Welcome message by Álvaro Garrido (FEUC) and António Sousa Ribeiro (CES) | Lecturer's presentation by Marta Araújo (CES)

Overview

This talk explores some of the urgent opportunities contemporary scholarship should engage to make militant scholarship that doesn’t fall into either polemic or complaint.

Bio note

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations including the California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, and the Central California Environmental Justice Network, Gilmore is author of the prize-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (UC Press); and  Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation (Verso). With Paul Gilroy she edited Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Duke). Change Everything is forthcoming (fall 2022 Haymarket). Gilmore has lectured in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. In April 2019 Rachel Kushner profiled Gilmore in The New York Times Magazine. The  Antipode documentary Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore features her internationalist work.  Honors include the American Studies Association Angela Y. Davis Award for Public Scholarship (2012); the Association of American Geographers Harold Rose Award for Anti-Racist Research and Practice (2014); the SUNY-Purchase College Eugene V. Grant Distinguished Scholar Prize for Social and Environmental Justice (2015-16); the American Studies Association Richard A Yarborough Mentorship Award (2017); The Association of American Geographers Lifetime Achievement Award (2020); and the 2020 Lannan Foundation Lifetime Cultural Freedom Prize (along with Angela Y. Davis and  Mike Davis). In 2021 Gilmore was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.