Canada. Dept. of Mines and Resources / Library and Archives Canada / PA-021558Call for Papers: The Politics of Deindustrialization | Appel aux communications: La politique de la fermeture industrielle
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.
Photo courtesy of Indranil ChakrabortyCall for Proposals – Towards the Global Study of Deindustrialization and Economic Restructuring: The Case of India
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.
Zollverein World Heritage Site. Essen, Germany. Photo: Sebastian High. Final Program for Transnationalizing Deindustrialization Studies Conference
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.
Preliminary Program & Registration for Transnationalizing Deindustrialization Studies Conference now available
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.
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.Dr. Magdalena Novoa joins DePOT as a Co-Investigator
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.
New Publication in the COHDS Inventory Series: United States Oral History Archives
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.
Funded PhD scholarship at Swansea University
The Department of History, Heritage and Classics at Swansea University has just announced a fully-funded 3-year PhD fellowship for an incoming UK-based student studying deindustrialization. Click through for more information.
COHDS Inventory Series: UK Oral History Archives
We’ve just finished laying out the first of our published research reports! This one is an inventory of oral history interview archives located in the UK, put together by student affiliate James Ferns.
DePOT Annual Report 2020-2021 now available
The first Annual Report for Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Times has just been published. Click through to read it.
The DePOT podcast is now live!
We’re very pleased to announce that the first episode in our Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time podcast series, an intro to DePOT with Principal Investigator Dr. Steven High, is now live and ready for listeners.
Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, Germany. Photo: Sebastian High.Preliminary Program for 2022 Ruhr DePOT Conference Unveiled
We’re thrilled to release the preliminary program for DePOT’s 2022 Ruhr conference, ‘Transnationalizing Deindustrialization Studies,’ taking place May 12-14, 2022 in Bochum, Germany.
Postdoctoral Fellowship at Ruhr-Universität Bochum’s Institute for Social Movements
We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for a 6-month Postdoctoral Fellowship at Ruhr-Universität Bochum’s Institute for Social Movements in partnership with DePOT. The position is open to recent PhD graduates specializing in deindustrialization and/or industrial heritage.
Funded M.A. fellowship opportunities at Concordia and Dalhousie/UCB
We’re excited to announce three funded fellowships for incoming M.A. students just made available at Concordia, Dalhousie/Cape Breton University.
Welcome to our new co-applicant and partner organization
DePOT is pleased to welcome another new co-applicant and partner organization to our team: Dr. Hilary Orange and the Centre for Heritage Research and Training (CHART) at Swansea University.
PhD opportunity at Queen’s University Belfast on Gender and Deindustrialization
DePOT is thrilled to share a PhD opportunity working with Prof. Sean O’Connell based at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland.
Call for Papers – Transnationalizing Deindustrialization Studies and its Politics
This is the inaugural in-person conference of the “Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DePOT) partnership project, funded by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. We invite you to submit a proposal for a session, paper, workshop, or research-creation outcome. Local or regional studies are welcome too as long as they engage with wider horizons/debates.
Welcome to our new affiliates!
In the past few months we’ve welcomed 8 new affiliates to the project, who are joining us from France, the UK, Sweden, the US, and Canada.
Portal of the machine hall at the former Zollern Collier. Photo: LWL-Industriemuseum. RETHINKING DEINDUSTRIALIZATION STUDIES
Announcing DePOT’s Fall 2021 Public Program: the “Rethinking Deindustrialization Studies” roundtable series invites us to revisit our understanding of the field with four roundtable events in the fall.
Falck Steeworks Plants, Sesto San Giovanni (Milan, Italy), aerial view circa 1960s. Photo: Fondazione ISEC Photographic Archive. June Newletter Out Now
The DePOT June newsletter covers upcoming events, new project affiliates, and the most recent deindustrialization publications.
May Newsletter out now
This month’s newsletter covers the official launch of our website, student-directed initiative funding recipients, recent deindustrialization publications and events to come.
History and memory in gentrifying St-Henri Student Showcase
Over the course of the last few months, undergraduate History students at Concordia enrolled in the “History and Memory in Gentrifying Saint-Henri” course have been thinking through the brutal processes of deindustrialization and gentrification in the St-Henri neighbourhood in Montreal.
Protesting coal miners at the Friedrich Heinrich/Rheinland colliery in the town of Kamp-Lintfort in March 1997. There was a wave of miners' protests in Winter and Spring 1996/97 as the German Federal Government planned to cut subsidies which would have meant a loss of 60,000 jobs in less than ten years. The banner in front says "We want a perspective for our future". Photo: Betriebsrat Bergwerk West. New Perspectives on Deindustrialization Roundtables
The Deindustrialization & the Politics of Our Time (DePOT) project has organized a two-part Roundtable Series that invites recent authors of books and special issues on deindustrialization to speak to their major findings and what their overall intervention is to the field.
Horizon Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia
We’re excited to announce that Dr. Indranil Chakraborty will be joining the DePOT team this September.
