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Colonial Domesticity with Lisa Lowe
29 April 2025, 3:30 pm–5:30 pm
This lecture examines literary and historical narratives to elaborate "colonial domesticity," and the centrality of kinship, family, and household organization to both the governance of colonized peoples, and to the maintenance and reproduction of racial colonial social relations.
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Institute of Advanced Studies
Location
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Harrie Massey Lecture Theatre25 Gordon StLondonWC1H 0AY
In light of the forced reproductive labor of enslaved women, native girls in domestic work in settler households, and the contemporary transnational concentration of women in and from the Global South in care labor, “colonial domesticity” names an ongoing division of labor by which racialized colonized women perform the labor of reproducing the human species in a social order sorted into categories of difference.
This lecture examines literary and historical narratives to elaborate "colonial domesticity," and the centrality of kinship, family, and household organization to both the governance of colonized peoples, and to the maintenance and reproduction of racial colonial social relations.
All welcome but please register to attend: https://ucl-colonial-domesticity.eventbrite.co.uk
This event has been arranged by qUCL, a university-wide initiative that brings together UCL staff and students with research and teaching interests in LGBTQ studies, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory and related fields.
This event is co-sponsored by the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation. The Centre explores the impact of racism - scientific, metaphysical and cultural.
About the Speaker
Lisa Lowe
Lisa Lowe is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies, and an affiliate faculty in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and Ethnicity, Race, & Migration at Yale University. An interdisciplinary scholar whose work is concerned with the analysis of race, immigration, capitalism, and colonialism, she is the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell University Press, 1991), Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke University Press, 1996), and The Intimacies of Four Continents (Duke University Press, 2015), and the co-editor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke University Press, 1997) and New Questions, New Formations: Asian American Studies, a special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique 5:2 (Fall 1997).