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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>With apologies for cross-posting:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am happy to announce that Alfonso Del Percio (UCL) is giving a public lecture on Jan, 28 at the <i>Wiener Sprachgesellschaft</i> (18.30, Sensengasse 3a, HS1):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Title:<b> Division and Multiplication: Language, Migration and the Politics of Labor<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>Abstract: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This contribution takes Mezzadra and Neilson’s concept of the ‘multiplication of labor’ (2013) as a<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>starting point to revisit our understanding of the ways language mediates between the (trans)national<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>circulation of workers and the intensification, diversification and heterogenization of labor.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My analysis rests on ethnographic work conducted in Italy, Switzerland and the UK between 2010-<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2019 and a social theorization of language, migration and labor. Through three ethnographic sketches<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I examine how labor’s tendency to saturate subjects’ social life, its development in increasingly<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>expanding and comprehensive systems of production and its ability to reorganize social relations<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>have produced new forms of solidarity but also divides among different types of workers and<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>their languages.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>See <a href="https://www.univie.ac.at/indogermanistik/wsg/WSG_Del_Percio_200128.pdf">https://www.univie.ac.at/indogermanistik/wsg/WSG_Del_Percio_200128.pdf</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jonas Hassemer<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>--<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:12.0pt'>Jonas Hassemer, BA MA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:12.0pt'>Universitätsassistent Prädoc für Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:12.0pt'>Universität Wien<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:12.0pt'>Institut für Sprachwissenschaft<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:12.0pt'>Sensengasse 3a<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:12.0pt'>A-1090 Wien<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:12.0pt'>Tel +43 (0)1 4277 417 30<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://linguistics.univie.ac.at/">http://linguistics.univie.ac.at</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>