Recitals: Foundations, Fictions and Translations
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> Session 11 (October 5)
Faith in Secular Human Rights and the Sulbaltern: Reflections of a Postcolonial Feminist
Contributors: Ratna Kapur, Horatia Muir Watt, Helena Alviar, Astrid von Busekist
This session offers reflections on the implications of ‘faith’ on progressive, leftist politics and critical thought through a postcolonial, feminist perspective. Foregrounding the role of faith and secularism in human rights encounters with the religious ‘Other,’ the presentation prompts a host of challenging questions: What is the work that faith does in progressive, left, secular human rights advocacy and critical scholarship? How does a ‘secular’ position reproduce the us and them/civilized and uncivilized/global south and global north divides? What are the epistemological implications of a political position based on freedom from religion for a subaltern sensibility based on freedom through religion and alternative lifeworlds? What new labour of thought is required to be undertaken once the orthodoxies and exclusions present in secular human rights and progressive politics have been exposed?
> Session 12 (November 9)
Truth and fiction in the aftermath of critique
Contributors: Jacques Revel, Sabina Loriga, and Paul-André Rosental
Can we claim to know the truth about the past, or are we condemned to telling only stories? How can we work with the text of reality without increasing the risks of fictionalizing the past? In their recent book Une histoire inquiète, Jacques Revel and Sabina Loriga examine what the critical turn has done to the writing of history and the social sciences, and propose an assessment of this major crisis.
> Session 13 (December 7)
Arts, objects and Law
Contributors: Horatia Muir Watt, Helena Alvair, and Robert Wai
In this session we would like to explore the representation in art of physical objects as well as of the spiritual, the ideational, the sublime. This process of materialization, is both inherent to the artistic process and to the production of law. We are hoping the images included below will spark a conversation regarding this parallel (...)
