With Judith Butler, Philosopher, Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley ; Thomas Berns (Discussant), Dean of the faculty of Philosophie et Sciences sociales, CREG ; Damien Scalia (moderator), coordinator of the CREG

Judith Butler is an American philosopher and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Their theories have been extremely influential in gender studies, philosophy of language and theories of violence and non-violence. They are active in several human rights organizations, having served on the board of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York and the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. Judith Butler has received numerous awards, including the Adorno Prize from the City of Frankfurt and the diploma of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Cultural Ministry.

Judith Butler is the author of numerous books about war, vulnerability, mourning, political subjectivities and violence linked to the nation-state, and about figures of dispossession such as extra-legal prisoners and refugees – among which: Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning (2004), Who Sings the Nation-State?: Language, Politics, Belonging (with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in 2008), Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (2009), Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (2012), Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (co-authored with Athena Athanasiou 2013), The Force of Nonviolence (2020).

Monday 21 October 2024 from 8:00 pm. to 10:00 pm.

Auditorium Henri Lafontaine
Building K - Level 1 - Room S.K1.105
Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50
1000 Brussels

This event will be held in English

Free entrance but compulsory registration: here

Contact : creg@ulb.be

With the support of the faculty of Philosophie et Sciences sociales and of the Centre de Recherches en Droit Pénal (CRDP)