In case you are interested:
Religion in the Public Sphere Lunchtime Reading Group (with Pizza!): Winter 2010 Meetings
Time: Noon-1:30pm
Place: Room 318, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George Street
Please note: this term's meetings are on different days of the week!
•Students and faculty from all areas of study are invited to the RPS Reading Group. Enjoy informal academic discussions of your favourite theorists and must-read works. A free pizza lunch will be served!
•THU 25 FEB: Nadia Abu El-Haj’s Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society. Discussion faciliatated by Prof. Amira Mittermaier (Religion/Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations).
[Download the reading at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/rps/news.html#readgroup/]
Nadia Abu El-Haj demonstrates the role that archaeology has played in Israeli society, examining how it emerged as a pervasive force that has shaped the region's social and political imaginations, and inspired violently contested territorial and national-cultural struggles. She presents the first critical account of Israeli archeological practice while tracing the dynamic relationships among science, colonization, nation-state building, and territorial expansion.
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