Programme
WORK2019 – Real Work in the Virtual World
Please notice that the programme is subject to minor changes.
Wednesday, 14 August 2019 (8:00-17:30)
| 8:00 | Registration opens (registration desk is open every day during the scientific programme) |
| 8:30-9:30 | Session 1 (parallel tracks, available for ad hoc sessions, no programme) |
| 9:30-10:00 | Coffee |
| 10:00-11:30 | Opening remarks: Timo Harakka, Minister of Employment of Finland |
| Keynote: Chasing Innovation: Work, Value, and the Colonial Present | |
| Associate Professor Lilly Irani | |
| University of California, US | |
| 11:30-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-14:00 | Keynote: The online gig economy as a window on the futures of work: What we know and what we don’t |
| Associate Professor Vili Lehdonvirta | |
| University of Oxford, UK | |
| 14:15-15:45 | Session 2 (parallel tracks) |
| 15:45-16:00 | Coffee |
| 16:00-17:30 | Session 3 (parallel tracks) |
| 19:00-20:30 | Reception and Dinner at Helsinki City Hall |
Thursday, 15 August 2019 (8:30-19:00)
| 8:30-10:00 | Session 4 (parallel tracks) |
| 10:00-10:15 | Coffee |
| 10:15-11:45 | Session 5 (parallel tracks) |
| 12:00-13:00 | Keynote: Labour regulation for the future: automation, artificial intelligence and human rights at work |
| Professor Valerio De Stefano | |
| University of Leuven, BE | |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30-15:30 | Keynote: The Future of Interpersonal Work: Inequality, Insecurity and Automation in Connective Labor |
| Professor Allison Pugh | |
| University of Virginia, US | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee |
| 16:00-17:30 | Session 6 (parallel tracks) |
| 17:30-18:00 | Get together & refreshments |
| 18:00-19:00 | Keynote: Me™: The Neoliberal Self at Work |
| Professor Ilana Gershon | |
| Indiana University, US |
Friday, 16 August 2019 (7:45-16:00)
| 7:45-8:00 | Coffee |
| 8:00-9:30 | Session 7 (parallel tracks) |
| 9:30-11:30 | Keynote: Platform Dependent Entrepreneurs and Business: Understanding Power in the Platform Economy |
| Professor Martin Kenney | |
| University of California, US | |
| Panel Discussion: Digital Work in the Platform Economy | |
| Anne Kovalainen, University of Turku, Seppo Poutanen, University of Turku, Petri Rouvinen, ETLA/Avance Attorneys, Laura Seppänen, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health | |
| Presider: Professor Steven Vallas, Northeastern University, KU Leuven | |
This session is SWiPE research consortium’s concluding seminar |
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| 11:30-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-14:30 | Session 8 (parallel tracks) |
| 14:30-15:00 | Coffee |
| 15:00-16:00 | Session 9 (parallel tracks) |
