NOVEMBER 9 European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) - Workers’ Group

08:30 / 09:00 REGISTRATION* 09:00/ 09:45 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

GEORGES DASSIS President of European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)

LUCA VISENTINI General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)

ANGELA CONDELLO TIZIANO TORACCA University of Torino

09:45 / 10:45 OPENING LESSON

RICHARD SENNETT London School of Economics New York University The End of Work? reflections on leisure, usefulness, and the life narrative

10:45 / 11:15 QUESTIONS

11:15 / 11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 / 12:15 KEYNOTE LESSON

MARC DE VOS University of Ghent Broad changes affecting the world of work – demography, technology, globalisation

12:15 / 12:45 QUESTIONS

12:45 / 13:45 LUNCH

13:45 / 14:15 PROJECT PRESENTATION Caveat!!! An artistic research project convened by the Brussels-based artists’ initiative JUBILEE

14:15 / 14:30 COFFEE BREAK

14:30 / 18:00 ROUNDTABLE I LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Chair Pascale Vielle

FILIP DORSSEMONT University of Louvain The land of Cockagne, as a utopia of a world of non labour?

ANJA ELEVELD Vrije University of Amsterdam Policies of active inclusion and the construction of a workers’ mentality: Human rights as an instrument of neoliberalism?

SONJA STOJADINOVIC Independent scholar How much labor and society can exclude LGBT workers?

JOSIEN ARTS University of Amsterdam Learning to Identify with Labour. Constructions of work identities for conditional welfare and precarious labour markets

LUKE MASON St Mary’s University of London The vanishing employment relationship in the perpetual motion of evolving European Social Constitution: the hegemony of freedom of movement at the cost of genuine social citizenship

CHRISTOFOROS PAVLAKIS Hellenic Institute of International Studies Labour Migration and Mothering from a Distance: Emotions, Gender, and Intergenerational Relations in Ukrainian Transnational Families

NOVEMBER 10 European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) - Workers’ Group

08:30 / 9:00 REGISTRATION

09:00 / 09:45 KEYNOTE LESSON

MAURIZIO FERRARIS University of Torino From Capital to Documediality

09:45 / 10:15 QUESTIONS

10:15 / 10:30 COFFEE BREAK

10:30 -13:30 ROUNDTABLE II PHILOSOPHY AND TECHNOLOGY Chair Tiziana Andina

TIZIANA ANDINA University of Torino The New Technologies and Transgenerationality

EMILIANO ACOSTA University of Ghent Does labour set us free?

ROBERTO CICCARELLI Journalist and philosopher, Il Manifesto My work is not what I Am

GERTRUDIS VAN DE VIJVER University of Ghent Work, the object of satisfaction and enjoyment

ENRICO TERRONE Collége d’études mondiales (FMSH) The Ontology of Labour

13:30 / 14:30 LUNCH BREAK

14:30 / 15:15 KEYNOTE LESSON

ROCCO CANGELOSI Ambassador and State Councilor / Vicepresident of the Italian Council of the European Movement (CIME) First of all the Social Union

15:15 / 15:30 QUESTIONS

15:30 / 15:45 COFFEE BREAK

15:45 / 18:00 ROUNDTABLE III POLITICAL AND CIVIL SOCIETY Chair Virgilio Dastoli

VIRGILIO DASTOLI President of the Italian Council of the European Movement (CIME) Citizens and non-citizens: why do we need a European income of dignity

GABRIELE BISCHOFF Member of the European Economic and Social Committee

BRANDO BENIFEI Member of European Parliament

19:45 CONFERENCE DINNER

NOVEMBER 11 La Fonderie, Museum of Industry and Labour

08:30 / 9:00 REGISTRATION

09:00 / 09:45 KEYNOTE LESSON

MORAG SHIACH Queen Mary University of London A new name and a new job, that’s what he’d like’: Identity, Labour and Precarity, 1915-2015

09:45 / 10:15 QUESTIONS

10:15 / 10:30 COFFEE BREAK

10:30 / 13:30 ROUNDTABLE IV LITERATURE AND CINEMA Session I Chair Mara Santi

MASSIMILIANO TORTORA University of Torino Living for working: employers in European modernist novels

MONICA JANSEN University of Utrecht Braindrain or cosmopolitan elite? Labor and identity in webseries on Italian expats in Europe

ALBERTO BARACCO University of Torino The Fragile Identity of the Academic Precariat I Can Quit Whenever I Want

EMANUELE PINELLI University of Pisa The inaction and Its disadvantages: voices from the Ancient Rome

BIANCA RITA CATALDI University City College of Dublin Adriano Olivetti. The ‘human city’ and its workers

13:30 / 14:30 LUNCH BREAK

14:30 / 17:30 ROUNDTABLE IV LITERATURE AND CINEMA Session II Chair Mara Santi

SILVIA CONTARINI Université de Paris Nanterre Le refus du travail dans la littérature italienne, de Vogliamo tutto à Works

DAVID AYERS University of Kent From Text to Work: or, Operation without Production

CARLO BAGHETTI University of Aix-Marseille La représentation littéraire du travail précaire analysée à partir de Works de V. Trevisan

ERICA ONNIS University of Torino Mental illness and mental wellness: when doing is the precondition of being

JOHN MARKS University of Nottingham Deux jours, une nuit & La loi du marché: the tactical withdrawl of authority

17:30 / 18:00 CONCLUSIVE REMARKS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES ANGELA CONDELLO TIZIANO TORACCA University of Torino

* in order to attend the conference, registration is mandatory. Please register by sending an email to secretariat@iworkthereforeiam.eu by NOVEMBER 2.