Workers of all lands unite? - 7th March 2015 1 WORKERS OF ALL LANDS UNITE? WORKING-CLASS NATIONALISM AND INTERNATIONALISM UNTIL 1945 PROGRAMME OF EVENTS 7TH MARCH 2015 UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM www.facebook.com/workersofalllandsunite? @wuniteconf2015 workersuniteconference2015.wordpress.com [email protected]
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The University Park campus, where the conference will be held, is 2 miles from the
Nottingham Train station, about a 40 min walk or a short bus ride. To take a bus,
walk to Broadmarsh bus station and get either the i4 (every ten minutes) or the 21
(every hour) bus. These buses will drop you off outside the University Park
campus, from where you will need to use the map on page 4 to navigate your way
to Highfield House.
PARKING
Parking on campus is free on weekends, but please remember to park in a legally
marked bay.
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CONFERENCE LOCATION
The conference will be held in Highfield House (circled in orange).
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PROGRAMME
All talks and discussions will take place in Highfield House.
8:45-9.15 Registration
9.15-9.30 Conference opening from organisers
9.30-10.45 Keynote address by Dan Gallin with Q&A
10.45-11.00 Break
11.00-12.15
Panel 1: Nationalism and Internationalism in the 1930s
Kerrie Holloway, Queen Mary University
'Constructing Solidarity: Aid Spain Committees, Local Citizenship and
Internationalism in the late 1930s'
Dr. David Convery, National University of Ireland, Galway
'Internationalism or Paternalism? The relationship between communists in
Britain and Ireland, 1931-1941'
Dr. Natalia Rocha Lawton, Coventry University
'Intersectionality, hegemony and the power relationships surrounding
privatisation'
11.00-12.15
Panel 2: Personal Stories
Susan Garrard, University of St Andrews
'“Welcome Garibaldi!”: A female working-class poet’s engagement with
British Nationalism and the Italian Risorgimento'
Christina Till, University of Hamburg
'Jiang Kanghu and the European Left'
Sani Montclair vanderSpek, University of Oxford
'Colonial Practices and Daily Life in Family Photographs from the
Netherlands Indies, 1907-1938'
12.15 -1.15 Lunch
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1.15-2.30
Panel 3: Nationalism and Socialism Ivan Jeličić, University of Trieste 'The (im)possible socialist movement in Fiume' Kostas Paloukis, University of Crete 'The views of archeiomarxists about the Greek revolution and the Greek nation' Merilyn Moos, independent researcher and author 'Now is the time to recognise the grass-roots opposition to the Nazis pre-1933: the case of Siegfried Moos'
1.15-2.30
Panel 4: International Networks and Federations Morris Brodie, Queen's University Belfast 'The Atlantic Anarchist Movement in the 1930s' Aurélien Zaragori, Université Lyon 'Acting internationally: the consolidation of International Federation of Christian Trade Unions through its participation in the International Labour Organization' Yiannis Kokosalakis, University of Edinburgh 'Proletarian Internationalism as Revolutionary Patriotism: Political Instruction in the Soviet Baltic Fleet, 1926-1941'
2.30-3.45
Panel 5: Social Democracy Before the Great War Ken Cheng, University College London 'Revolutionary popularization and the re-imagining of worker internationalism: German Social Democracy and French revolutionary syndicalism, 1890-1914' Dr. Christian Dietrich, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt 'Colonialism, Class Struggle and Jewish Proletariat: Positions on Labour Zionism in the Colonialism Discussion of the German Social Democracy' Dr. Jakub Beneš, University of Birmingham 'Nationalism as the Fulfilment of Internationalism in Czech Social Democracy 1890-1914'
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2.30-3.45
Panel 6: Race, Class, Nation and Empire Dr. Nikos Potamianos, teacher in secondary education 'National preference demands and labor market: the case of Greek workers in the 1910s' Musab Younis, University of Oxford ''A nation within a nation': black nationalism in the United States, 1919-1939' Dr. Brian Casey, University College Dublin The construction of political consciousness amongst the lower classes in the west of Ireland, 1876-1879
3.45-4.00 Break
4.00-5.45
'How efficient are contemporary labour unions and associations at
protecting local and immigrant workers in their national contexts,
while at the same time favouring the organization of transnational
structures that defend workers’ interests on a global scale?'
