Conference Programme

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 Programme-at-a-Glance

TIME

PRESENTATION

12.00 – 17.00

Pre Conference Workshop

13.00 – 17.00

Pre Conference Tour

18.00 – 21.00

Conference Opening Reception

   

CONFERENCE DAY 1: 16 NOVEMBER 2023

08.15 – 08.40

Conference Welcome Session

08.45 - 09.30

Opening Keynote: Between adulation and denunciation : the institutional benefits of ambivalence in the history of occupational medicine (Keith Breckenridge)

09.15 – 10.45

Abstracts Session 1: Colonialism, Crossroads of Empires and Workers’ Health

10.45 – 11.15

TEA and COFFEE

11.15 – 12.00

Keynote 2: The Guardians of Workers’ Bodies: Role of Unions in OEH (Arthur McIvor)

12.00 – 13.30

Abstracts Session 2: Old Occupations: Mining History and Health

13.30 – 14.30

LUNCH

14.30 – 15.40

Panel Discussion: Historical perspectives of OEH in Africa – the tracing of the emergence of disciplines in occupational health (Edith Clark, Rene Loewenson, Chafiq Hicham and Reginald Matchaba-Hove)

15.40 - 16.00

TEA and COFFEE

16.00 – 17.00

Parallel Abstract Sessions 3.1: Making History: New epidemics, old exposures

16.00 – 17.00

Parallel Abstract Sessions 3.2: Organisation and Government

17.00 – 18.00

ICOH SC Business Meeting

19.00 – 23.00

Conference Dinner

   

CONFERENCE DAY 2: 17 NOVEMBER 2023

08.15 – 9.00

Keynote 3: Occupational Lung Diseases in mineworkers in South Africa (Barry Kistnasamy)

09.00 – 10.30

Abstracts Session 4: Work processes and Occupational Diseases

10.30 - 11.00

TEA and COFFEE

11.00 – 12.30

Parallel Abstract Sessions 5.1: Migration, Colonies and Worker Health (Lead Speaker: David Stanton)

11.00 - 12.30

Parallel Abstract Sessions 5.2: Informal Work, Migrant Workers and Women

12.30 - 13.30

LUNCH

13.30 - 14.30

Poster Presentation and Discussion

14.30 - 15.15

Keynote 4: Immigration and Indentured Labour (Ashwin Desai)

15.45 – 16.00

Presentation of International Award

16.00 – 16.45

Closing Keynote: Working and Breathing in Global Africa (Gabrielle Hecht)

16.45 – 17.00

Conference Closure

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