The Forum of the Center for Global Studies

The Forum of the Center for Global Studies serves as a space for inter- and transdisciplinary academic exchange. In lectures, workshops, conferences and working groups, fundamental and current topics and debates in globalisation research are discussed, research contacts are cultivated and expanded, and joint research programmes are developed. The CGS Forum is aimed at students and lecturers of the CGS and is open to all interested parties.

Research Colloquium & Workshop: Contested Concepts of Labor: Slavery and Informality

29 March, F-121, Unitobler, Lerchenweg 36

Research Colloquium History Post-1800

16:15 Seth Rockman (Brown University / Berlin): Field Hands and Factory Hands: Plantation Provisions and the Material History of U.S. Slavery
Chair: Sibylle Marti (Bern)

18:30 Dinner at the restaurant Lorenzini, Hotelgasse 10, 3011 Bern

30 March, A 010, UniS, Schanzeneckstrasse 1

Workshop / CGS-Forum: Contested Concepts of Labor: Slavery and Informality

09:00 Serena Tolino (Bern): Trajectories of Slavery in Islamicate Societies: Three Concepts from Islamic Legal Sources

09:30 Omar Walid Anchassi (Bern): Sexual Exclusivity, Sexual Hospitality and the Umm al-Walad in Early Islamic Law

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Sibylle Marti (Bern): Defining and Measuring Informal Work Across the Globe, 1970–Present

12:00 Lunch at the restaurant Grosse Schanze, Parkterrasse 10, 3012 Bern