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Dates:
Wednesday, May 7 from 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Wednesday, May 14 from 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Wednesday, May 22 from 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Wednesday, May 29 from 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
This course aims at creating a conceptual map of Silvia Federici’s theories and activism from her manifesto on wages for housework to the contemporary conception of the commons. We will do a close reading of her canonic texts to define strugglers, struggles, and localities. Each class meeting starts with a set of questions and ends with a set of conclusions drawn from the discussion. The goal is tracing a decolonial trajectory in her work and assessing its adaptability to our surroundings. For each meeting we’ll read one portion of Federici’s Caliban and the Witch plus a more recent article in a chronological order on the following topics: sexuality, housework, violence, and the commons.
This seminar series will be led by Giusi Russo. Giusi is an associate professor of Modern European History at Montgomery County Community College in the greater Philadelphia area. She is interested in the relationship between bodies and European empires. She is the author of Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946-1975 (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). She is now working on a book project, under contract with Routledge, titled The Aesthetics of Third-Worldism in Italy: Bodies, Spaces, and Oppression.