This year’s Arendt-Schurmann Memorial Symposium will explore the theme of "Feminism, Capitalism and Social Transformation." It will convene a diverse group of thinkers who are currently engaged in developing a feminist/anti-capitalist perspective for the coming period. Scholars, students, activists, and anyone interested in the feminist critique of capitalism are welcome.

The symposium will be held on April 21–22, 2016 (Thursday and Friday) in the Wolff Conference Room at the New School for Social Research in New York City.

Organized by the NSSR Philosophy Department, with generous assistance from the Politics Department, Graduate Certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies.

Thursday, April 21, 2016
2:30 - 3:00 PM – Welcome by Nancy Fraser
3:00-5:30 PM – Session 1 
Kathi Weeks – “Marxism, Feminism, and Abolitionism”
Kevin Floyd – “Feminized Surplus: On Reproductive Labor and the Horizon of Value”
Chair: Terri Gordon

6:00 - 8:30 PM – Session 2
Sara Farris – “Feminism and Capitalist Intersections” 
Dayo Gore – “Thinking Anti-Capitalist Politics and the Black Lives Movement through a Black Feminist Genealogy”
Chair: Chiara Bottici

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