Wednesday, October 23, 2019
4.30 pm Welcome
Rukmini Barua, Stephanie Lämmert, Esra Sarioglu, Julia Wambach (MPIB Berlin)
4.45 pm Public Roundtable: Emotions, Labor and the City: A New Paradigm?
Ute Frevert (MPIB Berlin)
Chitra Joshi (Delhi University)
Valerie Walkerdine (Cardiff University)
Lynn Thomas (University of Washington)
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Panel I Urban Intimacies
Discussant: Katrin Bromber (ZMO)
9.00-10.30 am
Rukmini Barua (MPIB Berlin): “Love, intimacy and family structures in postcolonial Delhi”
Zeynep Korkman (UCLA): “Divining Precarity: Gender, Labor, and Feeling in Turkey”
11.00 am-12.30 pm
Serawit Debele (MPI Göttingen): “The politics of falling in love among the Zega in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia”
Stephanie Lämmert (MPIB Berlin): “Sugar daddies, school girls and city nights: intimate encounters in urban Central Africa”
Panel II: Emotions of Industrial work
Discussant: Razak Khan (University of Erlangen)
2.00-3.30 pm
Julia Wambach (MPIB Berlin): “Losing work, losing solidarity? Repercussions of deindustrialization in France and Germany”
Christian Strümpell (Universität Hamburg): “Angst and Anger in an Eastern Indian Steel Town”
4 -5.30 pm
Jackie Clarke (University of Glasgow): Emotions, objects and memories of working life after factory closure
James Musonda (University of Liège): “Women in the underground mines: changing role of masculinities, and the impact of female wage on the concept of families in the Zambian mines and communities”
Friday, October 25, 2019
Panel III – Feeling the Hierarchies
Discussant: Joseph Ben Prestel (Freie Universität Berlin)
9.00 -10.30 am
Bridget Kenny (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg): “Lift Stories: The labour of affective relations in Johannesburg’s ‘intimate publics’ of elevators and shops in the 1960s”
Alpkan Birelma (Ozyegin University, Istanbul): “The impact of emotions connected to moral sensibilities on the working-class struggle”
11 am – 12.30 pm
Sarah Bellows-Blakely (Freie Universität Berlin): Empowering the Girl Child? The Neoliberal Turn in Development, from Nairobi to Beijing
Esra Sarioglu (MPIB Berlin): “Feelings of New Woman: Gender, Morality, and Politics in Contemporary Turkey”
2-3 pm Final Discussion
3.30 pm End of the Workshop