Finally we are able to announce the release of the 2009 issue of the International Newsletter of Communist Studies Online. The online edition, which can be freely downloaded from the INCS website at [url]http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/projekte/incs/[/url], incorporates 364 pages, which is over a hundred pages more than the last issue and thus is the largest INCS issue ever (once again).
The United States and The Cold War September Seminars
To RSVP or to receive a copy of the paper please email, [mailto]zk3@nyu.edu[/mailto]
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Dana Frank, University of California, Santa Cruz "The AFL-CIO's Cold War in Honduras: The First Years of Intervention, 1954-59"
5:30 - 7:00pm (with reception to follow)
November 20, 2009
Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
Keynote Speaker: Tim Leunig (Department of Economic History, LSE)
"Apprenticeship, information, human capital and development: Britain on the eve of the Industrial Revolution"
Call for papers
A new website has been launched called Manchester's Radical History at http://radicalmanchester.wordpress.com/.
The authors state the following:
Manchester Radical History Collective is a small group of politically active people living in Manchester. We're not affiliated to any single movement or Party and have a range of views on major political issues of the past, present and future.
Von Sigurd bis Sickingen: Rittertugenden und Wertekanon von der Romantik bis zur Arbeiterbewegung - Bad Münster am Stein - Ebernburg
Varnhagen Gesellschaft e. V.; in Kooperation mit der Fouqué-Gesellschaft Berlin-Brandenburg e. V.; dem Verkehrsverein Rheingrafenstein e. V.; der Salongesellschaft Eltville; dem Kurpfälzischen Amtshof; dem Weinaurant Bach; unterstützt von der Arbeitsgemeinschaft literarischer Gesellschaften und Gedenkstätten aus Mitteln des Bundesbeauftragten für Kultur und Medien; Schirmherrin: Andrea Nahles MdB, Bad Münster am Stein - Ebernburg
Grenzenüberschreitende Arbeitergeschichte: Konzepte und Erkundungen
Labour History beyond Borders: Concepts and Explorations - Linz 09/09
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International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH), Linz 10-13 September 2009, Jägermayrhof, Römerstraße 98Deadline: 03.09.2009
45. Linzer Konferenz / 45. Linz Conference
Simultanübersetzung: Deutsch - Englisch / Simultaneous translation: German - English
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Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,
wir freuen uns, Ihnen heute wieder Buchbesprechungen zur Sozial- und Zeitgeschichte präsentieren zu können.
Die Rezensionen verstehen sich als Teil des Rezensionsapparats von Band 49 (2009) des Archiv für Sozialgeschichte und sind im Internet als Volltexte zugänglich.
Volume 3 No 1 of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation is entitled Working at the interface: call-centre labour in a global economy.
Call for papers, presentations, and panels
The 1st North American Anarchist Studies Network Conference
La 1ère Conférence de l'Association Nord-Américain des Etudes Anarchistes
La 1a Conferencia de la Asociación Norteamericana de Estudios Anarquista
When: 21-22 November 2009
Where: Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Who: Anarchist Scholars, Scholars of Anarchism & Related Topics, Graduate Students, Activists, and Friends
Dear Friends, Colleagues, and Comrades,
The Working Class Movement Library is celebrating the bicentenary of the death of revolutionary writer and radical political thinker Thomas Paine with an exhibition at Salford Museum and Art Gallery.
Paine's ideas have inspired radicals and shaped government policies for over 200 years.
Barack Obama quoted him in his presidential inauguration speech,stating:
