Centre for Gender & Religions Research Seminar
2nd December 2003, 13:00-15:00
Rm 279, SOAS, University of London
Professor Grace Jantzen, University of Manchester
'Imagining Natality'
How does newness enter the world? Philosophers since Plato have been preoccupied with death, both as an existential and as a philosophical category. Without minimizing the significance of mortality, I wish to
suggest that natality, too, should be taken seriously. While the slogan 'make love not war' offered no solutions to the question of how one was to
be replaced by the other, Professor Jantzen will discuss how creativity and attention to beauty are aspects of the imaginary of natality, and present crucial alternatives to violence at both individual and political levels.
ALL ARE WELCOME!
For more information please contact me at [log in to unmask]; 020 7898 4774.
Information on how to get to SOAS is available from http://www.soas.ac.uk/contact/location.cfm?navid=1110.
Acting Chair, Centre for Gender & Religions Research
Convenor, MA Gender Studies and Religion
Lecturer (part-time) Critical Theory & the Study of Religions
Department of the Study of Religions
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
Tel: 020 7898 4774
Email: [log in to unmask]
Web: http://www.soas.ac.uk/Religions/grr/index.html
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