Daily schedule

Please note that all times are UTC+3 Finnish time.

Wednesday, 23 August

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8:00

Registration opens

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8:30-10:00

Session 1 (available for meetings, ad hoc sessions)

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9:00-10:00

Coffee

 

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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

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11:45-13:15

Session 2 (parallel tracks)

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13:15-14:45

Lunch

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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

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16:00-16:30

Coffee

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16:30-18:00

Session 3 (parallel tracks)

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18:30-20:00

Café Pegasus, Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova

Conference Get-together

Thursday, 24 August

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8:30-10:00

Session 4 (parallel tracks)

 

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10:00-10:30

Coffee

 

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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

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11:45-13:15

Session 5 (parallel tracks)

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13:15-14:45

Lunch

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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

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16:00-16:30

Coffee

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16:30-18:00

Session 6 (parallel tracks)

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19:00-23:00

RESTAURANT GRÄDDA

Conference Dinner

Friday, 25 August

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8:30-10:00

Session 7 (parallel tracks)

 

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10:00-10:30

Coffee 

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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

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11:45-13:15

Session 8 (parallel tracks)

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13:15-14:45

Lunch

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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

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