BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0-6@blogit.utu.fi DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240917 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240919 DTSTAMP:20240416T053245Z URL:https://blogit.utu.fi/kultva/events/feminist-encounters-with-marxism-p ast-present-future/ SUMMARY:Feminist Encounters with Marxism: Past\, Present\, Future DESCRIPTION:17-18 September 2024\, University of Turku\n\nKeynote speakers: \n\nSara Farris\, Goldsmiths\, University of London\n\nBeverley Skeggs\, L ancaster University\n\nMarxist feminism is experiencing a resurgence. It i s capturing the attention of feminists seeking to understand how to interv ene\, theoretically and politically\, in the forces of oppression\, exploi tation and domination at play both locally and globally. The core of this resurgence lies in the theoretical diversity of Marxist feminism\, which w eaves various elements from Marxist theory together with\, for example\, q ueer theory\, intersectionality\, and postcolonial theory.\n\nFeminist Enc ounters with Marxism delves into these dynamic intersections. The event ex plores the evolving landscape of Marxist feminist thought\, seeking to und erstand how it inspires and informs feminist research and politics today. Marxism has animated feminist analysis and struggles in many ways\, and fe minist scholars have made important contributions to Marxist thought by de veloping its conceptual repertoire\, expanding its scope of questions and contexts and reconstructing its theoretical premises. Fruitful exchanges h ave involved\, for instance\, social reproduction\, environmental crisis\, psychic dimensions of power\, the politics of class\, gender\, race and s exuality\, and the structural and material conditions of everyday life.\n\ nFeminist Encounters with Marxism assembles scholars and students interest ed in the intersections between Marxism and feminism. We welcome papers th at engage with Marxist thought from different feminist perspectives. The p apers may address\, but need not be limited to\, the following questions:\ n\n What is the relevance of Marxist ideas and conceptions to feminist th eory today?\n What does Marxist thought have to offer contemporary femini st analysis and politics?\n How can Marxist perspectives animate feminist struggles now and in the future?\n How can we think together with Marxis t ideas\, and what are they good for?\n How should we rethink and rework Marxist categories and concepts from different feminist perspectives?\n H ow can we use Marxist feminist concepts and perspectives in empirical rese arch and in variegated historical\, cultural and social contexts?\n How c an Marxist feminist thought inspire political imagination?\n\nThe event co nsists of keynote lectures\, a roundtable and working groups. The keynote lectures and roundtable are open to everyone\; working groups will be rese rved to a limited number of registered participants.\n\nSubmission guideli nes:\n\nPlease register for the event through the online submission form b y 30 April.\n\nhttps://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/B4E52990FA72768C\n\nPlea se indicate whether you wish to present or to attend without presenting. P reference will be given to those presenting a paper. Please submit your ab stract and a short biographical note through the online submission form. N otification of acceptance will be sent by 15 May.\n\nThe presenters are in vited to submit either full papers (max 8000 words) or a short\, 4-5 page summary of their paper in advance – by 15 August. Papers will be circula ted among the participants of the working groups in order to facilitate in -depth discussion. The format is flexible and can include working papers\, article manuscripts\, research proposals\, essays etc.\n\nThe event is or ganized in collaboration with the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Univer sity of Turku (Finland) and Department of Gender Studies at the Örebro Un iversity (Sweden). We also cordially acknowledge support from Culture and Interaction network (KULTVA) at the University of Turku and The Associatio n of Marxist Social Research (MYTS) for organising this event.\n\nOrganizi ng committee: \n\nSuvi Salmenniemi (University of Turku)\,\n\nSami Torsson en (University of Turku)\,\n\nEvelina Johansson Wilén (Örebro University )\n\nFor more information\, please contact Suvi Salmenniemi\, suvi.salmenn iemi [at] utu.fi.\n\n \;\n\nKeynote lectures:\n\nThe coloniality of so cial reproduction\n\nSara Farris\n\nSince the early 2020s the UK has recru ited hundreds of thousands of migrant care workers as it faces a huge care crisis where shortages in care are amongst the worse in recent history. A n aspect of this current flow in labour mobility that has not received suf ficient attention is the fact that the large majority of these migrant wor kers are women from former British colonies. While labour recruitment from the colonies is not new in British history as it regularly took place dur ing colonial times and under the Commonwealth\, it is worth noting that th is new mass wave of labour mobility involves mostly women to be employed i n the socially reproductive sectors of health and social care. Based on re search with migrant workers employed in private care homes in London\, thi s paper aims to explore the specific implications of colonial relations fo r understanding the contemporary capitalist re-organisation of social repr oduction. To do this\, I bring into dialogue SRT with the work of Anibal Q uijano\, Maria Mies and Gargi Bhattacharya among others.\n\nBiographical n ote: Sara R. Farris is Associate Professor in Sociology at Goldsmiths Univ ersity of London. She is the author of In the name of women's rights. The rise of femonationalism (Duke UP\, 2017) and of many articles on migration \, gender\, care and social reproduction.\n\n \;\n\nUsing feminist Mar xism (with culture) to explain and study things\n\nBeverley Skeggs\n\nI be gin with a problem\, which began in the 80s\, “how to explain the format ion of working-class women’s subjectivity in order to understand how the y respond to power”. This emerged from a specific Gramscian question abo ut how and why people give consent to power. I realised I had to be specif ic about what power and for me feminist explanations were not enough (trad itional patriarchy\, gender ideology)\, I realised I needed the economic\, political and cultural. So I began a mapping exercise via Paul Willis\, S tuart Hall\, Richard Johnson (CCCS Birmingham). They were all criticised b y traditional Marxist men of the time for being not-Marxist\, ie they stud ied the cultural in detail. But…they didn’t engage with feminism. So I tried to construct a framework that incorporated both. Usefully the femin ist Butler/Fraser debate consolidated the issues by focusing on recognitio n. But I worked out that that was not enough to explain the lives of worki ng class women. So then I began to interrogate specific concepts to see if they would help eg how does recognition work for those who do not want to be recognised? Or the concept of ‘value’ for feminism? All of my rese arch has been about an engagement between the cultural and political econo my. I landed on history and property (early Marx)\, performance (feminism\ , cultural studies\, queer theory) and personhood (anthropology) to unders tand class differences when studying queer lives\, reality TV\, and social media. It’s my best explanation so far…….\n\nBiographical note: Bev erley Skeggs is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. P reviously she was Director of the Atlantic Fellows Programme at the LSE\, Professor of Sociology\, at Goldsmiths\, University of London and Manchest er University. She has published The Media\; Issues in Sociology (1992)\; Feminist Cultural Theory (1995)\; Formations of Class and Gender (1997)\; Class\, Self\, Culture (2004)\; Sexuality and the Politics of Violence and Safety (2004)(with Les Moran) and Feminism after Bourdieu (2005)( with Li sa Adkins)\, and with Helen Wood\, Reacting to Reality TV: Audience\, Perf ormance\, Value (2012) and Reality TV and Class (2012). And ran an ESRC pr oject on “A Sociology of Value and Value” based on software research. Plus lots of other writing. The 3 vol Sage Handbook of Marxism was recentl y published with Sara Farris\, Alberto Toscano and Svenya Bromberg.\n\n&nb sp\; LOCATION:University of Turku\, Assistentinkatu 7\, Turku\, 20500\, Suomi X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Assistentinkatu 7\, Turku\, 20500\, Suomi;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=University of Turku:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR