Workshop: Political Theology and the Contemporary Moment: Beyond the Christian and the Secular (HU Berlin, July 5-6, 2018)
Political Theology and the Contemporary Moment: Beyond the Christian and the Secular
A Two-Day Workshop at the Humboldt University of Berlin
July 5-6, 2018
Humboldt University of Berlin, Theologische Fakultät
Burgstr. 26, 10178 Berlin
Room 206 (2nd floor)
Workshop Schedule
THURSDAY, JULY 5th
11.00-11.10 Welcome
Kirill Chepurin (HU Berlin/HSE Moscow) and Alex Dubilet (Vanderbilt)
11.10-12.00 A Political Theology of Disenchantment
Marika Rose (Winchester)
12.00-12.50 An Agenda for Total Disorder: Mysticism and Gnosis in Fanon
Anthony Paul Smith (LaSalle)
12.50-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-14.50 Disciplining the Moment
Linn Tonstad (Yale)
14.50-15.40 Doing Nothing: Individuation, Subjection, and the Political Theology of Interpellation
Alex Dubilet (Vanderbilt)
15.40-16.10 Coffee break
16.10-17.00 Secularism and Liberalism: A Conjoined Critique
Thomas Lynch (Chichester)
17.00-17.50 Conceptualizing Umma Today (The Ruin of Islamic Community)
Basit Iqbal (UC Berkeley)
17.50-18.10 Coffee break
18.10-19.00 You’re On God’s Time Now: On the Accumulative Disjunction of Intensive and Extensive Duration
Sean Capener (Toronto)
FRIDAY, JULY 6th
11.10-12.00 Is Romanticism Secular?: Uses of Justification
Joseph Albernaz (Columbia)
12.00-12.50 Laying Claim to History: Theology, Literature, and the Reproduction of Racial Belonging
Amaryah Armstrong (Vanderbilt)
12.50-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-14.50 Is Secularism Christianity? Blumenberg to Anidjar
Christiane Frey (ICI Berlin)
14.50-15.40 Modernity and Bliss
Kirill Chepurin (HU Berlin/HSE Moscow)
15.40-16.10 Coffee break
16.10-17.00 Zones of Equivocity
Daniel C. Barber (Pace)
17.00-17.50 A Matter of Conversion: Derrida and Žižek on Kabbalistic Materialism
Agata Bielik-Robson (Nottingham)
17.50-18.10 Coffee break
18.10-19.00 Disappointing Vision: Anarchism, Prophecy and the Archeon
James Martel (San Francisco State)
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The workshop is free and open to all. No registration is required.
Organized by Kirill Chepurin and Alex Dubilet, with the support of Prof. Dr. Rolf Schieder. Funded by Das KOSMOS Programm, HU Berlin.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/613846728983754/
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