Tamiment Seminar

The Tamiment Library at New York University is pleased to announce its spring seminar series.

April 10, 2003 (Thursday)
Professor Barbara Weinstein (History Department, University of Maryland), "Making Workers Masculine: The (Re)Construction of Male Worker Identity in Modern Brazil." Comment by Dr. Daniel Bender (Princeton University).

North Korean Revolution

The Cold War International History Project invites you to a CWIHP Washington seminar on "The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1955." The CWIHP seminar, co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Center's Asia Program, will take place March 7, 2003 (3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.) in the Woodrow Wilson Center's Flom Auditorium.

China's Floating Population

Li Zhang. Strangers in the City. Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks within China's Floating Population. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. xiv + 286 pp. 4 maps, 20 illustrations, notes to chapters, glossary, bibliography, and index. $49.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-8047-4030-5; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8047-4206-5.

International Brigades

On March 27, the Bibliothèque de Documentation internationale contemporaine will open an exhibition on the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War at its Musée d'Histoire contemporaine, located in the Hôtel national des Invalides in Paris. Two symposiums will accompany the opening, one on 'La photographie et le photojournalisme pendant la Guerre civile' (March 26), the other on 'Mémoires de la guerre d'Espagne: mythes, enjeux et transmissions' (March 31).

More information (in French) is available in the following Word files:

Alternative Futures

Between 1995 and 2002 Manchester Metropolitan University hosted eight very successful international conferences on Alternative Futures and Popular Protest. A Ninth conference will be held from 22nd-24th April 2003.

The Conference aim is to explore the dynamics of popular movements, along with the ideas which animate their leaders and supporters and which contribute to shaping their fate.