Imagining the Other. Theo-Political Challenges in an Age of Migration (July 10 – 13, 2019)

The international Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R, https://violenceandreligion.com/) invites for its annual conference which will be hosted by the Theological Faculty / University of Innsbruck from July 10 – 13, 2019.

We live in an age of – often forced – migration with its special challenges. How we imagine and how we image “the Other”, is a decisive element in the (theo-)politics of exclusion and desire that feed on these challenges. Aware that imagination is a mimetic process, the 2019 conference of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R) wants to address these challenges by trying to illumine different aspects of this complex entanglement, asking whom or what we mean by “the other”: the stranger and migrant, the brother or sister, nature that envelops or defies us, the transcendent Other to whom religions refer or the other sex or gender …?

As this incomplete enumeration shows, Imagining the Other widens the conference’s range of topics beyond its stated theme of migration to other fields of interest for the Colloquium, including religious difference and its theo-political implications. Thus COV&R has published a Call for Papers (date of submission: March 31, 2019), please see https://www.uibk.ac.at/congress/imagining-the-other/call-for-papers/

Raymund Schwager, S.J., Memorial Essay Contest

To honor the memory of Raymund SCHWAGER, SJ (+ 2004), the Colloquium on Violence and Religion is offering an award of $1,500 shared by up to three persons for the three best papers given by graduate students at the COV&R meeting. For details please see https://www.uibk.ac.at/congress/imagining-the-other/call-for-papers/

The international Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R, https://violenceandreligion.com/) invites for its annual conference which will be hosted by the Theological Faculty / University of Innsbruck from July 10 – 13, 2019.

We live in an age of – often forced – migration with its special challenges. How we imagine and how we image “the Other”, is a decisive element in the (theo-)politics of exclusion and desire that feed on these challenges. Aware that imagination is a mimetic process, the 2019 conference of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R) wants to address these challenges by trying to illumine different aspects of this complex entanglement, asking whom or what we mean by “the other”: the stranger and migrant, the brother or sister, nature that envelops or defies us, the transcendent Other to whom religions refer or the other sex or gender …?

As this incomplete enumeration shows, Imagining the Other widens the conference’s range of topics beyond its stated theme of migration to other fields of interest for the Colloquium, including religious difference and its theo-political implications. Thus COV&R has published a Call for Papers (date of submission: March 31, 2019), please see https://www.uibk.ac.at/congress/imagining-the-other/call-for-papers/

Raymund Schwager, S.J., Memorial Essay Contest

To honor the memory of Raymund SCHWAGER, SJ (+ 2004), the Colloquium on Violence and Religion is offering an award of $1,500 shared by up to three persons for the three best papers given by graduate students at the COV&R meeting. For details please see https://www.uibk.ac.at/congress/imagining-the-other/call-for-papers/

يدعو المؤتمر الدولي حول العنف والدين (COV&R، https://violenceandreligion.com/) إلى مؤتمره السنوي الذي ستستضيفه كلية اللاهوت / جامعة إنسبروك من 10 إلى 13 يوليو 2019.

نعيش في عصر هجرة — كثيراً ما تكون قسرية — بتحدّياتها الخاصّة. الطريقة التي نتخيّل بها «الآخر» ونُصوّره تُشكّل عنصراً حاسماً في السياسات-اللاهوتية للإقصاء والرغبة التي تتغذّى على هذه التحدّيات. إدراكاً منه أنّ الخيال مسار محاكاتي (mimétique)، يرغب مؤتمر 2019 لـCOV&R في مقاربة هذه التحدّيات بمحاولة إضاءة أوجه مختلفة من هذا التشابك المعقّد، متسائلاً عمّن أو ماذا نعني بـ«الآخر»: الغريب والمهاجر، الأخ أو الأخت، الطبيعة التي تحيط بنا أو تتحدّانا، الآخر المتعالي الذي تُشير إليه الأديان، أم الجنس الآخر…؟

كما يُظهر هذا الإحصاء غير الكامل، يوسّع «تخيّل الآخر» نطاق المؤتمر إلى ما وراء موضوعه المُعلَن — الهجرة — نحو حقول أخرى من اهتمامات المؤتمر، بما فيها الاختلاف الديني وتداعياته اللاهوتية-السياسية. لذلك نشر COV&R دعوة إلى تقديم المداخلات (آخر أجل: 31 مارس 2019)، راجعوا: https://www.uibk.ac.at/congress/imagining-the-other/call-for-papers/

مسابقة Raymund Schwager, S.J., Memorial Essay

إحياءً لذكرى Raymund SCHWAGER، اليسوعي (+2004)، يُقدّم مؤتمر COV&R جائزةً قدرها 1500 دولار تُقتسَم بين ثلاثة أشخاص كحدّ أقصى، لأفضل ثلاثة أوراق يُقدّمها طلبة دراسات عليا في اجتماع COV&R. للتفاصيل، راجعوا: https://www.uibk.ac.at/congress/imagining-the-other/call-for-papers/

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