This conference aims to bring together researchers, artists, and practitioners who wish to engage in dialogue with Rosi Braidotti’s project.
This gathering aims primarily to create an «intergenerational» meeting place, which will prioritize contemporary re-readings, revivals and extensions of Rosi Braidotti’s thought. Presentations will follow the standard academic convention of spoken papers, but may also adopt more experimental formats.
Context
Rosi Braidotti's thinking occupies a central place in contemporary debates around feminism, posthumanism, nomadic subjectivities, and the critique of knowledge production practices. She extends and renews the thinking of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Luce Irigaray, and the Australian materialist tradition (Val PLUMWOOD and the school of critical Spinozism), proposing an ethical and political reconfiguration of the subject through the concepts of nomadism, vital materialism, becoming, and the posthuman.
In a context of ecological, social, technological, and existential crises, Braidotti's approach opens up an original space for thought, at the intersection of continental philosophy, gender studies, critical theory, environmental humanities, and post- and transhumanist studies.
The notion of the "rhizome" captures these different dimensions. The rhizome allows us to think simultaneously about a cluster of inter-related ideas: a multiple vision of the subject, constituted by divergences and hybridizations; an anti-hierarchical politics, critical of vertical and arborescent - unitary - power structures; and a method of transversal reflection, that cuts across diverse disciplinary fields, and thus is capable of enriching different areas of knowledge.
This rhizomatic approach also led Braidotti to a radical critique of classical humanism and modern dualisms, rejecting the idea of unitary and fixed identities in favour of "nomadic" subjectivity, always "becoming" and framed by heterogeneous and affirmative modes of belonging.
This conference brings together researchers, artists, and practitioners who wish to engage in dialogue with Rosi Braidotti’s project.
This gathering aims primarily to create an «intergenerational» meeting place, which will prioritize contemporary re-readings, revivals and extensions of Rosi Braidotti’s thought.
Presentations will follow the standard academic convention of spoken papers, but also adopt more experimental formats.
Programme
15 janvier
09:30 Welcome to participants & coffee
10:00 Welcome to the Symposium Columbia Global Centre
Organising Committee
10:15 Rosi Braidotti - The Rules of the Game
11:00 Panel 1 : The Plateaux
Q & A Session
12:30 Lunch Break
14:00 Workshop : Laura Kirshenbaum & Alix de Morant : Cultiver la joie - Cultivate joy
14:30 Panel 2 : Nomadism and Becoming
Sofia Mattioli : Cyborg e altre (non) dee : rielaborazioni contemporanee del rifiuto del binarismo di genere.
Martina Lodi, Biagio Mazzella : Separatism, Antisociality, Nomadism: Escaping Strategies in Lonzi, Bersani, and Braidotti.
Andrés Zenteno Cardoso : Figurations somathétiques : Somato-esquisses d’une subjectivité post-humaine.
Yuqin Jiang : Embodiment, Nomadic Subjectivity, and Postanthropocentrism: Rosi Braidotti’s Cyborg Theory.
Q & A Session
16:20 Coffee Break
16:40 Panel 3 : Posthumanism, Ethics & Politics (1)
Daan F. Oostveen : Braidotti’s Affirmative Ethics : reflections on a contested proposal.
Jennifer Guerra : Undutiful Daughters to a Nomadic Mother : Rosi Braidotti’s genealogy in Italian feminism.
Freyja van den Boom : Speculative Legal Futures : Meet ChatbotRosi on Law, Posthumanism, and Imagination.
Shengke Deng : Impersonal Generation and Posthuman Ethics in the Digital Age : From Subjectivity to Nomadic Responsibility.
Q & A Session
18:30 End of the day
16 janvier
09:00 Workshop
Laura Kirshenbaum & Alix de Morant : Comment faire de la joie une pratique concrète accessible au plus grand nombre ?
09:50 Coffee Break
10:00 Panel 4 : Posthumanism, Ethics & Politics (2)
Fabrice Bourlez : Le post-humain a-t-il un inconscient ?
Yu-Cheng Cheng : Astroposthuman Temporality : On the Time Continuum and Becoming-cosmos.
Fiona Hillary, Troy Innocent : Radical Ancestors :Posthuman and Boonwurrung Methods across Australian Places.
Armando Zacarías : Échos pluriversels : Le côté décolonial de Rosi Braidotti.
María José Acosta Lazo, Paulina Bronfman, Isabel Anayanssi Orizaga Inzunza : Rivers as Legal Subjects : Posthuman Feminist Perspectives on Law, Rights, and Justice
Q & A Session
12:15 Lunch Break
13:30 Panel 5 : Representations, Resistance & Imagination (1)
Nicole AL Manley : Becoming River - how to rhizome with art-based methods.
Evangelia Danadaki : The Contemporary Artist as a Nomadic Subject: based between here and there.
Camille Alquier-Azan : My “minotaurian” love : An artistic subversive “misappropriation” conversing with Braidotti’s thought on “positive” desire.
W. K. Lyhne : Unstablism : The Aesthetics of Nomadic Figuration.
Q & A Session
15:20 Coffee Break
15:40 Panel 6 : Representations, Resistance & Imagination (2)
Arda Yılmaz : Nomadic Becomings in Digital Play : Posthuman Subjectivities in Open World Games.
Soo Jin Chung : Virtual Characters and Posthuman Subjectivities : Cognitive and Emotional Learning in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Andrea Raso : Entangling the Skein of Life : Rosi Braidotti’s George Eliot.
Miruna-Andreea Carp : Socialist Nomadism :Braidotti’s Posthuman Ethics and Romanian Ecopoetics (1964–1989)
Q & A Session
17:30 Concluding Events
Laura Kirshenbaum & Alix de Morant : How can we make joy a concrete practice accessible to as many people as possible? - Lecture (17:30)
Rosi Braidotti (18:00)
18:30 End of the day