If you would like to have LAWCHA co-sponsorship for a session at the American Studies Association, please send the information to our program committee (Jana Lipman, chair) at [email protected]. We welcome the opportunity to enhance the visibility of LAWCHA at other conferences, and our co-sponsorship can also sometimes help to make sure a worthy session is accepted when the competition is intense.
Read more →Deadline: December 7, 2015. Our conference in honor of Women’s History Month 2016 will analyze and celebrate this tradition and explore the following questions: How can working women’s movements fight off conservative assaults and who are the allies in that fight?
Read more →The Working-Class Studies Association (WCSA) invites nominations (including selfnominations) for awards covering the year of 2015.
Read more →Organizers of the 2016 Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Colloquium (MLWCH) are soliciting papers of approximately 10 to 25 pages, from any discipline, broadly related to themes in labor history and working class studies. CFP Deadline: February 5, 2016.
Read more →The Labor and Employment Relations Association cordially invites submissions of symposia, workshops, and individual papers for the 2016 Annual Meetings of LERA, to be held May 26-May 29 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Symposia and workshop deadline: November 15; Individual paper deadline: December 15.
Read more →The PNLHA invites proposals for presentations, workshops and performances that explore the historical experiences of workers and their organizations in the Pacific Northwest (USA and Canada). CFP Deadline: January 25, 2016.
Read more →CAWLS 2016 Conference. he Congress theme, “Energizing Communities” seeks to engage our collective interest in how communities are organized, how they respond to social change and how we build alliances with like-minded groups. Deadline: December 1, 2016.
Read more →The B.C. Labour Heritage Centre is an independent not-for-profit historical society with charity status, working to preserve and expand the knowledge of the important role of workers in the history of British Columbia. To further support the research and writing of BC labour history, the Centre is soliciting, for use in all of these capacities, original works of historical research exploring some aspect of BC’s rich labour history.
Read more →The New York Labor History Association is pleased to announce
this Call for Entries for the First Annual Debra E. Bernhardt Labor Journalism Prize. The Bernhardt Prize is an award of $500 given to an article or series of articles that furthers the understanding of the history of working people.
The Institute for Political History, the Journal of Policy History, and the Peabody College of Vanderbilt University are hosting the ninth biennial Conference on Policy History at the Loews® Vanderbilt Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee from Wednesday, June 1 to Saturday, June 4, 2016.
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