A Special Issue of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
Edited by:
Can Yalcinkaya, Macquarie University
Justine Lloyd, Macquarie University
“The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible” -- Toni Cade Bambara.
Conference on War and the Contemporary World
April 1, 2022
University of St. Thomas School of Law
Call for Papers
The contemporary world has become an arena for emerging new types of international conflict. In recent years, we have seen hybrid forms of war, as in Russia’s use of a spectrum of weapons – military, cyber, and informational – in its 2014 takeover of the Crimean Peninsula; or more recently, in Belarus’ weaponization of refugees and immigrants at the Polish border.
University of Warwick, 26th May 2022.
Keynote Speaker: Dr Daniel Hartley (Durham University)
Organisers: Elena Baglioni, Liam Campling, Carlo Inverardi-Ferri and Adrian Smith, Queen Mary University of London & Neil Coe, National University of Singapore
International Workshop, Leipzig 29 June – 1 July 2022
Organized by Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (Leipzig) and Research Project B03 „Socialist Development Models for the ‚Third World‘“, and Research Project A07 „‚Free Radicals‘? Political Mobilities and Post-Colonial Processes of Respatialization in the Second Half of the 20th Century“ of the Collaborative Research Centre 1199 „Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition“ (Leipzig)
The Workshop “Recasting subjects and subjectivities in the writing of history: strategies, spaces and conflicts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries” is organized by the PhD in Global History and Governance of the Scuola Superiore Meridionale, a programme based on a multi-disciplinary approach centred on history and law and focused on the comparisons, connections and processes of globalization that have characterized different areas of the planet since the 15th century.
International Memorial Board Statement
On 28 December 2021 Russia's Supreme Court ruled to close International Memorial.
The lawsuit, filed by the Prosecutor General's Office, referred to a missing 'foreign agent' designation on some of the materials produced by International Memorial. This is only a formal pretext, though, and the court hearings showed that these allegations were groundless.
Rewriting Labour Histories: Perspectives from the Globe
WORCK Training School 2022
Warsaw, Poland – 23-27 May 2022
The Department of History at Central European University (CEU) offers students interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives on history from the late medieval period to the present. It is recognized for its innovative approaches to historical research and graduate training.
Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Rethymno, Crete
(https://www.ims.forth.gr/en/index)
June 15-17, 2022
