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Teaching Medieval Slavery and Captivity
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”
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)
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 [...]
Some impressions from the first WORCK Meeting in Lyon in February 2020
Three days (27-29 February 2020) of lively discussions and brainstorming have brought together all four working groups for the very first time. Hosted by Claude Chevaleyre (ENS Lyon), the working groups talked about conceptual [...]
Call for Papers: The Body at Work: Gender, Labour, Migration
The Body at Work: Gender, Labour, Migration University of London, Paris 20 November 2020 Keynote Speaker: Manuela Martini, Université Lumière Lyon 2 What constitutes work and how is it valued? Who relocates for work – [...]
Juliane Schiel (Action Chair) presents the WORCK network in an Austrian radio broadcast on slavery
On Saturday, 29 February 2020, Juliane Schiel (Action Chair) gave an interview for the the Austrian radio program Ö1 DIAGONAL and presented the new approach of the WORCK network to study labour and coercion in [...]
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Newsletters
- WORCK_Newsletter_01 (pdf, 13 December 2019)
- WORCK_Newsletter_02 (pdf, 19 March 2020)
- WORCK_Newsletter_03 (pdf, 16 April 2020)
- WORCK_Newsletter_04 (pdf, 17 June 2020)