[van-announce] April 25 SFU CounterCulture with Silvia Federici

[Fiona Jeffries]

April 25
Public Lecture with Feminist Scholar and Activist
Silvia Federici
Witch-hunting and Violence Against Women in Capitalist Globalization

Against the background of the 16th and 17th-century witch-hunts, Federici 
examines why the rise of a capitalist world economy has required a war 
against women. She argues that the devaluation and subjugation of women is 
a structural feature of every phase of globalization, down to the present.

7-9 pm SFU Harbour Centre
(515 West Hastings)
Room 1700

Silvia Federici is a feminist scholar, teacher and activist. She has taught 
and lectured in many colleges and universities in Europe, Africa and North 
America and was until recently Prof. of Philosophy and International 
Studies New College of Hofstra University. She has written many books and 
articles on women's work and social struggle from "Wages Against Housework" 
(1974) to "Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive 
Accumulation" (2004). She is presently a coordinator of the Committee for 
Academic Freedom in Africa and a former coordinator of the Radical 
Philosophy Association's Anti-Death Penalty Project.

*Free and Open to the Public*

Supporters: Pacific Centre for Alternative Journalism, SFU School of 
Communication CounterCulture Series, SFU Communication Graduate Students 
Union, BC Federation of Labour, Women's Committee, CUPE BC, Federation of 
Post Secondary Educators, BCGEU, CUPE Local 389, CUPE Metro Council. WISH 
Drop-In, PEERS, PACE, Gallery Gachet.