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Seminar Series: Formation of the Subject

Timetable

WEEK 1: THURSDAY 20 JANUARY (HYBRID)
Introduction by co-organizers (5 min)
Chair: Mark Wynn (Oriel)
Speaker: Stephen Mulhall (New) – Authorship, Authority,and Revelation
Respondent: Hindy Najman (Oriel)

WEEK 2: THURSDAY 27 JANUARY (HYBRID)
Chair: Mark Wynn (Oriel)
Speaker: Arjen Bakker (Groningen) – Unlocking the Self Respondent: Stephen Mulhall (New)

WEEK 3: THURSDAY 3 FEBRUARY (HYBRID)
Chair: Stephen Mulhall (New)
Speaker: Phillip Lasater (Worcester) – Toward an Anthropology of Law in Ancient Jewish Literature
Respondent: Constanze Güthenke (Corpus Christi)

WEEK 4: THURSDAY 10 FEBRUARY (ONLINE ONLY)
Chair: Constanze Güthenke (Corpus Christi)
Speaker: Mark Brett (Whitley College, Melbourne) – Rethinking Inwardness: Contextualizing Conscience in Ancient and Early Modern Texts
Respondent: Mark Wynn (Oriel)

WEEK 5: THURSDAY 17 FEBRUARY (ONLINE ONLY)
(*) PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL RUN FROM 1:00 TO 3:00 PM INSTEAD.
Chair: Mark Wrathall (Corpus Christi)
Speaker: Paul Franks (Yale) – Kenosis and Tsimtsum in Post- Kantian Accounts of the Formation of the Subject
Respondent: Johannes Zachhuber (Trinity)

WEEK 6: THURSDAY 24 FEBRUARY (ONLINE ONLY)
(*) PLEASE NOTE THIS SESSION WILL RUN FROM 1:00 TO 3:00 PM INSTEAD.
Chair: Phillip Lasater (Worcester)
Speaker: Carol Newsom (Emory) – The Confessional ‘I’ and the Exemplary Self in Second Temple Poetry
Respondent: Hindy Najman (Oriel)

WEEK 7: THURSDAY 3 MARCH (ONLINE ONLY)
Chair: Arjen Bakker (Groningen)
Speaker: Ishay Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University) – Halakhic Self?
Respondent: Constanze Güthenke (Corpus Christi)

WEEK 8: THURSDAY 10 MARCH (HYBRID)
Chair: Hindy Najman (Oriel)
Speakers: Mark Wrathall (Corpus Christi) and Wanda von Knobelsdorff (Pembroke) – A Perpetually Disintegrating Synthesis: Sartre on Bad Faith, Good Faith, and the Projects of Selfhood
Respondent: Kate Kirkpatrick (Regent’s Park)

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