About the Events
We are delighted to announce several intriguing public events: The conference will feature three keynote lectures by the sociologist Colin Crouch (University of Warwick), the Americanist Sherry Lee Linkon (Georgetown University), and the geographer Katherine Gibson (Western Sydney University) as well as a talk by and conversation with Mary Anne A. Trasciatti (Hofstra University), President of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition.
About the Speakers
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Colin Crouch is an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies at Cologne and professor emeritus of the University of Warwick. He previously taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of Oxford (Fellow of Trinity College), and the European University Institute, Florence. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino. His most recent books include The Globalization Backlash (2019), Will the Gig Economy Prevail? (2019), Manifesto for Social Europe (2020), Post-Democracy after the Crises (2020), and Rethinking Political Identity: Citizens and Parties in Europe (2025).
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Sherry Lee Linkon is a Professor of English and American Studies at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on working-class studies and deindustrialization, with an emphasis on representation. Her books include Steeltown USA: Work and Memory in Youngstown (Kansas, 2002), written with John Russo, and The Half-Life of Deindustrialization: Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring (Michigan, 2018). She co-directed the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University for many years, edited the Working-Class Perspectives blog, and was the founding president of the Working-Class Studies Association.
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Katherine Gibson is Professor emerita of the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, Australia, and Co-Director of the Community Economies Institute, an international Non-University Education and Research Organization (NUERO). She is a feminist economic geographer with an international reputation for innovative research on economic transformation and over 30 years’ experience of working with communities to build resilient economies. With the late Professor Julie Graham, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and as the joint author J.K. Gibson-Graham, she initiated the Diverse Economies Research Program and founded the Community Economies Collective.
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Mary Anne Trasciatti is Director of Labor Studies and Professor of Rhetoric at Hofstra University as well as president of Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition. Her recent books include two co-edited anthologies,Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (2022), and Where Are the Workers?: Labor’s Stories at Museums and Historical Sites(2022). She is now completing a book on the civil liberties activism of Irish American labor organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, to be published by Rutgers University Press in June 2025. For over a decade, she has helped organize the annual official Triangle fire commemoration. She led the project to build the Triangle Fire Memorial, dedicated on October 11, 2023. It is the first labor memorial and one of only a handful of monuments to women in New York City.
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