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.

Friday, April 22, 2016

10:30 AM - 1:00 PM – Session 3 
Tithi Bhattacharya – “The 'Work' of Life: Social Reproduction, Neoliberalism and the Nonwestern World” 

Miriam Ticktin – “Feminism Against Innocence”
Chair: Cinzia Arruzza

2:30 - 5:00 PM – Session 4 
Johanna Oksala – “Feminism Against Biocapitalism”
Laurie Penny – “Love Is A Battlefield: Feminism and Emotional Labour in the 21st Century”
Chair: Ann Snitow

5:30 - 7:00 PM – Closing Roundtable: Feminisms of the Left
Nancy Holmstrom 
Sarah Leonard
Frances Fox Piven
Ruth Milkman

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