MIT GHI Master class presents, Hospicing and Outgrowing Modernity: Lecture & Discussion with Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti
The Nexus, 14S-130 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDear colleagues, students, and friends, Join us for a lecture and discussion with internationally renowned scholar, educator, and author Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, a leading voice on decolonial futures, global justice, and the profound transformations required in times of social and ecological breakdown. 4th Global Humanities Master Class Title: Hospicing and Outgrowing Modernity: Tuesday, March 17, 12:00 - 1:30 pm Location: The Nexus at Hayden Library, 14S-130, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 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. Co-sponsored by MIT Global Humanities Initiative, MITHIC, MIT Systems Awareness Lab, Indigenous Spirit at MIT, MIT Radius, MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative, and the Presencing Institute. Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/4rSX7RR Looking forward to seeing you at our […]
