Labnet: CFP: A World of Labour - Transnational and Comparative Histories - Coleraine, Northern Ireland 09/08

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From:    Donald MacRaild <d.macraild at ulster.ac.uk>

CFP: A World of Labour - Transnational and Comparative Histories
Coleraine, Northern Ireland 09/08

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University of Ulster (Great Britian), Coleraine, Northern Ireland
01.09.2008-03.09.2008, University of Ulster
Deadline: 01.05.2008

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 at ulster.ac.uk); this email address
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or to Dr Charlotte Alston (c.alston at ulster.ac.uk); this email address is
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by 1 May 2008.

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Professor Donald MacRaild / Dr. Charlotte Alston
University of Ulster, Coleraine
Northern Ireland
BT52 1SA
+44 28 7032 4233

Email: d.macraild at ulster.ac.uk / c.alston at ulster.ac.uk 

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