Wednesday March 11, 2020
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
From the time the term was coined in the nineteenth century, ‘socialism’ has been a protean concept, and remains so today. This panel will examine socialist activity and practice in three widely different twentieth-century contexts, analyzing the specific historical circumstances that gave rise to each manifestation.
Panel features:
“Waving Red Flags: Sugar Workers in 1930s British Guiana”
Nicole Burrowes
Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies
University of Texas at Austin
“Amos Oz’s Kibbutz”
Karen Grumberg
Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
University of Texas at Austin
“Brotherly (and Sisterly) Love in the Wilds of Siberia? Gender, Domesticity, and Socialism in the Kuzbas Colony, 1922-1926.”
Julia Mickenberg
Professor of American Studies, Provost Teaching Fellow, and
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Women and Gender Studies; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
University of Texas at Austin
The event is part of the Institute’s 2019-2020 series on “Agency and Action: Chapters in Socialist and Collectivist History.”
