Jacques Rancière

Jacques Rancière is Professor of Philosophy at the European University in Saas-Fee and Professor Emeritus at the Université de Paris (St. Denis). He has written and published on pedagogy, the writing of history, philosophy, cinema, aesthetics and contemporary art. His work cannot be easily classified into academic disciplines because he attempts to break the borders of disciplinarity. Prof. Rancière’s comparison of works and thinkers goes across centuries, and he has compared works by well-known with relatively unknown thinkers, operating from the presumption or idea of equal intelligence, i.e. that everyone can think. His main interests focus on politics and aesthetics. Among Prof. Rancière’s more recent, translated texts are: The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible (2004), The Future of the Image (2007), Hatred of Democracy (2007), and The Aesthetic Unconscious (2009). His most recent title, The Emancipated Spectator, was released in November, 2009.

Workshop with Professor Rancière

Prof. Jacques Rancière
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 fields of interest.

Date: December 4th, 2012
Time: 9:30 – 12:15
Place: University of Bern, UniS, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, Room A-119

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