Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics
Lea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an Honorary Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University. A native of Albania, she has degrees in Philosophy and in Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza. She is the author of “Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency”, “The Meaning of Partisanship” (with Jonathan White), and “The Architectonic of Reason”, all published by Oxford University Press. Her latest book, Free, published by Penguin Press and translated into more than twenty-five languages, has won the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. Her academic work has been recognized with the British Academy Prize for Excellence in Political Science and a Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research Achievement.
Thursday, 26. October 2023, 18:30 – 20:00 h
At the University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, KOL-G-201 (Auditorium)
In this lecture, Lea Ypi discusses the promise of freedom under capitalism and some of the contradictions it involves. She argues that we need to return to the core definition of the Enlightenment as the “emergence from people’s self-incurred immaturity” and develop a new critique of society, able to challenge the political and economic institutions of the present and to develop a radical democratic global alternative.
Wednesday, 06. April 2022, 19:00 – 20:00 h
At Literaturhaus Zurich, Limmatquai 62, 8001 Zürich
Moderation: Dr. Gesa Schneider
Moderation: Dr Gesa Schneider
Albania in 1989: the last Stalinist outpost in Europe, an isolated country that is difficult to visit and even more difficult to leave. For ten-year-old Lea Ypi, this country is her home: a place of security and freedom. But what is freedom, Lea asks herself in the upheavals that follow.