BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Deindustrialization - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Deindustrialization X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://deindustrialization.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Deindustrialization REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20230101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240620T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240622T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T132036 CREATED:20240130T182429Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T154458Z UID:9993-1718874000-1719075600@deindustrialization.org SUMMARY:Depot Summer Institute: Difficult histories of gender and community DESCRIPTION:DePOT Summer Institutes bring together graduate students and postdoctoral fellows as well as select faculty and partners to workshop their latest research in a small supportive setting. Summer Institutes are timed to occur on the eve of the project’s thematic workshops and assembly in order to encourage participants to attend these as well. It is an opportunity to forge connection with other deindustrialization researchers and receive critical feedback on work in progress. \nThis year\, we will be coming together at Queen’s University Belfast for an exciting line-up of student talks\, discussion plenaries\, workshops\, and walking tours of the city. On June 23\, we will be traveling to Glasgow for DePOT’s project assembly and annual conference. \nThe Summer Institute is open to DePOT-affiliated students\, postdoctoral fellows\, researchers\, and partners. Please use the link on Basecamp to register or email deindustrialization@concordia.ca for more. We’re excited to share the program shortly! \nOrganizing committee: Sinead Burns\, Adna Camdzic\, Shonagh Joice\, and Naomi Petropoulos \nClick here to download the final program! URL:https://deindustrialization.org/event/depot-summer-institute-difficult-histories-of-gender-and-community/ LOCATION:Queen’s University Belfast CATEGORIES:Conference ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://deindustrialization.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Option-1-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time":MAILTO:deindustrialization@concordia.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240625T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240626T173000 DTSTAMP:20260404T132036 CREATED:20240201T120014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T145855Z UID:10003-1719306000-1719423000@deindustrialization.org SUMMARY:Gender\, Family\, and Deindustrialization — DePOT annual conference DESCRIPTION:In deindustrialization studies\, representations of industrial closures have often dwelled on the ways that masculinity is threatened or reconfigured through the experience of job loss and on the erosion of collective ties and spaces linked to the world of work. Conversely\, women have appeared only on the fringes of the literature on deindustrialization\, sometimes in their capacities as wives and mothers\, but increasingly also as displaced workers in their own right. DePOT seeks to bring the history of deindustrialisation into productive dialogue with histories of youth\, the body\, health\, the home and the caring economy.  \nThis conference\, the culmination of our project’s Gender\, Family\, and Deindustrialization research initiative\, features researchers from a variety of disciplinary and regional backgrounds. Registration is free. With a program of three concurrent panels\, two keynotes\, and a plenary with DePOT’s artists-in-residence planned\, we are excited to see you in Glasgow!  \n  \nOrganizing committee: Jackie Clarke\, Arthur McIvor\, Rebekah Chatellier\, Piyusha Chatterjee\, and Yvonne McFadden \nLinks and resources \n\nRegistration link\nFINAL conference program \nAccessAble page for the University of Strathclyde\nAccessAble page for the Graham Hills Building URL:https://deindustrialization.org/event/gender-family-and-deindustrialization-depot-annual-conference/ LOCATION:Strathclyde University\, 40 George St (Graham Hills Building)\, Glasgow CATEGORIES:Conference ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://deindustrialization.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Conference-Banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241009T093000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241009T113000 DTSTAMP:20260404T132036 CREATED:20240924T142315Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240924T142315Z UID:11075-1728466200-1728473400@deindustrialization.org SUMMARY:ROUNTABLE: SETTLER COLONIALISM AND DEINDUSTRIALIZATION DESCRIPTION:In Canada\, the United States\, Australia\, and other settler colonies\, the dispossession of Indigenous land is integral to histories of industrialization. Resource industries like forestry\, mining and oil are inextricably tied to the exploitation of Indigenous peoples. How then\, do scholars of deindustrialization respond\, when the “good jobs” lost during industrial closure were directly implicated in the ongoing dispossession of Indigenous lands? Join DePOT affiliates as they propose new directions for working through this tension in deindustrialization studies.   \nWednesday October 9 (9:30AM Eastern Time). \nRegister on Eventbrite to get the Zoom link and receive reminder emails ahead of the roundtable! \nChair: \nPiyusha Chatterjee \nParticipants \n\nPeter Thompson\, University of New Brunswick\, \nMyriam Guillemette\, Université du Québec à Montréal\, \nRaechele Lovell\, 2024-25 DéPOT Artist in Residence\, \nLachlan Mackinnon\, Cape Breton University\, \nPetra Dolata\, University of Calgary  URL:https://deindustrialization.org/event/rountable-settler-colonialism-and-deindustrialization/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Online Roundtable ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://deindustrialization.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Deindustrialization-settle-colonialism.png ORGANIZER;CN="Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time":MAILTO:deindustrialization@concordia.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241120T093000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241120T113000 DTSTAMP:20260404T132036 CREATED:20241023T100027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240927T135857Z UID:11081-1732095000-1732102200@deindustrialization.org SUMMARY:ROUNDTABLE: DEINDUSTRIALIZATION\, RACE\, AND CASTE DESCRIPTION:Following the 2016 US presidential election\, much ink has been spilled on the topic of the “white working class.” Conjured as the face of the US Rust Belt\, whiteness has become synonymous with the “left behind” of deindustrialization\, whereas figures of the “migrant” are operationalized to inflict blame. How then\, have racialized communites been affected by deindustrialization\, when whiteness is taken as a given? What might the experience of racialized communities\, in the US\, Canada\, India and elsewhere\, tell us about the process and aftermath of deindustrialization? Join DePOT affiliates as they share their work and discuss how race and caste figure into the landscape of deindustrialization studies.  \nWednesday October 20 (9:30AM Eastern Time) \nRegister on Eventbrite to get the Zoom link and receive reminder emails ahead of the roundtable! \nChair: \nStefan Moitra  \nParticipants: \n\nJames Rhodes\, Hiram College\nBharat Sundararajan\, University of St. Andrews\nSherry Lee Linkon\, Georgetown University\nRémy Chhem\, 2024-25 DePOT Artist in Residence\nGreg Wilson\, University of Akron URL:https://deindustrialization.org/event/roundtable-deindustrialization-race-and-caste/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Online Roundtable ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://deindustrialization.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Rountables-Deindustrialization-race-and-caste.png ORGANIZER;CN="Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time":MAILTO:deindustrialization@concordia.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241209T093000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241209T113000 DTSTAMP:20260404T132036 CREATED:20241110T100057Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241122T152143Z UID:11088-1733736600-1733743800@deindustrialization.org SUMMARY:ROUNDTABLE: DEINDUSTRIALIZATION AND POPULISM DESCRIPTION:  \nBrexit and the 2016 US presidential election threw “populism” into the spotlight. Populism\, from both the left (Jean-Luc Melenchon\, Bernie Sanders) and the right (Marine Le Pen\, Donald Trump) has come to define the politics of deindustrializing societies. How do we make sense of this groundswell? Join DePOT as we explore populism and deindustrialization.   \nWednesday December 9 (9:30AM Eastern Time). \nRegister on Eventbrite to get the Zoom link and receive reminder emails ahead of the roundtable! \nChair: \nAmber Ward \nParticipants: \n\nFilippo Sbrana\, University for Foreigners of Perugia\nMarion Fontaine\, Science Po\nMike Makin-Waite\, independent scholar\nManuela Vinai\, University of Turin\nLachlan Mackinnon\, Cape Breton University\nSteven High\, Concordia University.  URL:https://deindustrialization.org/event/roundtable-deindustrialization-and-populism/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Online Roundtable ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://deindustrialization.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Roundtable-deindustrialization-and-populism.png ORGANIZER;CN="Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time":MAILTO:deindustrialization@concordia.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250121T093000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250121T113000 DTSTAMP:20260404T132036 CREATED:20241225T100042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250219T191227Z UID:11095-1737451800-1737459000@deindustrialization.org SUMMARY:ROUNDTABLE: DEINDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE LEFT DESCRIPTION:View the event recording here \nWhat happens to workers’ parties when work dries up? Deindustrialization has presented a profound challenge to parties of the left and centre-left\, with their traditional base in the trade union movement becoming increasingly precarious. In this roundtable\, DePOT affiliates will explore how deindustrialization affected the political left\, how parties and organizations of the left responded to deindustrialization\, and the future of how the political left might adapt to the post-industrial moment.  \nTuesday January 21 (9:30AM Eastern Time). \nRegister on Eventbrite to get the Zoom link and receive reminder emails ahead of the roundtable! \nParticipants: \n\nGilda Zazzara\, University of Ca’Foscari Venice\nFred Burrill\, University of New Brunswick\nMarion Fontaine\, Sciences Po\nXavier Vigna\, Université Paris-Nanterre\nIndranil Chakraborty\, Concordia University\nManuela Vinai\, University of Turin\nGraham Latham\, Concordia University. \n\n  URL:https://deindustrialization.org/event/roundtable-deindustrialization-and-the-left/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Online Roundtable ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://deindustrialization.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Left-Roundtable-Youtube-Thumbnail.png ORGANIZER;CN="Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time":MAILTO:deindustrialization@concordia.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T113000 DTSTAMP:20260404T132036 CREATED:20250212T204712Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T204712Z UID:12324-1739352600-1739359800@deindustrialization.org SUMMARY:ROUNDTABLE: IN CONVERSATION WITH TIM STRANGLEMAN DESCRIPTION:Join his former students and colleagues to celebrate the career of Tim Strangleman\, DePOT co-founder and author of many books on the sociology of deindustrialization. \nWednesday February 12 (9:30AM Eastern Time). \nRegister on Eventbrite to get the Zoom link and receive reminder emails ahead of the roundtable! \nSherry Lee Linkon\, Georgetown University \nJefferson Cowie\, Vanderbilt University \nGilda Zazzara\, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice \nThomas Wilson\, University of Kent \nTim Strangleman\, University of Kent URL:https://deindustrialization.org/event/roundtable-in-conversation-with-tim-strangleman/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Online Roundtable ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://deindustrialization.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Rountable-2025-02-123.png ORGANIZER;CN="Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time":MAILTO:deindustrialization@concordia.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T113000 DTSTAMP:20260404T132036 CREATED:20250310T194839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T185808Z UID:12464-1745487000-1745494200@deindustrialization.org SUMMARY:ROUNDTABLE: NEW RESEARCH IN DEINDUSTRIALIZATION STUDIES DESCRIPTION:Journey from Poland to the American Midwest in our next roundtable\, featuring research from seven DePOT affiliates and chaired by Steven High! \nThursday April 24th (9:30AM Eastern Time). \nRegister on Eventbrite to get the Zoom link and receive reminder emails ahead of the roundtable! \nChairperson: Steven High (Concordia University) \nYuan Yi (Concordia University) \, “Deindustrialization: A Useful Category for Challenging Linear History.” \nAnna Ruth Guildea (Scuola Normale Superiore)\, “Masculinity\, Occupational Change\, and Support for the Radical Right in Europe.” \nCory Haala (University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point)\, “Fighting Deindustrialization in the American Midwest\, from Factory to Farm.” \nNora Küttel (University of Halle)\, “Unveiling the Emotional and Social Consequences of Deindustrialisation: The Case of East Germany’s Shipbuilding Industry.” \nMart Chmielewski (European University Institute)\, “Bra-Making and Postsocialist Transformation: Privatization\, Global Capital\, and the Reshaping of Industry in Central Poland”. \nMonika Glosowitz (University of Silesia)\, “Narratives of Women from Coal Mining Families from Upper Silesian Coal Basin. An Artivist Research Project.” \nMelissa Meade (Seton Hall University)\, “Digital Memories in Centralia\, Pennsylvania and The Reshaping of Labor Narratives” URL:https://deindustrialization.org/event/roundtable-new-research-in-deindustrialization-studies-2/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Online Roundtable ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://deindustrialization.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Roundtable-2025-04-241.png ORGANIZER;CN="Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time":MAILTO:deindustrialization@concordia.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250619T080000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250621T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T132036 CREATED:20240829T155948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250514T193639Z UID:11013-1750320000-1750525200@deindustrialization.org SUMMARY:Désindustrialisation\, nation\, immigration : quelles réponses politiques ? / Deindustrialization\, Nation\, Immigration: What Political Responses? DESCRIPTION:Deindustrialization\, Nation\, Immigration: What Political Responses? \nDeindustrialization\, which began affecting North America and Northwestern Europe in the 1950s\, unevenly impacted various workforces. These groups\, which have experienced mass layoffs and relocations due to globalization and trade liberalization\, include both men and women\, national and immigrant workers\, and racialized individuals\, some of whom have been replaced by lower-paid\, less protected labor forces. This powerful movement gained momentum in the late 1970s and early 1980s\, at a time when the labor movement