In this lecture Professor Peg Birmingham will show how we could think with Hannah Arendt and feminist philosophy, specifically the work of Rosa Luxemburg, when addressing the most significant problem of our time: the climate catastrophe and the production of what the UN estimates are going to be 150 million climate refugees adding to the already 140 million forcibly displaced.

Following Arendt, this urgently calls for a new form of political solidarity. Birmingham will consider which new political principles are called for and how these would animate a new form of democracy. Inherent to questions of political solidarity is the question of plurality, which in turn raises questions about the limits of the political. 

The lecture will be followed by a discussion with Professor Cathrine Holst (IFIKK, UiO) and Lifetime Government scholar Helgard Mardt (STK, UiO).