Rosi Braidotti gives the talk: Punk women and Riot Grrls

Rosi Braidotti reflected on the politics of women's rock and punk bands and how performances have been used as feminist means of protest in connection with Pussy Riot. Rosi Braidotti is philosopher, feminist theorist and professor at Utrecht University. She work mainly with social and political theory, feminist theory and is famous for being a pioneer in her work about feministic philosophy, especially in her new book, "The Posthuman" (2013). She will at the symposium talk about solidarity and alternatives to prisons in connection with actionism.

Rosi Braidotti - Rethinking the Human Sciences - Panel 1 @ Columbia University, 30.Mar.2013

Chair: Aunpama Rao (History and ICLS, Columbia University) "The Problem of Scale: Narrative Universals in the Human Sciences" Srinivas Aravamudan (English, Duke University) "What is 'the Human' about the Humanities today?" Rosi Braidotti (Centre for Humanities, Utrecht University) Respondent: Lydia Liu (East Asian Languages and Cultures and ICLS, Columbia University) Filmed at the Rethinking the Human Sciences conference, March 30, 2012, at Columbia University in the City of New York. For more information visit: http://icls.columbia.edu/