Event overview
A British Academy symposium on the circulation of images of China in German Jewish letters of the early 20th century.
Too often, critical discussions around antisemitism and anticolonialism seem completely at odds with one another. This workshop asks whether a consideration of the images of 'China' that circulated amongst German Jewish thinkers might help complicate or resolve this impasse by suggesting a different orientation to both the Christian-colonial project and the racialisation of work. How were these images of China used to imagine different ways of organising social, political, and economic life in a context of intensifying antisemitism, capital-critical sentiment, and ambivalence towards the European legacies of imperialism and colonialism in the 'Orient'?
Free and open to the public, though registration is required.
To register, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chinese-modernity-in-german-jewish-thought-tickets-805024077687
This event is the second of three associated with Dr. Julia Ng's British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship project Daoism and Capitalism: Early Critical Theory and the Global South (MCFSS23\230039). Thanks also go to Goldsmiths' Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought and Royal Holloway's Centre for Continental Philosophy for their generous support.
PROGRAMME
3:30-3:45 pm
Welcome and Introduction: Daoism, Capitalism, and German Jewish Thought
Dr. Julia Ng (Goldsmiths)
3:45-4:25 pm
Rosenzweig, Hegel, and ‘Oriental Messianism’
Dr. Daniel Weiss (Cambridge)
4:30-5:10 pm
Ex Oriente Lux: Martin Buber’s Dao-Hasidic Mysticism of the Worldly
Professor Agata Bielik-Robson (Nottingham)
5:15-5:55 pm
Kafka’s Dao and the Reverse of Possession
Dr. Julia Ng (Goldsmiths)
6:00-6:30 pm
Roundtable
6:30-6:40 pm
Q&A
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Agata Bielik-Robson is Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham. She has published widely on all areas of Jewish philosophy with special emphasis paid on modern Jewish thought, from Spinoza to Derrida.
Daniel H. Weiss is is Polonsky-Coexist Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. He is author of Paradox and the Prophets: Hermann Cohen and the Indirect Communication of Religion (2012) and Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence (2023), among other publications, and co-editor of multiple books, including Scripture and Violence (2020) and Tsimtsum and Modernity (2021).
Julia Ng is Reader in Critical Theory and founding Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths, University of London. Funded by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, she is currently completing a book on Daoism and Capitalism, which has also received support from the Leverhulme Trust, the Center for Jewish History (NYC), and the British Society for the History of Philosophy.
Programme, abstracts, and speaker information
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 3 May 2024 | 3:30pm - 6:45pm |
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