Call for Papers: The Paterson Silk Strike Centennial Conference, 1913-2013
William Paterson University of New Jersey Wayne, NJ May 20, 2013

The William Paterson University of New Jersey (WPUNJ) is seeking papers for its upcoming conference commemorating the centennial of the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike. The conference, to be held on the WPUNJ campus on Monday, May 20, 2013, will take a multidisciplinary approach to the history and multiple legacies of the silk strike.

Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation The Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) reminds all that the deadline for application for its sixth annual Dissertation Prize is coming up on January 31st, 2013. This prize has been established with the cooperation with the University of Illinois Press.

I would like to put together a session for the 2013 meeting of the Social Science History Association in Chicago, 21-24 November. I do not have a firm session topic, but in line with the conference's theme of "Organizing Powers" I have in mind a panel would look at the terrain between governing arrangements and structures of social power and the means by which insurgents may challenge such arrangements and power.

The next DC Working Class History Seminar will be held from 2-5 pm on Saturday, Feb. 2 in the Gelman Library's Teamsters Labor History Research Center on the George Washington University Campus (2130 H St. Northwest, suite 702). It will feature the following pre-circulated papers:

Yevette Richards, "Marred by Dissimulation: The AFL-CIO, the Women’s Committee, and Transnational Labor Relations”

and

Gregory Woods, "White-Collar Workers and Anti-Smoking Politics after World War II."

The Labor and Working-Class History Association will hold its annual meeting in 2014 at the OAH conference in Atlanta (April 10-13, 2014).

The LAWCHA Program Committee (Eileen Boris, chair; Monica Perales and Dennis Deslippe) is seeking ideas for sessions or papers which can be co-sponsored by LAWCHA. Please direct all proposals to the LAWCHA Program Chair, Eileen Boris (boris [at] femst.ucsb.edu) before the February 15 deadline.

Cecelia Bucki
Professor of History, Fairfield University LAWCHA National Secretary

[Cross-posted, with thanks, from H-Labor]

Hans-Böckler-Stiftung; in Kooperation mit der Göttinger Graduiertenschule Gesellschaftswissenschaften 23.04.2013-26.04.2013, Göttingen, Tagungszentrum an der Sternwarte Universität Göttingen Geismar Landstraße 11 37083
Deadline: 15.03.2013

Die Tagung befasst sich mit den Zusammenhängen und Wechselwirkungen von Migration und gewerkschaftlicher Arbeit im deutschen wie im internationalen Kontext.

CFP: International Conference on the Comparative Social Histories of Labour in the Oil Industry
13 to 16 June 2013, IISH, Amsterdam

The International Institute of Social History (IISH) organizes a conference to be held from 13 until 16 June 2013 in Amsterdam on the comparative social histories of labour in the oil industry. The conference is part of the larger project Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry at the IISH, which is supported by the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO).

Please join us for this upcoming book talk at the Tamiment Library.
This event is co-sponsored by the Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center
and the New York Labor History Association.

Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the
Anti-Communist Purge
Author: Marjorie Heins

Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 at 6:00PM

The Fondation pour une entraide intellectuelle européenne (Foundation for the Support of European Intellectuals, FEIE) was set up in 1966 in Geneva to help morally and financially non-conformist intellectuals in East European communist countries, as well as Spain and Portugal. The idea of its establishment came from members of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an advocayc group formed in the 1950s to fight the influence of communism.

Social Science History Association (SSHA) - Women, Gender & Sexuality Network 21.11.2013-24.11.2013, Chicago, IL, The Palmer House Hilton
Deadline: 15.02.2013