Archive
| Date | Convener(s) | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2020/02/03 | Christian G. De Vito | Guest Lecture: What is “the Global“in Global Labour History? |
| 2020/01/30 | Theresa Wobbe | Workshop: Ältere und neuere Formate sozialer Beobachtung – zum Verhältnis von Kategorisierung, Vergleich, Vermessung und Bewertung |
| 2020/01/14 | Seth Rockman | re:work Lecture: Slavery’s Old and New Materialisms |
| 2019/12/09 | Daniel Maul | Book Launch: The International Labour Organization: 100 Years of Global Social Policy |
| 2019/11/12 | Derek Peterson | Guest Lecture: The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin: Photographs from the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation |
| 2019/11/03 | re:work - in cooperation with the Department of History , Addis Ababa University | Summer Academy 2019: Unfree Labour Old and New (Ethiopian Academy of Sciences (EAS), Addis Ababa) |
| 2019/10/28 | Álvaro Morcillo Laiz | Workshop: Experts’ Impact on World Politics - The International Monetary Fund and International NGOs Compared |
| 2019/10/21 | Mahua Sarkar | Guest Lecture: Uncertain Action: Transnational Temporary Contract Work as Risk |
| 2019/09/20 | re:work, SAIC | Workshop: Re:working Labour |
| 2019/07/08 | Jeffrey Gunn | Guest Lecture: Kru Free Wage Labourers in the Nineteenth Century |
| 2019/07/05 | re:work | Final Conference: Fellow Year 2018/19 |
| 2019/06/25 | Supurna Banerjee & Eva Gerharz | Workshop: Aspiring Mobility in a Globalized World |
| 2019/06/18 | Andrea Komlosy | Guest Lecture: Global Perspectives on Work, Household and Life-Course |
| 2019/06/11 | Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger | Guest Lecture: From Slavery to “Modern” Slavery – Some Aspects of Research on Literatures from Africa and Latin America |
| 2019/02/18 | Felicitas Hentschke and James Williams | Book Launch: To Be at Home. House, Work, and Self in the Modern World |
| 2019/01/30 | Annelise Orleck | Guest Lecture: We Are All Fast Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages |
| 2019/01/09 | Carola Lentz | re:work Lecture 2019: Familie, Arbeit und soziale Mobilität: Ghanaische Perspektiven |
| 2018/11/20 | Herman van der Wee | Guest Lecture: Industrial Development and the Standard of Living in a Period of Advancing Merchant Capitalism: The Case of the Southern Low Countries in the 14th-16th Centuries |
| 2018/10/12 | re:work, SAIC | Workshop: Re:working Labour |
| 2018/09/09 | re:work - in cooperation with the Department for African Studies (HU Berlin) and the Faculty of Arts, University of Nairobi | Summer Academy 2018: Labour and Leisure in Global History (University of Nairobi, Kenia) |
| 2018/07/04 | re:work | Final Conference: Fellow Year 2017/18 |
| 2018/06/22 | Linda Colley and Jan C. Jansen | Workshop: Exile and Emigration in an Age of War and Revolution (ca. 1750-1830) |
| 2018/06/15 | Sarah Bellows-Blakely | Workshop: Doing Academia in a World in Crisis: Why and for Whom? |
| 2018/05/31 | Alexandre Fortes and David Mayer | Book Presentation: Brazilian Labour History - New Perspectives in Global Context |
| 2018/05/30 | Leon Fink and Juan Manuel Palacio | Book Launch: Labor Justice across the Americas |
| 2018/05/16 | Alia Mossallam | Guest Lecture: This is What Socialism Looks Like: Soundscapes of Memory and Archiving Practices of the Aswan High Dam Workers (1960-1970) |
| 2018/05/03 | Görkem Akgöz and Nicola Pizzolato | Workshop: Across the 'Post‐Industrial' Divide: Rearticulating the Factory as an Object of Inquiry in History and Anthropology |
