Women's and Gender Studies Symposium features Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Chandra Talpade Mohanty is the keynote speaker for the 16th annual Women’s and Gender Studies Symposium on Friday, April 29. Mohanty, chair and professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Dean’s Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University, will present On Wars, Borders and Empires: Securitized Regimes and Feminist Critique at 1 p.m. in the Bone Student Center Old Main Room.

The symposium is an all-day event, with sessions beginning at 9 a.m. and concluding at 4:30 p.m. It will feature eight panels of student research presentations throughout the day in the Old Main Room and Founders Suite at the Bone Student Center.

Mohanty will also lecture on Cultural Expressions in Social Contexts: Women of Asia, Latin America and Africa during an English 206 class on Thursday, April 28, at 3:35 p.m. in 314 Williams Hall. Mohanty’s work focuses on transnational and postcolonial feminist theory, anti-capitalist feminist politics of knowledge and anti-racist education. She is author of Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity and co-editor of Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism; Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures; Feminism and War: Confronting U.S. Imperialism; and the SAGE Handbook of Identities.

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