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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  
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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 

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