2026_McGill_On the Night Shift Report

New perspectives in night work since 1900_McGill_#13

The workshop “On the night shift: New perspectives on night work since 1900” was held on Thursday, September 11th, 2025 at Newcastle University in Newcastle-upon-Thyne, United Kingdom. The event was organized with Newcastle University’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and hosted by Dr. Kristin Hussey, a historian of medicine in the British Empire and a lecturer of environmental history whose current research centers sleep. Hussey invited sleep scholars within an international network to broach underrepresented forms of night labor in the 20th and 21st century, and presenters came from various disciplines and institutions in England, France, the Czech Republic, and Canada. McGill’s team to present reflections on affective nighttime labor in commercial bathhouses. Written by Renee Li.

Sonia Blank