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Margaret Lowe Benston Lecture Series on Social Justice hosts decolonial and Global South feminist scholars
51社区黑料Gender, Sexuality, and Women鈥檚 Studies (GSWS) invites you to attend the Spring 2026 Margaret Lowe Benston (MLB) Lecture Series on Social Justice.
In this series of webinars we will hear from scholar-activists whose recent work addresses contemporary challenges for feminist thought from within transnational, decolonial, and anti-capitalist movements from Latin America to Palestine.
Lectures are open to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and the public. Please register for each event you wish to attend to receive a Zoom invitation.
is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at Western Washington University, specializing in transnational, decolonial, and gender struggles, with a focus on Arab America and Palestine. She is a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective and the author of Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Inter/nationalism, Feminism, and Palestine and editorials in Mondoweiss, The New Arab, and other independent media websites. Nada Elia has also contributed to several collaborative activist-scholar texts including The Revolution Will Not Be Funded and INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence Activist Toolkit.
is an Anthropologist and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. Her work examines how colonial histories and structures continue to shape the lives of Indigenous peasant women in Latin America. She has been especially concerned with the ethics and practices of feminist and decolonial ethnography.
Her recent book, Decolonizing Reproductive Rights in Latin America, is ethnography of the aftermath of Peru鈥檚 1990s sterilization campaign. The book analyzes how forced sterilization is interpreted by urban feminists, the state, and Indigenous peasant women, and the hierarchies and dissonances among these perspectives.
is an Associate Researcher at Argentina鈥檚 National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and a Visiting Bye Fellow for Scholars from the Global South at Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge. Her research concerns how emotional and cultural production influence processes of social transformation across borders. Drawing on collaborations with Latin American feminist social movements for abortion rights, she writes about the intersections of art and activism, embodied practices of protest, and feminist image production in historical contexts of authoritarianism and crisis.
Her recent book, Las Pasiones Alegres de Feminismo: o c贸mo agitar la imaginaci贸n pol铆tica contempor谩nea / Joyful passions of feminism: or how to shake up contemporary political passions traces the collective capacity to invent disruptive strategies and to learn from and reformulate the past in transnational feminist movements.
Margaret Lowe Benston Lecture Series (MLB) on Social Justice
Begun in 1994, the MLB Lecture Series is financed by an endowment established in memory of Margaret Benston, commonly known as Maggie Benston, a much beloved member of the 51社区黑料GSWS faculty, who died in 1991. Maggie was a respected colleague and a tireless advocate of social justice.