LiM WG – Newsletter 8 – January 2025
The “Labour In Mining – Working Group Newsletter 2025 Dear members of the Labour in Mining – Working Group. First of all, we wish you a happy new year 2025 ! We warmly welcome...
5 th European Labour History Network Conference Uppsala, 11-13 June 2024Labour in Mining Working GroupSessions and Panels Proposal Coordinators: Dr Francesca Sanna (University of Toulouse 2 Jean Jaurès, FRAMESPA , francesca.sanna@univ-tlse2.fr); Dr José Joaquín...
Call for Papers Conference: The Miners’ Strike in Britain in 1984/5 – New Perspectives Institute for Social Movements in Bochum – 20/21 March 2025 Organizing Committee: Jörg Arnold (University of Nottingham), Stefan Berger (Ruhr-Universität...
by Sebastian Felten, Tenure Track Professor of Early Modern History of Science at the Department of History at the University of Vienna (sebastian.felten@univie.ac.at) In a chronicle on mining written in late-16th-century Germany, a curious...
Special Issue: “Viviendo en las minas”, Mundos do Trabalho, v. 15 (2023) URL: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/mundosdotrabalho/issue/view/3555 Leech B., “Canary in a Coal Mine: From Mine Safety Technique to Animal Metaphor” in Comparative American Studies (2023),...
CALL FOR APPLICATIONSSummer School for PhD Students MINESCAPES Socio-natural Landscapes of Extraction and Knowledge in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period The MINESCAPES Summer School will bring together students and scholars from...
The Réseau universitaire des chercheurs et chercheuses en Histoire environnementale (RUCHE) and the Association française d’histoire des mondes du travail (AFHMT) propose a conference entitled “La sueur et la poussière. Une histoire environnementale des...
Unravelling the Enigmatic Tale of the Witwatersrand: Delving into the Intricacies of Mine Dumps and Townships by Tholithemba Lorenzo Ndaba, Contemporary History Ph.D. candidate at the University of Groningen, t.l.ndaba@rug.nl The discovery of gold...
The call for the Heinrich Winkelmann Fellowship 2023 is open. Since 2014, the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum has offered two research fellowships per year in the areas of mining history and mining archaeology. The three-month...
Mining Continents: Connections and Comparisons between Africa and Latin America We draw you attention on this interesting CFP: Dear mining colleagues, We (Duncan Money and Ángela Vergara) are putting together a roundtable on...
Fifth conference of the European Labour History Network Uppsala University, Sweden, 11th-13th June 2024 CfP: Mining Mobilities across the Globe Labour, Science, and Knowledge Circulation in Mining (15th-21st century) Mining mobility and knowledge circulation...
In this Issue of the series The Young Mining Historians’ Corner, Bastien Cabot (Associate Researcher at CESPRA / EHESS) presents a short summary of his PhD thesis, discussed in october 2022 at the EHESS...
Labour in the Mines of Laurion in Greek antiquity Eléonore Favier ( ATER Université Paris 8 – Associate researcher at the laboratory HiSoMA) Metal was an essential material in the ancient Greek world: it...
Dear members and friends of the Labour in Mining – Working Group. Happy New Year 2023! We warmly welcome you to LiM’s 7th Newsletter. This is a periodic update on the activities of the...
In this issue, Adrian Mateo Palacios (Post-doc at University of Zaragoza) presents a part of his doctoral research about education and household economy in Spanish mining communities. Go to YMHC previous issues. *** Education...
Special Issue “Social and environmental effects of mining in Southern Europe” AREAS-Revista Internacional de ciencias sociales, vol. 43, 2022 Special issue “Miners”, Twentieth Century Communism, 23, 2022. The contents (with some free downloaded articles) ...