Activities & Events

LRSG Seminar Series 2010-11

The Labour and Society Research Group (LRSG) runs a series of seminars at both the universities of Newcastle and Northumbria. Details of upcoming events can be found below, and a downloadable .pdf version of the programme is available on the right. If you are interested in any of the events or have further suggestions for papers, please contact the seminar co-ordinator, Dr Nicole Robertson (nicole.robertson@northumbria.ac.uk).

19 October 2010

Myriam Boussahba-Bravard (Université de Paris Diderot)

'Labour and Gender in Teresa Billington-Greig's Journalism (1906-14)'

Ella Dzelzainis (Newcastle University)

'Harriet Martineau (1802-1876): Feminism, Political Economy and the Working Woman'

Held in conjunction with the Newcastle University Gender Research Group; 5:00-7:00 pm, Research Beehive, Room 2.22, Old Library Building, Newcastle University

9 December 2010

Belinda Davis (Rutgers University)

'The End of the Working-Class Revolutionary Subject? Activist Debates Over “Ideology” in 1960s-70s West Germany?'

4:00-6:00 pm, Alnwick Room, Kings Road Centre (behind Newcastle University SU)

7 March 2011

June Hannam (University of the West of England)

'Labour Women and Autobiography Between the Wars'

5:00-7:00 pm, Room 121 (Gallery Suite), Lipman Building, Northumbria University

16 May 2011

Beverly J. Silver (The Johns Hopkins University)

'Crisis of Labor, Crisis of Capital: A Global View from the End of the “American Century”'

5:00 -7:00 pm, Room 121 (Gallery Suite), Lipman Building, Northumbria University

24 May 2011

Matthias Neumann (University of East Anglia)

'“Thinking Globally”: Internationalism and Workers‟ Identity in Early Twentieth Century Europe'

Held in conjunction with the Northumbria University Transnational Research Group; 5:00 - 7:00 pm, Room 121 (Gallery Suite), Lipman Building, Northumbria University