Posthuman, All Too Human

Event time: 
Wednesday, March 1, 2017 - 5:00pm to Friday, March 3, 2017 - 12:00pm
Location: 
53 Wall St.
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Wednesday, March 1, “Memoirs of a Posthumanist”
Thursday, March 2, “Aspirations of a Posthumanist”
Friday, March 3, Rüdiger Campe and Joanna Radin in conversation with Rosi Braidotti

Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor and founding director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. Her published works include Patterns of Dissonance: An Essay on Women in Contemporary French Philosophy (1991); Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory (1994; 2d ed. 2011); Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming (2002); Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics (2006); La philosophie, lá où on ne l’attend pas (2009); Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti (2011); and The Posthuman (2013). In 2016 she coedited Conflicting Humanities with Paul Gilroy.

Professor Braidotti has been an elected board member of the Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes since 2009. She is also an honorary fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a member of the Academia Europaea. She has been awarded honorary degrees by the University of Helsinki and the University of Linkoping. In 2005, she was knighted into the Order of the Netherlands by Queen Beatrix.

Poster

Admission: 
Free
Open to: 
General Public
Series: 
Tanner Lectures
Lecturer: 
Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University
Year: 
2 017