Alyosxa TudorAlyosxa Tudor,Visiting Scholar in Gender Studies at Brown and Associate Professor at the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London, argues that a decolonial perspective on ‘gender’ means conceptualizing it as always already trans. Tudor’s object of investigation is ‘gender’ as a category and ‘gender studies’ as a field of knowledge.

Silvia FedericiThe Pembroke Center will host a conversation with Silvia Federici, Italian-American scholar and activist; co-founder of the International Feminist Collective; and organizer with the International Wages for Housework campaign.

Hortense J. SpillersThe Pembroke Center’s Feminist Theory Archive and the John Hay Library at Brown University are proud to announce that the Hortense J. Spillers papers are open for research.

The Question of Primitive AccumulationThe concept of primitive accumulation, the process by which modes of production including feudalism and chattel slavery are transformed into the capitalist mode of production, was for Marx the origin narrative of capitalism.

Jacques LezraJacques Lezra, professor of Hispanic studies at the University of California, Riverside, will give the lecture “Defective Institutions: Or, Critique.” Lezra asserts that the task of political philosophy today, at the moment of the crisis of representative democracy we are living, is not the critique of actually-existing institutions or political concepts with the aim of producing new and stronger institutions or new and stronger, more coherent political concepts.

Kimberly Juanita BrownKimberly Juanita Brown, the Elizabeth C. Small Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies and Chair of Gender Studies at Mount Holyoke College, will give the research lecture “Cartographies of the Ocular.” Brown’s research engages the visual as a way to negotiate the parameters of race, gender, and belonging.

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