This is a call for abstracts for the Military Labour History Working Group (MLHWG) panels at the 6th conference of the European Labour History Network (ELHN), to be held at the University of Barcelona, Spain, 16-19 June 2026. See the following link for further information on the conference: https://socialhistoryportal.org/elhn/conference-2026. A full website for the conference will be available soon.

The Labour Migration History Working Group of the European Labour History Network (ELHN) invites submissions for its sessions on the theme of “Disparities and Inequalities in Transformations of Labour Migration: Historical Shifts and Historiographical Debates” to be held at the 6th European Labour History Conference in Barcelona, 16-19 June 2026.

Guild and Artisan Labour Working Group at the VI Congress ELHN

The Guild and Artisan Labour Working Group of the European Labour History Network (ELHN) brings together scholars engaged in a classic topic of economic and social history: craft guilds and artisan labour. We aim to expand upon and deepen the long-standing debates on the socio-economic dynamics that linked these institutions to labour and society from a historical perspective, especially spanning the 14th to the 19th centuries, in Europe and abroad.

International Workshop
Navigating Worlds of Coerced Labour: Procurement, mobility, exploitation and resistance of Enslaved, Indentured and Contracted workers in the Atlantic, and the Asia-Pacific region

Venue: International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dates: 16-17 October 2025
Organisers: Britt van Duijvenvoorden, Karin Hofmeester, Pascal Konings, Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, Matthias van Rossum

Call for Papers

Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo/Egypt, 10-11 November 2025

European University Institute, Badia Fiesolana (Italy), 23­–24 October 2025

This two-day workshop invites scholars to explore how concepts of time have been historically instrumentalised in Eastern Europe from the nineteenth century onwards as a political resource to reinterpret the past, to shape conceptions and experiences of the present, and to exploit the unknowability of the future in response to large-scale global changes and in competition with global dominant time regimes.

Dear colleagues,

attached you will find the program for the upcoming 60th ITH Conference, titled “Workers and Worldmaking: Labor in the Era of Decolonization”, which will take place from 25 to 27 September 2025 at: Bildungshaus Jägermayrhof, Römerstraße 98, A-4020 Linz, Austria.

Please note that early bird registration ends on 30 June 2025.

Registration is available via the following form:

https://forms.gle/x2c3jQURrUnHxGN98

Workshop in Glasgow, 11 September 2025

Convenors: Dr Anna McEwan (University of Glasgow/Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF) Potsdam), Dr Eliska Bujokova (University of Glasgow/University of New Brunswick)

We are inviting participants to a one-day workshop resulting in a podcast entitled, Behind the Pages: Lives of Early Career Historians: Resource Sharing and Podcast Production. The event will take place at the University of Glasgow on September 11th 2025.