Feminist theorist Donna Haraway and literature-and-science researcher Bruno Clarke pay tribute to evolutionary theorist Lynn Margulis. In this special edition of An Evening With, they explore Margulis’s pioneering theories of symbiosis and Gaia, discuss their implications for current research in sympoiesis and posthumanism, and celebrate the publication of Writing Gaia: The Scientific Correspondence of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis. Rosi Braidotti will moderate the event.

Lynn Margulis (1938-2011) fought against the orthodoxies of genetic determinism and promoted the concept of symbiosis as the fundamental process uniting biology and ecology. Margulis also collaborated with James Lovelock to develop and promote the Gaia hypothesis, which in her view sees Gaia as the planetary sum of all symbioses.

Donna Haraway is Professor Emerita at the University of California-Santa Cruz.

Bruno Clarke is the Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Literature and Science at Texas Tech University. 

Rosi Braidotti is Emerita Professor at the University of Utrecht and affiliated to the Nieuwe Instituut.

This event is organised in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of TU Delft.