Events

A história das plantações de cacau de São Tomé está ligada a um regime de trabalho coercivo racializado. A produção de um cacau standardizado, elogiado pelos principais fabricantes de chocolate, dependeu do trabalho de milhares de homens e mulheres “resgatados” em Angola, vinculados a um contrato perpetuo, sujeitos ao controlo e disciplina de todos os … Continued

Seminários GI – Identidades, Culturas, Vulnerabilidades, ICS-ULisboa Sexta-feira, dia 31 de Maio as 13h40 Entrada livre Irene Peano (ERC Project Colour of Labour – ICS-ULisboa)  ‘New slavery’ and the afterlives of the plantation in contemporary Europe – reflections from Italy’s agro-industrial enclaves”. Building on fifteen years of engaged, militant research and activism on the issue … Continued

The conclusion of the so-called “unequal treaties” between Euro-American powers and East Asian states brought a growing number of foreigners to China, Korea, and Japan. Treaty ports and foreign settlements such as Shanghai, Tianjin, Harbin, Jemuipo, Nagasaki, Kobe, and Yokohama, as well as the British colony of Hong Kong and the German lease of Jiaozhou, … Continued

Université Paris Nanterre  Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur le Monde Lusophone  CRILUS – EA 369 Études Romanes    Colloque international  23-24 mai 2019, Paris  Domestiques et domesticité dans les pays de langues romanes hier et aujourd’hui: Employé(e)s ou esclaves ?  Évoquer les domestiques et la domesticité suscite une multitude de représentions collectives d’une condition subalterne représentée … 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    Call for papers is now open!   Tens of thousands of Madeirans and Azoreans crossed the seas during the nineteenth century to work on sugar plantations, first in the British colonies … Continued

  The SANA + SUNTA Conference (2-4 May 2019, San Juan, Puerto Rico) is themed as Positive Futures and it brings together attendees who will come together to explore the spaces, practices, thoughts, and senses through which positive futures are elaborated, sustained, improvised or reworked. More than a year and a half after the human-made disaster … Continued

Celebrating the Iberian ERC Awardees 8-9 April 2019 INL, Braga, Portugal These two days are designed to be an opportunity to celebrate, to share experiences, to foster new applications to ERC Grants from Iberian researchers, to identify common challenges and synergies, to discuss how to keep the sustainability of research groups after the end of … Continued

MOBILE LABOUR Symposium 26-27 March, 2019 ICS-ULisbon The “Mobile Labour” Symposium will combine and connect ethnographic and analytic approaches to the worlds of mobile labour, whether contemporary or historical. Scholars invited to take part in the event will explore topics such as: how mobility and labour conflate to create and perpetuate particular conditions of segregation, … Continued

TOWARDS ESTABLISHING A COMPARATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR THE STUDY OF INDENTURED LABOUR Two-day International Workshop – 5th – 6th March 2019 UoM, Room G3 New Academic Complex (NAC) University of Mauritius Organised by The Centre for Research on Slavery and Indenture, University of Mauritius, in collaboration with Aapravasi Ghat Trust Fund / Secretariat, Indentured Labour Route … Continued

The Gift of the Pacific: Place and Perspective in Pacific history 2018 PHA Conference Cambridge, England;  3-5 December 2018 The 23rd Pacific History Association Biennial Conference 2018 will be held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London and the University of Cambridge, England. Nicholas Miller will present his work “Hawai‘i and the Pacific Politics of Japanese Labour Immigration, … Continued

A Research Workshop and International Conference The State of the Global Protection System for Refugees and Migrants Kolkata, 25-30 November 2018 Irene Peano will participate in the Research Workshop and International Conference on Migration and Forced Migration Studies with the paper “Refugeeisation of the agricultural labour force? Humanitarian spectacles in and around Italian agro-industrial enclaves” Organized by … Continued

The 117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) will convene in San Jose, CA November  14 – 18, 2018 with the theme: “Resistance, Resilience, Adaptation.” COLOUR PI Cristiana Bastos will present the paper “Plantation Memories, Labor Identities, and the Celebration of Heritage: the Portuguese in Hawaii” – program (PDF)  Date: 17 November 2018 8:15 AM – … Continued