Review

For the 10th anniversary, the series of events of the Marie Jahoda Summer School of Sociology was dedicated to Marie Jahoda and, accordingly, to the topic of "Research and Activism". Originally planned for September 2020 as a face-to-face event, the anniversary edition could now be implemented as an online event from 25 to 28 January 2021 in cooperation with the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (University of Sussex & University of Leeds) and the Chamber of Labour Vienna.

The objectives of the winter school were:

• to reflect and exchange insights on the link between academic research and political or societal activism
• for PhD students who are activists themselves to discuss how they reconcile the roles of researcher and activist
• to discuss the PhD projects with distinguished international scholars in the field
• to exchange with other doctoral students and early-career scholars who work on similar topics
• to establish networks within the community

19 very committed participants from all over the world (Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, India, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, UK) presented their PhD projects and discussed a wide range of topics: work, digital age, migration, gender, climate change, housing and urban area.

Each day of the winter school started with a morning lecture:

• Beyond the imperial mode of living - Approaches to social-ecological transformations presented by Ulrich Brand
  
  
• Platform worker unrest in a global context presented by Mark Stuart
  
  
• Infrastructures of social reproduction: dialogic collaboration and Feminist comparative urbanism presented by Kate Hardy
  
  
• Masking and unmasking, the visible and the invisible: Experiences and dilemmas of participatory research in migration studies presented by Christoph Reinprecht

A diverse accompanying programme open to the public completed the event:

• Panel discussion: Marie Jahoda's Legacy
  with Brendan Burchell (University of Cambridge), Julia Hofmann (Chamber of Labour Vienna) and Marie-Noelle Yazdanpanah (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History), facilitated by Jörg Flecker (University of Vienna)
  
  
• Theatre performance: Women at Work - Käthe Leichter and Marie Jahoda (freely accessible from March 8th to 15th)
  a co-production by Portraittheater Vienna and Theater Drachengasse
  
  
• Keynote speech: Work in the Digital Age - Acceleration and Activism
  presented by Jacqueline O'Reilly (University of Sussex)

We are happy about the positive feedback we got from the participants of the winter school. This feedback indicates that the winter school can be seen as a successful event: