Ways of Being Alive: Conversation with Baptiste Morizot

Baptiste Morizot is a writer and lecturer in philosophy at Aix-Marseille University. His work is devoted to the relationship between human beings and other living creatures, based on practices carried out in the field. He is the author of Ways of Being Alive (Transl. Andrew Brown, Polity Books, 2022), On the Animal Trail (Transl. by Andrew Brown, Polity Books, 2021), and most recently Wild Diplomacy: Cohabiting with Wolves on a New Ontological Map (Transl. by Catherine Porter, SUNY Press, 2022), as well as Rekindling Life: A Common Front (Transl. Catherine Porter, Polity Books, 2022).

Donna Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her publications in feminist theory and feminist science studies include Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989); Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991); Modest_Witness@.FemaleMan©- Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism and Technoscience (1997), The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (2003); and Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016).

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and the History of Consciousness Department, with the support of Villa Albertine San Francisco.