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Friday | 28 May 2010
09:00-17:00 - ck185, UNIVERSITY OF REGINA, saskatchewan, canada
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SPECIAL PANELS
FR [SP-01] Education Building 191
VIOLENCE AND THE SACRED: GIRARD, BATAILLE, AGAMBEN, KRISTEVA
The return of sacred (i.e. religion-inspired or ritualized) violence seems to be one of
the consequences of what has been termed “the clash of civilizations.” We must
examine the political as well as the ethical challenges we are currently facing
by focusing on some of the seminal thinkers of the nexus between violence and
the sacred; namely, René Girard, Georges Bataille, Giorgio Agamben, and Julia
Kristeva.
Organized, Chaired, and Introduced by Maria Margaroni (English Studies, University of
Cyprus, Nicosia, CYPRUS)
Frederiek Depoortere (Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BELGIUM )
Violence and the Sacred: René Girard Revisited
Wern Mei Yong (English, Nanyang Technological University, SINGAPORE)
The Sacred: Of Violence, Intimacy, and Love
Sarah Hansen (Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville , TN, USA)
Agamben, Kristeva and the Violence of Sacrifice
*Christina Kkona (Applied Linguistics and General Education, Hellenic American
University, Athens, Greece)
Pharmakon: The Ambivalence of the Sacred in Kristeva
*Cara Judea Alhadeff (Photographer)
Sacrificial Lambs: Self-Portraiture and the Eroticized Other.
FR [SP-02] Education Building 193
EMBODYING DIFFERENCE
How are cultures of difference(s) embodied? This panel explores the lived,
corporeal effects of cultural norms, and focuses especially on those individuals
whose very bodies seem to defy them.
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Chaired and Introduced by Gertrude Postl (Philosophy / Women’s Studies, Suffolk
County Community College, Selden, NY, USA)