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From: jayeeta sharma [[ mailto:js288uk@...
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Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 11:57 PM
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to the public sessions of the Summer Global
Labour History Institute: "Transnational Labour, Transnational
Methods." Please join us for these state-of-the-field (SOF)
presentations and plenaries. With the exception of the Wednesday 11th June
plenary which is at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), all
other sessions are at Wetmore Hall, New College. Times are noted below.
Monday, 9 June
9:30 – 11:00 am SOF: Peter Alexander/Betsy Esch, From Comparative to
Transnational History (Wetmore Hall)
7:30 – 9:00 pm Plenary, Dave Foster, The Blue Green Alliance (Wetmore
Hall)
Tuesday, 10 June
11:00 – 12:30 SOF: Angela Vergara, Occupational Health and the Study of
Labour (Wetmore Hall)
7:30 – 8:45 Plenary Roundtable: The Transformation of Work, Stories From
the Field (Wetmore Hall)
Wednesday, 11 June
9:30 – 11:00 am SOF: Marcel van der Linden & Andrew Wells, Large Scale
Collaborative Projects (Wetmore Hall)
6:00 – 7:30 pm Plenary: Sidney Chalhoub & Paulo Fontes, Labour
History and Public History - UTSC (MW160)
Thursday, 12 June
11:00 am – 12:30 pm SOF: Lara Putnam, Gender and Labour in Latin America
and the Caribbean (Wetmore Hall)
7:30 – 9:00 pm Plenary: Eddie Webster, The Global Labour University
Friday, 13 June
2:00 – 3:30 pm SOF: Gillian McGillivray, Commodity Chains and the Study of
Labour (Wetmore Hall)
7:30 – 9:00 pm Plenary: Ravi Ahuja and Prabhu Mohapatra, Labour Law
Across Boundaries
Saturday, 14 June
11:00 am – 12:30 pm SOF: Samita Sen, Gender and Labour in South Asian
History (Wetmore Hall)
This summer institute is the result of three years of planning and
organization among historians from around the world. In 2005-6, historians
from the University of Toronto convened an international working-group in
transnational labour history which met first in Hyderabad, India and later
in Campinas, Brazil. We are committed to forging international and
North-South research and publication collaborations through this
workshop. This institute is a unique opportunity for new scholars and
activists to build the international cohort that will trace the next steps
in the field of labour studies and to deepen the relationship between the
labour movement and academia in a number of national contexts. It is
sponsored locally by: Equity Studies at New College, UTSC, and the local
steelworkers, United Steelworkers of America. International sponsors are
the International Institute of Social History (Netherlands) and the Centre
for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS) (Australia).
We have assembled an impressive cohort of around fifty participants drawn
equally from the Global South and North. Participants are emerging
scholars, including graduate students or recent Ph.D.s, and trade
unionists with an interest in understanding transnational work and
economies. We are proud to have assembled as well an enormously
distinguished and diverse cohort of facilitators who will be leading
sessions during the institute. Methodologically, the institute will
feature intensive discussions with experienced researchers on a broad
spectrum of topics, from slavery to gender studies. We believe that both
facilitators and participants will leave the institute with a broader
understanding of how our field has developed in different national and
regional historiographies and the political role it can and has played in
tandem with working people within and across borders. Our goal is that
this understanding will be realized in international projects of
collaborative research, innovative publishing, translations, and
academic/trade union partnerships planned and begun at the institute.
Our facilitators include:
Ravi Ahuja, School of Oriental and African Studies, United Kingdom (South
Asia)
Peter Alexander, University of Johannesburg, South Africa (Southern Africa)
Carolyn Brown, Rutgers University, United States (West Africa)
Sidney Chalhoub, University of Campinas, Brazil (Brazil)
Radhika Desai, University of Victoria, Canada (India)
Elizabeth Esch, Barnard College, United States (US, Brazil, South Africa)
Paulo Fontes, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil (Brazil)
Prabhu Mohapatra, Delhi University, India (South Asia and Caribbean)
Nico Pizzolato, Queen Mary College, University of London, United Kingdom
(United States and Italy)
Lara Putnam, University of Pittsburgh, United States (Central America and
Caribbean)
Samita Sen, Jadavpur University, India (South Asia)
Kerry Taylor, Massey University, New Zealand (New Zealand)
Angela Vergara, California State University, Los Angeles, United States
(Chile)
Peter Way, University of Windsor, Canada (British North America)
Barbara Weinstein, New York University, United States (Brazil)
Alex Lichtenstein, Florida International University, United States (United
States and Comparative)
Please do not hesitate to contact us with questions you might have. With
thanks,
Dan Bender
Jo Sharma
Rick Halpern
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