Call for papers: political tourism

Swedish Arbetarhistoria and Danish Arbejderhistorie are planning a joint issue on political tourism to be published in 2011.

An international workshop to be held in Göttingen from the 24th to the 26th of June 2010. This is the first of a series of annual workshops that will be organised by the small team of social historians at the newly founded Centre for Modern Indian Studies. We'd be grateful if you responded to this CfP and/or circulated it among colleagues who might be interested.

Call for Papers, International Workshop, 24-26 June 2010, Göttingen, Germany

LAWCHA's teaching resources committee invites you all to take a look at our first initiative. Rosemary Feurer's extensive webography is now available by navigating over to LAWCHA's homepage [url]http://www.lawcha.org/[/url] and clicking on the link, "Labor and Working Class Teaching Resources: A New Index," which appears in the middle of the screen under the section entitled, "LAWCHA News."

Please note:
The IISH Reading Room and Virtual Information desk ([mailto]ask@iisg.nl[/mailto]) will be closed from Thursday 24 December 2009 after 4:00 p.m. until January 3rd 2010 included.

New items on the IISH website in November 2009:

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/callforpapers2010.php[/url]
Preliminary programme of the 8th European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) in Ghent 13-16 April 2010

Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 49 (2009)

Beiträge zum Rahmenthema
"Gesellschaftsgeschichte Europas als Europäische Zeitgeschichte"

Jost Dülffer/Anja Kruke
Von der Geschichte der europäischen Integration zur Gesellschaftsgeschichte Europas nach 1945

Christoph Boyer
Lange Entwicklungslinien europäischer Sozialpolitik im 20. Jahrhundert.
Eine Annäherung

Friederike Sattler
Europäische Wirtschaftseliten? Unternehmensstrukturen, Sozialprofile und Leitbilder im beschleunigten Wandel seit den 1970er Jahren

L'Archivio audiovisivo del movimento operaio e democratico e l'Archivio Nazionale Cinema d'Impresa - Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia con il contributo del Ministero dei Beni Culturali e Ambientali presentano

Memoria contesa/memoria condivisa. Il lavoro nei documenti filmati dell'impresa e del movimento operaio

Torino, Ivrea, Roma - 30 novembre - 12 dicembre 2009

Mujeres y prensa anarquista en Chile (1897-1931)
Adriana Palomera, Alejandra Pinto (compiladoras)
Ediciones Espíritu Libertario
Colección Histórica Osvaldo Bayer
Santiago 2006

Una de las características históricas de los movimientos anarquistas ha sido la educación para la discusión de sus propuestas.

Call for papers: Local forms of production as resistance against global domination: anti-commodities - An international workshop, Amsterdam, June 17-19 2010

Solidarity Stories
An Oral History of the ILWU
Harvey Schwartz
$24.95 paperback (9780295988849)
$50.00x hardcover (9780295988832)
Published: May 2009

University of Washington Press

Panic on the Streets of Manchester ... A Walk into Manchester's Rebellious and Revolutionary History...

This walk will take place on Saturday 28th November, beginning at 10.45am and will last 2 hoursThe assembly point is the Robert Owen statue, outside the Co-operative Bank, Corporation Street.

The walk will cost £6 waged, £3 students, free to unwaged.
All proceeds from the walk will be donated to the Manchester Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers, which offers solidarity and support to asylum seekers.