Invitation to the Welcome Reception for the new Bauhaus Guest-Professor Jane Bennett
Political science theorist Jane Bennett is the fourth Bauhaus Guest-Professor at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and has been invited this time for summer semester 2023. She holds a professorship at the renowned Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Her two-week visit to Weimar will start at the end of May.
Following the welcome drink, Prof. Bennett will give a lecture entitled »The Expression of (Ecological) Vitality: Thinking with Paul Klee, Len Lye, and Jordan Tierney«. After the lecture, Prof. Dr. Christiane Voß, spokesperson of the research training group and Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Faculty of Media, will moderate a discussion with the well-known representative of contemporary political and philosophical debate.
About Prof. Jane Bennett
Prof. Jane Bennett’s primary research interests lie in political theory, and her research interests include ecological philosophy, political thought in America, political rhetoric and persuasion and contemporary social theory. She is one of the founders of the journal Theory & Event and previously served as the editor of Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy. Professor Bennett is Affiliate Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen and has been a Fellow at Oxford University (Keble College), the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (University of London) and the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. From April to June 2017, she was a Senior Fellow at the International Centre for Cultural Technology Research and Media Philosophy (IKKM), where she conducted research on the project »Über das Einwirken«. Her publications include Influx and Efflux: Writing up with Walt Whitman (2020); Vibrant Matter (2010); and The Enchantment of Modern Life (2001).
Prof. Bennett will have further opportunities for discussion with members of the university in an additional lecture and two workshops, with the latter being held together with the doctoral candidates of the Media Anthropology research training group (GRAMA). The events will be held exclusively in English.
The events with Prof. Bennett at a glance:
Lecture on Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 7 to 8:30 pm, Oberlichtsaal, Main Building of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
»The Expression of (Ecological) Vitality: Thinking with Paul Klee, Len Lye, and Jordan Tierney«
Hybrid Workshop (GRAMA plenary) on Thursday, 25 May 2023, 2 to 5:30 pm
The subject of discussion will be Prof. Bennett’s text »Tangled Efforts and Middle-Voiced Verbs« in Voss/Engell/Othold: Anthropologies of Entanglements. Bloomsbury 2023 (forthcoming) and the chapter »The Intertwining/The Chiasm« from Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s The Visible and the Invisible.
You can register for digital participation in the workshop by sending an e-mail to: christiane.lewe[at]uni-weimar.de
Lecture on Wednesday, 31 May 2023, 7 to 8:30 pm, Oberlichtsaal, Main Building of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
»The Efficacy of the Sparse: Zhuangzi and Lucretius in Times of Ecological Crisis«
Hybrid Workshop (GRAMA plenary) on Thursday, 1 June 2023, 2 to 5:30 pm
The subject of discussion will be chapters 2, 3 and 4 of Prof. Bennett’s book Influx and Efflux: Writing up with Walt Whitman. Duke University Press 2020.
You can register for digital participation in the workshop by sending an e-mail to: christiane.lewe[at]uni-weimar.de
If you have any questions, please contact Academic Affairs and Appointments Advisor Viola Baser by e-mail at viola.baser[at]uni-weimar.de or by phone at +49 (0) 3645 581117.