The applications are open for Braidotti Summer School 2025! It takes place at Utrecht University 18-22 of August, and the deadline for applying is June 1st. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn from one of the greats!
The 2025 Braidotti Summer School will focus on the theme of affirmative ethics by analysing, together with a selected group of participants, contemporary patterns of social and personal negativity. The course will continue Braidotti’s pioneering exploration of the intersections between critical theory, feminist philosophy, posthumanism, and the politics of life and death. This year’s program critically engages with the negative forces shaping the contemporary present—such as necropolitics, neo-fascism and illiberal governance, unequal distribution of wealth and access to the new technologies, the persistence of technologically mediated wars and surveillance strategies, left-wing melancholia, and the bio-politics of reproduction—while seeking affirmative alternatives that foster hope and creativity in the face of these challenges.
The course will consist of the following parts:
- Left-Wing Melancholia: Political Loss and the Posthuman Convergence
- Necropolitics and Illiberal Governance: Death in an Age of Transition.
- The Death Drive: Psychoanalysis, Desire and the Posthuman
- The Bio-Politics of Reproduction and Ethnic Replacement Theories: Rethinking Life.
- Between Hope and Affirmation: The New Humanities in the Posthuman Era
Find more information about the 2025 Braidotti Summer School here and here.