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November 10, 2023
Rosi Braidotti is Ambassadeur Grootouders voor het Klimaat
Starting 2023 Rosi Braidotti is one of the ambassadors for the Dutch 'Grandparents for Climate' organization, giving her full support to the cause. As she stated in an interview with Trouw, she wishes to be a good ancestor, as to leave this world inhabitable, healthy and safe for the generations to come.
September 26, 2023
Event – An Evening With: Donna Haraway, Bruno Clarke and Rosi Braidotti
Feminist theorist Donna Haraway and literature-and-science researcher Bruno Clarke pay tribute to evolutionary theorist Lynn Margulis. In this special edition of An Evening With, they explore Margulis’s pioneering theories of symbiosis and Gaia, discuss their implications for current research in sympoiesis and posthumanism, and celebrate the publication of Writing Gaia: The Scientific Correspondence of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis. The event will be moderated by Rosi Braidotti.
November 8, 2022
Lecture: An Evening With Rosi Braidotti and Submerged Heritage
On Thursday the 10th of November, Professor Rosi Braidotti will give a free lecture from 8–9.30 pm at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. Explore the rhythms of politics and activism through a conversation about music with philosopher Rosi Braidotti and host Shay Kreuger, and join the next iteration of Submerged Heritage, where invited guest dr. Daphina Misiedjan explores the situation surrounding the Brokopondo lake in Suriname. 
June 9, 2022
Link To Video of Rosi Braidotti’s Valedictory Lecture
Recorded valedictory farewell lecture of Distinguished University Professor Rosi Braidotti formal retirement lecture, Affirmative Ethics: We Are Rooted But We Flow, at the Aula of the Utrecht University Academiegebouw on Monday June 13, 2022.
April 22, 2022
Listen to Rosi Braidotti discuss feminism and punk for ‘Met terugwerkende kracht’
Rosi Braidotti walks you through TivoliVredenburg to discuss feminism and punk
April 22, 2022
Check out the Dutch booklaunch for Posthuman Feminism at Het Nieuwe Instituut
On Friday May 20th, Het Nieuwe Instituut invites you to the presentation of Posthuman Feminism
December 9, 2021
Applications now open for Posthuman Summer School 2022
The theme this time is 'The Posthuman Life of Methods'
December 2, 2021
Rosi Braidotti awarded Humboldt prize
Distinguished University Professor Rosi Braidotti has received a Humboldt Research Award
November 5, 2021
Posthuman Feminism now available
Rosi Braidotti’s new book, Posthuman Feminism, is now available for purchase in the UK
September 29, 2021
Prof. Braidotti’s guest appearance on ‘The Good Robot’
Listen back to Prof. Braidotti's two-part guest appearance on 'The Good Robot,' a podcast exploring what feminism can bring to our understanding of technology and the modern tech industry.
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Rosi Braidotti is a Philosopher and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University as well as the founding director of the Centre for the Humanities in Utrecht.
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Hegel Lecture 2023. Photographer: Lorenz Brandtner
Portrait of prof. Rosi Braidotti. Photo © CCCB, Miquel Taverna, 2018.
Prof. Rosi Braidotti at the CCCB event. Photo © CCCB, Miquel Taverna, 2018.
What is the City but the People? Photo by Marieke Wijntjes commissioned by BAK (Basis voor Aktuele Kunst), 2018.
Best friend Annamaria Tagliavini, 2018.
What is the City but the People? BAK (Basis voor Aktuele Kunst) catwalk event, 2018.
With good friends and advisors Marlise Mensink and Mischa Peters, 2018.
With teacher and Mentor Genevieve Lloyd, 2018.
Prof. Rosi Braidotti at the University of Western Sydney. Photo by Sally Tsoutas, 2018.
Opening academiejaar 2017.
A happy meeting between Rosi Braidotti's Deleuze Seminar students and Donna Haraway in Utrecht, 2017.
Rosi Braidotti delivering the second of her two Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Yale University, 2017.
Rosi Braidotti handing out the first official ROSANNA Fund grant to UAF-representative student Atefeh Cheheli Sobi, 2017.
Official portrait of prof. Rosi Braidotti, photo by Wieke Eefting. Utrecht University, 2017.
At the Centre for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona. Photo by Miquel Taverna, 2016.
Award of Honorary Degree to Jordi Savall in Utrecht, sponsored by prof. Rosi Braidotti, 2016.
With Jordi Savall and Maria Bartels in Utrecht, 2016.
Official portrait of prof. Rosi Braidotti, photo by Ed van Rijswijk, 2015.
In the University Cloister, photo by Ed van Rijswijk. Utrecht, 2015.
Prof. Rosi Braidotti, photo by Sjaak Ramakers. Utrecht, 2015.
Receiving the Award ( ‘Premio Vigilia di Natale’) from the Mayor of hometown Latisana, surrounded by zia Pina and family, December 21, 2014.
With friend and colleague Judith Butler, 2013.
Portrait by Natash Unkart, Utrecht, 2014.
With Masha Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova, of Pussy Riot, just after their release from jail, Oslo, 2014.
Portrait of prof. Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht, 2013.
Receiving an Honorary Degree from the University of Linkoping, Sweden, 2013.
All the amazing speakers of Edward Said Memorial Conference, 2013.
Rosi Braidotti proudly escorting former student, public intellectual and politician Femke Halsema on the day of her inaugural lecture as 2012 Treaty of Utrecht Professor, 2012.
Rosi Braidotti with dear friend and mentor Joan Scott of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, 2012.
Symposium on human-animal interaction with Donna Haraway, Joanna Bourke and Rosi Braidotti, 2011.
Prof. Donna Haraway and prof. Rosi Braidotti up in the Dom church tower. It is well known that prof. Braidotti is an official bell-ringer of the ancient city of Utrecht, 2011
Prof. Rosi Braidotti and her partner prof. Anneke Smelik enjoying a quiet moment, 2011.
Prof. Paul Gilroy in Utrecht delivering his lecture on race and citizenship for the Centre for the Humanities, 2011.
Professor Dame Doctor Braidotti a.k.a. 'Sir Rosi' wearing her Royal Knighthood on the official University Anniversary day, 2011.
University professors and vice-chancellors taking to the streets of The Hague together with the students to protest against the government cutbacks on education. All Dutch universities and half of all the professors in in country attended the protest, 2011.
Sharing with Berteke Waaldijk the Award of the Erasmus Prize of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission for ATHENA II (Advanced Thematic Network of Women’s Studies in Europe), 2010.
Receiving an Honorary Degree in Philosophy, University of Helsinki, 2007
Wedding Day: marrying Anneke Smelik on March 8, 1999.