The GLRC is pleased to announce its upcoming 9th annual Graduate Student Symposium: Critical Conversations in Work and Labour. This conference is designed to showcase the scholarship of new voices in labour studies across a diverse range of disciplines. It is our hope that the workshop will provide an interdisciplinary venue for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to share their research in a collaborative and supportive environment.
GLRC Graduate Student Symposium (in person)
Call for papers
- Deadline for submissions (individual papers and panel proposals)
- For further details, please click here.
Highlights
- John Eleen Lecture: What is Antiracism? And Why it means Anticapitalism, by Arun Kundnani.
- Students’ oral presentations (in-person sessions on February 20 and online sessions on February 21).
- Professional workshop where invited panelists will talk about (i) key aspects of academic life and (ii) career paths beyond academia.
- Social/networking opportunities.
- After the conference, presenters will be invited to submit their papers to Workplace: a Journal for Academic Labor.
Organizing Committee
- Alaa Abdelhamid, PhD student in Sociology
- Nicole Jokinen-Hurl, MA student in Sociology
- Tinu Koithara Mathew, PhD student in the School of Human Resource Management
- Julie Wilson, Undergraduate student in Political Science and Work and Labour Studies
