This event is part of a four part feminist seminar series this winter quarter highlighting gender, labor and health, war and refugees, and diverse solidarity and economies, coordinated by UW Professor S. Charusheela.

This series Dr. Drucilla K. Barker helped create is in her memory. The entire series will be dedicated to her, and we have a PADLET space for all of us to share memories and images of her.
 

RSVP and Registration is now open for the Dr. Drucilla K. Barker Memoriam Seminar Series. WEDNESDAY, February 15th at 6:00 p.m. Pacific Time (2:00 a.m. GMT) 
 

This seminar series is in collaboration with UWB Labor Colloquium, Harry Bridges Center and the University of Washington | Bothell 
 

RSVP via Events Page 
 

https://uwb.ds.lib.uw.edu/LaborColloquium/events/ 
 

In preparation for Zoom security, we ask that you turn off your camera and mute your microphone. Reminder of zoom protocols, when you register for this event. 
 

For more information and questions, please contact Graduate Assistant Sofia Anderson: Sofia17@uw.edu 
 

The February 15th, 2023 event will feature Dr. Barbara Hopkins, professor of Economics at Wright State University and series event hostess Dr. S. Charusheela, Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at University of Washington Bothell. 
 

The seminar will open with a short memorial to Dr. Barker by Dr. LeeRay Costa, Director of Faculty Development, and Professor and Director of Gender and Women’s Studies at Hollins University and Dr. Darla Schumm, Associate Provost and Professor of Religious Studies at Hollins University. Ending with a closing remembrance by Dr. Serap Kayatekin, president of Association for Economic and Social Analysis (AESA), a friend and colleague of the late Dr. Drucilla K. Barker. 
 

Dr. Barbara Hopkins is a professor of economics at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. She is a feminist radical institutional economist focusing on the interplay between gender and economic systems. She is a member of the Feminist Radical Political Economy Collective. She teaches courses in comparative capitalism, problems of economic development, comparative systems of the Global South, political economy, and gender and public policy at Wright State University. She has published in Feminist Economics, Journal of Economic Issues, Feminist Studies, Review of Political Economy, Review of Radical Political Economics and in several edited volumes including Varieties of Alternative Economic Systems: Practical Utopias for an Age of Global Crisis and Austerity. 
 

Dr. S. Charusheela is Professor at the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (IAS), University of Washington, Bothell (US). She has served as editor of the journal Rethinking Marxism (August 2005–July 2009), as elected member of the Governing Board of the Cultural Studies Association (2009–2015), and as elected member of the Board of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) (2003–2006, 2007–2010). Her research examines the relationship between gender, development, identity, and postcoloniality/globalization. Her co-edited volume (with Eiman Zein-Elabdin) Postcolonialism Meets Economics was published by Routledge in 2004. Selected other publications include “Response: History, Historiography, and Subjectivity,” and “Engendering Feudalism: Modes of Production Debates Revisited” (both in Rethinking Marxism), “Gender and the Stability of Consumption: A Feminist Contribution to Post Keynesian Economics” and “Social Analysis and the Capabilities Approach: A Limit to Martha Nussbaum’s Universalist Ethics” (both in the Cambridge Journal of Economics), and “Intersectionality” (in Deborah Figart and Tonia Warnecke eds. Handbook of Research on Gender and Economic Life). An interview with Dr. Charusheela about her work and contributions to the field can be found in the volume, What is Heterodox Economics?: Conversations with Leading Economists (Mearman, Berger and Guizzo eds., Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics Series, 2019). 
 

Dr. LeeRay Costa is Director of Faculty Development, and Professor and Director of Gender and Women’s Studies at Hollins University. Her research has explored women’s activism and transgender youth in Thailand, food activism in Hawaii, and the integration of contemplative practices and spirituality into social justice education and social movement activism. Her current co-edited book project is entitled Showing Up in Our Fullness: Contemplative Practitioners in Higher Education. 
 

Dr. Darla Schumm is Associate Provost and Professor of Religious Studies at Hollins University. Her current research focuses on the intersections between religious studies and disability studies. She is the co editor of Disability and World Religions: An Introduction, and Chronic Illness, Spirituality, and Health: Diverse Disciplinary, Religious, and Cultural Perspectives. Her most recent essay, published in Inside Higher Ed, argues that higher ed should adopt “crip time” to be more inclusive. 
 

This Seminar Series is in Memoriam of Dr. Drucilla K. Barker 
 

Dr. Drucilla K. Barker was a professor of Women’s & Gender Studies in the Anthropology department at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Barker held research interests in gender and globalization, Marxist-feminist political economy, and feminist theories. Her work ranged from explorations of the gendered nature of the social sciences, to interdisciplinary explorations of caring labor and social reproduction. She, along with Suzanne Bergeron and Susan F. Feiner, is the author Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization. She was a founding member of the International Association for Feminist Economics and was the former director of the Women’s & Gender Studies Program at the University of South Carolina.
 

This series is attached to the University of Washington Bothell Interdisciplinary of Arts and Sciences department. Series host professor S. Charusheela has attached her graduate and undergraduate mixed class: Gender and the Politics of Numbers, to the seminar memoriam series. University of Washington students will be invited to ask questions at the end of tonight’s event. 
 

The public is encouraged to participate, but please note that UW students of class BIS 490/BCULST 593 will be prioritized.