Events
Registration required even for CU/BC ID holders
Cosponsor
- Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life
Organizer
- The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
Contact
email address [email protected]
Notes
- Audience open to all faculty, graduate students, students, and invited guests
- Registration required.
This workshop will examine the connections between Christian-secular colonial empires and the Anthropocene. Bringing together perspectives from political theology and environmental humanities, participants will explore the religious and political dimensions of climate change, its history, and our theorizations of it. How do the imperial-colonial and theologico-political dimensions of extraction and extractivism challenge extant narratives of the Anthropocene? Is extractive modernity a form of (dis)-enchantment? To what extent do we need the categories of secularization and disenchantment to understand fossil-capitalism and empire?
Program
time9:30am - 9:45am EDT
Coffee
time9:45am - 10:00am EDT
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Jennifer Wenzel
Mohamed Amer Meziane
time10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Session #1: Keynote and Opening Discussion
Presenter
Mohamed Amer Meziane
Discussant
Matthew Engelke
time11:00am - 11:15am EDT
Break
time11:15am - 12:15pm EDT
Session #2
Presenter
Raffaella Taylor-Seymour
Discussant
Jennifer Wenzel
time12:15pm - 1:15pm EDT
Lunch
Heyman Center Lounge, 2nd floor
time1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT
Session # 3
Presenter
Thangam Ravindranathan
Discussant
Zeynep Celik Alexander
time2:30pm - 2:45pm EDT
Break
time2:45pm - 3:45pm EDT
Session #4
Presenter
Leah Aronofsky
Discussant
Janet Jakobsen
time4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Concluding group discussion
time4:30pm - 4:45pm EDT
Closing remarks
Mohamed Amer Meziane
Timothy Mitchell