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SCIENTIAE: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World
Annual Conference 
June 9-12, 2026 
University of Nantes
Call for Papers 
https://scientiae.uk
 
We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for Scientiae 2026. The annual conference, our 13th, will be held from 9 to 12 June 2026 in Nantes, France, and hosted by the Centre of research CRINI, and units of research attached to the Humanities Center at Nantes University.
 

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Argentina 1976, 50 Years Later: Workers’ and Social Insubordination in the 1970s
International Colloquium, Paris, Condorcet Campus, 9-10 February 2026

18th Contact Day Jewish Studies on the Low Countries
Institute of Jewish Studies - University of Antwerp, Tuesday 12 May 2026

We are pleased to invite you to the launch of Labour’s Memory. This new international initiative opens up the rich archival heritage of the labour movement, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

Call for Papers
Conference: “Transition and Renewal: Progressive Utopias and Leftist Reorientation, 1970s–1990s”
Date: 12–14 May, 2027, Venue: University of Copenhagen
Organizers: Knud Andresen (Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg), Mads Jedzini (University of Copenhagen), Detlef Siegfried (University of Copenhagen)

Vulnerability and Power in Late Antiquity (4th-9th centuries)
Second International Postgraduate Conference of the Ghent Centre for Late Antiquity (GCLA) 
27-29 April 2026, Ghent (BE)

Understanding the dynamics of vulnerability and power is important for the study of any period, not least for Late Antiquity (broadly defined here as spanning the fourth to ninth centuries, across a wide geographical scope), where we see significant negotiations of power in a time of great transformation.

Publication, discount until 7 November 2025

The volume Working in Greece and Turkey. A comparative labour history from Empires to nation-states, 1840-1940, eds. Leda Papastefanaki & M. Erdem Kabadayi, (Series: International Studies in Social History, Vol. 33, New York/Oxford: Berghahn, 2020) has a 35% discount on the occasion of the 2nd International Conference "From Tobacco Workers' Movements to Contemporary Social Movements" (Kavala, Greece, 18-19 October 2025).

How did deindustrialisation change local communities at the end of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21th century?
Call for papers of the ELHN Working Group Memory and Deindustrialisation for the 6th ELHN Conference, 16-19 June 2026, Barcelona

Organizers: Irene Diaz, Tibor Valuch

6th European Labour History Network Conference
Barcelona 4-6 September 2026

Session 40:
Gateways to Work in Urban Spaces: Women’s Strategies, Networks, Institutions, and Mobilities (18th–20th Century)