SFU CounterCulture Series Presents,

Emancipating Knowledge:

Austerity, Education and the Global Debt Strike Movement

A discussion with Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis

6-8pm, Room 1520

SFU Harbour Centre

(515 West Hastings St.)

Free and Open to the Public

Bios:

Silvia Federici is a long time feminist activist, teacher and writer. She was a co-founder of the International Feminist Collective, the New York Wages For Housework Committee, the Radical Philosophy Association Anti-Death Penalty Project and the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa. She has taught at the University of Port Harcourt (Nigeria) and Hofstra University. She has authored many essays on feminist theory and history. Her published books include: “Caliban and the Witch. Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation”; “Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and its Others” (editor); “Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities” (co-editor).

George Caffentzis was a co-founder of the Midnight Notes Collective and a coordinator of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa. His is now working with the anti-student loan debt movement group: occupystudentdebtcampaign.org. He has taught in many universities in the US and at the University of Calabar (Nigeria). He has written many essays on social and political themes. His published books include “Clipped Coins, Abused Words and Civil Government: John Locke’s Philosophy of Money, “Exciting the Industry of Mankind: George Berkeley’s Philosophy of Money”; “No Blood for Oil! (an e-book accessed at www.radicalpolytics.org). His co-edited books include: “Midnight Oil: Work Energy War 1973-1992)”; “Auroras of the Zapatistas: Local and Global Struggles in the Fourth World War”; “Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities.”

Sponsored by SFU Institute for the Humanities, School of Communication, School for the Contemporary Arts, Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology.