👀 Interested in Environmental Pasts and Futures in Mining? Watch the recorded session from the DePOT Conference to learn more! Watch it here:

🙌Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s conference in Montreal on (Un)Just transitions. We’re already looking forward to next year’s conference.

🎨This evening, the 4th Space hosted the vernissage of “Dirty Old Town,” where the artists and curator were able to present their work. At the same time, the event featured this year's artists-in-residence, Nina Vroamen and Hervé Demers.

🔉This morning, we welcomed our amazing keynote speaker, Lianne Leddy, on "Resurgence and Reckoning: Anishinaabe Activism and the Environmental Legacies of Cold War Extraction"

📕Yesterday, we had the pleasure of hosting the launch of the first DePOT volume, *The Politics of Industrial Closure*, with its contributors. We also presented several edited volumes listed in our program, which were followed by lively discussions and exchanges throughout the evening.

really excited about the start of the DePOT @deindustrialpol.bsky.social Summer Institute in Montreal, such a great program (which will definitely keep me awake after my overnight flight from Calgary)

🎨 Join us for the opening reception of Dirty Old Town: Deindustrial Art next week! 📍 4TH SPACE, J.W. McConnell Building, Concordia University 📅 June 18, 4–6 PM Come explore the exhibition, meet the artists, and continue the conversation on the environmental legacies of industrial change.

📢 Just a few days left until DePOT annual conference! “(Un)just Transitions?: Deindustrialization and the Environment” Montreal, Canada, June 18-20, 2026 We look forward to welcoming you and discovering the presentations, discussions, and new collaborations that will emerge from this year’s event.

Spent two great days researching industrial restructuring at the OECD in Paris. Huge thanks to the fantastic Ruud and Maxime for all their help! This material is going to be very useful in my book on "The Runaway Shop: How Corporations Weaponized Geography Against Trade Unions." Now on to London!

🎨The AIR Program is welcoming new applications for 2026-2027! AIR will fund projects that address the relationships between industrial heritage sites and the working-class areas that often adjoin them. Application deadline: 5 June 2026 Read the full call for applications on our website:

NEW BLOG! Read Steven High's latest blog on the Tricofil experience in Saint-Jérôme: a significant attempt at worker self-management in the 1970s, between dreams of national liberation and economic realities.

We've published a new piece in 'Global Environment', in which Valerio Caruso interviews Steven High on 'Environmental History and Deindustrialisation Studies'; #openaccess here: doi.org/10.3828/whpg.... #envhist #deindustrialisation

NEW BLOG! Read Clarence Hatton-Proulx latest blog, examining how urban administrations played a central role in shaping how deindustrialization unfolded in Montreal.

🎨 ARTISTS in RESIDENCY. We are pleased to welcome Nina Vroemen and Hervé Demers to the DePOT project, whose work will be featured at this year’s DePOT conference in Montréal, Canada. Welcome and congratulations! Read their biography and project description:

NEW BLOG! Read Nina Vodopivec's latest blog, examining how the experiences of Slovenian industrial (textile) workers were systematically silenced during the post-socialist transition, with their demands dismissed as “nostalgia” while deindustrialization was portrayed as inevitable.

Happy to announce the publication of The Politics of Industrial Closure: Transnational and Comparative Histories, which is a collective outcome of @deindustrialpol.bsky.social Huge thanks to Stefan Berger and all 26 contributors. It was a beautiful process of collaborative research and writing.

Roundtable: Don't forget that we are hosting a roundtable this Thursday on Political Abandonment, Silencing, and Absence in deindustrialization. Register here:

‼️The updated program, in both French and English, for our upcoming conference in Montreal this June is now available! Please use the link below to download the bilingual version from our website. DéPOT is excited to see you in Montreal!

Don't forget our environmental workshop tomorrow morning on Gentrification and Greening! Register on our Eventbrite link:

BLOG: Read our latest blog post by Philippine d'Halleine, a master's student at Concordia University. Philippine reviews Romain Castellesi's impressive publication, "Savoir Commencer un Grève," published by Agone Editions, in a detailed book review.

WORKSHOP - March 6th: Join DePOT's Deindustrialization and the Environment workshop to discuss ongoing research!

Join us this Friday for a roundtable on Industrial Heritage! www.eventbrite.ca/e/1980405314...

New blog for February! Dylan Brewerton-Harper, a postgraduate student at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Dylan is interested in the “half-life” of the former shipyard, adorned with monuments, sculptures, and murals commemorating Port Glasgow's industrial past.

ROUNDTABLE - February 6th: Join DePOT's Deindustrialization and the Environment roundtable to discuss ongoing research!

