ANARCHISTS ORGANISE PISS-UP IN BREWERY
To celebrate the second birthday of the establishment of ASN in November 2007, members organised a tour of Nottingham's Castle Rock Brewery. Hangovers contributed to it taking this long to post up the announcement.
PHD SCHOLARSHIP AVAILABLE IN ANARCHIST STUDIES
The Department of Politics, IR and European Studies (PIRES), Loughborough University, has just announced the availability of a fully funded, three-year PhD scholarship beginning in 2008. For more details contact Dr Dave Berry, PIRES, Loughborough University (![[MAILTO]](?source=moinmoin&mode=attachment&uri=%2Fwiki%2Frightsidebar%2Fimg%2Fmoin-email.png){kind=small}
d.g.berry@lboro.ac.uk)
SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE FOR MASTERS IN ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE
The masters programme in activism and social change at the Department of Geography, Leeds University is preparing to go into it's second year. You can find all the details, including information on scholarships here
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From Wednesday 27 February up to and including Saturday 1 March 2008 the European Social Sciences History Conference will take place in Lisbon, Portugal at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. We plan to organize a panel on new ways to research anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism and herewith invite researchers to participate.
Traditionally, the historiography of anarchism has focused on the history of ideas, individual protagonists, and organizations. The class composition of anarchism and syndicalism has occupied a central place, as has the geography of the movement. Some authors have paid attention to gender and race, or to a cultural analysis of the movement. Much of the research has been sympathetic, many stressing the importance of movements in the past, and/or their relevance for the present. Nonetheless, methodological issues have received limited explicit attention. Of particular interest are the following issues: linking socio-economic, political, ideological, and cultural approaches; the role of local, regional and transnational factors; social and economic factors that facilitate or constrain anarchist and syndicalist movements; and, finally, the relevance of other literatures, such as social movement theory, network analysis and discourse analysis. The proposed panel will look at these issues, focusing less on accounts of anarchist and syndicalist movements, than on the means to study them.
Before February 27, 2007 synopses of papers should be sent to:
Bert Altena Faculty of History, Arts and Media Erasmus University Rotterdam
Lucien van der Walt Department of Sociology School of Social Sciences Faculty of Humanities University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg