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April 2015
News and Events
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Contents
01) April 2 | Mediating Piety: A Qur’anic Quarrel in Indonesia | Webb Keane
02) April 3 | (Non-)Philosophy and the Critique of the Secular | Symposium
03) April 9 | Brigid of Murroe | Fanny Howe
04) April 25 | Classification, Instrumentation, Technique: Exploring the Thin Line Between Religion and Science | Conference
All events are free and open to the public.
For more information, visit bcsr.berkeley.edu.
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01) April 2 | Mediating Piety: A Qur'anic Quarrel in Indonesia | Webb Keane
Berkeley Public Forum on Religion
 Webb Keane, George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Thursday, April 2, 5-7 pm
Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley
Indonesian Muslims have been participating enthusiastically in the global rise of middle class piety. One way to gain insight into contemporary piety is to examine conflicts that might reveal the internal tensions and pressure points to which it is giving rise. Among the more puzzling conflicts for many outside observers to grasp have been those that center on semiotic transgressions. These can be especially important because of the role they play in mediating between subjectivities and the public world. Semiotic transgressions have also become important as sites of conflict within and between secular doctrines of freedom of religion and of expression. This talk focuses on the critical storm stirred up by the Qur’anic renderings produced by a prominent editor and literary critic, H.B. Jassin, during the last decades of the twentieth century. Although unique in many respects, the Jassin affair sheds light on some more general aspects of religious affect, objectification, and ethics.
Photo: Kelly Ruth Winter
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02) April 3 | (Non-)Philosophy and the Critique of the Secular | Symposium
 Knowledge Without the Secular
Daniel Colucciello Barber, Affiliate, ICI Berlin
Immanence Without the World
Alex Dubilet, Lecturer, Program for Religious Studies and Department of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley
Dissimilar Messianity
Anthony Paul Smith, Assistant Professor of Religion, La Salle University, Philadelphia
Friday, April 3, 2015, 1-4 pm
4337 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
This symposium attempts to reconceptualize the secular using the concepts of contemporary continental philosophy.
For more information, contact Alex Dubilet, dubilet@gmail.com
Sponsored by Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, Department of German, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Department of Comparative Literature
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03) April 9 | Brigid of Murroe | Fanny Howe
Berkeley Seminars in Art and Religion
 Fanny Howe, Poet, Essayist, Novelist
Thursday, April 9, 2015, 5-7 pm
370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
Brigid of Ireland was first a goddess, then a person, then a saint divided into multiple personalities and nationalities. She shows up, like Mary, all over the place and is useful for almost any situation. There are religious orders devoted to her, although she emanates a pantheistic aura, even a primitive one, both historically and in legends. I will talk about her as a child and adolescent, because there are so many contradictory attributes provided on paper and stone. Murroe is said to be the town in Ireland where Brigid was sent into foster care by her father, a brute. I only learned this after spending many years in that same town and under the influence of Michel de Certeau.
Co-presented with Holloway Poetry Series
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04) April 25 | Classification, Instrumentation, Technique: Exploring the Thin Line Between Religion and Science | Conference
Graduate Student Event Grants
Saturday, April 25, 2015, 9:30 am-5:30 pm
Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley
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
Sponsored by Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, Townsend Center Working Group on Form and Formalism, Department of Anthropology
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