Emma Slack-Jørgensen

Oct 16, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Lina Moe |Yannis Bougiatiotis |Phyllis Jeffrey |Emma Slack-Jørgensen

Food delivery driver in traffic | Tricky_Shark / ShutterstockAsk any organizer and you’ll hear how hard it is to reach gig workers. These workers typically lack a physical place of work or regular schedule (though many work all the time), and their work is poorly measured in Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics datasets. The gig workers themselves agree this is a problem.

Dec 19, 2023 | publicseminar.org | Emma Slack-Jørgensen

Image Credit: Lars Von Trier, The Idiots (1997)Lars von Trier, a luminary of Danish cinema, has left an incredible and arguably controversial mark on global cinema. First known for his Europa trilogy—The Element of Crime, Epidemic, and Europa—in which characters roam through a dreamlike Europe full of longing and darkness, von Trier has expanded his work far beyond Europe.

Sep 27, 2023 | publicseminar.org | Emma Slack-Jørgensen

Swale, docked at Concrete Plant Park, carries a forest of free-to-forage fresh produce on its back. Photo credit: Flickr/InhabitatIn 2016, on one of the hottest Saturdays of the summer, a barge was docked at a promenade just over a mile up the Bronx River from Hunts Point—one of the biggest food deserts in the United States. From afar, the barge, parked in Concrete Plant Park, looked inconspicuous, like an old rusted ship.