Hinckley Institute

10.17.24 The Chicago Women’s Liberation Union and Feminist Political Imagination


Thursday, October 17, 2024

12 - 1:30 PM

Hinckley Institute of Politics,
260 South Central Campus Drive,
Room 2018,
Salt Lake City, UT, 84112
United States

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The Chicago Women’s Liberation Union and Feminist Political Imagination

Presented as Part of  The Neal A. Maxwell Lecture in Political Theory and Contemporary Politics

 

Presenter:

  • Michaele Ferguson, University of Colorado
    Michaele L. Ferguson is Associate Professor of Political Science and a President’s Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of Sharing Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2012), co-editor with Lori J. Marso of W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender (Duke University Press, 2007), and co-editor with Andrew Valls of Iris Marion Young: Gender, Justice, and the Politics of Difference (Routledge, 2022). She has written numerous articles on feminist and democratic theory, including most recently “Dead Dogma and the Limits of Feminist Political Imagination: Thinking #Metoo as Consciousness-Raising," in Theory & Event (2022), and with Alisa Kessel the satirical “Correspondence in re: Brotherhood is Powerful,” in Political Theory (2023).

    She is currently finishing a book on feminist political theory, Bandita: Iris Marion Young and the Politics of Writing, Reading, and Citation, and developing a role-playing game on the Paris Commune. She is the Co-President of the Association for Political Theory, a Consulting Editor for Contemporary Political Theory, and the Special Envoy for the Reacting Consortium.

Commentators:

 

Forum offered online and in the Hinckley Institute caucus room - Room 2018, Gardner Commons.

COSPONSORED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Pizza will be distributed to attendees at the beginning of the event. Please plan to arrive at the venue promptly.

 

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