The Biographical Archive of the Workers' Movement from Genoa, Italy (www.abmo.it) is working on a biographical dictionary of the representatives who attended the Congress of Communists and Revolutionary Organizations of the Far East in Russia in December 1921. This Congress, which began in Irkutsk in December, continued in Moscow and Petrograd in January and February of the following year.

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)

EuroDem Conference
Location: Ruhr-University Bochum, Institute for Social Movements, Clemensstraße 17-19, 44789 Bochum
Date: 26-27 February 2026

Linz/Austria

Date: 17–19 September 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

by Susanne Boehm, Jule Ehms, Bernd Hüttner und Robert Kempf

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).

The National Museum of Lithuania invites proposals for the international conference Scattered, Tracked, Connected: New Approaches to Dispersed Heritage, to be held in Vilnius, 29–30 April 2026.

How do we work with heritage that is no longer whole, no longer here – or perhaps never truly was? The conference seeks to explore the fragmented, displaced, or deliberately dispersed nature of cultural heritage, and how museums and memory institutions reassemble meaning through research, digital tools, and collaboration. 

Labour & Society Research Group (LSRG)
7-8 May 2026
Newcastle University
Armstrong Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU

The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research

To commemorate the centenary of the British General Strike and miners lock-out, Newcastle University’s Labour & Society Research Group (LSRG) are organising a conference that revisits the historical experience of 1926 through the lens of new scholarship that is concerned with the global, spatial and maritime turns in labour history.