Archive
Conference: 'Work, Labor and Local Belonging in Early Modern Global Contexts'
Convenors: Yavuz Aykan and Isik Tamdo
14 - 15 June 2013 at re:work
Long Night of Sciences
"Workin' Nine to Five?" Work and Life Course Globally
This year re:work contributes to the Long Night of Sciences with its own exhibition. The highglight will be a world premiere: at 6:30 p.m the documentary "re:work" by film maker Julija Goyd will be shown for the first time.
8 June 2013, 4 pm – 12 pm at Humboldt-Universität main building, room 2103, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
Guest Lecture: Andreas Wirsching (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Director of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin)
4 June 2013, 11 am - 1 pm at re:work
Guest Lecture: Bruce J. Berman (Queens University, Kingston/Ontario, Canada; Currently Smuts Fellow at University of Cambridge)
Culture, Politics and Identity: The Humanities, Social Sciences and the Constructions of Ethnicity
In co-operation with Forum Transregionale Studien and the Department of African Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
28 May 2013, 4 pm – 6 pm at re:work
Guest Lecture: Ibrahima Thioub (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar)
Slavery and the Slave Trade: Euro-African Memory of a Global History
In co-operation with Freie Universität Berlin and DFG research group 955 "Akteure der kulturellen Globalisierung"
13 May 2013, 6 pm – 8 pm at re:work
Rechtskulturen Colloquium: Supriya Routh (Rechtskulturen Fellow)
To Have or Not to Have Labour Rights. That is the Question for Informal Workers
Moderation: Peer Zumbansen (York University)
13 may 2013, 6 pm – 8 pm, Humboldt-Universität, Faculty of Law
| Date | Lecturer | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 14.06.2013 | Işık Tamdoğan & Yavuz Aykan | Workshop: Work, Labor and Local Belonging in Early Modern Global Contexts |
| 08.06.2013 | re:work | Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften: "'Workin' Nine to Five?' Arbeit und Lebenslauf global" |
| 04.06.2013 | Andreas Wirsching | Guest Lecture: "Has 'Bourgeois Modernity' Come to an End? Gender, Work and the (De-)Standardization of the Life Course in Western Europe" |
| 28.05.2013 | Bruce Berman | Guest Lecture:"Culture, Politics and Identity: The Humanities, Social Sciences and the Constructions of Ethnicity" |
| 13.05.2013 | Ibrahima Thioub | Guest Lecture: "Slavery and the Slave Trade: Euro-African Memory of a Global History" |
| 16.04.2013 | Aldrin Castellucci | Guest Lecture: "Many Voters and Few Electors: The Difficult Conquest for Workers’ Citizenship in Imperial Brazil (Salvador, 1850—1881)" |
| 26.03.2013 | Catharina Lis & Hugo Soly | Guest Lecture: "Worthy Efforts: Attitudes to Work and Workers in Pre-Industrial Europe" |
| 19.03.2013 | Mani Singh | Guest Lecture: "A World of Others’ Work: Learning and Improvisation in the Art Practice of Young Maithil Painters |
| 12.03.2013 | Alice Mah | Talk: "Intergenerational Lessons from the Liverpool Dockers’ Strike: Rebuilding Solidarity" |
| 13.02.2013 | Workshop: Labour, Leisure and Life Course from a Global Historical Perspective | |
| 14.12.2012 | Michael Wildt | Workshop: Work during National Socialism |
| 13.12.2012 | Alf Lüdke | Discussion: German high quality work: Loadings, Resonances and aggravations of a perception |
| 11.12.2012 | Leo Lucassen | Guest Lecture: "Towards a Global Comparative Model for Cross-Cultural Migrations, with Special Attention to Japan (1600-2000)" |
| 06.12.2012 | Erdmute Alber & Heike Drotbohm | Workshop: Rethinking care: anthropological perspectives on life courses, kin-work and their trans-local entanglements |
| 01.12.2012 | re:work | Summer Academy Johannesburg |
| 08.11.2012 | Conference: "Safety at Work and Job Security" | |
| 10.07.2012 | Session 176 of the XVIth World Economic History Congress: "Work and the Life Course in Comparative Perspective" | |
| 03.07.2012 | Final Conference: Fellowship 2011/12 | |
| 02.07.2012 | Richard Roberts | Talk: "The Work of Antitrafficking and the Persistence of Trafficking of Women and Children" |
| 21.06.2012 | Henrique Espada Lima | Workshop: "The Boundaries of "Free" Labor: XIX and XX Century Perspective" |
| 19.06.2012 | Basile Ndjio | Talk: "These Bitches are Witches: Chinese Sex Workers and the Popular Invention of 'Witch-Other' in Cameroon" |
| 12.06.2012 | József Böröcz | Talk: "Intimate Internationalism: Micro-Macrohistories of the Socialist Self" |
