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Greece joined the COST Action!

Corinna Peres2020-09-16T09:13:49+00:00September 16th, 2020|News, WORCK Membership|

We warmly welcome Leda PAPASTEFANAKI who has just joined the WORCK management committee as national delegate for Greece. WORCK now consists of 34 member countries and 8 international partner countries. 106 scholars are nominated for [...]

Journal of Global Slavery 5:2 – Special Issue on Modalities of Coercion and Shifting Labor and Power Relations

Corinna Peres2020-07-24T06:58:02+00:00July 27th, 2020|News, Publications|

The Journal of Global Slavery has just released a special issue on modalities of coercion and shifting labor and power relations, guest-edited by Juliane SCHIEL and Christian G. DE VITO. The issue calls for a [...]

Call for Fellowship Applications: French Institutes for Advanced Study

Corinna Peres2020-07-24T06:44:34+00:00July 24th, 2020|Calls and Open Positions, News|

The French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme offers 10‐month fellowships in the four Institutes of Paris, Lyon, Montpellier and Marseille. It welcomes applications from high‐level international scholars and scientists primarily in the fields of [...]

Teaching Medieval Slavery and Captivity

Corinna Peres2020-06-17T15:55:19+00:00June 17th, 2020|News, Public Outreach|

New website with pedagogical resources for teachers who want to address the global history of slavery and captivity: http://medievalslavery.org/. This website offers a collection of primary sources in English translation as well as images [...]

Call for Papers: “Rémunérations et autorités politiques, XVe-XXIe siècle”

Michaela Hafner2020-04-30T07:48:12+00:00April 30th, 2020|Calls and Open Positions|

The ELHN working group "Remuneration, Workers and Employers Organisations: Bargaining and Struggle in the Longue Durée" organises an international symposium on "Forms of remunerations and public authorities, XV-XXI ccenturies" at the University Gustave Eiffel (Champs-sur-Marne). [...]

Open Call for STSM Mobility and Collaboration Grants (15 June 2020)

Michaela Hafner2020-03-19T12:58:21+00:00March 19th, 2020|Calls and Open Positions|

The COST Action "Worlds of Related Coercions in Work" welcomes applications for STSM Mobility and Collaboration Grants. These grants are central to WORCK's aim of promoting innovative and interdisciplinary research on the history and persistence [...]