Giorgio Agamben

Giorgio Agamben holds the Baruch Spinoza chair at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and was formerly Professor of aesthetics at the Università IUAV di Venezia and the Università degli Studi di Verona. Trained in law, philosophy and philology, Prof. Agamben defies traditionally set boundaries both in academia and politics. La communità che viene (The Coming Community, 1990) is a reply to Blanchot’s La communauté inavouable (The Unavowable Community, 1984), which itself is a critique of Jean-Luc Nancy’s ideas of community. These thoughts are expanded in Homo sacer. II potere sovrano e la nuda vita (Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, 1995), which positioned Prof. Agamben as one of today’s leading philosophers by addressing urgent ethical questions of contemporary life. Stato di eccezione (State of Exception, 2003) tackles much debated issues regarding human and civil rights in a post-9/11 world.

Workshop with Professor Agamben

Prof. Dr. Giorgio Agamben
Prof. Dr. Thomas Claviez, University of Bern, Moderator

Registration is required for the Distinguished Lectures Series Workshop featuring the invited speaker (for contact details, please see below). After a short introduction round of the participants, the workshop is structured in three parts. Part 1 allows participants to ask questions related to the speaker’s lecture. Part 2 serves discussing a text by the invited speaker that participants receive as preparatory reading to the workshop. Part 3 offers the opportunity to bring up topics of discussion related to one’s own research or interest.

Date: October 5th, 2010
Time: 9:30 – 12:15
Place: University of Bern, Haus der Universtiät, Schlösslistrasse 5

Organization:

Prof. Dr. Thomas Claviez, thomas.claviez@ens.unibe.ch
For all organizational details, please contact dls@wbkolleg.unibe.ch

Registration Workshop:                       

dls@wbkolleg.unibe.ch