Categories - BCSR

Leaps of Faith: Figurations of Belief in Literature and Critical Thought

Co-sponsored Event

November 21, 2014 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
4337 Dwinelle Hall

Keynote Speaker Hent de Vries, Professor of the Humanities and Philosophy and Director of the Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University

Welcome Reception Friday, November 21, 5 pm 4337 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley Acts of faith challenge boundaries between the ordinary and the extraordinary, between rationality and intuition. Bringing together diverse topics such as social and aesthetic suspension of disbelief, post-secularism, and the miraculous, the concept of faith functions as a springboard for interdisciplinary discussions, engaging […]

Between the Visible and the Invisible: Cosmology, Ritual, and Hermeneutics in Historical and Contemporary Chinese Worlds

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November 14, 2014 / 10:00 am - 7:30 pm / Add to Google
1229 Dwinelle Hall

Keynote speakers Ari Heinrich, Associate Professor of Literature, UC San Diego Michael Puett, Professor of East Asian Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University

An exploration of the manifold relations between ideas concerning cosmology, ritual practice, and classical scriptures in pre-modern and modern China. Papers discuss social, political, and religious topics ranging from alchemy, meditative healing, and spirit possession, to textual exegesis, omenology, and state ritual. For a conference schedule, please visit the Institute of East Asian Studies website […]

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