Archive: Events
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Compañeras: Zapatista Women's Stories with Hilary Klein
The Kalmanovitz Initiative is pleased to welcome Hilary Klein back to Georgetown for a discussion of her new book, Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories.
Categories: Events, Practitioner Fellows
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Kalmanovitz Initiative Fellow Stephen Lerner to Speak at Advancing Worker Rights Conference
Kalmanovitz Initiative fellow Stephen Lerner will speak at the Advancing Worker Rights conference hosted by the Worker Institute at Cornell University on April 17 and 18, 2015.
The conference marks the 80th anniversary of the National Labor Relations Act, the 70th anniversary of the Industrial and Labor Relations School, and the 150th anniversary of Cornell University.
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Janesville: Vanished Jobs and the Decline of the Middle Class
An intimate story of one proud community devastated by the Great Recession, and its implications for the nation. Told by award-winning Washington Post journalist and Kalmanovitz Initiative fellow Amy Goldstein.
Categories: Events, Practitioner Fellows
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Lunch and Discussion with Amy Goldstein
We invite Georgetown students to join us on Friday, October 31, for a lunch with our fellow Amy Goldstein, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist from the Washington Post.
Categories: Events, Practitioner Fellows
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Smokestack Nostalgia?: Understanding Work Heritage in an Age of Austerity
On Tuesday, October 14, Professor Tim Strangleman of the University of Kent will explore some of the critical discourse that has emerged from the process of deindustrialization. What does it tell us about the wider meanings and values attached to work in the past and present?
Category: Events
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Labor Research and Action Network Conference
The Kalmanovitz Initiative was honored to host the fourth annual national Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) conference at Georgetown University Law Center on June 16-17, 2014.
Category: Events
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Bargaining for the Common Good Conference
A convening of public sector union activists, community organizations, academics and researchers, to plan for a new way forward in public sector labor relations and the defense and improvement of public services.
Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Events
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Keys to Revitalization: Organizing Black Workers and Communities in the South
On April 28-29, 2014, the Kalmanovitz Initiative convened a gathering of labor, civil rights, and community leaders to discuss and plan a new way forward in organizing Black workers and communities in the South.
Category: Events
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Fighting Trafficking through Rights Work: A Roundtable Discussion of Denise Brennan's Life Interrupted
Please join us on Friday, April 25 for a panel discussion featuring Professor Denise Brennan, our Kalmanovitz Initiative faculty fellow and professor of anthropology at Georgetown University, on how immigration reform and basic rights work across labor sectors will help prevent trafficking into forced labor.
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Living in a Precarious World
In response to the rise of precarity, artists, journalists, activists, and academics have debated the larger stakes and implications of this new “precariat.” The 2014 Lannan Spring Literary Symposium and Festival, “Living in a Precarious World,” will explore these questions through commentary, fiction, poetry, and interactive performance.
Category: Events