Category Archives: Conferences

A request from the Working Class Studies mailing list:

I’m starting to collect material for a webumentary I’m creating. The
target audience is working-class students (college and upper high
school), their parents, and their advisors. The topic is something
along the lines of “negotiating higher education,” and everything that
entails. I know for many people with wc/pc backgrounds, the college
experience and everything surrounding it was very different than it
was for our counterparts from different backgrounds.

I’m looking at US experience at this point, since that’s the audience
I know and can envision using this.

I’ll be doing some interviewing at the Working Class Academics
conference in Ithaca at the end of the month. If anyone on this list
is going to the conference and is interested in being interviewed (or
in contributing other material to the webumentary), please drop me a
line. I can be reached at this email address, or at teryg@cox.net.

Thanks very much,
Tery Griffin

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Conventions mulling a move from S.F.

These groups, with their numbers of attendees shown, could move their meetings from San Francisco:

American Educational Research Association, 13,000

American Federation of Teachers, 5,000

American Political Science Association, 6,000

International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, 15,000

American Anthropological Association, 5,000.

SF Chronicle: “Hotel standoff imperils some conventions, Five groups ponder a move elsewhere to avoid union boycotts”

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Laborfest is an International Working Class Film & Video Festival, July 5-31, in San Francisco.

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Labor Action Coalition, Chicago National Conference & Action

When: Sunday, July 24 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Where: Truman College, 1145 W. Wilson
( just west of the Red Line Wilson Ave. stop; about 7 blocks West of the Outer Drive (Lake Shore Drive) exit at Wilson Ave., Chicago, Illinois )

The growing crisis in the AFL-CIO leadership is a reflection of their complete failure to defend and organize workers in the United States.

On Sunday July 24, 2005 in Chicago, the national Labor Action Coalition and other organizations and unionists invite you and your organization to join us at a national labor conference. We

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The Marxist Literary Group will hold their 2005 Institute on Culture and Society from June 15-18 at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. The theme for this year’s conference is “Resisting War and Fascism.” For more information see MLG Summer Institute 2005.

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From the Working-Class studies mailing list:

To round off the programme for the Labour and Working Class History
network for the European Social Science History Conference, we are
looking for one or two papers on workers’ organisations in the US
(1940s – 1970s) and for one or two papers on global aspects of labour
relations (these papers could cover long term developments in labour
relations; one of the papers in the session covers labour recruitment
in Africa 1500-1900). As the extended deadline for pre- registration
is June 1st, we ask those interested to take part in these sessions
to contact the network chairs a.s.a.p. (at LHV@iisg.NL).

The sixth European Social Science History Conference will take place
in The Hague, the Netherlands, on 22-25 March 2006. The ESSHC brings
together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using
the methods of the social sciences. The conference is characterized
by a lively exchange in many small groups, rather than by formal
plenary sessions. The Conference is organised in a large number of
networks which cover a certain topic (e.g. criminal justice, family,
social inequality, economics). Sessions and papers on Labour and
Working Class History can be proposed to the chairs of the Labour
History Network

Carolyn Brown cbrown@panix.com
David De Vries devries@post.tau.ac.il
Lex Heerma van Voss LHV@iisg.NL

Further information on the ESSHC is available from the conference web
siteHow to propose a paper: pre-register through the conference website,
indicating ‘Labour” as your network of preference. How to propose a
panel session: pre-register for 3 or 4 participants. Add full names
and addresses of all paper authors, and of a chair and/or
commentator. Most sessions choose the panel format, but other types
of sessions are encouraged. The deadline for sending in abstracts is
1 June 2005.

lex heerma van voss
lhv@iisg.nl
International Institute of Social History
Cruquiusweg 31,
1019 AT Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fax: +31.20.6654181
Tel: +31.20.6685866(work)/+31.20.6953787(home)

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