43rd International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH)
Zeit: 13.-16.09.2007
Ort: Linz, Austria
Organized by International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH) and Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria, kindly supported by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, the Provincial Government of Upper Austria, the City of Linz and the Friedrich Ebert-Foundation Bonn.
Transnationale, also den Nationalstaat überschreitende und unterlaufende Netzwerke sind als die Organisationsform der „Globalisierung“ ins Zentrum des Interesses gerückt. Solche Netzwerke können als Vektoren der globalen Verbreitung von Wissen, Normen, Einstellungen, kulturellen Praktiken und Lebensstilen analysiert werden. Die Tagung ruft in Erinnerung, dass die Arbeiterbewegung mit ihrem weltumspannenden („globalen“) Anspruch auch transnational angelegte Vernetzungsversuche ausgebildet hat. Sie soll einen Überblick über den Beitrag von Formen transnationaler Netzwerke der Arbeiterbewegung zur Geschichte der „Globalisierung“ geben.
PRELIMINARY PPROGRAM (July 25, 2007)
Simultaneous translation: English – French – German
Thursday, September 13, 2007
9.00 am – 10.00 pm:
Registration of the participants at Jägermayrhof (cultural and educational centre of the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labour), Römerstr. 98a, 4020 Linz, Austria
12.00 am – 1.30 pm:
Meeting of the Executive Committee and the International Advisory Board of ITH
1.30 – 2.00 pm: Break
2.00 – 4.30 pm:
General Assembly of the Member Institutes of ITH
4.30 – 5.00 pm: Break
5.00 – 7.00 pm:
Conference Opening by the President of ITH, Berthold Unfried, and
SESSION I (Notions and concepts)
Susan Zimmermann (Budapest): Internationalismus – Forschungsstand und Forschungsperspektiven
NN: Historische Netzwerkforschung
7.00 – 7.30 pm: Break
7.30 pm:
Conferring of the René Kuczynski Prize for outstanding publications on the field of social and economic history
Conferring of the Herbert Steiner Prize for the promotion of research on antifascist resistance, persecution and exile as well as the history of the labour movement
afterwards:
Opening ceremony with representatives of the City of Linz, the Provincial Government of Upper Austria, the University of Linz, and our host Mr Erwin Kaiser from the AK-Bildungshaus Jägermayrhof
Reception by the Mayor of Linz, Dr. Franz Dobusch, at Jägermayrhof
Friday, September 14, 2007
9.00 am:
SESSION II (Migrations of people)
Dirk Hoerder (Arizona): Transnational, -regional, -cultural: Social History and Labour Migrants‘ Networks in the 19th and 20th Century
Gregor Benton (Cardiff): Chinese Seafarers and Labour Internationalism, 1911-1945
Mirta Zaida Lobato & Juan Suriano (Buenos Aires): Cosmopolitism, labor mobility and working organization in South American countries, 1870 – 1930
12.30 am:
Reception by the Provincial Governor of Upper Austria, Dr. Josef Pühringer, at the Youth Hostel of Linz, Stanglhofweg 3, 4020 Linz
2.00 pm:
SESSION III (Migrations of ideas and practices: foundations, think tanks)
Patrik von zur Mühlen (Bonn): Die Rolle von Netzwerken in der internationalen Arbeit der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Jasmien van Daele (Geneva/Amsterdam): Transnational networks of labour experts. Epistemic communities and the International Labour Organization
7.30 pm:
Dinner at Jägermayrhof
8.00 pm:
Panel Discussion: „Politische Stiftungen als Wissensnetzwerke“
Venue: will be announced later
Saturday, September 15, 2007
9.00 am:
SESSION IV (Political networks & transfers of ideology)
Augusta Dimou (Ioannina): Conceptualizing the Social Subject in Early Socialist Discourses in Southeastern Europe. Possibilities and Limitations in the Transfer of International Paradigms
Ottokar Luban (Berlin): Die Zimmerwalder Bewegung als Netzwerk am Beispiel der Mitwirkung der Spartakusgruppe
Bernhard Bayerlein (Mannheim): Transnationale Strukturen und Netzwerke der Komintern: Wege zur Erkundung eines politischen und kulturellen Universums
12.30 am:
Lunch at Jägermayrhof
2.00 pm:
SESSION V (Political networks & transfers of ideology)
Bruno Groppo & Catherine Collomp (Paris): The Jewish Labour Committee as network
Peter Waterman (Den Haag): Shall the Last Be the First? The Internationalism of Labour’s Others
Ravi Ahuja (Heidelberg/London): Netzwerke und Arbeitsmärkte: Eine Annäherung an ein Problem transterritorialer Arbeitsgeschichte
afterwards:
General discussion
7.00 pm:
Lunch at Jägermayrhof
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Departure of the participants after breakfast.