On Friday, May 8, from 10:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., the annual New School for Social Research Politics Graduate Student Conference will be held.

This interdisciplinary conference which features a keynote address by Amy Allen and a brown bag lunch with political activist and author Victoria Law, seeks to problematize and contextualize the complex themes of resistance, power, and order within historical and contemporary political discourses. For a full conference schedule visit The New School for Social Research event calendar .

Amy Allen is associate professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies and chair of the Philosophy Department at Dartmouth College, where she has taught since 1997. Her research interests are in 20th century Continental Philosophy, with a particular emphasis on the intersection of critical social theory, poststructuralism, and feminist theory. She has published widely on the topics of power, subjectivity, agency, and autonomy in the work of Foucault, Habermas, Butler, and Arendt, including two books: The Power of Feminist Theory: Domination, Resistance, Solidarity (Westview, 1999) and The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory (Columbia University Press, 2008).


This free event will take place at the New Wolff Conference Room, 6 East 16th Street, 9th floor.