Date: Thursday, November 7th
Time: 11 AM BJT
Zoom ID: 261 330 4845
Location: IB 1047
Lecture Overview:
The talk will explore how Western Feminist theorists and social scientists have moved away from the Marxist tradition, particularly at the turn of the century, just when Marxist intellectuals began critically examining the relationship between various late 20th-century post-isms (poststructuralism, post-industrialism, postmodernism) and the rise of neoliberalism. This shift has led to a focus on micro-level perseverance and struggles of the underprivileged, moving away from larger structures of domination and exploitation.
Krylova will discuss how these changes have de-scaled and de-radicalized key categories like power, resistance, and agency, with lasting consequences on feminist scholarship.
About the Speaker:
Anna Krylova is an expert in historical and social theory, gender theory, and Marxism, with a focus on modern Russia and feminist theory. She is the author of Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front, which won the 2011 AHA Herbert Baxter Adams Prize. Her current book project, History-Writing or Sleepwalking Through History in Neoliberal Times, reexamines American historians’ engagement with poststructuralism.
Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with cutting-edge feminist theory and its intersections with Marxist thought!