Cannibal Capitalism: The View from Trump’s America - 2025 Faculty Book Celebration

Featuring keynote speaker Nancy Fraser, the Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research and author of “Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It”

Save the dates!

New this year: The Faculty Book Celebration lectures and book display will be held on Tuesday, February 25 and the panel discussion will be held on Wednesday, February 26. The two Washington University faculty speakers will be announced early in the spring semester.

The publication of a monograph or significant creative work is a milestone in the career of an academic. The Center for the Humanities commemorates this achievement annually during the Faculty Book Celebration. The event recognizes Washington University faculty from the humanities and humanistic social sciences by displaying their recently published works and large-scale creative projects and inviting two campus authors and a guest lecturer to speak at a public gathering.

About the keynote speaker

NANCY FRASER is the Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research and a member of the Editorial Committee of New Left Review. Trained as a philosopher, she specializes in critical social theory and political philosophy. Widely known for her work on the relation between redistribution and recognition in the theory of justice, she works now on the relation of capitalism to racial oppression, social reproduction, ecological crisis, feminist movements and the rise of rightwing populism.

Fraser’s newest book is Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It (Verso, 2022). Other recent books include Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, co-authored with Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya (Verso, 2019); The Old is Dying (Verso, 2019); and Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory, co-authored with Rahel Jaeggi (Polity Press, 2018).

Fraser’s work has been translated into more than 20 languages and was cited three times by the Justices of the Brazilian Supreme Court in opinions upholding marriage equality, affirmative action and Afro-descendant collective land rights. A Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a past president of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, she is the recipient of six honorary degrees, the Alfred Schutz Prize for Social Philosophy, the Nessim Habif World Prize and the Nonino Prize 2022 “Master of our Time.”

RSVP will open soon.