Social and Labour History News

Man with a Movie Camera film discussion on Wednesday

Enjoy watching an extraordinary film from the comfort of your settee, then join us to let us know what you think of it...

CONTRIBUYAMOS A SOSTENER AL CEHTI-ARCHIVOSConvocamos a todos/as nuestros/as colegas, lectores/as, amigos/as y compañeros/as.Queremos continuar con nuestro proyecto y superar las enormes dificultades económicas que nos aquejan.

 Anna Frisone 

Il volume indaga l’impegno femminista degli anni Settanta, declinato nel contesto della lotta sindacale e dei diritti del lavoro, attraverso una nuova prospettiva di ricerca costruita a partire da numerose interviste inedite alle protagoniste di una stagio­ne capace di modificare profondamente la società dell’epoca.

Produire la guerre, produire le genreDes Françaises au travail dans l’Allemagne nationale-socialiste (1940-1945)Camille Fauroux  

Entre 1940 et 1945, près de 80 000 femmes quittent volontairement la France pour tr

Appel à communication pour une Journée d’études organisée à l’Université Bordeaux Montaigne, le 7 octobre 2021

Ouvert jusqu'au 31 janvier

Le prix d'Histoire sociale est décerné par la Fondation Mattei Dogan et la Fondation

La CFDT propose un prix de master 2 et de thèse (deux prix distincts) relevant des disciplines suivantes : histoire contemporaine, sociologie, sciences politiques.

UN ALTRO 1969: I TERRITORI DEL CONFLITTO IN ITALIA 

A cura di: Stefano Bartolini, Pietro Causarano e Stefano Gallo

"Pandemic and Labour Relations: Then and Now"
22nd Dec 2020 from 3-5 pm (IST - India Standard Time)

Speaker:
Aditya Sarkar, Department of History, Warwick University
Discussant:
Prabhu Mohapatra, Labour Historian, University of Delhi
Moderator:
Chitra Joshi, Labour Historian, Association of Indian Labour Historians (AILH)

Concept Note

Workshop
Research Project "Entangled Histories of Palestine and the Global New Left" (Roskilde University)
16.04.2021 - 17.04.2021, Denmark

This two-day workshop is hosted by the Entangled Histories of Palestine and the Global New Left research project at Roskilde University in Denmark. Scholars, activists, and artists working on or against archiving or with archives pertaining to the Palestinian revolutionary movement and struggle from a global perspective during this period are invited to submit their contributions

We’re pleased to share the Call for Presentations for the second Inward Outward, taking place April 6–9, 2021. This year’s edition will be held online due to the constraints of the pandemic.

The symposium Inward Outward investigates the status of moving image and sound archives as they intertwine with questions of coloniality, identity and race.

The upcoming edition will focus on Emotion in the Archive. This theme emerged during the first symposium, and has since occupied increasing space as a direct response to recent global occurrences.

The Fishing Community of Guet Ndar in Saint Louis du Senegal: between singularity and universality

March 15-17, 2021 at the CRDS in Saint-Louis du Sénégal (Senegal)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Framework and Rationale

Tags: GLHN

Two recent publications by Geneviève Dreyfus-Armand on the French internment camps, where large numbers of exiled Spanish Republicans where held (1939-1944):

Septfonds, 1939-1944. Dans l’archipel des camps français
Perpignan, Le Revenant éditeur, 2019, 440 p.

Les Républicains espagnols à Rivesaltes. D’un camp à l’autre, leurs enfants témoignent
Villemur-sur-Tarn, éditions Loubatières, coll. Récits et Témoignages du Mémorial du camp de Rivesaltes, 2020, 239 p.

See the attached PDF documents for more information.

Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja (The Finnish Labour Studies Yearbook) is published every November by The Institutions of Labour Heritage in Finland (The Finnish Labour Heritage Association/The Library of the Labour Movement, The Labour Archives, The People’s Archives, The Finnish Society for Labour History, The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas). The 2020 issue is now out with extensive 160 pages, this year also including articles in English for international readers. The Yearbook 2020 is a special issue with a theme: Nordic Countries in Finnish Perspective.

Call for Papers «Acronia» 1/2021Spaces, borders and anarchy Guest editorsElena Bignami (Independent Researcher)Roberto Carocci (Roma Tre University, IT)Pietro Di Paola (University of Lincoln, UK) Deadline for submission of the abstract (not more than 1000-1500 words and a short bio of the author): January 15th, 2021 Notification of acceptance of the abstract: January 29th, 2021 Studies in the history of anarchism have seen the emergence in recent years of new

The planned workshop brings together international historians of German colonialism, who explore German colonial capitalism and put its economic conditions, material aspects and social structures at the heart of their research.

The 6th ENIUGH Congress will now take place during an extended period from 14 June to 20 June 2021. The first three days will offer online sessions and allow distant participation and the remaining days will take place in situ in Turku as originally planned, but now with online video streaming.

DFG-Projekt „Sozialdaten als Quellen der Zeitgeschichte. Erstellung eines Rahmenkonzeptes für eine Forschungsdateninfrastruktur in der zeithistorischen Forschung“
where: German Historical Institute London, 17 Bloomsbury Square
when: 28-30 October 2021 (beginning Thursday 2 p.m., ending Saturday 1 p.m.)

Call for Papers

Workshop: Contemporary historians and the re-use of social science- generated data sets: An international dialogue on the challenges presented by ‘social data’

The latest issue of Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History is now available online.

This month’s issue includes 2019's Labour History Review Essay Prize Winner, Navigating Deindustrialization in 1970s Britain: The Closure of Bilston Steel Works and the Politics of Work, Place, and Belonging, by Matt Beebee. And Timo Luks examines Cadbury and Rowntree, two factories that have become experimental spaces in social engineering, redefining ‘factory citizenship’ by taking the metaphor of building a house to foster workers’ ‘responsibility;’ a concept with a strong gender bias.