The Center for Race & Gender presents Spring 2013 Distinguished Guest Lecture:
Decolonizing Feminism in the Age of Intersectionality
Prof. Linda Martín Alcoff
Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
5:30 pm: Reception
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Lecture & Discussion
370 Dwinelle Hall
UC Berkeley
Free and open to the public. Location is wheelchair accessible.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/353940548043503
Co-sponsored by the Chicano/Latino Studies Program, Gender & Women’s Studies, and the Department of Philosophy
She is currently at work on two new books: a book on sexual violence, and an account of future of white identity. Also forthcoming is another anthology co-edited with Jack Caputo on the politics of love. She is a co-editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. She has held an ACLS Fellowship, a Society for the Humanities at Cornell University Fellowship, and she was named one of Syracuse University’s first Meredith Professors for Teaching Excellence. She is President of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, and has also served on its Executive Committee, Nominating Committee, Program Committee, Committee on the Status of Women, and as Chair of the Committee on Hispanics/Latinos. She also served as Co- Director of SPEP (the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy). She was named the Distinguished Woman in Philosophy for 2005 by the Society for Women in Philosophy, and in 2006 she was named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the United States by Hispanic Business magazine. In September 2011 she was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Oslo. Her book Visible Identities, won the Frantz Fanon Award in 2009. She is originally from Panama, but lives today happily in Brooklyn. More info here: http://www.alcoff.com/