The info package and preliminary program for DePOT’s 2023 conference is now available! You can read it here.
Registration for the conference is also open on Eventbrite.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email deindustrialization@concordia.ca.
Last updated: February 23, 2023 to correct a typo. To make sure that you’re consulting the most up-to-date version of the program, visit our conference page.
Read the call for papers for our 2023 conference in Sydney, Nova Scotia. | Lisez l’appel à communications pour notre conférence de 2023 à Sydney, en Nouvelle-Écosse.
Clara Casian reflects on the traces left by the steel industry on Barrows Island’s landscape.
Prof. Steven High and Dr. Indranil Chakraborty are looking for submissions of proposals for contribution to their new project on deindustrialization in India. 350-word chapter proposals should be sent to steven.high@concordia.ca and indranil.chakraborty@concordia.ca by October 30, 2022.
The final program for the Transnationalizing Deindustrialization Studies conference this August 17-20 is now available! The program includes key information on our upcoming international conference, including schedules for public roundtables, regional industrial heritage tours, and a two-day academic conference.
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The preliminary program for DePOT’s Transnationalizing Deindustrialization Studies conference is now available. The inter-disciplinary conference will be taking place in the Ruhr in Germany from August 18-20.
Dr. Novoa’s socially engaged scholarship focuses on the intersections of cultural heritage and social justice, industrial heritage and gender, and the politics of memory and grassroots organizing in Chile.
The “US Oral History Interview Archival Inventory” compiles oral history interview collections related to deindustrialization in the United States. This report brings together collections from libraries, archives, museums, and educational institutions, and is intended to support research into the lived experiences of deindustrialization, as well as encouraging the use of existing oral history collections in future research.
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Photo courtesy of Francesca Marconi
Photo courtesy of Russell Gendron
Canada. Dept. of Mines and Resources / Library and Archives Canada / PA-021558
Photo courtesy of Indranil Chakraborty
Zollverein World Heritage Site. Essen, Germany. Photo: Sebastian High. 
Photo: Collettivo Gkn © Andrea Sawyerr
Women from the ex-coal mining town of Lota working on a collaborative arpillera urbana (textile art) depicting the history of their town. Photo by Magdalena Novoa.