Bard College Berlin Presents
Faculty Colloquium - "Secularism and Hermeneutics"
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Bard College Berlin Cafeteria, Waldstr. 70, Berlin - Pankow
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
A talk by Yael Almog (Goethe University Frankfurt)
The lecture will reveal the tension between textual exegesis and confessional belonging and challenge the modern presumption that interpretation is indifferent to religious concerns.
Yael Almog is a faculty member (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) in Theology at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Previously, she was Postdoctoral Researcher of European intellectual history at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (2016–18) and a faculty member at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin (ZfL) (2014–16). Almog’s monograph Secularism and Hermeneutics will be published with the University of Pennsylvania Press in May 2019. Her translation of Johann Gottfried Herder’s Treatise on the Origin of Language is forthcoming, together with her introduction and commentary, with Resling publishers. She has co-edited two collected volumes that discern the cultural echoes of political secularism in literature, academic disciplines, and critical theory. The second volume, Kommentar und Säkularisierung in der Moderne, was published with Fink in 2017.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Bard College Berlin Cafeteria, Waldstr. 70, Berlin - Pankow