Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo/Egypt, 10-11 November 2025

European University Institute, Badia Fiesolana (Italy), 23­–24 October 2025

This two-day workshop invites scholars to explore how concepts of time have been historically instrumentalised in Eastern Europe from the nineteenth century onwards as a political resource to reinterpret the past, to shape conceptions and experiences of the present, and to exploit the unknowability of the future in response to large-scale global changes and in competition with global dominant time regimes.

Dear colleagues,

attached you will find the program for the upcoming 60th ITH Conference, titled “Workers and Worldmaking: Labor in the Era of Decolonization”, which will take place from 25 to 27 September 2025 at: Bildungshaus Jägermayrhof, Römerstraße 98, A-4020 Linz, Austria.

Please note that early bird registration ends on 30 June 2025.

Registration is available via the following form:

https://forms.gle/x2c3jQURrUnHxGN98

Workshop in Glasgow, 11 September 2025

Convenors: Dr Anna McEwan (University of Glasgow/Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF) Potsdam), Dr Eliska Bujokova (University of Glasgow/University of New Brunswick)

We are inviting participants to a one-day workshop resulting in a podcast entitled, Behind the Pages: Lives of Early Career Historians: Resource Sharing and Podcast Production. The event will take place at the University of Glasgow on September 11th 2025.

by José Hinojosa Durán

What contribution can the history of labour provide to the study of family economy?  The ELHN Working Group Labour and Family Economy aims at developing a labour centered reflection on a classical topic in economic and social history: the historical forms taken by family economy in different economic, geographical and institutional contexts.

Call for Papers
Nordic Labour Internationalism in the 20th Century
15–16 January 2026, University of Oslo, Norway
 

The Precarious Labour Working Group will participate in the Sixth ELHN Conference with thematic sessions. We invite members of the Working Group, and all other interested colleagues, to come up with paper and session proposals under the following call:

by Fred Siegmund