蘑菇AV

Upcoming Event

Jewish Thought in the Face of Disasters: A Symposium聽

Sunday, Sept. 22, 3:00 - 6:30 pm
Monday, Sept. 23, 9:30 am - 1:00 pm
Board Room, King鈥檚 College
Arts and Administration Building, 2nd floor
6350 Coburg Road

Day 1: Sunday, Sept. 22, 3:00 - 6:30 pm

• Opening Remarks: Daniel Brandes, University of King's College聽
• Martin Kavka (Florida State University) - 鈥淪pinoza's Christian Enemies: On Jewish-Christian Relations A Century after Schmitt"
• Paula Schwebel (Toronto Metropolitan University) - "Melancholy Sovereignty and the Politics of Sin"
• Meirav Jones (McMaster University) - 鈥淭he Catastrophe of Human Sovereignty and the Subversive Potential of Wrestling with God鈥�

Day 2: 聽Monday, Sept. 23, 9:30 AM - 1:00 pm

• Mara Benjamin (Mt. Holyoke College) - "The World-to-Come and Ecological Collapse"
• Dustin Atlas (Queen鈥檚 University) - "Living Disaster: No Hope or Fear"

The symposium is presented by King鈥檚 College and the 蘑菇AV Department of Classics, Program in Religious Studies, and Department of Philosophy and convened by the Simon and Riva Spatz Chair in Jewish Studies at 蘑菇AV.
For more details, please consult the .
For pre-circulated papers to be discussed at the workshop please e-mail eva.mroczek@dal.ca