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Programme

18:00 | Open to public

18:30 | Welcome/opening words

18:45 | Start of lecture followed by discussion with audience

20:00 | Reception

21:30 | End

Bonnie Honig

Bonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science at Brown University. Her work draws on political theory, literature, law, and film to recast questions of immigration, emergency, democracy, and gender in more agonistic and egalitarian terms. She is author of several books, including: Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (Cornell, 1993), Democracy and the Foreigner (Princeton, 2001), Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy (Princeton, 2009), Antigone, Interrupted (Cambridge, 2013), Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair (Fordham, 2017), A Feminist Theory of Refusal (Harvard, 2021) and Shell Shocked: Feminist Criticism After Trump (Fordham, 2021: a collection of revised versions of her public writing since 2016). 

Co-Founder of Brown University’s Democracy Project, leading the work on “Varieties of Democratic Experience,” Honig has written on the cultural politics of misogyny and has argued since 2013 for a politics of “public things” to orient democracy now. Author of 70 articles and 11 single-authored books and (co)edited collections, she is now writing The Accidental Ordinary: Language, Politics, Metamorphosis, the topic of her 2026 lectures as Spinoza Chair of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.