David Newheiser
Australian Catholic University
Monday, November 4th, 12:30 PM, Swift Common Room
Lunch Provided
The Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions is committed to being a fully accessible and inclusive workshop. Please contact Workshop Coordinators Rebekah Rosenfeld (rrosenfeld@uchicago.edu) and William Underwood (wunderwood@uchicago.edu) in order to make any arrangements necessary to facilitate your participation in workshop events.
Peter Chen
MA Student, Divinity School
a this and a that: atheism and interpretation
Monday, October 21, 12:30 PM, Swift 200
Lunch provided
Peter’s paper may be accessed here
The Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions is committed to being a fully accessible and inclusive workshop. Please contact Workshop Coordinators Rebekah Rosenfeld (rrosenfeld@uchicago.edu) or William Underwood (wunderwood@uchicago.edu) in order to make any arrangements necessary to facilitate your participation in workshop events.
Thomas Meyer
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Monday, October 14th, 4:00 PM, Social Sciences Research Building 122
The Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions is committed to being a fully accessible and inclusive workshop. Please contact Workshop Coordinators Rebekah Rosenfeld (rrosenfeld@uchicago.edu) and William Underwood (wunderwood@uchicago.edu) in order to make any arrangements necessary to facilitate your participation in workshop events.
Olivia Bustion
PhD Candidate, Theology
The Spirit as Plural Person: A Constructive Reading of Karl Barth’s Pneumatology
Wednesday, May 29, 12:00 PM, Swift 400
Lunch provided
The Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions is committed to being a fully accessible and inclusive workshop. Please contact Workshop Coordinator William Underwood (wunderwood@uchicago.edu) in order to make any arrangements necessary to facilitate your participation in workshop events.
Scott Ferguson, Zeke Goggin, Lisa Hendrick, Russell Johnson, Hannah Roh, and Stephen Walker
Please join the Philosophy of Religions Workshop as we renew a workshop tradition and send off the graduating and soon-to-be-graduating doctoral candidates in the Philosophy of Religions. Scott Ferguson, Zeke Goggin, Lisa Hendrick, Russell Johnson, Hannah Roh, and Stephen Walker will present short summaries of their dissertations and answer questions about their research. This event will be provide an opportunity for students to reconnect and hear about each other’s work, or to meet for the first time and learn about the kind of work that goes into a dissertation.
Wednesday, May 22, 12:00 PM, Swift 200
Lunch will be provided
The Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions is committed to being a fully accessible and inclusive workshop. Please contact Workshop Coordinator William Underwood (wunderwood@uchicago.edu) in order to make any arrangements necessary to facilitate your participation in workshop events.
Carlos Manrique
Professor, Dept. Philosophy, Universidad de los Andes
“Ontologies of the Colonized Body, and the Politics of Religious Edgings (notes on a civic popular uprising in Afro-Colombia’s pacific littoral)
Monday, May 13th, 12:00 PM, Swift 106
The paper is part of a work in progress engaged in a philosophical narration of a forceful
civic uprising that took place in the main city port of Colombia’s pacific littoral,
Buenaventura, in 2017. Such a narration seeks to elaborate the ways in which the archive,
and the testimonies of participants, from this political event call for a conceptual re-
description or re-imagining of, among other issues: the theologico-political; the
topographies of the social space in which it took place; what a peace-building religious
activism implies here in a hardly recognizable form; the ontology of the political that can
account for the force of ethnic, racial and religious difference that this event mobilized.
This presentation is focused on this last question. It puts into conversation the historical
singularity and density of this event, with an aporia that, in our view, contemporary
political theory confronts: the short circuit between sites of political praxis in which the
political import and force of cultural difference is unmistakable, and the way in which the
prevalent frameworks in political theory to render it legible miss it (be it liberal
multiculturalism, or the contemporary critiques of it that reclaim the return of a universal
subject). The exposition also enters in dialogue with other interventions in critical theory
that have proposed an ontological level of analysis into the problem of the politics of ethnic
or racial difference, such as Franz Fanon’s ontology of the colonized body.
Lunch will be provided
The Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions is committed to being a fully accessible and inclusive workshop. Please contact Workshop Coordinator William Underwood (wunderwood@uchicago.edu) in order to make any arrangements necessary to facilitate your participation in workshop events.
Nancy Levene
Professor, Dept. of Religious Studies, Yale University
“Canon, Repetition, and the Opponent: Interpretation in the History of Ideas”
Wednesday, May 8th, 4:30 PM, Swift Common Room
The Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions is committed to being a fully accessible and inclusive workshop. Please contact Workshop Coordinator William Underwood (wunderwood@uchicago.edu) in order to make any arrangements necessary to facilitate your participation in workshop events.
Kirsten Collins
PhD Student, Religion, Literature, and Visual Culture
That Other Fornication: Jewish Law in the Sources of Foucault’s Histoire de la sexualité IV
This paper examines the implications of Judaism’s unremarked presence in the fourth installment of Foucault’s history of sexuality, Confessions of the Flesh. Judaism appears twice in his text, in paraphrases of the early Christian sources through which he attempts to examine the relationship between flesh and spirit, and the conception of subjectivity that he thinks it has produced. Through close readings of John Chrysostom and John Cassian, both within Foucault’s text and outside of it, I attempt to contextualize these references to Judaism, and through them, to examine some gaps in Foucault’s account of “the relation of the self to the self.”
Wednesday, April 24, 12:00 PM, Swift 200
Refreshments provided
The Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions is committed to being a fully accessible and inclusive workshop. Please contact Workshop Coordinator William Underwood (wunderwood@uchicago.edu) in order to make any arrangements necessary to facilitate your participation in workshop events.
Matthew Peterson
PhD Student, Philosophy of Religions
Freud’s Paul: Pathogenesis and the Question of Historical Truth
Wednesday, April 17, 12:00 PM, Swift 200
Refreshments provided
The Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions is committed to being a fully accessible and inclusive workshop. Please contact Workshop Coordinator William Underwood (wunderwood@uchicago.edu) in order to make any arrangements necessary to facilitate your participation in workshop events.