Events / Program: Woman Without a Name: Gender Identity in Sacrificial Stories

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers	Register
	Philosophy, Sacrifice, and War: Problems and Ambiguities	Thu, 02.06.2022	Lecture	James Dodd Ludger Hagedorn		Philosophy, Sacrifice, and War: Problems and Ambiguities Thu, 02.06.2022 Speakers: James Dodd Ludger Hagedorn Series: Lecture James Dodd seeked to explore the limits of a philosophical approach to the twin problems of war and sacrifice. Is something like a true “philosophy of war”—understood as a coherent system of ideas, or a clearly articulated theoretical posture adequate to fully addressing the enduring challenges of war on a properly philosophical register—at all possible? In turn, can philosophy offer a cogent analysis of the phenomenon of sacrifice, one that captures both its paradoxical character and spiritual resonance? The suggestion was that where the two seem to fundamentally merge—when war calls for sacrifice, and sacrifice calls for war, each seeming to provide the meaning for the other—we trip on the limits of philosophy in a way that the very sense of its vocation becomes clear. Read more
Philosophy, Sacrifice, and War: Problems and Ambiguities Thu, 02.06.2022 Speakers: James Dodd Ludger Hagedorn Series: Lecture James Dodd seeked to explore the limits of a philosophical approach to the twin problems of war and sacrifice. Is something like a true “philosophy of war”—understood as a coherent system of ideas, or a clearly articulated theoretical posture adequate to fully addressing the enduring challenges of war on a properly philosophical register—at all possible? In turn, can philosophy offer a cogent analysis of the phenomenon of sacrifice, one that captures both its paradoxical character and spiritual resonance? The suggestion was that where the two seem to fundamentally merge—when war calls for sacrifice, and sacrifice calls for war, each seeming to provide the meaning for the other—we trip on the limits of philosophy in a way that the very sense of its vocation becomes clear. Read more
	War and the Fate of Europe in Patočka’s Heretical Essays	Wed, 01.06.2022	Lecture	Katerina KociDavid Dusenbury		War and the Fate of Europe in Patočka’s Heretical Essays Wed, 01.06.2022 Speakers: Katerina KociDavid Dusenbury Series: Lecture Despite the effort not to repeat the mistakes and atrocities of the previous generations, the twenty-first century continues to be a century of wars and suffering. In these lectures, David Dusenbury and James Dodd reflected on Patočka’s and Derrida’s phenomenological analysis of self-sacrifice as a form of resistance in extreme situations of oppression (war or repression of authoritarian/totalitarian regimes). Read more
War and the Fate of Europe in Patočka’s Heretical Essays Wed, 01.06.2022 Speakers: Katerina KociDavid Dusenbury Series: Lecture Despite the effort not to repeat the mistakes and atrocities of the previous generations, the twenty-first century continues to be a century of wars and suffering. In these lectures, David Dusenbury and James Dodd reflected on Patočka’s and Derrida’s phenomenological analysis of self-sacrifice as a form of resistance in extreme situations of oppression (war or repression of authoritarian/totalitarian regimes). Read more
	Doomed to Sacrifice?	Thu, 28.10.2021 - Fri, 29.10.2021	Conferences and Workshops	Katerina Koci Martin Koci Sandra LehmannRené Rosfort, Anna Sjöberg, Sara Shabot Cohen	https://civi.iwm.at/content/doomed-sacrifice-existential-and-phenomenological-p…	Doomed to Sacrifice? Thu, 28.10.2021 - Fri, 29.10.2021 Speakers: Katerina Koci Martin Koci Sandra LehmannRené Rosfort, Anna Sjöberg, Sara Shabot Cohen Series: Conferences and Workshops Sacrifice is a popular theme in philosophical and theological discussions. The concept remains ambiguous, however, and the field is contested across anthropological, ethnological, sociological and ethical perspectives. The objective of this workshop was to discuss gendered aspects of sacrifice from the perspectives of phenomenology and existentialism – disciplines that view sacrifice through the lens of the sacrificial experience. Read more
Doomed to Sacrifice? Thu, 28.10.2021 - Fri, 29.10.2021 Speakers: Katerina Koci Martin Koci Sandra LehmannRené Rosfort, Anna Sjöberg, Sara Shabot Cohen Series: Conferences and Workshops Sacrifice is a popular theme in philosophical and theological discussions. The concept remains ambiguous, however, and the field is contested across anthropological, ethnological, sociological and ethical perspectives. The objective of this workshop was to discuss gendered aspects of sacrifice from the perspectives of phenomenology and existentialism – disciplines that view sacrifice through the lens of the sacrificial experience. Read more
	Sovereignty and Political Mythologies	Wed, 13.10.2021	Lecture	Katerina KociColby Dickinson		Sovereignty and Political Mythologies Wed, 13.10.2021 Speakers: Katerina KociColby Dickinson Series: Lecture The Cartesian mind/body dualism that has come to dominate western thinking for centuries has an unacknowledged affinity with the split in sovereign power that once characterized the king’s two bodies. In this medieval political theology the king is said to have both a physical-temporal body that eventually dies and another body that represents the politically sovereign and eternal body. Secularized Cartesian mind/body dualism, where the mind becomes an eternal force of reason acting within a corrupted embodied existence, the king’s two bodies reflect a hierarchical imposition of dominance that justifies a more deeply engrained master/slave duality. Read more
Sovereignty and Political Mythologies Wed, 13.10.2021 Speakers: Katerina KociColby Dickinson Series: Lecture The Cartesian mind/body dualism that has come to dominate western thinking for centuries has an unacknowledged affinity with the split in sovereign power that once characterized the king’s two bodies. In this medieval political theology the king is said to have both a physical-temporal body that eventually dies and another body that represents the politically sovereign and eternal body. Secularized Cartesian mind/body dualism, where the mind becomes an eternal force of reason acting within a corrupted embodied existence, the king’s two bodies reflect a hierarchical imposition of dominance that justifies a more deeply engrained master/slave duality. Read more
	Whose Story? Which Sacrifice?	Mon, 08.02.2021	Seminars and Colloquia	Katerina Koci Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore		Whose Story? Which Sacrifice? Mon, 08.02.2021 Speakers: Katerina Koci Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Series: Seminars and Colloquia Sacrifice may be a topic of intense philosophical-theological academic debate, but it is also the everyday experience of millions of ordinary people. Scholarly reflection on sacrifice has produced an ambiguous discourse which stretches across numerous disciplines from anthropology, to religious and social studies, to ethics. Sacrifice has of course developed within the religious-cultic context and can be traced in global religions and local cults alike. Read more
Whose Story? Which Sacrifice? Mon, 08.02.2021 Speakers: Katerina Koci Ludger Hagedorn Marci Shore Series: Seminars and Colloquia Sacrifice may be a topic of intense philosophical-theological academic debate, but it is also the everyday experience of millions of ordinary people. Scholarly reflection on sacrifice has produced an ambiguous discourse which stretches across numerous disciplines from anthropology, to religious and social studies, to ethics. Sacrifice has of course developed within the religious-cultic context and can be traced in global religions and local cults alike. Read more