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Call for Applications: 4 Research Associates at LMU Munich

TPetrik2021-02-11T12:08:24+00:00February 11th, 2021|Calls and Open Positions, News|

The Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities global dis:connect – Dis:connectivity in Globalisation Processes at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich is seeking to fill four full-time positions (salary group TV-L E13) as research associates [...]

WORCK Meeting 2 (24 February, online)

TPetrik2021-02-06T10:20:24+00:00February 3rd, 2021|Events, News|

Our WORCK Meeting 2 will take place on Wednesday, 24 February 2021. This one-day workshop will be dedicated to an in-depth exchange between the working groups and among the larger community of WORCK members. There [...]

Call for Blog Posts: Narrowing the horizon. The ambivalent effects of European research funding on academic work

TPetrik2021-01-21T08:25:09+00:00January 21st, 2021|Calls and Open Positions, News|

WORCK Blog: Post Series #3 Deadline for proposals: January 31st, 2021 You can also find this call in French, Spanish, German, Polish and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian. The European research funding, as it is provided not least with [...]

New Management Committee Member for North Macedonia

Corinna Peres2021-01-13T08:55:51+00:00January 13th, 2021|News, WORCK Membership|

We warmly welcome Dimitar Nikoloski as a new Management Committee Member for North Macedonia! Dimitar Nikoloski is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics at "St. Kliment Ohridski" University - Bitola. His research interests include [...]

Call for Papers: Gender, War and Coerced Labour (Special Issue of Labor History)

TPetrik2021-01-08T13:55:15+00:00January 8th, 2021|Calls and Open Positions, News|

Deadline for Proposals (500 words): 15 April 2021 In recent decades there have been growing bodies of literature on gender and war, on war labour, and on various forms and degrees of labour coercion. Yet [...]

Call for Papers: Intersectional Approaches to Coercion and Marginalisation in Labour (Special Issue)

TPetrik2021-02-06T14:58:19+00:00January 8th, 2021|Calls and Open Positions, News, Uncategorized|

Extended deadline: 1 March 2021 Guest editors: Natalia Jarska (Warsaw, Poland) and Hanne Østhus (Bonn, Germany) A recent intervention from labour history has pointed out how “the persistence and transformation of coercion across world empires, [...]