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Pisa-Conference on
VIOLENCE -- POLITICAL AND SACRED
On APRIL 02 and April 03, 2008, Northwestern University organizes a conference in the framework of its cooperation with the
Università di Pisa (Italy) on
VIOLENCE -- POLITICAL AND SACRED
PROGRAM
All papers will be delivered in Harris Hall 108.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
09:00 to 12:00
Classical Antiquity
“From Lamentation to Logos: Antigone's Offensive Speech”
Bonnie Honig,
NU Political Science
“Warrior Initiation Rites and Ethnicity in Ancient Italy”
Francesca Tataranni NU Classics
“Did the Greeks Prefer War to Peace?”
Robert Wallace NU Classics
01:30 to 05:30
The Biblical World
“The Biblical God and Violence”
Adriano Fabris, Pisa Philosophy
“Why Monotheism Is And Ought To Be Violent”
Kenneth Seeskin, NU Philosophy
“Idolatry and Violence”
Regina Schwartz, NU English
“Figures of Violence in Augustine's City of God”
Stefano Perfetti, Pisa Philosophy
Thursday, April 03, 2008
10:00 to 12:00
The World of Islam
“Religious Discourse on Violence”
Muhammed Sani Umar, NU Religion
“'Fight the Idolators Wherever You Find Them': Violence and Politics in the Sudan”
Rüdiger Seesemann NU Religion
02:00 to 05:00
The Modern World
“Auto-Immunity and the Violence of the Brute”
Penny Deutscher, NU Philosophy
“Shooting Protest”
Hannah Feldman, NU Art History
“Revisiting the ‘Dialectic of Enlightenment' – Abu Ghraib and the Pathos Formula”
Stephen Eisenman, NU Art History
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, and the Office of the Dean of the Judd A and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. All non-culinary events are free and open to the public. Please address questions to Kenneth Seeskin.
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