Coronaseminar
Reflecting in time of pandemic
Graphics: Kaja Kusztra
The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw invites the public to participate in the event: "Coronaseminar. Reflecting in time of pandemic".
It will be a series of meetings in the virtual space led by Dr. Ewa Majewska in cooperation with the blog MSN Home Office.
The outburst of Covid-19 pandemic has already happened. More than 2 millions are already infected (at the moment of initiating this event), thousands are dying and prominent figures who once mocked the problem of the coronavirus are now facing intensive therapy treatments. Philosophers have immediately engaged in tense polemics concerning the expansion of the state of exception, solidarity, rights, confinement, death, the (impossible) futures, biopolitics, resistance and other topics relevant in these deeply perturbed times. Dystopian and utopian readings of the current situation emerge, as well as efforts to manage lives under the pressure of the unfolding transitions.
Please send all questions regarding the seminar to the e-mail address: Ewa Majewska (ICI Berlin Affiliated Fellow): ewamajewska@o2.pl.
dr Ewa Majewska
is a feminist philosopher and activist, affiliated with the Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICI) Berlin. She taught at the University of Warsaw and the Jagiellonian University, she was also a visiting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley; ICI Berlin and IWM in Vienna. She published four books and some 50 articles and essays, in journals, magazines and collected volumes, including: e-flux, "Third Text", "Journal of Utopian Studies" or "Jacobin". Her current research is in Hegel's philosophy, focusing on the dialectics and the weak; feminist critical theory and antifascist cultures. Her next book, Feminist Antifascism. Counterpublics of the Common, will be published in 2021. She lives in Warsaw.
