Events / Program: Woman Without a Name: Gender Identity in Sacrificial Stories

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Sacrifice and the Body beyond Metaphysics	Fri, 03.11.2023	Conferences and Workshops	Caecille Varslev Pedersen, Isabella Guanzini, Luka Trebežnik, Robert Yelle, Dietmar Regensburger, Gertrud Koch	Sacrifice and the Body beyond Metaphysics Fri, 03.11.2023 Speakers: Caecille Varslev Pedersen, Isabella Guanzini, Luka Trebežnik, Robert Yelle, Dietmar Regensburger, Gertrud Koch Series: Conferences and Workshops This workshop examined the concept of sacrifice and its relationship to the body from the perspectives of philosophy, theology and gender studies. Read more
Sacrifice and the Body beyond Metaphysics Fri, 03.11.2023 Speakers: Caecille Varslev Pedersen, Isabella Guanzini, Luka Trebežnik, Robert Yelle, Dietmar Regensburger, Gertrud Koch Series: Conferences and Workshops This workshop examined the concept of sacrifice and its relationship to the body from the perspectives of philosophy, theology and gender studies. Read more
	Sacrifice and Natality: Surrogacy Structures	Thu, 02.11.2023	Lecture	Yvonne Sherwood	Sacrifice and Natality: Surrogacy Structures Thu, 02.11.2023 Speakers: Yvonne Sherwood Series: Lecture This opening lecture of the conference "Sacrifice and the Body beyond Metaphysics" addressed the following questions: Why do so many texts with no agenda on ‘gender’–created long before the rise of feminist theology and philosophy—force the mother into the foreground, next to or superimposed upon the sacrificial altar? Why have histories of sacrifice been so haunted (though ‘haunted’ is too thin a word for such visceral figures of birth and the maternal body) by the uncanny mimesis—and repulsion—between mortality and natality? And how does the strange kinship between sacrifice and birth affect the old theological/philosophical debate over the ends and edges of ‘man’, in his fragile position between animalplus and divinityminus (and distinct from ‘woman’—always elsewhere, somewhere)? Read more
Sacrifice and Natality: Surrogacy Structures Thu, 02.11.2023 Speakers: Yvonne Sherwood Series: Lecture This opening lecture of the conference "Sacrifice and the Body beyond Metaphysics" addressed the following questions: Why do so many texts with no agenda on ‘gender’–created long before the rise of feminist theology and philosophy—force the mother into the foreground, next to or superimposed upon the sacrificial altar? Why have histories of sacrifice been so haunted (though ‘haunted’ is too thin a word for such visceral figures of birth and the maternal body) by the uncanny mimesis—and repulsion—between mortality and natality? And how does the strange kinship between sacrifice and birth affect the old theological/philosophical debate over the ends and edges of ‘man’, in his fragile position between animalplus and divinityminus (and distinct from ‘woman’—always elsewhere, somewhere)? Read more
	Philosophy, Sacrifice, and War: Problems and Ambiguities	Thu, 02.06.2022	Lecture	James Dodd Ludger Hagedorn	Philosophy, Sacrifice, and War: Problems and Ambiguities Thu, 02.06.2022 Speakers: James Dodd Ludger Hagedorn Series: Lecture James Dodd seeked to explore the limits of a philosophical approach to the twin problems of war and sacrifice. Is something like a true “philosophy of war”—understood as a coherent system of ideas, or a clearly articulated theoretical posture adequate to fully addressing the enduring challenges of war on a properly philosophical register—at all possible? In turn, can philosophy offer a cogent analysis of the phenomenon of sacrifice, one that captures both its paradoxical character and spiritual resonance? The suggestion was that where the two seem to fundamentally merge—when war calls for sacrifice, and sacrifice calls for war, each seeming to provide the meaning for the other—we trip on the limits of philosophy in a way that the very sense of its vocation becomes clear. Read more
Philosophy, Sacrifice, and War: Problems and Ambiguities Thu, 02.06.2022 Speakers: James Dodd Ludger Hagedorn Series: Lecture James Dodd seeked to explore the limits of a philosophical approach to the twin problems of war and sacrifice. Is something like a true “philosophy of war”—understood as a coherent system of ideas, or a clearly articulated theoretical posture adequate to fully addressing the enduring challenges of war on a properly philosophical register—at all possible? In turn, can philosophy offer a cogent analysis of the phenomenon of sacrifice, one that captures both its paradoxical character and spiritual resonance? The suggestion was that where the two seem to fundamentally merge—when war calls for sacrifice, and sacrifice calls for war, each seeming to provide the meaning for the other—we trip on the limits of philosophy in a way that the very sense of its vocation becomes clear. Read more
