Claire Colebrook (Pennsylvania State University), “Fragility, Globalism, and the End of the World” (Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities)

Event time: 
Monday, November 6, 2017 - 5:00pm
Location: 
Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208 See map
53 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Claire Colebrook is an Australian cultural theorist, currently appointed Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. She has published numerous works on Gilles Deleuze, visual art, poetry, queer theory, film studies, contemporary literature, theory, cultural studies and visual culture. She is the editor (with Tom Cohen) of the Critical Climate Change Book Series at Open Humanities Press.

She recently completed two books on Extinction for Open Humanities Press: The Death of the Posthuman, and Sex After Life, and has co-authored (with Jason Maxwell) Agamben (Polity, 2015) and (with Tom Cohen and J.Hillis Miller) Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols (Open Humanities Press, 2016). She is now completing a book on fragility (of the species, the archive and the earth).

Admission: 
Free