Book Launch: Deindustrializing Montreal by Steven High

Les Sans-Taverne - Coop et Brasserie Artisanale 1900 Rue le Ber, Montréal, QC, Canada

Join us for the launch of Steven High's new book, Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race, Residence, and Class. The event will be held at Batiment 7’s Les Sans Taverne (1900 rue Le Ber) in Pointe-Saint-Charles, 28 August from 1pm to 3pm. Hope to see you there!

Transnationalizing Deindustrialization Studies Conference

Transnationalizing Deindustrialization Studies: Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DePOT) 2022 Conference August 17-20, 2022, beginning at 9am (GMT+2/Berlin Time) The 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 17-20. All are welcome to attend, and registration is […]

DEINDUSTRIALIZING ITALY

This roundtable brings together researchers that study deindustrialization in Italy, beyond the traditional heartlands of industry.

La désindustrialisation en France

La désindustrialisation en France    Register here.    January 28, 2022 – 9am EST (3pm CET)      The study of deindustrialization in France is flourishing with new books, special issues, and dissertations coming out regularly. The DePOT panel will consider this new scholarship and situate it within the transnational field. The panel will be in French but many of the presentations […]

CURATING AND ARCHIVING DEINDUSTRIALIZATION

This final session in our Rethinking Deindustrialization Studies roundtable series brings curatorial and archival knowledge into the conversation.

TOWARDS A GLOBAL DEINDUSTRIALIZATION STUDIES

The second of two sessions aimed at expanding the geographic imaginary of deindustrialization studies from the old industrial heartlands of Western Europe and North America.

DEINDUSTRIALIZING AUSTRALIA 

The first of two sessions aimed at expanding the geographic imaginary of deindustrialization studies from the old industrial heartlands of Western Europe and North America.

New Perspectives on Deindustrialization (Part 2)

The Deindustrialization & the Politics of Our Time (DePOT) project has organized a two-part Round-Table 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. The panelists include leading scholars across the humanities and social sciences in North […]

New Perspectives on Deindustrialization (Part 1)

  The Deindustrialization & the Politics of Our Time (DePOT) project has organized a two-part Round-Table 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. The panelists include leading scholars across the humanities and social sciences in […]

History and Memory in Gentrifying St-Henri

Saint-Henri, a working-class neighbourhood in the Southwest of Montreal, was once at the heart of industrial capitalism in Canada. Brutal processes of deindustrialization and gentrification have created multiple historical layers of displacement and resistance, the traces of which are imprinted in popular memory. Over the course of the last few months, undergraduate History students at […]

Populism / populisme/ Populismo / Populismus

Chairperson:  Stefan Berger (or Steven High) Other Presenters: James Rhodes, Gilda Zazzara, Marion Fontaine, Stefan Moitra, Sean O’Connell, Greg Wilson. Populism is probably the most important keyword that our research project will be chewing on over the next seven years. The panel will consider its emergence in different national contexts, its relationship to deindustrialization, what […]