Thursday, 24 April 2025 | 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. | Room 102, HNES Building, Keele Campus, York University

With Raquel Varela, New University of Lisbon

Raquel Cardeira Varela obtained her PhD in Political and Institutional History at ISCTE, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, in 2010. She is a social and labour historian, researcher and Professor at New University of Lisbon, and Honorary Fellow at the International Institute for Social History.

She is the author of People’s History of the Portuguese Revolution, A People’s History of Europe From World War I to Today, among more than 40 books written and/or coordinated. In her numerous books and 60+ articles, she has written about labour and everyday life, internationalism, education and emancipation, and living conditions under capitalism.

She is a member of the editorial board of the academic journals such as Journal of Labour and Society, and Workers of the World, and deputy editor of Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory. She is co-founder of the Network for Global Labor Studies (New Delhi / India). She is a member of Karl Polanyi Centre for Global Social Studies and of the European Network in Universal and Global History. She is also president of the International Association of Strikes and Social Conflicts, a network that gathers academics and 20 institutions from all over the world, and co-editor of its journal. She is President of the Observatory for Living and Working Conditions and coordinator of Social Data/Nova Sustainability.

More information about her work is available at this link.

The talk is organized by Marxist Studies from Asian and International Perspectives (MSGAP), the Socialist Register, and Associação Cultural 25 de Abril (Toronto).

For more information, contact: msgap@yorku.ca