Hospicing and Outgrowing Modernity: Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti

Schedule

Tue Mar 17 2026 at 12:00 pm to 01:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Hayden Library | Cambridge, MA

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A leading voice on decolonial futures, global justice, and the profound transformations required in times of social and ecological breakdown
About this Event

Join us for a lecture and discussion with internationally renowned scholar, educator, and author Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti.

Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti is the former Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. She is the author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing humanity's wrongs and the implications for social activism and Outgrowing Modernity: Navigating complexity, complicity and collapse (August 2025), and one of the founders of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Arts/Research Collective. Her latest work, Burnout From Humans: A Little Book About AI That is Not Really About AI, explores AI as a mirror and metaphor for human systems and invites readers to rethink relationality amidst planetary crises.


Location:

The Nexus at Hayden Library, 14S-130

160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA


Co-sponsored by MIT Systems Awareness Lab, Indigenous Spirit at MIT, MIT Radius, and MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative

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