Rosi Braidotti GSL Workshop: The Critical Posthumanities

(Post-)Doctoral students can apply for participation in a workshop led by Rosi Braidotti, organized by the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (GSL)

Datum: 28. Oktober 2021
Zeit: 09.15 Uhr bis 12.30 Uhr
Rosi Braidotti

The topic of the workshop with Rosi Braidotti will be related to her GSL Guest Lecture given on October 27th at 6 p.m. Prof. Braidotti asks potential workshop participants to be inspired by her books The Posthuman, Polity Press, 2013; Posthuman Feminism, Polity Press 2017; and Posthuman Knowledge, Polity Press, 2019, and The Posthuman Glossary she co-edited in 2017 with Maria Hlavajova and to which a second volume is forthcoming in Spring 2022.

Rosi Braidotti emphatically recommends reading the following texts in preparation for the workshop:

As General Introduction:
Braidotti, R., “Post-humanism: Life beyond  the Self”, Chapter 1 of The Posthuman and “Post-anthropocentrism: Life beyond the Species”, Chapter 2 of The Posthuman.

As Cartographies of Posthuman Knowledge
Braidotti, R., “The Posthuman Condition”, Chapter 1 of Posthuman Knowledge; “Posthuman Subjects” , Chapter 2 of Posthuman Knowledge;  “Posthuman Knowledge Production”, Chapter 3 of Posthuman Knowledge.

As Introduction to the Posthumanities
Braidotti, R., “The Critical Posthumanities” , Chapter 4 of Posthuman Knowledge and “How To Do Posthuman Thinking”, Chapter 5 of  Posthuman Knowledge.

If you'd like to apply for participation in the workshop that will be held via Zoom, please register till October 14th by writing an e-mail to gsl@unilu.ch with the heading "Rosi Braidotti Workshop". Once you are accepted as a workshop participant, you will be sent a Zoom link to the workshop. Please note that the number of participants is limited and priority will be given to (post-)doctoral students from the University of Lucerne. 

Participants of the workshop are expected to attend the accompanying GSL Guest Lecture with Prof. Braidotti on October 27th.