Events Calendar

The Rapoport Center and the Harvard Institute for Global Law and Policy have gathered a team of international and interdisciplinary scholars over the past year for a book project rethinking the future of work through methods of racial capitalism, world-systems, and critiques of distribution. This panel highlights case studies from the book about precarity in sites ranging from the Austin construction and Vermont dairy industries in the U.S. to Jordanian apparel factories and Colombian palm plantations.

Helena Alviar García Professor, Sciences Po Law School & Jorge Gonzalez Professor, Universidad de los Andes Law School, Colombia

Jennifer Bair Professor of Sociology & Department Chair, University of Virginia

Karen Engle Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law & Founder and Co-Director, Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas at Austin School of Law & Samuel Tabory PhD Student, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Jennifer Gordon Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

Vanja Hamzić Reader in Law, History and Anthropology and an Associate Director of Research, SOAS University of London

Neville Hoad Associate Professor of English & Co-Director, Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas at Austin

Kerry Rittich Professor of Law, Women and Gender Studies, and Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto

Moderated by David Kennedy Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law & Director of the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard University

Relevant Research Clusters: AI and Technology, Care Work, Essential Work, Work Across the Global South

Join via Zoom: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/98600632307

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/05/27/60805/

Albena Azmanova’s latest book, Capitalism on Edge, provocatively insists: “Capitalism is not on its deathbed, utopia is not in our future, and revolution is not in the cards. And yet, the time is ripe for radical progressive change.” In conversation with Jamie Galbraith, Azmanova discusses these claims and more – from the rise of global precarity to the future of capitalism.

Albena Azmanova Reader (Associate Professor), Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent

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James Galbraith Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government and Business Relations & Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin

Relevant Research Clusters: AI and Technology, Care Work, Essential Work, Work Across the Global South

Join via Zoom: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/95760614356

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/05/28/60825/