Projet OBERT

Séminaires


Séminaire Doctoral – PhD students workshop

L’OBERT organise son séminaire doctoral alternant des séances de présentation de thèses et des séances thématiques. Le programme complet est le suivant : La participation est ouverte à toutes et tous. Les présentations peuvent être faites en français ou en anglais avec un support de présentation dans la langue complémentaire. Pour participer, n’hésitez pas à…

General Presentation Meeting – Réunion de présentation

Dear colleagues,  The OBERT (European Observatory of Labour Narratives) next general meeting will take place online tomorrow, Wednesday, December the 17th at 6pm (Paris Time).  The OBERT has recently reached a new stage of development and has now become a non-profit organisation, therefore we are pleased to invite you to a meeting to present this new status and to welcome new…

Narratives of Unpaid Labour: Forced, Reproductive, Voluntary, Precarious

Narratives of Unpaid Labour: Forced, Reproductive, Voluntary, Precarious MMLL Faculty, University of Cambridge, 2024 Faculty co-convenors: Erica Bellia (Early-Career Research Fellow, Churchill College, Italian) and Liesbeth François (Teaching Associate in Spanish) in collaboration with: Carlo Baghetti (postdoctoral research fellow, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université), Anna Ceschi (PhD candidate, PolIS department, University of Cambridge), and the OBERT (Observatoire…

Migration and Labour Working Group: Roundtables

Labour is one of the crucial relations that migrant subjects establish with their new homelands and, in many cases, is one of the most profound drivers shaping their trajectories and experiences. Labour is not always thematised as such in migrant narratives: however, it is often there, in the foreground or in the background, as a…

Migration and Labour Working Group – Roundtable 6: ‘Automation’

In current times, it would be impossible to discuss the topics of migration and labour without acknowledging the role played by machines and technology in human lives and in both processes. Furthermore, the debate around the Anthropocene (see Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, The Shock of the Anthropocene. The Earth, History and Us, 2016) lead…

Migration and Labour Working Group – Roundtable 5: ‘Torture’

For many migrants, the migration process is tainted with violence. This violence affects the body as much as the psyche of the migrants. Whether this violence manifests itself during the migration, pre-migration or post-migration stages, the question of labour appears to complicate the adjustment of migrant populations to their host destinations. Forced labour, exhausting job…

Migration and Labour Working Group – Roundtable 4: ‘Body’

The body is constantly in motion and change (Spinoza, Deleuze, Massumi); the body is in itself a border between the individual and the environment. The body can be also conceptualized as porous and dynamic, affecting and being affected by other bodies and objects in the world through movement and touch. The aim of this roundtable…

Migration and Labour Working Group – Roundtable 3: ‘Estrangement’

‘Estrangement’ or ‘defamiliarisation’ is a term coined by the theorist of Russian formalism Viktor Shklovskii, who in his famous essay ‘Art as Device’ (1916) argued that art is a device for making people look at the world anew. While the word ‘estrangement’ in Russian indicates the transformation of something familiar into strange, it also carries…

Migration and Labour Working Group – Roundtable 2: ‘Autobiography’

The autobiographical mode is one of the forms privileged by narratives focusing on labour and migration. This is due to the fact that a ‘testimonial’ aspect is often embedded in these narratives, whose audiences usually expect to be presented with the – more or less ordinary – true stories of those who have experienced migration,…

Migration and Labour Working Group – Roundtable 1: ‘Definitions’

Defining a field of studies is always a paradoxical task. It is often needed as a preliminary action to ensure the accessibility and verifiability of research methods and findings. At the same time, destabilising what is fixed and crossing borders is at the heart of critical inquiry. This is all the more true in the…

[Séminaires] Écologie et travail

Présentation  Italiano : Il Projet OBERT – Observatoire Européen des Récits du Travail vi invita a partecipare a Ecologia e lavoro: dialoghi interdisciplinari, una serie di quattro incontri online che si propongono di riflettere sul rapporto tra ecologia e lavoro nelle sue diverse declinazioni (teoriche, narrative, poetiche, cinematografiche). Gli incontri si svolgeranno in italiano e…

[Séminaires] Écologie et travail – 1 – Théorie

Première rencontre : Théorie  25 janvier 2021, 18h30 Entretien avec Serenella Iovino (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) et Stefania Barca (Universidade de Coimbra) Modérateurs : Paolo Chirumbolo et Maria Luisa Mura

[Séminaires] Raconter le travail (in)visible

8 OCTOBRE . 17H00 – LAURA MANCINI DIALOGUE AVEC UGO FRACASSA 15 OCTOBRE . 17H00 – BEATRICE MAZZI (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY), VOIX INVISIBLES. LITTÉRATURE, TÉMOIGNAGES ET TRAVAIL DE SOINS 21 OCTOBRE . 17H00 – GIULIA FAZZI ET STEFANO VALENTI DISCUTENT AVEC CARLO BAGHETTI ET MANUELA SPINELLI 10 DÉCEMBRE . 17H00 – INTERVENTION DE AURORE LABADIE INTITULÉE…