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CLaSP invites you to a seminar followed by a workshop on the fintech industry and building tools for community advocacy.

When:
Seminar: 16 December, 4-6 PM
Workshop: 17 December, 10AM-330 PM

Register here: www.claspblog.org/events/semin...

CLaSP invites you for a lunch-time seminar on EV manufacturing and industrial policy in South America with Felipe Irarrázaval, Universidad de Chile

When/Where: Friday 14 November 2025, 13:00 14:00; Room 2.41 Bancroft Building, QMUL Mile End Road

#IndustrialPolicy #EV #EnergyTransition

Another event in the lineup of events at the start of this academic year at CLaSP! This one on Indian policy makers, business ethics, and policy making.

This is event is co-supported by QM South Asia Forum and the Centre for the Study of Race, Class and Empire.

When: 6th November 2025; 5-630 PM

Interested about financialisation and why states foster policies that lead to the dominance of financial capital? Come to CLaSP's seminar:
Event: Financial Capital, the State, and Politics
When: 30th October, 2025; 4-530 PM
Where: Graduate Centre, QMUL Mile End Campus
Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Bernards

BEHIND THE FURROW: Film Screening and discussion with Jonathan Om — CLaSP Blog CLaSP invites you for a preview screening and discussion of a documentary film by Jonathan Om.

On October 16th, CLaSP are hosting a preview screening of Om's Behind the Furrow, followed by discussion with the director. Register for a free ticket:

www.claspblog.org/events/behin...

Farming on the Frontlines: A conversation between Jonathan Om and Matan Kaminer — CLaSP Blog Artist and filmmaker Jonathan Om interviews CLaSP member Matan Kaminer about his ethnographic work on Thai migrant workers in Israeli agriculture. They discuss the history behind how these workers cam...

New on the CLaSP blog: artist & filmmaker Jonathan Om interviews CLaSP's Matan Kaminer about Thai migrant workers in Israel's agricultural frontier settlements.

www.claspblog.org/blogposts/sx...

The Labour Foundations of China’s Consumer-First Internet — CLaSP Blog JS Tan explains how cheap labour and flexible employment practices encourage internet firms to build consumer platforms.

Latest on the CLaSP blog: Why has China’s digital economy developed along such a distinctly consumer-facing path? @js-tan.bsky.social explains 'The Labour Foundations of China’s Consumer-First Internet'

www.claspblog.org/blogposts/7l...

BEHIND THE FURROW: Film Screening and discussion with Jonathan Om — CLaSP Blog CLaSP invites you for a preview screening and discussion of a documentary film by Jonathan Om.

CLaSP is hosting a film screening of BEHIND THE FURROW & discussion with director Jonathan Om. The film focuses on colonial violence & Thai migrant workers in Israel's frontier agriculture.

Oct 16th at 6pm. Please register for a free ticket:

www.claspblog.org/events/behin...

🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️

How does India's agrarian crisis harm women workers? 🌾

Shreya Sinha explores how shifts from cotton to rice cultivation relate to class, gender and caste oppression in Punjab 💭

🎧 Listen now: shorturl.at/WYfmC

#Agriculture #PoliticalEconomy #Labour #Podcast

Freedom as Autonomy: platform workers’ struggles and the future of work in Argentina — CLaSP Blog Sofia Negri asks how we can build a future of work that transforms the salaried relationship to reconcile autonomy with social protection.

New on the CLaSP blog: Looking at platform workers in Argentina, Sofia Negri asks how we can build a future of work that transforms the salaried relationship to reconcile autonomy with social protection

www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ac...

After the very engaging two days on the hashtag#MaterialitiesOfAI workshop, CLaSP is hosting a launch and conversation with Professor Ariel Salleh on her new book ‘Decolonize Ecomodernism!’

When: 10th June, 4-6 PM. Graduate Centre room 601, QMUL Mile End campus.

www.claspblog.org/events/decol...

Some photos from Day 1 of our #MaterialitiesOfAI workshop with @anavaldi.bsky.social @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social and @katecrawford.bsky.social. Two session exploring the ecological, social and material implications of AI.

On Day 2, we move on to workshops on the methodologies of studying AI!

@anavaldi.bsky.social @katecrawford.bsky.social @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social

Materialities of AI: Labour, Ecology and Inequalities at the Technological Frontier — CLaSP Blog Public debate on artificial intelligence is marked by hopes and fears around the possibility of artificially generated human-like intelligence, extraordinary economic growth prospects, mass technologi...

We'll also be hosting a workshop on Day 2 on the methodological approaches and the politics of studying AI. Find details of the event here: www.claspblog.org/events/mater...

Lineup of speakers:
- Kate Crawford, scholar on social implications of AI and author of 'Atlas of AI'
- Ana Valdavia, scholar on AI supply chains and author of (upcoming) book on the subject
- James Muldoon, scholar on the labour powering AI and author of 'Feeding the Machine'

Our end of the year event is just two weeks away! Over two days and four sessions, we will be covering the social and environmental aspects of the AI industry, including the politics and methodologies for researching AI. Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

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The state is back, and it means business!

Just CLaSP for an in-person event with Ilias Alami, University of Cambridge, co-author of the book 'The Spectre of State Capitalism' in discussing this new state capitalism.

When/where: 1st of May at Queen Mary, Mile End Campus

www.claspblog.org/events

We have a keynote by @katecrawford.bsky.social, panels with @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social and Ana Valdivia, and workshops with @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social. Head over to this link to register: buytickets.at/centreonlabo...

We look forward to participating with you!

Materialities of AI: Labour, Ecology and Inequalities at the Technological Frontier — CLaSP Blog Public debate on artificial intelligence is marked by hopes and fears around the possibility of artificially generated human-like intelligence, extraordinary economic growth prospects, mass technologi...

To be held over two days in London, the event will will focus on the multi-faceted materialities of AI, seeking to ground the analysis of this technology in its social, ecological and infrastructural dimensions. Read more about the event here: www.claspblog.org/events/mater...

Intrigued by the workers that OpenAI is lamenting are tired given the surge in #Ghibli images? CLaSP has an event for you! Our end of the year event titled 'Materialities of AI: Labour, Ecology and Inequalities at the Technological Frontier' will delve into the hidden abode of AI.

Race, Profit, and Algorithms: How iBuyers Leverage Neighbourhood Inequality — CLaSP Blog How do algorithm-driven business models interact with historical patterns of segregation, property devaluation, and racial capitalism? Wonyoung So addresses this question in new research into iBuyers—...

New on the CLaSP blog: 'Race, Profit, and Algorithms', @wonyoungso.bsky.social details his research on iBuyers, a new class of real estate actors generating profits in racialized housing markets

www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ra...

CLaSP seminar titled 'Petrochemical Transitions' with Alice Mah and Adam Hanieh engaged in a wide range of discussions on the growing prominence of petrochemical manufacturing and the challenges these pose to labour, geopolitics and sustainability!

If you missed this, follow www.claspblog.org!

On May 20th, AARG is organizing a round table about the multiple crisis of higher education. This event aims to reposition this specific crisis in relation to other crises, students’ debts, cost of living crisis, University governance crisis, crisis of the welfare state … registration link 👇

Petrochemical transitions: a dialogue on industrial, geopolitical & sustainability transformations with Alice Mah and Adam Hanieh — CLaSP Blog Petrochemical transitions: a dialogue on industrial, geopolitical and sustainability transformations The event brings together two leading scholars – Adam Hanieh and Alice Mah – whose shared focus on...

🗣️ EVENT: Join us at CLaSP on 13 March for a dialogue between two leading scholars of the global fossil fuel economy - Alice Mah & Adam Hanieh - on 'Petrochemical Transitions'. Register for a free ticket:

www.claspblog.org/events/petro...

Members of the centre working on their laptops and experimenting with AI tools, looked on by the facilitator. The background has a board with a QR code leading to the workshop documents.

Members attended a workshop titled 'Experimenting with AI Tools Tailored for Research', facilitated by @icruxen.bsky.social. Members had hands-on time to work through different apps that built practical experimentation and was followed by reflections on navigating research in an AI mediated world.

Book Review: The book 'Land, Water, Air and Freedom: The Making of World Movements for Environmental Justice' follows over 500 environmental justice movements evidencing why 'environmentalism of the poor' is key to socioecological transformation.

Read here: www.claspblog.org/blogposts/la...

“We have to defeat the thinking of defeat”

From the archives, here is a blog post that can help us all reflect on the political work that is, and is in need of, being done.

Suraj Bhaskarrao Telange revisits the history & contemporary of Workers' Inquiry method : www.claspblog.org/blogposts/r5...

Book round-up: Latest works by CLaSP members — CLaSP Blog A compilation of recent books by CLaSP members “just in time” for teaching. This is the first of many posts highlighting the extremely rich work of CLaSP members. The recent books listed below cov...

📚 Book round-up: browse some of the recent book publications from CLaSP members. Topics from supply chains, agricultural labour, artistic production & activism and more www.claspblog.org/blogposts/g9...

“There is no one clear way to successfully organise and win demands in the games industry. There are a range of ongoing experiments with building workers’ collective power”

“Problems of diversity have become an important part of game worker organising. This is both diversity in terms of who gets to make games, as well as the kinds of games that workers are making, and under which conditions.”