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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)

Has 'Bourgeois Modernity' Come to an End? Gender, Work and the (De-)Standardization of the Life Course in Western Europe

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