2006 April 28 Day of Mourning in Vancouver

'Witch-hunting and Violence Against Women in Capitalist Globalization'
Silvia Federici

APRIL 25, 2006, SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY, DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER: Against the background of the 16th and 17th-century witch-hunts, Silvia Federici examines why the rise of a capitalist world economy has required a war against women. She argues that the devaluation and subjugation of women is a structural feature of every phase of globalization, including the present.

Silvia Federici is a feminist scholar, teacher and activist. She has taught and lectured in many colleges and universities in Europe, Africa and North America and was until recently Prof. of Philosophy and International Studies New College of Hofstra University. She has written many books and articles on women's work and social struggle from "Wages Against Housework" (1974) to "Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation" (2004). She is presently a coordinator of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and a former coordinator of the Radical Philosophy Association's Anti-Death Penalty Project.

Supporters: SFU School of Communication CounterCulture Series, SFU Communication Graduate Students Union, BC Federation of Labour, Women's Committee, CUPE BC, Federation of Post Secondary Educators, BCGEU, CUPE Local 389, CUPE Metro Council. WISH Drop-In, PEERS, PACE, Gallery Gachet, Pacific Centre for Alternative Journalism.