send us an abstract and to attend our colloquium.

The colloquium will convene at the University College Cork, Ireland, on 27-28 August 2024 and will be free of charge, however, attendants and speakers are responsible for their own travel and accommodation. We envisage the publication of conference proceedings and will inform the speakers about details. The colloquium is jointly organised by the University College Cork, Ireland, and the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavík, Iceland.

Please send your abstract of 200-300 words until 31 March 2024 to silvia@hi.is.

Please feel free to circulate this call for proposals!

Kontakt

Silvia Hufnagel
silvia@hi.is

https://papertrailsiceland.wixsite.com/papertrails

Borderland Capitalisms Reconsidered: Economic Practices and Contested Resources in (Post-)Imperial Siberia and Central Asia (1822–1929)

3 months 2 weeks ago

Hybrid Workshop, 1-2 February 2024

Central Asia, Siberia, and the Far East still hold a subordinate role in the economic history of the Russian Empire. This scarce attention paid to the economy of these regions is, however, striking. An examination of the Asiatic peripheries reveals complex dynamics deriving from the variability of economic practices. Consequently, the study of peripheries as areas of economic interdependence and competition in a comparative perspective serves as a point of departure for our workshop.

Borderland Capitalisms Reconsidered: Economic Practices and Contested Resources in (Post-)Imperial Siberia and Central Asia (1822–1929)

The Workshop is organized by the Institute for East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with the Junior Research Group "Peripheral Liberalism" of the Cluster of Excellence "Contestations of the Liberal Script".

Programm

Thursday, 1 February 2024

13.30 – 14.00 Welcome and Introduction

Robert Kindler, Ruslana Bovhyria, Aleksandr Korobeinikov

14.00 – 15.00 Keynote

Beatrice Penati (University of Liverpool): Peripheral or Global? Turkestan’s Place in Old and New Histories of Capitalism

15.30 – 17.00 Panel I Borderland Encounters and Spatial Visions
Chair: Stephan Rindlisbacher

Niccolò Pianciola (University of Padua): States of Economic Exception: Entangled Sovereignties and Cross-border Trade in the Russian Far East-Manchuria Borderlands, 1906–1929

Aleksandr Korobeinikov (CEU Budapest/Vienna and FU Berlin): Natural Resources and Border Making in the Postimperial Yakut Region

Ruslana Bovhyria (FU Berlin): Perilous Waters: The Caspian Sea and the Maritime Dimension of Central Asian Frontier Economies

17.00 – 18.30 Panel II Colonial Actors and Economic Practices
Chair: Emre Tegin

Lilija Wedel (University of Bielefeld): Russian-German Entrepreneurs in Turkestan: Marketing Strategies and Contributions, 1870s–1914

Thomas Loy (HU Berlin): Haim Abraham Borderland Encounters and Economic Practices of a Jewish Merchant between Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia

Aleksandr Turbin (University of Illinois at Chicago): “European Consumption” in the Chinese Shop: Consumption, Consumers, and Competing Visions of “Proper” Commerce in the Far East of the Russian Empire in the 1880s–1890s

Friday, 2 February 2024

9.00 – 10.30 Panel III Knowledge and Power in Central Asia
Chair: Natasha Klimenko

Ian Campbell (University of California-Davis): Envisioning Settler and Local Economies: Knowledge Production and Resettlement in the Late Imperial Era

Alisher Khaliyarov (American University of Sharjah): Borderland Transformation: The Process of Currency Change in Khiva (online)

Jörn Happel (University of Hamburg): The Aral Sea as an Economic Space in the 19th Century

11.00 – 12.30 Panel IV Imperial Dynamics and Contested Resources in Siberia
Chair: Aleksandr Korobeinikov

Sergei Glebov (Smith College and Amherst College): Goods and Bodies: Race and the Invention of Chinese Commerce in Late Imperial Far East

David Darrow (University of Dayton): The Spread of Empire: Towards a Comparative History of Siberia’s Cooperative Creameries

13.30 – 15.00 Panel V: Empire and Human-Animal Relations
Chair: Robert Kindler

Takahiro Yamamoto (Singapore University of Technology and Design): A Japan Ground Redux? Marine Animal Hunting Around the Kuril Islands in the Late Nineteenth Century

