Moral Injury and Muhammed’s Cartoons: Thinking Reparatively with Eve Sedgwick on March 5th
Taking its cue from Eve Sedgwick, this talk offers a “reparative reading” of recent controversies over the proper meaning of cultural objects (cartoons, novels) in Europe and the Middle East. Rather than read these debates as a standoff between religious taboos and secular freedoms, Mahmood unpacks the distinct epistemological and interpretive stakes at the heart of such conflicts.
Saba Mahmood
University of California, Berkeley
March 5, 2015, 5:00 PM
The Florence and Chafetz Hillel House, 213 Bay State Road
Reception to Follow
Sponsored by:
The Boston University Center for the Humanities,The Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, The Department of English,The Department of Sociology,The Department of Religion,The Department of Romance Studies,The School of Theology, and The Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
