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GLRC Graduate Student Symposium (virtual)

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.

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

Date

Feb 21 2025

Time

All Day

Location

Virtual

Organizer

GLRC
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