At the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje on May 29, starting at 17 p.m., a conversation will be held on the topic of intersectional humanism today. The conversation will take place between Jody Dean, an American philosopher, theorist and professor, and Senka Anastasova, a philosopher and professor of Macedonian origin. The event is part of the eleventh edition of the Feminist Culture and Action Festival "Female First".

Jodi Dean is an outstanding American political theorist, philosopher, professor of political science and media theory and teaches at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva and New York. Senka Anastasova is a philosopher and professor of aesthetics and political philosophy at the University "St. Cyril and Methodius" - Skopje.

The Anastasova - Dean meeting is also part of the long-term collaboration of these two authors within the framework of rethinking the resistance against the capitalist system, class, race, political-economic subversions and social rearticulation, as well as (post)colonial relations and contemporary feminist political theory in the USA and Europe. It is part of the series of critical-philosophical panel discussions that Anastasova leads in various locations around the world, and this spring will take place in Skopje.

Jodi Dean will give her lecture on: "Lessons from Black Communist Women," and the talk will also follow up on Dean's latest book (which she co-edits with C. Burden-Staley), entitled "Organize, Fight, Win : political writings of black communist women" ("Organize, fight, win: black communist women's political writings") published by Verso, and Anastasova's latest book in the field of feminist epistemology, entitled "Political Narratosophy", published of Routledge Press, 2023.

Jodi Dean's publications are positioned at the innovative lucid intersection between freedom, solidarity, political theory, cultural policies, art and politics, revolution, practices of resistance, black women, labor politics, radical democracy, post-democracy, anarcho-fragmentism, new fascism. , as well as exploring new forms of struggle against capitalism, in the United States and Europe.

Dean subversively considers the East-West relationship, as well as cultural studies and political theory, viewed through the legacy of communism, the critique of digital feudalism, environmental apocalypticism, new media and the arts, socialism, extreme economic inequality, communication capitalism, technocracy, the Soviet Union, feminism. and social justice, and in these few years her research has been related to political contexts in Southeast Europe.

Senka Anastasova will develop this conversation with Jodi Dean from the position of a member of the international board of "Hypatia" - Journal of Feminist Philosophy, USA. The event was realized in cooperation with "Prvo pa žensko", MSU and the Studio for Aesthetics and Political Philosophy.