Events

The EASA AGM and Seminar will take place on 28th and 29th October in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains. Campus du Solbosch, Institut de Sociologie (batiment S), Janne Room (15ème niveau), 44 avenue Jeanne, 1050 Bruxelles The AGM will take place at 14:00 on 28th – read the … Continued

The Colour of Labour “Distinguished Lecture Series” presents KEVIN BROWN (Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust) “No distinction in favour of or against race and colour”: the differing shipboard experiences of European emigrants and Indian and Chinese indentured labour in the British Empire, 1807-1916 The abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and of slavery in … Continued

O projecto “The Colour of Labour” em colaboração com a Casa dos Açores têm a honra de convidar a participar do evento “Os Portuguese e o Hawaii” no dia 25 de Setembro 2019 às 18h00 na Casa dos Açores (Rua dos Navegantes 21, Lisboa)

Call for papers Plantations and their Afterlives: Materialities, Durabilities, Struggles Symposium, 1-3 April 2020 Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon   Organization: The Colour of Labour: The Racialised Lives of Migrants ERC AdG 2015 – 695573, PI Cristiana Bastos Convenors: Marta Macedo, Irene Peano, Colette Le Petitcorps Keynote address: Prof. Deborah Thomas, Department of … Continued

Zonas de contacto entre la historia agraria y la historia de la ciencia: Perspectivas de análisis, estudios de caso y proyectos de futuro. Valencia, IILP, Palau de Cerveró, 20 de septiembre de 2019Comité organizador: José Ramón Bertomeu, Salvador Calatayud i Ximo Guillem En los últimos años se ha producido una gran cantidad de trabajos situados … Continued

The Colour of Labour “Distinguished Lecture Series” presents: “Black at the Bone: Race as a Semaphore Language for Assessing Moral Order” BRACKETTE F. WILLIAMS (School of Anthropology, University of Arizona) Guinier and Torres (2002) treated the miner’s canary as a metaphor for political race and, earlier, Copeland (1939) had investigated Negro as a moral contrast … Continued

  O Observatório da Emigração colocou em notícia de capa o artigo da PI Cristiana Bastos “Migrants inequalities and social research in the 1920s The story of Two Portuguese Communities in New England” publicado na revista History and Anthropology (29:2, 163-183)    

    Call for papers Plantations and their Afterlives: Materialities, Durabilities, Struggles Symposium, 1-3 April 2020 Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon   Organization: The Colour of Labour: The Racialised Lives of Migrants ERC AdG 2015 – 695573, PI Cristiana Bastos Convenors: Marta Macedo, Irene Peano, Colette Le Petitcorps Keynote address: Prof. Deborah Thomas, … Continued

A Sociedade Portuguesa de Antropologia e Etnologia (SPAE) promove conferências de entrada livre no Porto, no próximo sábado 6 de julho de 2019 no Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis. 15h30 Colette Le Petitcorps Post-doctoral researcher, ERC AdG The Colour of Labour, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, ULisboa Colette Le Petitcorps é doutora em Sociologia com … Continued

  Global Labor Migration: Past and Present June 20-22, 2019   We are glad to announce that our project will participate at the international conference “Global Labor Migration: Past and Present” – that will be held at the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands – with the following panel: Contract Labour and Identity Formation in Colonial … Continued

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