Cary Wolfe

Cary Wolfe is the Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University. He is also the director of 3CT: Center for Critical and Cultural Theory which promotes intellectual synergy and community among Rice faculty and graduate students. While he is most prominently known for his work in animal studies and posthumanism, his research and teaching covers fields such as systems theory and pragmatism, biopolitics and biophilosophy as well as American literature and culture. He is the founding editor of the series Posthumanities at the University of Minnesota Press, to which he contributed the monograph What is Posthumanism? (2010). His latest publication is Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame (2012).

Workshop with Professor Wolfe

Prof. Cary Wolfe, Rice University
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: May 24th, 2016
Time: 9:30 – 12:00
Place: University of Bern, UniS, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, Room B-105

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