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Faculty from the University of Texas and the University of Cape Town are beginning a collaboration on the drivers of the past, present, and future of work in South Africa. In this panel, leading South African economists set the stage for this project to generate much-needed responses to the many economic, legal, and political crises exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Haroon Bhorat Professor of Economics & Director of the Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town

Busi Sibeko Researcher, Institute for Economic Justice

Neva Makgetla Senior Economist at Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies

Imraan Valodia Economist & Dean of the Faculty of Commerce, Law, and Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Moderated by Dennis Davis Professor of Commercial Law, University of Cape Town

Relevant Research Clusters: Essential Work, Work Across the Global South

Join via Zoom: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/91970881925

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/06/07/60814/

Participants reflect and share their work on transforming the caring crisis that has been shaping up over the decades, and heightened by COVID-19.

Ashleigh Hamilton Community Organizer, Communities of Color United for Racial Justice (CCU)

Vrinda Marwah PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

Deborah Parra-Medina Professor of Mexican American and Latino Studies & Director of the Latino Research Institute, University of Austin at Texas

Snehal Patel Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin

Lilla Pivnick PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

Sharmila Rudrappa Professor of Sociology & Director of the South Asia Institute, University of Texas at Austin

Gabriela Torres Community Organizer, Communities of Color United for Racial Justice (CCU)

Yolanda White Executive Board Member of Texas State Employees Union (TSEU)

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

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Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/06/08/60810/

The movement of peoples across the globe for work, livelihoods, trade, and cultural exchange has been a constant in human history. This panel explores comparative forms of labor migration across several geographies—South Asia, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Panelists will think critically through the cultural designation of low-waged migrant laborers as the “heroes” of the contemporary global South and their role in the global economy as vital sources of both remittances for their families and labor for the global economy.

Hae Yeon Choo Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto, Mississauga

James Gabrillo Assistant Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, University of Texas at Austin

Mishal Khan Postdoctoral Fellow, Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, University of Texas at Austin

Rui Jie Peng PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

Andrea Wright Assistant Professor of Anthropology, College of William and Mary

Relevant Research Clusters: Artistic Labor and the Humanities, Care Work, Essential Work, Work across the Global South

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Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/06/09/60811/

The predominance of informal forms of work and means of making a living across the global South requires a critical intervention into current debates around the future of work. This moderated conversation foregrounds the complexities and challenges for people laboring in the informal sector in the South Asian and Latin American contexts.

Rina Agarwala

Associate Professor of Sociology & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Sociology, John Hopkins University

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Luis Eslava Reader in International Law, University of Kent

Moderated by Kamran Asdar Ali Professor of Anthropology, Middle East Studies, and Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin

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

Join via Zoom: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/96830085436

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/06/10/60812/

Focusing on the non-economic and public benefits of the arts and humanities on campuses and in the community, we raise questions about the future of this work.

Part I

Charlie Lockwood Executive Director, Texas Folklife

Rachel Magee President of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), Local 205

Raasin McIntosh CEO and Creative Director of Raasin in the Sun

J Muzacz Local Artist in Austin

Carmen Rangel Visual Artist, Co-Founder of The Mosaic Workshop

Part II

Robin Moore Professor of Ethnomusicology, Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin

Sidonie Smith Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan

Moderated by Anne Lewis Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas at Austin

Relevant Research Clusters: Artistic Labor and the Humanities, Care Work, Essential Work

Join via Zoom: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/99025107230

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2021/06/11/60829/