Co-sponsoring: Terran without Territory

The Center is pleased to co-sponsor this event hosted by UNC Dept. of Religious Studies:

MCLESTER LECTURE

Terran without Territory
Mara Benjamin, Irene Kaplan Leiwant Professor of Jewish Studies at Mount Holyoke College

Jewish nationalisms – whether Zionist or diasporic – presume notions of place that have been upended in an age of ecological disruption. Land itself has become destabilized through extractive agricultural practices and eroding coastlines; now, whole communities of multispecies organisms are ecologically displaced. How might Jews develop religious and theological resources for this moment, and how might those resources give language to others concerned with ecological disruption?

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