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Re:Working Labor<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Photo: Grace Duval 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Public Symposium<\/strong>
\nFriday, October 12, 2018
\n9:00 a.m.\u20134:30 p.m.
\nSAIC Ballroom<\/p>\n

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago\u2019s Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice in collaboration with\u00a0re:work<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>the International Research Centre \u201cWork and Human Lifecycle in Global History\u201d at Humboldt University in Berlin undertook a multi-year research project on the subject of labor. This effort, led and curated by Daniel Eisenberg<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Ellen Rothenberg<\/strong>, inaugural Faculty Research Fellows of SAIC\u2019s Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice, rethinks and reimagines the representations of the changing nature of work, and reflects on the dislocating effects of globalization and technology that have created deeply unstable economic conditions and polarized our political moment.<\/p>\n

The Re:Working Labor<\/em> public symposium <\/b>was the inaugural public event of this project, which considered how artists, researchers, historians, and activists can come together to address such vital questions.<\/p>\n

Dipesh Chakrabarty<\/strong>, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and The College, University of Chicago, opened the symposium with an expanded frame, contextualizing human labor within the critical issues of climate change in the Anthropocene.<\/p>\n

His address was followed by two panels, which focused on:<\/p>\n