Ph.D. Program in “Transcultural Studies on Eurasia and North Africa”

Women’s transnational activism in the Twentieth Century: framing the Chinese case in a global perspective

Friday October 21st 2022, 10.30-16.30, Aula A- Palazzo Vendramin ai Carmini, Dorsoduro 3462, Venice (Italy)

Hybrid conference, online link

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Argumentaire

The International Association of Labour History Institutions is honoured to congratulate Memorial, which has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2022 together with human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties. Memorial is a human rights organisation founded in Moscow, Russia, in 1987, and a long-time member of our association.

European Labour History Network
Labour & Empire Working Group
Seminar Series
2022-23

Seminars will be at 4pm UK time/5pm Central European time on Zoom. They will last 1.30 hour, with up to 45 mins of presentation and 45 minutes of Q&A. Presenters will have the option to pre-circulate their papers at their will.

** FOR ENGLISH AND FRENCH SEE ATTACHED PDF

Ever since the publication in 1976 of Perry Anderson’s Considerations on Western Marxism, the very notion of Western Marxism has been a reference point, a widely used categorization, and the object of intense debates and controversies. The idea that there is a particular version of ‘Western’ Marxism, opposed to both classical Marxism, but also to ‘Eastern’ Marxism, in the sense of the Marxist orthodoxy projected by the Soviet Union, was not, of course, Anderson’s in the first place.