Liebe Kolleg*innen,
im Namen des Ludwig-Uhland-Instituts für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft, des Instituts für Soziologie und des Sonderforschungsbereichs 923 „Bedrohte Ordnungen“ der Universität Tübingen möchte ich Sie auf folgende öffentliche Veranstaltungen im Rahmen der Summer School „Problematizing Morality“ vom 24.-27. September 2019 aufmerksam machen.
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Public Lecture
Jarrett Zigon – A War on People:
Attuned Care, Community, and the Anti-Drug War Movement
Tuesday, 24.09.2019, 18:00
Public Lecture as part of the International Summer School„Problematizing Morality. Ethnographic Approaches to the Normative Dimensions of Everyday Life“
In his talk Jarrett Zigon considers attuned care as onto-ethical-political activity. Attuned care is not explicit care for this pain or that suffering. Rather, it is that which allows for the very possibility of being-human-together. Being-human, that is, as a being always already intertwined in relations with other beings – human and nonhuman alike – for whom we have, because of this ontological intertwining, obligations of care. This will be taken up through a critical hermeneutic exploration of the anti-drug war movement, the long-term political project of which can be articulated as the onto-ethical-political enactment of worlds of attuned care.
Ort: Schloss Hohentübingen (Hörsaal Klassische Archäologie/Ernst von Sieglin), 18:00 Uhr
Public Lecture
Tilmann Heil – Dis/enchanting conviviality.
On a mode that engages difference
Wednesday, 25.09.2019, 18:00
Public Lecture as part of the International Summer School„Problematizing Morality. Ethnographic Approaches to the Normative Dimensions of Everyday Life“
This lecture addresses social situations imbued with difference in which neither moral or emotional common ground can be assumed, and which are increasingly politicized. Rather than provoking wonders of unquestioned togetherness, conviviality is a dis/enchanting mode of minimal sociality that engages difference, be it cultural, religious, ethnic or other. In situations we can call convivial, how is difference ethically and emotionally approached? Juxtaposing and intertwining two dissimilar ethnographic situations from Senegal and Brazil to discuss living with difference and its everyday struggles and justifications, Tilmann Heil concludes on the challenges that this might pose for certain Western understandings of morality, as community and even commonality is up for discussion.
Ort: Schloss Hohentübingen (Hörsaal Klassische Archäologie/Ernst von Sieglin), 18:00 Uhr
Public Lecture
Moritz Ege – Problematizing Moralizing.
On the Politics of Anti-Moralist Critique in the Current Conjuncture
Thursday, 26.09.2019, 10:30
Public Lecture as part of the International Summer School„Problematizing Morality. Ethnographic Approaches to the Normative Dimensions of Everyday Life“
In social science and public debates, ‘moralists’ are often treated as contemptible figures. In both fields, the borders between reflections on normativity that are deemed appropriate, on the one hand, and illegitimate forms of ‘moralizing’ on the other are far from clear, however. Using examples from public discourse and ethnography, Moritz Ege will explore these ambiguities by discussing genealogies of anti-moralism, its current political entanglements, and conclusions to be drawn for research on ethics and politics.
Ort: Schloss Hohentübingen (Hörsaal Klassische Archäologie/Ernst von Sieglin), 18:00 Uhr
Public Lecture
Pamela E. Klassen – Ceremonial Morality:
What a History of Oath-Making Reveals about Practices of Living in a Good Way
Thursday, 26.09.2019, 18:00
Public Lecture as part of the International Summer School„Problematizing Morality. Ethnographic Approaches to the Normative Dimensions of Everyday Life“
A dominant strand of Christian theology has defined morality as biblically-rooted in Mosaic law, distinguishing it from “ceremonial” and “civic or judicial” laws also found in the Hebrew Bible. This theological view has had significant effects on definitions and policing of religion and ceremony in British colonial jurisdictions including North America and India. In this talk, Pamela Klassen conjoins the ceremonial and the moral with a specific focus on the lasting practice of oath-making in colonial secular jurisdictions. Informed by the work of scholars of religion and law such as Robert Yelle and scholars of law and Indigenous studies such as John Borrows, she considers oaths as a site at which “secular” politics and “religious” commitments commingle in the performance of ceremonial morality.
Ort: Schloss Hohentübingen (Hörsaal Klassische Archäologie/Ernst von Sieglin), 18:00 Uhr
The International Summer School is jointly organized by members of the Institute of Historical and Cultural Anthropology <uni-tuebingen.de/en/3239>, the Collaborative Research Center 923 „Threatened Order – Societies under Stress“ <uni-tuebingen.de/en/24861>, and the Department of Sociology <uni-tuebingen.de/en/3295>. It is funded by the Institutional Strategy of the University of Tübingen (ZUK 63) <uni-tuebingen.de/en/excellence-initiative/information/institutional-strategy/#c482306>, Universitätsbund Tübingen e.V. <uni-tuebingen.de/de/89702>, and the University’s Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences <uni-tuebingen.de/en/faculties/faculty-of-economics-and-social-sciences/subjects/>.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Jan Hinrichsen