Struggle, Solidarity and Defeat: 1913 Dublin Lockout Centenary Conference

Saturday 19 October 2013
Old Fire Station, The Crescent, University of Salford, Salford, M5 4WT.

Programme

9.45am -10.30am: Registration and Coffee

10.30am - 10.45am: Welcome and Introduction

10.45am - 11.30am: The Dublin Lockout
Speaker: Padraig Yeates, former Irish Times industry and employment correspondent; author of Lockout: Dublin 1913; project manager of the Irish 1913 Committee

Cold War Seminar: “Dictatorship across Borders: The Brazilian influence on the overthrowing of Salvador Allende.”
Speaker: Mila Burns
Date/Time: September 26, 2013, 5:00-7:00

Cold War Seminar: “American University, “"Finding Tito-Land: US -Yugoslav Aid Relations from Inside the Yugoslav Archives, 1948-1963.”
Speaker: Louie Milojevic
Date/Time: October 24, 2013, 5:00-7:00

Cold War Seminar: “Cold War Comrades: The African American Freedom Struggle and the Cuban Revolution.”
Speaker: Sarah Seidman
Date/Time: November 14, 2013, 5:00-7:00

Organização: Instituto de História Contemporânea da FCSH da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Arquivo & Biblioteca da Fundação Mário Soares, CETAC – Centro de Estudos das Tecnologias e Ciências da Comunicação
Local: Lisboa, Biblioteca Nacional (Campo Grande, 83 - 1749-081) | Auditório
Datas: 22 e 23 de Outubro de 2013
Data limite para submissão de propostas: 20 de Setembro de 2013
Submissão de propostas para: arquivosdigitais2013@gmail.com até 20 de Setembro de 2013

World History Association
29.12.2013-31.12.2013, Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam
Deadline: 30.09.2013

The World History Association, in association with the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi, the Vietnam History Association, and Hawaii Pacific University, has issued a Call or Papers for a Symposium on Vietnam in World History.

Submissions are welcome which pursue interdisciplinary, local-to global, comparative, or international approaches so as to provide an opportunity for dialogue among world historians and scholars of Vietnamese Studies.

The IISH has 6 vacancies for two new research projects.

For the project 'Four Centuries of Labor Camps':

PhD student, Subproject: “Tsarist Katorga and Soviet Gulag in Western Siberia: War, Colonization and the Making of "Socialist Man," 19th-20th Centuries”

Postdoc, Subproject: “Colonial Enlightenment and Punishment in the Netherlands Indies: From chain gang to Upper Digul 1750-1942”

Postdoc (location NIOD), Subproject: “Internment, Work, Poverty and Crime in Hamburg, 1618-1969”

For the project 'Slaves, commodities and logistics':

CfA: Die Philanthropie - Partnerin oder Konkurrentin des Wohlfahrtsstaates? Zum ambivalenten Verhältnis von privaten und staatlichen Produzenten sozialer Sicherheit - Bern/Innsbruck 10/2013

Call for Papers