SACRIFICE REVISITED
RCH’s Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse network are hosting a seminar on the topic of sacrifice. This will involve a revisitation of the concept of Sacrifice in late modernity in its various configurations, philosophical and ideological.

The seminar will include the following:

Faisal Devji (Oxford) ‘Gandhi, Sacrifice and the Ambiguities of non-violence’
Martin Crowley (Cambridge) ‘Bruno Latour’s Anti-sacrificial Politics’
Kalypso Nicolaidis (Oxford) ‘Meanings of ‘Sacrifice’ in Brexit Mythology’
Brad Evans (Bristol) ‘The Violence of an Artificial Love’
Jonathan Leader Maynard (Oxford) ‘Consequentialist Extremism: Present Sacrifices for Future Dreams in the Justification of Violence’
Kimberley Hutchings (QMUL) ‘On Violence, Gender and Sacrifice: old stories and new reflections’
Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse
Date: 19 May 2017, 13:00 (Friday, 4th week, Trinity 2017)
Venue: Venue to be announced
Speakers: Dr Faisal Devji, Dr Jonathan Leader Maynard (Oxford)
Organising department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Organiser contact email address: audrey.borowski@history.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Crisis, Extremes and Apocalypse Research Network
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Audrey Borowski