CfA: Histories of Migration - Transatlantic and Global Perspectives

The Young Scholars Forum at the GHI Pacific Office Berkeley is an annual program designed to bring together a diverse group of approximately ten scholars based in Germany, Europe, North America, and beyond to explore new research in the history of migration. The 2024 Forum focuses on the intersection of migration and gender and sexuality studies looking into the potential of gender-based analyses and queer historical perspectives on migration experiences

Call for Chapter Submissions – Yearbook for the History of Global Development Volume: Development and Transition: International Organizations and Post-Socialist Eurasia

The Yearbook for the History of Global Development (YHGD) is inviting submissions for a volume dedicated to the history of international organizations and their role in the post-socialist world. The purpose of the volume Development and Transition is to historicize the period of the “transition” in Eurasia across the 1989/1991 divide.

CfP: Labor Migration and Commodity Production in Africa: Global Entanglements

This Special Issue intends to bring together studies on labor migration that focus on the agency of labor migrants in transforming connections between Africa and elsewhere. Its objective is to pinpoint how the making of these connections often hinged on the circulation of men and women engaged in commodity production/extraction for long-distance trading at a global scale.

Götz Langkau (1935–2024)

On 9 January 2024, we received the sad news that Götz Langkau had passed away. Although many people knew that he had not been doing well in recent years, the news came as a shock. Götz belonged to a generation of IISH staff that restored the profile of the Institute, especially through his contributions to scholarly source publications.

Abolition Revolution

Date: 25th Jan 2024

Event time: 18:30 to 20:00

An introductory guide to abolitionist politics in Britain, Abolition Revolution explores how the history of imperialism, racism and class struggle has led to the carceral systems that we see today and how abolition should be seen as a key component of revolutionary politics, linking it with materialist feminisms, anti-capitalist class struggle, internationalist solidarity and anti-colonialism.

ONLINE & ONSITE BOOK LAUNCH: Global Neo-liberal Capitalism and the Alternatives: from social democracy to state capitalism

Invitation: Global Neo-liberal Capitalism and the Alternatives: from social democracy to state capitalism

The twentieth century was an era of socialist revolutionary transformations and significant social-democratic reforms. By the twenty-first century, these socialist inspired movements have largely disappeared, their ideology had been disavowed, and their institutions dismantled. In the first part of the book, David Lane explains which social forces drove them and why, initially, they were successful.

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