Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe: comparisons/contrasts/connections

Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe: comparisons/contrasts/connections
Univesity College London, UK, 22-24 June 2008

The aim of this conference is to explore the connections, commonalities and differences between Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe through a broad geographical and historical lens, from the Crusades to the present day.

Papers will focus on contemporary and historical flashpoints, such as Britain, Germany, France, Iberia, Austria, Russia, and the Netherlands. In addition to ‘national’ case studies, the conference will attempt to gain a broad ‘European’, transnational perspective on this complex question– or will at least consider whether such a thing can or should be attempted.

Keynotes:
Professor Sander Gilman (Emory University)
Dr Gil Anidjar (Columbia University)
Professor Ivan Davidson Kalmar (University of Toronto)

For further information, please go to
www.edgehill.ac.uk/History/conference

James Renton
Department of English and History
Edge Hill University
Ormskirk
Lancashire
L39 4QP

Email: rentonj@edgehill.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/History/conference

A World of Labour: Transnational and Comparative Histories

CALL FOR PAPERS – A World of Labour: Transnational and Comparative Histories

An International Conference of the Society for the Study of Labour History – University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, UK, 1-3 Sept 2008

Recent years have seen historians moving beyond the nation-state as the principal unit of historical analysis. Contemporary globalisation has helped shape a growing interest in the history of world-wide networks of power, communication and social and economic formation. Within an English-speaking world, the repackaging of aspects of imperial history under the heading of the ‘British World’ has added further pressure for global, transnational and comparative histories. This conference aims to explore these issues, with a particular emphasis upon labour and working-class histories. The society wishes to encourage the widest possible definition of labour history and to embrace social, cultural, economic and political approaches to the past. Themes for consideration could include:

Transnational and global institutions
Internationalism in labour history
Formal and informal labour networks
Global examples of associational culture
Activities or campaigners operating in more than one national context
Social and culture rituals across territories
Strikes, violence, and resistance in comparative perspective
International markets and their effect on labour migration
Class, race, ethnicity and gender in transnational or comparative perspective
Transnationalism, globalisation and Diaspora as conceptual issues or problems
The strengths and weakness of comparative labour history

Confirmed keynotes:
Professor John Belchem (Liverpool)
Professor Stefan Berger (Manchester)
Professor Marcel van der Linden (Amsterdam)
Professor Melanie Nolan (Wellington, NZ)

We welcome proposals for individual papers of 20 minutes, or for panels of up to four papers of that length. Some financial assistance may be available to postgraduates travelling from other parts of the UK or Ireland. A selection of the papers may be published in the Society’s journal, Labour History Review.

Please email proposals (300 words maximum per paper) and brief CV (one page
maximum) to Professor Donald MacRaild d.macraild@ulster.ac.uk or Dr Charlotte Alston c.alston@ulster.ac.uk by 1 May 2008.