Corinna Peres, Author at Worlds of Related Coercions in WorK https://worck.eu WORCK represents a radical change of perspective on labour history Wed, 13 Jan 2021 08:55:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://worck.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cropped-Logo-gros-32x32.png Corinna Peres, Author at Worlds of Related Coercions in WorK https://worck.eu 32 32 New Management Committee Member for North Macedonia https://worck.eu/2021/01/13/new-management-committee-member-for-north-macedonia/ Wed, 13 Jan 2021 08:55:51 +0000 https://www.worck.eu/?p=2755 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 unemployment, labour market segmentation and adjustment mechanisms. In his most recent publications, he investigates the relation between poverty and employment [...]

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]]> New Management Committee Member for Hungary https://worck.eu/2020/11/30/new-management-committee-member-for-hungary/ Mon, 30 Nov 2020 08:07:38 +0000 https://www.worck.eu/?p=2711 We are happy to announce that Marsha Siefert has joined our Cost-Action as a Management Committee Member for Hungary! Marsha Siefert is associate professor at the Central European University. She specialises in cultural and communications history, as well as labour in Central and Eastern Europe. Her most recent edited publication "Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945-1989: [...]

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]]> New Student Assistant for WORCK https://worck.eu/2020/10/16/new-student-assistant-for-worck/ Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:52:59 +0000 https://www.worck.eu/?p=2644 We warmly welcome our new student assistant, Teresa Petrik, who will support the WORCK staff in Vienna from now on. Teresa will not only engage in social media, but she will also help organising the next WORCK Conference in Vienna 2021. Teresa is currently studying Global History and Sociology. With her interest in the history [...]

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]]> New Management Committee Member! https://worck.eu/2020/10/01/new-management-committee-member/ Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:24:38 +0000 https://www.worck.eu/?p=2609 We extend a warm welcome to Müge TELCİ ÖZBEK who has been officially nominated as a Management Committee Member for Turkey. In 2018, Müge Özbek received her PhD at Boğaziçi University in Turkey (Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History). In her dissertation titled "Single, Poor Women in Istanbul, 1850–1915: Prostitution, Sexuality, and Female Labor", she [...]

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]]> Greece joined the COST Action! https://worck.eu/2020/09/16/greece-joined-the-cost-action/ Wed, 16 Sep 2020 09:13:49 +0000 https://www.worck.eu/?p=2541 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 the WORCK Management Committee, and about 250 scholars have signed up for the WORCK Newsletter.

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]]> Journal of Global Slavery 5:2 – Special Issue on Modalities of Coercion and Shifting Labor and Power Relations https://worck.eu/2020/07/27/journal-of-global-slavery-52-special-issue-on-modalities-of-coercion-and-shifting-labor-and-power-relations/ Mon, 27 Jul 2020 06:47:39 +0000 https://www.worck.eu/?p=2431 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 radical contextualisation of the history of the enslaved. It not only links their histories to those of other coerced laborers, [...]

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]]> Call for Fellowship Applications: French Institutes for Advanced Study https://worck.eu/2020/07/24/call-for-fellowship-applications-french-institutes-for-advanced-study/ Fri, 24 Jul 2020 06:44:34 +0000 https://www.worck.eu/?p=2427 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 the social sciences and the humanities (SSH). 31 positions are available for the Academic Year 2021-2022. For further information on [...]

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]]> Teaching Medieval Slavery and Captivity https://worck.eu/2020/06/17/teaching-medieval-slavery-and-captivity/ Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:47:36 +0000 https://www.worck.eu/?p=2348 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 and selected bibliographies of scholarly work to help those who want to incorporate the history of slavery and captivity into [...]

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]]> Some impressions from the first WORCK Meeting in Lyon in February 2020 https://worck.eu/2020/03/06/some-impressions-from-the-first-worck-meeting-in-lyon-in-february-2020/ Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:25:01 +0000 https://www.worck.eu/?p=1297 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 and methodological frameworks, collaborative projects, public outreach, and a digital infrastructure. Many new ideas and future plans for the WORCK [...]

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]]> Call for Papers: The Body at Work: Gender, Labour, Migration https://worck.eu/2020/03/06/call-for-papers-the-body-at-work-gender-labour-migration/ Fri, 06 Mar 2020 14:04:39 +0000 https://www.worck.eu/?p=1288 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 – under what conditions and with what results? What are the physical and psychic effects of certain kinds of labor? Reflecting [...]

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