Judith Butler. Distinctions on violence and nonviolence. 2016

source: European Graduate School Video Lectures   2017年2月20日
http://www.egs.edu Judith Butler, Hannah Arendt Chair and Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS.
Distinctions on violence and nonviolence. Public open lecture for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought at the European Graduate School EGS, Saas-Fee/Switzerland, August 12 2016.
Judith Butler holds the Hannah Arendt Chair at The European Graduate School / EGS and is the Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a philosopher and one of the most challenging thinkers of our time. She rose to prominence in 1990 with Gender Trouble, which caused an unexpected stir as it unearthed foundational assumptions both in philosophy and in feminist theory, namely the facticity of sex. Controversial debate on the subject(s) extended far beyond academia to which Butler responded, in part, in Bodies that Matter (1993). Butler’s academic rigor is pursued through innovative and critical readings of a wide range of texts in philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature, challenging the confines of disciplinary thinking. Within, and beyond that, Judith Butler is also known for her critical voice in socio-political discourse and debate. Her qualities as a thinker are reflected in her openness to what is at stake in the present and in her passionate engagement in conversations with contemporaries in and outside academia.
In recent lectures and writings, Judith Butler embarks on new terrain. Focusing on political collectives, the coming together of people in public assembly–– the people, citizenship, and public space––Butler revives her sentiment for the performative. Expanding beyond the speech act, she offers a new perspective to her concept of the performative as it is the appearance of corporeal life that establishes performatively a field of the political and supports concerted action. It is the appearance of bodies not only being precarious, but also resistant and persistent. A first systematic approach to these lines of thought can be found in Judith Butler's recent publication, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (2015).

Jill Fellows: Judith Butler, Antigone's Claim (07/10/2013)

source: Arts One Open    2013年10月7日
Lecture by Jill Fellows for the "Remake/Remodel" theme. For more, see http://artsone-digital.arts.ubc.ca/ju....

Judith Butler. To preserve the life of the Other. 2016

source: European Graduate School Video Lectures 2016年10月13日
http://www.egs.edu Judith Butler, Hannah Arendt Chair and Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS.
To preserve the life of the Other. Public open lecture for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought at the European Graduate School EGS, Saas-Fee/Switzerland and Valetta/Malta. April 6 2016.
Judith Butler holds the Hannah Arendt Chair at The European Graduate School / EGS and is the Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a philosopher and one of the most challenging thinkers of our time. She rose to prominence in 1990 with Gender Trouble, which caused an unexpected stir as it unearthed foundational assumptions both in philosophy and in feminist theory, namely the facticity of sex. Controversial debate on the subject(s) extended far beyond academia to which Butler responded, in part, in Bodies that Matter (1993). Butler’s academic rigor is pursued through innovative and critical readings of a wide range of texts in philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature, challenging the confines of disciplinary thinking. Within, and beyond that, Judith Butler is also known for her critical voice in socio-political discourse and debate. Her qualities as a thinker are reflected in her openness to what is at stake in the present and in her passionate engagement in conversations with contemporaries in and outside academia.

Judith Butler, “Why Preserve the Life of the Other?”

source: Yale University      2016年6月30日
Tanner Lectures on Human Values - Interpreting Non-Violence
“Why Preserve the Life of the Other?”

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California Berkeley. She served as founding director of the Critical Theory Program at Berkeley and is currently co-chair of an emerging International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs. Her published works include Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990); Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” (1993); Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (1997); Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning (2004); Undoing Gender (2004); Who Sings the Nation-State? Language, Politics, Belonging (with Gayatri Spivak, 2008); Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (2009); Is Critique Secular? (with Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, and Saba Mahmood, 2009); Sois Mon Corps (with Catherine Malabou, 2011); Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (2012); Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (with Athena Athanasiou, 2013); and most recently, Senses of the Subject (2015) and Notes toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (2015). Future projects include study of messianic gestures in Kafka and Benjamin, philosophical fictions in Freud’s work, and gender in translation.

Butler has received the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities, the Adorno Prize from the City of Frankfurt in honor of her contributions to feminist and moral philosophy, and the Brudner Prize from Yale University for lifetime achievement in gay and lesbian studies. In 2014, she was awarded the diploma of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Cultural Ministry and in 2015 she was elected a corresponding fellow of the British Academy and appointed to the International Board of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt.

