[Cwgrad-announcements] Fwd:Rosi Braidotti

[Carly Kimmel]

Hey everyone.. In case you hadn't heard Rosi Braidotti, an amazing  
feminist theorist is continuing her visit at UCR next week.. I read a  
lot of her work last quarter for my feminist discourses class, and  
she it truly an insightful, amazing, and compelling woman. Her ideas  
question and incorporate the theories of many other magnificent  
thinkers (Butler, Halloway, Spivak, Freud, Lacan, D&G, Irigaray,  
Kristeva, etc.) , but one of the things that really interested me,  
was her discussion on sexual difference, cyborgs, and how technology  
and the 'new world' affect our status as feminists.  I highly  
recommend that anyone on campus this wednesday or thursday try to  
check out either of her two remaining events.. listed below. She is  
the type of woman, you will feel privileged to tell people you met in  
person.
seriously - she's a really big deal.

-Carly Kimmel

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> From: caroleanne.tyler at ucr.edu
> Date: April 8, 2007 5:36:25 PM PDT
> To: "ENGL_274_001_07W":;, caroleanne.tyler at ucr.edu
> Subject: ENGL_274_001_07W: Rosi Braidotti
>
> I wanted to remind you that she is speaking here three more times  
> before she leaves, and she has expressed an interest in co- 
> organizing an international conference here on feminism some time  
> in the near future, which I would love to see some of you involved  
> in.  Her two talks this week are:
>
> "Toward the Posthuman"  April 10 (Wed.), 3:00-4:30 p.m., HMNSS 1500  
> (On how biotechnologies, genetic engineering, information  
> technologies, etc., have tranformed our sense of what it means to  
> be human.  She is especially interested in the post-anthropocentric  
> aspect of the post-human condition and how this affects racialized,  
> sexualized, and naturalized differences in the global era).
>
> Roundtable Discussion, April 11 (Thu), 2:00-3:30 p.m., 1500.  This  
> is a great opportunity to have a seminar discussion with a world- 
> class feminist scholar who is interested in Butler, Deleuze,  
> Irigaray, Agamben, Freud and Lacan, Spivak, and some of the other  
> thinkers we talked about or referenced last quarter.  We can ask  
> her some of the questions we wondered about when we read her work,  
> such as what she means by "real life women" or "female feminists."
>
> She is brilliant, lively, funny, down-to-earth, and very  
> approachable.  Like many of us, she came from a working class  
> family (both her parents were factory workers) and therefore has a  
> very irreverent take on the academy.  She is also an immigrant,  
> having moved from Italy to Australia, to the Netherlands, another  
> experience many at UCR share with her, including, I'm sure, some of  
> you.  I would love to see our class there in force because I know  
> we could have a wonderful conversation with her.
>
> Good luck this quarter and I will be getting back your commented on  
> reading questions and papers over the next week or two.
>
> And again, congratulations on putting together a wonderful conference!
>
> CAT

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