Thursday, 22 September 2022
Registration of participants at the venue
12.00–14.00: Meeting of the ITH Board and International Scientific Committee
14.00–14.30: Break
14.30–16.30: General Assembly of the ITH
17.00–17.30: Conference Opening
- Therese Garstenauer, University of Vienna
- Representative of the Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria
- Representative of the City of Linz
17.30–19.15: Keynote Lecture
- Mike Davis (University of California, Riverside)
19.15–21.00: Welcome Reception by the Major of Linz
Friday, 23 September 2022
9.30–11.00: Opening Lecture
- Louisa Acciari (University College London): Care Work as an Act of Resistance in Times of Crisis
11.00–11.15: Coffee Break
11.15–13.15: Panel I: Epidemiological Disasters
- Daniel Curtis (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Epidemics, Inequalities, and Inequalities Behind the Inequalities in the Premodern Past
- David Arnold (University of Warwick): The Impact on labour and labour mobility in India: case of the bubonic plague in the 1890s
- Michael Pammer (Johannes Kepler University Linz): The epidemiology of the Spanish flu
13.15–14.30 Lunch
14.30–16.00 Panel II: Technological Disasters
- Elif İrem Az (Columbia University): The undead strike at the limit of the accidental: Soma and Ermenek miners’ protests between October 2019-July 2021
- Dorothea Hoehtker (Research Department of the International Labour Office, Geneve): Changing the perspective on working conditions and the environment – the Bhopal disaster and the ILO
- Clement Masakure (University of the Free State, Bloemfontein) and Duncan Money (Leiden University): Fiery Collieries’ and Explosive Situations: Towards a History of the 1972 Hwange Colliery Disaster
16.00–16.15: Coffee Break
16.15–18.15 Panel III: Covid-19 I
- Camille Buat (Sciences Po/University of Göttingen): Covid-19 and the crisis of social citizenship in India
- Panchali Ray (Krea University): Covid-19 and the Labour of Care: Feminine Service Work in India
- Ayça Yılmaz Deniz (Turkish-German University, Istanbul): Arbeiten in Zeiten der Covid 19-Pandemie in der Türkei: Zuschreibungswandel zwischen Sinnhaftigkeit und Sinnverlust
18.15–19.15 Dinner
19.15– 21.00 Public evening event (in German): tba
Saturday, 24 September 2022
9.30–11.00 Panel IV: Disaster Response
- Matt Myers (British School at Rome/University of Oxford): The Italian workers’ movement and the 1980 Irpinia earthquake
- Matt Perry (Newcastle University): ‘Metabolic rift’ at work and within labouring minds: Firefighters’ occupational environmentalism and the experience of disaster
- Lawrence McDonnell (Iowa State University): The Political Ecology of Confederate Collapse: Rethinking the Origins and Limits of Reconstruction
- Mario Keller (University of Vienna): Othering, Conspiracy Narratives and Violence in the Context of Pandemics – Three Case Studies
11.00–11.15 Coffee Break
11.15–12.45 Panel V: Covid-19 II
- Sampurna Das (University of Delhi): Gendered experiences of vulnerability amongst community health workers of riverine regions of Assam, India
- Özlem İlyas (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul): Affective and Political Implications of Remote Working during the Covid-19 Pandemic
- P.K. Viswanathan (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham): Integration of Global Trade in Plantation Commodities with Labour Standards in the post-Covid-19 pandemic era: A Study of Tea Plantations in India
12.45–14.00 Lunch
14.00–15.00 Concluding Debate