{"id":1507,"date":"2021-02-03T04:44:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T09:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/?page_id=1507"},"modified":"2022-01-22T05:18:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T10:18:43","slug":"connecting-the-books-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/connecting-the-books-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting the Books 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1507\" class=\"elementor elementor-1507\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7fbbd85a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7fbbd85a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-307a71ee\" data-id=\"307a71ee\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c4e90f6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c4e90f6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Connecting the Books\u00a0<\/h1>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Connecting-the-Books-edited-Poster.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1635\" src=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Connecting-the-Books-edited-Poster-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Connecting-the-Books-edited-Poster-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Connecting-the-Books-edited-Poster-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Connecting-the-Books-edited-Poster-768x1153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Connecting-the-Books-edited-Poster-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Connecting-the-Books-edited-Poster.jpg 1066w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>The Connaught Global Challenge Initiative, <em>Entangled Worlds: Sovereignty, Sanctities and Soil<\/em> is pleased to present a new, online series for the upcoming Winter 2021 semester: <strong>Connecting the Books<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As an extension of the Entangled Worlds\u2019 \u201cHoly Infrastructure\u201d Reading Group, which has thus far considered the transdisciplinary ways in which infrastructures, sovereignties, charisma, and the political are inextricably linked, <strong>Connecting the Books<\/strong> seeks to further this analysis by considering these themes in connection with three recently published ethnographies and their authors: Charles Hirschkind\u2019s <em>The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia<\/em> (2020, Chicago Press); J. Brent Crosson\u2019s <em>Experiments with Power: Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad<\/em> (2020, Chicago Press); &amp; Elayne Oliphant\u2019s <em>The Privilege of Being Banal: Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris<\/em> (2021, Chicago Press).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-470ace1 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"470ace1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e94a5a7\" data-id=\"e94a5a7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap 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https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Photo-Charles-1-e1614375879467-1536x1487.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Photo-Charles-1-e1614375879467-2048x1982.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ad68680\" data-id=\"ad68680\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2034889 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"2034889\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/J.Brent_.Crosson.Photo_-scaled-e1614374185139-300x279.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1628\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/J.Brent_.Crosson.Photo_-scaled-e1614374185139-300x279.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/J.Brent_.Crosson.Photo_-scaled-e1614374185139-768x713.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/J.Brent_.Crosson.Photo_-scaled-e1614374185139.jpeg 885w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1beff8b\" data-id=\"1beff8b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap 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https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Elayne.Oliphant.Photo_-scaled-e1614377048491-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Elayne.Oliphant.Photo_-scaled-e1614377048491-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Elayne.Oliphant.Photo_-scaled-e1614377048491-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Elayne.Oliphant.Photo_-scaled-e1614377048491.jpg 1576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2e2fbcf elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2e2fbcf\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-55edbee\" data-id=\"55edbee\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-02c9d0f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"02c9d0f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Charles Hirschkind\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism and Andalusia<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Thursday, February 25<span style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">th<\/span>, 4:00pm \u2013 5:30pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eventbrite:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/connecting-the-books-series-hirschkind.eventbrite.ca\/\">https:\/\/connecting-the-books-series-hirschkind.eventbrite.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hirschkind.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1591 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hirschkind-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hirschkind-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hirschkind-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hirschkind-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Hirschkind.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); background-color: transparent; font-size: 2rem;\">This book explores some of the different ways in which Europe&#8217;s Islamic past inhabits its present, unsettling contemporary efforts to secure the continent\u2019s Christian civilizational identity. Taking southern Spain as its primary focus, it examines forms of history and memory that mediate and sustain an active relation to the Islamic heritage of Andalusia, and the impact these forms have on the ethical and political possibilities of finding a place for Islam in Spain and Europe today. This effort at historical recuperation has been the central concern of a longstanding tradition (known as Andalucismo) among Spanish artists, writers, musicians, and political thinkers, a tradition based on the principle that contemporary Andalusia is linked in vitally important ways with al-Andalus (medieval Islamic Iberia) and that the challenges faced by Andalusians today\u2014and by Europeans more broadly\u2014require a recognition of that historical identity and continuity. The book gives particular attention to the role of musical and aesthetic sensibilities in shaping the way the past is encountered and given a place in the lives of contemporary Andalusians. Challenging conventional interpretations of Andalucismo as Romantic fictionalization or Orientalist fantasy,\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); background-color: transparent; font-size: 2rem;\">The Feeling of History<\/em><span style=\"font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif; font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight ); background-color: transparent; font-size: 2rem;\">\u00a0highlights the multiple ways Spaniards have accommodated their lives to the demands of an inheritance only partially available to knowledge and thus more felt than known, and in doing so, have sought to unsettle the historical geography of what today is called fortress Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/charles-hirschkind\/\">Charles Hirschkind<\/a>\u00a0is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests concern religious practice, media technologies, and emergent forms of political community in the urban Middle East and Europe. His published works include\u00a0<em>The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics<\/em>\u00a0(Columbia 2006),\u00a0<em>Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad an his Interlocutors<\/em>\u00a0(co-edited with David Scott, Stanford 2005), and The\u00a0<em>Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia\u00a0<\/em>(Chicago 2020).