| Description | Please join the University of Washington Bothell Labor Studies Colloquium and the Labor Stories During Pandemic Times class for a roundtable discussion with The Feminist Radical Political Economy (FRPE) Collective on, "Social Reproduction Reimagined.” Please pre-register to receive an e-mail with the Zoom details the day of the event here. This talk and conversation is open to the public and will be recorded. This roundtable brings together members of the Feminist Radical Political Economy (FRPE) collective to discuss labor in times of crisis. Themes addressed include the precarity of labor, war and migration and national boundaries, care in times of COVID (and beyond), the rise of fascism, the implications of agrarian crises and possibilities for alternative approaches and economic transformation. Speakers will be: Dr. Drucilla K. Barker (Professor, Department of Anthropology and the Women’s & Gender Studies Program, University of South Carolina), Dr. Suzanne Bergeron (Helen Mataya Graves Collegiate Professor of Women’s Studies and Social Sciences, University of Michigan Dearborn USA), Dr. S. Charusheela (Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington Bothell), Dr. Jennifer Cohen (Assistant Professor, Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami University & Joint Researcher, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand), Dr. Barbara Hopkins (Professor, Economics, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio), Dr. Sirisha Naidu (Associate Professor of Economics, University of Missouri-Kansas City), Dr. Jennifer Olmsted (Professor of Economics, Drew University), Dr. Smriti Rao, (Professor Economics and Global Studies, Assumption University and Resident Scholar, Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University). This talk, organized by Dr. S Charusheela, is taking place on Zoom in conjunction with BCULST 587/BISIA 410 S21 Labor Stories During Pandemic Times. The talk is free and open to the public, with pre-registration. Zoom links will be e-mailed the day of the talk. For event questions email charus@uw.edu, for UWB Labor Studies Colloquium questions, contact Dr. Ching-In Chen at chingin@uw.edu.
About the Colloquium: Join the University of Washington Bothell Labor Studies Colloquium for a year of online talks investigating and exploring the exacerbated, economic fault lines for working class lives in times of crisis. Each meeting, held on Zoom, will feature a talk by a visiting scholar and/or artist and discussion, including topics such as the carceral and unresponsive state, alternate and solidarity economies and community storytelling. The seminars are organized by UWB Labor Colloquium faculty members Dr. Dan Berger, Dr. S. Charusheela, Dr. Joseph Ferrare and Dr. Kari Lerum, coordinated by Dr. Ching-In Chen with assistance from Graduate Assistant Simon Wolf. |
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