The European Generation(s) of '1968' - 68er-Generationen in Europa - Göttingen 11/09
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Zeitgeschichtlicher Arbeitskreis Niedersachsen (ZAKN); Göttinger DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 1083 'Generationengeschichte'27.11.2009-28.11.2009, Göttingen
Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Day, and Immanuel Ness, editors, The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2009. xxxix + 750 pp. $155 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-7656-1330-1.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Melvyn Dubofsky, Departments of History and Sociology, Binghamton University.Published by EH.NET (October 2009)
Boletín Digital de Actividades
número 50 - octubre de 2009
Das Institut für soziale Bewegungen und die Stiftung Bibliothek des Ruhrgebiets möchten Ihnen mit dieser mail die 13. Ausgabe des gemeinsamen Newsletters präsentieren. Der Newsletter informiert über aktuelle Veranstaltungen, Projekte und Publikationen sowie die Serviceangebote im Haus der Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets. Hervorhebung verdient in diesem Zusammenhang vor allem der Festvortrag von Gerhard A. Ritter anläßlich des Stiftungsfestes am 27.11.2009.
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)
