Since its founding LAWCHA has been actively involved in co-sponsoring academic conferences at various locations. From 2000 to 2006, LAWCHA co-sponsored the annual North American Labor History Conference at Wayne State University in Detroit. In 2005 LAWCHA presented its first national conference in Santa Barbara, California, in cooperation with one of its related regional organizations, the Southwest Labor Studies Association. The conference in Santa Barbara, and more recently a second meeting at Duke University, proved so successful that LAWCHA leaders decided to hold all of its future annual meetings at rotating locations in North America. These are the sites, locations, and co-sponsors of our next several meetings:

Upcoming LAWCHA Meetings

2009: Chicago: “Race, Labor and the City: Crises Old and New,” hosted by Roosevelt University.
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2010: TBA

2011: Madison, hosted by University of Wisconsin

Past LAWCHA Meetings

2008: Vancouver, British Columbia, co-sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Labour History Association.
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2007: Durham, North Carolina, co-sponsored by Southern Labor Studies Association

2005: Santa Barbara, California, co-sponsored by Soutwest Labor Studies Association

Other LAWCHA Events

LAWCHA also co-sponsors sessions annually at the meetings of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the North American Labor History Conference. LAWCHA periodically participates in conferences of other learned societies as well as local events. For more information, or to participate on a LAWCHA panel, e-mail our Program Committee co-chairs Colleen O\'Neill (Utah State University) and Dorothy Fujita-Rony (University of California-Irvine).

LAWCHA Events for 2007-2008

North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit. October 18-20, 2007.

Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2007.

American Historical Association, Washington, DC. January 3-6, 2008.

Organization of American Historians, New York City, March 28-31, 2008

Past LAWCHA Events

Organization of American Historians, Minneapolis, March 29 - April 1, 2007.

Other Activities

Latin American Labor History Conference
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The Latin American History Conference has been held annually since 1984. It was founded at Yale University under the sponsorship of Yale\'s Council on Latin American Studies. In its early years, the conference was held at Yale, Princeton or SUNY-Stony Brook. Since 1993, the conference has been held annually at Duke University under the sponsorship of Duke\'s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The conference is held each year on or around the third weekend of April and lasts two days. The principal goal of the conference has been to bring together in a relaxed, workshop atmosphere faculty and graduate students specializing in Latin American labor. While the major academic conferences such as those of the American Historical Association and the Latin American Studies Association have sessions on Latin American labor, they offer little room for the sort of informed, prolonged discussion that takes place at the Latin American Labor History Conference.