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** with apologies for cross-posting ** Workshop: Crises of Meaning and Political Theology Tuesday, June 6, 2017 - 1:00pm to 7:00pm History Faculty, George Street, 41-47 George St, Oxford OX1 2BE Lecture Theatre Speakers: Martin Ruehl (Cambridge), "Ernst Kantorowicz and the Politics of Political Theology" Amir Engel (Hebrew University), "On Real and Imagined Catastrophes: Gershom Scholem's Sabbatinism." Julia Ng (Goldsmith's), "Surrealism’s Political-Theological Afterlife: Benjamin—Blumenberg—Taubes." Carolin Duttlinger (Oxford), ''Rescue in the Face of Danger: Benjamin, Goethe, Sebald'' Hjalmar Falk (Oxford/Gothenburg), "The Modern Epimetheus. Carl Schmitt's Marian Katechontism" Jean-Claude Monond (ENS), '"Progress, Providence, eschaton: Löwith, Blumenberg, and after" Hosted by the TORCH network Crisis, Extremes and Apocalypse. All are welcome. Coffee, tea and biscuits will be provided. For information, please contact Audrey Borowski at [log in to unmask]