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ASMI Annual Conference 2021: Labour And The Making Of Italy From Cavour To Covid

3-4 December 2021
Italian Cultural Institute in London (Online)

This year ASMI annual conference will explore meanings and transformations of work in modern and contemporary Italy, including labour’s shifting geographies, discourses and representations. The decline of the Fordist factory and the diminishing centrality of factories into people’s life and Italy’s national identity triggered in the 1980s and 1990s a temporary decline in the study of labour. However, growing interest in issues such as homeworking, the feminization of work, precarity and “non-lavoro”, cognitive work, new digital professions, transnational flows of labour migration have recently signalled a revival of the field with original and thought-provoking research being carried out in history, political science, sociology, cultural studies and anthropology. Taking stock of this innovative and increasingly interdisciplinary scholarship, the conference will examine the key role played by work in Italy’s political, economic, cultural and social developments since unification and will provide a space to further encourage dialogue on work-related themes across disciplinary boundaries.
The conference will include two keynote lectures:

Friday, 3 December, 9:30: Andrea Sangiovanni (University of Teramo): Il lavoro immaginario. Le rappresentazioni mediali del lavoro in Italia dal miracolo economico ad oggi.

Saturday, 4 December, 11:15: Maud Bracke (university of Glasgow): Feminist thought and the question of work in the 20th Century.

On the last day, there will be a screening of Ragioni Politiche. Incontro con Vittorio Foa‘, directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci and scripted by Giuseppe Bertolucci with Paul Ginsborg. Prof. Ginsborg will be present for some remarks.

The conference will be held online. To access the programme, register (for free) for the conference and receive the links for the online sessions please follow the link below:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asmi-annual-conference-labour-and-the-making-of-italy-from-cavour-to-covid-tickets-200250082387 

For any queries you can contact:
Asmiconference2021@gmail.com