BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260420T002013Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241031T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241031T143000 SUMMARY:"Between Critical Theory and the New Materialism: Paradigm Thinking and Paradigm Shifts in Black Feminist Studies" UID:20260423T011603Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-nv7xt TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:University of Rhode Island\, Kingston\, United States\, 02881 DESCRIPTION:

Black feminist studies has undergone a paradigm shift. Scholarship has pivoted from critical themes like intersectionality and antiessentialism to material ones like antiblackness and posthumanism. To better understand these developments\, I argue that we need a better understanding of paradigm thinking in black feminist studies altogether. This talk seeks to aid our understanding by defining black feminism&rsquo\;s competing paradigms&mdash\;black feminist critical theory and the new material black feminisms&mdash\;and exploring their philosophical foundations\, differences\, and status in black feminism today. I demonstrate why some have argued that the thought of Patricia Hill Collins\, Kimberlé\; Crenshaw\, Agela Y. Davis\, and bell hooks constitute a distinct black feminist paradigm (black feminist critical theory). And then I move to show why others argue that the thought of Sylvia Wynter\, Hortense Spillers\, and Saidiya Hartman constitute a distinct competing one (new material black feminism). Today\, many scholars believe that black feminist critical theory has been the casualty of black feminism&rsquo\;s paradigm shift. I offer some tentative reasons for this development and discuss some ways that black feminist critical theory might be reinvigorated for today.

ORGANIZER;CN=K. Bailey Thomas;CN=Caleb Ward: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR