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Speaker Series: Guest Lecturer on Thursday December 2, 2021 6:00 pm EST

Please join the Department of Religious Studies for our speaker series, featuring Dustin Atlas with the lecture "Talking to Creatures who Don't Speak: Martin Buber and the House Cat"

Nov 25, 2021

 

Please join the Department of Religious Studies for our speaker series, featuring Dustin Atlas

 

When: Thursday, December 2, 2021 – 6 p.m.

Where:  Zoom, please register here
*register by November 30th

 

*This colloquium talk doubles as the final session of Dr. Hollander’s undergraduate course “God and Philosophy,” for which students have been reading selections from Martin Buber, I and Thou (1923) as well as the essay “Religion and Philosophy” (1952).

 

Dustin Atlas (PhD, Rice University, 2013) is Director of Jewish Studies and Assistant Professor in the School of Religion at Queen’s University. His work builds bridges between Jewish Studies and the broader field of Religious Studies, using Jewish thinkers to understand contemporary Judaism in light of recent political, intellectual and ethical trends, especially post-colonialism, new materialism, animal studies, and affect theory. He is working on a book tentatively titled “Buber Talks: Jewish Dialogue and the Nonhuman World.” He previously held teaching positions at the University of Dayton and at Al Quds Bard College.