Renowned social theorist Professor Hill-Collins to guest lecture at DASS

Distinguished social theorist Professor Patricia Hill-Collins from the University of Maryland will be giving a guest lecture to the Department of Applied Social Science (DASS) on Thursday 23 April.

Professor Hill-Collins’s internationally acclaimed research has examined issues of race, gender, social class, sexuality and nation. She has subsequently become a central voice within the field of sociology becoming 2008 President of the American Sociological Association.

Collins's many articles and essays have been published under various academic branches including philosophy, history and psychology.
She received both the C. Wright Mills Award and the Jesse Barnard Award for her first book Black Feminist Thought. The work was gradually added to the reading lists of gender studies courses throughout the US, a trend which has continued through her professional career.

Race, Class and Gender: An Anthology is widely used in over 200 colleges and universities and is recognised for shaping the fields of race, class and gender studies as well the related concept of intersectionality.

Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice focused on discrimination against women in black communities and the role of black women as ’outsiders within’. In 2004 she published Black Sexual Politics arguing that racism and sexism were intertwined. Her 2006 book entitled From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism, examines the relationship between black nationalism, feminism and women in the hip-hop generation.

The lecture, organised by DASS Lecturer Peter Hodgkinson, will focus on Professor Hill-Collins’s life and work. If you would like to attend, please fill in the registration form at www.londonmet.ac.uk/dasslectures

Event details:
Thursday 23 April, 11.30am
Room LH 208, Ladbroke House
North Campus

For more information contact:
Peter Hodgkinson
020 7133 5085
p.hodgkinson@londonmet.ac.uk

6 April 2009