Friday Feb 19, 2-4pm

David Harvey

Rebel Cities and Urban Commons

ARC Seminar Room 5318

Wednesday October 7, Vicenc Navarro

All Welcome

Two Events:

1. Inequality and the Commons Series Seminar: “Was Gramsci Right or Wrong? Questions of Nation and Class,” 12-2pm, ARC Seminar Room (GC 5318)
2. Lecture: “The Crisis of Neoliberalism in Europe: The appearance of Podemos in Spain,” 6:15pm, C204-5, followed by Reception in Anthropology Brockway Room, 6th Floor

Vicenc Navarro is a Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Professor of Public Policy in Barcelona, Johns Hopkins University, and University of Pampeu Fabra, Barcelona.

Tuesday, October 20, 6:30pm

Sylvia Federicci and George Caffentzis

Commons Against and Beyond Capitalism

ARC Seminar Room 5318

NOTE: The paper by Federicci and Caffentzis, “Commons Against and Beyond Capitalism,” is available online at http://cdj.oxfordjournals.org/content/49/suppl_1/i92.full.

Silvia Federici is a long time feminist activist, teacher and writer.

She was a co-founder of the International Feminist Collective, the New York Wages For Housework Committee, the Radical Philosophy Association Anti-Death Penalty Project and the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa. She has taught at the University of Port Harcourt (Nigeria) and Hofstra University.She has authored many essays on feminist theory and history. Her published books include: “Revolution at Point Zero,” “Caliban and the Witch. Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation”; “Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and its Others” (editor); “Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities” (co-editor).

George Caffentzis is a member of the Midnight Notes Collective and a coordinator of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa.He has taught in many universities in the US and at the University of Calabar (Nigeria). He has written many essays on social and political themes. His published books include”In Letters of Blood and Fire,”  “Clipped Coins, Abused Words and Civil Government: John Locke’s Philosophy of Money, “Exciting the Industry of Mankind: George Berkeley’s Philosophy of Money”; “Auroras of the Zapatistas: Local and Global Struggles in the Fourth World War”; “Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities.”