Judith Butler, “Legal Violence: An Ethical and Political Critique”

source: Yale University    2016年6月30日
Tanner Lectures on Human Values - Interpreting Non-Violence
“Legal Violence: An Ethical and Political Critique”

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California Berkeley. She served as founding director of the Critical Theory Program at Berkeley and is currently co-chair of an emerging International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs. Her published works include Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990); Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” (1993); Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (1997); Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning (2004); Undoing Gender (2004); Who Sings the Nation-State? Language, Politics, Belonging (with Gayatri Spivak, 2008); Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (2009); Is Critique Secular? (with Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, and Saba Mahmood, 2009); Sois Mon Corps (with Catherine Malabou, 2011); Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (2012); Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (with Athena Athanasiou, 2013); and most recently, Senses of the Subject (2015) and Notes toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (2015). Future projects include study of messianic gestures in Kafka and Benjamin, philosophical fictions in Freud’s work, and gender in translation.
Butler has received the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities, the Adorno Prize from the City of Frankfurt in honor of her contributions to feminist and moral philosophy, and the Brudner Prize from Yale University for lifetime achievement in gay and lesbian studies. In 2014, she was awarded the diploma of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Cultural Ministry and in 2015 she was elected a corresponding fellow of the British Academy and appointed to the International Board of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt.

Judith Butler: Who Owns Kafka?

source: London Review of Books (LRB)    2015年2月16日
Judith Butler's lecture looks at the conflicting claims of ownership of Kafka's original writings, and considers the way states appropriate the works of writers for nationalistic purposes. Read the full lecture here: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n05/judith-b...
The legal battle between the state of Israel and the German literary archive over the question of who owns Kafka’s work has prompted Israeli lawyers to argue that Kafka is an ‘asset of the Jewish people’ and hence, of Israel. At stake is Kafka’s own complex cultural formation as a Prague Jew writing in German who alternately praised and disavowed Zionism. Equally troubling is the assumption that Israel represents the Jewish people and that Kafka might be conceived as an ‘asset.’ Judith Butler proposes a reading of Kafka’s parables that quarrels with both sides of the legal case, seeking recourse to stories and fiction as a way of illuminating the limits of law and the diasporic (and messianic) alternative to Jewish nationalism.
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
The lecture was delivered in the BP Lecture Theatre at the British Museum in January 2011 as part of the London Review of Books Winter Lectures series.

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TPP2014 : Judith Butler, When gesture becomes event

source: Labo LAPS   ㄩ2014年10月11日
Plenary Lecture
Friday, June 27th – Amphitheater Richelieu (Sorbonne University)
Keynote: Judith Butler (University of California at Berkeley)
When gesture becomes event
Chair: Julien Alliot, Flore Garcin-Marrou, Liza Kharoubi, Anna Street (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
Respondent: Freddie Rokem (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Theater Performance Philosophy – International Conference / June 26-28, 2014
Crossings and Transfers in Contemporary Anglo-American Thought

Organized by Flore Garcin-Marrou, Anna Street, Julien Alliot and Liza Kharoubi as members of the Laboratory of the Arts and Philosophies of the Stage (http://labo-laps.com/), in partnership with the University of Paris-Sorbonne and their research laboratories PRITEPS and VALE, along with CERILAC of the University of Paris-Diderot, ICTT of the University of Avignon, CIEPFC of ENS Ulm and HARp of the University of Paris-Ouest, with the financial support of the City of Paris, the Institut des Amériques and the international network Performance Philosophy.

Judith Butler and Cornel West, Honoring Edward Said

source: Columbia    2013年11月7日
On the Tenth Anniversary of Edward Said's passing, renowned scholars Judith Butler and Cornell West discuss what it means to be a public intellectual and Edward Said's impact on the academic discourse of Palestine.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/palestine/...

Judith Butler – “Why Bodies Matter” – Gender Trouble (1-7)

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source: Lbtavares Tavares    2015年8月17日
Judith Butler’s conference entitled “Why Bodies Matter” on June 2nd 2015 in the context of the celebrations of “Gender Trouble”’s 25th anniversary in Teatro Maria Matos in Lisbon.

