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October 2015
News and Events
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Contents
01) October 6 | Radical Love: A Photographic Narrative of Cloistered Religious Life | Toni Greaves
02) October 7-8 | Conference | Revisiting Freud and Moses: Heroism, History, and Religion
03) October 27 | “Tablet of Being”: Persian Painting and the Demiurgic Artist in Fifteenth-Century Iran and Central Asia | Lamia Balafrej
All events are free and open to the public.
For more information, visit bcsr.berkeley.edu.
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01) October 6 | Radical Love: A Photographic Narrative of Cloistered Religious Life | Toni Greaves
Berkeley Seminars in Art and Religion
Toni Greaves, Photographer
Tuesday, October 6, 5-7 pm
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley (**New Location**)
 The sudden revelation of a powerful religious calling was an entirely unexpected event in the life of a college student named Lauren. But when it became clear to her that she had a spiritual vocation, she made the exceptional decision to dedicate her life to God. Drawing upon many visits to the cloistered religious community of Dominican nuns in Summit, New Jersey, photographer Toni Greaves has created a luminous body of work that follows the transformative journey by which Lauren became Sister Maria Teresa of the Sacred Heart. Greaves’ meditative photographs capture the radical joy of a life dedicated unequivocally to love. Toni Greaves joins BCSR to present and discuss her long-term project photographing within this community of cloistered nuns, her personal journey along the way, and the just-published monograph of this seven-year body of work.
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02) October 7-8 | Conference | Revisiting Freud and Moses: Heroism, History and Religion
Wednesday, October 7, 1:30-7 pm
Thursday, October 8, 8:30 am-5:30 pm
370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
 This conference aims to explore Freud’s place in current debates on secularism and post-secularism, featuring new research on the intersections of theology, Judaism and history in Freud’s psychoanalytic theories. Speakers include Jan Assmann, Richard Bernstein, Willi Goetschel, Catherine Malabou, Gabriele Schwab, and Joel Whitebook.
For conference program and updates, including a Graduate Workshop on Freud and Moses preceding the conference, please check the German Department website: http://german.berkeley.edu/events/
Organized by Gilad Sharvit, Helen Diller Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies, and Karen Feldman, Associate Professor of German, with support from Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, The Program in Critical Theory, Center for Jewish Studies, Department of English, Department of German, Department of History, Institute of European Studies, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and Townsend Center for the Humanities.
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03) October 27 | “Tablet of Being”: Persian Painting and the Demiurgic Artist in Fifteenth-Century Iran and Central Asia | Lamia Balafrej
Berkeley Seminars in Art and Religion
Lamia Balafrej, Assistant Professor of Art, Wellesley College
Tuesday, October 27, 5-7 pm
370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
 In the fifteenth century, Persian book painting becomes filled with extra-textual figures, deviating from and subverting the textual story they supposedly illustrate. This departure from illustration transformed the painting into a reflexive medium commenting on art itself, its function and its status, and above all, its relationship to God’s creation. Drawing on her current book project, Balafrej offers a compositional and historiographical analysis of this emergent book-painting culture.
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