International Conference on the Thought of Rosi Braidotti

Rhizome Rosi: International Conference on the Thought of Rosi Braidotti
15 - 16 January 2026, Columbia Global Center - Reid Hall - 4 rue de Chevreuse - Paris

This conference aims to bring together researchers, artists, and practitioners who wish to engage in dialogue with Rosi Braidotti’s project.
This gathering aims primarily to create an «intergenerational» meeting place, which will prioritize contemporary re-readings, revivals and extensions of Rosi Braidotti’s thought.

Presentations will follow the standard academic convention of spoken papers, but may also adopt more experimental formats.

Rosi Braidotti's thinking occupies a central place in contemporary debates around feminism, posthumanism, nomadic subjectivities, and the critique of knowledge production practices.

She extends and renews the thinking of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Luce Irigaray, and the Australian materialist tradition (Val PLUMWOOD and the school of critical Spinozism), proposing an ethical and political reconfiguration of the subject through the concepts of nomadism, vital materialism, becoming, and the posthuman.

In a context of ecological, social, technological, and existential crises, Braidotti's approach opens up an original space for thought, at the intersection of continental philosophy, gender studies, critical theory, environmental humanities, and post- and transhumanist studies.

The notion of the "rhizome" captures these different dimensions. The rhizome allows us to think simultaneously about a cluster of inter-related ideas: a multiple vision of the subject, constituted by divergences and hybridizations; an anti-hierarchical politics, critical of vertical and arborescent - unitary - power structures; and a method of transversal reflection, that cuts across diverse disciplinary fields, and thus is capable of enriching different areas of knowledge.

This rhizomatic approach also led Braidotti to a radical critique of classical humanism and modern dualisms, rejecting the idea of unitary and fixed identities in favour of "nomadic" subjectivity, always "becoming" and framed by heterogeneous and affirmative modes of belonging.

Proposals for papers (title, abstract of 300 to 500 words, indicative bibliography, short bio-bibliography) should be sent to the following address : rhizomerosi gmail com

Please indicate any technical requirements if your presentation requires specific equipment or space.

Deadline for submissions : September 30, 2025
Responses will be communicated by : October 20, 2025
Accepted languages : French/English/Italian.