| 2018/04/19 | Allen and Barbara Isaacman | Guest Lecture: Indivisible Histories: Racial Violence and Clandestine Migration from Mozambique to Colonial Zimbabwe, 1900-1980 ca. |
| 2018/04/16 | Carolyn Steedman | Guest Lecture: Work: History and Poetry |
| 2018/04/13 | Nitin Varma and Nitin Sinha | Conference: 2nd International Conference Servants'Pasts |
| 2018/03/08 | Jennifer Hart | Guest Lecture: Of Pirate Drivers and Honking Horns: Mobility, Authority, and Urban Planning in Interwar Accra |
| 2018/01/16 | Susan Zimmermann | re:work Lecture 2018: Arbeiterinnen aller Länder vereinigt Euch! Die gewerkschaftliche Frauen-Internationale und die internationale Geschlechterpolitik in der Zeit zwischen den Weltkriegen |
| 2018/01/10 | Mahua Sarkar | Book Launch: Work out of Place |
| 2017/12/14 | Kris Manjapra | Guest Lecture: Black Ocean of Credit: The British Abolition Act, Expansion in Asia, and the Futures of Slave Finance |
| 2017/10/29 | re:work - in cooperation with the National University of San Martin (UNSAM) |
Summer Academy 2017: Labour, Rights, and Mobility (UNSAM, Buenos Aires) |
| 2017/09/15 | re:work | Workshop: In-Between Empires: Trans-imperial History in a Global Age |
| 2017/07/05 | re:work | Final Conference: Fellow Year 2016/17 |
| 2017/06/27 | Keith Breckenridge | Guest Lecture: Biometric Capitalism: Infrastructures of Identification and Credit Surveillance on the African Continent |
| 2017/06/24 | re:work | Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften: It's Tea Time. Wie kommt der Tee in den Teebeutel? |
| 2017/06/20 | Shulamit Volkov | Guest Lecture: Working Jews: Myth and Reality in a Global Perspective |
| 2017/05/23 | Rukmini Barua & Naveen Chander | Workshop: History, Memory and the Archives of Experience: Oral Histories of Labour in South Asia |
| 2017/05/02 | re:work - in cooperation with the Congreso Latinoamericano y del Caribe | Congress: Trabajo y Trabajadores (La Paz, Bolivia) |
| 2017/03/07 | Carlos Quembo | Guest Lecture: Productive/Unproductive Labour: the Socialist Mozambican Politics and Labour Mobility |
| 2017/02/16 | Nintin Varma & Nitin Sinha | Conference: Servants’ Pasts, 16th to 20th Century |
| 2017/01/11 | Leon Fink | re:work Lecture 2017: 'Deliverance' Revisited: Trump's Triumph, Liberal Elites, and the Zombie White Working Class |
| 2016/12/07 | Prabhu Mohapatra | Guest Lecture: Living and Resisting Informality: Two Case Studies in India |
| 2016/12/06 | Thomas Lindenberger | Guest Lecture: History of Industrial Accidents in the GDR |
| 2016/11/24 | Leoni Linek & Jakob Schäfer | Workshop: Prekarisierung, Arbeit & Geschlecht |
| 2016/10/31 | Michael Wildt | Guest Lecture: Work in National Socialism |
| 2016/10/05 | Felix Axster | Workshop: »DEUTSCHE ARBEIT«: Entstehung, Charakteristik, Effekte eines antisemitischen Topos |
| 2016/09/26 | re:work - in cooperation with the institute of history of the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane | Summer Academy 2016: Labour, Politics, and Safety (Maputo, Mozambique) |
| 2016/07/14 | Lasse Heerten & Daniel Tödt | Workshop: Imperial Port Cities in the Age of Steam. Towards a Comparative History of Entanglements |
| 2016/07/08 | Marcel van der Linden | Conference: Informalizing Economies: The Present and Past of the Social Question at a Global Level |
| 2016/07/05 | Laurent Bazin | Guest Lecture: The Politics of Work: A Global Perspective |
| 2016/07/04 | Hannah Schilling | Workshop: Work in Contemporary City. From Youth’s Work Practices in Abidjan … to Conceptual Lenses on Work Beyond Wage |
| 2016/06/30 | re:work | Final Conference: Fellow Year 2015/16 |
