Intimate Labour: Sociological
and Historical Perspectives
Wednesday, 2nd May, 3-6pm, IAS Seminar Room, Millburn House
3.00-4.15pm
Raka Ray, UC Berkeley, US: Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, Class
Iordanis Psimmenos, Panteion, Greece: Domestic Immigrant Workers in Greece:
Welfare Orientations and Social Prospects
4.15-4.45pm: Tea / Coffee
4.45-6.00pm
Carolyn Steedman, Warwick: What I've Learnt from
Eighteenth-Century English Servants
Kate Smith, Warwick: Female Hands and the Politics
of Touch in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Discussants: Carol Wolkowitz & Nickie Charles
ALL WELCOME!
Organised by: Department of Sociology, the Social Theory
Centre, and the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender