Rosi Braidotti’s Summer School 2025

will take place in

August 2025, Utrecht

“Beyond Collapsology: from Contemporary Negativity to Affirmation”


Application deadline: June 1st. Due to high demand we urge you to apply early. If the maximum number of participants is reached before the deadline, we may close the application process earlier.

Course fee for students: €1000

The 2025 Braidotti Summer School will focus on the theme of affirmative ethics by analysing, together with a selected group of participants, contemporary patterns of social and personal negativity. The course will continue Braidotti’s pioneering exploration of the intersections between critical theory, feminist philosophy, posthumanism, and the politics of life and death. This year’s program critically engages with the negative forces shaping the contemporary present—such as necropolitics, neo-fascism and illiberal governance, unequal distribution of wealth and access to the new technologies, the persistence of technologically mediated wars and surveillance strategies, left-wing melancholia, and the bio-politics of reproduction—while seeking affirmative alternatives that foster hope and creativity in the face of these challenges.

Structured into five parts across a week’s time, the program will deepen participants’ engagement with Braidotti’s posthuman theory and affirmative ethics, asking how we might respond to contemporary negativity through a posthuman, non-dualistic lens.
The week-long course will take place in person, at Utrecht University, and will consist of lectures and work groups led by Professor Braidotti, as well as guest speakers.

Day 1. Left-Wing Melancholia: Political Loss and the Posthuman Convergence. The focus is on environmental, technology studies and the new social inequalities.

Day 2. Necropolitics and Illiberal Governance: Death in an Age of Transition. This session builds on Braidotti’s critiques of both humanism and anthropocentrism and explores how these forces operate within a posthuman framework.

Day 3. The Death Drive: Psychoanalysis, War, Negativity, and the Posthuman. References to Spinoza’s view on death and violence will provide a moral compass.

Day 4. The Bio-Politics of Reproduction and Ethnic Replacement Theories: Rethinking Life. On the one hand advanced technological mediation of both living and dying. On the other hand social manifestations of racism, xenophobia, and broader struggles over who controls the future of life itself.

Day 5. Between Hope and Affirmation: Creative Humanities in the Posthuman Era. Participants will reflect on the tensions between critique and affirmation, and how we might navigate the complexities of contemporary politics through positive, life-affirming action, in alignment with Braidotti’s call for sustainable futures.

More information will follow soon!

For more information, visit the Utrecht Summer School website or contact Braidottisummerschool@uu.nl. Visit Instagram for updates!

Note: All profits made from the summer school will go to the ROSANNA Fund which gives scholarships to women who have limited financial means and who need financial support to help them pursue studies.


Another succesful intense summer school with Rosi Braidotti – The 2024 summer school:


Here are photos of the school of the 2023 school: