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SUMMARY:An Abolitionist History of the University
DESCRIPTION:In our moment of fascist authoritarianism and war\, what does a
 n abolitionist approach to the university offer? In this session\, Aboliti
 onist University Studies authors Eli Meyerhoff\, Abbie Boggs\, Nick Mitche
 ll\, and Zach Schwartz will provide an overview of what abolitionist persp
 ectives provide for thinking about the university. Together\, we’ll expl
 ore questions of debt and capture to make sense of the perceived inevitabi
 lity of capitalism and how seeing the world from the perspectives of those
  who have resisted debt and capture can expand our imaginative horizons.\n
 \nWe will be joined by speakers Eli Meyerhoff\, Abbie Boggs\, Nick Mitchel
 l\, &amp\; Zach Schwartz-Weinstein (bios below).\n\n 	Eli Meyerhoff is a p
 rogram coordinator in the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke 
 University. His research and organizing focus on abolitionist\, decolonial
  approaches to education institutions and alternative modes of studying. H
 e is the author of a book\, Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another
  World (published with University of Minnesota Press\, 2019). Along with h
 is frequent collaborators\, Boggs\, Mitchell\, and Schwartz-Weinstein\, he
  co-wrote “Abolitionist University Studies: An Invitation" and "Marx\, C
 ritique\, and Abolition: Higher Education as Infrastructure."\n 	Abbie Bog
 gs is a scholar of feminist\, queer\, and immigration studies with a focus
  on the transnational dimensions of the contemporary US university. She te
 aches in the Wesleyan University Department of Sociology\, College of Educ
 ation Studies\, and Program in Feminist\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies. 
 Her first book\, “Degrees of Empire: Noncitizen Students and the Making 
 of US Higher Education\," forthcoming from Fordham University Press in Fal
 l 2026\, provides a critical genealogy of the figure of the noncitizen stu
 dent in university policy\, federal immigration law\, and U.S. popular cul
 ture. She also writes with Eli Meyerhoff\, Nick Mitchell\, and Zach Schwar
 tz-Weinstein on abolitionist approaches to the study of US higher educatio
 n. Her writing has appeared in American Quarterly\, The Journal of Academi
 c Freedom\, Feminist Studies\, Abolition Journal\, The Abusable Past\, and
  The History of the Present\, and the edited collections Mobile Desires: T
 he Politics and Erotics of Mobility Justice and University Keywords.\n 	Ni
 ck Mitchell is a feminist theorist and historian of higher education and t
 he politics of knowledge in the U.S. Her work can be found in essays publi
 shed in Feminist Studies\, Critical Ethnic Studies\, The New Inquiry\, and
  Spectre\, as well as in two forthcoming books: Discipline and Surplus: Bl
 ack Studies at the Dawn of Neoliberalism (under contract with Duke Univers
 ity Press) and The University\, in Theory: Essays on Institutionalized Kno
 wledge.\n 	Zach Schwartz-Weinstein is Site Director for Woodbourne for Bar
 d Prison Initiative.  He writes histories of university labor.  His book
  in progress is titled Our People Will Survive and Fight This God-Damned U
 niversity: Service Workers and the University-Hospital City\, 1964-1980. 
  He is a coauthor\, with Abbie Boggs\, Eli Meyerhoff\, and Nick Mitchell\,
  of several essays on Abolitionist University Studies.\n\nThis session is 
 a part of the larger Jubilee School: College for All series.
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