Speaker: Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Syracuse University, Department Chair and Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, Sociology, and the Cultural Foundations of Education & Dean’s Professor of Humanities

Mohanty will offer a postcolonial, anti-imperialist feminist critique that connects struggles for liberation across different geographies and will develop a vision for transnational feminist praxis and solidarity work. In doing so, she will examine three securitized regimes, the USA, Israel, and India, and three specific geopolitical sites the US/Mexico, Israel/ Palestine and India/Kashmir as zones of normalized violence. Mohanty will argue that at these sites, neoliberal and militarized state and imperial practices are often sustained by development/peacekeeping/humanitarian projects, thus illuminating the new contours of securitized states that function as imperial democracies.