[csaa-forum] Reminder: Sydney Seminar 19: Eternal Life after the Death of God

[Philosophy@UWS]

The Philosophy Research Initiative and the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney present a Sydney Seminar on the Arts and Philosophy:

Seminar 19
ETERNAL LIFE AFTER THE DEATH OF GOD
TIME: Tuesday, 7 August 2012
6:00pm to 7:30pm
PLACE: Metcalfe Auditorium, Macquarie Building
Cost: Adults $15, Friends and Concessions $10.
Booking essential: https://www4.sl.nsw.gov.au/sydneyseminar
Can we still talk about eternity in the era of capitalist modernity? How can we understand the persistent desire for eternity in a time where the predominant political objective is the control of the life of people?
Kiarina Kordela will address these questions in her presentation "Secular Eternal Life and Immortality" by distinguishing between infinity and immortality as a way of conceiving biopolitics. Miguel Vatter will explore in "Sex, Marriage, and Eternal Life" how the key to the fulfillment of the political potential of the human species is contained in the dialectic between the natural and the social dimensions of sexual relations.
Programme
Chair                                     Nicole Anderson
6:00 pm                                Welcome by Professor Peter Hutchings
6:05 to 6:40 pm                    Kiarina Kordela, Secular Eternal Life and Immortality
6:40 to 7:15 pm                    Miguel Vatter, Sex, Marriage, and Eternal Life
7:15 to 7:30 pm                      Question and Answer

Professor Kiarina Kordela (Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota) works on the relation among metaphysics, psychoanalysis, economic structures, and biopolitics, as well as on literary and cultural analysis.
Professor Miguel Vatter (UNSW) works on republicanism, biopolitics and political theology.

For more information, please visit: http://sydneyseminar.org/wp/2012/07/seminar-19-eternal-life-after-the-death-of-god/
You can download the flyer: http://sydneyseminar.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/19_Eternal-life-after-God.pdf



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