The recent Black Lives Matter protests in the U.S. and around the world once again remind us to acknowledge and address the systemic injustice based on racism that has deep historic roots. A long tradition of protest and demands for reform loom up behind the activists of today – a legacy that endows the movement with an arsenal of references but at the same time augments the frustration at the perceived lack of real change.

We are interested in proposals that engage with the debates on work through workers inquiry. Broadly speaking, we consider this to involve empirical research with workers combined with a focus on resistance and/or organising. We consider these inquiries as potentially broad in scope, method, and methodology, but expect proposals that explore workers' experiences.

(More info: http://www.nordiclabourhistory.org/)

Tracks and special sessions covering themes from dairy work and dock work through precarization processes and de-industrialization processes to communist lives and migrant labor have now come together in the full preliminary program of Nordic Labour History Conference 2020. This version may be subject to minor changes.

The Working Class Movement Library is uploading all the talks of their series 'Invisible Histories' to their YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/wcmlibrary: 

Résistant à l’usure et aux multiples lavages, pratique, d’une coupe simple et fonctionnelle, bon marché, il est devenu, depuis le XIXème siècle et la révolution industrielle, l’indispensable vête- ment de l’ouvrier et du travailleur manuel.

La revista Archivos de historia del movimiento obrero y la izquierda

convoca a investigadores interesados a remitir colaboraciones para el dossier de su N° 18

“Historia intelectual. Recepciones del marxismo en la Argentina”

Bonjour à toutes et tous,

Lors de la Journée internationale des archives, le 9 juin dernier, les 13 centres d’archives privées reconnus par la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles et l’Association des archivistes francophones de Belgique ont adressé une lettre ouverte à leur ministre de tutelle, Bénédicte Linard, ministre de la Culture, via une carte blanche parue sur le site du Soir.

A conference on the occasion of the (postponed) 600th anniversary
of the foundation of Tábor
Tábor, Czech Republic, 9-11 June 2021

Fear has become a major topic in studies of emotion connected with the history and historical sociology of reciprocal perceptions in international relations. One of this topic’s most extensive aspects concerns the fear that major state agents inspire in their neighbours in a context of past or present distrust, enmity, or even aggression. These fears especially concern spatial issues, i.e. challenges to sovereignty over contested territories, where borders are at stake.

More information: https://nahoststudien.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/d…