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SPEAKERS

  • Care, Racial Capitalism, and Social Reproduction | Premilla Nadasen
    Care, Racial Capitalism, and Social Reproduction | Premilla Nadasen
    Tue, Jan 28
    2 pm EST | villanova.zoom.us/j/3673047849
    Jan 28, 2025, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. EST
    2 pm EST | villanova.zoom.us/j/3673047849
    Drawing on her most recent book, Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Premilla Nadasen traces the history of the care economy and analyzes its roots in racial capitalism. Respondent: Rachel Brown, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Crafting a Collective Politics of Care: Women Informal Workers’ Struggles in South India | Kalpana Karunakaran
    Crafting a Collective Politics of Care: Women Informal Workers’ Struggles in South India | Kalpana Karunakaran
    Tue, Feb 11
    11 am EST | villanova.zoom.us/j/3673047849
    Feb 11, 2025, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
    11 am EST | villanova.zoom.us/j/3673047849
    How do we read what appears to be an overwhelming feminization of the formidable efforts and struggles involved in holding state actors accountable for the survival and social reproduction of labouring poor and working class households? Respondent: Anusha Hariharan, Villanova University
  • Abortion: Lessons from 1974 | Adriana Zaharijevic
    Abortion: Lessons from 1974 | Adriana Zaharijevic
    Tue, Mar 11
    11am EST | villanova.zoom.us/j/3673047849
    Mar 11, 2025, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
    11am EST | villanova.zoom.us/j/3673047849
    The talk begins with an assumption that “the production of goods and services and the production of life are part of one integrated process” (Luxton 2006). Respondent: Natasha Hay, Toronto Metropolitan University
  • Paula Varela
    Paula Varela
    Tue, Mar 25
    11am EST | villanova.zoom.us/j/3673047849
    Mar 25, 2025, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
    11am EST | villanova.zoom.us/j/3673047849
    Respondent: Constanza Filloy, Villanova University
  • Yasmin El-Rifae
    Yasmin El-Rifae
    Tue, Apr 08
    11am EST | villanova.zoom.us/j/3673047849
    Apr 08, 2025, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
    11am EST | villanova.zoom.us/j/3673047849
    Respondent: Jasmin Makhlouf, Duquense University
  • Household Production and the Essence of Separation that Appears in Commodities | Kirstin Munro
    Household Production and the Essence of Separation that Appears in Commodities | Kirstin Munro
    Tue, Apr 22
    11am EST | villanova.zoom.us/j/3673047849
    Apr 22, 2025, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
    11am EST | villanova.zoom.us/j/3673047849
    I will build on the work of Paddy Quick and Roswitha Scholz to make the case that it is only the partial rather than complete separation of working-class people from the means of subsistence that necessitates household production in capitalist society. Respondent: Brendan Rome, Villanova University
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