	War and the Fate of Europe in Patočka’s Heretical Essays	Wed, 01.06.2022	Lecture	David Dusenbury	War and the Fate of Europe in Patočka’s Heretical Essays Wed, 01.06.2022 Speakers: David Dusenbury Series: Lecture Despite the effort not to repeat the mistakes and atrocities of the previous generations, the twenty-first century continues to be a century of wars and suffering. In these lectures, David Dusenbury and James Dodd reflected on Patočka’s and Derrida’s phenomenological analysis of self-sacrifice as a form of resistance in extreme situations of oppression (war or repression of authoritarian/totalitarian regimes). Read more
War and the Fate of Europe in Patočka’s Heretical Essays Wed, 01.06.2022 Speakers: David Dusenbury Series: Lecture Despite the effort not to repeat the mistakes and atrocities of the previous generations, the twenty-first century continues to be a century of wars and suffering. In these lectures, David Dusenbury and James Dodd reflected on Patočka’s and Derrida’s phenomenological analysis of self-sacrifice as a form of resistance in extreme situations of oppression (war or repression of authoritarian/totalitarian regimes). Read more
	Doomed to Sacrifice?	Thu, 28.10.2021 - Fri, 29.10.2021	Conferences and Workshops	Martin Koci Sandra LehmannRené Rosfort, Anna Sjöberg, Sara Shabot Cohen	Doomed to Sacrifice? Thu, 28.10.2021 - Fri, 29.10.2021 Speakers: Martin Koci Sandra LehmannRené Rosfort, Anna Sjöberg, Sara Shabot Cohen Series: Conferences and Workshops Sacrifice is a popular theme in philosophical and theological discussions. The concept remains ambiguous, however, and the field is contested across anthropological, ethnological, sociological and ethical perspectives. The objective of this workshop was to discuss gendered aspects of sacrifice from the perspectives of phenomenology and existentialism – disciplines that view sacrifice through the lens of the sacrificial experience. Read more
Doomed to Sacrifice? Thu, 28.10.2021 - Fri, 29.10.2021 Speakers: Martin Koci Sandra LehmannRené Rosfort, Anna Sjöberg, Sara Shabot Cohen Series: Conferences and Workshops Sacrifice is a popular theme in philosophical and theological discussions. The concept remains ambiguous, however, and the field is contested across anthropological, ethnological, sociological and ethical perspectives. The objective of this workshop was to discuss gendered aspects of sacrifice from the perspectives of phenomenology and existentialism – disciplines that view sacrifice through the lens of the sacrificial experience. Read more
	Sovereignty and Political Mythologies	Wed, 13.10.2021	Lecture	Colby Dickinson	Sovereignty and Political Mythologies Wed, 13.10.2021 Speakers: Colby Dickinson Series: Lecture The Cartesian mind/body dualism that has come to dominate western thinking for centuries has an unacknowledged affinity with the split in sovereign power that once characterized the king’s two bodies. In this medieval political theology the king is said to have both a physical-temporal body that eventually dies and another body that represents the politically sovereign and eternal body. Secularized Cartesian mind/body dualism, where the mind becomes an eternal force of reason acting within a corrupted embodied existence, the king’s two bodies reflect a hierarchical imposition of dominance that justifies a more deeply engrained master/slave duality. Read more
Sovereignty and Political Mythologies Wed, 13.10.2021 Speakers: Colby Dickinson Series: Lecture The Cartesian mind/body dualism that has come to dominate western thinking for centuries has an unacknowledged affinity with the split in sovereign power that once characterized the king’s two bodies. In this medieval political theology the king is said to have both a physical-temporal body that eventually dies and another body that represents the politically sovereign and eternal body. Secularized Cartesian mind/body dualism, where the mind becomes an eternal force of reason acting within a corrupted embodied existence, the king’s two bodies reflect a hierarchical imposition of dominance that justifies a more deeply engrained master/slave duality. Read more
	Whose Story? Which Sacrifice?	Mon, 08.02.2021	Seminars and Colloquia	Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore	Whose Story? Which Sacrifice? Mon, 08.02.2021 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Series: Seminars and Colloquia Sacrifice may be a topic of intense philosophical-theological academic debate, but it is also the everyday experience of millions of ordinary people. Scholarly reflection on sacrifice has produced an ambiguous discourse which stretches across numerous disciplines from anthropology, to religious and social studies, to ethics. Sacrifice has of course developed within the religious-cultic context and can be traced in global religions and local cults alike. Read more
Whose Story? Which Sacrifice? Mon, 08.02.2021 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Series: Seminars and Colloquia Sacrifice may be a topic of intense philosophical-theological academic debate, but it is also the everyday experience of millions of ordinary people. Scholarly reflection on sacrifice has produced an ambiguous discourse which stretches across numerous disciplines from anthropology, to religious and social studies, to ethics. Sacrifice has of course developed within the religious-cultic context and can be traced in global religions and local cults alike. Read more