| 2016/06/22 | Dmitri van den Bersselaar | Guest Lecture: ‘Insulting the Bosses Won't Help’: Trade Unions, Nationalism and the Workplace in Ghana, 1950-1980 |
| 2016/06/21 | Martin Dusinberre | Guest Lecture: Circulations of Labour, Bodies of Work: A Japanese Migrant in Meiji Hawai’i |
| 2016/06/14 | Heinz-Gerhard Haupt | Guest Lecture: Forms of Informal and Precarious Work in Western and Southern Europe During the 19th and Early 20th Century |
| 2016/06/11 | re:work | Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften: Zwischen Navigationskunst und Hafenspelunken - Das rauhe Leben der Seeleute im 19. Jahrhundert |
| 2016/05/30 | Neda Deneva & Milena Kremakova | Workshop: Precarity or Flexibility? Changing Realities of Labour in the New Europe |
| 2016/05/26 | Saima Akhtar, Rosa Barotsi & Clio Nicastro | Workshop: In Front of the Factory. Cinematic Spaces of Labour |
| 2016/05/24 | Gerd Spittler | Book Launch: Anthropologie der Arbeit. Ein Ethnographischer Vergleich? |
| 2016/04/21 | Romain Tiquet & Fabien Jobard | Workshop: Policing in Africa (19th-21st Centuries): Actors, Knowledge and Practices. French and German Perspectives |
| 2016/04/19 | Elke Schüßler | Guest Lecture: Work in Global Production Networks: The Case of the Garment Industry in Bangladesh |
| 2016/04/14 | Claudia Derichs, Manja Stephan-Emmrich & Shirin Saeid | Workshop: Mobile Muslim Professionals: Trans-regional Connectedness and (Non-State) Cooperation in Asia and the Middle East |
| 2016/03/11 | Alex Lichtenstein | Conference: Labor, Migration, and the State: Past, Present, Future |
| 2016/03/03 | Yoko Tanaka | Workshop: Precarious Female Work in Service Sector in International Comparison |
| 2016/02/25 | Sandrine Kott & Theresa Wobbe | Workshop: International Labour Organization as a Producer of Statistical Knowledge |
| 2016/01/12 | Frederick Cooper | re:work Lecture: From Enslavement to Precarity? African Labour History in Global Context |
| 2015/09/17 | ITH & re:work | Conference: International Conference of Labor and Social History |
| 2015/08/09 | re:work in Kooperation mit dem Preparatory Committee des Institute of Critical Transnational Studies und dem Institut für Geschichte der Sogang University (Seoul, Südkorea) | Sommerakademie 2015: Work and Non-Work in Global Perspective. Resonances, Connections, Contradictions |
| 2015/06/30 | re:work | Final Conference: Fellow Year 2014/15 |
| 2015/06/28 | Toby Boraman, Paulo Fontes & Alexander Lichtenstein | Workshop: Global Labour and the Crises of High Capitalism. Rethinking the 1970s |
| 2015/06/19 | Paul-André Rosental | Workshop: Work Precariousness in the Context of Economic Growth |
| 2015/06/16 | Gerd Spittler | Guest Lecture: Do Hunters and Gatherers Work? |
| 2015/06/04 | re:work | Conference: 6 Years of re:work |
| 2015/06/01 | Mahua Sarkar | Workshop: New Directions in Labour and Migration: Historical Legacies, Present Predicaments and Future Trends |
| 2015/05/27 | Felicitas Hentschke & James Williams | Workshop: Home-Making as Work: Photographic and Ethnographic Portraits of Houses and Homes in Global and Historical Perspective |
| 2015/05/12 | Sabine Rutar | Workshop: Arbeit, Lebenslauf und Krieg im südöstlichen Europa. Europäische und globale Aspekte einer Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte des Zweiten Weltkriegs und seiner Folgen |
| 2015/05/05 | Knut Kjeldstadli | Guest Lecture: The Norwegian Model - Fact or Fiction? |
| 2015/04/09 | Paula de la Cruz-Fernández & Dmitri van den Bersselaar | Workshop: Multinationals and the Organization of Work |
| 2015/03/17 | Mieke Matzke | The Quizoola-Experiment |
| 2015/03/03 | Baz Lecocq | Guest Lecture: Post-Slavery in African Societies |
