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CIRN Interdisciplinary Annual Symposium: Labour

We warmly invite you to attend the upcoming CIRN Interdisciplinary Annual Symposium on 'Labour', taking place on Monday 24 March, from 10:45am to 5pm, in Room SG1, Alison Richard Building.

Programme poster

10:45-11am: Welcome

 

11am-12:30pm Panel 1:  Reproduction, Refusal, Revolution

Ilaria Favretto

Striking Women: Gender, Union Politics and Protest

Melissa Calaresu

Wetnurses, Servants and Domestic Labour in 18th c. Naples

 

12:30-1:30pm: Lunch

 

1:30-3pm Panel 2: Preservation, (Re)Construction

Michele Maiolani

A Story of Receptacles: Primo Levi’s Anthropology of Labour

Lena Breda

Labour (forced and not) in Sixteenth-Century Roman Fabbriche

Jiayao Jiang

Invisible Labour in Post-War Reconstruction: Politics, Propaganda, and Workers in Rome

3-3:30pm: Tea 

 

3:30-5pm Panel 3: Exploitation, Transformation

Jackson Hartigan

Ancient Slave Labour in the Renaissance: Lorenzo Pignoria’s De Servis (1613)

Laura Popa

Labour and Faith: The Role of Waldensian Schoolteachers in Nation-Building

Orsolya Katalin Petőcz

Sexual Labour on Film: The ‘Show of Monstrosity’ in the Testimonies of Valentina Nappi

 

5pm: Drinks

 

All welcome!

 

For information, please contact CIRN committee at cirn@mmll.cam.ac.uk

 

 

Publication date: 
Wednesday, 12 March 2025