[Usyd_Classics_Events] Critical Antiquities Workshop Aug-Dec 2022 #1

[Ben Brown]

Dear Friends of Critical Antiquities,

Tristan and I are thrilled to announce the return of the Critical Antiquities Workshop for August-December 2022. Our schedule begins with a book launch (note your time zone):

Tues, August 30th: 20:00–21:30 (Chicago UTC-5)
Wed, August 31st : 11–12:30 (Sydney UTC+10)

BOOK LAUNCH

Edgar Garcia, Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/LgIwCP7LAXf4lDjZzszNK70?domain=press.uchicago.edu> (Chicago, 2022)

Discussants:

Ignacio Carvajal (UC San Diego)

Robin Rodd (Duke Kunshan University)

Abstract

Written during the lockdown in Chicago in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, these essays consider the Popol Vuh as a work that was also written during a time of feverish social, political, and epidemiological crisis as Spanish missionaries and colonial military deepened their conquest of indigenous peoples and cultures in Mesoamerica. What separates the Popol Vuh from many other creation texts is the disposition of the gods engaged in creation. Whereas the book of Genesis is declarative in telling the story of the world’s creation, the Popol Vuh is interrogative and analytical: the gods, for example, question whether people actually need to be created, given the many perfect animals they have already placed on earth.

Emergency uses the historical emergency of the Popol Vuh to frame the ongoing emergencies of colonialism that have surfaced all too clearly in the global health crisis of COVID-19. In doing so, these essays reveal how the authors of the Popol Vuh— while implicated in deep social crisis—nonetheless insisted on transforming emergency into scenes of social, political, and intellectual emergence, translating crisis into creativity and world creation.

Zoom Details

Time: Aug 31, 2022 11:00 AM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney (UTC +10)

https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85225790980

The seminars are held online on Zoom. All are welcome. For more information on the Critical Antiquities Network please email fass.can at sydney.edu.au<mailto:fass.can at sydney.edu.au> or visit the website here<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Ewm8CQnMBZf6xD29vSPw4DZ?domain=criticalantiquities.org> and download our Aug-Dec 2022 Schedule of workshops.  To register, please sign up for the Critical Antiquities Network mailing list here<https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/zxGpCROND2urVKMQ4HPvJdW?domain=signup.e2ma.net> and you will receive CAN announcements and Zoom links.

all best, Ben and Tristan

DR BEN BROWN
Classics and Ancient History
School of Humanities A18
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Co-director Critical Antiquities Network
THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY NSW 2006
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