| 2015/02/27 | Heike Drotbohm, Anupama Rao & Stephen Rockel - in cooperation with the HKW | Workshop: Histories of Labour and the Labour of the Image. Harun Farocki's Cinematic Project on Labour |
| 2015/02/20 | Marcia C. Schenck | Workshop: Of Minds, Migration and Master Narratives: Reframing Labor Migrancy in Mozambique |
| 2015/01/26 | re:work - in cooperation with ETHOS (Cheikh Anta Diop University) | Summer Academy 2014: Work in Post-Slavery Societies: Gender and Generations in Dakar (Senegal) |
| 2015/01/22 | Jürgen Kocka | Workshop: Zum Verhältnis von global- und nationalhistorischen Ansätzen in der Arbeitergeschichte |
| 2015/12/10 | Daniel Eisenberg | Documentary (Clips) & Discussion: The Unstable Object |
| 2014/12/05 | re:work | Workshop: Is Global History Truly Global? Positionality of Historians |
| 2014/12/02 | Rana Behal | Book Launch: One Hundred Years of Servitude. Political Economy of Tea Plantations in Colonial Assam |
| 2014/11/06 | Carola Lentz, Jan Budniok & Andrea Noll | Workshop: The Making of Middle Classes: Social Mobility and Boundary Work in Global Perspective |
| 2014/10/16 | Deirdre McCloskey | Guest Lecture: The Condition of the Working Class, 1700-2014, and Why It Changed |
| 2014/07/17 | Wonchul Shin | Workshop: Workforce Reductions in Shipbuilding Industries. Approaches in Global Labor History Perspective |
| 2014/07/08 | re:work | Final Conference: Fellow Year 2013/14 |
| 2014/06/24 | Larissa Correa | Guest Lecture: The AFL-CIO in Brazil. Labour Relations during the Civil-Military Dictatorship (1964-1978) |
| 2014/06/19 | Andrea Komlosy | Book Launch: Arbeit. Eine globalhistorische Perspektive. 13. bis 21. Jahrhundert |
| 2014/06/18 | Giulia Palladini | Guest Lecture: The Free Time of the Nameless. Performance, Labor and Leisure in Times of Crisis |
| 2014/06/17 | Mahua Sarkar | Guest Lecture: When Motherhood is Paid Work. Surrogacy and the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda |
| 2014/05/10 | re:work | Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften: Globale Geschichten der Arbeit |
| 2014/02/13 | Erdmute Alber & Tatjana Thelen | Workshop: Doing Politics – Making Kinship. Back towards a Future Anthropology of Social Organisation and Belonging |
| 2014/02/03 | Peter Mark | Guest Lecture: Free and Unfree Labor in 17th Century Morocco. Christian Slaves in Al-Mansur´s Weapons Industry |
| 2014/01/30 | Ravi Ahuja (ed.) | Book Launch: Working Lives and Worker Militancy. The Politics of Labour in Colonial India |
| 2013/11/24 | re:work - in cooperation with the State University of Campinas | Summer Academy 2013: Free and Unfree Labour in Global History (Campinas, Brazil) |
| 2013/10/25 | Jamie Monson & Niels Petersson | Workshop: Working on Globalisation. Work and Transport in Global History after 1945 |
| 2013/07/12 | re:work | Final Conference: Fellow Year 2012/13 |
| 2013/06/19 | Martin Klein | Guest Lecture: Slavery in the Cities of the Slave Trade. The Case of St. Louis du Senegal |
| 2013/06/14 | Işık Tamdoğan & Yavuz Aykan | Workshop: Work, Labor and Local Belonging in Early Modern Global Contexts |
| 2013/06/08 | re:work | Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften: 'Workin' Nine to Five?' Arbeit und Lebenslauf global |
| 2013/06/04 | Andreas Wirsching | Guest Lecture: Has 'Bourgeois Modernity' Come to an End? Gender, Work and the (De-)Standardization of the Life Course in Western Europe |
| 2013/05/28 | Bruce Berman | Guest Lecture: Culture, Politics and Identity. The Humanities, Social Sciences and the Constructions of Ethnicity |
| 2013/05/13 | Ibrahima Thioub | Guest Lecture: Slavery and the Slave Trade. Euro-African Memory of a Global History |
| 2013/04/16 | Aldrin Castellucci | Guest Lecture: Many Voters and Few Electors. The Difficult Conquest for Workers’ Citizenship in Imperial Brazil (Salvador, 1850-1881) |
| 2013/03/26 | Catharina Lis & Hugo Soly | Guest Lecture: Worthy Efforts. Attitudes to Work and Workers in Pre-Industrial Europe |
| 2013/03/19 | Mani Singh | Guest Lecture: A World of Others’ Work. Learning and Improvisation in the Art Practice of Young Maithil Painters |
| 2013/03/12 | Alice Mah | Guest Lecture: Intergenerational Lessons from the Liverpool Dockers’ Strike. Rebuilding Solidarity |
| 2013/02/13 | Josef Ehmer | Workshop: Labour, Leisure and Life Course from a Global Historical Perspective |
| 2012/12/14 | Michael Wildt | Workshop: Work during National Socialism |
| 2012/12/13 | Alf Lüdtke | Guest Lecture: Deutsche Qualitätsarbeit. Ladungen, Resonanzen und Zuspitzungen einer Vorstellung |
| 2013/12/11 | Leo Lucassen | Guest Lecture: Towards a Global Comparative Model for Cross-Cultural Migrations, with Special Attention to Japan (1600-2000) |
| 2012/12/06 | Erdmute Alber & Heike Drotbohm | Workshop: Rethinking Care: Anthropological Perspectives on Life Courses, Kin-Work and their Trans-Local Entanglements |
| 2012/12/01 | re:work - in cooperation with the University of the Witwatersrand | Summer Academy 2012: Work, Generation, and Life Course (Johannesburg, South Africa) |
| 2012/11/08 | ILO, Institut d'Études Avancées de Nantes & re:work | Conference: Safety at Work and Job Security |
| 2012/06/10 | re:work - in Kooperation mit der Universität Wien | Session 176 of the XVIth World Economic History Congress: Work and the Life Course in Comparative Perspective |
| 2012/07/03 | re:work | Final Conference: Fellow Year 2011/12 |
| 2012/07/02 | Richard Roberts | Guest Lecture: The Work of Antitrafficking and the Persistence of Trafficking of Women and Children |
| 2012/06/21 | Henrique Espada Lima | Workshop: The Boundaries of 'Free' Labor. 19th and 20th Century Perspectives |
| 2012/06/19 | Basile Ndjio | Guest Lecture: These Bitches are Witches. Chinese Sex Workers and the Popular Invention of 'Witch-Other' in Cameroon |
| 2012/06/12 | József Böröcz | Guest Lecture: Intimate Internationalism. Micro-Macrohistories of the Socialist Self |
| 2012/06/06 | Sigrid Wadauer | Guest Lecture: Struggles over Work and Non-Work (Austria, 1918-1938) |
| 2012/05/04 | Anne Griffiths | Workshop: Revisiting Communal Land Tenure |
| 2012/04/17 | Susan Zimmermann | Guest Lecture: Night Work for White Women, Bonded Labour for Colored Women? The International Struggle on Labour Protection and Legal Equality, 1926-1939 |
| 2012/03/07 | Josef Ehmer, Nicole Meyer-Ahuja & Lutz Raphael | Workshop: (De-)Standardisation of Work Biographies in the 20th Century |
| 2012/03/06 | Howard French | Guest Lecture: China and Africa. Real Stories and Meta-Narratives |
| 2011/12/06 | Eric Vanhaute | Guest Lecture: Trajectories of Peasant Transformation. A Global and Comparative Analysis (1500-2000) |
| 2011/12/05 | re:work - in cooperation with IAAW & Cheikh Anta Diop University | Conference: Changes in the Cultural Patterns of Work in Africa - A Comparative Approach |
| 2011/11/29 | Nico Pizzolato | Guest Lecture: 'Unspeakable Brutality'. 1940s Abolitionism and the Campaign against Peonage in the United States |
| 2011/11/22 | re:work - in cooperation with Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin | Workshop: Life Cycle, African Slavery and the Aftermath of Slavery |
| 2011/10/20 | re:work | Workshop: Global History Globally |
