"Our Daily Work / Our Daily Lives" is a joint project that focuses on the artistic traditions of workers and on workplaces as contexts for the expression of workers culture. The richness and diversity of workers' experiences and workers culture is explored and presented through an ongoing series of exhibits, lectures, and presentations; writing and research projects; reunions; and demonstrations and discussions.
The program was established in 1992 and is coordinated by the Michigan Traditional Arts Program at the MSU Museum and the Labor Education Program in the College of Social Science's School of Human Resources and Labor Relations.
Speaker:
Owen Clayton, School of English and Journalism, University of Lincoln (UK)
Date/Time:
Thursday, February 11, 2021
12:15pm - 1:30pm
Contact John Beck at beckj@msu.edu for program Zoom information
Speaker:
Edward McClelland, Author of Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Created the Middle Class
Date/Time:
Monday, March 1, 2021
12:15pm - 1:30pm
Contact John Beck at beckj@msu.edu for program Zoom information
Speaker:
Elizabeth Faue, Department of History, Wayne State University
Date/Time:
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
12:15pm - 1:30pm
Contact John Beck at beckj@msu.edu for program Zoom information
Speaker:
Shannon Kirkwood
Date/Time:
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
12:15pm - 1:30pm
Contact John Beck at beckj@msu.edu for program Zoom information
The MSU Voice Library has multiple audio resources based on Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives brown bags.
Speaker:
Lane Windham, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown University
Date/Time:
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
12:15pm - 1:30pm
Speaker:
Mireya Loza, Food Studies Department, New York University
Date/Time:
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
12:15pm - 1:30pm
(co-sponsored by the MSU Chicano Latino Studies Program and the MSU Julian Samora Research Institute)
Speaker:
Gabe Logan, Department of History, Northern Michigan University
Date/Time:
Friday, October 23, 2020
12:15pm - 1:30pm
Speaker:
Stacey Camp, Department of Anthropology, MSU
Date/Time:
Monday, November 9, 2020
12:15pm - 1:30pm