Die CoF Lunch Talk Series lädt internationale Fellows und Tübinger Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler ein, sich in entspannter Atmosphäre während der Mittagspause auszutauschen. Jeden Monat stellt ein Fellow seine Forschung vor. Die CoF Lunch Talks finden in der Villa Köstlin statt. 

Die College of Fellows Lecture Series lädt internationale Fellows und Tübinger Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler ein, ihre Forschung vorzustellen und sich zu vernetzen. Jeden Monat stellen Fellows und internationale Gastwissenschafter:innen der Universität Tübingen ihre Forschungsergebnisse vor. Wir freuen uns über Ihr Interesse: infospam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de 

“Drawing Water: Toward an Elemental Theory of Religion” 

Ort: Großer Senat, Uhrzeit: 19:00 Uhr

Abstract: This lecture juxtaposes Indigenous and settler perspectives on what it means to draw water, in the sense of both depicting water in maps and words and taking from bodies of water in order to live and move. I consider how these two kinds of drawing water—collecting and caring for water in order to live and mapping waterways to navigate and often claim territory—are key to understanding why water is such a contested fluid medium at the heart of politics, poetics, and religion. Oriented by the Great Lakes and their connected rivers in Turtle Island, or North America, my discussion of drawing water leads to an “elemental theory” of religion that considers the necessity of water (as well as air, earth, and fire) to human flourishing at both individual and collective scales.

Die Online-Vortragsreihe findet in Kooperation mit der Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Philosophie statt. Die GIP bemüht sich, interkulturelle Philosophie als methodologischen Standpunkt, mit dem eine Annäherung aller Weltphilosophien untereinander ermöglicht werden kann, in Vorträgen, in Forschung und Lehre und in Diskussionsrunden bekannt zu machen.

Ort: Großer Senat, 18 Uhr 

Poor and insecure work is a growing problem, even in the rich world. ‘Precarious work’ as it is sometimes called, is often particularly visible in the case of migrant workers.  Certain groups of migrants are vulnerable to extreme exploitation and trafficking and can be the focus of considerable concern about ‘modern slavery’ for example. However, emphasising the problems of migrants risks overlooking important connections with the problems of citizens, creating hierarchies of victimhood rather than uncovering shared interest. It also can mean that we fail to consider how precarity and vulnerability are produced, for migrants and citizens alike. In her presentation Bridget Anderson will think with and against migration. She considers how immigration controls function, and how a combination of nationality and skills puts certain kinds of people in certain kinds of jobs and affects access to the welfare state. Immigration controls also give employers important mechanisms of control over migrants once they are in those jobs. In this way she will think WITH migration in relation to precarity and then turn to thinking AGAINST migration and arguing that nationality and skills are connected to race and class but at the same time are used to separate global populations and workers. 

The talk is followed by a reception by the College of Fellows and the platform Global Encounters at Kleiner Senat offering the opportunity for further exchange and networking.

Bridget Anderson’s Vorlesung bildet das Eröffnungsevent des Tübingen Forum on Social Resonances of Societal Crises (TüFoRCe) und wird veranstaltet von der Plattform Global Encounters