Meeting through the vegetal world

Luce Irigaray (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Michael Marder (Bristol University)

Leverhulme & IAS/Cabot Institute Lecture: Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder, University of Bristol

Thursday, 5 June 2014

7:15pm

Peel Lecture Theatre, School of Geographical Sciences, University Road, Bristol, BS8 1SS

LUCE IRIGARAY


Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France


Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, University of Bristol, 2013-2014

&

MICHAEL MARDER


IKERBASQUE Research Professor of Philosophy, University of the Basque Country, Spain


IAS Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor, University of Bristol


Meeting through the vegetal world

Climate change, resource-related conflict, pressures on food supplies, and the contamination of air and water continue to intensify, despite efforts to put environmental concerns on the political agenda. How can a more collaborative relationship with other living beings, including plants and animals, help ensure a sustainable future? Join two of the world’s leading philosophers for a public lecture on one of the most pressing problems of our age: how to develop a relational ethics with the natural world.

Leverhulme Visiting Professor Luce Irigarayis one of the most important philosophers in the world and best known for her groundbreaking works This Sex Which Is Not One and Speculum of the Other Woman. Her most recent book is In the Beginning, She Was (2012). IAS Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor Michael Marderis author of Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life (2013), Phenomena—Critique—Logos: The Project of Critical Phenomenology (2014), and The Philosopher’s Plant: An Intellectual Herbarium (forthcoming in 2014).

Reception and book signing to follow lecture.

Free entry, but booking is required: