This research group at CRASSH may be of interest to some on the list. The first session takes place tomorrow, Wednesday, 8th October, at 12 noon in SG2 in the Alison Richard Building (directions here: http://map.cam.ac.uk/Centre+for+Research+in+the+Arts%2C+Social+Sciences+and+Humanities#52.202609,0.108725,18).
Readings are available on Dropbox via the website: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/rethinking-life). -- CRASSH Research Group ‘Rethinking Life’ The complexity and significance of the term 'life' has exercised thinkers across the Humanities and Social Sciences, and thinkers working at the interface between the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Natural Sciences. Recent work in political theory, theology, philosophy of science, and literary and cultural theory, has sought to ask, for example, whether ‘life’ can be ascribed to objects that do not appear naturally to have it; how ‘life’ ought to be sustained and how administered; and whether, indeed, this often indistinct and unsettled term can be usefully defined at all. ‘Rethinking Life’, a research group at CRASSH for the year 2014/15, addresses these and further questions across disciplinary boundaries. The group is open to all and you are most warmly invited to attend. The group will meet during term on alternate Wednesdays, 12 noon -- 2 p.m., from 8th October in Seminar room SG2, Alison Richard Building. In Michaelmas term, the group will function as a reading group, exploring readings that focus on particular questions and understandings of ‘life’. The readings have been combined so as to juxtapose different disciplinary approaches to cognate questions and are available via the group's website. For further information, see the following: Website: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/rethinking-life Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rethinkinglife/ Twitter: @RL1415 And sign up to the mailing list: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/crassh-rethinking-life Many thanks, Ross Wilson (English) Angela Breitenbach (Philosophy) Simone Kotva (Divinity) Mark Breeze (Art History) -- Dr Ross Wilson Lecturer in Criticism Faculty of English University of Cambridge 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP (01223) (3)35039 Fellow and Lecturer in English Trinity College Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1TQ (01223) (3)38440 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/rethinking-life Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/rethinkinglife/ Twitter: @RL1415 _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
