Previous Fall 2021 Colloquium Events
Inequality, Labor, and Human Rights: The Future of Work in an Age of Pandemic
Our Fall 2021 Colloquium, “Inequality, Labor, and Human Rights: The Future of Work in the Age of the Pandemic” builds on and continues our similarly themed 2020 speaker series and our summer 2021 Pop-Up Institute “Beyond the Future of Work: New Paradigms for Addressing Inequality.”
This Fall’s group of five distinguished scholars from sociology, geography, law, and political theory will explore a variety of sites to consider how the valuation of labor allocates resources in ways that maintain and reproduce historical patterns of racialized and gendered domination, subordination, and accumulation. Together, the speakers will introduce new possibilities for thinking beyond productive value and formal work to generate more equitable imaginaries of work and livelihood.
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Alyssa Battistoni: “Climate Futures and the Future of Work: Rethinking “Green Jobs,” Revaluing Care Work”
Speaker:- Alyssa Battistoni Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College
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David Kennedy: “Through a Glass Darkly: Political Economy and the Great Disparities”
Speaker:- David Kennedy Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School
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Carrie Freshour: “From Chicken to Broiler: Unraveling the Snarl of Centuries”
Speaker:- Carrie Freshour Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Washington
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Yiran Zhang: “Rethinking the Global Governance of Migrant Domestic Workers: The Heterodox Case of Informal Filipina Workers in China”
Speaker:- Yiran Zhang S.J.D. Candidate at Harvard Law School
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Jennifer Bair: “Financialization, Fissuring, and the Future of Work”
Speaker:- Jennifer Bair Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology, University of Virginia