\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Brent Crosson\u2019s\u00a0<em>Experiments with Power: Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Wednesday, March 24<span style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">th<\/span>, 12:30pm \u2013 2pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eventbrite:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/connecting-the-books-series-crosson.eventbrite.ca\/\">https:\/\/connecting-the-books-series-crosson.eventbrite.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/crosson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1605 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/crosson-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/crosson-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/crosson-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/crosson-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/crosson.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2011, Trinidad declared a state of emergency. This massive state intervention lasted for 108 days and led to the rounding up of over 7,000 people in areas the state deemed \u201ccrime hot spots.\u201d The government justified this action and subsequent police violence on the grounds that these measures\u00a0were restoring \u201cthe rule of law.\u201d In this milieu of expanded policing powers, protests occasioned by police violence against lower-class black people have often garnered little sympathy. But in an improbable turn of events, six officers involved in the shooting of three young people were charged with murder at the height of the state of emergency. To explain this, the host of\u00a0<em>Crime Watch<\/em>, the nation\u2019s most popular television show, alleged that there must be a special power at work:\u00a0<em>obeah<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>From eighteenth-century slave rebellions to contemporary responses to police brutality, Caribbean methods of problem-solving \u201cspiritual work\u201d have been criminalized under the label of \u201cobeah.\u201d Connected to a justice-making force, obeah remains a crime in many parts of the anglophone Caribbean. In\u00a0<em>Experiments with Power<\/em>, J. Brent Crosson addresses the complex question of what obeah is. Redescribing obeah as \u201cscience\u201d and \u201cexperiments,\u201d Caribbean spiritual workers unsettle the moral and racial foundations of Western categories of religion. Based on more than a decade of conversations with spiritual workers during and after the state of emergency, this book shows how the reframing of religious practice as an experiment with power transforms conceptions of religion and law in modern nation-states.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/brent-crosson\/\">Brent Crosson<\/a>\u00a0is an anthropologist of religion and Assistant Professor at the University of Texas-Austin. His research has focused on contestations over the limits of legal power, science, and religion in the Americas. Prior to joining the faculty at UT Austin, he was an ACLS\/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellow at UC Santa Cruz and a Ruth Landes Memorial postdoctoral fellow in cultural anthropology at NYU. His first book<em>&#8211;Experiments with Power:\u00a0 Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad<\/em>&#8211;is published with University of Chicago Press (2020).\u00a0 His research on Caribbean practices of healing and legal intervention&#8211;known as obeah, spiritual work, or science&#8211;has been published in a number of journals, including\u00a0<em>Method and Theory in the Study of Religion,\u00a0The Journal of Africana Religions, Cosmologics,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>American Religion.<\/em>\u00a0His special issue in the journal\u00a0<em>Ethnos&#8211;&#8220;What Possessed You?&#8221;&#8211;<\/em>explores the relationship between spirit possession, material possessions, and political sovereignty.\u00a0 His work on race relations and solidarity has appeared in\u00a0<em>Anthropological Quarterly\u00a0<\/em>and the Duke University Press journal\u00a0<em>Small Axe.\u00a0<\/em>His current research focuses on climate change, religion, and conceptions of energy, with chapters on these issues forthcoming in the edited volumes\u00a0<em>Mediality on Trial<\/em>,<em>\u00a0Climate Politics and the Power of Religion,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Critical Approaches to Science and Religion<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Elayne Oliphant\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Privilege of Being Banal: Art, Secularism and Catholicism in Paris<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Thursday, April 22<span style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">nd<\/span>, 12:30pm \u2013 2pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eventbrite:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/connecting-the-books-series-oliphant.eventbrite.ca\/\">https:\/\/connecting-the-books-series-oliphant.eventbrite.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/oliphant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1607\" src=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/oliphant-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/oliphant-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/oliphant-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/oliphant-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/oliphant.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Privilege of Being Banal: Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris<\/em>\u00a0(Chicago, 2021) uses the concept of &#8220;banality&#8221; to explore how the monumental presence of Catholicism is able to move between Paris&#8217;s background and foreground without appearing threatening. Rather a sign of weakness, Catholicism&#8217;s banality is an expression of its Catholicism&#8217;s privilege in the Parisian landscape. It has, moreover, effaced a number of violent histories and alternate trajectories, as it undergirds Catholicism\u2019s circulation in non-religious sites such as museums, corporate spaces, and political debates. The book&#8217;s aim is to unravel the contradictions of religion and secularism and, in the process, show how aesthetics and politics come together in contemporary France to foster the kind of banality that Hannah Arendt warned against: the incapacity to take on another person\u2019s experience of the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/elayne-oliphant\/\">Elayne Oliphant<\/a>\u00a0is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies at New York University. She is interested in the tenacity of white, Christian privilege in the West and has explored its reproduction through architectural forms, aesthetics, museums, and contemporary art. She has recently begun a new research project focused on practices that offer alternatives to capitalism by way of foregrounding debts and obligations, as opposed to freedom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The format of these events will include a brief introduction by an advanced graduate student, foregrounding the themes of Holy Infrastructures in relation to the respective ethnography, followed by a brief presentation by the author. General discussion and question-answer period to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Since these are in-conversation events we ask that attendees read the respective ethnographies or part of them, which can be found in the University of Toronto online catalogue.<\/p>\n<p>These meetings will begin at 12:30pm. Zoom links will be provided to those who RSVP via Eventbrite (see below). Zoom rooms will be open from 12pm noon for those wishing to gather beforehand.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecting the Books\u00a0 \u00a0 The Connaught Global Challenge Initiative, Entangled Worlds: Sovereignty, Sanctities and Soil is pleased to present a new, online series for the upcoming Winter 2021 semester: Connecting the Books. 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