Feminist Political Philosophy Speaker Series
Nobody's free until everybody's free! (PDF)
A speaker series on feminist approaches to urgent contemporary political questions. This series takes its title from the words of US civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer— words that demand accountability from any society calling itself a liberal democracy.
To take those words seriously, a society must not only stamp out prejudice and discrimination, but must rethink basic institutions of education, policing, criminal justice, and national borders, as well as social and cultural norms of family and community life. This speaker series brings together feminist political philosophers who respond to this challenge and map paths to a freer and more livable society.
Organizer: Dr. Caleb Ward, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, caleb.ward"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Here you can register for the speaker series.
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18.10.21 |
Quill Kukla |
Spatial Agency, Territory, and the Right to the City Überseering 35, Hörsaal B 14.00-16.00 |
Abstract The idea that the city should be for everyone and made by everyone is often known as the right to the city. Kukla explores this idea and then thinks about how cities are marked by spatial injustice—that is, our unequal access to and control over city space. Kukla asks, how are people unequally situated so as to access a right to the city—how do they have unequal spatial agency, or an unequal ability to inhabit the spaces that make up a city? Kukla will analyze the concept of 'public space' and ask what sorts of public and non-public spaces people need in order to flourish in a city. What is involved in building cities that afford all residents the right to the city, enabling city dwellers of all sorts to exercise spatial agency in shared space? |
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22.11.21 | Alexis Shotwell (Carleton University) |
Solidarity Against Straightness |
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7.12.21 | Tanu Biswas (University of Stavanger) |
Childist Discomfort with Pedagogy: Aren't we schooling towards intergenerational injustice? 18.15-20.00 (Zoom) |
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24.1.22 | Lisa Guenther (Queen's University) |
Abolish the World As We Know It: Notes for a Praxis of Phenomenology Beyond Critique 18.15-20.00 (Zoom) |
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7.2.22 | Andrea J. Pitts (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) |
U.S. Latina/x Abolitionist Feminism: Nuevos y viejos caminos/New and Old Pathways 18.15-20.00 (Zoom) |
Abstract In this presentation, Pitts turns to sources within Chicana/x and Latina/x feminisms to develop a framing of prison abolitionism from within these feminist trajectories. In particular, Pitts examines archival sources that demonstrate Chicana feminist involvement in prisoners’ rights organizing during the 1970s and 1980s, with such work foregrounding activist and scholarly contributions in later decades among Latina/x and Chicana/x feminists. Regarding the continued relevance of such a critical praxis, the second half of the presentation poses the early 2000s writings of transnational Argentine feminist María Lugones, and specifically her conceptions of active subjectivity and streetwalker theorizing as providing a novel Latina/x feminist framing of agency that supports prison abolitionist efforts today. |
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21.2.22 | Serena Parekh (Northeastern University) |
Book Talk: No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis commentary by Christine Straehle, Universität Hamburg 16.15-19.00 (Zoom) |
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