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SUMMARY:An Abolitionist History of the University
DESCRIPTION:[embed]https://youtu.be/lYoO9VjNggw[/embed]\n\nIn our moment of
  fascist authoritarianism and war\, what does an abolitionist approach to 
 the university offer? In this session\, Abolitionist University Studies au
 thors Eli Meyerhoff\, Abbie Boggs\, Nick Mitchell\, and Zach Schwartz will
  provide an overview of what abolitionist perspectives provide for thinkin
 g about the university. Together\, we’ll explore questions of debt and c
 apture to make sense of the perceived inevitability 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 spea
 kers Eli Meyerhoff\, Abbie Boggs\, Nick Mitchell\, &amp\; Zach Schwartz-We
 instein (bios below).\n\n 	Eli Meyerhoff is a program coordinator in the J
 ohn Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. His research an
 d organizing focus on abolitionist\, decolonial approaches to education in
 stitutions and alternative modes of studying. He is the author of a book\,
  Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World (published with Univ
 ersity of Minnesota Press\, 2019). Along with his frequent collaborators\,
  Boggs\, Mitchell\, and Schwartz-Weinstein\, he co-wrote “Abolitionist U
 niversity Studies: An Invitation" and "Marx\, Critique\, and Abolition: Hi
 gher Education as Infrastructure."\n 	Abbie Boggs is a scholar of feminist
 \, queer\, and immigration studies with a focus on the transnational dimen
 sions of the contemporary US university. She teaches in the Wesleyan Unive
 rsity Department of Sociology\, College of Education Studies\, and Program
  in Feminist\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies. Her first book\, “Degrees
  of Empire: Noncitizen Students and the Making of US Higher Education\," f
 orthcoming from Fordham University Press in Fall 2026\, provides a critica
 l genealogy of the figure of the noncitizen student in university policy\,
  federal immigration law\, and U.S. popular culture. She also writes with 
 Eli Meyerhoff\, Nick Mitchell\, and Zach Schwartz-Weinstein on abolitionis
 t approaches to the study of US higher education. Her writing has appeared
  in American Quarterly\, The Journal of Academic Freedom\, Feminist Studie
 s\, Abolition Journal\, The Abusable Past\, and The History of the Present
 \, and the edited collections Mobile Desires: The Politics and Erotics of 
 Mobility Justice and University Keywords.\n 	Nick Mitchell is a feminist t
 heorist and historian of higher education and the politics of knowledge in
  the U.S. Her work can be found in essays published in Feminist Studies\, 
 Critical Ethnic Studies\, The New Inquiry\, and Spectre\, as well as in tw
 o forthcoming books: Discipline and Surplus: Black Studies at the Dawn of 
 Neoliberalism (under contract with Duke University Press) and The Universi
 ty\, in Theory: Essays on Institutionalized Knowledge.\n 	Zach Schwartz-We
 instein is Site Director for Woodbourne for Bard Prison Initiative.  He w
 rites histories of university labor.  His book in progress is titled Our 
 People Will Survive and Fight This God-Damned University: Service Workers 
 and the University-Hospital City\, 1964-1980.  He is a coauthor\, with Ab
 bie Boggs\, Eli Meyerhoff\, and Nick Mitchell\, of several essays on Aboli
 tionist University Studies.\n\nThis session is a part of the larger Jubile
 e School: College for All series.
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