| 2011/10/03 | re:work - in cooperation with V. V. Giri NLI, CeMIS & AILH | Summer Academy 2011: Working Lives in Global History (Noida, India) |
| 2011/08/25 | IAAW & re:work | Conference: Sports, Bodies and Subjects. Sports History as the Social and Cultural History of Modernity |
| 2011/07/05 | Joseph C. Miller | Guest Lecture: States, Regions, and Other Distractions from the Epistemology of History |
| 2011/06/30 | re:work | Final Conference: Fellow Year 2010/11 |
| 2011/06/24 | Sandrine Kott | Workshop: How Did Eastern and Western Europe Meet in International Organizations (1945-1973)? A Post-Cold War Perspective |
| 2011/06/21 | Charles Ambler | Guest Lecture: Work, Leisure and the Commercial Revolution in Central Africa |
| 2011/06/20 | Ravi Vasudevan | Guest Lecture: Official and Amateur. The Politics of Information Film in Colonial India |
| 2011/06/18 | David Warren Sabean | Workshop: Household Work |
| 2011/05/18 | Jane Burbank & Frederick Cooper | Guest Lecture: Empires in World History. Power and the Politics of Difference |
| 2011/05/10 | Paul-André Rosental | Guest Lecture: World History of a Negotiated Disease. Silicosis in the 20th Century - the Road through Johannesburg |
| 2011/04/12 | Phillip Bonner | Guest Lecture: Constructing Local Histories. Life, Work and Political Struggles in South Africa's Small and Medium Towns, 1945-1995 |
| 2011/04/05 | Kurt-Georg Ciesinger | Guest Lecture: Discontinuous Work Biographies in the Post-Industrial World of Work. Opportunities and Risks of New Concepts of Work and Life |
| 2011/03/01 | Sebastian Conrad | Guest Lecture: Labor and the Myth of Confucianist Ethics in Meiji Japan |
| 2011/01/31 | Gerd Spittler | Workshop: Children's Work in Africa |
| 2011/01/25 | Robert Salais | Guest Lecture: Work Relationships as Seen by the Economics of Conventions |
| 2010/12/07 | Adelheid von Saldern | Guest Lecture: Arbeit und Fordismus im 20. Jahrhundert |
| 2010/11/24 | Ehud R. Toledano | Guest Lecture: Unfree Labor in the Ottoman Empire |
| 2010/11/16 | Anil Persaud | Guest Lecture: Murder at a Place Called Solitude. Law, Labour and the Making of British Guiana |
| 2010/11/01 | re:work - in cooperation with Point Sud | Summer Academy 2010: Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History (Bamako, Mali) |
| 2010/09/10 | Jan-Patrick Heiß | Workshop: The ‘Actor’ in Anthropology |
| 2010/06/30 | Gerd Spittler | Workshop: Ethnologische Perspektiven zur Arbeit |
| 2010/07/01 | re:work | Final Conference: Fellow Year 2009/10 |
| 2010/06/30 | David Coplan | Guest Lecture: Word Miners. Basotho Workers’ Auriture and its Interpretation |
| 2010/06/29 | Chitra Joshi | Guest Lecture: Mail Runners, Roads and the Re-Ordering of Communication Networks in Nineteenth Century India |
| 2010/06/14 | Therese Garstenhauer | Workshop: Civil Servants, Work, and Life Course |
| 2010/06/05 | Rana Behal, Babacar Fall & Alice Mah | Workshop: Global History and Sociology of Work - Perspectives from Europe, Africa and Asia |
| 2010/04/27 | Ludolf Kuchenbuch | Guest Lecture: The Semantics of Work during the Middle Ages |
| 2010/04/13 | Vincent Houben | Guest Lecture: Javanese Labour Migration in the Colonial Period. Regional and Global Entanglements |
| 2010/04/09 | Jacob Eyferth & Therese Garstenhauer | Workshop: What is a Standard Life Course? |
| 2010/03/16 | Gopalan Balachandran | Guest Lecture: Movement to Migration. Historicizing Global Labour Mobility in the 20th Century |
| 2010/02/16 | John Barzman | Guest Lecture: Dockers – Young and Old in the Port of Le Havre, France |
| 2010/02/09 | Odile Goerg | Guest Lecture: Work and Gender in African History. The Case of the Sierra Leone Women in Guinea |