Dan Gallin, Chair of the Global Labour Institute
Dr. Allison Drew, University of York
Dr. Christopher Phelps, University of Nottingham
Dr. Chris Wrigley, University of Nottingham
5.45- Conference close, followed by wine reception and (optional) dinner
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ABSTRACTS AND BIOGRAPHIES
KEYNOTE AND ROUNDTABLE SPEAKERS
Dan Gallin, Chair of the Global Labour Institute (Geneva)
Dan Gallin’s career as a socialist and union activist spans more than six decades.
Son of an exiled Romanian diplomat, he was recruited to “Third Camp” Socialism
(Socialist Youth League/International Socialist League) as a college student at the
University of Kansas in the early 1950s. Forced to leave the USA for his political
activities in 1953, he rejoined his family in Switzerland where he became a Swiss
citizen and a member of the Swiss Socialist Party. Opting to work in the
international workers’ movement rather than the socialist political movement, he
joined the staff of the International Union of Food Workers (IUF), which he
served as General Secretary from 1968 to 1997.
Currently, he is Chair of the Global Labour Institute (GLI), a labour service
organization which he co-founded in 1997 with a secretariat in Geneva and
affiliates in New York, Moscow, and Manchester. He has become a mentor to a
new generation of trade union activists through his work with the GLI and his
advocacy of the inclusion of informal sector and domestic workers and their
unions as critical parts of the labour movement.
Gallin has also written widely on the history and future of the international trade
union movement. His most recent work, Solidarity, was released in May 2014, and is
a collection of nineteen essays, in which he writes on a broad range of issues
including the Algerian revolution, the French Left, Victor Serge, Scandinavian
social democracy, the international labour movement, domestic work and the
informal sector.
Dr. Allison Drew, Professor of Politics, University of York
Allison Drew is interested in twentieth-century and contemporary Africa,
particularly the dynamics between African states and social movements and
struggles over development. Her research examines the anti-colonial struggle in
Algeria and the movement for democracy in South Africa, especially the changing
relationships between socialism, nationalism and states and the interactions
between national and international movements. Her most recent book is We are
no Longer in France: Communists in Colonial Algeria (MUP, 2014), and she has
published four books concerning socialism and the national liberation struggle in
South Africa.
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Dr. Christopher Phelps, Associate Professor of American History, University
of Nottingham
Christopher Phelps is a historian of modern American political and intellectual life.
Born near Washington, D.C., he has taught at universities in five countries: Britain,
the United States, Poland, Hungary, and Canada. He is author of Young Sidney Hook
(Cornell), a biography of the early years of that New York intellectual, and editor
of Max Shachtman’s Race and Revolution (Verso) and Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
(Bedford/St. Martin’s). His articles have appeared in The Journal of American History,
The Journal of American Studies, Labor, The Journal of the History of Sexuality, and other
scholarly journals as well as such popular outlets as The Nation, The Financial Times,
Times Higher Education, The Chronicle of Higher Education, CNN.com, and Salon.
Dr. Chris Wrigley, Emeritus Professor of Modern British History, University
of Nottingham
Chris Wrigley served as President of the Historical Association between 1996 and
1999, Vice President of the Royal Historical Society between 1997 and 2001, Chair
of the Society for the Study of Labour History between 1997 and 2001, and on the
Council of the Economic History Society between 1983 and 2008. Chris received
an honorary doctorate from the University of East Anglia in 1998, served as editor
of The Historian from 1993-8, has served for twenty years on the editorial board of
History Today, and founded Ashgate’s Labour History series of books and was editor
for the first 19 books. He has published extensively on various aspects of British
and European history in the 19th and 20th centuries, ranging from labour topics to