WorkLab General Conference 2023 Global Work

WORKLAB General CONFERENCE 2023

ONLINE ON MONDAY, 4th MARCH 2024!

We can happily announce that the postponed WORKLAB General Conference 2023 will finally take place on Monday, 4th March 2024. This time, the conference will be held online and is free of charge. You can join without registration via zoom:

Zoom Meeting

During the conference, we want to focus on the phenomenon of Global Work and target questions of Global Entanglements: How do we contribute to an entangled history of work and workers? How do we contextualize our national histories? How do we address issues like (post-) colonialism and decolonization? How do we keep up with contemporary discourses and stay relevant for our audiences and for societies?

Program:

9.00-9.10 Welcome Note by Rita Müller (Museum of Work, Hamburg)

9.10-9.20 Welcome Note by Søren Bak-Jensen (Workers Museum, Copenhagen; Chairman WORKLAB General Assembly)

9.20-10.20 Keynote Speech by Görkem Akgöz (Humboldt University, Berlin): World of Entanglements – Weaving the Threads of Global Labour in Museums

10.20-10.30 Coffee Break

10.30-11.00 Kalle Kallio (Finnish Labour Museum, Tampere): Limited Narratives of Labour Heritage

11.00-11.30 Søren Bak-Jensen (Workers Museum, Copenhagen; Chairman WORKLAB General Assembly): Uniting Workers Across the World – The Overlooked Heritage of Workers’ Assembly Halls

11.30-12.00 Inka Tuominen (Finnish Labour Museum, Tampere): Escape Gaming as a Tool of Global and Environmental Education in Museums

12.00-12.10 Søren Bak-Jensen closing the conference