Photo: Alusuisse workers meet in Steg, January 1993 (Schweizer Fernsehen DRS, 27.1.1993
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The Politics of Industrial Closure Conference: Preliminary program and info package
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.
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.
Philip Rich
Research Assistant
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.
