In 2006, French Marxist theorist Daniel Bensaïd made an urgent plea to reopen the strategic debate within the anti-capitalist Left. Fifteen years later, and after a major capitalist crisis, a series of important movements and also significant defeats of the Left, a pandemic and a new major economic crisis, along with the rise of the far Right and the impeding climate disaster, we are within the contours of a conjuncture where strategic questions seem to be more urgent than ever.

Dans le cadre de la collection “Humanités numériques et science ouverte” publiée aux Presses universitaires du Septentrion (PUS) en partenariat avec la Maison Européenne des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société (MESHS), nous lançons un nouvel appel à manuscrits en vue de la publication de deux ouvrages en 2022-2023.

The exhibition is accompanied by film screenings, roundtable discussions, and other related events. Program details here!

On January 18, 2022, the exhibition Records Uncovered 2.0, organized by Blinken OSA and Háttér Archive and Library, has opened at the Galeria Centralis, presenting LGBTQI+ histories of Central and Southeastern Europe from the post-WWII period to the early 2000s.

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Working title of the edited volume: Rent Strikes. A Global History

Editors: Hannes Rolf (Uppsala University) and Lucas Poy (International Institute of Social History / VU Amsterdam)

Élie Kagan, photographe indépendant (1960-1990)

C’est à Élie Kagan, photographe engagé et formidable archiviste de son époque, que La contemporaine consacre son exposition inaugurale dans le bâtiment conçu par l’atelier Bruno Gaudin sur le campus de l’Université Paris Nanterre. Cette exposition s’appuie sur plus de 200 000 images -négatifs, tirages, planches-contacts et diapositives-, accompagnées d’archives professionnelles, confiées à La contemporaine en 1999 par la famille du photographe.

19 janvier – 7 mai 2022

Everyday Life under Communism and After
Lifestyle and Consumption in Hungary, 1945–2000
Author: Tibor Valuch
ISBN: 978-963-386-376-3
CEU Press, January 2022

OPEN ACCESS FREELY AVAILABLE - PDF ATTACHED BELOW

This workshop seeks to bring together faculty and graduate students who are working on the role of confinement and captivity under capitalism(s) both historical and contemporary. While many scholars of capitalism insist on its essential relationship to movement and flow, capitalism is equally rooted in practices of confinement and captivity as a central strategy of accumulation.

Anna Bellavitis, Monica Martinat

Inequalities have always been present in human societies in various ways. They are at the very foundation of hierarchies of wealth, prestige, honour and culture..., but also at the basis of those ideologies that legitimize or condemn them, in general and in particular.