Drucilla Cornell
Drucilla Cornell is Professor of Political Science, Comparative Literature and Women’ s & Gender Studies at Rutgers University, Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and a visiting professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her background is in law and community organizing, where she is famous for her role in organizing a conference on deconstruction and justice at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1989, 1990, and 1993. In addition to her academic work, she has also written four produced plays. Her most recent work is Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity: Cultural and Racial Reconfigurations of Critical Theory (Just Ideas), co-authored with Kenneth Michael Panfilio.
Workshop with Professor Cornell
Prof. Drucilla Cornell
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 30th, 2015
Time: 9:30 – 12:15
Place: University of Bern, Main Building, Hochschulstrasse 4, Room 331
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