Guest professor Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Format: 
Compact course
Language: 
English
On-site event
15 December, 2015 - 2:00pm to 6:00pm
Goethe-Uni, Campus Westend, Seminarhaus (SH)

3.105

This seminar addresses core theoretical, methodological, and ethical issues in crafting transnational/postcolonial/anti-racist feminist praxis. It focuses specifically on colonial legacies, feminist anti-capitalist critique, counterhegemonic struggles, and emancipatory knowledge production.

Session II

Subjectivities, Identities, Belongings examines the ethics and politics of home, identity, solidarity, and the production of counterhegemonic knowledges.

In each session students will be asked to connect: the intellectual and political questions raised by the readings to their own genealogies, and to colonial legacies, neoliberalism, and cross border solidarities in Europe.

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Professor of Women‘s and Gender Studies, Sociology, and the Cultural Foundations of Education and Dean‘s Professor of the Humanities

Host: 
Cornelia Goethe Centrum
Concept: 
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ruben Fernandez, Kira Kosnick
Contact: 
Office

The Angela Davis Guest Professorship for International Gender and Diversity Studies serves to promote international and interdisciplinary cooperation in the field of gender and diversity.

Prof Angela Davis is regarded as a pioneer in the global race-class-gender debate and as a pioneer of critical discourse within gender and diversity studies. Her perspective on overlapping forms of inequality based on gender, ethnicity and class has become part of social science theorising as triple oppression - or currently as the intersectionality approach.

Angela Davis was the first holder of the visiting professorship at the Cornelia Goethe Centre in 2013. Following its successful launch, the visiting professorship is filled at regular intervals by an internationally renowned researcher.