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Activism and the Academy: Sonia Alvarez

[audio:https://bcrw.barnard.edu/podcasts-bcrw/2011/BCRW40-Sonia-Alvarez.mp3|titles=BCRW40 Sonia Alvarez]

In her keynote lecture at Activism and the Academy: Celebrating 40 Years of Feminist Scholarship and Action, Alvarez discusses her latest intellectual and political project, the forthcoming co-edited anthology Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Americas. This lecture took place on the first day of Activism and the Academy, a two-day conference held September 23-24, 2011 in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Barnard Center for Research on Women.

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