CONFERENCIA JUDITH BUTLER - ENGLISH subs

source: canaluntref     2015年10月28日
Conferencia "Cuerpos que aún importan" de Judith Butler, en el Centro Cultural Kirchner, el 16 de septiembre de 2015.

Judith Butler on Demonstrating Precarity

source: LA Review of Books    2015年3月23日
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LARB's Philosophy & Critical Theory editor Arne De Boever interviews Judith Butler about her 2015 CalArts lecture series, Demonstrating Precarity: Demonstrating Precarity: Vulnerability, Embodiment, and Resistance.
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Judith Butler: Vulnerability and Resistance

source: CalArtsREDCAT    2015年4月21日
“Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time.”
– J.M. Bernstein, The New School for Social Research
Co-presented with the CalArts Aesthetics and Politics Program
Eminent American philosopher Judith Butler visits REDCAT to give the third of four Los Angeles lectures in connection with her residency at the CalArts School of Critical Studies' Aesthetics and Politics Program. Assembled under the title of “Demonstrating Precarity: Vulnerability, Embodiment, and Resistance,” her talks address questions of political dissent, protest, resistance and violence in light of recent developments in the United States and abroad. Butler has authored numerous influential books, among them Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) and Precarious Life. The Powers of Mourning and Violence (2004) and, most recently, Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (2013). She is the Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at UC Berkeley and the Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School.


source: FMK Beograd    2015年11月30日
Keynote lecture by Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley) held at the International conference "How to Act together: From Collective Engagement to Protest" on November 20th 2015 in Belgrade, Serbia.
Moderation: Adriana Zaharijević, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory
The conference was organized by the Group for Social Engagement Studies/Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory in cooperation with the Center for Advanced Studies in Southeastern Europe (CAS – SEE)/University of Rijeka, Faculty of Media and Communications/Singidunum University and Cultural Centre of Belgrade.
http://htat.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/
http://www.fmk.singidunum.ac.rs/

Judith Butler - Queer Anarchism & Anarchists Against the Wall

source: Mutatismutandis    2015年11月16日

Judith Butler: the human condition

source: Mutatismutandis    2015年11月16日
The human condition. How the individual can perform satisfactorily freedom in the contemporary world. "The vulnerability and survival," a lecture as part of the debate on "human condition"

With the presence of:
Judith Butler, professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of "Precarious Life '(Verso, 2004).
February 18, 2008

Judith Butler - The Difference of Philosophy (2015) | Notes on Impressions & Responsiveness

source: UCD - University College Dublin    2015年3月6日
Public intellectual and feminist theorist, Professor Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley, addresses a workshop on "The role and responsibilities of philosophy in society".
The workshop was hosted by the UCD School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, in conjunction with the Society for Women in Philosophy, on 06 February 2015.
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as Founding Director.
She received her PhD in Philosophy from Yale University in 1984 on the French Reception of Hegel. She is the author of Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (Columbia University Press, 1987), Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge, 1990), Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” (Routledge, 1993), The Psychic Life of Power: Theories of Subjection (Stanford University Press, 1997), Excitable Speech (Routledge, 1997), Antigone’s Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (Columbia University Press, 2000), Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning (2004); Undoing Gender (2004), Who Sings the Nation-State?: Language, Politics, Belonging (with Gayatri Spivak in 2008), Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?(2009), and Is Critique Secular? (co-written with Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, and Saba Mahmood, 2009). Her most recent books include: Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (2012) and Dispossessions: The Performative in the Political (2013), co-authored with Athena Athanasiou, and Sois Mon Corps (2011), co-authored with Catherine Malabou.
She is active in gender and sexual politics and human rights, anti-war politics, and serves on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. She was recently the recipient of the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities (2009-13). She received the Adorno Prize from the City of Frankfurt (2012) in honor of her contributions to feminist and moral philosophy as well as the Brudner Prize from Yale University for lifetime achievement in gay and lesbian studies. She is as well the past recipient of several fellowships including Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Ford, American Council of Learned Societies, and was Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and at the College des Hautes Etudes in Paris. She has received honorary degrees from Université Bordeaux-III, Université Paris-VII, Grinnell College, McGill University and University of St. Andrews. In 2013, she was awarded the diploma of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Cultural Ministry.

Judith Butler, Avital Ronell and Laurence Rickels. Kafka's Before The La... (2012)

source: European Graduate School      2012年3月1日
http://www.egs.edu/ Judith Butler, Avital Ronell and Laurence Rickels talking about paternal authority and psychoanalysis in Kafka's writings. In this lecture, Laurence Rickels, psychoanalyst and author, discusses the role of libido in judgment, the impossibility of writing, the Oedipus complex and the imperative to enjoy in relationship to Franz Kafka, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Martin Luther, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari focusing on parables, paradoxes, commandments, desire, death drive, sexual difference, the superego, performativity and minor literature. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Judith Butler, Avital Ronell and Laurence Rickels.

Avital Ronell and Judith Butler. Psychoanalysis, authority and discernme... (2014)

source: European Graduate School      2014年1月16日
http://www.egs.edu/ Avital Ronell and Judith Butler, talking about psychoanalysis, authority and discernment. In the lecture Avital Ronell and Judith Butler discuss the concepts of Freud, Goethe, death drive, guilt in relationship to Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Korjeve, Plato, super ego, suicide, focusing on authority. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2013 Avital Ronell and Judith Butler.

Judith Butler, Avital Ronell and Laurence Rickels. Bringing Down Metaphy... (2012)

source: European Graduate School      2012年3月12日
http://www.egs.edu/ Judith Butler, Avital Ronell and Laurence Rickels talking about Kafka and the collapse of metaphysics. In this lecture, Avital Ronell, philosopher and author, discusses the play of presence and absence, the politics of friendship, the problem of departure and arrival, the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature, and the reciprocity of calling and being called in relationship to Franz Kafka, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Martin Luther, Michel Foucault and Martin Heidegger focusing on the letter, destiny, Gesicht, history, authority, law, the panopticon, the Event, Abraham, hope, impossibility and laughter. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Judith Butler, Avital Ronell and Laurence Rickels.

Judith Butler with Bracha Ettinger. Ethics on a Global Scale. 2011

source: European Graduate School        2012年4月18日
http://www.egs.edu/ Judith Butler, post-structuralist philosopher and author, talking about precarity and the ethical obligations of geographical proximity through the perspectives of Emmanuel Lévinas and Hannah Arendt, with a response by Bracha Ettinger. In this lecture, Judith Butler discusses our ethical response to suffering at a distance, ethical obligations, geographical proximity, ethics, images of war suffering, Lévinas and Susan Sontag on the war image, the media, grounds for global responsibility, consent and communitarianism, the media's role in proximity and distance, corporeal locatedness, mediated ethical relations, global connectedness, being moved, ethical philosophy and what it means to be ethical in these times; Lévinas on racial and cultural belonging, reciprocity - that egoism as the defeat of ethics itself, the life of the Other and the precarious and corporeal being, the call, vulnerability and ethical relations, cohabitation, the prerogative of genocide, politics and the necessity of cohabiting the earth, community, the notion of unwilled proximity and unchosen cohabitation, precarity, interdependency, ethics on a global scale. Bracha Ettinger responds with the subject and the body, the proto-ethical call and aesthetic phenomena, the uncanny anxiety, the vulnerability of the other, the non-I, transconnectedness, the self, the giving up of subjectivity, subjectivity as an encounter, the mode of co-emerging, affective access to the world, the passage of ethics to politics, interdependency, sharing and trans-sharing over distance and proximity.

Judith Butler. Kafka and The Poetics of Non-Arrival. 2011

source: European Graduate School        2012年2月10日
http://www.egs.edu/ Judith Butler, philosopher and author, talking about Kafka's parables and paradoxes. In this lecture, Judith Butler discusses the relationship between parable and reality, the philosophy of departure and arrival, the breakdown of language and the promiscuity of the "here" and "now" in relationship to Franz Kafka, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Michel Foucault focusing on das Ziel, destination, indeterminacy, Ungeheures, monstrosity, the uncanny, a priori, transcendentalism, the messianic, theology, time and space. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2011. Judith Butler.