‼️The program, in both French and English for our upcoming conference in Montreal this June is now available! Please find the link below to our website to download both the English and French version. DéPOT is excited to see you in Montreal!

Happy New Year!🎊 Read our latest blog post by Melissa Meade from Seton Hall University. Learn about how public memorialization struggles to center workers in the narrative of industrial history.

Appel à candidatures - Devenez le nouveau ou la nouvel artiste en résidence de DePOT ! Une bourse de 16 000 dollars canadiens est offerte à un.e artiste ou à un groupe d'artistes explorant le thème de cette année, « La désindustrialisation et l'environnement ». Postulez avant le 15 janvier !

Call for applications - Become DePOT's new Artist in Residence! CA$ 16,000 in funding is available for an artist or group of artists exploring this year's theme of Deindustrialization and the Environment - Apply by January 15!

This Friday! Join our Deindustrialization and the Environment working group for the last DePOT roundtable of the year!

Our 2024-2025 Annual Report is out! Read it here to learn what we've been up to in the past year. deindustrialization.org/wp-content/u...

Congratulations to our awesome undergraduate student Sabina Leduc, who has won the Miramichi Historians' Prize in New Brunswick History for her work on the impacts of mill closure on Doaktown, Nackawic, and Juniper, NB. Way to go, Sabina!

📰 New from the blog - Aparna Das reflects on the complexity of Kolkata's culture and built environment

And just like that, it's real. When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992, from @illinoispress.bsky.social. Due out 4/14/26. Thanks to everyone who tolerated this dream and made it happen. Pre-order if you'd like: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

🚨Last chance! 🚨 Don't forget to sign up for tomorrow's roundtable

Don't miss the @deindustrialpol.bsky.social virtual roundtable this Friday! Policies and Programs: Deindustrialization and the Environment Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time Friday November 7th at 9:30am Eastern Time niche-canada.org/2025/10/29/v... #envhist #envstudies

New on the Blog 📰 Yuan Yi uses the case of Orinoka Mills to explore the dynamics and consequences of textile closures in the U.S.

📆 Next week! Remember to sign up for our roundtable organized by the Deindustrialization and the Environment Working Group

Join @stephross.bsky.social and Rob Kristofferson, as well as Toronto-based contributors, for the Toronto launch of The Art of Solidarity! This event is hosted by the Toronto Workers' History Project and Mayworks Toronto. Find more details here: btlbooks.com/events/view/...

🗓️Notez la date dans vos agendas ! La conférence « Quelle est la valeur du travail? Passé, présent et futur de la classe ouvrière et des études sur le travail » se tiendra les 13 et 14 novembre à Montréal, avec des présentations de plusieurs affilié.e.s de DéPOT

🗓️Mark your calendars! The conference "Why Does Labour Matter? The Past, Present, and Future of Labour and Labour Studies" is taking place November 13-14th in Montreal with many DePOT members presenting in attendance.

FRIDAY - NOVEMBER 7th: Join DePOT's Deindustrialization and the Environment working group to discuss ongoing research!

#Yellowknife people: We're in town for the launch of The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife! If you're in town, join us at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Thursday Oct. 16 at 6:30 p.m. for a discussion of the book with the authors and local guests.

[AAC] Le prochain colloque du RUCHE aura pour thème "Genre et environnement" et se déroulera à Aix-en-Provence du 10 au 12 juin 2026. N'hésitez pas à proposer une communication et à partager l'appel à communication ! ajch.hypotheses.org/8251

Hâte de prendre part au colloque Streetstories | Histoires de rue (7–8 nov.), où j’aurai le plaisir de donner la conférence d’honneur. Un bel événement sur la ville, ses usages et ses imaginaires.

📰 New DePOT blog! Joseph Coates and Emiliano Aguilar discuss the memory of ACME steel workers following its departure from the Calumet region.

Wonderful to see the fabulous Scottish Oral History Centre (and Arthur McIvor) featured this way!

In our October blog, Amber Ward reviews Netflix’s Toxic Town, a depiction of women’s response to the continued exploitation of residents in a deindustrialized English town.

Call for papers! The Hans-Böckler-Stiftung and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung are hosting a conference titled "Trade Unions, the Far Right, and the Battle for the Working Class. Perspectives from Europe and North America since 1945". Submissions may be sent in English or German before October 22nd

🚨 For folks in the Toronto area looking for something to do this Sunday 🚨 Hot Docs and DePOT partner UNIFOR are hosting a free 40th anniversary screening of "Final Offer" with a discussion on Canadian Sovereignty in the Time of Trade Wars - get your tickets in advance!

us pulling up to the Lachlan MacKinnon my bloody valentine deindustrialization lecture