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CONFERENCE:
Getting the Picture
Using
visual collections as historical evidence
A
day conference to be held at the People’s History Museum, Manchester
Monday
16 October 2006
Open
to all
Speakers will be drawn from networks of specialist museums, libraries and archives and some of their academic partners. These will include the National Banner Initiative, the British Cartoon Forum, the Friendly Societies Research Group and the Co-operative History Group. Papers will show academics how they can use social history object collections as historical evidence, and encourage museums to realise their historic potential, making them accessible to researchers. A case study of the collaboration between the People’s History Museum and the University of Central Lancashire will also be presented.
Speakers
will include
Nicholas Hiley, Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature, University of Kent
Mark Dennis, Library and Museum of Freemasonry, London
Gillian Lonergan, National Co-operative Archive, Manchester
Nick Mansfield, People’s History Museum, Manchester
John
Walton, Department of Humanities, University of Central Lancashire
CONFERENCE: Labour Party History:
A conference to mark the centenary of the formation in 1906 of the Parliamentary Labour Party
The Society for the Study of Labour History intends to mark, in its 46th anniversary year, the centenary of the formation in 1906 of the Parliamentary Labour Party. The centenary arises at a time when the 6th Labour government will be in its eight year of office. Papers at the conference are likely to be sought under the following main themes: ‘Labour and the Left’, ‘Labour and the Right’, ‘Labour, the Trade Unions and Industry’, ‘Labour and Welfare’, ‘Constitutions and the Labour Party’, ‘Labour in Comparative Context’ and ‘Labour and International Affairs’. The conference will be held at South Bank University on 25 November 2006.
CONFERENCE
Call for Papers:
To be held at the German Historical Institute, London
16/17
February 2007
The
lack of work has been a recurrent grievance for working people and a site of
protest since the early days of labour movements. This one day conference will
bring together the latest international research into the protests of the
workless.
Papers
will be considered that address the following topics:
i)
Explaining the protests of the unemployed.
There
is a distinctiveness to the protests of the unemployed that requires
explanation. These peculiarities exist at the level of the forms, geographies,
time-scales and the organizations of protest. In the existing research, the
principal modes of explanation have been: unemployment as a social location, the
social psychology of unemployment, attitudinal models, institutional factors and
questions of activism and agency.
ii)
Protests of the unemployed and identity.
The
protests of the unemployed have complex relationship to identity. The experience
of unemployment and its relief have been highly differentiated according to
nationality, ethnicity, region, gender and industry. The current research is
divided over whether there is an unemployed condition or whether unemployment is
a fragmented multiplicity of unconnected situations. The interplay between
identity and protest is therefore a suggestive one at a number of levels.
Different responses are possible. Identity could be seen as a constitutive
feature of protest, or alternatively, the transcendence of particular identities
could be viewed as part of a process of protest. Furthermore, the remembering or
forgetting of these protests has a bearing on formation of collective
identities.
iii)
Impacts of protest
The
problem of the impact of protest confronts all those who study social conflict.
Some protests of the unemployed have been directed to specific, sometimes local,
alterations in circumstances such as an improvement in benefit rates or the
prevention of an eviction. Beyond such events, where success and failure is
easily attributable, the impact of protest is more problematic and contentious.
iv)
Representations and discourses of the protests of the unemployed.
The
protest of the unemployed has been represented in every conceivable media: film,
novels, painting, sculpture, photography and plays. Contested contemporaneous
and historical meanings and discourses of the protests of the unemployed can be
identified and analyzed through these cultural forms.
GREENWICH MARITIME INSTITUTE
CALL FOR PAPERS for A CONFERENCE On
‘GENDER, EMOTION, WORK AND TRAVEL: WOMEN TRANSPORT WORKERS AND PASSENGERS
PAST AND PRESENT’
Friday and Saturday 22 and 23 June 2007
At Greenwich Maritime Institute (GMI) University of Greenwich, London
Papers are welcome on any aspect of the conference theme. Proposals, no more
than 250 words in length, should be submitted by 11 December 2006. Postgraduate
attendance and participation is particularly welcome.