John Protevi

6.30-8pm | Monday 10 December 2007
Room D502, Clement House

Speaker
John Protevi, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of French Studies, Louisiana State University

In these talks, John Protevi, from the Department of French Studies at Louisiana State University, discusses the natural and social aspects of Hurricane Katrina, using concepts derived from the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.

In the second talk, he uses their political philosophy to discuss the racialized panic by which government officials stopped the ongoing rescue effort of and by fellow citizens in favour of occupying New Orleans by force in a military operation.