{"id":196,"date":"2023-05-22T07:30:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T07:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trasisblog.unibe.ch\/?p=196"},"modified":"2024-04-15T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T14:00:33","slug":"research-colloquium-and-workshop-contested-concepts-of-labour-slavery-and-informality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trasisblog.unibe.ch\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Research Colloquium and Workshop: \u201cContested Concepts of Labour: Slavery and Informality\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On 29\u201330 March 2023, TraSIS PI Serena Tolino and postdoc Omar Anchassi presented at a workshop<\/a> hosted by the Institute of History (Chair of Modern History)<\/a> and the Center for Global Studies<\/a>, University of Bern, organised by Sibylle Marti<\/a> (University of Bern, SNSF Ambizione Fellow). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workshop was launched on 29 March by Seth Rockman<\/a>, a leading historian at Brown University working on the nexus of the fields of slavery studies, labour history, material culture studies and the history of capitalism in the United States. In his presentation, \u201cField Hands and Factory Hands: Plantation Provisions and the Material History of U.S. Slavery,\u201d he offered the audience a glimpse at the findings of his forthcoming book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the second day of the workshop, Serena Tolino introduced the TraSIS team, discussed the project\u2019s central research questions and methodological and theoretical approaches, and provided an overview of its four sub-projects. Omar Anchassi shared some of his preliminary findings, giving a paper titled \u201cSexual Exclusivity, Sexual Hospitality and the\u00a0Umm al-Walad<\/em>\u00a0in Early Islamic Law.\u201d\u00a0
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Sibylle Marti presented a paper titled \u201cDefining and Measuring Informal Work Across the Globe, 1970\u2013Present,\u201d in which she discussed some results of her Ambizione grant. The workshop was concluded by Seth Rockman elaborating the connections between the papers, with a general discussion led by Prof. Dr\u00a0Christof Dejung<\/a>. Dejung stressed the importance of discussing concepts related to labour in all its forms, in order to better understand its various manifestations in diverse global contexts.\u00a0
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On 29\u201330 March 2023, TraSIS PI Serena Tolino and postdoc Omar Anchassi presented at a workshop hosted by the Institute of History (Chair of Modern History) and the Center for Global Studies, University of Bern, organised by Sibylle Marti (University of Bern, SNSF Ambizione Fellow).  The workshop was launched on 29 March by Seth Rockman, a leading historian at Brown University working on the nexus of the fields of slavery studies, labour history, material culture studies and the history of capitalism in the United States. In his presentation, \u201cField…<\/p>\n

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