Daily schedule
Please note that all times are UTC+3 Finnish time.
Wednesday, 23 August
8:00
Registration opens
8:30-10:00
Session 1 (available for meetings, ad hoc sessions)
9:00-10:00
Coffee
10:00-11:15
Opening remarks
Anne Kovalainen
Professor, Chair of the conference, University of Turku
Keynote
Alex J. Wood
Dr, Senior Lecturer, Work, Employment, Organisation and Public Policy Group, University of Bristol
Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
The politics of platforms: power, precarity and protest
11:45-13:15
Session 2 (parallel tracks)
13:15-14:45
Lunch
15:00-16:00
Keynote
Virginia Doellgast
Anne Evans Estabrook Professor of Employment Relations and Dispute Resolution, ILR School, Cornell University
Senior Research Fellow, Wirtschafts-und Sozial-wissenschaftliches Institut (WSI), Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
Democratizing technological change at work: Collective responses to digitalization and AI
16:00-16:30
Coffee
16:30-18:00
Session 3 (parallel tracks)
18:30-20:00
Café Pegasus, Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova
Conference Get-together
Thursday, 24 August
8:30-10:00
Session 4 (parallel tracks)
10:00-10:30
Coffee
10:30-11:30
Keynote
Valeria Pulignano
Professor of Labour Sociology and Industrial Relations, KU Leuven
ERC Professor, KULeuven
Theorizing adaptations to precarious work in an era of digital transformation
11:45-13:15
Session 5 (parallel tracks)
13:15-14:45
Lunch
15:00-16:00
Author meets Critics
Misconceiving Merit. Paradoxes of Excellence and Devotion in Academic Science and Engineering
Mary Blair-Loy
Professor, Department of Sociology, UC San Diego, US
Erin A. Cech
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, US
Discussants: tba
Chair: Professor Jerry Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania
16:00-16:30
Coffee
16:30-18:00
Session 6 (parallel tracks)
19:00-23:00
RESTAURANT GRÄDDA
Conference Dinner
Friday, 25 August
8:30-10:00
Session 7 (parallel tracks)
10:00-10:30
Coffee
10:30-11:30
Keynote
Niels van Doorn
Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam
Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded Platform Labor research project
Title: TBA
11:45-13:15
Session 8 (parallel tracks)
13:15-14:45
Lunch
15:00-16:30
Session 9 (parallel tracks)
Contact Information
email: work2023(a)utu.fi
Chair, Professor
Anne Kovalainen
anne.kovalainen(a)utu.fi
Coordinator
Marja Rautajoki
marja.i.rautajoki(a)utu.fi
Research Assistant
Oskari Pukkila
oskari.a.pukkila(a)utu.fi