Announcement – Professor Karen River Barad joining us as a visiting fellow
The Centre for Law as Protection at Deakin Law School is thrilled to announce that the internationally renowned scholar Professor Karen River Barad is joining us as a visiting fellow over the next month.
Karen Barad is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Barad’s Ph.D. is in theoretical particle physics and quantum field theory. Barad held a tenured appointment in a physics department before moving into more interdisciplinary spaces. Barad is the author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Duke University Press, 2007) and numerous articles in the fields of physics, philosophy, science studies, and nuclear studies. Barad’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Hughes Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Barad is a founding member of the Science & Justice Research Center and served as the Director of the Science & Justice Graduate Training Program at UCSC. Barad is the recipient of honorary doctorates from Gothenburg University and Aarhus University, a Fulbright fellowship, a Yale University Dwight H. Terry Lectureship, and the Kresge College Teaching Award, among other honors. Barad’s new book, Energetics of the Otherwise: A Laboratory of the Possible, is forthcoming with Yale University Press in early 2027.
Professor Barad’s visit is also supported by the Science and Society Network and the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University.
We will shortly make some announcements about a series of events involving Professor Barad over the next month, so please stay tuned for more details.
If you have any questions about Professor Barad’s visit, please contact the Co-Directors of the Centre for Law as Protection, Professor Kate Seear and Professor Shiri Krebs.
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