was at its peak and social democratic parties held power\, particularly in Western Europe. \nIn this context\, deindustrialization profoundly destabilized the labor movement and left-wing parties\, which faced an immense political\, strategic\, and intellectual challenge. This challenge arised from the disappearance of an industrial model that provided a framework\, the crisis of countercyclical economic and social policies\, and\, last but not least\, the erosion of their electoral base. Simultaneously\, chauvinistic or xenophobic reactions\, which traditionally accompany economic and political crises\, have multiplied\, aiding the consolidation of far-right movements that denounce the presence of immigrants\, unfair foreign competition\, and even local populations or entire regions perceived as burdens taking advantage of the social welfare system. \nWhile some of these issues regularly capture media and public attention\, it is clear that proper historical analyses linking these different elements are still lacking. The same applies to comparisons between regional and national situations. \nThe aim of this conference is to shed light on these different contexts from a historical perspective\, and to rearticulate these contemporary phenomena to understand how different forms of deindustrialization challenge issues of race\, immigration\, and nation. It also seeks to explore how these processes transform the political responses that can be offered to these issues. Case studies focusing on a particular situation\, territory\, or group are welcome (in Europe and North America during the late 20th-early 21st century but also in the global South). We also encourage papers that cross categories\, compare territories\, or vary the scales of analysis. \nSeveral non-exclusive avenues of inquiry may be explored\, including: Race\, nation\, and immigrant labor; Between powerlessness and action\, between blindness and awareness: what responses from workers’ movements?; Populism\, far-right\, and deindustrialization. \n  \nConference News  \nThe program is now available in English and French. \n  \nThe call for papers is now available on our website! Read and download it in French or English here. \nFrequently Asked Questions  \nAs conference organization proceeds\, we will be updating this page with more information about venues\, conference hotels\, program information\, and more information to help prepare attendance. URL:https://deindustrialization.org/event/desindustrialisation-nation-immigration-quelles-reponses-politiques-deindustrialization-nation-immigration-what-political-responses-2/ CATEGORIES:Conference ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://deindustrialization.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Bilingual-conference-poster.png ORGANIZER;CN="Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time":MAILTO:deindustrialization@concordia.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250926T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250926T110000 DTSTAMP:20260404T132036 CREATED:20250827T174811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T185952Z UID:13068-1758877200-1758884400@deindustrialization.org SUMMARY:ROUNDTABLE: IS THE FIELD OF DEINDUSTRIALIZATION STUDIES TOO ONE SIDED? DESCRIPTION:Oral history has been the primary methodology of the field of deindustrialization studies for the past quarter century. The field is therefore anchored in working-class lives and the lived interior of deindustrialization. In a draft paper\, DePOT member Stefan Berger provocatively asks if the field has become too one-sided as a result? He argues that “the field would gain in multi-perspectivity by moving away from its one-sided focus on working-class memories of deindustrialization.” The virtual session will begin with a 15-minute presentation from Stefan Berger and we will then hear from a series of respondents (who have read the paper) for 5-6 minutes each. It will then be opened for questions and comments. \nFriday September 26th 2025 at 9:00am eastern time \nRegister on Eventbrite to get the Zoom link and receive reminder emails ahead of the roundtable! \nChairperson: Steven High (Concordia University) \nPresentation: Stefan Berger (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum) \nRespondents: Fred Burrill (University of New Brunswick)\, Xavier Vigna (University of Paris-Nanterre)\, Amber Ward (University of St. Andrews)\, Bharat Sundararajan (University of St. Andrews)\, Emiliano Aguilar (University of Notre Dame) \n  URL:https://deindustrialization.org/event/roundtable-deindustrialization-one-sided/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Online Roundtable ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://deindustrialization.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Roundtable-2025-09-261.png ORGANIZER;CN="Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time":MAILTO:deindustrialization@concordia.