General seminar arrangements in 2025
- WISER's TRUST seminar is hosted on-line every Wednesday afternoon at 16:00 - 17:00 SA during the teaching semester | For information about WISER's PLANT LIVES seminar, please follow this link.
- Please register on Zoom in advance of the meeting on this link.
- Participants should please read the paper (below) prior to the seminar, which is typically available by the Friday preceding the seminar.
From 'New Man' to Superman: The politics of work and socialism, from Maputo to Karl-Marx-Stadt, c. 1982
Monday, 9 May, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by:
Eric
Allina
This paper examines the history of Mozambican workers in East Germany in the later 1970s and 1980s, focusing on young Mozambican men and women who, in a variety of ways, ran afoul of the state-to-state agreement that governed their lives in the GDR. Rather than the troublemakers their minders dubbed them or examples of internationalist ‘failure’ that subsequent scholarship suggests, the paper argues that their trajectories reflect the friction generated at the intersection of work, socialism and youth.