Black radical tradition focus of Ruth Wilson Gilmore presentation

11:50 a.m., Oct. 3, 2014--Ruth Wilson Gilmore, a feminist geographer and designated guest of the Greater Philadelphia Women’s Studies Consortium, will explore “Fatal Couplings: Racial Capitalism and the Black Radical Tradition” at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 8, in the University of Delaware’s Bayard Sharp Hall.

The presentation, which is sponsored by UD’s Department of Women and Gender Studies and the consortium, will focus on the work of Amilcar Cabral, Claudia Jones and Angela Y. Davis

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June 5: Blue Hen 5K

University of Delaware graduates planning to attend Alumni Weekend are encouraged to register for the annual Blue Hen 5K walk and run, which will be held Sunday morning, June 5.

June 6-9: Food and culture series

The 20th annual June Lecture Series at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UD in Wilmington will be held June 6-9. Titled 'June a la Carte,' this year's program focuses on great political documents, feminism, world politics and a Newark cuisine sampler.

• June 6-9: Food and culture series
• Through June 30: 'Saving White Clay Creek'
• July 22: WWE Heatwave Tour
• Through Sept. 16: Women of color in academia

The talk is free and open to the public.

Gilmore is professor of earth and environmental sciences and also American studies, and director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Among many publications, her prize-winning book is Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (2007). Current projects include a second edition of Golden Gulag, as well as several other book projects: Fatal Couplings: Essays on Motion, Racial Capitalism, and the Black Radical Tradition; and Big Things: Reconfigured Landscapes and the Infrastructure of Feeling. 

She is a member of the executive committee of the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC), and serves on the boards of many social justice, cultural, and scholarly formations in the U.S., Europe, and West Asia. She was a founding member of Critical Resistance, California Prison Moratorium Project, and other grassroots organizations.

For a flyer about the presentation, click here.