Chechesh Kudachinova (Bonn University): The Production of Velvet Antler: Frontier Industry and Resource Knowledge in South Siberia (1880s–1920s)

Timm Schönfelder (GWZO Leipzig): Tracing the Fur Trade. On the Globalization of Resource Exploitation across the 1917-Divide

15.00 – 16.00 Final Discussion and Outlook (Roundtable)
Chair: Martin Wagner

Alun Thomas, Stephan Rindlisbacher, Robert Kindler, Ruslana Bovhyria, and Aleksandr Korobeinikov: Borderland Capitalisms Revisited

Kontakt

ruslana.bovhyria@fu-berlin.de
aleksandr.korobeinikov@fu-berlin.de
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God, Taxes, and Societies: Exploring Intersections of Religion and Taxation in History

3 months 2 weeks ago

Liborianum Paderborn and online, 29 February - 1 March 2024

Disputes over taxes take us to the heart of a society's structures and conflicts: How much equality and redistribution is necessary or possible? All major religions have spoken out on the legitimacy of tax systems. In this interdisciplinary conference, experts from the fields of theology, history, law and political science will discuss theological and religious positions on tax payments in the past and present in order to better understand the underlying social utopias in different religions.

God, Taxes, and Societies: Exploring Intersections of Religion and Taxation in History

Discussions about paying taxes (honestly) always concern the core of social order: Who must contribute how much to the community? Which groups are relieved? How much equality and redistribution is necessary or possible? What constitutes a "just" tax system, how can the state legitimize its tax demands - and what does a “just” society look like accordingly?
It was not only statesmen, lawyers, party politicians, lobbyists or journalists who have therefore discussed and continue to discuss tax issues; religious communities also had their say, bringing their ideas of just distribution and social structure into the discourse. Indeed, all major religions have spoken out on issues of "fair" taxation, the legitimacy of government demands, tax liability, and possible sanctions for evaders. Our interdisciplinary conference asks about the positions of different theologies toward state taxes: did they affirm or negate their adherents' tax obligations to the state? How did they legitimize their position theologically, but also in very practical terms in a concrete historical setting? What fundamental relationship between the state and the faith community is expressed in this position? What role did the financing of their own faith community play for it?
The aim of the conference is to bring firstly different religions (Buddism, Islam, Judaism, Protestant and Catholic Christianity) into conversation about the topic of taxation and in this way to make an important contribution to the history of ideas on taxation. Secondly, we want to discuss the question from an interdisciplinary perspective on theological tax disputes of the past, including contributions from the fields of theology, law, history and political studies.

Programm

Thursday, Feb 29th 2024

Welcome and Introduction (9.00–9.30 am)

Eva-Maria Seng (Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Paderborn University): Welcome on Behalf of the Faculty

Korinna Schönhärl / Idris Nassery (Paderborn University): Introduction and Opening Remarks to the Conference

1st Session: Buddhism & Judaism (9.30–12.45 am)
Chair: Gisela Hürlimann (TU Dresden)

Fabio Rambelli (University of California Santa Barbara: digital):
The Buddha's Dues: Taxation in Historic Buddhist Societies in East Asia, with Special Focus on Japan
Commentator: Sven Altenburger (Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.)

Elisa Klapheck (Paderborn University):
Taxes and the Positive Role of Debts in Rabbinic-Talmudic Discourse
Commentator: Ekkhard Reimer (Heidelberg University)

Yoram Margalioth (Tel Aviv University: digital):
Recent Legislative Regulation of Interest-Free Loans in Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Communities: A Case Study of Government Involvement in Communal Finance
Commentator: Lars Döpking (DHI Rom: digital)

2nd Session: Christianity (2.30–6pm)
Chair: Christin Hansen (Paderborn University)

Jörg Althammer (Catholic University Ingolstadt):
Religion and the Welfare State
Commentator: Regina Ortmann (Paderborn University)

Allen Calhoun (Emory University Atlanta):
The Re-enchantment of Taxation: Protestantism, Divine Sovereignty, and 'Responsive' Taxes
Commentator: Gisela Hürlimann (TU Dresden)

Korinna Schönhärl (Paderborn University): Tax Morale and the Church. How Catholic Clergies Adapted Norms of Paying Taxes to Secular Institutions (1940s–1950s)
Commentator: Sebastian Huhnholz (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen)

Friday, March 1st 2024

3rd Session: Islam (9–12.30am)
Chair: Martin Schmitt (Paderborn University)

Idris Nassery (Paderborn University): The Islamic Ethics of Tax Evasion: Interdependence of Law, Theology, and Practice
Commentator: Marc Buggeln (European University Flensburg)

Emanuel Schäublin (ETH Zurich): Zakat Without the State: Giving as a Social Duty in Nablus (Palestine)
Commentator: Abdul Rahman Mustafa (Paderborn University)

Antonis Hadjikyriacou (Panteion University Athens):
Ottoman Fiscal Records, Practice, and the ‘Circle of Justice’
Commentator: Christine Osterloh-Konrad (Tübingen University)

Final Remarks (12.30am–1.15pm)
Idris Nassery/Korinna Schönhärl

Kontakt

Please register by February 20 with Ismahan Debbali (ismahan.debbali@gmail.com).

Patrimoines ferroviaires, «Patrimoines du Sud» n° 21 (French)

3 months 2 weeks ago

Épousant l’évolution du patrimoine en général, la patrimonialisation de l’univers ferroviaire a elle aussi connu une diversification : du patrimoine roulant au bâti des gares, les objets d’intérêt patrimonial s’étendent désormais aux dépôts et ateliers, aux ouvrages d’art, aux installations de sécurité, aux cités cheminotes, aux divers objets et outillages nécessaires aux activités ferroviaires, ainsi qu’au patrimoine immatériel qui leur est associé, avec notamment les gestes des métiers cheminots. Cet appel à contributions de Patrimoines du Sud se veut pluridisciplinaire, se prêtant aussi bien à des approches d’inventaire du patrimoine que d’histoire, ou encore d’anthropologie.

Argumentaire

Alors que les recherches sur les liens entretenus par les Français avec l’univers du chemin de fer se multiplient, à l’image du programme de recherche « Attachement populaire au chemin de fer » mené par l’association Rails&Histoire, il apparaît intéressant, pour compléter cette approche, de s’interroger sur des aspects plus concrets des patrimoines et de la patrimonialisation ferroviaire dans les territoires concernés.

Cette démarche semble d’autant plus pertinente qu’un vaste champ d’études s’offre à elle. Le chemin de fer représente en effet un patrimoine conséquent et diversifié. De fait, l’établissement de la plateforme a exigé des terrassements et d’innombrables ouvrages d’art, de l’aqueduc le plus modeste au viaduc le plus grandiose, ainsi que des souterrains. Les bâtiments d’exploitation complètent cette infrastructure linéaire : gares (bâtiments des voyageurs, halles à voyageurs, halles à marchandises), dépôts, ateliers, châteaux d’eau, maisons de garde-barrières, cités pour le logement des agents, installations liées à la traction électrique (usines génératrices, sous-stations, lignes d’alimentation), postes d’aiguillage, entre autres. À ce patrimoine s’ajoute le matériel roulant : locomotives à vapeur, électriques ou diesel, autorails, automotrices, matériel remorqué et engins de maintenance des voies. Enfin, n’oublions pas le patrimoine immatériel, notamment les « gestes du métier ». Ceux-ci sont très nombreux en raison des multiples compétences exigées par le fonctionnement du système ferroviaire. Car le chemin de fer ne se résume pas à conduire et entretenir des locomotives ! 

Le patrimoine ferroviaire se caractérise aussi par ses mutations. Depuis l’origine, les conditions d’exploitation se sont en effet profondément modifiées sous l’influence de divers facteurs et le chemin de fer doit donc s’adapter. Aujourd’hui, le changement climatique impose à son tour ses contraintes. Par exemple, l’inéluctable disparition de la houille engendre pour les chemins de fer touristiques possédant des locomotives à vapeur l’obligation de rechercher un combustible de substitution. Enfin, le stade ultime de ce processus est parfois l’abandon pur et simple de l’exploitation. Le patrimoine constitué par les anciennes voies ferrées pose alors la question de sa conservation et donc de sa reconversion. Cette dernière est plus ou moins heureuse, notamment au regard de la nouvelle donne climatique. Nous songeons ici à la multiplication des « voies vertes ». Quant à la préservation du matériel roulant réformé, et avant même toute remise en état de présentation ou de marche, elle soulève avec une acuité croissante le problème du remisage car les capacités d’hébergement se réduisent comme peau de chagrin au gré des fermetures de gares ou de dépôts.

L’actuelle région Occitanie se révèle un territoire de choix pour une approche patrimoniale. En effet, chronologiquement parlant, la première ligne fut mise en service dès 1839 entre Montpellier et Sète, suivie en 1839-1841 par celle de La Grand-Combe à Beaucaire sur laquelle se distingua Paulin Talabot qui attachera plus tard son nom au PLM. Le temps de la construction ferroviaire n’est d’ailleurs pas révolu puisque la ligne à grande vitesse appelée à relier la vallée du Rhône à l’Espagne avance par étapes. Il est donc possible de suivre, par exemple, l’évolution des techniques constructives, depuis la pierre et le métal jusqu’au béton, ou bien celle de l’architecture des gares. D’un autre point de vue, la concession du réseau ferré qui dessert notre région était partagée jusqu’à la création de la SNCF, en 1937, entre trois compagnies d’intérêt général : PLM (Paris - Lyon - Méditerranée), Midi et PO (Paris - Orléans). Les traces de cette répartition administrative sont encore bien visibles aujourd’hui, qu’il s’agisse de la physionomie des bâtiments ou bien de l’armement de la voie, certaines « petites » lignes étant encore équipées en tout ou partie de rails à double champignon hérités du Midi. Pour être complets, précisons que ce maillage était renforcé par les réseaux secondaires (à voie normale ou étroite) construits à l’initiative des départements tandis que certaines villes possédaient un réseau de tramways électriques. En Occitanie, ce dernier mode, sacrifié après 1945 comme presque partout en France, a d’ailleurs réapparu en 2000 à Montpellier. Enfin, l’Occitanie se signale aujourd’hui par une grande diversité des patrimoines ferroviaires qui y sont conservés, ainsi que par celle des acteurs associatifs ou individuels qui concourent à cette patrimonialisation du chemin de fer.

Les contributions attendues pourront aborder le patrimoine ferroviaire dans toute sa diversité, les patrimoines valorisés aujourd’hui étant loin de se réduire aux matériels roulants. En effet, épousant l’évolution du patrimoine en général, la patrimonialisation de l’univers ferroviaire a elle aussi connu une diversification : du patrimoine roulant au bâti des gares, les objets d’intérêt patrimonial s’étendent désormais aux dépôts et ateliers, aux ouvrages d’art, aux installations de sécurité, aux cités cheminotes, aux divers objets et outillages nécessaires aux activités ferroviaires, ainsi qu’au patrimoine immatériel qui leur est associé, avec notamment les gestes des métiers cheminots. Cet appel à contributions se veut aussi pluridisciplinaire, se prêtant aussi bien à des approches d’inventaire du patrimoine que d’histoire, ou encore d’anthropologie.

L’appel peut aussi intégrer des modalités de valorisation patrimoniale moins évidentes, telles que le « patrimoine perdu », pour explorer des questions mémorielles autour d’éléments disparus, ou encore les représentations du chemin de fer dans l’art et même le modélisme, qui peuvent constituer une forme de patrimonialisation. L’appel est ouvert au patrimoine ferroviaire des transports urbains, trop souvent délaissé dans l’historiographie. Les contributions attendues peuvent aussi concerner des éléments du patrimoine ferroviaire d’Occitanie qui seraient conservés ailleurs, ou encore des approches permettant la comparaison avec d’autres territoires.

Axes

Plusieurs axes d’études peuvent ainsi être envisagés (liste non exhaustive et non cloisonnée) :

Acteurs et instances : vers une histoire sociale de la patrimonialisation ferroviaire

Il s’agit ici de réfléchir à la diversité des acteurs de la mise en valeur du patrimoine ferroviaire. L’action de multiples collectifs de « ferroviphiles » mérite ainsi d’être mise en lumière pour aborder la patrimonialisation ferroviaire en Occitanie dans toute sa diversité. Cela peut aussi constituer un apport à l’étude des politiques du patrimoine (Poirrier et Vadelorge, 2003), par l’analyse des jeux d’acteurs entre ces collectifs et les pouvoirs publics, ou encore les entreprises liées au monde ferroviaire.

Pratiques concrètes de la conservation, patrimoine vivant

les patrimoines ferroviaires et leurs médiations. Ouvert aux approches académiques ou non-académiques, cet axe de recherche vise à questionner la patrimonialisation dans ses aspects matériels et dans sa valorisation auprès du public : des musées statiques aux circulations de chemin de fer à vapeur, en passant par l’utilisation de technologies numériques de médiation, comment conserver et faire vivre ce patrimoine majoritairement technique ?

Liens entre chemin de fer et urbanisme : quelles traces aujourd’hui ?

Par les emprises ferroviaires étendues et les initiatives de constructions nombreuses, l’univers ferroviaire dépasse largement les espaces de circulation ou d’entretien des machines. L’enjeu de la redécouverte et de la valorisation patrimoniale de ces éléments que sont par exemple les cités cheminotes ou les infrastructures ferroviaires urbaines est important, alors qu’ils sont dans la majorité des cas oubliés dans les politiques publiques de patrimonialisation.

Pilotage scientifique du numéro Modalités de soumission

Les propositions de contribution n’excèderont pas 3 000 signes, incluant une courte bibliographie et une biographie de l’auteur de quelques lignes. Les propositions sont attendues

avant le 1er mars 2024.

Les propositions sont à envoyer à la rédactrice en chef de la revue :

  • Alice de la Taille (pds@laregion.fr), conservateur du patrimoine, Service connaissance et inventaire des patrimoines, région Occitanie.

Le comité de rédaction rendra un avis courant mars. 

Calendrier et instructions éditoriales

Patrimoines du Sud ne publie que des contributions inédites.

Le présent appel à contributions est publié le 09 janvier 2024. Il s’adresse aux étudiants chercheurs, aux chercheurs, aux professionnels du patrimoine et aux associations. Le territoire de la région Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée est le périmètre d’investigation de la revue Patrimoines du Sud, mais les approches comparées d’une autre région géographique avec celle d’Occitanie sont les bienvenues. Il n’y a pas de limites chronologiques imposées.

Les contributions sélectionnées devront nous parvenir rédigées avant le 1er octobre 2024. Le numéro paraîtra en ligne le 1er avril 2025. Les contributions sont limitées à 50 000 signes (bibliographie comprise), dans un souci d’accessibilité par un large public.

Pour chaque article de ce numéro, le nombre maximal de caractères s’élève à 50 000 signes. Il est à noter que les auteurs peuvent bénéficier de l’aide d’un photographe professionnel et d’une cartographe. Un soin particulier est attendu pour les illustrations (cf. Recommandations aux auteurs).

Bibliographie
  • Descamps, Florence. Archiver la mémoire: De l’histoire orale au patrimoine immatériel, Paris : Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2019.
  • Dufaux, Lionel. « Les collections techniques, source pour l’historien », Techniques, histoire et sciences humaines, 2017, no 5, p. 163175.
  • Fournier, Luc, avec la contribution de Clive Lamming. (2017). Patrimoine ferroviaire, Paris, Éditions du Patrimoine.
  • Lemoine, Bertrand. (2021). Une histoire des gares en France, Paris, Archibooks + Sautereau Éditeur. 
  • Poirrier Philippe et Vadelorge Loïc (2003), Pour une histoire des politiques du patrimoine, Paris, La Documentation française.
  • Simon, Guillaume. (2009). « L’évolution de l’inventaire du patrimoine ferroviaire immobilier en France, des années 1970 à nos jours », Revue d’histoire des chemins de fer, n° 40, 2009/1, p. 155-168.
  • Smith, Paul. (1999). « Le patrimoine ferroviaire en France : soixante-dix ans de protection juridique », Revue d’histoire des chemins de fer, n° 20-21, p. 329-347.
  • Vellay, Olivier (2022), Remarquables postes d’aiguillage, Paris, Rails&Histoire/SNCF Réseau. 
  • Voir aussi les programmes de Rails&Histoire : https://www.ahicf.com/les-postes-remarquables et https://www.ahicf.com/programme-scientifique
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