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251107T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251107T110000 DTSTAMP:20260404T132036 CREATED:20251023T200717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T192033Z UID:13315-1762507800-1762513200@deindustrialization.org SUMMARY:ROUNDTABLE - POLICIES AND PROGRAMS: DEINDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT DESCRIPTION:DePOT’s Deindustrialization and the Environment working group is pleased to host its first roundtable\, Policies and Programs: Deindustrialization and the Environment. This session brings together eight scholars whose research examines the intersections of industrial decline\, environmental activism and remediation\, and policy responses by a variety of levels of government. Presentations will consider how states\, companies\, and communities respond to the environmental legacies of deindustrialization\, including questions surrounding the construction of uneven geographies of remediation and sacrifice zones. Drawing from several national and local contexts\, the panel will highlight how difference policy frameworks shape the aftermath of deindustrialized spaces and landscapes. \n\nFriday November 7th at 9:30am Eastern Time \n\nPresenters: \n\nGreg Wilson (University of Akron)\nValerio Caruso (Institute for Mediterranean Studies)\nPetra Dolata (University of Calgary) & Julian Rioux (University of Saskatchewan)\nShouvik Mukhopadhyay (University of Calcutta) & Indranil Chakraborty (Fanshawe College)\nChris Walley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)\nDavid Beorlegui (University of the Basque Country)\nSteven High (Concordia University) URL:https://deindustrialization.org/event/policies-and-programs-deindustrialization-and-environment/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Online Roundtable ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://deindustrialization.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Workshop-11-07.png ORGANIZER;CN="Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time":MAILTO:deindustrialization@concordia.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251205T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251205T113000 DTSTAMP:20260404T132036 CREATED:20251204T161733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251204T161733Z UID:13430-1764928800-1764934200@deindustrialization.org SUMMARY:ROUNDTABLE - RESEARCH FROM ENERGY IN SOCIETY DESCRIPTION:Join DePOT and Energy In Society as we talk extractivism\, energy transitions\, and degrowth!\n\n\n\nDePOT’s Deindustrialization and the Environment working group is pleased to host its second roundtable\, Deindustrialization and Environment: Research from Energy In Society. This session brings together scholars from the Energy In Society working group at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities\, a DePOT partner institution. Based in the “energy province” of Alberta\, these researchers from across a variety of disciplines (anthropology\, history\, communication studies\, political science\, geography\, economics and creative writing) examine questions of deindustrialization and energy transition\, degrowth and extractivism. Presentations will use examples and case studies from Alberta\, Canada and the world to consider the role energy has played in deindustrialization processes and critically engage with the many ways (stories\, political economy\, propaganda etc.) people think about energy industrialization\, deindustrialization and reindustrialization. \nPresenters \nKatelyn Anderson (University of Calgary\, Communication\, Medi and Film) \nAnna Bettini (University of Calgary\, History/Anthropology) \nPetra Dolata (University of Calgary\, History) \nWilliam Gillies (Calgary) \nLilia Garcia Manrique (University of Calgary\, Earth\, Energy\, and Environment) \nJennifer McDougall (University of Calgary\, English) \nMack Penner (University of Calgary\, History/CanCO2Re) \nAna Alicia Watson Jimenez (University of Calgary\, Political Science) \n\nREGISTER HERE URL:https://deindustrialization.org/event/energy-in-society/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Online Roundtable ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://deindustrialization.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Roundtable-12-051-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time":MAILTO:deindustrialization@concordia.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260206T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260206T113000 DTSTAMP:20260404T132036 CREATED:20260120T191708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260120T192139Z UID:13874-1770372000-1770377400@deindustrialization.org SUMMARY:Rountable: Labor and Working Class Environmentalism DESCRIPTION:Join us for our first Deindustrialization and the Environment working group discussion of the year!\n\n\n\nChairperson: Gregory Wilson \nPresenters: \nLachlan Mackinnon: Blue Economy and Ocean Industries in Atlantic Canada \nUte Eickelkamp: “From the ground up? Grappling with ethnographic stories about nature lovers\, climate change deniers and working-class environmentalists in the post-carbon Ruhr” \nAdna Camdzic and Alessandro Ponsi: “From Jobs to Justice: Environmental-Work Conflicts and Industrial Closures in Italy (1980–1999)” \nMonika Glosowitz: “Fluorosis – A Broken Story of Worker’s Fights” \nMelissa R. Meade: ““Standing Tall Before You”: Culm Banks\, Memory\, Play\, and Survival in Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Coal Region” URL:https://deindustrialization.org/event/rountable-political-abandonment-silencing-and-absence-in-deindustrialization-2/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Online Roundtable ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://deindustrialization.