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• 12 oct 2018

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  Rethinking the History of the Rust Belt since 1945

  This region, stretching from western New York to eastern Iowa, was until the middle of the 20th century the country's manufacturing and industrial heartland. From the Great Migrations that radically transformed its demographics to the weakening of its economic model, as well as the massive struggles waged by local workers and protagonists of the Civil Rights movement, the political and social history of the Rust Bel. By bringing into dialogue the ongoing or recently completed research of doctoral students and junior academics with a view to opening up new perspectives on the history of the Rust Belt, from a range of disciplines (history, sociology, political science, geography), we intend to highlight spaces and actors too often relegated to the margins of this region’s history, despite their having decisively contributed to shaping the contemporary Rust Belt

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• 30 avr 2018

  Orléans

  Call for papers - Law

  Housing the working classes in the city - private initiatives and public interventions

  Entre initiatives privées et interventions publiques

  Depuis plusieurs années, différents colloques ont abordé la question du logement social sous l’angle des politiques sociales urbaines, des ségrégations urbaines, ou encore par le biais des offices d’HLM (habitation à loyer modéré), alors que des recherches récentes interrogent la pérennité du modèle généraliste français dans un contexte de rigueur budgétaire. Ce colloque propose de revisiter la construction du modèle français de logements populaires, depuis les premiers questionnements du milieu du XIX^e siècle jusqu’à nos jours. La longue durée doit permettre de réinvestir des sources déjà exploitées, mais aussi d’en présenter d’autres, méconnues, afin d’éclairer plus particulièrement la mise en place puis l’évolution du couple initiatives privées / interventions publiques.

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• 11 jan 2018

  12 jan 2018

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - History

  Home as a place for anti-Jewish persecution in European cities, 1933-1945

  Anti-Jewish persecution didn’t only happen in specifically designed or transformed spaces such as camps and ghettos. It invaded spaces of everyday life in European cities: public spaces, work places and private spaces such as homes. In this landscape not only Jews and agents of persecution appear but also their immediate residential environment: concierges, neighbors, nannies, landlords, property managers, sub-tenants, local administrations, etc. These figures have an essential place in the memories of Jewish survivors. Though, so far, scholars have hardly addressed their role. The spatial turn that occurred during the last fifteen years in Anglophone Holocaust studies focused on the symbolic places of genocide. It mostly neglected apartment blocks and ordinary cities as spaces of persecution. This conference thus intends to focus on urban housing as a place for anti-Jewish persecution.

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