"The Freeborn Englishman" Forty Years On
E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class revisited
Call for Papers
2003 marks the fortieth anniversary of the publication of one of the classics of socialist history, Edward Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class.
Rebuilding the Labor Movement: Historical and Current Perspectives
Southwest Labor Studies Association Annual Conference
Co-Sponsored by Labor Center for Education and Research, UCB
May 8-10, 2003
International House
University of California, Berkeley
Conference Call For Papers, Exhibits and Performances
Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive (of California State University, Long Beach)
www.csulb.edu/voaha
The Sovietization of the Baltic States 1940-56
International Workshop
9-11 May 2003
Haapsalu, Estoniap
Call for Papers
After the occupation and annexation of the Baltic States in 1940 there started a long lasting process of sovietization until the regaining of independence in 1991. The goal of the workshop is to bring together scholars from the Baltic States, the West and Russia to discuss different aspects of the sovietization. The papers will be published later. Languages of the workshop are English and German.
Five sessions are planned:
Scienza e politica in Amadeo Bordiga (1910-1970)
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università degli Studi di Milano, 24-25 ottobre
Al Convegno parteciperanno relatori di tutte le nazionalità. L'iniziativa, che riceve i contributi del CNR, è patrocinata dal Dipartimento di Scienze della Storia e della Documentazione storica dell'Università degli Studi di Milano, dal Dipartimento di Filosofia Politica dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli e dalla Fondazione Amadeo Bordiga.
The Tamiment Library is holding a reception on October 14, 2002 at 6:30 p.m. to celebrate the new book The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s, just published by the University of California Press. The book, edited by Robert Cohen and Reginald Zelnick, contains essays from participants on both sides of the debate and reflections by historians. Speaking about the book at the Tamiment Library will be editor Robert Cohen along with contributors Margot Adler and Greil Marcus.
Fifth European Social Science History Conference
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
24-27 March 2004
Call for Papers
The ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal plenary sessions.
Graag vestigen wij uw aandacht op de derde ODIS-workshop, met als thema
Historische en sociologische benaderingen van Nieuwe Sociale Bewegingen
Wanneer : vrijdag 22 november 2002
Waar: Congreszaal van de Kamer van Volksvertegenwoordigers en de Senaat, Leuvenseweg 21, 1000 Brussel
Een volledig programma en inschrijvingsformulier vindt u op: www.odis.be.
Hagley Fellows' Conference, March 28-29, 2003
Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware
Call for Papers
The Hagley Fellows at the University of Delaware invite paper proposals for "Reinventing the Factory," the 2003 Hagley Fellows' Conference. Amy Slaton, Professor of History at Drexel University and author of Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900-1930 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), will give the keynote address.
Nelson Lichtenstein, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xi + 336 pp. $29.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 0-691-05768-0.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Walter Licht, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania.
