Women’s studies Professor Chandra Mohanty, Dean’s Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University, will talk about feminist knowledge as part of the Feminist Knowledge Reconsidered: Feminism and the Academy lecture series tomorrow.
Mohanty will discuss “Sites of Feminist Knowledge Production: The Academy and Beyond” on Friday, Jan. 29, at 11:30am in 135 Vanier College, Keele campus. This event was originally scheduled for last October as part of York's 50th-anniversary celebrations, but unfortunately had to be cancelled at that time and rescheduled for tomorrow.
Right: Chandra Mohanty
Monhanty's work focuses on transnational feminist theory, anti-racist education, and studies of colonialism, imperialism and culture. She is interested in the politics of difference and solidarity; the crossing of borders; the relation of feminist knowledge and scholarship to organizing and social movements; mobilizing a transnational feminist anti-capitalist critique; decolonizing knowledge; and theorizing agency, identity and resistance in the context of feminist solidarity.
An internationally renowned feminist scholar and a much sought after speaker, Mohanty is currently looking into the politics of feminist transnationalist praxis in the academy and in social movements.
She is the author of Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity (Duke University Press, 2003) and co-editor of Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (Routledge, 1997) as well as Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (Indiana University Press, 1991).
The lecture is free and no registration is required. It is hosted by York’s Centre for Feminist Research and sponsored by York's Institute for Feminist Legal Studies.
To find out more and to register for the Centre for Feminist Research's listserv, e-mail cfr@yorku.ca.