It is my pleasure to announce that the call for abstracts for the upcoming INDL-8 conference is now open.
The conference reaches Italy this year. It will take place in the most ancient University in the western world, Bologna, on 10-12 September 2025.
The overarching topic of this year’s conference is ‘Contesting Digital Labor: Resistance, counteruses, and new directions for research’. The goal is to explore how platform workers navigate, challenge, and reshape algorithmic management systems while forging innovative forms of solidarity and collective action. We also aim to explore the perspectives that technological developments open for workers in order to escape everyday surveillance, to resist top-down control and to organise to defend their rights.
In addition to presentations that directly address these questions, we welcome proposals that analyse a broader range of issues related to digital labour.
To read the full Call and submit your abstract, please visit the conference management website.
The deadline is 27 April 2025.
NB: A small number of scholarships to partly cover travel/subsistence costs will be made available – stay tuned for more information.
NB2: The keynotes and plenaries will be announced very soon.
Please feel free to share with any scholars and postgraduate students who might be interested.
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