Protests and social movements are fuzzy objects to study. Scholars face a lack of clear boundaries, diversity-by-definition, and -often dramatic- changes over time. The field of social movement studies holds particular challenges to researchers with a view to getting the research design straight and becoming clear about the restrictions of an argument. These challenges contrast with the conditions of scientific production: the lion’s share of research on social movements and protests is realized in individual post-graduate projects.

Hosted by the Latin America and Caribbean Centre (LACC), London School of Economics and Political Science

La Société d’histoire de 1848 a le plaisir d’annoncer la tenue, les 19 et 20 juin prochains, de la première édition des Rencontres du XIXesiècle, organisées sous son parrainage. 

Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is one of the major European centres of research and documentation in the fields of history, political science, economics and social scien-ces, with particular emphasis on the history of ideas, political cultures and democratic movements in the framework of globalization related phenomena. In recent years, Fon-dazione Feltrinelli has established fruitful collaborations with numerous research centres of excellence all over the world (e.g.

Journée d'études « De la mémoire à l'histoire orale : approches & perspectives » (Liège, La Cité Miroir, 27 février 2019)

Présentation

Depuis plusieurs années, des  travaux étudient les formes de racialisation subies, ou revendiquées par certains groupes dans la société française, en particulier par les populations noires. Ils invitent également à analyser les usages sociaux de la notion de race – entendue comme un fait social et non biologique – en France et ils interrogent de façon générale la place à accorder à la « question raciale » dans l’historiographie française. Quelle histoire sociale des populations noires ces travaux permettent-ils de construire ?

Planetary Utopias, Capitalist Dystopias:  Justice, Nature & the Liberation of Life
Fifth annual conference of the World-Ecology Research Network

San Francisco
May 30-31, June 1, 2019
California Institute of Integral Studies Department of Anthropology and Social Change

Call for sessions and papers on Labour and Working Class History for the Thirteenth European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC), Leiden, The Netherlands, 18 – 21 March, 2020 

People’s History Museum (PHM) in Manchester is commemorating the bicentenary of the Peterloo Massacre, a monumental event in the city’s history, and a defining moment for Britain’s democracy.  It will do this through a programme of exhibitions, events and learning sessions that will explore the past, present and future of protest.