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.

Read more

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.

Read more

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.

Read more

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.

Read more

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.

Read more

CHAIRE

Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage

Read more
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.

Read more

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.

Read more

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.

Read more

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.

Read more

Philip Rich 

Research Assistant

Read more

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.

Read more
Zollverein World Heritage Site. Essen, Germany. Photo: Sebastian High.

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.

Read more

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.

Read more
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.

Read more
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.

Read more

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.

Read more

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.

Read more
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.

Read more

Horizon Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia

We’re excited to announce that Dr. Indranil Chakraborty will be joining the DePOT team this September.

Read more