[Marxism] Dublin symposiums - Challenging Cultures of Death

[Ben Ben]

The Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, Trinity College Dublin, the Women’s Studies Centre, NUI Galway, and the Institute for Feminism and Religion are organising five events featuring major international feminist theorists: October 30th to November 4th  
   
  1. Matrixial Eros and Com-passion in Transference and Artworking
   
  A one day symposium with Bracha Ettinger and Griselda Pollock, Women’s Studies Centre, NUI Galway.
  Venue:  Siobhan McKenna Theatre, NUI Galway
  Date: 30th October, 2007. Time: 11:00 - 5:00  Cost: Free
  Registration: Places Limited.  Advance Booking Advisable. http://www.nuigalway.ie/wsc 
   
  2. Desiring Mercy Not Sacrifice: A distinguished, multi-disciplinary international panel address this theme in a public forum. 
   
  Professor Bracha Ettinger, Professor Griselda Pollock, Dr. Anne Primavesi, Professor Peggy Reeves Sanday, Dr. Genevieve Vaughan. 
  Thursday Evening: Nov. 1st:  Trinity College, Edmund Burke Theatre, Arts Building, (Nassau St. Entrance) 
  Time: 7:30. 
  Registration: No advance registration: €10,  €5 concessions.  Please pay at the door
   
  3. Challenging Cultures of Death: Mercy Not Sacrifice. 
   
  A three day conference, Trinity College’s School of Nursing, D’Olier Street. Featuring the above speakers and 35 international panellists addressing this issue from a multi-disciplinary perspective.  
   
  Topics: Workshops/Papers
  Matrixial Theory in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Theatre * Eco-feminisms * Art Practice and Subversions * Maternal Thinking * Muslim, Hindu, and Christian Strategies of Resistance * Feminist Spiritualities * Critiques of Sacrifice, Theological and Political  * Pharmacotic War * Blood Mysteries: Blood Sacrifice * Dynamics of Collective Violence.
  Nov. 2nd to Nov. 4th €120 / €60 concessions.  (The full conference fee includes registration for items 2, 3, and 4) 
  Advance registration for conference necessary. 
  See website: http://www.instituteforfeminismandreligion.org
   
  4. Sacred Cows: Matrix and Metramorphosis. Lectures. 
   
  Griselda Pollock: On the Solace of Painting: the path to solace and mercy in the creation and transformation of a matrixial space and by metramorphic processes.
  Bracha Ettinger: Empathy Within Compassion in the Matrixial Transference Borderspace
  Bracha Ettinger’s widely acclaimed Matrixial Theory has been described as one of the few contemporary instantiations of innovation within the critical tradition of the human sciences. (Roy Boyne). No one else thinks this way, with such patience, rigor, and inventiveness (Judith Butler).
  Friday evening Nov. 2nd. 7:30 MacNeill Theatre, Hamilton Building, Trinity College, enter through Lincoln Gate, (beside Dental Hospital). 
  Registration:  no advance registration. Please pay at door  €10/€5  
   
  5. The Feminine and the Maternal in the Matrixial Transference, through Psychoanalysis and Art. 
  Specialist seminar with Bracha Ettinger and Griselda Pollock, Trinity Collect, Sunday Nov. 4th 1:30-4:00.  Advance registration necessary: see website.  www.instituteforfeminismandreligion.org
   
  Professor Bracha L. Ettinger: Artist. Psychoanalyst. Clinical Psychologist. Marcel Duchamp Professor of Psychoanalysis   and Art at the Media & Communications Division, European Graduate School.  
  http://www.metramorphosis.org.uk:     http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/E/ettinger_matrixial.html  http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/5-X/5-Xettinger.pdf
   
  Professor Griselda Pollock: Professor of the Social and Critical Histories of Art; Director of CentreCATH at University of Leeds; Co-Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies; Executive Member of Centres for Jewish Studies, and Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/fine_art/people/staff/gfsp.html
   
  Dr. Anne Primavesi: A theologian who has published groundbreaking studies on the theological implications of James Lovelock's scientific Gaia theory, as seen from an ecofeminist perspective. http://www.westarinstitute.org/Fellows/Primavesi/primavesi.html; 
   
  Professor Peggy Reeves Sanday: Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, one of founders of the anthropology of feminist anthropology, sex and gender and author of several foundational books. Academic promoter of public interest and public feminisms in anthropology: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~psanday/ 
   
  Dr. Genevieve Vaughan. Author, theorist and activist of the Gift Economy (Homo Donans as opposed to Homo Economicus) a counter-discourse that considers mothering as a mode of distribution that coexists with or lies beneath the market economy, and challenges the inevitability of patriarchy and global capitalism. http://www.gift-economy.com
   
  Further information:  challengingdeath at gmail.com, or mcondren at tcd.ie 
  http://www.instituteforfeminismandreligion.org

       
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