29 Oct 2010 | All day | CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge |
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Description
This symposium follows a lecture by Thomas W. Laqueur on Thursday 28 October, entitled Human Rights Pedagogy and the Politics of Humanitarianism.
Abstract
Professor Laqueur will speak from a text called 'The Deep Time of the Dead'. His paper addresses the particular cultural work that dead bodies do in particular times and places– late modern Europe– in relationship to timeless anthropological claims for the dead (Robert Hertz is key here) and to the skeptical tradition going back to Diogenes that dead bodies do not matter.
Programme and Registration
Please click on the links at the right hand side of the page to see the programme and register online. The event is free to attend.