Tom Nagel

REGISTER NOW for the 2016 Labor Research and Action Network national conference, which will be held Friday, June 24th and Saturday, June 25th at the DePaul University’s Loop Campus located in downtown Chicago, IL. The DePaul University Labor Education Center will host the conference. Scholars and labor practitioners from across the country will convene to share news ideas and lessons learned, and connect around research and campaign work. Featured speakers include AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, UC Berkeley scholar Steven Pitts, and Only One Thing Can Save Us author Thomas Geoghegan. The conference will also include 16 workshops on a range of topics, including temp worker organizing, the growing “gig” economy of higher education, connecting racial and economic justice, and trainings to develop research skills for campaigns. Information on reduced rate rooms at Roosevelt University is also on the registration page.

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Friday June 24th			Saturday, June 25th
08:30am		Registration and Continental Breakfast		08:30am		Registration and Continental breakfast
09:30am – 11:00am		Plenary Session 1		09:30am – 11:00am		Plenary Session 3
11:00am – 11:15am		Break		11:00am – 11:15am		Break
11:15am – 12:45pm		Workshop Series 1		11:15am – 12:45pm		Workshop Series 3
12:45pm – 01:15pm		Lunch		12:45pm – 02:00pm		Boxed lunch and LRAN Membership Meeting
01:15pm – 02:45pm		Plenary Session 2		02:00pm – 03:30pm		Workshop Series 4
02:45pm – 03:00pm		Break
03:00pm – 04:30pm		Workshop Series 2
05:00pm – 07:00pm		Reception

LRAN is pleased to announce a competition for seed grants for seed grants for graduate students and untenured faculty for research on U.S. labor-focused projects, broadly defined. Deadline for the application is January 31, 2016, with winners announced by March 15, 2016.

The 2016 Labor Research and Action Network national conference will be held Friday, June 24th and Saturday, June 25th at the DePaul University’s Loop Campus located in downtown Chicago, IL.

The DePaul University Labor Education Center will host the conference. Scholars and labor practitioners from across the country will convene to share news ideas and lessons learned, and connect around research and campaign work. In February 2016, we will issue a call for panel and workshop proposals. And we need volunteers to help us plan this conference! If you’re interested, contact Erin Johansson by Wednesday, November 18th.* Please spread the word!

The Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) is a collaboration between academics and labor practitioners to build economic and workplace power for working people.

The 2016 Labor Research and Action Network national conference will be held Friday, June 24th and Saturday, June 25th at the DePaul University’s Loop Campus located in downtown Chicago, IL.

The DePaul University Labor Education Center will host the conference. Scholars and labor practitioners from across the country will convene to share news ideas and lessons learned, and connect around research and campaign work. We invite you to submit a proposal for our annual LRAN conference, which will be held June 24th-25th in Chicago. Proposals are due March 14th. Please see the attached CFP for more info. For those in need of accommodations, we have a reduced rate at the Roosevelt University dorms.

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June 16-17, 2014 – Georgetown Law Center, Washington, DC
Hosted by Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor
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