<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear colleagues,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">I am sharing this CfP for a labour research retreat in Switzerland for July 2026.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Feminist perspectives on labour will be a cross-cutting theme across all tracks, and we will also have a dedicated track on care and reproduction:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for Participation: Summer Retreat for Labour Theory & Research</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Work, Crisis, and Transformation in and beyond Europe</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">20–24 July 2026 | Bildungszentrum Mattli, Morschach (Switzerland)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">The world of work is being reshaped by intersecting crises: socio-ecological breakdown, intensified migration regimes, geopolitical instability, and the reorganisation of global production. These transformations profoundly affect labour relations and relations of care and social reproduction, while also opening possibilities for new forms of organising, solidarity, and collective knowledge production. Critical labour studies offer analytical tools to analyse these changes by foregrounding power, and worker agency, and spatial relations.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">This interdisciplinary Summer Retreat for Labour Theory and Research brings together researchers working on labour from critical, feminist, and political economy perspectives. The programme covers six thematic streams: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">(1) Socio-ecological crisis and labour; </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">(2) Labour migration;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">(3) Labour and digitalisation; </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">(4) Global production networks;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">(5) Care work and social reproduction;</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">(6) Authoritarianism, Militarisation and Labour; </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Each participant will join </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">two</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"> of these streams. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Please follow the link below for more information on the tracks and online application tool:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><a href="https://ak-labourgeography.de/2026/01/19/call-for-participation-summer-retreat-for-labour-theory-research-20-24-july-2026/#application-form" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://ak-labourgeography.de/2026/01/19/call-for-participation-summer-retreat-for-labour-theory-research-20-24-july-2026/#application-form</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Please apply by </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">February 20th 2026</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">. Successful applicants will be notified at the beginning of March.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">We are looking forward to a week of discussing labour research with you!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">The organising team (in alphabetical order)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap">Antonie Schmiz, Barbara Orth, Bettina Engels, Christiane Meyer-Habighorst, Jeremy Auerbach, Karin Schwiter, Michaela Douch, Oliver Pye, Stephan Liebscher, Yannick Ecker</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;orphans:auto;white-space:normal;widows:auto;text-decoration:none"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;orphans:auto;white-space:normal;widows:auto;text-decoration:none"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.380000027272727;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;text-decoration:none;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;orphans:auto;white-space:normal;widows:auto;text-decoration:none">Barbara Orth</span></span></p><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;orphans:auto;widows:auto;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;orphans:auto;widows:auto;text-decoration:none">Dr. Barbara Orth (she/her)<br>Postdoc</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;orphans:auto;widows:auto;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;orphans:auto;widows:auto;text-decoration:none">barbaraorth.com<br><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;orphans:auto;widows:auto;text-decoration:none">Affiliations:</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;orphans:auto;widows:auto;text-decoration:none">Digital In/Justice Initiative<br>University of Bern <br><br></div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;orphans:auto;widows:auto;text-decoration:none">Leibniz Institute for Research on Society<span> </span>and Space (IRS)</span><br></div>
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