December 1, 2025
Benso organizes and chairs international scholarly panel
Silvia Benso, professor in the Department of Philosophy and director of the women's, gender, and sexuality studies program, organized and chaired the international scholarly panel held at the Society for Italian Philosophy meeting on Oct. 18. The panel, “Thinking with Silvia Federici: Marxism, Materialist Feminism, and the Practice of the Commons,” featured leading Italian feminist scholar, theoretician, and activist Silvia Federici, emerita at Hofstra University and author of Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation.