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/environment-roundtables.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time":MAILTO:deindustrialization@concordia.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260220T093000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260220T110000 DTSTAMP:20260404T132036 CREATED:20260112T193027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260112T193605Z UID:13724-1771579800-1771585200@deindustrialization.org SUMMARY:Roundtable: (In)Justice and Heritage After Industry DESCRIPTION:Join DePOT for this new roundtable as we talk about the aftermath of industry!\n\n\n\nChairperson: Myriam Guillemette \nPresenters \nRiccardo Rosa\, “Bagnoli after steel. Deindustrialization and participation in a former industrial area of southern Italy.” \nTim Liebregt\, “Bust Amid Boom: Automotive Plant Closures in Windsor\, Ontario\, 1945-1965.” \nThéo Georget\, “Restructuration industrielle en France\, économie morale et mobilisations sociales”. \nSeana Irvine\, “Spatializing (In)Justice: Politics\, Planning and Citizen Participation in King’s Cross Redevelopment.” \nJaime Gallego Bellas\, “La culture et le patrimoine dans la redynamisation des régions postindustrielles : analyse comparée entre le Pays Basque et l’agglomération lilloise” \nGuilherme Pozzer\, \nAparna Das\, “Deindustrialisation and Spatial Governance in Kolkata’s Jute Mill Lands: A Bourdieusian Reading.” URL:https://deindustrialization.org/event/roundtable-injustice-and-heritageafter-industry/ LOCATION:Zoom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://deindustrialization.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time":MAILTO:deindustrialization@concordia.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260306T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260306T113000 DTSTAMP:20260404T132036 CREATED:20260226T212932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260226T215144Z UID:14348-1772791200-1772796600@deindustrialization.org SUMMARY:DePOT Environmental Workshop: Gentrification and Greening DESCRIPTION:Join us for a March workshop with the Environment initiative to discuss Gentrification and Greening\n\n\n\nChairperson: Greg Wilson \nPresenters: \n\nAlexandrina Vanke: The visual aesthetics of green gentrification in deindustrialising landscapes: a cross-national qualitative comparison\nEliot Perrin: Environmental Reclamation and the Reimagining of Sudbury\, Ontario’s Identity\nEllinor Eriksson: The nomadic town: Temporalities and trauma in Sweden’s postwar hydropower projects and their aftermath\nPatrick Cooper-McCann: Planning the Future of Industry in Detroit: Gentrifying vs. Declining Contexts\nFiona Hamilton: Rivers of Industry\, Currents of Decline: Environmental Memory in Adaptive Reuse URL:https://deindustrialization.org/event/rountable-political-abandonment-silencing-and-absence-in-deindustrialization-3/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Keyword workshop,Online Roundtable ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://deindustrialization.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Rountables-Deindustrialization-and-the-left-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time":MAILTO:deindustrialization@concordia.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260312T093000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260312T110000 DTSTAMP:20260404T132036 CREATED:20260112T193555Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260112T193736Z UID:13731-1773307800-1773313200@deindustrialization.org SUMMARY:Rountable: Political Abandonment\, Silencing and Absence in Deindustrialization DESCRIPTION:Join us for the March Roundtable to discuss Political Abandonment Silencing and Absence in deindustrialization\n\n\n\nChairperson: Clarence Hatton-Proulx \nPresenters: \nNina Vodopivek\, “Why is it still important to talk about deindustrialization? Silencing industrial workers and deindustrialization: postsocialist experiences.” \nSona Baldrian\, “Among the Ruins of Past Utopias: Women\, Work\, and Political Abandonment in Postsocialist Armenia.” \nPhilippine D’Halleine\, “La conséquence masquée de la désindustrialisation: la violence domestique” \nAndrea Negro\, “Deindustrialized Bodies in Motion: The Return of Italians from the Belgian Mines.” \nSteven High\, « A Grim Deterrent: Darlington\, the US Supreme Court\, and the Legalization of Anti-Union Plant Closures.” \nMatthew Penney\, “Between ‘Flying Geese’ and ‘Hollowing Out’ – Discourses of Deindustrialization in Japan.” \nSahar Ghasemshahi\, “Oil\, Deindustrialization\, and the Absence of Heritage Policy: Abadan as an Industrial Palimpsest.” URL:https://deindustrialization.org/event/rountable-political-abandonment-silencing-and-absence-in-deindustrialization/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Online Roundtable ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://deindustrialization.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Rountables-Deindustrialization-and-the-left-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time":MAILTO:deindustrialization@concordia.ca END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR