Colloquium: "Selfhood and Self-Annihilation"
September 26, 2008, Copenhagen
Colloquium
Title: "Selfhood and Self-Annihilation"
Abstracts can be downloaded here
What is the self implied in self-annihilation? The workshop will focus on the question of selfhood implied in notions of self-annihilation, and will do so in drawing on different religious traditions, in particular Christian mysticism and Buddhism.
Programme
Friday, September 26
| 09:30-10:45 | Joel Krueger (University of Copenhagen): "Forms of Self-Annihilation in Zen Buddhism" |
| 10:45-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:15 | Gavin Flood (University of Oxford): "The Paradox of the Will in Christian and Buddhist Asceticism" |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30-14:45 | Ben Morgan (University of Oxford): "Meister Eckhart and the Pre-History of Modern Forms of Identity" |
| 14:45-15:15 | Jonna Bornemark (Södertörn University College, Stockholm): "Mechthild von Magdeburg and the Erotic Tension between Specificity and Self-Annihilation" |
| 15:15-15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30-16:45 | Arne Grøn (University of Copenhagen): "Selfhood and Self-Annihilation". (And open discussion) |
Organized by Arne Grøn
Location: University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 140-142, Lecture room: 27.0.09. See campus area here: Map
Prior registration required: Please register before September 10 by sending an email to cfs@hum.ku.dk