Events for June 18 - January 21, 2025

  • Ruination / Verfall / Rovine / ruine et perte

    Chairperson: Alice Mah Other Presenters: Arthur McIvor, Roberta Garruccio, Fred Burrill, Rebecca Dolgoy, and Olaf Schmidt-Rutsch Fundamentally, deindustrialization is a process of physical and social ruination as well as part […]

  • Brownfield / friche industrielle/ Industriebrache / Area dismessa

    Chairperson: Lachlan MacKinnon Other Presenters: Jana Golombek, James Rhodes, Steven High, Keith Gildart , Sean O’Connell, Andrew Perchard. By examining the meaning and significance of “brownfield” in different national contexts […]

  • Greening / Industrienatur / Ecologizzazione / verdissage

    Chairperson: Petra Dolata Other Presenters: Alice Mah, Jana Golombek, Greg Wilson, Steven High, Lucie Morisset, Lauren Laframboise. This workshop considers the ways that deindustrialization gets entangled with the language of […]

  • Moral Economy / économie morale / Sozialverträglichkeit

    Chairperson: Keith Gildart Other Presenters: Tim Strangleman, Stefan Moitra, Lachlan MacKinnon, Marion Fontaine, Andy Perchard, Pascal Raggi. Developed originally by labour historian E.P. Thompson in relation to the ways that […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • CURATING AND ARCHIVING DEINDUSTRIALIZATION

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