Associate Professor of History Dr. Tithi Bhattacharya: “I Forgot to Die”, Thinking through Social Reproduction of Palestinian Life
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- Department of Gender & Women's Studies
- Location
- Channing-Murray Foundation 1209 W. Oregon, Urbana
- Date
- Oct 29, 2024 12:00 - 1:30 pm
- Views
- 117
- Originating Calendar
- Middle East Events
Tithi Bhattacharya is a professor of South Asian History at Purdue University. She is the author of Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence (Duke UP, 2024), The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (Oxford UP, 2005) and is the editor of the now classic study, Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression (Pluto Press, 2017). Her popular coauthored book, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto (Verso, 2019), has been translated in over 30 languages. She writes extensively on South Asian history, Marxist theory, gender, and the politics of Islamophobia. A longstanding social justice activist, she is active in her local community as well as in struggles nationally and internationally