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Collaboratory Meetings
2025-2026
Upcoming
Book Discussion: Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry (Harvard University Press, 2025)
June 23, 2026
Boston 7:00 AM (UTC - 04:00) | New Delhi 4:30 PM (UTC + 05:30)
Author and Speaker: Jason Jackson, MIT, USA
Discussants:
Amy Cohen, Temple University, USA
Dev Nathan, Institute for Human Development, New Delhi
Upcoming
Launch of the Practising ChainGE Website
June 18, 2026
9:00 AM – 10:30 UTC | 11:00–12:30 CEST
Link to join the event
The Practising ChainGE website is a space created by ChainGE Lab to bring together law, research, art, organising, and storytelling. The platform is designed to create a shared space for organisers, legal practitioners, policymakers, scholars, artists, and workers to share work and insights on struggles, strategies, legal innovations, and experiments in building worker power across global value chains. The site aims to bridge research and practice, document experiences that are often left out of academic and policy debates, and create new opportunities for dialogue across regions, disciplines, and movements.
The call for contributions remains open on a rolling basis, and we continue to welcome proposals.
The event will feature a panel discussion, "Understanding Supply Chains through Creative Practice," moderated by Nandita Shivakumar and featuring Ema Moolchand, Rahee Punyashloka, and Palani Kumar, exploring what becomes possible when supply chains are studied not only through law, reports, and corporate disclosures, but also through photography, poetry, sound, memory, and artistic practice.
Book & Article Discussion: Platform Labour in China and Vietnam: Law, State Strategy, and Regulatory Divergence
April 30, 2026, 7:00–8:30 PM Beijing (UTC + 08:00) | 9:00–10:30 PM Melbourne (UTC + 10:00)
Book: Legal Protections of Platform Workers in China (Routledge, 2026)
Author and Speaker: Zhenxing Ke, Nankai University
Article: When Does the State Act? Platform Labour Regulation in China and Vietnam
Author and Speaker: Trang T. K. Tran, Deakin University
Discussant:
Sean Cooney, The University of Melbourne
Book Event: Global Business and Local Struggle: Reimaging Non-Judicial Remedy for Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2025), Co-authors: Tim Connor, Annie Delaney, Fiona Haines, Kate Macdonald, Shelley Marshall
March 19, 2026
Speaker: Kate Macdonald, University of Melbourne
Discussant: Luc Fransen, University of Amsterdam
ChainGE Lab Report Launch: Transnational Litigation to Enforce Workers' Rights in Global Value Chains: Challenges, Limits and Emerging Strategies in a Contested Site of Norm Translation
February 26, 2026
Speaker: Urmila Bhoola, ChainGE Lab (ERC) Research Fellow and lead author
Respondents:
Liberty Bridge, Leigh Day (UK)
Terrence Collingsworth, International Rights Advocate (USA)
Livia Mendes Moreira Miraglia & Fernanda de Mendonça Melo, Federal University of Minas Gerais and UFMG Clinic for Slave Labor and Human Trafficking (Brazil)
Miriam Saage-Maasz, ECCHR(Germany)
Book Launch: Modern Slavery and the Governance of Global Value Chains (Cambridge University Press, 2025), eds. Hila Shamir, Bimal Arora, Shilpi Banerjee and Tamar Barkay
December 11, 2025
The book is available open access.
Introduction: Hila Shamir, PI ChainGE Lab, Tel Aviv University
Chair and discussant: Tamar Barkay, Tel-Hai: University of Kiryat Shmona (On the rise); ChainGE Lab
Presentation of Chapters: Franz Ebert, ILO Research; Ingrid Landau, Monash University; Sahiba Gill, Global Labour Justice; Saie Shetye, Migration and Asylum Project, Delhi & Divya Priyadarshini, Duke University
Judy Fudge (McMaster University) will discuss her book Constructing Modern Slavery: Law, Capitalism and Unfree Labour (CUP, 2025)
June 12, 2025
Speaker: Judy Fudge, McMaster University
Discussant: Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, ChainGE Lab, Tel Aviv University
The Challenge of Workers’ Rights Enforcement: Local, National, and Global
May 22, 2025
Speakers: Janice Fine & Hana Shephard, Rutgers University; Guy Mundlak, Tel Aviv University; Shelley Marshall, RMIT University & Hila Shamir, PI ChainGE Lab, Tel Aviv University
Discussant: Fabiola Mieres, ILO
Centering Workers’ Voices: Methodological Approaches to Researching Work in Global Value Chains
April 24, 2025
Speakers: Shahar Shoham, The Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin
& Ema Moolchand, RMIT University
Discussant: Pankhuri Agarwal, School of Management, University of Bath
Exploring the Power of Trade Agreements and Bans to Enhance Workers’ Rights in Global Value Chains
February 13, 2025
Speakers: Desirée LeClercq, University of Georgia & Franz Ebert, ILO
Worker Driven Social Responsibility Model
January 16, 2025
Presenter: Pauline Jerrentrup, London School of Economics and co-author (with Sarosh Kuruvilla) of the recent Dindigul Agreement Year Two Report
Discussants: Kathryn Babineau & Victor Yengle, University of Virginia
