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Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College) and Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania)
Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College) will be joined by Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania) to discuss her new book, Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Haymarket Books, 2023), a powerful critique of capitalist care relations and the economic profit extracted from care.
Read MoreWith Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism
Anna Elena Torres, Kenyon Zimmer, and Samuel Brody, moderated by Janet Jakobsen
Live transcription is available here. Jewish anarchism has long been marginalized in histories of anarchist thought and action. in With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism (AK Press, 2023), co-editors Anna Elena Torres (University of Chicago) and Kenyon Zimmer (University of Texas, Arlington) will be joined by contributor Samuel Brody (University of Kansas) to […]
Read MoreArchitecture of Migration
Anooradha Siddiqi (Assistant Professor of Architecture, Barnard College)
Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking history or architecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi demonstrations in Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (Duke University Press, 2024), a refugee camp’s aesthetic and material landscapes–even if born out of emergency–reveal histories, futures, politics, and rhetorics. She identifies forces of colonial and humanitarian […]
Read MoreTransforming Education for Sustainability
Hilary S. Callahan (Barnard College), Elizabeth M. Cook (Barnard College), and María S. Rivera Maulucci (Barnard College)
Co-editors and contributors will discuss their book investigating how educators and researchers in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts, connect concepts of sustainability to work in their fields of study and in the classrooms where they teach the next generation.
Read MoreCare, Racial Capitalism, and Social Reproduction
This conference will bring together scholars, organizers, and artists to think together about the intersections of social reproduction, racial capitalism, care, the state, and liberatory social change. The conference will draw on the long history of organizing, study, thinking, and praxis forged by feminist activists, organizers, scholars, and artists who have expanded our political analysis […]
Read MoreThe Scholar and Feminist Conference 49: Anti-Colonialism, Black Radicalism, and Transnational Feminism
Yolande Bouka, Jennifer Fish, Abosede George, Tao Leigh Goffe, Natasha Lightfoot, Zifeng Liu, Gabriella Muasya, Keisha-Khan Perry, Paula Marie Seniors, Robyn Spencer-Antoine, Charisse Burden Stelly, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Imaobong Umoren
The 49th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference will explore transnational Black feminism in the context of “third world” liberatory movements since the 1940s.
Read MoreOn Feminism and Palestine
Lila Abu-Lughod (Columbia University), Jafari Sinclaire Allen (Columbia University), Jack Halberstam (Columbia University), Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College), Neferti Tadiar (Barnard College), moderated by Sarah Haley (Columbia University)
A Faculty Roundtable Discussion Presenters Lila Abu-Lughod (Columbia University, Anthropology and the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender) Jafari Sinclaire Allen (Columbia University, African American and African Diaspora Studies) Jack Halberstam (Columbia University, English & Comparative Literature and the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender) Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College, History and BCRW) Neferti Tadiar (Barnard College, […]
Read MoreElla Baker for the 21st Century: National One Day Symposium
Keynote by Angela Davis and Barbara Ransby
Presented by BCRW and the Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University In honor of the 20th anniversary of the publication of Ella Baker and the Black Radical Tradition by Barbara Ransby, this day-long symposium will feature a keynote conversation by Angela Davis and Barbara Ransby, panels with nationally recognized scholars, and a celebratory reception with […]
Read MoreCaste, Gender, Diaspora
Gaiutra Bahadur and Yashica Dutt in conversation with Anupama Rao
The transnational resonance of the Black Lives Matter movement has incited communities across the globe to raise their voices against discrimination and inequality and to work across demographics and colonial histories to reflect more broadly on shared affinities and political solidarities. The resonances between caste and race have been an especially important site for rethinking […]
Read MoreMarriage and Divorce in Colonial and Contemporary Philippines
Vina A. Lanzona
Presented by the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College Issues of marriage and divorce remain contentious in the Philippines, but the history of marriage remains unexplored. When the Spanish established colonial rule and Catholicism in the 16th century, they also introduced new laws regulating marriage in the Philippines, and by the 19th […]
Read MoreReproductive Injustice Symposium
Dorothy Roberts, Amaryah Armstrong, Ash Williams, Dána-Ain Davis, and Toni Bond
This symposium is a celebration of the forthcoming issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online that examines the multiple dimensions of Black feminist reproductive justice.
Read MoreYoung, Gifted, Black, and Online: AfroSwedish Feminist Technologies of Blackness
Monica L. Miller
In the last decade, young black feminists in Sweden have been the originators of online projects and social media platforms that have changed the landscape in terms of discourses of race, blackness, and (popular) culture. Due to their success online, many of these projects have had afterlives in print and performance: they form an archive […]
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