✨ Productive start of 2026
📅 Today Grazia Sciacchitano is going to present her paper “From relief to resistance: the Norske Spaniakomiteen and Spanish republican exiles.”
🧑🏭 The workshop "Nordic Labour Internationalism in the 20th Century" takes place on 15–16 January at the University of Oslo.
✨ Reflecting on recent activities:
📅 On 28 November, Grazia Sciacchitano presented “Transnational Aid for Democracy: The PSOE’s Intervention in Pinochet Chile” at the Complutense University of Madrid during the Jean Monnet Chair HISTEU workshop “Europe and Human Rights in Historical Perspective.”
✊ Each December, Yugoslavia held nationwide humanitarian campaigns in support of global liberation struggles.
📄 Read more about 'Solidarity Weeks' and Yugoslav humanitarian internationalism in Dora Tot’s latest article published in the Journal of Contemporary History:
doi.org/10.1177/0022...
🚨 Don't miss out! 🚨
Giulia Quaggio is hosting the seminar "Visual Histories of Protest: Popular Imaginaries and Democratic Transitions on Iberian Walls."
🗓 19th November at 3 PM (CET)
💻 Link to join us online: meet.google.com/ztp-bpoi-tvs
🕊️ UN Disarmament Week, 24–30 October
🌍 Forty years ago, the Yugoslav League for Peace, Independence and Equality of Peoples issued this striking poster showing Earth as a white billiard ball - a warning that superpowers played a dangerous game with global peace.
📝 New research by Dora Tot
Giovanni Tonolo has published “Try to Make a Fresh Start”: Dahomean Politicians Rethinking Oil Palm Development in the Late Colonial Period (1957–60)”👏
This publication, independent of our project, highlights the range of research in our team.
Open-access article:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Big news to start the week! 🎉
Our colleagues at the University of Manchester have officially launched the Humanitarian Archive Emergency project (supported by the Wellcome and Leverhulme Trusts) to save data and documents of humanitarian agencies.
More here:
🔗 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/l...
🎙 Francesca Rolandi kicks off the new season of History on the Edge at INZ Ljubljana!
💬 "Humanitarianism, the Yugoslav Way: Cold War Divisions and Alternative Patterns to International Aid"
🗓️ Tomorrow, Sept 24 at 15:00 CET
📍 Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/j/86949706378
☀️ A busy summer for our team !!
📚🌍 Giovanni Tonolo spoke about 'Triangulating between the parastatal, the state and the peasantry: the case of SONADER in Dahomey (1961–1975)' at a workshop in Geneva (2 - 3 July) discussing social, labour, and development history of late and postcolonial Africa.
🎤👏 Francesca Rolandi and Ana Guardião this week delivered excellent presentations at the Prague conference "Refugee Protection in the Plural: East-Central European 'Unlikely Refuge' in Global Comparison."
🔗 Full program available at: www.unlikely-refuge.eu/2025/05/27/r...
🚨 New from the HumanEuroMed team! 🚨
Giovanni Tonolo's latest article, "'Sodabi Calamity Number One': The Production of Palm Alcohol in Dahomey and its Repression, 1840–1975", is out now in the Journal of African History.
Read it here 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🚀 Exciting news! Giovanni Tonolo has been awarded the Prix FONSTI for the best postdoctoral presentation! 👏🎉
The award was presented last week at the Fondation Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Yamoussoukro during a conference organized by the University of Abidjan and the University of Geneva. 🏆
📀 Sponsored by the Portuguese Red Cross, the Timorese Children’s Choir recorded a special album as part of an international solidarity campaign during the East Timorese crisis
📝 Research by Ana Guardião @ Portuguese Red Cross Archives
#EastTimor #RedCross #History #Humanitarianism
❗New Publication ❗
Excited to share that Francesca Rolandi has just published the article 'Yugoslavia is (not) a Refugee Country? Refugees between Transit and Integration in an Ever-Changing Socialist State' in Nationalities Papers.
Read the open-access paper here: doi.org/10.1017/nps....
📜 🔍 Italian trade unions mobilising for Spanish political prisoners (1973)
This poster is part of archival research investigating the entanglement between labour internationalism, humanitarianism, and the defence of human rights.
#History #LabourInternationalism #Humanitarianism #Archives
📜 Work in progress!
Researching Spanish international humanitarianism by exploring archival collections at the Pablo Iglesias Foundation and the Francisco Largo Caballero Foundation in Madrid.
❗New publication ❗
Ana Guardião's latest article has been published in Cold War History! 'Political beneficiaries of humanitarianism? The FNLA and the Angolan refugee crisis in the Congo (1960–1975)' is now available online.
Find out more here: doi.org/10.1080/1468...
!! The HumanEuroMed Team is now on BlueSky !!
Follow us for updates on our latest research, publications, and discussions on the history of humanitarianism.
📝 A new publication is out now - more details coming up!
