BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Columba Systems Ltd//NONSGML CPNG/SpringViewer/ICal Output/3.3- M3//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180814T135936Z DTSTART:20170901T083000Z DTEND:20170901T100000Z SUMMARY:Professor Bruno Latour: Does our conception and practice of the m odern European ‘body politic’ need a new body when confronted by the cha llenges posed by our new climatic regime? UID:{http://www.columbasystems.com/customers/uom/gpp/eventid/}sr7-j6nenwd s-v4nqiy DESCRIPTION:As part of his appointment as Simon and Hallsworth Visiting P rofessor 2017/18 Bruno Latour will be giving a public lecture at the Uni versity of Manchester at 9.30am on 1 September 2017 (Renold Building\, r oom C16). Introduced by University President Professor Dame Nancy Rothwe ll\, Latour will addresses the question as to whether our conception and practice of the modern European ‘body politic’ needs a new body when co nfronted by the challenges posed by our new climatic regime. \n\nAbstrac t\n\nTo withdraw inside the narrow limits of nation-states is the surest way to threaten the safety and livelihood of those same nation-states\, and even\, for some low lying countries\, to risk their existence altog ether. If we accept to define Real-Politick as a selfish defense of one’ s own national interest\, then it should be realistic to take into accou nt all those external factors on which the self depends. In some ways\, this is what brought the 189 nation-states to some sort of agreement in Paris in December 2015: even if they reacted much too late\, it is in th e name of Real Politick that they were forced to take into account the l egitimate power of the climate that ignores all national boundaries but that weighs on all of them. Nations did not stop to pursue their interes ts\, but they were forced to accept that those interests were entangled in such a way that drawing the precise limits of those interests had bec ome impossible. Even if you suppose that hard-nose geo-politics obliges States to remain selfish\, you will have to recognize how terribly diffi cult it is for any one of them to draw the exact boundary around the sel f at the time of ecological crisis.\n\nProfessor Bruno Latour\n\nBruno L atour is one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophical and so cial scientific thought. He established his reputation as one of the mos t influential figures in science and technology studies\, but the signif icance of his work reaches out to a much broader audience where he is re cognised as one of the most original thinkers in contemporary continenta l philosophy and the humanities and the arts in general. In addition to work in philosophy\, history\, sociology and anthropology of science\, h e has collaborated into many studies in science policy and research mana gement. His reputation was established with his ground breaking 1979 co- authored book (with Steve Woolgar) Laboratory Life: the construction of scientific facts (Princeton University Press) which was followed in 1984 with Les Microbes: guerre et paix\, suivi de Irréductions (translated a s The Pasteurization of France (Harvard University Press)) and Science i n Action (1986\, Harvard University Press). He has also published a fiel d study on an automatic subway system\, Aramis or the love of technology \, and an essay on symmetric anthropology: We have never been modern (bo th with Harvard and now translated in 22 languages). With the same publi sher\, he also published a series of essays\, Pandora's Hope: Essays in the Reality of Science Studies. In recent years the philosophical ambiti ons and significance of his work have been ‘confessed’ in the English tr anslation of his work An Inquiry into Modes of Existence (2013\, Harvard University Press) and with the publication of Reset Modernity (MIT Pres s\, 2016). \n \nThe University of Manchester is honoured to host Bruno L atour\, a recipient of many awards including the Holberg Memorial Prize in 2013\, which is the closest equivalent to the Nobel Prize for humanit ies and social science granted annually to scholars who have made outsta nding contributions to research in the arts\, humanities\, the social sc iences\, law or theology. The prize committee stated: "Bruno Latour has undertaken an ambitious analysis and reinterpretation of modernity\, and has challenged fundamental concepts such as the distinction between mod ern and pre-modern\, nature and society\, human and non-human." The comm ittee defined the impact of Latour's work as “international and far beyo nd studies of the history of science\, art history\, history\, philosoph y\, anthropology\, geography\, theology\, literature and law.” In 2013 L atour also presented the prestigious Gifford Series of Lectures in Natur al Theology at Edinburgh University and the Tanner lectures at Yale Univ ersity in 2014. Cornell University have recently honoured his work with a 6 year honoury ‘Professor at large’ appointment and he was made Albert us Magnus professor at the University of Cologne in June 2015. He was aw arded the Prix de l’Académie Catholique de France in 2016 and in the sam e year was made Doctor Honoris Causa\, at the University of Edinburgh.\n \nAnyone interested in attending should contact Janet Adnams (janet.adna ms@manchester.ac.uk).\n STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT CLASS:PUBLIC LOCATION:C16\, Renold Building\, Manchester END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR