La Fondazione Archivio audiovisivo del movimento operaio e democratico e l'Unione circoli cinema Arci organizzano una giornata di riflessione sulla realtà storico politica e sociale di Cuba attraverso le immagini documentarie di cinquanta anni fa e quelle del nuovo cinema cubano.

L'iniziativa vedrà la partecipazione dell'Ambasciatore cubano in Italia, Dott. Lopez Clemente Rodneey
giovedì 12 novembre 2009 - ore 16.00/20.00
Archivio audiovisivo del movimento operaio e democratico
Sala Zavattini - Via Ostiense, 106

Programma

Jenseits von Sozialdemokratie und Kommunismus? Zur Problemgeschichte, Programmatik und Aktualität des Linkssozialismus

Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung NRW (in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Gesprächskreis Geschichte der Rosa Luxemburg-Stiftung), Duisburg 11.12.2009-12.12.2009, Alte Feuerwache Duisburg, Friedenstr.5,

New items on the IISH website in October 2009:

[url]http://www.vakbewegingindeoorlog.nl[/url]
Launch of a website about the Dutch Trade Union Movement in the Second World War (text in Dutch).

[url]http://www.iisg.nl/womhist/jvv-toc.html[/url]
Volume 29 of the Yearbook for Women's History about Gender and Power in Islamic History (text in Dutch, summaries in English).

European Societies of Work in Transformation:
Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Great Britain, Sweden and West Germany during the Seventies

University College London (Bernhard Rieger); German Historical Institute London (Andreas Gestrich, Kerstin Brückweh), London

26.11.2009-28.11.2009, German Historical Institute London

The Working Class Movement Library will be holding a meeting to mark the 25th anniversary of the Miners Strike 1984-1985. On Saturday 21 November at 2.30pm speakers Granville Williams, editor of Shafted: the Media,the Miners' Strike and the Aftermath (2009), and Paul Kelly (Ex-Agecroft Miner) will look back at the personal, political and economic effects of the strike.

Book event, 4 November, London: Guilty and Proud of it! Poplar's rebel councillors andguardian 1919-1925

Janine Booth gives a presentation about her new book: Guilty and Proud of it! Poplar's rebel councillors and guardians 1919-25.

Wednesday 4 November, 7pm
Venue: Pages of Hackney bookshop, 70 Lower Clapton Road, London Sponsored by Hackney TUC

Free entry. Refreshments provided. The book will be on sale at this event at the reduced price of £10 (RRP £12.95)

The Australian Settlement and the Fisher Government
Conference, Business and Labour History Group, The University of Sydney,

30 April 2010

Call for Papers

Conference convenors: Mark Hearn, Modern History, Macquarie University; Nick Dyrenfurth & Harry Knowles, Work and Organisational Studies, University of Sydney.

Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be submitted by 12 February 2010 to: [mailto]N.Dyrenfurth@econ.usyd.edu.au[/mailto]

SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing); University of Helsinki (History, Folklore Studies, Church History); The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland; Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies; The Nordic-Baltic-Russian Network on the History of Books, Libraries and Reading; Finnish Literature Society 17.08.2010-21.08.2010, Helsinki
Deadline: 30.11.2009

Wir waren so frei ... Momentaufnahmen 1989/1990 (Deutschland)
[url]http://www.wir-waren-so-frei.de[/url]

"Das Internet-Achiv zeigt private Filme und Fotos der Umbruchzeit 1989/1990 in Deutschland. Gesammelt werden persönliche Eindrücke und Stimmungen. Damit eröffnet sich ein anderer Blick auf die historischen Ereignisse und deren Auswirkungen auf den Alltag in Ost und West."

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Free Labour? Women and work in slave and post-slave societies
Economic History Society Women’s Committee, 20th Annual Workshop

14th November, 2009
Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation
Oriel Chambers
27 High Street
Kingston upon Hull
HU1 1NE

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For a list of abstracts, [programme and booking form] please visit [url]http://www.ehs.org.uk/society/women.asp[/url]