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Premila Nadasen Public Lecture and Seminar

PREMILA
November 17 - November 18, 2016
12:00AM - 12:00AM
Koffolt Labs Room 207 / 386 University Hall

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Add to Calendar 2016-11-17 00:00:00 2016-11-18 00:00:00 Premila Nadasen Public Lecture and Seminar Professor Premilla Nadasen is an associate professor of history at Queens College (City University of New York). She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1999 and her B.A. from the University of Michigan. Her dissertation on the welfare rights movement was nominated for the Bancroft Award. Her book, Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States (Routledge 2005), outlines the ways in which African American women on welfare forged a feminism of their own out of the political and cultural circumstances of the late 1960s and 1970s.  Public Lecture: Thursday, November 17 | 3:30p-5p | Koffolt Labs 207Household Worker Organizing:  Feminism, Race, and the Politics of Care WorkIn the 1970s African American domestic workers developed a nationwide movement that organized in public spaces, pushed to revalue the labor that took place in the home, fostered alliances with employers, and demanded state-based protections. In making their claim for “pay, professionalism and respect” they rejected the language of care and instead framed their work in terms of rights, suggesting that regardless of the kind of work they performed they were entitled to the same protections as other workers. Faculty & Graduate Seminar: Friday,  November 18 | 11:30a | 386 University Hall, AAAS conference roomSeminar readings will be available closer to the seminar. Koffolt Labs Room 207 / 386 University Hall Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies wgss@osu.edu America/New_York public

Professor Premilla Nadasen is an associate professor of history at Queens College (City University of New York). She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1999 and her B.A. from the University of Michigan. Her dissertation on the welfare rights movement was nominated for the Bancroft Award. Her book, Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States (Routledge 2005), outlines the ways in which African American women on welfare forged a feminism of their own out of the political and cultural circumstances of the late 1960s and 1970s.

 

Public Lecture: Thursday, November 17 | 3:30p-5p | Koffolt Labs 207

Household Worker Organizing:  Feminism, Race, and the Politics of Care Work

In the 1970s African American domestic workers developed a nationwide movement that organized in public spaces, pushed to revalue the labor that took place in the home, fostered alliances with employers, and demanded state-based protections. In making their claim for “pay, professionalism and respect” they rejected the language of care and instead framed their work in terms of rights, suggesting that regardless of the kind of work they performed they were entitled to the same protections as other workers.

 

Faculty & Graduate Seminar: Friday,  November 18 | 11:30a | 386 University Hall, AAAS conference room

Seminar readings will be available closer to the seminar.