| 05.06.2012 | Sigrid Wadauer | Talk: "Struggles over Work and Non-Work (Austria, 1918-1938)" |
| 04.05.2012 | Anne Griffiths | Workshop: "Revisiting Communal Land Tenure" |
| 17.04.2012 | Susan Zimmermann | Guest Lecture: "Night work for white women, bonded labour for colored women? The international struggle on labour protection and legal equality, 1926 to 1939" |
| 07.03.2012 | "(De-)Standardisation" of Work Biographies in the 20th Century | |
| Conference report: Jürgen Schmidt | ||
| 06.03.2012 | Howard French | China and Africa: Real Stories and Meta-Narratives |
| 06.12.2011 | Eric Vanhaute | Trajectories of Peasant Transformation, a Global and Comparative Analysis (1500-2000) |
| 05.12.2011 | Changes in the Cultural Patterns of Work in Africa - A Comparative Approach. Video stream the conference. | |
| Conference report: Alexander Keese | ||
| Conference report: Revue d'histoire | ||
| 29.11.2011 | Nico Pizzolato | "Unspeakable Brutality": 1940s Abolitionism and the Campaign against Peonage in the United States |
| 22.11.2011 | Life Cycle, African Slavery and the Aftermath of Slavery | |
| Conference Report: Joel Glasman | ||
| 26.10.2011 | Lecture and Reception | |
| 20.10.2011 | Workshop: Global History Globally | |
| 03.10.2011 | Working Lives in Global History | |
| Conference report: Claudia Prinz | ||
| 25.08.2011 | Sports, Bodies and Subjects: Sports History as the Social and Cultural History of Modernity | |
| Conference report:Jan Dunzendorfer, Jörn Esch. | ||
| 05.07.2011 | Joseph C. Miller | States, Regions, and Other Distractions from the Epistemology of History |
| 30.06.2011 | Second Annual Conference | |
| 24.06.2011 | Workshop: How Eastern and Western Europe Did Meet in International Organizations(1945-1973)? A Post-Cold War Perspective | |
| 21.06.2011 | Charles Ambler | Work, Leisure and the Commercial Revolution in Central Africa |
| 20.06.2011 | Ravi Vasudevan | Official and Amateur: the Politics of Information Film in Colonial India |
| 18.06.2011 | Workshop:Household Work | |
| 18.05.2011 | Jane Burbank & Frederick Cooper | Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference |
| 10.05.2011 | Paul-André Rosental | World history of a negotiated disease. Silicosis in the XXth century: the road through Johannesburg |
| 12.04.2011 | Phillip Bonner | Constructing Local Histories: Life, Work and Political Struggles in South Africa's Small and Medium Towns (1945-1995) |
| 05.04.2011 | Kurt-Georg Ciesinger | Discontinuous Work Biographies in the Post-Industrial World of Work: Opportunities and Risks of New Concepts of Work and Life |
| 01.03.2011 | Sebastian Conrad | Labor and the Myth of Confucianist Ethics in Meiji Japan |
| 31.01.2011 | Children's Work in Africa | |
| Conference Report: Martin Rempe | ||
| 25.01.2011 | Robert Salais | Work Relationships as Seen by the Economics of Conventions |
| 07.12.2010 | Adelheid von Saldern | Arbeit und Fordismus im 20. Jahrhundert |
| 24.11.2010 | Ehud R. Toledano | Unfree Labor in the Ottoman Empire |
| 16.11.2010 | Anil Persaud | Murder at a Place Called Solitude: Law, Labour and the Making of British Guiana |
| 01.11.2010 | Summer Academy: Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History | |
| 10.09.2010 | Workshop: The ‘Actor’ in Anthropology | |
| 30.07.2010 | Workshop: Ethnologische Perspektiven zur Arbeit | |
| 01.07.2010 | International Conference: Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History | |
| 30.06.2010 | David Coplan | Word Miners: Basotho Workers’ Auriture and its Interpretation |
| 29.06.2010 | Chitra Joshi | Mail Runners, Roads and the Re-Ordering of Communication Networks in Nineteenth Century India |
| 14.06.2010 | Civil Servants, Work, and Life Course | |
| 06.05.2010 | Workshop: Global History and Sociology of Work - Perspectives from Europe, Africa and Asia | |
| 27.04.2010 | Ludolf Kuchenbuch | The Semantics of Work during the Middle Ages |
| 13.04.2010 | Vincent Houben | Javanese Labour Migration in the Colonial Period: Regional and Global Entanglements |
| 09.04.2010 | Workshop: What is a Standard Life Course? | |
| 16.03.2010 | Gopalan Balachandran | Movement to Migration: Historicizing Global Labour Mobility in the 20th Century |
| 16.02.2010 | John Barzman | Dockers – Young and Old in the Port of Le Havre, France |
| 09.02.2010 | Odile Goerg | Work and Gender in African History: The Case of the Sierra Leone Women in Guinea |