SMLC members Jackie Clarke and Piyusha Chatterjee teamed up with colleagues at the University of Strathclyde to organise the 2024 DéPOT project assembly and conference in Glasgow.  Led by Professor Steven High at Concordia University in Montreal, the project is funded by the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council. Themed "Gender, Family and Deindustrialization", the conference  welcomed over 100 participants from the UK and other countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Russia, US, Canada, Brazil, Chile and India. The opening keynote titled "Gender, Deindustrialization and Political subjectivities" was delivered by Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite from University College London and Natalie Thomlinson from the University of Reading. Fanny Gallot from CRHEC,  Université Paris-Est Créteil, presented the second keynote titled "Reproductive Work and Deindustrialization: Historiographical Perspectives". Open to students, and academic and non-academic audiences, the programming included presentations by postgraduate researchers, early career scholars, artists and community-based organisations.  

The annual project meeting was followed by three walking tours and a visit to the Moving Image Archive. Day 1 of the conference concluded with a plenary by DePOT artists-in-residence. It was followed by a book launch and welcome reception by the City of Glasgow at the Glasgow City Chambers. On Day 2, the proceedings concluded with a closing roundtable reflecting on the conference theme. As is customary, a student-led unofficially official karaoke night marked the end of the third annual meeting of DePOT members and conference participants. 

The event was supported by the University of Glasgow, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow City Council, Past & Present, Social History Society, Society for the Study of Labour History, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Canada. 

The next conference will be held in Paris from June 19-21, 2025. See call for papers here. 

First published: 16 September 2024

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