cicuITING Seminar | Metaphors, Oaths, the Sacred, and Modernity. Two Seminars with Adam B. Seligman

Sala Conferenze, Palazzo Liviano - Piazza Capitaniato, 7, Padova

Dal 21.05.2025 al 23.05.2025

May 21st and May 23rd, 2025

Metaphors, Oaths, the Sacred, and Modernity. Two Seminars with Adam B. Seligman

Adam B. Seligman is a professor of religion at Boston University and a research associate at the university’s Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs. He is Founding Director of CEDAR – Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion which leads seminars every year on contested aspects of religion and the public square in different parts of the world and has established permanent programs in Japan, Indonesia, Uganda and Kenya. He has taught at universities in the United States, Israel, and Hungary, where he was a Fulbright Fellow from 1990 to 1992. He lived for close to 20 years in Israel, where he was a member of Kibbutz Kerem Shalom in the early 1970s.

The seminars will build on two texts: How Things Count the Same, by Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller (Oxford UP, 2020), and Oaths and Vows: Words as Genesis, by Adam B. Seligman and Maria Schnitter (De Gruyter, 2024).

May 21st, 2025, h. 14.00 - 17.00

Discussion starts from How Things Count the Same

Paolo Costa (FBK, Trento), Giuseppe Sciortino (Unitn), Luca Martignani (Unibo), Matteo Santarelli (Unibo), Vincenzo Romania (Unipd), Ghita Bordieri (Unimib), Emiliano Urciuoli (Unibo), Federico La Bruna (Unimi)

May 23rd, 2025, h. 11.00 - 13.30 - SALA MOHU, Palazzo Luzzatto Dina

Discussion starts from Oaths and Vows: Words as Genesis

Andrea Caracausi (Unidp), Kristina Stoeckl (Luiss), Roberto Alciati (Unifi), Valeria Fabretti (FBK, Trento), Michele Basso (Unipd), Giovanni Zampieri (Unipd)

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For any information (and the texts) write to Matteo Bortolini: matteo.bortolini@unipd.it

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Image: Front cover of "How Things Count the Same, by Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller (Oxford UP, 2020)"