SACRIFICE REVISITED
Friday, May 19, 2017 – 1:00pm to 7:00pm
History Faculty, George Street
Colin Matthew Room
TORCH’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:
History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details:
History Faculty
Speaker:
Dr Faisal Devji
Organising department:
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Organiser:
Audrey Borowski (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
audrey.borowski@history.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Audrey Borowski (Queen's)
Part of:
Crisis, Extremes and Apocalypse Research Network
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Audrey Borowski
