University of Wisconsin–Madison

Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature

Alyssa Battistoni, Barnard College

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Online via Zoom and Sewell Social Science Bldg., Room 8417

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This event was presented in collaboration with the Department of History at UW-Madison.

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Alyssa Battistoni is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, where she works and teaches on climate and environmental politics, capitalism, Marxism, feminism, and other topics in contemporary social and political thought. She is the author of Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature (Princeton 2025) and the co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Verso 2019).