27 August 2020
Online live stream
Thursday 27 August, 7pm (GMT+1 )
Renowned academic, activist and Marxist-Feminist Silvia Federici is joining us to give an online talk as part of our #almanaccare series. She will be reflecting on the Covid-19 pandemic and the BLM movement in relation to her research surrounding feminist theory, social reproduction, primitive accumulation and the commons.
Silvia Federici is a long-time activist, teacher and writer.
In 1972 she was among the founders of the International Feminist Collective, the organization that launched the Campaign for Wages For Housework in the U.S. and abroad. She has also been active in the anti-globalization movement and the anti-death penalty movement. In the 1990s she was a member of the radical journal "Midnight Notes" and in 1991, after a period of teaching in Nigeria, she helped found the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa which, for more than ten years, documented the struggle of African students against the austerity programs imposed by the IMF and the World Bank on African countries, which severely impacted university life. She has written books and article on feminist theory, reproductive work, the politics of the commons, and violence against women and capitalist accumulation. They include Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, now translated in 19 languages; Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction and Feminist Struggle; Witches, Witch-hunting and Women; Beyond the Periphery of the Skin : Rethinking, Remaking, Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism; The New York Wages For Housework Committee. Theory, History Documents. 1972-1977, edited with Arlen Austin.
Silvia is Professor Emerita at Hofstra University and lives in Brooklyn, NewYork, where she works with a women’s group that runs has a website called feministresearchonviolence.
The talk has been organized and will be introduced by curator Joanna Harrison.
The project is supported by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts.
