Value Matters – Architectural History Keynote
13 November 2018, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm
Join Rosi Braidotti for Value Matters, a keynote lecture and part of our Situating Architecture Lecture Series
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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The Bartlett School of Architecture02031087337
Location
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6.0222 Gordon StreetLondonWC1H 0QBUnited Kingdom
**Please note: the location of this event has now changed to 22 Gordon Street**
Topic
A Posthuman Glossary for Societal, Environmental and Urban Security
This lecture examines new ‘Posthuman Glossaries’ which inform our communities and society, and economic value. It will consider these political and cultural concerns in relation to: anthropocenic climate change; digital activism and algorithmic cultures insecurity, and the inhuman.
Biography
Rosi Braidotti is distinguished university Professor and founding director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. She is currently Visiting Professor at the Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL.
A key scholar in Continental Philosophy and Epistemology, Feminist and Gender Theories and Post-Structuralist Thought, she was the founding professor of Gender Studies in the Humanities at Utrecht (1988-2005) and the first scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies.
Rosi's appointments include: Network of Interdisciplinary Women's Studies in Europe (NOI&SE) and founding scientific director of the SOCRATES Thematic Network for European Women’s Studies ATHENA, which was awarded in 2010 the Erasmus Prize of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission for outstanding contribution to social inclusion.
Her publications include: Posthuman Glossary (co-ed with Maria Hlavajova, 2018); The Posthuman 2013; Nomadic Subjects 2011; Transpositions; On Nomadic Ethics 2006.
See our related lecture series, Situating Architecture.
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