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Classification, Instrumentation, Technique: Exploring the Thin Line Between Religion and Science

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April 25, 2015 / 9:30 am - 5:30 pm / Add to Google
221 Kroeber Hall

This conference intends to explore concepts and methods that index the thin line between science and religion. We will explore forms of classification, instrumentation, and technical practice as they frame this distinction, and questions of knowledge and its objects which arise therein. For more information, contact Ashwak Hauter, ashauter@berkeley.edu or William Stafford, Jr., wstafford.jr@berkeley.edu Graduate […]

The Rise and Fall of Strict Separation: Politics, Institutions, and Secularism in Postwar America

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April 15, 2015 / 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm / Add to Google
3401 Dwinelle Hall

Damon Mayrl, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; and Visiting Scholar, BCSR

Since the mid-twentieth century, American education has been governed by a peculiarly strong form of secularism, often termed the “strict separation of church and state,” which forbids both devotional exercises in public schools and public funding for religious schools. Since the late 1990s, however, strict separation has been challenged on multiple fronts, and many legal […]

(Non-)Philosophy and the Critique of the Secular

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April 03, 2015 / 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm / Add to Google
4337 Dwinelle Hall

(Non-)Philosophy and the Critique of the Secular is a symposium that attempts to reconceptualize the secular using the concepts of contemporary continental philosophy. The event comprises three presentations “Beginning Without the Secular” ( Daniel Colucciello Barber, ICI Berlin), “Dissimilar Messianity” (Anthony Paul Smith, La Salle University), “Immanence Without the World” (Alex Dubilet, UC Berkeley) – […]

Deus sive Vernunft: Schelling’s Transformation of Spinoza’s God

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March 18, 2015 / 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
282 Dwinelle Hall

Yitzhak Melamed, Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University

On January 6th 1795 the twenty-year-old Schelling, still a student at the Tübinger Stift, wrote to his friend and former roommate, Hegel: “I am now receiving the beginning of the detailed exposition by Fichte himself, the Foundation of the Entire Wissenschaftslehre … Now I am working on an Ethics a la Spinoza. It is designed […]

“Pragmatism…she widens the field of search for God”

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February 10, 2015 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
370 Dwinelle Hall

Joan Richardson, Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and American Studies, The Graduate Center, CUNY

On several occasions William James described Pragmatism as continuing the work of the Protestant Reformation, loosening the ties of orthodoxy and outworn habit of any kind to admit all the possibilities of belief belonging to a pluralistic universe. In the penultimate paragraph of Pragmatism (1907), he writes; “We do not yet know which type of […]

“Pragmatism…she widens the field of search for God”

Jewish Nightlife: An Evening of Celebration with Poetry and Music

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December 18, 2014 / 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm / Add to Google
The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way

Yair Harel, Director

Jewish Nightlife is a multi-disciplinary exploration of the nexus between the ritual performance of Jewish texts and social changes across Jewish history, including Hebrew poetry, music, and synagogue liturgy in Europe, in North Africa, the Middle East, and present-day Israel. The program includes solo and ensemble performances by UC Berkeley students and participants in the […]