Red Strains: Music and Communism outside the Communist Bloc after 1945
The British Academy, London
Thursday 13 January – Saturday 15 January 2011

Proposals are invited for this conference, to be held in January 2011 at the British Academy in London.

The relationship between state communism and music behind the Iron Curtain has been the subject of much scholarly interest. The importance of communism for musicians outside the communist bloc, by contrast, has received little sustained attention.

This conference aims to examine:

5e jaargang, nr. 3, maart 2010

Nacht van de Geschiedenis
Tijdens de Nacht van de Geschiedenis op 23 maart kan je van 20 tot 22 uur de tentoonstelling Amsab Revisited! bezoeken. Een van de themata die belicht worden, zijn de vrijzinnige begrafenissen. Er is ieder uur een rondleiding. Daarna wordt een drankje aangeboden.

Portal de Archivos de la Unión General de Trabajadores

Transportation as a lifeline of tourism development in socialist countries

International Association for the History of Traffic, Transport and Mobility (T2M)
Theme Group: Tourism in Socialist Countries
New Delhi 02.12.2010-05.12.2010, National Rail Museum (NRM), New Delhi, India
Deadline: 01.05.2010

br>A new publication by IISH-researcher Jan Lucassen.

Edited by Jan Lucassen, Leo Lucassen and Patrick Manning, Migration History in World History : Multidisciplinary Approaches Studies in Global Social History, 3. Leiden: Brill, 2010. ISBN 978-90-351-3501-7 (hardback), x + 290 pp.

Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung; Berliner Kolleg für Vergleichende Geschichte Europas
Berlin 09.04.2010-10.04.2010, Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung

Tagung und Buchpräsentation gemeinsam mit dem Berliner Kolleg für Vergleichende Geschichte Europas und dem Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung

Jana K. Lipman. Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution. Berkeley University of California Press, 2009. x + 325 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-25539-5; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-25540-1.

Reviewed by Robert S. Robinson (Ohio University)
Published on H-Diplo (March, 2010)
Commissioned by Dustin Walcher

GTMO and Guantánamo: Labor Relations between Cuba and the United States

The Pennsylvania Labor History Workshop will be holding its initial meeting on May 8th, at 10 AM at the Cornwall Iron Furnace Historic Site in Cornwall. Labor historians from across the state will be gathering to set up a steering committee for the group and to finalize other organizational issues. The Workshop offers PA labor historians the opportunity to meet on a regular basis and to engage with on-going work by fellow scholars aboutthe history of working people in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

Call for conference proposals: "West Meets East: The International Labor Organization from Geneva to the Pacific Rim"

To be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara February 3-5, 2011

CfP: The Sixties in National and Transnational Perspective: Communications and Protest Movements - St Andrews 09/10

Centre for Transnational History
University of St. Andrews, St Andrews
16.09.2010-17.09.2010, School of History, University of St Andrews
Deadline: 15.04.2010

The Sixties in National and Transnational Perspective: Communications and Protest Movements