Symposium “Plantations and their Afterlives: Materialities, Durabilities and Struggles” | 16-18 & 24-25 September 2020
We are pleased to announce the final programme for the Symposium “Plantations and their Afterlives: Materialities, Durabilities and Struggles” organised by “The Colour of Labour: The Racialized Lives of Migrants”, PI Cristiana Bastos (convenors: Marta Macedo, Irene Peano, Colette Le Petitcorps). After having to postpone it due to the pandemic outbreak, it will be held … Continued
16th EASA | virtual conference | 20-24 July 2020
We are glad to announce that “The Colour of Labour” will be part of the 16th EASA Biennial Conference “New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe” that will be held online from 20th to 24th July 2020 Panel P033 Bringing race-making and class struggles in plantations and export industries back to the research agenda. Convenors Cristiana … Continued
“Matters of containment” Conference – Lisbon | Irene Peano | 3 September 2020
3rd International Conference of the Quarantine Studies Network Lisbon-Évora (Portugal), 28-29 May 2020 Postponed to 3 Septemeber 2020 Researcher Irene Peano will present the paper “Genealogies of containment: Migrant labour, bonifica integrale and carceral regimes in an Italian agro-industrial enclave” For more information, please visit the conference’s site: info here Past conferences of the Quarantine Studies Network … Continued
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES | Omar Ribeiro Thomaz | Fevereiro 26, 2020
O projeto “The Colour of Labour” presenta mais uma “Distinguished Lecture” Baralhando “raças” no país dos outros: a reprodução da fragilidade no Moçambique tardo-colonial OMAR RIBEIRO THOMAZ (Unicamp) Dia 26 de Fevereiro 2020 17h30 Sala Polivalente, ICS-ULisboa
Migrant Labor Struggles in Italian Agriculture | John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University | Irene Peano | 22 January 2020
The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University presents “Migrant Labor Struggles in Italian Agriculture” In the last few years, organizing efforts have multiplied around migrant labor in Italian agriculture. Combining militant investigation and participation in struggles and strikes, activist scholars have addressed such crucial questions as the living conditions of migrants in “ghettos” and labour … Continued
Seminário de Investigação em História do Colonialismo | Janeiro 7, 2020 | Lisboa
O Seminário de Investigação em História do Colonialismo (sécs. XIX-XX) – organizado por o Instituto de História Contemporânea da Universidade Nova de Lisboa – pretende constituir-se como um espaço de discussão informal e aberto em que investigadores/as possam apresentar e debater as suas pesquisas (em curso ou já concluídas) sobre qualquer aspecto da história do … Continued
AAA-CASCA 2019 | November 20-24, 2019 | Vancouver
Changing Climates: Struggle, Collaboration, and Justice A joint Canadian Anthropology Society and American Anthropological Association conference November 20-24, Vancouver “Changing Climates / Changer d’air”: AAA and CASCA are collaborating for the first time to host the 2019 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Executive Program Committee invites anthropologists and their collaborators to examine … Continued
International Conference cum Workshop on Republic of Plants – Chennai (India)|10-14 December 2019
“Republic of Plants” Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) Chennai, December 10-14, 2019 The workshop-conference entitled “Republic of Plants” will be held in the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) from the 10th to 14th of December 2019. This is an extension of an ongoing collaborative work “Moving Crops and the Scales of History” – … Continued
“Labour, Sugar and Long-distance Migration” Conference | November 14-15, 2019 | Funchal
International Conference “Labour, Sugar and Long-distance Migration: Madeirans and Azoreans in Guyana, the Caribbean and Hawai’i” November 14th and 15th, 2019 CEHA, Funchal, Madeira Tens of thousands of Madeirans and Azoreans crossed the seas during the nineteenth century to work on sugar plantations, first in the British colonies in Guyana and the Caribbean (from … Continued
Forced labour and migration | July, 15-17 2019 | Fiji
Forced Labour & Migration: Past, Present & Future Global Girmit Institute July, 15-17 2019, Laukota, Fiji This trans-disciplinary conference will focus on two forms of post-slavery forced labour: Pacific Labour trade Blackbirding, and the Indian Indenture system. The conference will bring together national and international scholars and social justice activists to share research insights … Continued
LANDSCAPES OF INDENTURE Indian Ocean Routes and Beyond | November 6, 2019 | ICS-ULisbon
The Colour of Labour presents a one-day workshop entitled “Landscapes of Indenture: Indian Ocean Routes and Beyond”. The event will be held at the ICS – ULisboa on November 6th, 2019. Please find the program below: “Landscapes of Indenture: Indian Ocean Routes and Beyond” 6 November 2019 Programme (Sala Polivalente) 14h30 – 14h45 | … Continued
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES | MARTIN DUSINBERRE | October 31, 2019
The Colour of Labour “Distinguished Lecture Series” presents: “The changing face of labour between Hawai’i, Japan, and colonial Taiwan” MARTIN DUSINBERRE (University of Zurich) This paper examines one of the most iconic images of the first Japanese sugar labourers to Hawai‘i, painted by Joseph D. Strong in 1885. Now preserved in a private collection in … Continued