Gabriella Calchi Novati

Echoists of the ‘Anthrobscene’ – We Better Look Up!
Thursday, May 25 • 5:40 pm – 6:00 pm (CEST)

Gabriella Calchi Novati (MA, MPhil, PhD) is a cultural philosopher and psychoanalyst based in Zürich, Switzerland.

Her research is at the intersections of performance studies, biopolitics, Anthropocene studies and psychoanalytic theory. Her essays—which explore topics such as digital cultures, critical theory, film, theatre, contemporary art, activism, and politics—have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Theatre Research International, Performance Research, Performance Paradigm, About Performance, and Cinema: Journal of Philosophy & the Moving Image; and in many edited collections.

Dr Calchi Novati regularly lectures at international symposia, conferences and institutions, and in 2019 was visiting professor in Trinity College Dublin. She is a member of the Advisory Research Committee of ‘The Anthropocene Atlas of Geneva’ (TAAG), and a member of the organising/scientific committee of the international and interdisciplinary academic/artistic network “[T]Error on Tour“.

For a full list of publications, see here.