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Seminar

This two-day conference includes presentations by Judith Butler, a professor in the Rhetoric and Comparative Literature departments at the University of California, Berkeley, and Adriana Cavarero, professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Verona. Their talks will be preceded by an artistic intervention in which two performers will introduce the theoretical basis. The idea behind the conference is to open up a space for plural, diverse dialogue around female-based thought, rooted in the experience that is generated in and through the body.

Judith Butler is the Maxine Elliot Chair professor in the Rhetoric and Comparative Literature departments at the University of California, Berkeley. She has previously taught at Wesleyan and Johns Hopkins universities. Butler has made significant contributions to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy and ethics, and is considered to be one of the most influential intellectuals in the world. Her recent works include Precarious Life (2006), Undoing Gender (2006), Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (2007), Vulnerability, Survivability (2008) and Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? (2010).

Adriana Cavarero is a Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Verona and visiting professor at New York University. Her approach to the Western philosophical tradition focuses on two main themes: theories of sexual difference – a theoretical approach that allows the deconstruction of Western textuality through a feminist point of view –, and the work of Hanna Arendt, in a reinterpretation based on its most innovative categories: birth, oneness, action and narrative. The result is a research process that highlights the individual, unique existence of human beings, in connection to the body and gender.

Organized by the Philosophy Department and the Body and Textuality Group from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in collaboration with the MACBA.


Programme

July 11 and 12, from 6 to 9 pm

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