Call for applications – PSL Etudes Globales Winter School
As part of the IRIS PSL “Global Studies”, in collaboration with the ILO, a winter school will be organized in Delhi around the theme of forced labor: “Labor, coercion and rights. Local Bondage in Global perspective”.
Date
7-11 February 2017
Presentation
The persistence nowadays of coerced labor in many parts of the world, especially in Africa and the IOW, but also in Asia and to a given extent, in the global north, reflects the complex ways in which colonialism and global capitalism interacted with on-going changes in these regions yielding a mosaic of different labor regimes. Even to this day, demand for coercible labor contributes to trafficking in vulnerable people. The International Labor Organization estimates that there were 21 million men, women, and children working under forced labor conditions as recently as 2012, 73% are in Africa and the IOW. Of the approximately 700,000 to 2,400,000 people trafficked annually across international borders today, 88% are women and children. More than two centuries after the universal declaration of the rights of men, the French and the American Revolutions, then the official and progressive abolitions of slaveries around the world and in the 20th century, despite the ONU’s universal chart of human rights, human bondage and trafficking still are widely spread around the world. Why is it so?
By undertaking a radical re-examination of the historical forms of labour, how they were defined and how they were practices, we expect to discuss:
- the relationship between market dynamics and forms of coercion in various regions of the world
- the various ways in which enslaved and bonded men, women, and children resisted coerced labour. 
- the impact and limits of international organizations, legal institutions, and the emerging international regime of worker and human rights.
This winter school addresses PhD students concerned with these topics. Leading scholars in the field, expert analysts from the ILO and NGOs will lead the discussions and students will be invited to present their ongoing projects.
Selected students will be entirely sponsored by the PSL University Project “Global Studies” .
Global studies is an international program lead at PSL Research University Paris a community of 25 Parisian Universities, Research Centers and Institutes among which the Collège de France, ENS, EPHE, EHESS, EFEO, Paris Dauphine, Mines ParisTech, CNRS).
Coordinators
- Choukri Hmed, University Paris-Dauphine PSL
- Koen Compier, ILO Delhi
- Alessandro Stanziani, EHESS-CNRS-PSL Paris
Applications
Applications must include:
- CV
- Summary of the thesis
- Summary and title of the paper to be discussed
- Letter from a PSL supervisor.
Applications must be sent to appels-etudes.globales@listes.univ-psl.fr by August the 30th.
Results: by September the 15th.
For more information: https://www.univ-psl.fr/fr/iris-etudes-globales
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Aurélia Martin (13 juillet 2016). Call for applications – PSL Etudes Globales Winter School. Carnets de l'UMR Chine, Corée, Japon. Consulté le 13 février 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/mc2x